Stay Up to Date With Every 2025 Rock and Metal Album Release
Looking for the latest drops in heavy music? We’ve got you covered. This running calendar highlights all confirmed hard rock and metal albums coming out in 2025 — updated weekly so you never miss a release.
From underground debuts to massive returns by genre legends, each Friday brings something new. Save this page and swing by every week to discover what’s new, what’s heavy, and what’s worth spinning.
2025 is already shaping up to be a wild ride for rock and metal fans. Dig in.
June 20th 2025
- Angel Of Damnation – Ethereal Blasphemy (Dying Victims)
- Badflower – No Place Like Home (Big Machine)
- Black Majesty – Oceans of Black (Scarlet Records)
- Cryptopsy – An Insatiable Violence (Season Of Mist)
- Death Pill – Sologamy (New Heavy Sounds)
- Haggus – Destination Extinction (Tankcrimes)
- Helms Deep – Chasing The Dragon (Nameless Grave)
- Imha Tarikat – Confessing Darkness (Prophecy)
- Jamie’s Elsewhere – Alchemical EP (SharpTone)
- Malevolence – Where Only The Truth Is Spoken (Nuclear Blast)
- Nad Sylvan – Monumentata (InsideOut)
- Pungent Stench – Mucous Secretion Re-Release (Hammerheart)
- Reflection – The Battles I Have Won (Pitch Black Records)
- Sweet – Level Headed – Alternate Mixes & Demos (Metalville)
- Tenebrae In Perpetuum – Vacuum Coeli (Avantgarde)
- Valdrin – Apex Violator EP (Avantgarde Music)
June 27, 2025
- Babymetal – Metal Forth (Capitol)
- Blood Vulture – Die Close (Pure Noise)
- Botch – 061524 (Sargent House)
- Crystal Viper – The Live Quest (Listenable)
- Deadguy – Near-Death Travel Services (Relapse)
- Deadlands – Seven EP (Spinefarm)
- Domkraft – Domkraft Re-Release (Magnetic Eye)
- Drawn And Quartered – Lord Of Two Horns (Nuclear Winter)
- Greet Death – Die In Love (Deathwish)
- Heaven Shall Burn – Heimat (Century Media)
- Jakko M. Jakszyk – Son Of Glen (InsideOut)
- Johan Langquist The Castle – Johan Langquist The Castle (I Hate)
- King Witch – III (Listenable)
- Lord Belial – Unholy Trinity (Hammerheart)
- Merzbow – Sedonis (Signal Noise)
- Motorhead – The Manticore Tapes (BMG)
- Mugshot – All The Devils Are Here (Pure Noise)
- Niklas Sonne – Electric Dream (Frontiers)
- Royale Lynn – Black Magic (Epitaph)
- Sodom – The Arsonist (Steamhammer)
- TSS – End Of Time (Fearless)
- Venom – Blackened Priests (Dissonance)
- Warlord – The Lost Archangel (High Roller)
July 4, 2025
- Beleth’s Trumpet – Chapel Of Bones (Dominance Of Darkness)
- Gaupa – Fyr EP (Magnetic Eye)
- Joe Stump’s Tower Of Babel – Days Of Thunder (Silver Lining)
- Leonov – Shape Of Ash EP (Pelagic)
- Respect For Zero – Overtime EP (Time To Kill)
- Rimmar – Raises (Rockshots)
- Seasons In Black – Anthropocene (Apostasy)
- Stygian – Dreadlands (Time To Kill)
- Warkings – Armageddon (Napalm)
- Wytch Hazel – Wytch Hazel V: Lamentations (Bad Omen)
July 11th 2025
- Born Of Osiris – Through Shadows (Sumerian)
- Calva Louise – Edge Of The Abyss (Mascot)
- dead7 – Love What You Can While You Still Got Something To Love (SharpTone)
- Diamond Head – Live And Electric (Silver Lining)
- Double Vision – Double Vision (Frontiers)
- Eternal Idol – Behind A Vison (Frontiers)
- Front Row Warriors – Running Out Of Time (Rock Of Angels)
- Girlschool – Running Wild: Live In London (HNE)
- Impureza – Alcázares (Season Of Mist)
- Laguna – The Ghost Of Katrina (Frontiers)
- Matt Jencik and Midwife – Never Die (Relapse)
- Nathan James – Hollywood Mortician (Crowdkill)
- Obituary – Godly Beings Box Set (Dissonance)
- Sheev – Ate’s Alchemist (Ripple)
- Split Chain – motionblur (Epitaph)
- Steve Hackett – The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall (InsideOut)
July 18th 2025
- Abigail Williams – A Void Within Existence (Agonia)
- Blind Equation – A Funeral In Purgatory (Prosthetic)
- Bush – I Beat Loneliness (earMusic)
- Darko – Canvas EP (Thousand Island/Lockjaw)
- Five Finger Death Punch – 20 Years Of Five Finger Death Punch – Best Of Volume 1 (Better Noise)
- Kix – Kool Atomic Kix Box Set (HNE)
- Mawiza – ÜL (Season Of Mist)
- Nefarious – Addicted To Power (Relentless Metal)
- Ramonda – The Walls Are Crumbling Down (Frontiers)
- Scardust – Souls (Frontiers)
- Scars On Broadway – Scarred For Life (Self)
