2010 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2010.

Bands disbanded

• Abscess^[1]
• Acheron^[2]
• The Autumn Offering^[3]
• Despised Icon^[4]
• Destroy the Runner^[5]
• Detente^[6]
• Dio^[7]
• Fear My Thoughts^[8]
• Fellsilent^[9]
• Finch^[10]
• Gwen Stacy^[11]
• Heaven & Hell^[7]
• Isis^[12]
• Luna Mortis^[13]
• Narnia^[14]
• The Number Twelve Looks Like You^[15]
• Olympos Mons^[16]
• Red Harvest^[17]
• Revolution Renaissance^[18]
• Salt the Wound^[19]
• Theatre of Tragedy^[20]
• Wrench in the Works^[21]
• Xasthur^[22]
• Zyklon^[23]

Bands reformed

• Abruptum^[24]
• Acheron^[25]
• Autopsy^[1]
• Battleaxe^[26]
• Coroner^[27][28]
• Empyrium^[29]
• Exhumed^[30]
• Godflesh^[31]
• Lord Belial^[32]
• Lock Up
• Morgoth^[33]
• Murderdolls^[34]
• Nightfall^[35]
• Salt the Wound^[36]
• Sanctuary^[37]
• Soundgarden^[38]
• Tokyo Blade^[39]
• Voivod^[40]
• Wastefall^[41]
• Quiet Riot

Bands formed

• Deafheaven^[42]

Books

• Cult of Luna plan to release a book explaining the full story behind their Eternal Kingdom album. The book will be written in Swedish and translated into English, and the hardcover will include an audiobook.^[43]

