Here is your 2024 hard rock + metal album release calendar.
With so many new metal and hard rock albums being released each week, it can be difficult to keep up. We’re making things a lot easier for you by keeping track of all the 2024 releases in one convenient location.alkaline
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February 9, 2024
All This Filth – Will Tomorrow Be Better? (Brutal)
Aureole – Alunarian Ghosts Of Bellmaster (Lupus Lounge)
Blutgott – Dragongods (Massacre)
Chapel Of Disease – Echoes Of Light (Van)
The Chisel – What A Fucking Nightmare (Pure Noise)
Contaminated – Celebratory Beheading (Blood Harvest)
F.K.Ü. – The Horror And The Metal (Despotz)
Hulder – Verses In Oath (20 Buck Spin)
Infected Rain – Time (Napalm)
In Vain – Back To Nowhere (Fighter)
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life – No Name Graves (Unique Leader)
Lockdown – Step Over The Bodies (SelfMadeRecords)
Mean Jeans – Blasted (Fat Wreck Chords)
Morbid Saint – Swallowed By Hell (High Roller)
Petrification – Sever Sacred Light (Svart)
The Pineapple Thief – It Leads To This (Kscope)
Revolution Saints – Against The Winds (Frontiers)
Romuvos – Spirits (Hammerheart)
Seltsame Erden – Gedankentempeln (Chaos)
The Sleeveens – The Sleeveens (Dirtnap)
Smoking Snakes – Danger Zone (Frontiers)
Spectral Voice – Sparagmos (Dark Descent)
Spiritual Deception – Semitae Mentis (Amputated Vein)
Takida – The Agony Flame (Napalm)
February 16, 2024
Bloom – Maybe In Another Life (Pure Noise/Greyscale)
Bokassa – All Out Of Dreams (Indie)
Cercenatory – GoreSphere (Comatose)
Coltre – To Watch With Hands To Touch With Eyes (Dying Victims)
Crazy Lixx – Two Shots At Glory (Frontiers)
Darkspace – -II (Season Of Mist)
Dead Earth – Et Disperdam Illud (Chaos)
The Drowns – Blacked Out (Pirates Press)
Durbin – Screaming Steel (Frontiers)
Einar Solberg – The Congregation Acoustic (InsideOut)
Elettra Storm – Powerlords (Scarlet)
Far Beyond – The End Of My Road (Prosthetic)
Farsot – Life Promises Death (Lupus Lounge)
The Hellacopters – Grand Rock Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Honeymoon Suite – Alive (Frontiers)
Illumishade – Another Side Of You (Napalm)
Ihsahn – Ihsahn (Candlelight)
K’mono – Mind Out Of Mind (Apollon)
Laura Jane Grace – Hole In My Head (Polyvinyl)
Mr. Bison – Echoes From The Universe (Heavy Psych Sounds)
The Obsessed – Gilded Sorrow (Ripple)
Pestilength – Solar Clorex (Debemur Morti)
Ponte Del Diavolo – Fire Blades From The Tomb (Season Of Mist)
Praise The Plague – Suffocating In The Current Of Time (Lifeforce)
Profiler – A Digital Nowhere (SharpTone)
The Requiem – A Cure To Poison The World (Fearless)
Rick Wakeman – Live At The London Palladium 2023 (Cherry Red)
Samael – Passage – Live (Napalm)
Slayer – Show No Mercy Vinyl Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Steve Hackett – The Circus And The Nightwhale (InsideOut)
Toxikull – Under The Southern Light (Dying Victims)
February 23, 2024
Ace Frehley – 10,000 Volts (MNRK)
Amaranthe – The Catalyst (Nuclear Blast)
Atoll – Inhuman Implants (Unique Leader)
Austrian Death Machine – Quad Brutal (Napalm)
The Body & Dis Fig – Orchards Of A Futile Heaven (Thrill Jockey)
Borknagar – Fall (Century Media)
A Burial At Sea – Close To Home (Pelagic)
Craneium – Point Of No Return (The Sign)
CrossChains – Deathgrip (Drakkar)
Darkest Hour – Perpetual | Terminal (MNRK Heavy)
Decrowned – Persona Non Grata (Rockshots)
