LAST UPDATED: December 25th at 11:37 AM.
With so many rock and heavy metal albums and EPs being released every week, it can be hard to keep up with everything. That's why we've gathered all the releases scheduled for 2020 in one place, so you don't miss out.
With the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and the WHO's (World Health Organization) announcement categorizing it as a pandemic, several artists postponed the release of their albums, while others began preparing new material during quarantine. With this in mind, the list will be updated frequently, so stay tuned!
TO BE CONFIRMED:
Evanescence – The Bitter Truth
Serj Tankian – Elasticity (EP)
John Petrucci – Terminal Velocity
Weezer – Van Weezer
Megadeth
Greta Van Fleet
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Offspring
See below the albums already released in 2020:
January 3:
Cardinal Sin – Lucified
Deliver the Galaxy – The Journey
Foo Fighters – 00959525
January 10:
Apocalyptica – Cell-O
Brothers of Metal – Emblas Saga
Erdling – Yggdrasil
Haunt – Mind Freeze
Oceans – The Sun and the Cold
The Krueggers – Hysterical Cold Side and Dark Memories
Lotus Thief – Oresteia
Mystic Prophecy – Metal Division
Rage – Wings of Rage
Waldgefluster – Stimmen Im Wind 202 0
Body Stuff – Body Stuff 3
Pressure Cracks – This is Called Survival
January 17:
Anti-Flag – 20/20 Vision
Bonded – Rest in Violence
British Lion – The Burning
Darktribe – Voici L'Homme
Horned Almighty – To Fathom The Master's Grand Design
Kaoteon – Kaoteon
Magnum – The Serpent Rings
Mark Morton – Ether EP
Sons of Apollo – MMXX
Steve Moore – Bliss (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Svarttjern – Shame Is Just a Word
Victorius – Space Ninjas From Hell
January 24:
Annihilator – Ballistic, Sadistic
Blasphemer – The Sixth Hour
Blue Oyster Cult – Cult Classic Re-Release
Blue Oyster Cult – Hard Rock Live Cleveland 2014
Breaking Benjamin – Aurora
Davey Suicide – Rock Ain't Dead
Defiled – Infinite Regress
Dirty Shirley – Dirty Shirley
Hazzerd – Delirium
Kirk Windstein – Dream in Motion
Konvent – Puritan Masochism
Marko Hietala – Pyre of the Black Heart
Midnight – Rebirth by Blasphemy
Mortiis – Spirit of Rebellion
Necro Di Marte – Immoto
Revolution Saints – Rise
Surgical Strike – Part of a Sick World
Temperance – Viridian
Thy Catafalque – Naiv
January 31:
Amberian Dawn – Looking For You
Big Scenic Nowhere – Vision Beyond Horizon
Clint Lowery – God Bless the Renegade
Coffin Curse – Ceased to Be
Dark Matter – Nebula to Black Hole
Dead Kosmonaut – Gravitas
Deathwhite – Grave Image
Don Dokken – Solitary
Gary Moore – Live From London
Heathen – The Evolution of Chaos Re-Release
Leeched – To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse
A Life Divided – Echoes
Lordi – Killection
Nechochwen/Panopticon – Split
Obsidian Tongue – III
Paul Di'Anno – Hell Over Waltrop – Live Germany
Savage Hands – The Truth in Your Eyes
Serenity – The Last Knight
Theory of a Deadman – Say Nothing
February 7:
Delain – Apocalypse & Chill
Envy – The Fallen Crimson
Green Day – Father of All…
Loathe – I Let It In and It Took Everything
Sepultura – Quadra
Sylosis – Cycle of Suffering
Stone Temple Pilots – Perdida
Svart Crown – Wolves Among The Ashes
Montanee – Breakless
February 14:
Anvil – Legal at Last
Hollywood Undead – New Empire, Vol. 1
Kvelertak – Slip
Suicide Silence – Become the Hunter
Ihsahn – Telemark
February 21:
The Amity Affliction – Everyone Loves You…Once You Leave Them
Biff Byford – School of Hard Knocks
Deliverance – Holocaust 26: 1-46
Demons & Wizards – III
Discharge – Protest And Survive: The Anthology
Don Jamieson – Denim And Laughter
Framing Hanley – Envy
Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man
Polaris – The Death Of Me
Raspberry Bulbs – Before the Age of Mirrors
Sightless Pit – Grave Of A Dog
Silverthorne – Tear The Sky Wide Open EP
Vinnie Moore – Soul Shifter
The Word Alive – Monomania
Wrekmeister Harmonies – We Love To Look At The Carnage
February 28:
Audrey Horne – Waiting for the Night
Beneath The Massacre – Fearmonger
Dark Fortress – Specters From the Old World
Five Finger Death Punch – F8
Four Year Strong – Brain Pain
Insect Ark – The Vanishing
Intronaut – Fluid Existential Inversions
John Dolmayan – These Gray Men
Mondo Generator – Shooters Bible
Neaera – Neaera
The Night Flight Orchestra – Aeromantic
Nils Patrik Johansson – The Great Conspiracy
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber – Ascension
Shakra – Mad World
Thor – Rising!
