Upcoming 2014 Hard Rock + Metal Releases

Keeping up with all the new hard rock and metal album releases can be a daunting task. We've made it easier for you, collecting all of the releases for 2014 in one place. Current and upcoming releases are at the top of the list, and you can scroll down to check out what has already come out this year.

Make sure to check back often, because we'll be updating this list on a regular basis. Dates are supplied by record labels and are subject to change.

2014 Hard Rock + Metal Releases:

April 15:
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, 'Check 'Em Before You Wreck 'Em' (Rise Above)
Anubis Gate, 'Horizons' (Nightmare)
Below, 'Across The Dark River' (Metal Blade)
Black Sabbath, 'The Complete Studio Albums (1970-1978)' Box Set (Rhino)
Bokluk, 'Taphonomy' (Memento Mori)
Brainstorm, 'Firesoul' (AFM)
Clawfinger, 'Deafer Dumber Blinder' CD/DVD (AFM)
Countess, 'Ancient Lies and Battle Cries' (Barbarian Wrath)
Cult Leader, 'Nothing For Us Here' (Deathwish)
Dark Days Ahead, 'North Star Blues' (Inverse)
Desecresy, 'Chasmic Transcendence' (Xtreem)
The Drip, 'A Presentation of Gruesome Poetics' EP (Relapse)
E-Force, 'The Curse' (Mausoleum)
Emmure, 'Eternal Enemies' (Victory)
Enthroned, 'Sovereigns' (Agonia)
Gamma Ray, 'Empire of the Undead' (Armoury)
I Declare War, 'We Are Violent People' (Razor & Tie)
Impetuous Ritual, 'Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence' (Profound Lore)
Kyng, 'Burn the Serum' (Razor & Tie)
Lillian Axe, 'One Night In the Temple' (CME)
Memories of a Dead Man, 'Ashes of Joy (Send the Wood)
Morbid Flesh, 'Embedded In the Ossuary' (Unholy Prophecies)
Mos Generator,  'Electric Mountain Majesty' (Listenable)
The Oath, 'The Oath' (Rise Above)
Pact, 'The Infernal Hierarchies, Penetrating the Threshold of Night' (Moribund)
Pet Slimmers of the Year, 'Fragments of Uniforms' (Candlelight)
Polar, 'Shadowed By Vultures' (Prosthetic)
Reality Grey, 'Define Redemption' (Bakerteam)
Sevendust, 'Time Travelers & Bonfires' (7Bros)
Seventh Circle, 'Seventh Circle' EP (Dead Chemists)
Sinbreed, 'Shadows' (AFM)
Sleeper Effect, 'The Hero Clone' EP (The Orchard)
Stoneburner, 'Life Drawing' (Neurot)
Teramaze, 'Esoteric Symbolism' (Nightmare)
Thantifaxath, 'Sacred Noise' (Dark Descent)
T.O.M.B., 'Pennhurst / Xesse' Reissue (Crucial Blast)
The Tower, 'Hic Abundant Leones' (Bad Omen)
Triptykon, 'Melana Chasmata' (Century Media)
Tuomas Holopainen, 'The Life and Times of Scrooge' (Nuclear Blast)
Turbo, 'The Fifth Element' (Metal Mind)
Various Artists, 'Monsters! (Six of a Kind)' (Kaotoxin)
Words of Farewell, 'The Black Wild Yonder' (AFM)
Wormreich, 'Wormcult Revelations' (Moribund)

April 19: (Record Store Day Vinyl Releases)
Between the Buried and Me, 'Colours_Live' (Victory)
Dream Theater, 'Illumination Theory' Picture Disc (Roadrunner)
Green Day, 'Demolicious' (Reprise)
Katatonia, 'Kocytean' (Peaceville)
Jay/Z / Linkin Park, 'Collision Course' Reissue (Warner Brothers)
Machine Head, 'Killers & Kings' (Nuclear Blast)
Mastodon, 'Live at Brixton' (Reprise)
Motorhead, 'Aftershock' Picture Disc (UDR)
Opeth, 'Watershed' Reissue (Roadrunner)
Poison Idea / Pantera, 'The Badge' Single (Rhino)
Slipknot, 'Vol 3' Reissue (Atlantic)
Soundgarden, 'Superunknown: The Singles' (A&M)
Testament, 'Live in London' (Nuclear Blast)
Type O Negative, 'Slow, Deep and Hard' (Metal Blade)

April 22:
Black Tar Prophet, 'Deafen' (Domestic Genocide)
Creinium, 'Project Utopia' (Inverse)
Eskhaton, 'Worship Death' (Chaos)
Ghoul, 'Hang 10' EP (Tankcrimes)
Gunpowder Gray, 'Gunpowder Gray' (Boris)
Harakiri For The Sky, 'Aokigahara' (Art of Propaganda)
Joe Satriani, 'The Complete Studio Recordings' (Legacy)
Krokus, 'Long Stick Goes Boom Live: From Da House of Rust' (The End)
Sebastian Bach, 'Give Em' Hell' (Frontiers)
Skelethal, 'Deathmanicvs Revelation' EP (Iron Bonehead)
Skinfather, 'None Will Mourn' (Streetcleaner)
Stuka Party, 'Schmeiser Smasher' (Hammerheart)
Wild, 'En Tierra Hostil' (Sliptrick)
Winger, Better Days Comin'' (Frontiers)
Wrong, 'Pessimistic Outcomes' (Xtreem)