Disastroid – Garden Creatures (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Dust Bolt – Sound & Fury (AFM)
Ektomorf – Vivid Black (AFM)
Gen And The Degenerates – Anti-Fun Propaganda (Marshall)
Guiltless – Thorns EP (Neurot)
Hand Of Kalliach – Corryvreckan (Prosthetic)
Hypoxia – Defiance (Selfmadegod)
Iron Curtain – Savage Dawn (Dying Victims)
Job For A Cowboy – Moon Healer (Metal Blade)
Lionheart – The Grace Of A Dragonfly (Metalville)
Monkey3 – Welcome To The Machine (Napalm)
Morta Skuld – Creation Undone (Peaceville)
Motorhead – The Lost Tapes Volume 1-5 (BMG)
North Sea Echoes – Really Good Terrible Things (Metal Blade)
Persher – Sleep Well (Thrill Jockey)
Pirate Queen – Ghosts (Despotz)
Rifforia – Axeorcism (Metalville)
Stygian Crown – Funeral For A King (Cruz Del Sur)
Sybris – Gold On Hold (Absolutely Kosher)
Timelost – Drained (Church Road)
Toadliquor – Back In The Hole (Southern Lord)
Toxikull – Under The Southern Light (Dying Victims)
Tvinna – Two – Wings Of Ember (By Norse)
Útgarðar – Fire Smoked Upon The Wolf’s Back (ATMF)
Vincent Crowley – Anthology Of Horror (Hammerheart)
March 1, 2024
Beyrevra – Echoes: Vanished Lore Of Fire (Trollzorn)
Big Big Train – The Likes Of Us (InsideOut)
Blind Channel – Exit Emotions (Century Media)
Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Project (BMG)
Clouds Taste Satanic – 79 A.E. (Majestic Mountain)
Defocus – There Is A Place For Me On Earth (Arising Empire)
Devastator – Conjurers Of Cruelty (Listenable)
Enslaved – Heimdal Deluxe Edition (Nuclear Blast)
Firewind – Stand United (AFM)
Liv Kristine – Deus ex Machina Re-Release (Metalville)
Mannequin Pussy – I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
Ministry – Hopiumforthemasses (Nuclear Blast)
Negative Prayer – Self // Wound (Chaos)
Saturnalia Temple – Revel In Dissidence (Listenable)
Suicidal Angels – Profane Prayer (Nuclear Blast)
Suldusk – Anthesis (Napalm)
Surgical Strike – 24/7 Hate (Metalville)
Tigers On Opium – Psychodrama (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Volcandra – The Way Of Ancients (Prosthetic)
Zakk Sabbath – Doomed Forever Forever Doomed (Magnetic Eye)
March 8, 2024
Agonista – Grey And Dry (Armageddon)
Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies Re-Release (Rhino)
Alterium – Of War And Flames (AFM)
Apogean – Cyberstrictive (The Artisan Era)
Ecclesia – Ecclesia Militans (Aural)
The End Machine – The Quantum Phase (Frontiers)
Exhorder – Defectum Omnium (Nuclear Blast)
Floya – Yume (Arising Empire)
Goat Major – Ritual (Ripple)
Gost – Prophecy (Metal Blade)
Grey Skies Fallen – Molded By Broken Hands (Profound Lore)
Isenordal – Requiem For Eirene (Prophecy)
The Jesus And Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club)
Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (Epic)
Kill The Lights – Death Melodies (Fearless)
Kim Gordon – The Collective (Matador)
Meatbodies – Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom (In The Red)
Merrimack – Of Grace And Gravity (Season Of Mist)
Midas Fall – Cold Waves Divide Us (Monotreme)
Midnight – Hellish Expectations (Metal Blade)
The Rolling Stones – Live At The Wiltern (Mercury)
Skeletal Remains – Fragments Of The Ageless (Century Media)
Slimelord – Chytridiomycosis Relinquished (20 Buck Spin)
Sonata Arctica – Clear Cold Beyond (Atomic Fire)
Too Close To Touch – For Keeps (Epitaph)
Vlad In Tears – Relapse (Metalville)
March 15, 2024