Events

• Slayer frontman/bassist Tom Araya to undergo back surgery.^[44]
• Emperor Magus Caligula,^[45] B-Force^[46] & Dominator^[47] all Quit Dark Funeral.
• Rush inducted into Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame 2010.^[48]
• Mayhem Festival 2010 will tour through North America from July through August. The third annual tour will be co-headlined by Korn and Rob Zombie.^[49]
• Guitarist Jani Stefanovic quits Solution .45.^[50]
• Scorpions announce that they will retire after touring in support of final album Sting in the Tail.^[51]
• AC/DC headline Download Festival, marking their return to Donington for the first time in 19 years, since 1991's Monsters of Rock.^[52] Also Rage Against the Machine and Aerosmith to headline.
• In Flames founding member Jesper Strömblad quits the band after 17 years due to personal problems in February.^[53]
• Original Megadeth bassist Dave Ellefson rejoins the band after departing in 2002.^[54]
• Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater joins Avenged Sevenfold after the death of The Rev, to record their fifth studio album Nightmare.^[55] The results of The Rev's toxicology reports were released in June 2010, which revealed the cause of death as an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.^[56]
• Rammstein is banned from Belarus by the Council for Morality due to their "violence, masochism, homosexuality and other abnormalities".^[57]
• US death metal band The Famine's studio burnt down, along with their gear and recorded material for their upcoming 2010 release.^[58]
• Behemoth frontman Nergal came to court over the Bible ripping incident in 2007, and was found not guilty on the basis that "The defendant's behaviour wasn’t recognised as a crime"^[59][60]
• Textures parts ways with their keyboardist Richard Rietdijk to pursue other musical interests.^[61]
• On April 14, Type O Negative front-man Peter Steele death at age 48.^[62]
• The Human Abstract replace former lead singer Nathan Ells with Travis Richter (The Color of Violence, ex-From First to Last) and founding guitarist A.J. Minette returns.^[63][64]
• Judas Priest won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance of "Dissident Aggressor."^[65]
• Debauchery frontman Thomas "The Bloodbeast" Gurrath was fired from his job as a philosophy trainee teacher at a high school in Stuttgart, Germany for being in a death metal band."^[66]
• Anthrax reunite with former singer Joey Belladonna after his previous departure in 2007.^[67]
• The first ever Sri Lankan metal documentary ARISE - The Sri Lankan Metal Music Documentary was officially screened on 15 May 2010 at Alliance Française de Colombo, Sri Lanka.^[68]
• Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer at the age of 67 on May 16, 2010.^[69]
• Bay Area Metal legend Debbie Abono died of cancer at age 80, also on May 16, 2010.^[70]
• Ozzfest returns with bands such as Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, Rob Halford and DevilDriver on the bill.^[71]
• Arsis re-joined by former bassist Noah Martin.^[72]
• Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket the Ronnie James Dio Memorial Service at The Hall of Liberty in Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills.^[73]
• On May 25, Slipknot bassist Paul Gray dies at age 38.^[74]
• Ratt were forced to cancel their European tour due to Stephen Pearcy to undergo emergency hernia surgery.^[75]
• On June 16, "The Big Four of Thrash Metal", Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer and Metallica, played together for the first time at the Sonisphere Festival at Bemowo Airport in Warsaw, Poland.^[76]
• The second event of Heavy MTL will be held in Montreal July 24 and 25, with bands such as Slayer, Testament, Megadeth, Halford, Alice Cooper, and Avenged Sevenfold.^[77]
• Early Graves vocalist Makh Daniels died in an automobile accident on August 1, 2010. The Funeral Pyre guitarist Justin Garcia fell asleep behind the wheel, and was taken with guitarist Tyler Jensen to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.^[78]
• Fear Factory members narrowly avoid bus fire. The cause of the fire was the rear-wheel catching fire, but luckily their trailer was left unscathed.^[79]
• Death of Desire vocalist Dawn Desirée was kidnapped by unknown members of a promotion agency, and guitarist Morbid was assaulted.^[80]
• Reunited Byzantine return without Tony Rohrbough, and introduce Brian Henderson as their new lead-guitarist.^[81]
• Behemoth frontman Adam "Nergal" Darski is hospitalized due to advanced stage leukemia. Behemoth subsequently cancels all remaining summer festivals, and their Russian, Baltic States, and US tour. Adam "Nergal" Darski underwent a bone marrow transplant surgery, and is currently recovering.^[82][83]
• Acid Reign announce they will be re-mastering and re-issuing their albums, by legendary producer Bill Metoyer who has worked with such bands as Slayer, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, Corrosion of Conformity and Sacred Reich.^[84]
• X Japan are planning a North American tour after both Otakon and Lollapalooza, visiting Canada and the United States.^[85]
• After 25 years, Mike Portnoy leaves Dream Theater on September 8, 2010.^[86]
• Ari Nissilä, Toni Kansanoja, Kari Vähäkuopus, and Mikko Nevanlahti all leave Catamenia on October 4, 2010.^[87]
• Sweet Savage founding guitarist Trevor Fleming died on October 2.^[88]
• Gotthard singer Steve Lee dies on October 5, 2010.^[89]
• The Autumn Offering parts ways with guitarist Tommy Church on November 1, 2010.^[90]
• Queensrÿche survive a bomb attack in Iraq while playing to the American troops.^[91]
• Armando Acosta, the ex-drummer of Saint Vitus died on November 25.^[92]
• King Diamond underwent a successful triple-bypass surgery on November 29.^[93]
• Avenged Sevenfold parts ways with former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy.^[94]

Films

• MVD Visual and Sexy Intellectual will release a documentary DVD about Rage Against the Machine on February 23. The film is titled Revolution in the Head: Rage Against the Machine and the Art of Protest.^[95]
• Industrial metal act Ministry will release their film Fix: The Ministry Movie in 2010.^[96]
• Mathawaada Chithrapata will release the first Sri Lankan metal music documentary titled ARISE-The Sri Lankan Metal Music Documentary showcasing the lives and the reasons behind the Sri Lankan metal music scene.^[97][98]
• Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, and Megadeth will release The Big 4 DVD Box Set on November 2, featuring footage of all the bands' live sets from the Big 4 tour.^[99]

Albums released

All releases are studio albums unless otherwise noted. The most successful metal album released in 2010 was Iron Maiden's The Final Frontier, topping the charts in 28 countries.^[100] It was also No. 1 in Metal Hammer's list of '50 Greatest albums of 2010'.