April 29:
Aborted, 'The Necrotic Manifesto' (Century Media)
Abysmal Torment, Cultivate the Apostate' (Willowtip)
Adestria, 'Gilded Hearts' (Artery)
Annihilator, 'Feast Limited Edition' CD/DVD (UDR)
Anti-Mortem, 'New Southern' (Nuclear Blast)
Anti Ritual, 'Anti Ritual' (Indisciplinarian)
Archspire, 'The Lucid Collective' (Season Of Mist)
Autopsy, 'Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves' (Peaceville)
Beneath, 'Barren Throne' (Unique Leader)
Brody Dalle, 'Diploid Love' (Carolline)
Centurian,  'Choronzonic Chaos Gods' Reissue (Hells Headbangers)
Centurian, 'Of Purest Fire' Reissue (Hells Headbangers)
Cloak of Altering, 'Plague Beasts' (Crucial Blast)
Coldwar, 'Pantheist' (Candlelight)
Curimus, 'Artificial Revolution' (Freezing Penguin/Svart)
Dead In The Manger, 'Transience' EP (20 Buck Spin)
Death, 'Leprosy' Reissue (Relapse)
Devil You Know, 'The Beauty of Destruction' (Nuclear Blast)
Dismemberment, 'Embrace the Dark (Horror Pain Gore Death)
Edguy, 'Space Police: Defenders of the Crown' (Nuclear Blast)
Existance, 'Steel Alive' (Mausoleum)
Exorcism, 'I Am God' (GoldenCore)
Fake Idols, 'Fake Idols' (Lifeforce)
Floor, 'Oblation' (Season Of Mist)
Forest of Tygers, 'Bruises' EP (Primitive Violence)
Fu Manchu, 'Gigantoid' (At the Dojo)
Helstar, 'This Wicked Nest' (AFM)
Holy Moses, 'Redefined Mayhem' (SPV)
Ikillya, 'Vae Victus' (Megaforce)
Infestus, 'The Reflecting Void' (Debemur Morti)
Insomnium, 'Shadows of the Dying Sun' (Century Media)
Klogr, 'Black Snow' (Zeta Factory)
Lake of Tears, 'By the Black Sea' DVD/CD (AFM)
Lord Mantis, 'Death Mask' (Profound Lore)
Kublai Khan, 'Balancing Survival & Happiness' (Artery)
Manilla Road, 'Mystification' Reissue (Shadow Kingdom)
Martyr Defiled, 'No Hope No Morality' (Century Media)
Mekong Delta, 'A Mirror Darkly' (SPV)
Mind, 'Save Yourself From Hell' (Selfmadegod)
Miss May I, 'Rise of the Lion' (Rise)
Portrait, 'Crossroads' (Metal Blade)
Psycho, 'Chainsaw Priest' (Selfmadegod)
Reformers, 'Abolish' (Mediaskare)
Revelation, 'Salvation's Answer' Reissue (Shadow Kingdom)
Romantic Rebel, 'Romantic Rebel' (Pavement)
Saliva, 'Rise Up' (Rum Bum)
Saxon, 'St. George’s Day Sacrifice – Live In Manchester' (UDR)
Schammasch, 'Contradiction' (Prosthetic)
So Hideous, 'Last Poem / First Light' (Prosthetic)
Thine, 'The Dead City Blueprint' (Peaceville)
Twitch of the Death Nerve, 'A New Code of Morality' (Comatose)
Unlight, 'The Katalyst of the Katharsis' (War-Anthem)
Upon This Dawning, 'We Are All Sinners' (Artery)
Vanhelga, 'Längtan' (Art of Propaganda)
Whitechapel, 'Our Endless War' (Metal Blade)

May 6:
Albino Rhino, 'Albino Rhino' (Inverse)
Arkona, 'Yav' (Napalm)
Aurvandil, 'Thrones' (Eisenwald)
Battleroar, 'Blood of Legends' (Cruz del Sur)
Black Stone Cherry, 'Magic Mountain' (Roadrunner)
Cobalt, 'War Metal' Reissue (Hammerheart)
Cradle of Filth, 'Total F--king Darkness' Reissue (Mordgrimm)
Dwellers, 'Pagan Fruit' (Small Stone)
Electrocution, 'Metaphysincarnation' (Goregorecords)
E-Musikgruppe Lux Ohr, 'Spiralo' (Svart)
Ifing, 'Against the Weald' (Blood)
Infecting The Swarm, 'Patheogenesis' (Lacerated Enemy)
Michael Sweet, 'I'm Not Your Suicide' (Big3)
Noneuclid, 'Metatheosis' (Blood)
Pet The Preacher, 'The Cave & the Sunlight' (Napalm)
Skinner, 'Sleepwalkers' (Dead Inside)
Velnias, 'Sovereign Nocturnal' (Eisenwald)
Vestal Claret, 'The Cult of Vestal Claret' (Cruz del Sur)
Woman Is the Earth, 'This Place That Contains My Spirit' (Eisenwald)
Xandria, 'Sacrificum' (Napalm)

May 13:
Agalloch, 'The Serpent & the Sphere' (Profound Lore)
Avatar, 'Hail the Apocalypse' (eOne)
Boris the Blade, 'The Human Hive' (Siege Of Amida)
Cursed Sails, 'Rotten Society' (Velocity/Rise)
Decembre Noir, 'A Discouraged Believer' (FDA Rekotz)
Dornenreich, 'Freiheit' (Prophecy)
Dio, 'Live in London: Hammersmith Apollo 1993' DVD/CD (Eagle Rock)
Down, 'Down IV: Part Two' EP (ADA)
Epica, 'The Quantum Enigma' (Nuclear Blast)
Furtherial, 'Destroying Atropolis' (The Orchard)
The Golden Grass, 'The Golden Grass' (Svart)
Graves at Sea / Sourvein, 'Split' (Seventh Rule)
Gun Barrel, 'Damage Dancer' (Massacre)
High Spirits, 'You Are Here' (Hells Headbangers)
Holy Shire, 'Midgard' (Bakerteam)
Hour of Penance, 'Regicide' (Prosthetic)
Infestus, 'The Reflecting Void' (Debemur Morti)
Killer Be Killed, 'Killer Be Killed' (Nuclear Blast)
Lantlos, 'Melting Sun' (Prophecy)
Metal Inquisitor, 'Ultima Ratio Regis' (Massacre)
Miasmal, 'Cursed Redeemer' (Century Media)
Mushroomhead, 'The Righteous and the Butterfly' (Megaforce)
Nightsatan, 'Nightsatan and the Loops of Doom' (Svart)
Of Spire & Throne, 'Toll of the Wound' EP (Broken Limb)
Process Pain, 'Outcast of Society' (Inverse)
Prong, 'Ruining Lives' (SPV)
Retribution, 'Corpus Antichristi Y3K' (Pitch Black)
Somnambulist Red, 'Birth Throes, Shadows and Serpentine Curves' (Wraith)
Strafk, 'Phaseshifting' (Wraith)
Sworn Enemy, 'Living on Borrowed Time' (Rock Ridge)
Sylar, 'To Whom It May Concern' (Razor & Tie)
Teitanbood, 'Death' (The Ajna Offensive)
Thine, 'The Dead City Blueprint' (Peaceville)
WAMI, 'Kill the King' (Metal Mind)