Aardvark – Tough Love (Dying Victims)
Aborted – Vault Of Horrors (Nuclear Blast)
Armagh – Exclamation Point (Dying Victims)
The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards (Silver Arrow)
Bongzilla – Dabbing (LIVE) Rosin In Europe (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Comeback Kid – Trouble EP (SharpTone)
DragonForce – Warp Speed Warriors (Napalm)
Iterum Nata – From The Infinite Light (Nordvis)
Kid Kapichi – There Goes The Neighbourhood (Spinefarm)
Leather Lung – Graveside Grin (Magnetic Eye)
Lustmord – Much Unseen Is Also Here (Pelagic)
Lutharo – Chasing Euphoria (Atomic Fire)
Malsten – The Haunting of Silvåkra Mill – Rites of Passage (Svart)
Mike Tramp – Mand Af En Tid (Target)
Necrophobic – In The Twilight Grey (Century Media)
Per Wiberg – The Serpent’s Here (Despotz)
The Progressive Souls Collective – Sonic Rebirth (Metalville)
Scott Stapp – Higher Power (Napalm)
Shock Withdrawal – The Dismal Advance (Brutal Panda)
Silver Mountain – Shakin’ Brains Re-Release (Regain)
Silver Mountain – Universe Re-Release (Regain)
Udad – Udad (Peaceville)
Vltimas – Epic (Season Of Mist)
March 22, 2024
Alestorm – Voyage Of The Dead Marauder EP (Napalm)
Apparition – Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State (Profound Lore)
Brodequin – Harbinger Of Woe (Season Of Mist)
Civerous – Maze Envy (20 Buck Spin)
Fall Of Serenity – Open Wide, O Hell (Lifeforce)
Ghostkid – Hollywood Suicide (Century Media)
Hamferð – Men Guðs hond er sterk (Metal Blade)
Hammer King – König und Kaiser (Napalm)
Keygen Church – Nel Nome Del Codice (Metal Blade)
Mastiff – Deprecipice (MNRK Heavy)
Moon Incarnate – Hymns To The Moon (Iron Bonehead)
Sylvaine – Eg Er Framand EP (Season Of Mist)
Thornbridge – Daydream Illusion (Massacre)
Velcros – Strange News From The Vault (Crazysane)
Zombi – Direct Inject (Relapse)
March 29, 2024
Ana – The Art Of Letting Go EP (Eclipse)
CNTS – Thoughts & Prayers (Ipecac)
Darkestrah – Nomad (Osmose)
The Quill – Wheel Of Illusion (Metalville)
Rage – Afterlifelines (Steamhammer/SPV)
Sum 41 – Heaven :X: Hell (Rise)
While She Sleeps – Self Hell (Spinefarm)
April 5, 2024
Alpha Wolf – Half Living Things (Greyscale/SharpTone)
The Black Keys – Ohio Players (Nonesuch)
Disbelief – Killing Karma (Listenable)
Erra – Cure (UNFD)
Five Finger Death Punch – Afterlife Deluxe Edition (Better Noise)
Ingested – The Tide Of Death And Fractured Dreams (Metal Blade)
Kobra Paige – Like No Other (Self)
Korpiklaani – Rankarumpu (Nuclear Blast)
April 12, 2024
Heavy Temple – Garden Of Heathens (Magnetic Eye)
Jakobs Castle – Enter: The Castle (Epitaph)
Nest – Endeavors (Housecore)
Northlane – Mirror’s Edge EP (Self)
Riot V – Mean Streets (Atomic Fire)
Seigman – Resonans (Indie)
Setyoursails – Bad Blood (Napalm)
The Vision Bleak – Weird Tales (Prophecy)
April 19, 2024
Big|Brave – A Chaos Of Flowers (Thrill Jockey)
Billy Morrison – The Morrison Project (TLG)
Dool – The Shape Of Fluidity (Prophecy)
Feuerschwanz – Warriors (Napalm)
Folterkammer – Weibermacht (Century Media)
The Ghost Inside – Searching For Solace (Epitaph)
Nocturna – Of Sorcery And Darkness (Scarlet)
Quantum – Down The Mountainside (Black Lodge)
April 26, 2024
Arð – Untouched By Fire (Prophecy)
Glassing – From The Other Side Of The Mirror (Pelagic)
May 3, 2024
Death Lens – Cold World (Epitaph)
P.O.D. – Veritas (Mascot)
May 17, 2024
Kerry King – From Hell I Rise (Reigning Phoenix)
May 24, 2024