Today Is The Day – No Good To Anyone
Tombs – Monarchy of Shadows EP
Toundra – Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
Wishbone Ash – Coat of Arms
March 6:
Allen/Olzon – Worlds Apart
Avenged Sevenfold – Live In The LBC Re-Release
Blue Oyster Cult – 40th Anniversary: Agents Of Fortune – Live 2016 DVD/CD
Body Count – Carnivore
Burning Witches – Dance With the Devil
Crematory – Unbroken
Earth Rot – Black Tides of Obscurity
Elyne – Art of Being Human
Harem Scarem – Change The World
The Jacks – Remember You EP
My Dying Bride – The Ghost Of Orion
The Neal Morse Band – The Great Adventour: Live in BRNO 2019
The New Regime – Heart Mind Body & Soul
Novena – Eleventh Hour
Rose Tattoo – Outlaws
Ross The Boss – Born Of Fire
Trauma – Ominous Black
Vredehammer – Viperous
Wvrm – Colony Collapse
March 13:
Code Orange – Underneath
Conny Bloom – Game! Set! Bloom!
Crimson Shadows – The Resurrection EP
Devin Townsend Project – By a Thread: Live in London 2011 Vinyl Box Set
Gotthard – #13
Human Impact – Human Impact
Huntsmen – Mandala Of Fear
Jonathan Hulten – Chants From Another Place
Lychgate – Also Sprach Futura
Puta Volcano – Amma
Sicarius – God Of Dead Roots
Stitched Up Heart – Darkness
Tomorrow Is Lost – Therapy
The Unity – Pride
March 20:
Art Of Shock – Dark Angeles
Def Leppard – The Early Years 79-81 Box Set
Dio – The Studio Album Collection: 1996-2004
Eye Flys – Tub Of Lard
Fool’s Ghost – Dark Woven Light
Heaven Shall Burn – Of Truth And Sacrifice
Helen Money – Atomic
Hyborian – Volume II
Lucifer – Lucifer III
Master Boot Record – Floppy Disk Overdrive
Medico Peste – The Black Bile
Mord'A'Stigmata – Songs For The Exiles (Live At Roadburn 2019)
Myrkur – Folkesange
Ravenscroft – See Through
White Stones – Kuarahy
March 27:
Demonic Death Judge – The Trail
Igorrr – Spirituality and Distortion
In This Moment – Mother
Irist – Order of the Mind
Me and That Man – New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.1
Parkway Drive – Viva The Underdogs
Pearl Jam – Gigaton
Xile – I Am Your God
Candlemass – The Pendulum
April 3:
Testament – Titans of Creation
August Burns Red – Guardians
CABAL – Drag Me Down
Red – Declaration
Dynazty – The Dark Delight
Ad Infinitum – Chapter I – Monarchy
April 10:
Ayreon – Electric Castle Live And Other Tales DVD/CD
Azusa – Loop Of Yesterdays
Benighted – Obscene Repressed
Calligram – The Eye Is The First Circle
Eat The Day – The Demos
Gaytheist – How Long Have I Been On Fire?
Joe Satriani – Shapeshifting
Kingsmen – Revenge, Forgiveness, Recovery
Kool Keith and Thetan – Space Gortex
Metal Church – From The Vault
Nightwish – Human. :II: Nature.