May 20:
Aggravator, 'Populace' Destructor (Mulligore)
Blood and Sun, 'White Storms Fall' (Pesanta Urfolk)
California Breed, 'California Breed' (Frontiers)
Castle, 'Under Siege' (Prosthetic)
Comet Control, 'Comet Control' (Tee Pee)
Hades Archer / Slaughtbbath, 'Circus of Abominations/Antichristos Thanatos' Split (Iron Bonehead)
Hell, 'Trilogy' (Pesanta Urfolk)
Infernal Curse, 'The End Upon Us' EP (Iron Bonehead)
Landskap, 'I' (Iron Bonehead)
Rubicon Cross, 'Rubicon Cross' (Ingrooves)
Tusmorke, 'Riset Bak Speilet' (Svart)
Verberis, 'Vastitas' (Iron Bonehead)

May 27, 2014
21 Octayne, 'Into the Open' (AFM)
Among Gods, 'Monument' (PRC)
Black Anvil, 'Hail Death' (Relapse)
Blood of Kings, 'Starvation' (Tridroid)
Crowbar, 'Symmetry in Black' (eOne)
Elvenking, 'The Pagan Manifesto' (AFM)
Enabler, 'La Fin Absolue Du Monde' (The Compound / Creator Destructor)
Expulsion, 'Certain Corpses Never Decay' (Vic)
Eyehategod, 'Eyehategod' (Housecore)
Funereal Presence, 'The Archer Takes Aim' (Ajna Offensive)
Gluttony, 'Beyond the Veil of Flesh' (Vic)
Ice Dragon, 'The Burl,the Earth,the Aether' Reissue (PRC)
Ice Dragon, 'The Sorrowful Sun' Reissue (PRC)
Ice Dragon, 'Tome of the Future Ancients' Reissue (PRC)
Icon Of Evil, 'Syfilis Mentalis' (PRC)
Impaled Nazarene, 'Vigorous and Liberating Death' (Osmose)
Insense, 'De:Evolution' (Mas-Kina / Indie)
Jar'd Loose, 'Turns 13' (The Path Less Traveled)
Marty Friedman, 'Inferno' (Prosthetic)
Mayhem, 'Esoteric Warfare' (Season Of Mist)
Metsatöll, 'Karjajuht' (Spinefarm)
Misery Index, 'The Killing Gods' (Season Of Mist)
Sabaton, 'Heroes' (Nuclear Blast)
Sabbatory, 'Endless Asphyxiating Gloom' (Unspeakable Axe)
Serpentine Path, 'Emanations' (Relapse)
Shakra, '33: The Best of' (AFM)
Spiders & Snakes, 'Year of the Snake' (Sansei)
Tentacle, 'Ingot Eye' (PRC)
Vainaja, 'Kadotetut' (Svart)
Vanhelgd, 'Relics of Sulphur Salvation' (20 Buck Spin)
Various Artists, 'One and All, Together, for Home' (Season Of Mist)
Violation Wound, 'Violation Wound' (Vic)
Waxen, 'Agios Holokauston' (Moribund)
We Are The Damned, 'Doomvirate' (Lifeforce)
YAITW, 'When Life Comes to Death' (Deathwish)
Zoldier Noiz, 'Regression Process' (Unspeakable Axe)

June 3:
Bloody Hammers, 'Under Satan's Sun' (Napalm)
Darkest Era, 'Severance' (Cruz del Sur)
Divine Chaos, 'A New Dawn In the Age of War' (Evil Eye)
Opium Warlords, 'Taste My Sword of Understanding' (Svart)
Pylon, 'Homo Homini Lupus' (Roxx)
Vader, 'Tibi Et Igni' (Nuclear Blast)

June 10:
Anathema, 'Distant Satellites' (Kscope)
Arch Enemy, 'War Eternal' (Century Media)
Den Saakaldte, 'Kapittel II: Faen i Helvete' (Agonia)
Dust Bolt, 'Awake The Riot' (Napalm)
Falconer, 'Black Moon Rising' (Metal Blade)
God Macabre, 'The Winterlong' Reissue (Relapse)
Hellyeah, 'Blood For Blood' (Eleven Seven)
Loudblast, 'Burial Ground' (Listenable)
Nightmare, 'The Aftermath' (AFM)
October File, 'The Application of Loneliness, Ignorance, Misery, Love and Despair: An Introspective of the Human Condition' (Candlelight)
Pillory, 'Evolutionary Miscarriage' (Unique Leader)
Tombs, 'Savage Gold' (Relapse)
Trap Them, 'Blissf--ker' (Prosthetic)
U.D.O., 'Steelhammer: Live In Moscow' CD/ DVD (AFM)
The Word Alive, 'Real' (Fearless)

June 17:
Boris, 'Noise' (Sargent House)
Feed The Rhino, 'The Sorrow and the Sound' (Siege Of Amida)
Linkin Park, 'The Hunting Party' (Warner Brothers)
Opeth, 'Pale Communion' (Roadrunner)
Scare Don't Fear, 'From the Ground Up' (KBB)