Rotting Christ – Pro Xristoy (Season Of Mist)
May 31, 2024
Witherfall – Sounds Of The Forgotten (Deathwave)
Albums That Already Came Out
January 5, 2024
Cancer Christ – God Is Violence (Seeing Red)
Dunwich Ritual – The Weird Tapes Sessions (Jawbreaker)
Haywire – Conditioned For Demolition (Daze)
Lastworld – Beautiful Ilusion (Perris)
Morgue Terror – Morgue Terror (Self)
The Oddeven – Darkness (Eclipse)
Panzerchrist – All Witches Shall Burn EP (Emanzipation)
January 12, 2024
Alluvial – Death Is But A Door EP (Nuclear Blast)
Artificial Heaven – Digital Dreams (My Kingdom)
The Awesome Machine – …It’s Ugly Or Nothing Re-Release (Ripple)
Casey – How To Disappear (Greyscale)
The Clamps – Megamouth (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Domination Campaign – A Storm Of Steel (Prosthetic)
Drown In Sulphur – Dark Secrets Of The Soul (Scarlet)
Emil Bulls – Love Will Fix It (Arising Empire)
Engulf – The Dying Planet Weeps (Everlasting Spew)
Escuela Grind – Ddeeaaatthhmmeettaall EP (MNRK Heavy)
Exit Eden – Femmes Fatales (Napalm)
Extinction A.D. – Ruthless Intent EP (Unique Leader)
The Grandmaster – Black Sun (Frontiers)
Iron Front – Hooked (Creator-Destructor)
Jim Peterik & World Stage – Roots & Shoots Vol. 1 (Frontiers)
Last In Time – Too Late (Rockshots)
Magnum – Here Comes The Rain (Napalm)
Mourning Dawn – The Foam Of Despair (Aesthetic Death)
Neal Morse – The Restoration – Joseph: Part Two (Frontiers)
Nobody’s Fool – Time (Battlegod)
No Terror In The Bang – Heal (Klonosphere)
Oathbringer – Tales Of Valor (RTR)
Psycho Ward – Committed (Battlegod)
Ravenstine – 2024 (Massacre)
Russell/Guns – Medusa (Frontiers)
Ruthless – The Fallen (Fireflash)
Ryujin – Ryujin (Napalm)
Splitknuckle – Breathing Through The Wound (Daze)
Ultimatum – Among Potential States Re-Release (Loud Rage)
Walk The Plank – Loathe EP (Mt. Crushmore)
January 19, 2024
Abhoria – Depths (Prosthetic)
Advocacy – The Path Of Decoherence (Uprising)
Andracca – To Bare The Weight Of Death (Vendetta)
Avenger – Steel On Steel: The Complete Avenger Recordings (Dissonance)
Boundless Chaos – Sinister Upheaval (Dying Victims)
CobraKill – Serpent’s Kiss (Frontiers)
Cold In Berlin – The Body Is The Wound EP (New Heavy Sounds)
Corvus – Immortals (Pride & Joy)
Gotus – Gotus (Frontiers)
Grand – Second To None (Frontiers)
Green Day, Saviors (Reprise)
Kontact – Full Contact (Dying Victims)
Lord Dying – Clandestine Transcendence (MNRK Heavy)
Master – Saints Dispelled (Hammerheart)
MesaVerde – All Is Well (Apollon)
Methedrine – No Solution, No Salvation (Time To Kill)
Neck Deep – Neck Deep (Hopeless)
Nick Oliveri – N.O. Hits At All Vol. 8 (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Nick Oliveri – N.O. Hits At All Vol. 9 (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Ribspreader – Reap Humanity (Xtreem)
The Rods – Rattle The Cage (Massacre)
Saxon – Hell, Fire And Damnation (Silver Lining)
Sovereign – Altered Realities (Dark Descent)
Touché Amoré –Survived By: Revived (Deathwish)
Upon Stone – Dead Mother Moon (Century Media)
Vemod – The Deepening (Prophecy)
Verona On Venus – Popular Delusions (Self)
The Vice – Dead Canary Run (Noble Demon)
January 26, 2024
Alcatrazz – Rock Justice: Complete Recordings 1983-1986 (HNE)
Alkaline Trio – Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs (Rise)
Almost Dead – Destruction Is All We Know (Innerstrength)
Any Given Day – Limitless (Arising Empire)
