2013 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2013.

Bands disbanded

Bands reformed

Events

Paul Di'Anno (ex-Iron Maiden) retired after his 2012 tour.^[23]
HammerFall will be on hiatus this year and do not plan to release their next album until 2014.^[24]
Lars Ulrich has confirmed that Metallica's Orion Music + More festival will be held again this year.^[25]
Ceremonial Oath, who split up in 1995, and Gardenian, who split up in 2004 and hadn't played a show in 12 years, both reunited for this year's edition of The Gothenburg Sound festival, which took place from January 4–5 at Trädgår'n in Gothenburg, Sweden.^[26]^[27]
Metal Church, who split up twice (in 1994 and 2009), have reunited for a second time at this year's 70000 Tons of Metal in January.^[28]
Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe stood trial on February 4 on charges of manslaughter in the death of a fan at a concert in Prague, Czech Republic in 2010. He was acquitted on 5 March 2013 of all charges against him.^[29] Drummer Chris Adler said in an interview "Not only were we not able to generate any income, but we ended up having to pay more than half a million dollars in legal fees," the drummer said. "It bankrupted the entire band, no money left for any kind of payroll or anything."^[30]
Rush was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California on April 18.^[31]^[32]
Liege Lord, who split up in 1989, will reunite at the Keep It True XVI festival, which will take place from April 19–20 at Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Königshofen, Germany. They will be the headliner of the festival.^[33]
Cannibal Corpse have celebrated the 25th anniversary of their formation.^[34]
Anthrax announced the departure of guitarist Rob Caggiano.^[35]
Volbeat announced that "former Anthrax and The Damned Things guitarist Rob Caggiano has officially joined Volbeat." Caggiano served as producer on "Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies" alongside long-time production partner Jacob Hansen, who produced and mixed the band's prior four albums.^[36]
Danny Carey (Tool) admitted that he was the band member that had the motorcycle accident, "I cracked four ribs, broke three of them on a motorcycle the other day, so I am kinda laid up at this point. It's making it really painful to play. It's not an easy thing to do," he said.^[37]
On 18 February 2013, bassist Daniel Antonsson quit Dark Tranquillity on good terms. Daniel wanted to focus on his own musical projects, play guitar rather than be the bassist in the band, and not wanting to commit to heavy touring of the bands 10th studio album and being a recording engineer/producer in his studio Gothenburg Rock Studios.^[38]
Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo was not able to attend the Australian tour due to misgivings over contract negotiations. Jon Dette (ex-Evildead, ex-Testament) had replaced Dave for the remainder of the tour.^[39] On May 30, Slayer announced that Dave Lombardo has been officially replaced by Paul Bostaph (ex-Exodus, ex-Testament).^[40]
Bison B.C. were dropped by Metal Blade Records, but the band still remains optimistic about the future.^[41]
Symphony X drummer Jason Rullo suffered heart failure, but is recovering with cardiac rehab.^[42]
Korn announced that a new album will be released featuring Brian "Head" Welch who officially rejoined the band after 8 years of absence.^[43]
Tim Lambesis, vocalists for As I Lay Dying and Austrian Death Machine, was arrested after police said he tried to hire an undercover detective to kill his estranged wife.^[44] Tim has pleaded not guilty,^[45] and was released on bail for 2 million on May 31, 2013.^[46]
Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater) leaves Adrenaline Mob due to "scheduling conflicts".^[47]
Protest the Hero drummer and original member Moe Carlson left the band after 12 years. Moe stated, "just to let you know, I'm going back to school, [I don't] have any intentions of touring ever again."^[48]
Evile guitarist Ol Drake announced his departure from the band citing "becoming more and more detached from the touring/band lifestyle."
In the summer of 2013, Kirk Windstein left New Orleans sludge group, Down.
On December 12, Joey Jordison departed from Slipknot.

Deaths

January 16 – Claudio Leo, ex-guitarist of gothic metal act Lacuna Coil died of cancer.^[49]
March 12 – Clive Burr, ex-drummer of Iron Maiden died of Multiple sclerosis complications.^[50]
April 5 - Sławomir "Mortifer" Kusterka, bassist of Hate died in his sleep of Cardiac dysrhythmia.^[51]
April 13 - Chi Cheng, bass player for Deftones died of complications following the 2008 car crash he was involved in.^[52]
May 2 - Jeff Hanneman, guitar player for Slayer died of liver failure after being hospitalized for some days.^[53]
May 18 - Phil Buerstatte, former drummer for White Zombie died from unknown causes.^[54]
May 21 - Trevor Bolder, bass player for Uriah Heep from pancreatic cancer.^[55]
June 2 - Mick Morris, bass guitarist for Bleeding Through and Eighteen Visions died due to a pre-existing heart condition.^[56]
July 19 - Mikhail Gorsheniov, lead singer of Russian horror punk/hard rock band Korol i Shut died of heart failure.
August 10 - Phil Baheux, drummer of Belgian Heavy Metal band Channel Zero died of a heart problems at the age of 45.^[57]
August 24 - Joey LaCaze, drummer of sludge metal act Eyehategod.^[58]