Sparta – Trust The River
The Strokes – The New Abnormal
Witch Taint – Sons Of Midwestern Darkness
Wolfheart – Wolves Of Karelia
April 24:
Trivium – What the Dead Men Say
Katatonia – City Burials
Warbringer – Weapons of Tomorrow
Metallica – Live In Brazil (1993 – 2017)
May 1:
Aether Realm – Redneck Vikings From Hell
An Autumn For Crippled Children – All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet
Havok – V
King Diamond – Conspiracy Re-Release
King Diamond – Them Re-Release
One Step From Falling – Stuck On The Wayside
River Cult – Chilling Effect
Umbra Vitae – Shadow Of Life
Vader – Solitude In Madness
Witchcraft – Black Metal
Witches Hammer – Damnation Is My Salvation
May 8:
…and Oceans – Cosmic World Mother
Axel Rudi Pell – Sign Of The Times
BlackLab – Abyss
Brant Bjork – Brant Bjork
Cryptex – Once Upon A Time
Destruction – Born To Thrash – Live In Germany
Fake Names – Fake Names
Forgotten Tomb – Nihilistic Estrangement
Green Carnation – Leaves Of Yesteryear
Hayley Williams – Petals For Armor
Killswitch Engage – Atonement II B-Sides For Charity EP
Naglfar – Cerecloth
Sojourner – Premonitions
Winterfylleth – The Reckoning Dawn
May 15:
Asking Alexandria – Like A House On Fire
Paradise Lost – Obsidian
Horisont – Sudden Death
Firewind – Firewind
May 22:
Coligula's Horse – Rise Radiant
May 29 :
Alestorm – Curse of the Crystal Coconut
Bleed From Within – Fracture
Grave Digger – Fields of Blood
Rush – Permanent Waves (40th Anniversary)
Sorcerer – Lamenting of the Innocent
Vandenber – 2020
The Wise Man's Fear – Valley of Kings
Behemoth – A Forest
Blacktop Mojo – Static
Palaye Royale – The Bastards
June 5th :
The Ghost Inside – The Ghost Inside
Currents – The Way It Ends
END – Splinters from an Ever-Changing Face
Exhumed/Gruesome – Twisted Horror Split
The Sword – Conquest Of Kingdoms
Dope Smoker – Zeroin
June 12:
Aversions Crown – Hell Will Come For Us All
Behold The Arctopus – Hapeleptic Overtrov
BPMD – American Made
Electric Mob – Discharge
Living Gate – Deathlust EP
Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall – We Are The Night
Michael Angelo Batio – More Machine Than Man
Shape Of Water – Great Illusions
June 19:
Atavist – III: Absolution
Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways
Cro-Mags – In The Beginning
Lamb Of God – Lamb Of God
Mushroomhead – A Wonderful Life
Vile Creature – Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!
Make Them Suffer – How To Survive A Funeral
June 26:
Descend – The Deviant
Emmure – Hindsight
Falconer – From a Dying Ember
Gray Daze – Amends
Hornwood Fell – Cursed Thoughts
Ice Nine Kills – Undead & Unplugged: Live From the Overlook Hotel
Pessimist – Houldout
Ravenlight – Project Genesis
Skyfall – Sleeping Forest
July 3rd:
Bury Tomorrow – Cannibal
July 10:
Bloody Heels – Ignite the Sky
Carnal Agony – Back from the Grave
Dawn of Ashes – The Antinomian
Ensiferum – Thalassic
Enuff Z'Nuff – Brainwashed Generation
Inter Arma – Garbers Days Revisited
Kiko Loureiro – Open Source
Mike Shinoda – Dropped Frames Vol 1
Sharptooth – Transitional Forms
Static-X – Project Regeneration Vol 1
Tokyo Motor Fist – Lions
July 17:
Bush – The Kingdom
If I Were You – Radiant Dark
Prenteders – Hate For Sale
Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today
U.DO – We Are One
Johnny Monster – Shelter Under Construction
July 24:
Gaerea – Limbo
The Acacia Strain – Slow Decay
Gaerea – Limbo
Haken – Virus
Judicator – Let There Be Nothing
Madre Sun – The Speed of Light
Morse, Portnoy, George – Cover to Cover
Morse, Portnoy, George – Cover 2 Cover
Morse, Portnoy, George – Cov3r to Cov3r
Primal Fear – Metal Commando
July 31:
Alcatrazz – Born Innocent
Alain Johannes – Hum
Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville
August 7:
Avatar – Hunter Gatherer
Black Crown Initiate – Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape
Deep Purple – Whoosh!
