Releases 2020

By popular demand, we’ve put together an on-going list of release dates for upcoming new albums of interest for 2020! The below list is accurate at the time of writing and in a constant state of change as release dates get changed!

January 20

1st – Forsaker – “My Spot In The Void”*
7th – Dyscordia – “Delete/Rewrite”
10th – Snorlax – “II”*
10th – Imminence – “Turn The Light On: Acoustic Re-imagination”
10th – Grieve – “The Product Of Self Hatred” EP*
10th – Pressure Cracks – “This Is Called Survival” EP*
13th – Earthshatter – “1135” EP*
16th – Putrascension – “The Obsidian Fog” EP*
17th – Mark Morton (Lamb Of God guitarist) – “Ether” (Acoustic EP)
17th – Antagonist A.D. – “Through Fire”*
17th – Bleed The Sky – “This Way Lies Madness”
17th – Garganjua – “Toward The Sun”
17th – L’Homme Absurde – “Belong”*
17th – Sleepwraith – “Day Terrors”*
17th – Frogg – “A Reptilian Dystopia” EP*
18th – Nephylim – “Severance Of Serenity”*
21st – Sorroweaver – “Mausoleum Mind” EP
22nd – Sometimes We Make Music – “Trail Of The Fallen”*
24th – Higher Power – “27 Miles Underwater”
24th – Novelists – “C’est La Vie”*
24th – Annihilator – “Ballistic Sadistic”*
24th – Dead End Finland – “Inter Vivos”*
24th – DOOMRAISER – “The Dark Side of Old Europa”
24th – Hazzerd – “Delirium”*
24th – Atena – “Drowning Regret & Lungs Filled With Water”*
24th – Silent Planet – “The Night God Slept Redux” (re-recorded debut album)
30th – Sonus Mortis –  “Hold This Mortal Coil”*
31st – Bodysnatcher – “This Heavy Void”*
31st – Leeched – “To Dull The Blades Of Your Abuse”*
31st – Lorna Shore – “Immortal”*
31st – At First – Deadline

February 20

1st – Stitched – “Beneath The Surface”*
3rd – Arbrynth – “A Place of Buried Light”
7th – Sepultura – “Quadra”*
7th – Orthodox – “Let It Take It’s Course”*
7th – Typecaste – “Between Life” EP*
7th – Loathe – “I Let It In And It Took Everything”*
7th – Sylosis – “Cycle Of Suffering”*
7th – Soul Dragger – self titled*
10th – Manalyth – Blood Moon EP*
14th – Great American Ghost – “Power Through Terror”*
14th – Suicide Silence – “Become The Hunter”*
14th – Choice To Make – “Vicious Existence”*
14th – Remission – “The Tether’s End”
14th – Dealer – “Saint” EP*
15th – Dead Again – “Humanity’s Collapse”
20th – Reflections – “Willow”*
20th – Plead – “Expired Blood” EP
21st – Polaris – “The Death Of Me”*
21st – Ruina – “Nemesis”*
21st – Spankraght – “Thou Shalt Drown In The Blood Of Thy Children”*
21st – Funeral Cult – “Possession Done” EP*
28th – Intronaut – “Fluid Existential Inversions”
28th – Chronicles Of Hate – “The Birth Of Hate”*
28th – Red Method – “For The Sick”*
28th – Blåådpalt – “Sliced To Perfection”*
28th – Infirmum – “Walls Of Sorrow“
28th – The Contradiction – “Legion: The Fall”*

March 20

3rd – Ghost Toast – “Shape Without Form”*
6th – Earth Groans – “Prettiest Of Things” EP*
6th – Falcifer – “Pain” EP*
6th – Viscera – “Obsidian”*
6th – Wolfpack – “A.D.”
6th – Body Count – “Carnivore”
6th – Earth Caller – “Crooked”*
13th – Benevolent Like Quietus – “Kill The Bliss”*
13th – Stitched Up Heart – “Darkness”
13th – Code Orange – “Underneath”
13th – Invent, Animate – “Greyview”
20th – Raider – “Guardian of The Fire”*
20th – Heaven Shall Burn – “Of Truth Of Sacrifice”*
20th – Dripback – “Blessed With Less Than Nothing” EP*
20th – Horned – “Eminence”
27th – Imonolith – “State Of Being”*
27th – Twitch Of The Death Nerve – A Resting Place For The Wrathful*
27th – After The Abduction – “Cracked And Bled”
27th – We Struck Gold – “All Life Is Divine” EP
27th – Demonic Death Judge – “The Trail”
28th – Dakesis – “Fractures”*