June 24:
Ace Frehley, 'Space Invader' (eOne)
Cannabis Corpse, 'From Wisdom To Baked' (Season Of Mist)
Corrosion of Conformity, 'IX' (Candlelight)
Mournful Congregation, 'Concrescence of the Sophia' EP (20 Buck Spin)
The Relapse Symphony, 'Shadows' (Standby)
Septicflesh, 'Titan' (Prosthetic)
Virgin Steele, 'Invictus' Reissue (SPV)
Virgin Steele, 'The Marriage of Heaven & Hell I + II' Reissue (SPV)

July 8:
Corruption, 'Devil's Share' (Metal Mind)
Goatwhore, 'Constricting Rage of the Merciless' (Metal Blade)
Kruk, 'Before' (Metal Mind)
Theory of a Deadman - 'SaVages' (Roadrunner)

July 15:
Grave Digger, 'The Return of the Reaper' (Napalm)

August 5:
Belphegor, 'Conjuring the Dead' (Nuclear Blast)

August 19:
Dragonforce, 'Maximum Overload' (Metal Blade)

Previous 2014 Releases

January 7:
Altar of Betelgeuze, 'Darkness Sustains the Silence' (Memento Mori)
Cannabis Corpse / Ghoul, 'Splatterhash' Split EP (Tankcrimes)
Exhumed / Iron Reagan, 'Split' EP (Tankcrimes)
Legion of the Damned, 'Ravenous Plague' (Napalm)
Michael Schenker, 'Bridge the Gap' (Inakustic)
Nausea, 'Condemned To the System' (Willowtip)
Nigromante, 'Black Magic Night' (Shadow Kingdom)
Run After To, 'Run After To / Gjinn and Djinn' Reissue (Shadow Kingdom)
Suffering In Solitude, 'A Place Apart' (Domestic Genocide)

January 14:
AC Angry, 'Newsletter' (Dust On The Tracks)
Alkerdeel & Gnaw Their Tongues, 'Dyodyo Asema' EP (Consouling Sounds)
Altitudes and Attitude, 'Altitudes and Attitude' EP (Megaforce)
De La Tierra, 'De La Tierra' (Roadrunner)
Hexis, 'Abalam' (Halo of Flies)
The Isolation Process, 'The Isolation Process' (Version Studio)
Leaf Hound, 'Live in Japan' (Ripple)
James LaBrie, 'I Will Not Break' EP (Inside Out)
Magenta Harvest, 'Volatile Waters' (Inverse)
Mark Lanegan, ‘Has God Seen My Shadow? An Anthology 1989-2011′ (Light in the Attic)
Neck Deep, ‘Wishful Thinking’ (Hopeless)
Relief In Sleep, 'Godspeed' (Imminence)
Skull Fist, 'Chasing the Dream' (Noiseart)
Suicidal Angels, 'Divide and Conquer' (NoiseArt)
Supersuckers, ‘Get the Hell’ (Acetate)
Switchfoot, ‘Fading West’ (Atlantic)
Waldgeflüster, 'Meine Fesseln' (Bindrune)
We All Die (Laughing), 'Thoughtscanning' (Kaotoxin)

January 21:
Aenaon, 'Extance' (Code 666)
Against Me!, ‘Transgender Dysphoria Blues’ (Red)
Alcest, 'Shelter' (Prophecy)
Alice Cooper, ‘Billion Dollar Babies [Hybrid SACD]‘ (Rhino)
Apostolum, 'Winds of Disillusion' (Moribund)
Astral Domine, 'Arcanum Gloriae' (Bakerteam)
Avichi, 'Catharsis Absolute' (Profound Lore)
Axel Rudi Pell, 'Into the Storm' (SPV)
Battleaxe, 'Burn This Town' Reissue (SPV)
Chrome Division, 'Infernal Rock Eternal' (Nuclear Blast)
Crystal Viper, 'Possession' (AFM)
Culted, 'Oblique To All Paths' (Relapse)
Drudkh, 'Eastern Frontier In Flames' (Season Of Mist)
Drudkh / Winterfylleth, 'Thousands of Moons Ago / The Gates' Split EP (Season Of Mist)
Edenbridge, 'Aphelion' Reissue (SPV)
Edenbridge, 'Arcana' Reissue (SPV)
Edenbridge, 'Shine' Reissue (SPV)
Edenbridge, 'Sunrise in Eden' Reissue (SPV)
Esoterica, 'Aseity' (Forever Plagued)
Ethereal Riffian, 'Shaman's Visions' (Mulligore)
Ethersens, 'Your Wandering Ghost' (Scarlet)
Graveborne, 'Through the Window of the Night' (Seance)
Hell / Amarok, 'Split' (Pesanta Urfolk)
Iced Earth, 'Plagues of Babylon' (Century Media)
In This Moment, 'Blood' Special Edition (Century Media)
Indian, 'From All Purity' (Relapse)
The Kennedy Veil, 'Trinity of Falsehood' (Unique Leader)
Kult of Taurus, 'Divination Labyrinths' (Forever Plagued)
Lethe, 'When Dreams Become Nightmares' (Debemur Morti)
Lvcifyre, 'Svn Eater' (Dark Descent)
Manes, 'Teeth, Toes and Other Trinkets' (Debemur Morti)
Mogwai, ‘Rave Tapes’ (Sub Pop)
Monte Pittman, 'The Power of Three' (Metal Blade)
Murmur, 'Murmur' (Season Of Mist)
Nashville Pussy, 'Up the Dosage' (SPV)
October 31, 'The Fire Awaits You' Reissue (Hells Headbangers)
Operadyse, 'Pandemonium' (SPV)
Orchid, 'The Zodiac Sessions' (Nuclear Blast)
Persuader, 'The Fiction Maze' (Inner Wound)
Pro-Pain, 'The Final Revolution' (SPV)
Reverend Horton Heat, ‘Rev’ (Victory)
Rogash, 'Supremacy Undone' (War Anthem)
Scent of Remains, 'Under a Blackened Sky' (Pavement)
Scorpions, 'MTV Unplugged' (Sony)
Septicflesh, 'A Fallen Temple' Reissue (Season Of Mist)
Silent Force, 'Rising From the Ashes' (AFM)
Sister, 'Disguised Vultures' (Metal Blade)
Stuntman, 'Incorporate the Excess' (Solar Flare)
Suffering Hour, 'Forseeing Exemptions To a Dismal Beyond' EP (Tridroid)
Tempel,  'On the Steps of the Temple' (Prosthetic)
Throwdown, 'Intolerance' (eOne)
Under Cities, 'Never a Lost Cause' (Red Cord)
Vardan, 'The Woods Is My Coffin' (Moribund)
Warfather, 'Orchestrating the Apocalypse' (Greyhaze)

