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JANUARY · Accuser - The Mastery (Metal Blade 2018-01-26, ; add'l notes: ) · Ammunition - Ammunition (Frontiers 2018-01-26, CD; add'l notes: ) · Anvil - Pounding The Pavement (SPV 2018-01-19, CD; add'l notes: ) · As I Lay Dying - Frail Words Collapse (Metal Blade 2018-01-26, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security (Metal Blade 2018-01-26, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Avatar - Avatar Country (Century Media 2018-01-12, CD; add'l notes: ) · Berlaffa, Alessio - Electric Mist (Lion Music 2018-01-11, CD; add'l notes: ) · Bleeding Gods - Dodekathlon (Nuclear Blast 2018-01-12, CD; add'l notes: ) · Campbell, Phil And The Bastard Sons - The Age Of Absurdity (Nuclear Blast 2018-01-26, CD; add'l notes: ) · Corrosion of Conformity - No Cross No Crown (Nuclear Blast 2018-01-12, CD; add'l notes: ) · Delta Deep - Delta Deep (Frontiers 2018-01-26, CD; add'l notes: ) · Delta Deep - East Coast Live (Frontiers 2018-01-26, CD; add'l notes: ) · Hacket, Steve - Wuthering Nights: Live In Birmingham (InsideOut Music 2018-01-26, DVD; add'l notes: ) · Hamferð - Támsins Likam (Metal Blade 2018-01-12, ; add'l notes: ) · Labÿrinth - Return To Live (Frontiers 2018-01-26, CD; add'l notes: Also Blu-Ray) · Leaves' Eyes - Sign Of The Dragonhead (AFM Records 2018-01-12, CD; add'l notes: ) · Lepond's Silent Assassins, Mike - Pawn And Prophecy (Frontiers 2018-01-26, CD; add'l notes: ) · Lione, Fabio and Alessandro Conti - Lione, Fabio and Alessandro Conti (Frontiers 2018-01-26, CD; add'l notes: ) · Machine Head - Catharsis (Nuclear Blast 2018-01-26, CD; add'l notes: ) · Magnum - Lost On The Road To Eternity (SPV 2018-01-19, CD; add'l notes: ) · Night Demon - Darkness Remains - Expanded Edition (SPV 2018-01-12, CD; add'l notes: ) · Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs (Century Media 2018-01-26, CD; add'l notes: ) · Perfect Beings - Vier (InsideOut Music 2018-01-19, CD; add'l notes: ) · Soldiers Of Solace - We Are Immortal (Rock'n'Growl Records 2018-01-26, CD; add'l notes: ) · Springfield, Rick - The Snake King (Frontiers 2018-01-26, CD; add'l notes: ) · Tankard - Hyms For The Drunk (AFM Records 2018-01-12, CD; add'l notes: ) · Tribulation - Down Below (Century Media 2018-01-26, CD; add'l notes: ) · Watain - Trident Wolf Eclipse (Century Media 2018-01-05, CD; add'l notes: ) Return to top |
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FEBRUARY · Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods (Metal Blade 2018-02-23, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Amon Amarth - Jomsviking (Metal Blade 2018-02-23, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Animal Drive - Bite! (Frontiers 2018-02-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Armored Dawn - Barbarians In Black (AFM Records 2018-02-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Asenblut - Legenden (AFM Records 2018-02-16, CD; add'l notes: ) · Bay, Chris - Chasing The Sun (SPV 2018-02-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · CoreLeoni - The Greatest Hits Part 1 (Frontiers 2018-02-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Dimmu Borgir - Interdimensional Summit (Nuclear Blast 2018-02-23, LP; add'l notes: 7inch EP) · Dukes Of The Orient - Dukes Of The Orient (Frontiers 2018-02-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Ektomorf - Fury (AFM Records 2018-02-16, CD; add'l notes: ) · Feed The Rhino - The Silence (Century Media 2018-02-16, CD; add'l notes: ) · Fight The Fight - Fight The Fight (Metal Blade 2018-02-09, ; add'l notes: ) · Good Tiger - We Will All Be Gone (Metal Blade 2018-02-09, CD; add'l notes: ) · Harm's Way - Posthuman (Metal Blade 2018-02-09, ; add'l notes: ) · Kolyadin, Gleb - Gleb Kolyadin (KScope 2018-02-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Letters From The Colony - Vignette (Nuclear Blast 2018-02-16, CD; add'l notes: Also 2LP) · Letzte Instanz - Morgenland (AFM Records 