April 20

3rd – Endless Forms Most Gruesome – “Self Titled”
3rd – August Burns Red – “Guardians”*
3rd – Beggar – “Compelled To Repeat”
3rd – Devilskin – “Red”
3rd – Testament – “Titans Of Creation”
3rd – Joviac – “Here And Now”*
3rd – Suffer – “Heavy Silence” EP*
3rd – Breakdowns At Tiffany’s – “Eternal Lords”*
3rd – Methwitch – “Indwell”
7th – LEBENSSUCHT – “-273,15°C”
7th – Mass Murder – “Extreme Extinction”*
9th – Ajna – Rengeteg
10th – Symbolik – “Emergence”
10th – AZUSA – Loop Of Yesterdays*
10th – HellgardeN – “Making Noise, Living Fast”*
10th – Benighted – “Obscene Repressed”
10th – Calligram – “The Eye Is The First Circle”
10th – Rotting Out – “Ronin”
17th – Divitius – “Primordial”*
17th – Suffer No Fools – “We Die As We Live”*
17th – The Black Dahlia Murder – “Verminous”*
17th – Ulveblod – “Omnia Mors Aequat”
17th – Argesk – “Realm Of Eternal Night”
24th – Babylonfall – “Collapse”
24th – Malevolence -“The Other Side” EP*
24th – Trivium – “What The Dead Men Say”*
24th – Lion’s Law – “The Pain the Blood and the Sword”
24th – On Sight – “Cause Of Pain”*
24th – The Stygian Complex – “Tartarus”*

May 20

1st – Havok – “V”*
1st – Desert Storm – “Omens”
1st – GroundCulture – “How Well Do You Really Know Yourself?”*
1st – Shatter Brain – “Pitchfork Justice”*
8th – NAGLFAR – “Cerecloth”*
8th – TerraDown – “Judgement”*
8th – Omniarch – “Self Titled”*
13th – Averted – “Silenced” EP*
15th – Sertraline – “Clouded Minds & Silver Lines”*
15th – Throwing Bricks – “What Will Be Lost”
15th – Voices Of Ruin – “Path To Immortality”*
15th – Sinisthra – “The Broad and Beaten Way”
15th – Gravebirth – “Decrepid” EP
15th – Derange – “Senses Part Two” EP*
18th – Maps & Foils – “Les Anathèmes” EP
22th – Cope – “The Shock Doctrine”*
22nd – Vesicarum – “Reign Of Terror”*
22nd – Deathing – “All Hail The Decay”*
22nd – TreaTmenT – “Sagacity”*
22nd – Dweller – “White Rabbit” EP*
22nd – If Hope Dies – “Amongst The Catacombs Of Auburn, NY (1998-2001)” and “Siege Equipment For Spiritual Decline” (deluxe)
25th – Misanthropic Rituals – “A Path Through Absent Places”
29th – Deified – “Anthrobscene”*
29th – Bleed From Within – “Fracture”*
29th – Xibalba – “Años En Infierno”
29th – Dayatlove – “Self Titled” EP*
29th – Held In Secret – “Nomads” EP*
29th – Habitual Gloom – “The Chronic Plague” EP

June 20

5th – END. – “Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face”
5th – Re-Armed – “Ignis Aeternum”
5th – Currents – “The Way It Ends”
5th – The Ghost Inside – “Self Titled”*
5th – From Once We Came – “Origami”*
5th – Junkowl – “Making Out With My Death”*
6th – Darko – “Dethmask”12th – Aversions Crown – “Hell Will Come For Us All”
12th – Justice For The Damned – “Pain Is Power”*
12th – Nemesium – “Continua”*
12th – Lightworker – “Fury By Failure”
18th – The Alpha Structure – “7 Deadly Sins”*
18th – Protest The Hero – “Palimpsest”
19th – Make Them Suffer – “How To Survive A Funeral”
19th – Cro-Mags – “In The Beginning”
19th – Mushroomhead – “A Wonderful Life”*
19th – Lamb Of God – Self Titled*
19th – Vampire – “Rex”
19th – Hollow Front – “Loose Threads”
22nd – Enslavery – “Placitis Infectas”
26th – Thirty Nights Of Violence – “You’ll See Me Up There” EP*
26th – Emmure – “Hindsight”*
26th – Draemora – “Awakening” EP*

July 20

3rd – Bury Tomorrow – “Cannibal”*
3rd – Limos – “Tales of the White Eye” EP*
3rd – Dead Tree Seeds – “Push The Button”*
8th – Crystal Lake – “Watch Me Burn”*
10th – Static-X – “Project Regeneration”*
10th – Sharptooth – “Transitional Form”
10th – Inter Arma – “Garbers Days Revisited”
10th – The Outliers – “Dissipating Eternity”*
12th – Mace – “Paranoia” EP*
17th – Worship – “Tunnels”*
17th – Black Coast – “The Isolation Tapes”
17th – On Hollow Ground – “Blood Is Blood“*
24th – Let Us Prey – “Virtues Of The Vicious”
24th – Denominate – “Isochron”*
24th – The Acacia Strain – “Slow Decay”*
24th – Buried Realm – “Embodiment of The Divine”*
24th – Morphiend – “Fiend”*
24th – From The Ruins – “Into Chaos”*
31st – Northlane – “Alien” (Deluxe)
31st – Decayer – “Shades Of Grief” EP*
31st – Upon A Burning Body – “Built From War” EP*
31st – Resin Tomb – Self Titled EP*
31st – Winter Nights – Self Titled*