July 25th 2025
- Alice Cooper – The Revenge Of Alice Cooper (earMusic)
- Bruce Dickinson – More Balls To Picasso (BMG)
- Cold Slither – Cold Slither (Reigning Phoenix)
- Deicide – Children Of The Underworld: The Complete Roadrunner Years Box Set (Dissonance)
- Feuerschwanz – Knightclub (Napalm)
- Goblinsmoker – The King’s Eternal Throne (APF)
- Gwar – The Return Of Gor Gor (The Pit)
- Honeymoon Suite – Wake Me Up When The Sun Goes Down (Frontiers)
- Kontusion – Insatiable Lust For Death (Profound Lore)
- Psycho-Frame – Salvation Laughs In The Face Of A Grieving Mother (SharpTone)
- Sweet – Platinum Rare 2 (Metalville)
- The Violent Hour – The Violent Hour EP (Megaforce)
August 1st 2025
- Accvsed – Dealers Of Doom (Arising Empire)
- Fit For A King – Lonely God (Solid State)
- Fox Lake – New World Heat (MNRK Heavy)
- Kayo Dot – Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason (Prophecy)
- Knosis – Genknosis (SharpTone)
- Vlad In Tears – Hide Inside (Metalville)
August 8, 2025
- Ashes Of Ares – New Messiahs (Rock Of Angels)
- Attack Attack! – Attack Attack! II (Oxide)
- Aversions Crown – A Voice From The Outer Dark EP (Nuclear Blast)
- Blackbraid – Blackbraid III (Self)
- Curbside – A Lifetime To Outgrow (Thousand Island)
- Dreamwake – The Lost years (UNFD)
- Edge Of Sanity – Crimson II Re-Release (Century Media)
- Liv Sin – Close Your Eyes (Seek And Strike)
- Lord Of The Lost – Opvs Noir Vol. 1 (Napalm)
- Nightingale – The Closing Chronicles Re-Release (InsideOut)
- Sinsaenum – In Devastation (earMusic)
- Sweet – Sweet Fanny Adams Revisited Re-Release (Metalville)
- Thousand Below – Buried In Jade (Pale Chord/Rise)
August 15th 2025
- Aurorawave – Monument – Ineffable Productions
- Auri – III – Candles & Beginnings (Nuclear Blast)
- Baest – Colossal (Century Media)
- Chevelle – Bright As Blasphemy (Alchemy)
- Incite – Savage New Times (Reigning Phoenix)
- Linx – Annihilation (Metalville)
- Martyr – Dark Believer (Rock Of Angels)
- Patriarchs In Black – Home (Metalville)
- Plaiins – Happy Faces (Long Branch)
- UFO – No Place To Run Re-Release (Chrysalis)
- Unleashed – Fire Upon Your Lands (Napalm)
- Warmen – Band Of Brothers (Reaper)
August 22nd 2025
- Blackbriar – A Thousand Little Deaths (Nuclear Blast)
- Burning Witches – Inquisition (Napalm)
- Crowne – Wonderland (Frontiers)
- Dinosaur Pile-Up – I’ve Felt Better (Mascot)
- Feuerschwanz – Knightclub (Napalm)
- Hunter Oliveri – Teen Slug (Spinefarm)
- Iron Savior – Reforged – Machine World (Perception)
- Mob Rules – Rise Of The Ruler (Rock Of Angels)
- Panzerchrist – Meleficium Part 2 (Emanzipation)
- Reinforcer – Ice And Death (Scarlet)
- Rust N’ Rage – Songs For Yesterday (Frontiers)
- Signs Of The Swarm – To Rid Myself Of Truth (Century Media)
- Strangers – Boundless (Frontiers)
- Three Days Grace – Alienation (RCA)
August 29th 2025
- Deep Purple – Rapture Of The Deep 20th Anniversary Remix (earMusic)
- Helloween – Giants And Monsters (Reigning Phoenix)
- Ihlo – Legacy (Kscope)
- Manegarm – Edsvuren (Napalm)
- Pinkshift – Earthkeeper (Hopeless)
- Sweet Freedom – Blind Leading The Blind (Frontiers)
- Vicious Rumors – The Devil’s Asylum (Steamhammer)
- Wucan – Axioms (Long Branch)
September 5th 2025
- blessthefall – Gallows (Rise)
- Eleine – We Stand United EP (Reigning Phoenix)
- Glenn Hughes – Chosen (Frontiers)
- Modern Life Is War – Life On The Moon (Iodine)
- Nailed To Obscurity – Generation Of The Void (Nuclear Blast)
- Still In Love – Recovery Language (Church Road)
- Swollen Teeth – Ask Nothing (Blowed Out)
September 12th 2025
- Arjen Anthony Lucassen – Songs No One Will Hear (InsideOut)
- Barrens – Corpse Lights (Pelagic)
- Between The Buried And Me – The Blue Nowhere (InsideOut)
- Nevertel – Start Again (Epitaph)
- The Rasmus – Weirdo (Better Noise)
September 19th 2025
- Big Big Train – Are We Nearly There Yet? (English Electric)
- Dreadnoughts – Polka Pit (Punkerton)
- Paradise Lost – Ascension (Nuclear Blast)
September 26th 2025
- Amorphis – Borderland (Reigning Phoenix)
- Curse Of Cain – Achtung! (Rock Of Angels)
- Mors Principium Est – Darkness Invisible (Perception)
October 3rd 2025
- Orbit Culture – Death Above Life (Century Media)
- Solence – Angels Calling (Better Noise)