2015 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2015.

Bands disbanded

Bands reformed

Events

Deaths

Albums expected / released

January

Day Artist Album
9 Battle Beast Unholy Savior[25]
Callejon Wir sind Angst[26]
12 Sylosis Dormant Heart[27]
Wednesday 13 Monsters of the Universe: Come Out and Plague[28]
The Crown Death Is Not Dead[29]
14 Dr. Sin Intactus [30]
16 Angra Secret Garden[31]
Orden Ogan Ravenhead[32]
19 Angelus Apatrida Hidden Evolution[33]
Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor[34]
Marduk Frontschwein[35]
23 Finsterforst Mach Dich Frei[36]
Ostrogoth Last Tribe Standing[37]
Stormwitch Season of the Witch[38]
25 Hate Crusade:Zero[39]
26 Napalm Death Apex Predator – Easy Meat[40]
U.D.O. Decadent[41]
27 Papa Roach F.E.A.R.[42]
Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha/Juggernaut: Omega[43]
Venom From the Very Depths[44]
30 Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror[45]

February

Day Artist Album
2 Solefald World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud[46]
9 Adrenaline Mob Dearly Departed[47]
10 Melechesh Enki[48]
16 Keep of Kalessin Epistemology[49]
20 Black Star Riders The Killer Instinct[50]
Svartsot Vældet[51]
23 The Agonist Eye of Providence[52]
Carach Angren This Is No Fairytale[53]
Ensiferum One Man Army[54]
Scorpions Return to Forever[55]
24 All That Remains The Order of Things[56]
Of Mice & Men Restoring Force: Full Circle[57]
R3D Of Beauty and Rage[58]
27 Enforcer From Beyond[59]

March

Day Artist Album
3 Leviathan Scar Sighted[60]
4 Viking No Child Left Behind[61]
6 Enslaved In Times[62]
Europe War of Kings[63]
10 Cancer Bats Searching for Zero[64]
17 Moonspell Extinct[65]
23 The Gentle Storm The Diary[66]
Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock Spirit on a Mission[67]
Oceano Ascendants[68]
27 Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful[69]
30 Morgoth Ungod[70]
Prong Songs From The Black Hole (covers album)[71]
31 Three Days Grace Human[72]

April

Day Artist Album
3 Halestorm Into the Wild Life[73]
6 Skyforger Senprūsija[74]
17 Apocalyptica Shadowmaker[75]
Impellitteri Venom[76]
Kiske/Somerville City of Heroes[77]
18 Stone Sour Meanwhile in Burbank...[78]
20 Shining IX / Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Ends[79]
Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short[80]
21 Bill Ward Accountable Beasts[81]
24 Nightrage The Puritan[82]
Unleashed Dawn of the Nine[83]
27 Raven ExtermiNation[84]

May

Day Artist Album
5 Korpiklaani Noita[85]
Six Feet Under Crypt of the Devil[86]
8 Arcturus Arcturian[87]
Kamelot Haven[88]
Sirenia The Seventh Life Path[89]
12 Veil of Maya Matriarch[90]
15 Whitesnake The Purple Album[91]
19 Coal Chamber Rivals[92]
Faith No More Sol Invictus[93]
25 Leprous The Congregation[94]
29 Helloween My God-Given Right[95]

June

Day Artist Album
1 Nuclear Assault Pounder[96]
2 Armored Saint Win Hands Down[97]
Paradise Lost The Plague Within[98]
Skinless Only the Ruthless Remain[99]
8 Gorgoroth Instinctus Bestialis[100]
9 Disarmonia Mundi Cold Inferno[101]
Tank Valley Of Tears[102]
19 Luca Turilli's Rhapsody Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus[103]
Virgin Steele Nocturnes of Hellfire & Damnation[104]
23 Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn[105]
High On Fire Luminiferous[106]
29 Thy Art Is Murder Holy War[107]
30 August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places[108]

July

Day Artist Album
7 Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic[109]
31 Kataklysm Of Ghosts and Gods[110]
Xandria Fire & Ashes (EP)[111]

August

Day Artist Album
14 Stratovarius Eternal[112]

September

Day Artist Album

October

Day Artist Album

November

Day Artist Album

December

Day Artist Album

Artists with material in production

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