Films

Metallica released their 3D movie on August 9, 2013. The movie is entitled Metallica: Through the Never and was developed by Picturehouse.^[59]

Dream Theater released their movie on November 4, 2013. The movie is entitled Dream Theater: Live at Luna Park and was developed by Eagle Rock Entertainment.^[60]

Albums expected / released

January

Day	Artist	Album
1	Oblivion	Called to Rise^[61]
1	Subterranean Masquerade	Home (EP)^[62]
8	Corpus Mortale	Fleshcraft
	Newsted	Metal (EP)^[63]
	Hollywood Undead	Notes from the Underground^[64]
12	Mors Principium Est	...And Death Said Live^[65]
12	Mutiny Within	Synchronicity^[66]
18	Blockheads	The World is Dead^[67]
	Helloween	Straight Out of Hell^[68]
	Nightfall	Cassiopeia^[69]
	Rotten Sound	Species at War (EP)^[70]
	Saille	Ritu^[71]
21	Fen	Dustwalker^[72]
	The Prophecy	Salvation^[73]
	Riverside	Shrine of New Generation Slaves^[74]
22	Crashdïet	The Savage Playground^[75]
	Holy Grail	Ride the Void^[76]
	Love and Death	Between Here & Lost^[77]
	Touché Amoré and Pianos Become the Teeth	Touché Amoré / Pianos Become the Teeth (Split EP)^[78]
	Lightning Swords of Death	Baphometic Chaosium^[79]
	Voivod	Target Earth^[80]
25	Convulse	Inner Evil^[81]
	Cult of Luna	Vertikal^[82]
	Dreamshade	The Gift of Life^[83]
	Hatebreed	The Divinity of Purpose^[84]
	Koldbrann	Vertigo^[84]
	Jørn Lande	Symphonic (compilation)^[85]
	Pink Cream 69	Ceremonial^[86]
	Stratovarius	Unbreakable (EP)^[87]
28	Funeral for a Friend	Conduit^[88]
29	A Sound of Thunder	Queen of Hell (EP)^[89]
	Assassin	Chaos and Live Shots (DVD)^[90]
	Circle II Circle	Seasons Will Fall^[91]
	The Gates of Slumber	Stormcrow (EP)^[92]
	Tomahawk	Oddfellows^[93]

February

Day	Artist	Album
1	The 69 Eyes	Love Runs Away (EP)^[94]
	Blind Guardian	A Traveler's Guide to Space and Time (box set)^[95]
	Enforcer	Death by Fire^[96]
	Frankenbok	Cheers, Beers & Beards!^[97]
	Manilla Road	Mysterium^[98]
	Raven Lord	Descent to the Underworld^[99]
	Sinister	Years of Massacre (Compilation)^[100]
	Sonic Reign	Monument in Black^[101]
4	Red	Release the Panic^[102]
5	Defeated Sanity	Passages Into Deformity^[103]
	Hate	Solarflesh – A Gospel of Radiant Divinity^[104]
	Spektr	Cypher^[105]
12	Bullet for My Valentine	Temper Temper
15	Misery Index	Live in Munich (live album)^[106]
15	Suffocation	Pinnacle of Bedlam^[107]
16	Sacred Steel	The Bloodshed Summoning^[108]
18	Officium Triste	Mors Viri^[109]
19	Complete Failure	The Art Gospel of Aggravated Assault^[110]
	Black Boned Angel	The End^[111]
	Portal	Vexovoid^[112]
	Shai Hulud (band)	Reach Beyond the Sun^[113]
	Wednesday 13	The Dixie Dead^[114]
22	Arkona	Decade of Glory^[115]
	Eternal Tears of Sorrow	Saivon Lapsi^[116]
	Lord	Digital Lies^[117]
	Lost Soul	Genesis XX: Years Of Chaoz (Compilation)^[118]
	Stratovarius	Nemesis^[119]
	W.E.T.	Rise Up^[120]
25	Darkthrone	The Underground Resistance^[121]
	Omnium Gatherum	Beyond^[122]
	Steven Wilson	The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)^[123]
26	Byzantine	Byzantine^[124]
	Ruins	Place of No Pity^[125]
	Vreid	Welcome Farewell^[126]
	Within the Ruins	Elite^[127]