January

Day	Artist	Album
4	Textures	Extracts 2004–2009 (compilation)[101]
5	Marc Rizzo	Legionnaire[102]
14	Aborted	Coronary Reconstruction[103]
15	Dark Sanctuary	Dark Sanctuary[104]
	Demonic Resurrection	The Return to Darkness[105]
	Exodus	Shovel Headed Tour Machine (live DVD/CD)[106]
	Ace Frehley	Behind the Player (DVD)[107]
	Mnemic	Sons of the System[108]
18	Abigor	Time Is The Sulphur in the Veins of the Saint[109]
	Shining	Blackjazz[110]
	Valkyrja	Contamination[111]
19	Six Feet Under	Graveyard Classics 3
	Sigh	Scenes from Hell[112]
	Sons of Azrael	Scouting The Boneyard[113]
20	Royal Hunt	X[114]
21	Tokyo Blade	Live in Germany (DVD)[115]
22	Dark Fortress	Ylem[116]
	Node	In the End Everything Is a Gag[117]
	Orden Ogan	Easton Hope[118]
24	Primordial	All Empires Fall (DVD)[119]
25	Deathbound	Non Compos Mentis[120]
	Dream Evil	In the Night[121]
	Ihsahn	After[122]
	In Mourning	Monolith[123]
	Myrath	Desert Call[124]
	Orphaned Land	The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOR[125]
26	Apocalyptica	MAG: S.V.E.R. (soundtrack)
	Fozzy	Chasing the Grail[126]
	Greeley Estates	No Rain, No Rainbow[127]
	Living Sacrifice	The Infinite Order[128]
	Suicidal Tendencies	Live at the Olympic Auditorium (DVD)[129]
27	Troll	Neo-Satanic Supremacy[130]
29	Bruce Kulick	BK3[131]
	Crematory	Infinity[132]
	Excalion	High Time[133]
	Freedom Call	Legend of the Shadowking[134]
	Gamma Ray	To the Metal![135]
	Keel	Streets of Rock & Roll[136]
	Overkill	Ironbound[137]

February

Day	Artist	Album
1	Blaze Bayley	Promise and Terror[138]
2	Charred Walls of the Damned	Charred Walls of the Damned[139]
	Nostradameus	Illusion's Parade[140]
	Rob Zombie	Hellbilly Deluxe 2[141]
	Through the Eyes of the Dead	Skepsis[142]
5	Arsis	Starve for the Devil[143]
	Meshuggah	Alive (live CD/DVD)[144]
	Necrodeath	Old Skull (cover album)[145]
	Rage	Strings to a Web[146]
6	Buckethead	Shadows Between the Sky[147]
8	Ov Hell	The Underworld Regime[148]
9	Fear Factory	Mechanize[149]
	Icarus Witch	Draw Down the Moon[150]
	Killing Time	Three Steps Back[151]
	Look What I Did	Atlas Drugged[152]
15	Sarah Jezebel Deva	A Sign of Sublime[153]
	Rotting Christ	Aealo[154]
	Six Magics	Behind the Sorrow[155]
16	Carnifex	Hell Chose Me[156]
	Chelsea Grin	Desolation of Eden[157]
17	Finntroll	Nifelvind[158]
	Miss May I	Monument[159]
19	Eluveitie	Everything Remains (As It Never Was)[160]
	Fuck the Facts	Unnamed (EP)[161]
	Jon Oliva's Pain	Festival[162]
	Throes of Dawn	The Great Fleet of Echoes[163]
20	Stam1na	Viimeinen Atlantis[164]
22	Abscess	Dawn of Inhumanity[165]
	At the Gates	The Flames of the End (DVD set)[166]
	Borknagar	Universal[167]
23	High on Fire	Snakes for the Divine[168]
	Mutiny Within	Mutiny Within[169]
24	Dark Tranquillity	We Are the Void[170]
	Kalmah	12 Gauge[171]
	Reflexion	Edge[172]
26	Catamenia	Cavalcade[173]