In Hearts Wake – Kaliyuga
Onslaught – Generation Antichrist
Orbit Culture – Nija
Sanity Control – War On Life
Year of the Knife – Internal Incarceration
August 12:
Within Destruction – Yokai
August 14:
Biffy Clyro – A Celebration Of Endings
Halestorm – Reimagined
King Buzzo – Gift Of Sacrifice (Ipecac)
August 28 :
Metallica – S&M2
Pit Passarell – Pratividade Nada
Seether – Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
The Casanovas – Reptilian Overlord
Nonexist – Like the Fearless Hunter
Veritas – Threads of Fatality
Powerman 5000 – The Noble Rot
In Flames – Clayman (20th Anniversary Edition)
Pain of Salvation – PANTHER
John Petrucci – Terminal Velocity
Necrot – Mortal
Noija – Through Fire All Things Are Renewed
Pig Destroyer – The Octagonal Stairway
September 11:
Epica – The Quantum Enigma (B-Sides)
Dead Quiet – Truth and Ruin
Demolizer – Thrashmageddon
Marilyn Manson – WE ARE CHAOS
Mastodon – Medium Rarities
Uniform – Shame
September 18:
Ace Frehley – Origins Vol.2
Fires In The Distance – Echoes From Deep November
Fit For A King – The Path
Finntroll – Vredesvävd
Future Palace – Escape
Heathen – Empire of the Blind
Napalm Death – Throes Of Joey In The Jaws Of Defeatism
Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard of Ozz (40th Anniversary Expanded Edition)
September 25:
Alpha Wolf – A Quiet Place to Die
Deftones – Ohms
Four Stroke Baron – Monoqueen
Katalysm – Unconquered
October 2nd:
Amaranthe – Manifest
Bon Jovi – 2020
Enslaved – Utgard
Corey Taylor – CMFT
Roger Waters – Us + Them
Robert Plant – Digging Deep
October 9:
Ascension Of The Watchers – Apocrypha
Black Circle – Mercury
Crippled Black Phoenix – Ellengæst
Gargoyl – Gargoyl
Greg Puciato – Child Soldier: Creator Of God
Hellripper – The Affair of the Poisons
Five Finger Death Punch – A Decade of Destruction Vol.2
Johansson & Speckmann – The Germs of Circumstance
John Lennon – GIMME SOME TRUTH.
Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory (20th Anniversary Edition)
Smith & Myers – Volume 1
Venom Prison – Primeval
Twiztid – Songs of Samhain
October 16 :
Arkan – Lila H
Benediction – Scriptures
Bite Down – Trial // Error
Furies – Fortune's Gate
Memoremains – The Cost Of Greatness
Pluralone – I Don't Feel Well
Spirit Adrift – Enlightened In Eternity
The Struts – Strange Days
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown – Pressure
Kingdom Of Giants – Passenger
October 23 :
Armored Saint – Punching the Sky
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – Letter To You
Fuzz – III
John Frusciante – Maya
Saul – Rise as Equals
Sevendust – Blood & Stone
October 30:
Black Stone Cherry – The Human Condition
Bring Me The Horizon – Post Human: Survival Horror
Carcass – Despicable
Emma Ruth Rundle, Thou – May Our Chambers Be Full
Like Months to Flames – No Eternity In Gold
Mors Subita – Extinction Era
Motorhead – Ace of Spades 40th anniversary edition
Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo
Paleface – Chapter 3: The Last Selection
Puscifer – Existential Reckoning
Tom Morello – Commander
Ruff Majik – The Devil's Cattle
War On Women – Wonderful Hell
YES – The Royal Affair Tour (Live in Las Vegas)
November 6:
Alter Bridge – Walk The Sky 2.0
Belphegor – Necrodaemon Terrorsathan
Circus –
Eternal Idol Stream Renaissance
Fates Warning – Long Day Good Night