March

Day	Artist	Album
1	Crystallion	Killer^[128]
	Rotting Christ	Kata ton Daimona Eaytoy^[129]
	Saxon	Sacrifice^[130]
	Thyrfing	De Ödeslösa^[131]
	Wolfchant	Embraced by Fire^[132]
4	Hardcore Superstar	C'mon Take on Me^[133]
4	Long Distance Calling	The Flood Inside^[134]
5	Krokus	Dirty Dynamite^[135]
	Neaera	Ours is the Storm^[136]
	Soilwork	The Living Infinite^[137]
8	Horna	Askel Lähempänä Saatanaa^[138]
8	Lordi	To Beast or Not to Beast^[139]
11	Blood Tsunami	For Faen^[140]
11	Orange Goblin	A Eulogy For The Fans (DVD)^[141]
12	Adrenaline Mob	Covertá (EP)^[142]
	Common Dead	Allegorize^[143]
	Rammstein	Videos 1995–2012 (DVD)^[144]
13	Derdian	Limbo^[145]
15	Imperia	Queen of Passion (compilation)^[146]
	KEN mode	Entrench^[147]
	Torture Killer	Phobia^[148]
	Wardruna	Runaljod - Yggdrasil^[149]
18	Intronaut	Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words with Tones)^[150]
19	Anthrax	Anthems (covers EP)^[151]
	Clutch	Earth Rocker^[152]
	Hundredth	Revolt (EP)^[153]
	Jungle Rot	Terror Regime^[154]
	Six Feet Under	Unborn^[155]
20	Warlord	The Holy Empire^[156]
22	Adept	Silence the World^[157]
	Aeternus	...And the Seventh His Soul Detesteth^[158]
	Hypocrisy	End of Disclosure^[159]
	Northlane	Singularity^[160]
	Pretty Maids	Motherland^[161]
	Serenity	War of Ages^[162]
	Stonelake	Monolith^[163]
	Trail of Tears	Oscillation^[164]
	Visions of Atlantis	Ethera^[165]
	Von	Dark Gods: Seven Billion Slaves^[166]
25	Amaranthe	The Nexus^[167]
	The Amenta	Flesh Is Heir^[168]
	Finntroll	Blodsvept^[169]
	Gamma Ray	Master of Confusion (EP)^[170]
	Moss	Horrible Nights^[171]
	October Tide	Tunnel of No Light^[172]
	Axel Rudi Pell	Live On Fire (DVD)^[173]
26	Benea Reach	Possession^[174]
	DGM	Momentum^[175]
	Kvelertak	Meir^[176]
	Sevendust	Black Out the Sun^[177]
	Suicidal Tendencies	13^[178]
29	Persefone	Spiritual Migration^[179]
30	Avantasia	The Mystery of Time^[180]

April

Day	Artist	Album
2	Drowning Pool	Resilience^[181]
	Killswitch Engage	Disarm the Descent^[182]
	Bring Me the Horizon	Sempiternal^[183]
	Toxic Holocaust	From the Ashes of Nuclear Destruction (compilation)^[184]
3	Dir En Grey	The Unraveling (EP)^[185]
5	Deathchain	Ritual Death Metal^[186]
	The Storyteller	Dark Legacy^[187]
	Volbeat	Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies^[188]
	Saltatio Mortis	Manufactum III^[189]
8	Device	Device^[190]
	The Meads of Asphodel	Sonderkommando^[191]
	Shining	One One One^[192]
9	Dawn of Ashes	Anathema^[193]
	Ghost	Infestissumam^[194]
	Keep of Kalessin	Introspection (EP)^[195]
	Stone Sour	House of Gold & Bones – Part 2^[196]
12	Ctulu	Seelenspiegelsplitter^[197]
	Memory Garden	Doomain^[198]
	Mystic Prophecy	Best of Prophecy Years (compilation)^[199]
	Wastefall	Meridiem (EP)^[200]
15	Iced Earth	Live In Ancient Kourion (DVD)^[201]
	Sacred Mother Tongue	Out of the Darkness^[202]
	Spiritual Beggars	Earth Blues^[203]
16	Jeff Loomis	Requiem for the Living (EP)^[204]
16	Skid Row	United World Rebellion: Chapter One (EP)^[205]
18	Noumena	Death Walks With Me^[206]
19	Amorphis	Circle^[207]
	Beastwars	Blood Becomes Fire^[208]
	Gama Bomb	The Terror Tapes^[209]
	Heaven Shall Burn	Veto^[210]
	Mastercastle	On Fire^[211]
	Steak Number Eight	The Hutch^[212]
22	Hacride	Back to Where You've Never Been^[213]
23	Amplifier	Echo Street^[214]
	Kaledon	Altor: The King’s Blacksmith^[215]
	Queensrÿche with Geoff Tate	Frequency Unknown^[216]
	Rob Zombie	Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor^[217]
24	Atrocity	Okkult^[218]
24	Dreamtale	World Changed Forever^[219]
26	Deep Purple	Now What?!^[220]
	Howl	Bloodlines^[221]
	The Ocean	Pelagial^[222]
	Sodom	Epitome of Torture^[223]
	Vicious Rumors	Electric Punishment^[224]
28	Malefice	Five^[225]
29	Cathedral	The Last Spire^[226]
	Freedom Call	Ages Of Light (compilation)^[227]
	Kingdom Come	Outlier^[228]
	Satan	Life Sentence^[229]
30	After the Burial	This Life is All We Have (EP)^[230]
	Altar of Plagues	Teethed Glory and Injury^[231]
	Arsis	Unwelcome^[232]
	Cauldron	Tomorrow's Lost (American Version)^[233]
	Hybrid	Angst^[234]