January 28:
Astrophobos, 'Remnants of Forgotten Horrors' (Triumvirate)
Black Space Riders, 'D:Rei' (Cargo)
Bombs Of Hades, 'Through the Dark Past' (Pulverised)
Circle, 'Sseennsseess' (Ektro)
Demilich, '20th Adversary of Emptiness' (Svart)
Descend, 'Wither' (Inverse)
Descend Into Despair, 'The Bearer of All Storms' (Domestic Genocide)
False Prophet, 'The Second Death' (Blood Harvest)
Fluisteraars, 'Dromers' (Eisenwald)
The Gaslight Anthem, ‘B-Sides’ (Side One Dummy)
The Lawrence Arms, ‘Metropole’ (Epitaph)
Metallica, 'Through the Never' DVD (Blackened)
Of Mice & Men, 'Restoring Force' (Rise)
Periphery, ‘Clear’ (Sumerian)
Primal Fear, 'Delivering the Black' (Frontiers)
Red Dragon Cartel, 'Red Dragon Cartel' (Frontiers)
Ring of Fire, 'Battle of Leningrad' (Frontiers)
Sierra, 'Pslip' (Retro Futurist)
Transatlantic, 'Kaleidoscope' (Inside Out)
Vornth, 'Vornth' (Iron Tyrant)
You Me at Six, ‘Cavalier Youth’ (Prospect Park)

February 4:
Abyssal, 'Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius' (Iron Bonehead)
Battle Beast, 'Battle Beast' (Nuclear Blast)
Behemoth, 'The Satanist' (Metal Blade)
Caliban, 'Ghost Empire' (Century Media)
Corpsessed, 'Abysmal Thresholds' (Dark Descent)
Down From the Wound, 'Violence and The Macabre' (Comatose)
Exmortus, 'Slave To the Sword' (Prosthetic)
For Today, 'Fight the Silence' (Razor & Tie)
Grand Magus, 'Triumph and Power' (Nuclear Blast)
Hawkwind, 'Space Hawks' (Four Winds)
Heikki Hautala, 'Pyövelin Vaatteet' (Ektro)
Jenx, 'Drift' (M-Tronic)
Lie In Ruins, 'Toward Divine Death' (Dark Decent)
Mayan, 'Antagonise' (Nuclear Blast)
Mesetiah, 'Tesis' EP (Inverse)
Metal Noam, 'Avram' (Mountastic)
Omnizide, 'Death Metal Holocaust' (Carnal)
Prostitute Disfigurement, 'From Crotch To Crown' (Willowtip)
Scott H. Biram, 'Nothin' But Blood' (Bloodshot)
Shrapnel, 'The Virus Conspires' (Candlelight)
Sunn O))) & Ulver, 'Terrestrials' (Southern Lord)
Truckfighters, 'Universe' (Fuzzorama)
Within Temptation, 'Hydra' (Nuclear Blast)
Yautja, 'Songs of Descent' (Forcefield)

February 11:
3 Years Hollow, 'The Cracks' (Imagen)
The Bellicose Minds, 'The Buzz or Howl Sessions' (A389)
Bloodlet, 'Entheogen' (A389)
Demoraliser, 'A Living Nightmare' Reissue (Siege Of Amida)
Derek Sherinian, 'Black Utopia' Reissue (Armoury)
Derek Sherinian, 'Blood of the Snake' Reissue (Armoury)
Derek Sherinian, 'Intertia' Reissue (Armoury)
Derek Sherinian, 'Molecular Heinosity' Reissue (Armoury)
Derek Sherinian, 'Mythlogy' Reissue (Armoury)
Drawers, 'Drawers' (Kaotoxin)
Dyscarnate, 'And So It Came To Pass' Reissue (Siege Of Amida)
Dyscarnate, 'Enduring the Massacre' Reissue (Siege Of Amida)
Exhumation, 'Hymn to Your God' (Dunkelheit)
Fear of Domination, 'Distorted Delusions' (Inverse)
Gholas, 'Litanies' (Dullest)
Helms Alee, 'Sleepwalking Sailors' (Sargent House)
In Cold Blood, 'Suicide King' Reissue (A389)
Lay Down Rotten, 'Deathspell Catharsis' (Apostasy)
Mantar, 'Death By Burning' (Svart)
Mystifier, 'Wicca' Reissue (Greyhaze)
Poobah, 'U.S. Rock' Reissue (Ripple)
Pussy Riot, ‘Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer’ DVD (Docurama)
Rainbow, ‘The Rainbow Singles Box’ (Polydor)
Shin to Shin, 'Shin to Shin' (A389)
Solstice, 'Death's Crown Is Victory' (Into The Void)
Stilla, 'Ensamhetens Andar' (Nordvis)
Towers, 'II' (Eolian)
The Unguided, 'Fragile Immortality' (Napalm)
Van Canto, 'Dawn of the Brave' (Napalm)