Garmarna – Förbundet
Lionheart – Live At Summer Breeze
Lords of Black – Alchemy of Souls, Pt.I
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Return To Greendale (Live)
Orianthi – O
Tarja – Christmas Together: Live At Olomouc And Hradec Králové 2019
The Casket Lottery – Short Songs For End Times
November 13:
AC/DC – POWER UP
Accuser – Accuser
Blood From The Soul – DSM-5
Boundaries – Your Receding Warmth
GHØSTKID – GHØSTKID
Harlott – Detritus Of The Final Age
Intervals – Circadian
Katatonia – Dead Air
Keith Richards – Live at the Hollywood Palladium
Macabre – Carnival Of Killers
Of Feather & Bone – Sulfuric Disintegration
Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons – We're The Bastards
Post Truth – Reponses To Trauma
Puteraeon – The Cthulhian Pulse: Call From The Dead City
Warfect – Specter Of Devastation
World Be Free – One Time For Unity
November 20:
Black Pantera – Chapter Negro
Dark Tranquility – Moment
Ellefson – No Cover
Fuck The Facts – Pleine Noirceur
Inglorious – She Wont Let You Go
Iron Maiden – Nights of the Dead, Legacy of the Beast
Jinjer – Alive in Melborune
Killer Be Killed – Reluctant Hero
My Dying Bride – Macabre Cabaret
Omnivortex – Diagrams of Consciousness
Refused – The Malignant Fire
SOLE SYNDICATE – Last Days of Eden
SuidAkrA – Lupine Essence
Thrown into Exile – Illusion of Control
Tombs – Under Sullen Skies
Toxaemia – Where Paths Divide
Within Temptation – The Purge
November 27:
156/Silence – Irrational Pull (Deluxe Edition)
Billie Joe Armstrong – No Fun Mondays
Cadaver – Edder & Bile
Dream Theater – Distant Memories: Live in London
Eleine – Dancing in Hell
Hatebreed – Weight Of The False Self
Jaded Heart – Stand Your Ground
Lethal Injektion – Resurgence
Loudblast – Manifesto
Mongrel’s Cross – Arcana, Scrying and Revelation
Miley Cyrus – Plastic Hearts
Ocean Hills – Santa Monica
Our Oceans – While Time Disappears
Plini – Impulse Voices
Scour – Black
Sodom – Genesis XIX
The Smashing Pumpkins – CYR
Tungsten – Tundra
Vovoid – Lost Machine: Live
Volbeat – Rewind, Replay, Rebound: Live in Deutschland
Votum – Duhkha
Within The Ruins – Black Heart
December 4th:
Can't Swim – Someone Who Isn't Me
Cryptodira – The Angel Of History
Deafheaven – 10 Years Gone
Defamed – Aeon
Iron Savior – Skycrest
Gama Bomb – Sea Savage
Genus Ordinis Dei – Glare of Deliverance
Gone Is Gone – If Everything Happens For A Reason…Then Nothing Really Matters At All
Hollywood Undead – New Empire, Vol.2
Majestica – A Christimas Carol
Paradise Lost – Draconian Times (25th Anniversary Edition – Remastered)
Rave The Reqviem – Stigma Itch
Serpents Oath – Nihil
Soilwork – A Whisp Of The Atlantic
December 11:
Blind Guardian – Imaginations From The Other Side (25th Anniversary/Live Edition)
Bury Me Alive – Beyond Exceptions
Chris Cornell – No One Sings Like You Anymore
Daniel Tompkins – Ruins
Deftones – White Pony (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Folterkammer – Die Lederpredigt
Oceania – Dark Matter
Six Foot Six – The End Of All
Yashira – Fail To Be
December 18:
Bring Me The Horizon – Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Iced Earth – Iced Earth (30th Anniversary Edition)
Johnny Monster – Winter Solstice Reloaded
Paul McCartney – McCartney III
December 23rd:
BABYMETAL – 10 BABYMETAL Years
December 25th:
Papa Roach – 20/20