March

Day	Artist	Album
1	Mortemia	Misere Mortem[174]
2	The Bled	Heat Fetish[175]
	Derdian	New Era Pt. 3 - The Apocalypse[176]
3	Ludicra	The Tenant[177]
	Metsatöll	Äio[178]
5	Soulgrind	The Tuoni Pathway[179]
8	White Wizzard	Over the Top[180]
9	Daughters	Daughters[181]
	Demon Hunter	The World Is a Thorn[182]
	Immolation	Majesty and Decay[183]
8	Burzum	Belus[184]
12	Theatre of Tragedy	Addenda (EP)[185]
15	Katatonia	The Longest Year (EP)[186]
	Killing Addiction	Fall of the Archetypes[187]
	Christopher Lee	Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross[188]
16	Armored Saint	La Raza[189]
	Landmine Marathon	Sovereign Descent[190]
	Serj Tankian	Elect the Dead Symphony (live DVD/CD)[191]
19	Sadist	Season in Silence[192]
	Scorpions	Sting in the Tail[193]
	Unleashed	As Yggdrasil Trembles[194]
22	Enthroned	Pentagrammaton[195]
	Poisonblack	Of Rust and Bones[196]
	Ragnarok	Collectors of the King[197]
	Triptykon	Eparistera Daimones[198]
23	Diabolic	Excisions of Exorcisms[199]
	The Dillinger Escape Plan	Option Paralysis[200]
	Down	Diary of a Mad Band: Europe in the Year of VI (live DVD/CD)[201]
24	Svartsot	Mulmets Viser[202]
26	Cathedral	The Guessing Game[203]
	Heidevolk	Uit oude Grond[204]
	Negură Bunget	Vîrstele Pamîntului[205]
	Wuthering Heights	Salt[206]
	Xasthur	Portal of Sorrow[207]
29	Alcest	Écailles de Lune[208]
30	Pantera	1990-2000: A Decade of Dominance (compilation)[209]
	Rotten Sound	Napalm (EP)[210]
31	Kiuas	Lustdriven[211]

April

Day	Artist	Album
2	The Foreshadowing	Oionos[212]
	The Vision Bleak	Set Sail to Mystery[213]
3	Avantasia	Angel of Babylon[214]
		The Wicked Symphony[214]
	Salem	Playing God and Other Short Stories[215]
5	DarkSun	Touching the Sun[216]
	October File	Our Souls To You[217]
	Primitive Graven Image	Celebrating Impending Chaos[218]
6	Slash	Slash
	Darkthrone	Circle the Wagons[219]
	Veil of Maya	[id][220]
9	Solution .45	For Aeons Past[221]
13	Astral Doors	Requiem of Time[222]
	Bison B.C.	Dark Ages[223]
	Bleeding Through	Bleeding Through[224]
	Cancer Bats	Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones[225]
	Judgement Day	Peacocks/Pink Monsters[226][227]
	The Ocean	Heliocentric[228]
	War of Ages	Eternal[229]
	Lair of the Minotaur	Evil Power[230]
	Woe of Tyrants	Threnody[231]
	Wormrot	Abuse[232]
16	Periphery	Periphery[233]
19	Order of Ennead	An Examination of Being[234]
20	Kayo Dot	Coyote[235]
	Engel	Threnody[236]
	Ratt	Infestation[237]
	Sevendust	Cold Day Memory[238]
	Sick of It All	Based on a True Story[239]
23	Audiovision	Focus[240]
	Candlemass	Ashes to Ashes Live (live DVD)[241]
	Tarot	Gravity of Light[242]
26	1349	Demonoir[243]
	Axel Rudi Pell	The Crest[244]
	Bullet for My Valentine	Fever[245]
	Kivimetsän Druidi	Betrayal, Justice, Revenge[246]
	Master	The Human Machine[247]
	Raintime	Psychromatic[248]
	Skyforger	Kurbads[249]
27	Drowning Pool	Drowning Pool[250]
	Mouth of the Architect	The Violence Beneath (EP)[251]
	Twilight	Monument To Time End[252]
30	Eisregen	Schlangensonne[253]
	Lacrimas Profundere	The Grandiose Nowhere[254]
	Rhapsody of Fire	The Frozen Tears of Angels[255]
	Saltatio Mortis	Manufactum II[256]