February 18:
Aborted Fetus, 'Private Judgment Day' (Comatose)
Adrenaline Mob, 'Men of Honor' (Century Media)
Artificial Brain, 'Labyrinth Constellation' (Profound Lore)
Ass To Mouth, 'Degenerate' (Selfmadegod)
Benighted, 'Carnivore Sublime' (Season Of Mist)
Bodyfarm, 'The Coming Scourge' (Cyclone Empire)
Coffin Dust, 'This Cemetery, My Kingdom' (Unholy Anarchy)
Cripple Bastards, 'Nero In Metastasi' (Relapse)
Cynic, 'Kindly Bent to Free Us' (Season Of Mist)
Down Among the Dead, 'Down Among the Dead' (Cyclone Empire)
Duskburn, 'Atum' (Cimmerian Shade)
Embryonic Devourment, 'Reptilian Agenda' (Deepsend)
Enthrallment, 'The Voice of Human Perversity' (Rebirth the Metal)
Empty Flowers, 'The Air You Found' (Translation Loss)
Flotsam and Jetsam, 'No Place For Disgrace: 2014' (Metal Blade)
Fuoco Fatuo, 'The Viper Slithers in the Ashes of What Remains' (Iron Tyrant)
Godhunter, 'City of Dust' (The Compound)
Gridlink, 'Longhena' (Handshake)
Kamchatka, 'The Search Goes On' (Despotz)
I Killed The Prom Queen, 'Beloved' (Epitaph)
Issues, 'Issues' (Velocity)
Junius, 'Days of the Fallen Sun' EP (Prosthetic)
Knowing2fly, 'Here On My Feet' (Bakerteam)
Lies of Nazca, 'Aleph' (Rogue)
Lionize, 'Jetpack Soundtrack' (Weathermaker)
March 15, 'Our Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre' (Svart)
Miserable, 'The Halloween Dream' EP (Native Sound)
More Than a Thousand, 'Volume 5: Lost at Home' (Good Fight)
Nebelung, 'Palingenesis' (Temple of Torturous)
Omnivore, 'Omnivore' (Unspeakable Axe)
Omotai, 'Fresh Hell' (The Path Less Traveled)
One Machine, 'The Distortion of Lies and the Overdriven Truth' (Scarlet)
Pale Divine, 'Cemetery Earth' (Shadow Kingdom)
Royal Bliss, 'Chasing the Sun' (Air Castle)
Sahg, 'Delusions of Grandeur' (Metal Blade)
Sammal, 'No. 2' (Svart)
Sarke, 'Aruagint' (Metal Blade)
Skindred, 'Kill the Power' (Red River)
Slough Feg, 'Digital Resistance' (Metal Blade)
Soreption, 'Engineering the Void' (Unique Leader)
Spewtilator, 'Goathrower' (Boris)
Suicide Silence, 'Ending Is the Beginning: The Mitch Lucker Memorial Show' CD/DVD (Century Media)
TrenchRot, 'Necronomic Warfare' (Unspeakable Axe)
Tyrants Blood, 'Coven' (Tridroid)
Zoax, 'XIII' (Siege Of Amida)

February 25:
Agael, 'Trost' (Naturmacht)
Atacama Death Experience, 'Wasted Time and Broken Bones' (Cimmerian Shade)
Aypheros, 'Ascendet Novissima Tua' (PRC)
Chthonic, 'Ián-Bú' DVD (Eagle)
Cultfinder, 'Hell's Teeth' (Eldritch)
Devil's Heaven, 'Heaven on Earth' (Helldiver)
Doom's Day, 'The Devil's Eyes' (PRC)
Esoteric Youth / Caïna, 'Split' (COF/Swarm Of Nails)
Folge Dem Wind, 'To Summon Twilight' (Code 666)
Heart, ‘Fanatic Live From Caesar’s Colosseum’ CD/DVD (Frontiers)
Hopeless Youth, 'Disgust' (Candlelight)
Horizon Ablaze, 'Dødsverk' (Code 666)
House of Lords, 'Precious Metal' (Frontiers)
Jagged Vision, 'Harvest Earth' (Retro Futurist)
Jesters of Destiny, 'Fun at the Funeral' Reissue (Ektro)
King Parrot, 'Bite Your Head Off' (Candlelight)
Lenore S. Fingers, 'Inner Tales' (My Kingdom)
Lethal Dosage, 'Consume' (Battleground)
Metalocalpyse, 'The Doomstar Requiem: A Klok Opera' Soundtrack (BS)
Morfin, 'Inoculation' (FDA Rekotz)
Omnium Gatherum, 'The Redshift' Reissue (Candlelight)
Sado Sathanas, 'Homos Harmartia' (Naturmacht)
Shattered Hope, 'Waters of Lethe' (Solitude)
Stamina, 'Perseverance' (My Kingdom)
Vanden Plas, 'Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld' (Frontiers)
W.E.T.,-'ne Live In Stockholm' CD/DVD (Frontiers)
Will of the Ancients, 'To Our Glorious Dead' (PRC)
The Wounded Kings, 'Consolamentum' (Candlelight)