May

Day	Artist	Album
1	Delain	Interlude (compilation)^[235]
3	Lacrimas Profundere	Antiadore^[236]
	Rhapsody of Fire	Live – From Chaos to Eternity (live)^[237]
	Shade Empire	Omega Arcane^[238]
7	Joe Satriani	Unstoppable Momentum^[239]
10	Arckanum	Fenris Kindir^[240]
	Chaostar	Anomima^[241]
	Immolation	Kingdom of Conspiracy^[242]
13	My Dying Bride	The Manuscript (EP)^[243]
14	The Dillinger Escape Plan	One of Us Is the Killer^[244]
14	Tribulation	The Formulas of Death^[245]
17	Blood Red Throne	Blood Red Throne^[246]
	Gothminister	Utopia^[247]
	Masterplan	Novum Initium^[248]
20	Leprous	Coal (Leprous album)^[249]
21	Airbourne	Black Dog Barking^[250]
	Avalon	The Land of New Hope^[251]
	A Pale Horse Named Death	Lay My Soul to Waste^[252]
	U.D.O.	Steelhammer^[253]
24	Dew-Scented	Insurgent^[254]
	Kylesa	Ultraviolet^[255]
	Suidakra	Eternal Defiance^[256]
27	Burzum	Sôl Austan, Mâni Vestan^[257]
	Dagoba	Post Mortem Nihil Est^[258]
	Dark Tranquillity	Construct^[259]
	Evile	Skull^[260]
	Christopher Lee	Charlemagne: The Omens of Death^[261]
	Tesseract	Altered State^[262]
28	Aborym	Dirty^[263]
	Alice in Chains	The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here^[264]
	Antigama	Meteor^[265]
	Anvil	Hope in Hell^[266]
	ASG	Blood Drive^[267]
	Blood Ceremony	The Eldritch Dark^[268]
	Judas Priest	Epitaph (DVD)^[269]
	Sacred Oath	Fallen^[270]
	Svartsyn	Black Testament^[271]
29	Chthonic	Bú-Tik^[272]
31	Cardiant	Verge^[273]
31	Tristania	Darkest White^[274]

June

Day	Artist	Album
3	White Wizzard	The Devil's Cut^[275]
4	Megadeth	Super Collider^[276]
5	Oliva	Raise the Curtain^[277]
7	Summoning	Old Mornings Dawn^[278]
11	The Black Dahlia Murder	Everblack^[279]
	Black Sabbath	13^[280]
	Children of Bodom	Halo of Blood^[281]
	Deafheaven	Sunbather^[282]
	Integrity	Suicide Black Snake^[283]
	Jørn Lande	Traveller^[284]
	My Ruin	The Sacred Mood^[285]
	Scale the Summit	The Migration^[286]
14	Magnus Karlsson	Free Fall^[287]
17	Amberian Dawn	Re-Evolution (compilation)^[288]
17	Kalmah	Seventh Swamphony^[289]
18	Dark Moor	Ars Musica^[290]
	Fuck the Facts	Amer (EP)^[291]
	High On Fire	Spitting Fire Live Vol. 1 (live)^[292]
	High On Fire	Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (live)^[293]
	Valient Thorr	Our Own Masters^[294]
21	Edenbridge	The Bonding^[295]
	Eternal Oath	Ghostlands^[296]
	Extol	Extol (album)^[297]
	Raven	Rock Until You Drop (DVD)^[298]
24	Autopsy	The Headless Ritual^[299]
	Firewind	Apotheosis - Live 2012 (live)^[300]
	Orphaned Land	All is One^[301]
	Queensrÿche with Todd La Torre	Queensrÿche^[302]
25	Amon Amarth	Deceiver of the Gods^[303]
	August Burns Red	Rescue & Restore^[304]
	Deeds of Flesh	Portals to Canaan^[305]
	Havok	Unnatural Selection^[306]
	Hopes Die Last	Wolfpack EP^[307]
	Mouth of the Architect	Dawning^[308]
26	Hibria	Silent Revenge^[309]
26	Trauma	Karma Obscura^[310]
28	Agathodaimon	In Darkness^[311]
	Darkane	The Sinister Supremacy^[312]
	Impiety	Vengeance Hell Immemorial (compilation)^[313]
	Månegarm	Legions of the North^[314]
	Sirenia	Perils of the Deep Blue^[315]