2018-02-16, CD; add'l notes: ) · Long Distance Calling - Boundless (InsideOut Music 2018-02-02, CD; add'l notes: ) · Necrophobic - Mark Of the Necrogram (Century Media 2018-02-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Ostura - The Room (Universal MENA 2018-02-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (KScope 2018-02-23, LP; add'l notes: Remastered) · Revertigo - Revertigo (Frontiers 2018-02-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Riis, Bjørn - Coming Home (Karisma 2018-02-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Riot - Nightbreaker (Metal Blade 2018-02-23, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Riot - The Brethren Of The Long House (Metal Blade 2018-02-23, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Schenker Fest, Michael - Warrior (Nuclear Blast 2018-02-09, CD; add'l notes: 12-inch EP) · Secret Illusion - Awake Before The Dawn (Lion Music 2018-02-01, CD; add'l notes: ) · Seyminhol - Ophelian Fields (Lion Music 2018-02-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Shiraz Lane - Carinval Days (Frontiers 2018-02-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Sjöblom's Gungfly, Rikard - Rumbling Box (2006-2016) (InsideOut Music 2018-02-16, CD; add'l notes: ) · Therion - Beloved Antichrist (Nuclear Blast 2018-02-09, CD; add'l notes: 3CD) · Twitching Tongues - Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred (Metal Blade 2018-02-09, CD; add'l notes: ) · Unruly Child - Unhinged - Live From Milan (Frontiers 2018-02-23, CD; add'l notes: Also Blu-Ray) · Visigoth - Conquerer's Oath (Metal Blade 2018-02-09, CD; add'l notes: ) · Voodoo Circle - Raised On Rock (AFM Records 2018-02-09, CD; add'l notes: ) Return to top |
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MARCH · Arch Enemy - 1996-2017 (Century Media 2018-03-09, CD; add'l notes: ) · Auri - Auri (Nuclear Blast 2018-03-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Barren Earth - A Complex Of Cages (Century Media 2018-03-30, CD; add'l notes: ) · Borealis - The Offering (AFM Records 2018-03-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Bullet Boys - From Out Of The Skies (Frontiers 2018-03-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Chronosfear - Chronosfear (Underground Symphony 2018-03-05, CD; add'l notes: ) · Crown, The - Cobra Speed Venom (Metal Blade 2018-03-16, CD; add'l notes: ) · Dark Horizon - Aenigma (Underground Symphony 2018-03-05, CD; add'l notes: ) · Death Alley - Superbia (Century Media 2018-03-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Dobbeltgjenger - Limbohead (Karisma 2018-03-02, CD; add'l notes: ) · Earthless - Black Heaven (Nuclear Blast 2018-03-16, CD; add'l notes: ) · Eyes Of The Sun - Chapter I (Metal Blade 2018-03-16, ; add'l notes: ) · FM - Atomic Generation (Frontiers 2018-03-30, CD; add'l notes: ) · J.B.O. - Deutsche Vita (AFM Records 2018-03-30, CD; add'l notes: ) · Jordsjø - Jord (Karisma 2018-03-09, CD; add'l notes: ) · Kino - Radio Voltaire (InsideOut Music 2018-03-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Light The Torch - Revival (Nuclear Blast 2018-03-30, CD; add'l notes: ) · Memoriam - The Silent Vigil (Nuclear Blast 2018-03-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Ministry - AmeriKKKant (Nuclear Blast 2018-03-09, CD; add'l notes: ) · Napalm Death - Coded Smears And More Uncommon Slurs (Century Media 2018-03-30, CD; add'l notes: ) · Nevermore - The Complete Collection (Century Media 2018-03-09, CD; add'l notes: ) · Nightwish - Decades (Nuclear Blast 2018-03-09, CD; add'l notes: ) · No Hot Ashes - No Hot Ashes (Frontiers 2018-03-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Oceans Of Slumber - The Banished Heart (Century Media 2018-03-02, CD; add'l notes: ) · Paradise Lost - Host (Nuclear Blast 2018-03-16, CD; add'l notes: Remastered) · Pell, Axel Rudi - Knights Call (SPV 2018-03-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Phi - Cycles (Gentle Art Of Music 2018-03-29, CD; add'l