May

Day	Artist	Album
4	Deftones	Diamond Eyes[257]
	Dokken	Greatest Hits[258]
	Godsmack	The Oracle[259]
	Nonpoint	Miracle[260]
5	Ufomammut	Eve[261]
6	Defeated Sanity	Chapters of Repugnance[262]
7	Exodus	Exhibit B: The Human Condition[263]
	Pro-Pain	Absolute Power[264]
8	Violator	Annihilation Process (EP)[265]
10	Keep of Kalessin	Reptilian[266]
	Madder Mortem	Where Dream and Day Collide (EP)[267]
11	As I Lay Dying	The Powerless Rise[268]
	Beneath the Sky	In Loving Memory[269]
	Brain Drill	Quantum Catastrophe[270]
	Fuck the Facts	Disgorge Mexico: The DVD (DVD)[271]
	Howl	Full of Hell[272]
	Low Twelve	Splatter Pattern[273]
	Misery Index	Heirs to Thievery[274]
	Attila	Rage[275]
14	Black Majesty	In Your Honor[276]
	Mael Mórdha	Manannán[277]
	Pretty Maids	Pandemonium[278]
15	Kekal	8[279]
17	Cynic	Re-Traced (EP)[280]
	Annihilator	Annihilator[281]
18	Anew Revolution	iMerica[282]
	Fleshgod Apocalypse	Mafia (EP)[283]
	Iced Earth	Box of the Wicked (box set)[282]
	Silent Civilian	Ghost Stories[284]
	Widow Sunday	In These Rusted Veins[285]
19	Loudness	King of Pain[286]
	Pain of Salvation	Road Salt One[287]
21	Aeon	Path of Fire[288]
	Detente	Decline[289]
	Heaven Shall Burn	Invictus (Iconoclast III)[290]
	Masterplan	Time To Be King[291]
	Sabaton	Coat of Arms[292]
	Y&T	Facemelter[293]
24	Dew-Scented	Invocation[294]
	Enforcer	Diamonds[295]
	Leng Tch'e	Hypomanic[296]
25	Dir En Grey	Uroboros (DVD)
	Krokus	Hoodoo[282]
	Rosetta	A Determinism of Morality[297]
	Soulfly	Omen[282]
	Starkweather	This Sheltering Night[298]
26	Sotajumala	Kuolemanpalvelus[299]
28	Disbelief	Heal[300]
	Enemy of the Sun	Caedium[301]
	Exilia	Naked[302]
	Magica	Dark Diary[303]
31	Anathema	We're Here Because We're Here[304]
	Lyzanxia	Locust[305]
	Nevermore	The Obsidian Conspiracy[306]
	Slechtvalk	A Forlorn Throne[307]

June

Day	Artist	Album
1	Diskreet	Engage The Mechanicality[308]
	Stick to Your Guns	The Hope Division[309]
2	Primal Fear	16.6- All Over The World (live DVD)[310]
		Live in the USA (live CD)[310]
4	Five Star Prison Cell	Matriarch[311]
	Vanden Plas	The Seraphic Clockwork[312]
7	Purified in Blood	Under Black Skies[313]
	Watain	Lawless Darkness[314]
8	Circle of Dead Children	Psalm of the Grand Destroyer[315]
	Eyes Set to Kill	Broken Frames[282]
	The Funeral Pyre	Vultures at Dawn[316]
	The Haunted	Road Kill (CD/DVD)[282]
	Lamb of God	Hourglass: The Anthology (box set)[282]
	Kingdom of Sorrow	Behind the Blackest Tears[317]
	MyChildren MyBride	Lost Boy[318]
	Nachtmystium	Addicts: Black Meddle, Part II[319]
	Whitechapel	A New Era of Corruption[320]
	The Ghost Inside	Returners[321]
10	Mekong Delta	Wanderer on the Edge of Time[322]
14	Grave	Burial Ground[323]
	Setherial	Ekpyrosis[324]
15	In Fear and Faith	Imperial[282]
	Ozzy Osbourne	Scream[325]
18	Equilibrium	Rekreatur[326]
21	Angelus Apatrida	Clockwork[327]
	Kerion	The Origins[328]
	Kvelertak	Kvelertak[329]
	Void of Silence	The Grave of Civilization[330]
	Ramesses	Take The Curse[331]
	Witchery	Witchkrieg[332]
22	Danzig	Deth Red Sabaoth[333]
	Early Graves	Goner[334]
	Yakuza	Of Seismic Consequence[335]
23	Amorphis	Forging The Land of Thousand Lakes (DVD)[336]
	Charon	A-Sides, B-Sides & Suicides (Compilation)[337]
	Grand Magus	Hammer of the North[338]
26	Stigmata	Psalms of Conscious Martyrdom[339][340]
28	Sodom	Lords of Depravity II (DVD)[341]
	Severe Torture	Slaughtered[342]
29	Haste the Day	Attack of the Wolf King[343]
	Knut	Wonder[344]
	Mastodon	Jonah Hex: Revenge Gets Ugly (EP)[345]
	Parkway Drive	Deep Blue[346]
30	Edenbridge	Solitaire[347]