March 4:
Acheron, 'Kult des Hasses' (Listenable)
Agiel, 'Dark Pantheons' EP (Deepsend)
Anarchos, 'Descent Into the Maelstrom' (Vic)
Battleaxe, 'Heavy Metal Sanctuary' (SPV)
Bleeding Fist, 'Deaths Old Stench' (Moribund)
Carnifex, 'Die Without Hope' (Nuclear Blast)
Cholera, 'Plagiarised Hope' (COF/Holy Ground)
Colossus, 'Lobotocracy' (Klonosphere)
Comeback Kid, 'Die Knowing' (Victory)
Cremetory, 'Antiserum' (SPV)
Destrage, 'Are You Kidding Me? No.' (Metal Blade)
Ektomorf, 'Retribution' (AFM)
Fossils, 'Flesh Hammer' (Indisciplinarian)
Frail Grounds, 'The Fields of Trauma' (Hostile)
Freedom Call, 'Beyond' (SPV)
Fuel, ‘Puppet Strings’ (Mri)
Hammercult, 'Steelcrusher' (SPV)
Hirax, 'Immortal Legacy' (SPV)
I Am Heresy, 'Thy Will' (Century Media)
Kayser, 'Read Your Enemy' (Listenable)
Kuolemanlaakso, 'Tulijoutsen' (Svart)
Manowar, ‘Kings of Metal MMXIV’ (Magic Circle)
Morbus Chron, 'Sweven' (Century Media)
Mount Salem, 'Endless' EP Reissue (Metal Blade)
Nothing, 'Guilty of Everything' (Relapse)
The Overseer, 'Rest and Let Go' (Solid State)
Portal, 'For All That is Damned to Vanish' (Vic)
Prizehog, 'Re-Unvent the Whool' (Eolian Empire)
Profezia, 'Oracolo Suicida' (Moribund)
Ready, Set, Fall, 'Memento' (Lifeforce)
Ribspreader, 'Meathymns' (Vic)
Scars Divide, - 'Scars Divide' EP (Tenacity)
The Strigas, 'A Poisoned Kiss To Reality' (Southern Brigade)
Suffer In Silence, 'Behind the Truth' (Sliptrick)
Vanishing Point, 'Distant Is the Sun' (AFM)
Wild Throne, 'Blood Maker' EP (Brutal Panda)
Wolves Like Us, 'Black Soul Choir' (Prosthetic)

March 11:
Architects UK, 'Lost Together, Lost Forever' (Epitaph)
Armageddon Rev.16.16, 'Sundown on Humanity' (Pitch Black)
Barren Womb, 'The Sun's Not Yellow, It's Chicken' (Spartan)
Biblical, 'Monsoon Season' (New Damage)
The Casket Crew, 'Coercion' (Cimmerian Shade)
Conan, 'Blood Eagle' (Napalm)
Crypt Of Silence, 'Beyond Shades' (Solitude)
Dark Forest, 'The Awakening' (Cruz del Sur)
Dirge, 'Hyperion' (Debemur Morti)
Entartung, 'Peccata Mortalia' (WTC)
Gojira, 'Les Enfants Sauvages Live' CD/DVD/Book (Roadrunner)
Insain, 'Enlightening the Unknown' (Kaotoxin)
John Baizley, Nate Hall & Mike Scheidt, 'Songs of Townes Van Zandt Vol II' (Neurot)
Kirk, 'Masquerade' (Mausoleum)
KXM, 'KXM' (Rat Pak)
Monsterworks, 'Universe' (Eat Lead & Die)
Nervosa, 'Victim of Yourself' (Napalm)
Ogre, 'The Last Neanderthal' (Minotauro)
Our Last Enemy, 'Pariah' (Eclipse)
Psalm Zero, 'The Drain' (Profound Lore)
Scibex, 'Path to Omors' (Tridroid)
Seal of Solomon, 'I the King' (Wormholedeath)
The Shrine, 'Bless Off' (Tee Pee)
Shroud of the Heretic, 'Revelations in Alchemy' (Blood Harvest)
Tortorum, 'Katabasis' (WTC)
Valknacht, 'Le Sacrifice d'Ymir' (PRC)
Viza, 'Aria' (Gravitron)
Volume IV, 'Long in the Tooth' (Ripple)

March 18:
Ageless Oblivion, 'Penthos' (Century Media)
Alterbeast, 'Immortal' (Unique Leader)
Apparitions, 'Part 2: The Inferno' EP (Infamous Empire)
Assassins, 'War of Aggression' (Good Fight)
Azoria, 'Seasons Change' (Doolittle)
Bl'ast, 'The Expression of Power' Reissue (Southern Lord)
The Bunny The Bear, 'Food Chain' (Victory)
Buried In Verona, 'Faceless' (Razor & Tie)
Coffinworm, 'IV.I.VIII' (Profound Lore)
The Crimson ProjeCKt, 'Live in Tokyo' (Inside Out)
D-A-D, '30 Years 30 Hits: Best of D-A-D' (AFM)
Demon Hunter, 'Extremist' (Solid State)
Dodsferd, 'The Parasitic Survival of the Human Race' (Moribund)
Don Jamieson, 'Hell Bent For Laughter' (Metal Blade)
Earth Crisis, 'Salvation of Innocents' (Candlelight)
Frozen Dawn, 'Those of the Cursed Light' (Xtreem)
Gus G., 'I Am the Fire' (Century Media)
Hark, 'Crystalline' (Season Of Mist)
Hiidenhauta, 'Noitia on Minun Sukuni' (Inverse)
I Exist, 'From Darkness' (Prosthetic)
Iron Savior, 'Rise of the Hero' (AFM)
Lorna Shore, 'Maleficium' (Density)
Menace, 'Impact Velocity' (Season Of Mist)
Merkabah, 'Ubiquity' (Maple Metal)
Mother, 'A New Life' EP (Rock Your Mother)
Nocturnal Breed, 'Napalm Nights' (Agonia)
Offenders, 'We Must Rebel / I Hate Myself / Endless Struggle' Reissue (Southern Lord)
Order Of Isaz, 'Seven Years of Famine' (Season Of Mist)
The Prestige, 'Ecotone' (Mediaskare)
The Pretty Reckless, 'Going To Hell' (Razor & Tie)
Rauhnåcht, 'Urzeitgeist' (Hammerheart)
Ringworm, 'Hammer of the Witch' (Relapse)
Riotgod, 'Driven Rise' (Metalville)
Savage Messiah, 'The Fateful Dark' (Century Media/Earache)
The Socks, 'The Socks' (Small Stone)
Storm Warrior, 'Thunder & Steele' (Massacre)
Suffer Yourself, 'Inner Sanctum' (Cimmerian Shade)
Taking Back Sunday, ‘Happiness Is’ (Hopeless)
Twilight, 'III: Beneath Trident's Tomb' (Century Media)
Twisted Sister, 'You Can’t Stop Rock ‘N’ Rol l /Come Out And Play / Love Is For Suckers' (Armoury)
Vampire, 'Vampire' (Century Media)
Years Since The Storm, 'Hopeless Shelter' (Artery)