notes: ) · Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (KScope 2018-03-09, LP; add'l notes: Remastered) · Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins (Metal Blade 2018-03-30, CD; add'l notes: ) · Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name (Metal Blade 2018-03-16, CD; add'l notes: ) · Rizzo, Marc - Rotation (Combat Records 2018-03-30, CD; add'l notes: ) · Robo Sapiens - Catalyst (Lion Music 2018-03-08, CD; add'l notes: ) · Schenker Fest, Michael - Resurrection (Nuclear Blast 2018-03-02, CD; add'l notes: ) · Structural Disorder - ?And The Cage Crumbles In The Final Scene (Lion Music 2018-03-15, CD; add'l notes: ) · Tax The Heat - Change Your Position (Nuclear Blast 2018-03-09, CD; add'l notes: ) · W.E.T. - Earthrage (Frontiers 2018-03-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Waldo, Nicolas - Mastermind (Lion Music 2018-03-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Winger, Kip - Box Set Collection (Frontiers 2018-03-23, CD; add'l notes: ) · Yes - Fly From Here - Return Trip (PledgeMusic 2018-03-25, CD; add'l notes: New lead vox by Trevor Horn; bonus track. Also available through Burning Shed) Return to top |
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APRIL · 77 - Bright Gloom (Century Media 2018-04-27, CD; add'l notes: ) · Amorettes, The - Born To Break (SPV 2018-04-06, CD; add'l notes: ) · Anthrax - Kings Among Scotland (Nuclear Blast 2018-04-27, CD; add'l notes: ) · Behemoth - Messe Noire (Metal Blade 2018-04-13, ; add'l notes: ) · Behemoth - Messe Noire (Nuclear Blast 2018-04-13, CD; add'l notes: ) · Bleed From Within - Era (Century Media 2018-04-06, CD; add'l notes: ) · Bonfire - Temple Of Lies (AFM Records 2018-04-13, CD; add'l notes: ) · Bullet - Dust To Gold (SPV 2018-04-20, CD; add'l notes: ) · Caliban - Elements (Century Media 2018-04-06, CD; add'l notes: ) · Christian, James - Craving (Frontiers 2018-04-20, CD; add'l notes: ) · Count Raven - Destruction Of The Void (Metal Blade 2018-04-27, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Count Raven - Storm Warning (Metal Blade 2018-04-27, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Crematory - Oblivion (SPV 2018-04-13, CD; add'l notes: ) · Dead City Ruins - Never Say Die (AFM Records 2018-04-13, CD; add'l notes: ) · Dokken - Return To The East Live (2016) (Frontiers 2018-04-20, CD; add'l notes: ) · Frequency Drift - Letters To Maro (Gentle Art Of Music 2018-04-13, CD; add'l notes: ) · Gozu - Equilibrium (Metal Blade 2018-04-13, ; add'l notes: ) · Gus G. - Fearless (AFM Records 2018-04-20, CD; add'l notes: ) · Issa - Run With The Pack (Frontiers 2018-04-20, CD; add'l notes: ) · Lizzy Borden - Menace To Society (Metal Blade 2018-04-13, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Lizzy Borden - Love You To Pieces (Metal Blade 2018-04-13, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Perfect Plan - All Rise (Frontiers 2018-04-20, CD; add'l notes: ) · Pinski - Sound The Alarm (Gentle Art Of Music 2018-04-27, CD; add'l notes: ) · Reed, Robert - Sanctuary III (Self-released 2018-04-20, CD; add'l notes: Vinyl from Burning Shed) · Riot V - Armor Of Light (Nuclear Blast 2018-04-27, CD; add'l notes: ) · Ross The Boss - By Blood Sworn (AFM Records 2018-04-20, CD; add'l notes: ) · Skeletal Remains - Devouring Mortality (Century Media 2018-04-13, CD; add'l notes: ) · Squire, Chris - Fish Out Of Water (Deluxe Edition) (Esoteric Recordings 2018-04-27, CD; add'l notes: Reissue; as box set with bonus tracks, DVD...) · Stryper - God Damn Evil (Frontiers 2018-04-20, CD; add'l notes: ) · TesseracT - Sonder (KScope 2018-04-20, CD; add'l notes: ) · Tomorrow's Eve - Mirror Of Creation III - Project Ikaros (Baze Records 2018-04-27, CD; add'l notes: ) · Toundra - Vortex (InsideOut Music 2018-04-27, CD; add'l notes: ) · Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed III (Century Media 2018-04-20, CD; add'l notes: ) Return to top |