July

Day	Artist	Album
2	Contrive	The Internal Dialogue[348]
	Soilwork	The Panic Broadcast[349]
6	Helstar	Rising from the Grave[350]
	The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza	Danza III: The Series of Unfortunate Events[351]
	Valkyrie	Man of Two Visions[352]
	A Plea for Purging	The Marriage of Heaven and Hell[353]
12	Norma Jean	Meridional[354]
	Devil Sold His Soul	Blessed & Cursed[355]
13	Canvas Solaris	Irradiance[356]
	Hell Within	God Grant Me Vengeance[357]
	Hellyeah	Stampede[358]
	In This Moment	A Star-Crossed Wasteland[359]
	Korn	Korn III – Remember Who You Are[360]
16	Darkseed	Poison Awaits[361]
19	The Eyes of a Traitor	Breathless[362]
20	The Acacia Strain	Wormwood[363]
	Chimaira	Coming Alive (DVD/CD)[364]
	Early Man	Death Potion[365]
	Impending Doom	There Will Be Violence[366]
	Lillian Axe	Deep Red Shadows[350]
	Mose Giganticus	Gift Horse[350]
	Valdur	Raven God Amongst Us[367]
26	36 Crazyfists	Collisions and Castaways[368]
27	Avenged Sevenfold	Nightmare[369]
	Decrepit Birth	Polarity[370]
	The Rotted	Anarchogram (EP)[371]
29	Darkane	Layers of Live (DVD)[372]
30	Blind Guardian	At the Edge of Time[373]

August

Day	Artist	Album
3	Paul Gilbert	Fuzz Universe[374]
	Dax Riggs	Say Goodnight To The World[375]
	All Out War	Into the Killing Fields[376]
5	Wacken Open Air	Wacken Open Air 2009 (DVD)[377]
6	Immortal	The Seventh Date of Blashyrkh (DVD)[378]
	Lordi	Babez for Breakfast[379]
10	The Binary Code	Priest (EP)[380]
	Bonded by Blood	Exiled to Earth[381]
	Black Label Society	Order of the Black[382]
	Crash	The Paragon of Animals[383]
16	Iron Maiden	The Final Frontier[384]
17	Knights of the Abyss	The Culling of Wolves[385]
	Miss May I	Monument[386]
18	Satanic Warmaster	Nachzehrer[387]
20	Kataklysm	Heaven's Venom[388]
	Toxik	Think Again (DVD)
	Tarja Turunen	What Lies Beneath
21	SIC	Fighters They Bleed[389]
23	Apocalyptica	7th Symphony[390]
	Ion Dissonance	Cursed[391]
24	The Devil Wears Prada	Zombie (EP)[392]
	Helmet	Seeing Eye Dog[393]
	Malevolent Creation	Invidious Dominion[394]
	Shadows Fall	Madness in Manila: Shadows Fall Live In The Philippines 2009 (DVD)[395]
	The Showdown	Blood in the Gears[396]
	The Sword	Warp Riders[397]
25	Tristania	Rubicon[398]
	Sonic Syndicate	We Rule the Night[399]
27	Liv Kristine	Skintight[400]
30	Dagoba	Poseidon[401]
	Mar De Grises	Streams Inwards[402]
	Neurosis	Live at Roadburn 2007 (DVD)[403]
	Nightfall	Astron Black and the Thirty Tyrants[404]
	Sahg	Sahg III[405]
	Spiritual Beggars	Return to Zero[406]
	Terror	Keepers of the Faith[407]
31	10 Years	Feeding the Wolves[408]
	The Autumn Offering	The Autumn Offering[409]
	Cephalic Carnage	Misled by Certainty[410]
	Disturbed	Asylum[411]
	Murderdolls	Women and Children Last[412]
	For Today	Breaker[413]
	The Word Alive	Deceiver[414]