August 20

1st – Creak – “Bitter Picture” EP*
6th – Crystal Lake – “Voyages”
7th – Misery Signals – “Ultraviolet”
7th – Black Crown Initiate – “Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape”*
7th – In Hearts Wake – “Kaliyuga”*
7th – Year of the Knife – “Internal Incarceration”
7th – Curses – “Chapter II: Bloom”
7th – DVSR – “West Technique”
12th – Within Destruction – “Yokai”*
14th – This Is Endless – “Formation of a World Below”*
14th – Ingested – “Where Only Gods May Tread”
14th – Primitive Man – “Immersion”
14th – Dreameater – “Bleed” EP*
19th – Carcosa – “Absent” EP
20th – Funeral For Two – “Self Titled” EP*
21st – Kill The Lights – “The Sinner”
21st – (hed)p.e. – “Class of 2020“*
21st – Homicide – “Left For Dead”*
28th – Powerman 5000 – “The Noble Rot”
28th – Pig Destroyer – “The Octagonal Stairway”
28th – Diamond Construct – “DCX2”
28th – Psychoïd – “Thrash Test”*
28th – Hymn – “Breach Us”*
28th – Narcissistic Necrosis – “The Art of Deformity”
29th – Anticline – “Urgency”*
30th – The Pine Drape – “Demon” EP

September 20

2nd – Non Serviam – “Le Cœur Bat”
4th – Oceans of Slumber – Self titled*
4th – En Minor – “When The Cold Truth Has Worn Its Miserable Welcome Out”
4th – Across The Swarm – “Projections”*
4th – Desolator – “Sermon of Apathy”*
4th – Serpent Omega – “II”*
4th – Prospects – “Recalling” EP
4th – Marked;Life – “You’ll Be Gone Forever” EP
4th – Grimelord – “Vile Ones”
11th – Skeletal Remains – “The Entombment Of Chaos”*
11th – Soulwound – “The Suffering”*
11th – Inhibitor – “Abhorrence” EP
11th – Demolizer – “Thrashmageddon“*
12th – Liquid Therapy – “Breathe”
15th – Khors – “Where the Word Acquires”
18th – Dematerialize – “Omniscience”
18th – Fit For A King – “The Path”
18th – Hiidenhauta – “Riivin”
18th – Thorn – “The Encompassing Nothing” EP*
18th – Sadistic Embodiment – “Blood Spell”*
18th – Fallbrawl – “Cold World” EP*
18th – Cross Bringer – “The Sign of Spiritual Delusion”*
18th – Kodama – “Left Hand Path” EP
18th – Hark From The Tomb – “Let Them Die”
19th – Thrasherwolf – “We Are Revolution”*
22nd – Sorrows Path – “Touching Infinity”
25th – Cristian Machado (ex-Ill Nino) – “Hollywood y Sycamore”
25th – H2Ocean – “The Horned Goddess”
25th – Alpha Wolf – “A Quiet Place To Die”*
25th – Nasty – “Menace”*
25th – Sangheilis – “Sangheilis” EP*
25th – Repentance – “God For A Day”
25th – Deftones – “Ohms”
25th – Scordatura – “Mass Failure”*
25th – Chaoseum – “Second Life”

October 20

1st – Agony Atlas – “Retrogression Part I: Egomania” EP*
2nd – Inventure – “No Time To Waste”
2nd – Skyless Aeons – “Drain The Sun”*
2nd – Eighteen Visions – “Inferno” EP*2nd – Devildriver – “Dealing With Demons”*
9th – Ascension Of The Watchers –  “Apocrypha” (Burton C Bell of Fear Factory)
9th – Necrophobic  – “Dawn Of The Damned“*
9th – Zao – “Preface: Early Recordings 1995-1996″
9th – Every Hour Kills – “Reawaken”*
9th – Oria – Sublimation(s)*
9th – Inferi – “Of Sunless Realms”
9th – Venom Prison – “Primeval”
9th – Infiltration – “Point Blank Termination”*
10th – Foul Body Autopsy – “Consumed by Black Thoughts”*
16th – Kingdom of Giants – “Passenger”
16th – Netherblade – “Reborn”*
16th – The Myopia Condition -“Event Horizon”*
16th – Matriarchs – “Year of the Rat”*
16th – Åskog – “Varg” EP*
23rd – Chamber – “Cost of Sacrifice”
23rd – Thanatopsis – “Initiation”*
23rd – Distant – “Dawn of Corruption” EP*
23rd – Raging Speedhorn – “Hard To Kill”*
23rd – Earth Groans – “Wasted” EP
23rd – Slow Fall – “Beneath The Endless Rains”*
30th – Palm Reader – “Sleepless”
30th – Mr Bungle – “The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny”
30th – Carcass – “Despicable” EP
30th – Rising Angel – “Self Titled”*
30th – Paleface – “Chapter 3: The Last Selection”
30th – Curimus – “Garden Of Eden”*
30th – Ba’al – “Ellipsism”
30th – Icare – “Kaos”
30th – Nuclear Power Trio – “A Clear and Present Rager” EP*
30th – Ice Nine Kills – “I Heard The Kill Live”
30th – Possessor – “Damn The Light”
30th – Windchimes – “Enervation” EP*
30th – I AM HORUS – “Devil Inside”