July

Day	Artist	Album
2	Huntress	Starbound Beast^[316]
9	Butcher Babies	Goliath^[317]
	Battlecross	War of Will^[318]
	Nothnegal	Nothnegal (EP)^[319]
12	Hypocrisy	Penetralia / Osculum (box-set)^[320]
15	Panzerchrist	7th Offensive^[321]
16	Evan Brewer	Your Itinerary^[322]
18	King Conquer	1776^[323]
	Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals	Walk Through Exits Only^[324]
	Seven Witches	Rebirth^[325]
	Trouble	The Distortion Field^[326]
19	Baroness	Live At Maida Vale (live EP)^[327]
	Karnivool	Asymmetry^[328]
	Powerwolf	Preachers of the Night^[329]
22	Stormzone	Three Kings^[330]
23	American Head Charge	Shoot (EP)^[331]
	Black Tusk	Tend No Wounds (EP)^[332]
	Counterparts	The Difference Between Hell and Home^[333]
	Five Finger Death Punch	The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1^[334]
	Legion of the Damned	Ravenous Plague^[335]
	Misery Signals	Absent Light^[336]
26	Deadlock	The Arsonist^[337]
26	We Came as Romans	Tracing Back Roots^[338]
27	Mercenary	Through Our Darkest Days^[339]
29	James LaBrie	Impermanent Resonance^[340]
30	Chimaira	Crown of Phantoms^[341]

August

Day	Artist	Album
2	The Defiled	Daggers^[342]
	Lingua Mortis Orchestra and Rage	LMO^[343]
	Exhumed	Necrocracy^[344]
6	Iwrestledabearonce	Late For Nothing^[345]
	Newsted	Heavy Metal Music^[346]
	Revocation	Revocation (album)^[347]
8	Rosetta	The Anaesthete^[348]
9	Equilibrium	Waldschrein ^[349]
16	Fleshgod Apocalypse	Labyrinth^[350]
	Manowar	The Lord Of Steel Live (live EP)^[351]
	Soil	Whole^[352]
19	Watain	The Wild Hunt^[353]
20	Born of Osiris	Tomorrow We Die ∆live^[354]
21	Turisas	Turisas2013^[355]
23	ReVamp	Wild Card^[356]
	Tarja Turunen	Colours in the Dark^[357]
	Unshine	Dark Half Rising^[358]
27	Avenged Sevenfold	Hail to the King^[359]
27	DevilDriver	Winter Kills^[360]
30	Gorguts	Colored Sands^[361]
30	Kreator	Dying Alive (DVD)^[362]
31	Avulsed	Ritual Zombi^[363]

September

Day	Artist	Album
2	Haken	The Mountain^[364]
2	The Safety Fire	Mouth of Swords^[365]
3	Deliverance	Hear What I Say!^[366]
	Vista Chino	Peace
	Annihilator	Feast ^[367]
6	Dark Age	A Matter of Trust^[368]
	Ministry	From Beer to Eternity^[369]
	Ashes Of Ares	Ashes Of Ares^[370]
7	Michael Angelo Batio	Intermezzo^[371]
9	Satyricon	Satyricon^[372]
13	Onslaught	VI^[373]^[374]
	Poisonblack	Lyijy^[375]
	Carcass	Surgical Steel^[376]
17	The Devil Wears Prada	8:18^[377]
	Eyes Set to Kill	Masks^[378]
	Ulcerate	Vermis (album)^[379]
	Týr	Valkyrja ^[380]
	Gwar	Battle Maximus ^[381]
20	Hirax	Immortal Legacy^[382]
20	Stormlord	Hesperia^[383]
24	Dream Theater	Dream Theater^[384]
	Megadeth	Countdown to Extinction: Live (CD/DVD)^[385]
	Ra	Critical Mass^[386]
25	The Gathering	Afterwords ^[387]
27	Master	The Witchhunt ^[388]
	myGRAIN	Planetary Breathing^[389]
	Mystic Prophecy	Killhammer^[390]
	Wisdom	Marching for Liberty^[391]
	Hatesphere	Murderlust ^[392]
30	Devin Townsend	The Retinal Circus (CD/DVD) ^[393]