September

Day	Artist	Album
1	Acid Drinkers	Fishdick Zwei - The Dick Is Rising Again (cover album)[415]
	Atrocity	After the Storm[416]
3	Death Angel	Relentless Retribution[417]
	The Red Shore	The Avarice of Man[418]
7	Megadeth	Rust in Peace Live (DVD)[419]
	Stone Sour	Audio Secrecy[420]
	Suicidal Tendencies	No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family[421]
9	Marseille	Unfinished Business[422]
10	Swashbuckle	Crime Always Pays...[423]
	Kamelot	Poetry for the Poisoned[424]
	Volbeat	Beyond Hell/Above Heaven[425]
13	Autopsy	The Tomb Within (EP)[426]
	DragonForce	Twilight Dementia (live album)[427]
14	The Absence	Enemy Unbound[428]
	Accept	Blood of the Nations[429]
	Beneath the Massacre	Marée Noire (EP)[430]
	Flotsam and Jetsam	The Cold[431]
	Sully Erna	Avalon[432]
	System Divide	The Conscious Sedation[433]
17	Elvenking	Red Silent Tides[434]
	Secret Sphere	Archetype[435]
	Therion	Sitra Ahra[436]
20	Drudkh	Handful of Stars[437]
	Manticora	Safe[438]
	Metallica	Six Feet Down Under (EP)[439]
	Raunchy	A Discord Electric[440]
21	Opeth	In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall (live DVD)[441]
	Serj Tankian	Imperfect Harmonies[442]
	Torche	Songs for Singles (EP)[443]
24	Circle II Circle	Consequence of Power[444]
	Dimmu Borgir	Abrahadabra[445]
	Exciter	Death Machine[446]
	Revolution Renaissance	Trinity[447]
27	Cataract	Killing The Eternal[448]
	The Crown	Doomsday King[449]
	Enslaved	Axioma Ethica Odini[450]
28	Abigail Williams	In the Absence of Light[451]
	August Burns Red	Home (live DVD/CD)[452]
	Avian	The Path (EP)[453]
	Alice Cooper	Theatre of Death: Live At Hammersmith 2009 (DVD)[454]
	Halford	Halford IV: Made of Metal[455]
	James LaBrie	Static Impulse[456]
	Mushroomhead	Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children[457]
	October Tide	A Thin Shell[458]
	Powerglove	Saturday Morning Apocalypse[459]
	Slipknot	(sic)nesses (live DVD)[460]
	Unearthly Trance	V[461]
29	Angra	Aqua[462]
	Iron Fire	Metalmorphosized[463]
30	Place of Skulls	As A Dog Returns[464]