November 20

1st – Hell:on – “Scythian Stamm”*
1st – Skywalker – “Late Eternity”
2nd – Malfested  “Shallow Graves” EP
4th – Countless Skies – “Glow”
6th – Pulse – “Adjusting The Space”
6th – Lionheart – “Live At Summer Breeze”
6th –  Pulchra Morte – “Ex Rosa Ceremonia”*
6th – Shattered Hope – “Vespers”
6th – Mask of Insanity – “Damnation Is Eternal”
6th – Utilitarian – “Stay Angry” EP*
12th – After Smoke Clears – “Edification”
13th – Boundaries – “Your Receding Warmth”*
13th – UTHULLUN – “Dirges for the Void”
13th – Ysgaroth – “Storm Over a Black Sea”*
13th – In Malice’s Wake – “The Blindness of Faith”*
13th – Intervals – “Circadian”*
13th – King 810 – “AK Concerto No. 47 11th Movement In G Major”*
13th – Warfect – “Spectre Of Devastation”
20th – Empyreal Sorrow –  “Praey”*
20th – Omnivortex – “Diagrams of Consciousness”*
20th – Killer Be Killed – “Reluctant Hero”
20th – Dark Tranquillity – “Moment”*
20th – Jinjer – “Alive in Melbourne”
20th – Kharma – “Most Dangerous Game” EP*
20th – Concede – “Indoctrinate”
20th – Farer – “Monad” EP
20th – Crawling Chaos – “xlix”*
20th – Plaguebreeder – “Annihilation” EP*
27th – Hatebreed – “Weight Of The False Self”*
27th – Moments – “Is There A Cure?”
27th – I Am Pariah – “Charm Before The Storm” EP*
27th – Wreck-Defy – “Powers That Be”
27th – Ursus – “Your GodIs Dead”
27th – BruteAllies – “Ash And Nails”*
27th – Cell Press – “Self Titled” EP *
27th – E.N.D. – “A Grave Deceit E.P.”
27th – The Schytehawkes – “‘Streets of Rage’ EP”
27th – The Merciless Concept – “Sessions of Pain”

December 20

2nd – MOSKOWA – “The Man Of The Three Islands”
2nd – Zebadiah Crowe – “The Cloven Hand” EP*
3rd – Death of a Dryad – “Hameln”
4th – Gama Bomb – “Sea Savage”
4th – Defamed – “Aeon” EP
4th – Idle Ruin – Self Titled EP*
4th – Soilwork – “A Whisp Of The Atlantic” EP
4th – Profanity – “Fragments of Solace”*
4th – Cryptodira – “The Angel of History”
3th – Bare King – “The Suffering” EP*
11th – Demonstealer – “And This Too Shall Pass” EP*
11th – Leo Viridi – “The World Keeps Turning” EP*
11th – Yashira – “Fail To Be”*
11th – Mud Factory – “The Sins of Our Fathers”*
16th – Cancer Bats – “You’ll Never Break Us”
18th – EOS – “The Great Ascension”*
18th – SCUZZ – “Volatile Doom”*
18th – Pillory – Scourge on Humanity
18th – Gutcheck – “You Hate To See It” EP*
23rd – ARHAT – Dead Life*
25th – Worm Shepherd – “In The Wake Ov Sol”

TBC

October Ends – TBC Full Debut Album
Jeffrey “Nothing” Hatrix – The New Psychodalia 2 Album (ex-Mushroom Head, ex-Motograter)
The Haarp Machine – TBC (Album #2)
Wretched Tongues – “The Absence Of Light” (Summer)
Siberian Meat Grinder – “For The Cult”
Broken Down – “Path of Terror”
King Of Swords – “The Wolf You Feed” EP
TBC – Kissing Candice – TBC

*Reviewed by Metal Noise!
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