October

Day	Artist	Album
1	Broken Hope	Omen Of Disease ^[394]
	Fates Warning	Darkness in a Different Light ^[395]
	Scar the Martyr	Scar the Martyr (album) ^[396]
	Within Temptation	Paradise (What About Us?)^[397]
	The Browning	Hypernova ^[398]
4	Running Wild (band)	Resilient^[399]
4	Soulfly	Savages ^[400]
8	Korn	The Paradigm Shift ^[401]
	Ulver	Messe I.X-VI.X ^[402]
	A Day to Remember^[403]	Common Courtesy^[404]
11	Death Angel	The Dream Calls for Blood^[405]
11	Testament	Dark Roots of Thrash (CD/DVD)^[406]
14	Deep Purple	Perfect Strangers Live (DVD) ^[407]
15	Doomriders	Grand Blood^[408]
	Red Fang	Whales and Leeches^[409]
	Trivium	Vengeance Falls^[410]
	Monster Magnet	Last Patrol ^[411]
16	Europe	Live At Sweden Rock - 30th Anniversary Show (DVD) ^[412]
21	Pestilence	Obsideo ^[413]
21	Motörhead	Aftershock^[414]
22	Ihsahn	Das Seelenbrechen ^[415]
	Lita Ford	The Bitch is Back... Live ^[416]
	Metal Church	Generation Nothing ^[417]
25	Inquisition	Obscure Verses For The Multiverse ^[418]
	Sahg	Delusions Of Grandeur ^[419]
	Sepultura	The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart ^[420]
28	Ayreon	The Theory of Everything ^[421]
	Hail Of Bullets	III: The Rommel Chronicles ^[422]
	Man Must Die	Peace Was Never An Option ^[423]
29	Kataklysm	Waiting For The End To Come ^[424]
	Kill Devill Hill	Revolution Rise ^[425]
	Protest the Hero	Volition (Protest the Hero album)^[426]
	Skeletonwitch	Serpents Unleashed^[427]
	Toxic Holocaust	Chemistry of Consciousness ^[428]
	Warbringer	IV: Empires Collapse ^[429]
	Winds of Plague	Resistance (Winds of Plague album) ^[430]

November

Day	Artist	Album
5	Dream Theater	Live at Luna Park^[431]
	Falkenbach	Asa ^[432]
	Melvins	Tres Cabrones ^[433]
	Stryper	No More Hell To Pay ^[434]
8	Cronian	Erathems ^[435]
	Endstille	Kapitulation 2013 ^[436]
	Epica	Retrospect (DVD) ^[437]
	Iron Mask	Fifth Son of Winterdoom ^[438]
12	Handful of Hate	To Perdition ^[439]
	Living Sacrifice	Ghost Thief ^[440]
	Black Tide	Bite the Bullet (EP) ^[441]
13	Leaves' Eyes	Symphonies of the Night ^[442]
15	Apocalyptica	Wagner Reloaded (Live) ^[443]
15	Alestorm	Live At The End Of The World (DVD) ^[444]
18	Rush	Clockwork Angels Tour ^[445]
19	Code	Augur Nox ^[446]
	Ephel Duath	Hemmed By Light, Shaped By Darkness ^[447]
	Five Finger Death Punch	The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2 ^[448]
22	Artillery	Legions ^[449]
	Betzefer	The Devil Went Down to the Holy Land ^[450]
	Hell	Curse And Chapter ^[451]
	Pro-Pain	The Final Revolution ^[452]
	Rhapsody of Fire	Dark Wings of Steel ^[453]
25	Almah	Raise The Sun ^[454]
26	Black Sabbath	Live... Gathered in Their Masses ^[455]
26	Deicide	In the Minds of Evil^[456]
29	Benedictum	Obey ^[457]
	Human Fortress	Raided Land ^[458]
	Nightwish	Showtime, Storytime (DVD/CD) ^[459]

December

Day	Artist	Album
10	Deliverance	Hear What I Say! ^[460]
13	Alghazanth	The Three-faced Pilgrim ^[461]

Artists with material in production

All releases are studio albums unless otherwise noted.

A Storm of Light – Nations to Flames^[462]
Aarni – Lovecraftian^[463]
Abigail Williams^[464]
The Absence - Oceans^[465]
Accept (DVD)^[466]
Acrassicauda
Adagio^[467]
Adrenaline Mob^[468]
After the Burial - Haunt And Catalyst^[469] Blue Felix
Agoraphobic Nosebleed^[470]
Alcest^[471]
Allfader^[472]
Almah^[473]
Amon Amarth^[474]
Amoral^[475]
Anacrusis - Parallax Error^[476]
Annihilator^[477]
Anthrax^[478]
Anthrax (DVD)^[479]
Anubis Gate - Horizons^[480]
Arch Enemy (DVD)^[481]
Acheron - Kult Des Hasses^[482]
Archgoat (EP)
Arcturus^[483]
Arsonists Get All the Girls - Listen to the Color^[484]
Artillery^[485]
The Arusha Accord
Asesino^[486]
Astral Doors (DVD)^[487]
Atheist^[488]
Austrian Death Machine - Triple Brutal^[489]
Ayreon - The Theory of Everything^[490]
Baptized in Blood^[491]
Behemoth - The Satanist^[492]
Believer^[493]
Belphegor^[494]
Benedictum^[495]
Bethlehem^[496]
Beto Vázquez Infinity^[497]
Betraying the Martyrs^[498]
Betzefer - Suicide Hotline^[499]
Bilocate^[500]
The Binary Code^[501]
Black Flame
Black Majesty^[502]
Black Veil Brides^[503]
Blackguard^[504]
Blind Guardian^[505]
Blood of Kingu^[506]
Blood Stain Child^[507]
Bloodbath^[508]