October

Day	Artist	Album
1	Grave Digger	The Clans Will Rise Again[465]
	Melechesh	The Epigenesis[466]
4	Bring Me the Horizon	There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret.[467]
5	Joe Satriani	Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards[468]
10	Mortiis	Perfectly Defect[469]
12	All That Remains	...For We Are Many[470]
	Dakrya	Crime Scene[471]
	Intronaut	Valley of Smoke[472]
	Madball	Empire[473]
	Motionless in White	Creatures[474]
	Negligence	Coordinates of Confusion[475]
15	All Ends	A Road To Depression[476]
	Magic Kingdom	Symphony of War[477]
	Mirror of Deception	A Smouldering Fire[478]
	Rhapsody of Fire	The Cold Embrace of Fear - A Dark Romantic Symphony[479]
	Symphorce	Unrestricted[480]
17	Crionics	N.O.I.R. (EP)[481]
18	The Meads of Asphodel	The Murder of Jesus The Jew[482]
20	Amberian Dawn	End of Eden[483]
	Arckanum	Sviga Læ[484]
22	Cradle of Filth	Darkly Darkly Venus Aversa[485]
	Forbidden	Omega Wave[486]
	Neaera	Forging the Eclipse[487]
	Virgin Steele	The Black Light Bacchanalia[488]
25	Helheim	Åsgards Fall (EP)[489]
	Tank	War Machine[490]
	Triptykon	Shatter (EP)[491]
26	Agathocles	This is Not a Threat, It's a Promise[492]
	Dååth	Dååth[493]
	Firewind	Days of Defiance[494]
	Ill Niño	Dead New World[495]
	Krieg	The Isolationist[496]
	Kylesa	Spiral Shadow[497]
	Monster Magnet	Mastermind[498]
	Sacred Oath	World on Fire[499]
	Slough Feg	The Animal Spirits[500]
	Star One	Victims of the Modern Age[501]
	Withered	Dualitas[502]
	Diskreet	Engage the Mechanicality[503]
27	Verjnuarmu	Lohuton[504]
29	Heljareyga	Heljareyga[505]
	The Sorrow	The Sorrow[506]
	War from a Harlots Mouth	MMX[507]
	Angband	Visions of the Seeker[508]
30	Shape of Despair	Written in My Scars (EP)[509]
31	Helloween	7 Sinners[510]

November

Day	Artist	Album
1	Ross the Boss	Hailstorm[511]
2	Anal Cunt	Wearing Out Our Welcome[512]
	Escape the Fate	Escape the Fate[513]
3	Machinae Supremacy	A View from the End of the World[514]
5	Allen/Lande	The Showdown[515]
	Forgotten Tales	We Shall See the Light[516]
8	Aborym	Psychogrotesque[517]
	Atheist	Jupiter[518]
	Deathspell Omega	Paracletus[519]
	Therapy?	We're Here to the End[520]
9	Am I Blood	Existence of Trauma[521]
	Behemoth	Evangelia Heretika (DVD)[522]
	First Blood	Silence Is Betrayal[523]
	Gwar	Bloody Pit of Horror[524]
	Oceano	Contagion[525]
	Sargeist	Let the Devil In[526]
	Underoath	Ø (Disambiguation)[527]
	Vreid	Vreid Goddamnit (DVD)[528]
15	Hate	Erebos[529]
	Solefald	Norrøn Livskunst[530]
19	Astral Doors	Testament of Rock - The Best of Astral Doors[531]
	The Ocean	Anthropocentric[532]
	Samael	Antigod (EP)[533]
20	Impaled Nazarene	Road to the Octagon[534]
22	Sodom	In War and Pieces[535]
23	After the Burial	In Dreams
	Agalloch	Marrow of the Spirit[536]
	The Chariot	Long Live[537]
	God Dethroned	Under the Sign of the Iron Cross[538]
	Yngwie Malmsteen	Relentless[539]
	Phobia	Unrelenting (EP)[540]
24	Dark Moor	Ancestral Romance[541]
	Dark the Suns	Sleepwalking in a Nightmare[542]
	Teräsbetoni	Maailma Tarvitsee Sankareita[543]
26	Metallica	Live at Grimey's (live EP)[544]
30	Chapter 14	Like Trees in November (EP)[545]

December

Day	Artist	Album
3	Seventh Wonder	The Great Escape[546]
	Theatres des Vampires	Moonlight Waltz[547]
7	Death	Live in Japan (DVD)[548]
	Flyleaf	Remember to Live (EP)[549]
14	Motörhead	The Wörld Is Yours[550]
	The Damned Things	Ironiclast[551]
	Sea of Treachery	Wonderland[552]
17	Ektomorf	Redemption[553]
	Sinister	Legacy of Ashes[554]
	Tankard	Vol(l)ume 14[555]
31	Helrunar	Sól[556]

References

External links

• About.com: Heavy Metal

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