Blood Red Throne – Nonagon (Soulseller)
Caligula’s Horse – Charcoal Grace (InsideOut)
Carnal Savagery – Into The Abysmal Void (Moribund)
Cerulean – Carrion Angel (I, Voidhanger)
Cognizance – Phantazein (Willowtip)
Command – Resver (Jawbreaker)
Corax B.M. – Pagana (The Circle)
Dead Poet Society – Fission (Spinefarm)
Dipygus – Dipygus (Memento Mori)
Dissimulator – Lower Form Resistance (20 Buck Spin)
Dripping Decay – Ripping Remains EP (Satanik Royalty)
Drowned – Procul His (Sepulchral Voice)
Dymytry – Five Angry Men (AFM)
Exocrine – Legend (Season Of Mist)
Eye Flys – Eye Flys (Thrill Jockey)
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – Dark Rainbow (Self)
Funeral Winds – 333 (Osmose)
The Gems – Phoenix (Napalm)
Greengoat – A.I. (Argonauta)
Guhts – Regeneration (Seeing Red)
Hearts & Hand Grenades – Where I Begin (Eclipse)
Hiraes – Dormant (Napalm)
The Infernal Sea – Hellfenlic (Candlelight)
Jenner – Prove Them Wrong (Fighter)
Junta – Junta (Sentient Ruin)
Kalt Vindur – Magna Mater (The Circle)
Kill The Thrill – Autophagie (Season Of Mist)
Lucifer – Lucifer V (Nuclear Blast)
Luciferian Rites – Oath Of Midnight Ashes (Moribund)
Manticora – Mycelium (Mighty)
Mega Colossus – Showdown (Cruz Del Sur)
Merrimack – Obsecrations To The Horned Re-Release (Moribund)
Metalite – Expedition One (AFM)
Midnatt/Overture – Swedish Metal Splilt (Gates Of Hell/Jawbreaker)
Mountain Caller – Chronicle II: Hypergenesis (Church Road)
Necrotum – Defleshed Exhumation (Memento Mori)
New Model Army – Unbroken (earMusic)
Olhava – Sacrifice (Avantgarde)
Slower – Slower (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Static-X – Project Regeneration: Vol. 2 (Self)
Stone Horns – Age Of Chimairas (Rockshots)
Stuporous – Asylum’s Lament (Void Wanderer)
Temple Of Void – The First Ten Years (Hammerheart)
Thunder – Live At Islington Academy (earMusic)
Thunder – Live At Leeds (earMusic)
Various Artists – Mesmerized – A Tribute To Celtic Frost (A Time To Kill)
Vipassi – Lightless (Season Of Mist)
Vitriol – Suffer & Become (Century Media)
Whitechapel – Live In The Valley (Metal Blade)
February 2, 2024
Artillery – Raw Live (In Copenhell) (Mighty)
Banks Arcade – Death 2 EP (UNFD)
Being As An Ocean – Death Can Wait (Out Of Line)
Big Scenic Nowhere – The Waydown (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Bipolar Architecture – Metaphysicize (Pelagic)
Drunemeton – Tir Nan Og (Heidens Hart)
Enterprise Earth – Death: An Anthology (MNRK Heavy)
Flight Mode – The Three Times (Tiny Engines)
Ghoul – Noxious Concoctions EP (Tankcrimes)
Hasturian Vigil – Unveiling The Brac’thal (Invictus)
Hollow Woods – Like Twisted Bones Of Fallen Giants (Signal Rex)
House Of Atreus – Orations EP (Iron Bonehead)
KMFDM – Let Go (Metropolis)
Levels – Pulse EP (SharpTone)
Litosth – Cesariana (Personal)
Meanstreak – Blood Moon EP (Step Off)
Meth – Shame (Prosthetic)
Myrath – Karma (earMusic)
Necrowretch – Swords Of Dajjal (Season Of Mist)
Night Fever – Dead End (Svart)
Persefone – Lingua Ignota: Part I EP (Napalm)
Perveration – Putrefaction Of Infinite Apogee (Comatose)
Reconciler – Art For Our Sake (Smartpunk)
Slope – Freak Dreams (Century Media)
Solbrud – IIII (Vendetta)
Stages Of Decomposition – Raptures Of Psychopathy (Gore House)
Transit Method – Othervoid (Brutal Panda)
Unaussprechlichen Kulten – Häxan Sabaoth (Iron Bonehead)
Valient Himself – Crooner Jukebox (Smokedoggg)
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