Body Count - Manslaughter^[509]
Broken Hope^[510]
Cannabis Corpse^[511]
Carach Angren^[512]
Cathedral (live)^[513]
Catuvolcus - Voyageurs de l’Aube (EP)^[514]
Carcass - Surgical Steel^[515]
Cephalic Carnage^[516]
Cerebral Bore^[517]
Chelsea Grin^[518]
Chimp Spanner^[519]
Christ Agony - Black Ritual (DVD)^[520]
Chrome Division^[521]
Claymore – From Ignorance to Remembrance
Coal Chamber^[522]
Code^[523]
Common Dead^[524]
Confide^[525]
Control Denied - When Man and Machine Collide^[526]
Cor Scorpii^[527]
Cormorant^[528]
Coronatus^[529]
Coroner (DVD and live album)
Corrosion of Conformity^[530]
Crashdïet^[531]
Cripple Bastards^[532]
The Crown - Nemesis 8 - Death is Not Dead^[533]
Crucified Barbara^[534]
Cynic^[535]
Dark Empire^[536]
Dark Funeral^[537]
Darkane (DVD)^[538]
Darkest Hour^[539]
Darzamat
Dawn of Demise^[540]
Deceased – Ghostly White^[541]
Death Angel^[542]
Death Angel – Death Angel: A Thrashumentary (DVD)^[543]
Death of Desire – ANTIhuman
Death Valley Driver^[544]
Deathstars^[545]
Deicide^[546]
Deströyer 666 – Siege^[547]
Dezperadoz
Diamond Plate^[548]
Diecast^[549]
Dir En Grey (DVD)^[550]
Dirge^[551]
Dirge Within^[552]
Disarmonia Mundi^[553]
Dødheimsgard^[554]
Dornenreich – Freiheit^[555]
Down (EP)^[556]
Draconian^[557]
DragonForce^[558]
Dragonlord^[559]
Electric Boys^[560]
The Electric Hellfire Club^[561]
Electric Wizard
Eluveitie - Evocation II^[562]
Enchant^[563]
End of Green^[564]
Enemy of the Sun
Enslaved (DVD)^[565]
Enthroned^[566]
Entombed^[567]
Ephel Duath^[568]
Epica^[569]
The Eternal – The Circle of Light Begins to Fade^[570]
Evita (EP)
Exhorder
Exodus^[571]
Extrema^[572]
Falconer^[573]
Falkenbach
Fates Warning^[574]
Finsterforst
Forgotten Tomb (DVD)^[575]
Ghost Brigade^[576]
Godflesh^[577]
Gojira – Sea Shepherd (EP)
Gospel of the Horns
The Grand Astoria^[578]
Grave - Morbid Ascent (EP)^[579]
Gwar^[580]
Hail of Bullets^[581]
hAND^[582]
The Haunted^[583]
HDK^[584]
Headspace^[585]
Heathen^[586]
Hellbastard
Helmet^[587]
Helstar^[588]
Helstar (DVD)^[589]
Hemoptysis^[590]
Heretic^[591]
Horned Almighty
Hortus Animae^[592]
Human^[593]
Hundredth - Resist (EP)^[594]
Huntress^[595]
I Killed the Prom Queen – Beloved ^[596]
Iced Earth^[597]
Ihsahn^[598]
Impending Doom^[599]
Impiety - The Impious Crusade (EP)^[600]
Impiety^[601]
In Flames^[602]
In-Quest - 8 - the Odyssey of Eternity^[603]
Infernal^[604]
Insision^[605]
Integrity^[606]
Into Eternity^[607]
Iron Maiden^[608]
Jon Oliva's Pain
Judas Priest^[609]
Judgement Day
Karma to Burn
Katagory V – Resurrect the Insurgence^[610]
Kataklysm - Waiting for the End to Come^[611]
Katatonia - Dethroned and Uncrowned^[612]
Keep of Kalessin^[613]
King Kobra^[614]
King's X^[615]
King Diamond^[616]
Koldbrann
Korn^[617]
Liv Kristine
Kauan - Pirut^[618]
Las Cruces^[619]
Last Chance to Reason^[620]
Leatherwolf (DVD)^[621]
Leaves' Eyes - Symphonies of the Night^[622]
Leng Tch'e^[623]
Limp Bizkit - Stampede of the Disco Elephants^[624]
Living Colour^[625]
Living Sacrifice^[626]
Lizzy Borden
Locrian^[627]
Lonewolf - The Fourth and Final Horseman^[628]
Lost Soul - Atlantis - The New Beginning^[629]
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody^[630]
Luna Mortis^[18]
Macabre
Macbeth - Neo-Gothic Propaganda^[631]
Machine Head^[632]
Mael Mórdha^[633]
Magnum^[634]
Man Must Die^[635]