March 25:
15 Reasons, 'The Art of Commitment' (Graviton)
Ancient Ascendant, 'Echos and Cinder' (Candlelight)
Barren Harvest, 'Subtle Cruelties' (Handmade Birds)
Coltsblood, 'Into the Unfathomable Abyss' (Candlelight)
Darkentries, 'The Make Believe' (Retro Futurist)
Die Choking, 'Die Choking' (The Compound)
Discipline X, 'Wasted in Hollywood' (Inverse)
Dread Sovereign, 'All Hell's Martyrs' (Van)
Geryon, 'Geryon' EP (Gilead)
Hundredeth, 'Resist' EP (Mediaskare)
Kosmos, 'Le Vecteur Transcendantal' Reissue (Mulligore)
Linda & The Punch, 'Obsession' (Escape)
Loath, 'Total Peace' (Inverse)
Memphis May Fire, 'Unconditional' (Rise)
Negative Voice, 'Infinite Dissonance' (Inverse)
Noble Beast, 'Noble Beast' (Tridroid)
Pantera, 'Far Beyond Driven' 20th Anniversary Edition (Rhino)
Pretty Maids, 'Louder Than Ever' CD/DVD (Frontiers)
Restless Oblivion, 'Sands of Time' (Solitude)
Rorcal, 'Világvége' (Bleak)
Shores of Null, 'Quiescence' (Candlelight)
Thou, 'Heathen' (Gilead)
Trigger Point, 'Giving Up the Ghost' (THC)

April 1:
Alesana, 'The Decade' EP (Artery)
Austrian Death Machine, 'Triple Brutal' (Artery)
Bigelf, 'Into the Maelstrom' (Inside Out)
Boyfrndz, 'Breeder' (Brutal Panda)
Buioingola, 'Dopo l'apnea' (Sentient Ruin)
Cauldron Black Ram, 'Stalagmire' (20 Buck Spin)
Cemetery Fog, 'Shadows From The Cemetery' EP (Iron Bonehead)
Chevelle, 'La Gargola' (Epic)
Chiodos, 'Devil' (Razor & Tie)
Circle, 'Leviatan' (Ektro)
Daggers, 'It's Not Jazz, It's Blues' (Throatruiner)
Direwolves, 'Aegri Somnia' (Throatruiner)
Epistasis, 'Light Through Dead Glass' (Crucial Blast)
Gravehill, 'Death Curse' (Dark Descent)
Hatriot, 'Dawn of the New Centurian' (Massacre)
Hellion, 'To Hellion and Back' (HNE)
Human Cull, 'Stillborn Nation' (Wooaaargh)
Infest, 'Cold Blood War' (Xtreem)
Johnny Wore Black, 'Walking Underwater' (Dead Cherry)
John Wesley, 'Disconnect' (Inside Out)
Khroma, 'Collapse' (Inverse)
Lacuna Coil, 'Broken Crown Halo' (Century Media)
Lost Society, 'Terror Hungry' (Nuclear Blast)
Magnum, 'Escape From the Shadow Garden' (SPV)
Mass Infection, 'For I Am Genocide' (Comatose)
Massacre, 'Back From Beyond' (Century Media)
Neige et Noirceur, 'Gouffre Onirique et Abîmes Cosmiques' (Sepulchral)
Nux Vomica, 'Nux Vomica' (Relapse)
Pilgrim, 'II: Void Worship' (Metal Blade)
Plebeian Grandstand, 'Lowgazers' (Throatruiner)
Pyrrhon, 'The Mother of Virtues' (Relapse)
Relief In Sleep, 'Relief In Sleep' (Imminence)
Sabbath Assembly, 'Quaternity' (Svart)
Sargeist, 'Feeding the Crawling Shadows' (WTC)
Shear, 'Katharsis' (Lifeforce)
Social 66, 'Social 66' (Pavement)
Sonata Arctica, 'Pariah's Child' (Nuclear Blast)
Steel Panther, 'All You Can Eat' (Open E)
Various Artists, 'Ronnie James Dio: This Is Your Life' (Rhino)

April 8:
Anette Olzon, 'Shine' (Armoury)
Black Label Society, 'Catacombs of the Black Vatican' (eOne)
Blistered, 'Soul Erosion' EP (6131)
Brutality Will Prevail, 'Suspension of Consciousness' (Siege of Amida)
Cormorant, 'Earth Diver' (Self)
Delain, 'The Human Contradiction' (Napalm)
Diabulus In Musica, 'Argia' (Napalm)
Edge Of Thorns, 'Insomnia' (Killer Metal)
Erebus Enthroned, 'Temple Under Hell' (Seance)
Ferium, 'Reflections' (Transcend)
From Hell, 'Ascent From Hell' (Scourge)
For The Fallen Dreams, 'Heavy Hearts' (Rise)
Graves At Sea, 'This Place Is Poison' EP (Eolian Empire)
Graviators, 'Motherload' (Napalm)
Invertia, 'Another Scheme of the Wicked' (Ohm Resistance)
John Frusciante, 'Enclosure' (+180)
Magic Moments, 'Don't Fall For Me' EP (Haus Of F--k)
Neige Morte, 'Bicephaale' (Consouling Sounds)
Off!, 'Wasted Years' (Vice)
Ormgard, 'Ormblot' (Forever Plagued)
Paul Stanley, 'Face the Music: A Life Exposed' (Book)
Phlebotomized, 'Immense Intense Suspense & Skycontact' Reissue (Hammerheart)
Satyress, 'Dark Fortune' (Self)
Septuagint, 'Negative Void Trinity' EP (Forever Plagued)
Skogen, 'I Döden' (Nordvis)
Tiger Flowers, 'Dead Hymns' (Melotov)
Trollfest, 'Kaptein Kaos' (NoiseArt)