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MAY · Amorphis - Queen Of Time (Nuclear Blast 2018-05-18, CD; add'l notes: ) · Angelus Apatrida - Cabaret De La Guillotine (Century Media 2018-05-04, CD; add'l notes: ) · Arena - Double Vision (Verglas 2018-05-25, CD; add'l notes: ) · At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself (Century Media 2018-05-18, CD; add'l notes: ) · Black Dahlia Murder, The - Everblack (Metal Blade 2018-05-18, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Black Dahlia Murder, The - Ritual (Metal Blade 2018-05-18, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Black Dahlia Murder, The - Unhallowed (Metal Blade 2018-05-18, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Burn The Priest - Legion: XX (Nuclear Blast 2018-05-18, CD; add'l notes: ) · Coroner - R.I.P. (Century Media 2018-05-18, CD; add'l notes: ) · Coroner - Punishment For Decadence (Century Media 2018-05-18, CD; add'l notes: ) · Coroner - No More Color (Century Media 2018-05-18, CD; add'l notes: ) · Dimmu Borgir - Eonian (Nuclear Blast 2018-05-04, CD; add'l notes: ) · Doomsday Outlaw - Hard Times (Frontiers 2018-05-11, CD; add'l notes: ) · Fargo - Constellation (SPV 2018-05-25, CD; add'l notes: ) · Follow The Cipher - Follow The Cipher (Nuclear Blast 2018-05-11, CD; add'l notes: ) · Gazpacho - Soyuz (KScope 2018-05-18, CD; add'l notes: ) · Graveyard - Peace (Nuclear Blast 2018-05-25, CD; add'l notes: ) · Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods (Nuclear Blast 2018-05-25, LP; add'l notes: 7inch EP) · Jizzy Pearl of Love/Hate - All You Need Is Soul (Frontiers 2018-05-11, CD; add'l notes: ) · King Diamond - Abigail (Metal Blade 2018-05-18, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · King Diamond - Fatal Portrait (Metal Blade 2018-05-18, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · King Diamond - Them (Metal Blade 2018-05-18, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Lordi - Sexorcism (AFM Records 2018-05-25, CD; add'l notes: ) · Lords Of Black - Icons Of The New Days (Frontiers 2018-05-11, CD; add'l notes: ) · Lunatic Soul - Under The Fragmented Sky (KScope 2018-05-25, CD; add'l notes: ) · Overkill - Live In Overhausen (Nuclear Blast 2018-05-18, CD; add'l notes: ) · Praying Mantis - G.R.A.V.I.T.Y. (Frontiers 2018-05-11, CD; add'l notes: ) · Schulze, Klaus - Silhouettes (SPV 2018-05-01, CD; add'l notes: ) · Space Elevator - Space Elevator II (SPV 2018-05-25, CD; add'l notes: ) · Spock's Beard - Noise Floor (InsideOut Music 2018-05-25, CD; add'l notes: ) · Subsignal - La Muerta (Gentle Art Of Music 2018-05-25, CD; add'l notes: ) · Vega - Only Human (Frontiers 2018-05-11, CD; add'l notes: ) Return to top |
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JUNE · Count Raven - High On Infinity (Metal Blade 2018-06-15, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Count Raven - Messiah Of Confusion (Metal Blade 2018-06-15, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Crystal Viper - At The Edge Of Time (AFM Records 2018-06-26, CD; add'l notes: ) · Eskimo Callboy - The Scene - Live In Cologne (Century Media 2018-06-08, CD; add'l notes: ) · Fates Warning - Live Over Europe (InsideOut Music 2018-06-29, CD; add'l notes: ) · Flower Kings, The - A Kingdom Of Colours 2 (2004-2013) (InsideOut Music 2018-06-01, CD; add'l notes: ) · Haken - L-1VE (InsideOut Music 2018-06-22, CD; add'l notes: ) · Kataklysm - Mediations (Nuclear Blast 2018-06-01, CD; add'l notes: ) · Khemmis - Desolation (Nuclear Blast 2018-06-22, CD; add'l notes: ) · King Diamond - Conspiracy (Metal Blade 2018-06-15, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · King Diamond - The Dark Sides (Metal Blade 2018-06-15, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · King Diamond - The Eye (Metal Blade 2018-06-15, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Like A Storm - Catacombs (Century Media 2018-06-22, CD; add'l notes: ) · Lizzy Borden - My Midnight Things (Metal Blade 2018-06-15, CD; add'l notes: ) · Madball - For The Cause (Nuclear Blast 2018-06-15, CD; add'l notes: ) · Mansun - Attack Of The Gray Lantern (21st Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (KScope 2018-06-08, CD; add'l notes: 4CD + DVD, also single CD, purple vinyl, and digital versions) · Marduk - Viktoria (Century Media 2018-06-22, CD; add'l notes: ) · Mattsson's Vision, Lars Eric - On The Edge (Lion Music 2018-06-07, CD; add'l notes: Reissue) · McGurk, Joe - Encore (Lion Music 2018-06-21, CD; add'l notes: ) · Night Flight Orchestra, The - Sometimes The World Ain't Enough (Nuclear Blast 2018-06-29, CD; add'l notes: ) · Paradise Lost - Believe In Nothing (Nuclear Blast 2018-06-29, CD; add'l notes: Remixed and remastered) · Refugee - Solitary Men (Frontiers 2018-06-08, CD; add'l notes: ) · Sea Within, The - The Sea Within (InsideOut Music 2018-06-22, CD; add'l notes: ) · Simonetti's Goblin, Claudio - Dawn Of The Dead (Rustblade 2018-06-01, CD; add'l notes: ) · Somerville's Trillium, Amanda - Tectonic (Frontiers 2018-06-08, CD; add'l notes: ) · Street Dogs - Stand For Something Or Die For Nothing (Century Media 2018-06-22, CD; add'l notes: ) · Sunstorm - The Road To Hell (Frontiers 2018-06-08, CD; add'l notes: ) · Thumbscrew - Ours (Cuneiform Records 2018-06-08, CD; add'l notes: ) · Thumbscrew - Theirs (Cuneiform Records 2018-06-08, CD; add'l notes: ) · TNT - XIII (Frontiers 2018-06-08, CD; add'l notes: ) · Townsend, Devin - Eras - Vinyl Collection Part 1 (InsideOut Music 2018-06-08, LP; add'l notes: ) · Whitechapel - This Is Exile (Metal Blade 2018-06-01, LP; add'l notes: Reissue) · Yes - Yes: The Steven Wilson Remixes (Rhino 2018-06-29, LP; add'l notes: Box set; The Yes Album, Fragile, CTTE, TFTO and Relayer; also individually and on BR and DVD-A) Return to top |
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JULY · Big Big Train - Merchants Of Light (Self-released 2018-07-27, CD; add'l notes: 3LP boxset or 2CD digipack) · Enchant - A Dream Imagined (InsideOut Music 2018-07-20, CD; add'l notes: 10CD box set retrospective) · Epica - Epica Vs Attack On Titan Songs (Nuclear Blast 2018-07-20, CD; add'l notes: ) · Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods (Nuclear Blast 2018-07-06, CD; add'l notes: ) · Lucifer - Lucifer II (Century Media 2018-07-06, CD; add'l notes: ) · Motorowl - Atlas (Century Media 2018-07-27, CD; add'l notes: ) · Redemption - Long Day's Journey Into Night (Metal Blade 2018-07-27, CD; add'l notes: ) · Townsend Project, Devin - Ocean Machine - Live at the Ancient Roman Theatre Plovdiv (InsideOut Music 2018-07-06, DVD; add'l notes: ) Return to top |
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AUGUST · Doro - Forever Warriors, Forever United (Nuclear Blast 2018-08-17, CD; add'l notes: ) · Mad Max - 35 (SPV 2018-08-10, CD; add'l notes: ) · Night Demon - Live Darkness (SPV 2018-08-10, CD; add'l notes: ) · Sulpher - No One Will Ever Know (SPV 2018-08-01, CD; add'l notes: ) · Vintage Caravan, The - Gateways (Nuclear Blast 2018-08-31, CD; add'l notes: ) Return to top |
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SEPTEMBER · Ethernity - The Prototype (AFM Records 2018-09-14, CD; add'l notes: ) · Korpiklaani - Kulkija (Nuclear Blast 2018-09-07, CD; add'l notes: ) · Riverside - Wasteland (InsideOut Music 2018-09-28, CD; add'l notes: Also 2LP+CD, mediabook, and digital download) Return to top |
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OCTOBER · Gösta Berlings Saga - Et Ex (InsideOut Music 2018-10-12, CD; add'l notes: ) · Haken - Vector (InsideOut Music 2018-10-26, CD; add'l notes: also available as 2CD Mediabook (incl. instr. versions), Gatefold vinyl 2LP + CD and digital download) · Threshold - Two-Zero-One-Seven (self-released 2018-10-01, CD; add'l notes: Also LP, live album avail during Oct 2018 tour & website) Return to top |
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NOVEMBER · Edenbridge - Live Momentum (SPV 2018-11-29, CD; add'l notes: Ltd to 1000 units) Return to top |