Massacre^[636]
Mastodon^[637]
Mayhem^[638]
Meliah Rage^[639]
Metal Church - Generation Nothing^[640]
Metallica^[641]
Midnattsol^[642]
Ministry (DVD)^[643]
Minsk^[19]
Mirrorthrone^[644]
Mitochondrion - Antinumerology (EP)^[645]
Monstrosity^[646]
Moonsorrow^[647]
Morgoth (live album)^[648]
Mötley Crüe^[649]
Motörhead - Aftershock^[650]
Mourning Beloveth^[651]
Nachtmystium^[652]
Naildown^[653]
Necrophagist
Necrophobic
Necrovation^[654]
Negură Bunget - Tău^[655]
Negură Bunget - Gînd A-prins (EP)^[656]
Nightrage^[657]
Nine Inch Nails^[658]
Northern Oak^[659]
Nothnegal^[660]
Obituary^[661]
The Ocean (DVD)^[662]
Oceano - Incisions^[663]
October File^[664]
Anette Olzon
Omen - Hammer Damage^[665]
On Broken Wings – Summer Solstice^[666]
Opeth^[667]
Opprobrium
Otyg^[668]
Outrage - The Elemental War^[669]
Pagan Altar – Never Quite Dead^[670]
Pathology^[671]
Pain of Salvation – Clean^[672]
Persuader^[673]
Pestilence – Obsideo^[674]
Possessed^[675]
Power Quest
Primal Fear^[676]
Protest the Hero^[48]
Quo Vadis - But Who Prays For Satan?^[677]
Ratt
Red Circuit
Red Fang^[678]
Rigor Mortis - Slaves to the Grave^[679]
Ringworm^[680]
Riot^[681]
Rising Dream – System Corrupt
Rosetta (EP)^[682]
Rottrevore
Royal Hunt^[683]
Running Wild^[684]
Rush (DVD)^[685]
Russian Circles^[686]
Sahg^[687]
Saint – Desperate Night^[688]
Saint Diablo^[689]
Sammath – Godless Arrogance^[690]
Sanctuary – The Year the Sun Died^[691]
Savage Messiah^[692]
Saxon - Sacrifice^[693]
Scorpions^[694]
Sear Bliss^[695]
Sepultura^[696]
Seven Thorns^[697]
Seventh Wonder^[698]
Shaman - Nocturnal^[699]
Silent Descent
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed^[700]
Skepticism^[701]
Skiltron - Into the Battleground^[702]
The Skull^[703]
Skyfire (EP)
Skyforger^[704]
Slayer^[705]
Slayer (EP)^[706]
SLoT^[707]
Slough Feg^[708]
Society 1 - Screams of Sadist (EP)^[709]
Solefald – Kosmopolis^[710]
Solution .45^[711]
Sonic Syndicate^[712]
Soulless (Grc) - Annihilation of the Gods
Soul Embraced – Mythos^[713]
Soulfly^[714]
Soulspell Metal Opera - "Act IV"^[715]
Subsignal - Paraíso^[716]
Suicidal Angels - Divide and Conquer^[717]
Suicide Silence^[718]
Susperia^[719]
Swashbuckle^[720]
Sympathy (EP)^[721]
System Divide - The Cult of Indifference^[722]
System of a Down^[723]
Terrorizer^[724]
Testament (DVD)^[725]
Thanatos^[726]
Thaurorod
Thin Lizzy^[727]
Throwdown^[728]
Thy Disease^[729]
Tombs^[730]
Tool^[731]
Tooth and Nail^[732]
Devin Townsend - Z²^[733]
Devin Townsend - Casualties of Cool^[734]
Toxic Holocaust^[735]
Toxik^[736]
Trees of Eternity^[737]
Trivium - Vengeance Falls^[738]
Trollfest^[739]
Twilight^[740]
Týr^[741]
Ulcerate^[742]
Unanimated
Unearth^[743]
Uneven Structure^[744]
The Unguided^[745]
Vader – Tibi et Igni^[746]
Valdur^[747]
Valkyrja^[748]
Van Canto^[749]
Vektor^[750]
Vildhjarta (EP)^[751]
Viking - No Child Left Behind^[752]
The Vision Bleak - Witching Hour^[753]
Vista Chino - Peace^[754]
Vital Remains^[755]
Warbringer^[756]
Warmen
Watchtower – Mathematics
Wehrmacht^[757]
While Heaven Wept^[758]
Whiplash – Old School American Way, Volume 1 (EP)^[759]
Whitechapel^[760]
Will Haven
Wintersun – Time II^[761]
Witch Mountain^[762]
Witchmaster^[763]
Within Temptation^[764]
Wizard^[765]
X Japan
Xentrix^[766]
Y&T^[767]
Zao^[768]

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