Browse 240 Hard Rock albums from the 2010s in the METAL BOOST catalog, with artist pages, track lists, Spotify players and English liner notes.
Nucleus, released worldwide on 29 March 2019, gathers Anthem songs re-recorded with English lyrics throughout. It followed the band becoming the first Japanese act signed to the German label Nuclear Blast, and it is the record with which they began addressing an audience outside Japan.
The album by BAND-MAIKO, the alter-ego project that swaps the maid conceit for a maiko one: seven songs layering Kyoto dialect and Japanese-instrument colour over the band’s usual hard rock.
A two-song single issued the same day as "glory", pairing the title track with "Smile".
A full-length that expands BAND-MAID’s expressive range, balancing wider melodies with hard-driving performances.
A two-song single issued the same day as "Bubble", pairing the title track with "hide-and-seek".
Warpaint puts Buckcherry’s blues-stained hard-rock weight and Josh Todd’s exposed vocal delivery at the front.
Face the Music gathers Burning Rain’s bluesy pull, classic hard-rock riff weight and melodic vocal focus into a balanced, mature statement.
The second album with Ronnie Romero singing. Alongside further early Gotthard songs it carries two new ones, "Queen of Hearts" and "Don't Get Me Wrong", and a cover of John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom". AFM Records released it worldwide on 27 September 2019.
Paradigm is Eclipse at its most sharply focused: a melodic hard-rock record built from thick riffs, urgent rhythms and choruses that arrive quickly and decisively.
Life brings Hardline’s polished melodic-hard-rock craft into songs that carry both brightness and melancholy.
The twelfth L.A. Guns studio album and the second after the reunion, released by Frontiers Music in 2019. King Records' Metal Frontier imprint issued the Japanese edition on 13 March as KICP-1974 with a Japan-only bonus track.
The first album for Silver Lining Music: twelve songs including "Last Train to Tokyo", released worldwide and in Japan on 18 October 2019.
Behold Electric Guitar finds Paul Gilbert treating extraordinary technique as part of the music rather than the point of it.
A sixteenth studio album that turned out to be the last before Ronnie Atkins' illness was made public.
Hollywood Cowboys brings Quiet Riot’s positive, hook-driven hard-rock instinct into a present-day band setting.
Space Between is the first studio album by Sammy Hagar & The Circle, joining hard-rock drive and blues warmth to songs that take stock of life.
The first SINNER album with a permanent second voice, Giorgia Colleluori, alongside Mat Sinner. Ricky Warwick and Ronnie Romero guest on it, and Dennis Ward co-produced and mixed.
Heavy Metal Rules puts Steel Panther’s love of eighties glam metal, excessive humor and surprisingly solid musicianship directly out front.
Shock keeps Tesla’s bluesy hard-rock framework while adding a more compact, contemporary push.
The Darkness's sixth album, released in October 2019: their first concept album, a parable of the slow death and glorious rebirth of rock and roll.
Renaissance Men is The Wildhearts’ studio return after a long gap, packing punk impulse, power-pop melody and heavy guitar into compact, high-density songs.
The twelfth studio album, released by Mighty Music on 22 November 2019. Eleven songs running from "Worlds Apart" to "Sail On".
Flesh & Blood presents Whitesnake’s blues-rooted hard-rock language with a modern, tightly focused sound.
Monster Hero delivers Axxis’ long-running melodic hard-rock pleasure with direct energy.
An early release that documents the origin of BAND-MAID’s maid concept and rock-band direction.
A two-song single: the title track, written as an anime theme, backed with "Screaming".
A decisive hard-rock statement whose title mirrors BAND-MAID’s ambition to reach audiences beyond Japan.
Despite its title, Grimmest Hits is not a compilation but Black Label Society’s tenth studio record, packed with the band’s heaviest strengths.
Reach for the Sky turns Blindman’s live-bred unity as a newer lineup into a precise tenth studio album.
The debut album by CoreLeoni, the band Gotthard guitarist Leo Leoni started in 2017. It re-records early Gotthard songs the parent band had stopped playing, with Rainbow's Ronnie Romero singing. The international edition arrived on 23 February 2018; Ward Records had put the Japanese edition out nine days earlier, on 14 February.
Ghost's fourth studio album, from June 2018, built on the Black Death and the Middle Ages; it entered the Billboard 200 at number three.
Greta Van Fleet's debut album, released on 19 October 2018: ten songs written by all four members, produced by Marlon Young, Al Sutton and Herschel Boone and recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville and Rustbelt Studios in Michigan. It entered the Billboard 200 at No. 3. The Japanese edition (UICU-1298) adds the four songs of the Black Smoke Rising EP.
You Can’t Kill My Rock ’n Roll makes Hardcore Superstar’s streetwise hard rock sound even tougher.
The sixteenth album, a trio record with Chad Smith and Glenn Hughes, released on 12 January 2018.
The sixth album, their first German top ten at number 7, and the year they were named Best German Band at the Metal Hammer Awards. Avalon issued the Japanese edition as MICP-11427 with one bonus track.
Rise to Glory -8118- is the twenty-seventh Loudness album, released simultaneously worldwide on 26 January 2018 — through Ward Records in Japan and earMUSIC in the US and Europe. It was their first American release since On the Prowl in 1991.
Second Coming connects Pretty Maids singer Ronnie Atkins’ powerful voice with Eclipse frontman Erik Mårtensson’s modern writing and production instincts.
The eleventh Praying Mantis studio album. King Records released the Japanese edition on 9 May 2018, two days before Frontiers issued it elsewhere on the 11th; the Japanese CD adds an alternate mix of "The Last Summer" for twelve tracks.
Attention Attention shapes Shinedown’s heavy rock into a concept record about moving from self-destruction and isolation toward recovery.
Living the Dream deepens Slash’s bond with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators through open, riff-led hard rock.
A studio album released in 2018.
The second album by The Struts of Derby, from October 2018: 1970s glam rock made with today's production.
XIII introduces TNT with new vocalist Baol Bardot Bulsara and shows the outline of a fresh lineup around Ronni Le Tekrø’s distinctive guitar.
Tunguska turns the scale suggested by the 1908 Tunguska event into Treat’s own high-energy melodic hard rock.
Earthrage joins the identities of Jeff Scott Soto, Erik Mårtensson and Robert Säll in a heavier, more polished third W.E.T.
Unlimited Diffusion expands Aldious’ ornate twin guitars, speed and clear vocal character into a more colorful melodic-metal setting.
Engraved is Anthem's sixteenth studio album, released on 21 June 2017. It is the second record made by the line-up that brought back Yukio Morikawa and added Isamu Tamaru, and it followed the thirtieth-anniversary tour that marked three decades since their 1985 debut.
Retrolution presents Axxis’ positive melodic hard rock in an especially colorful production.
A double A-side single pairing "Daydreaming" and "Choose me" with "Play"; both title songs received official music videos.
A key album that clarifies BAND-MAID’s hard-rock direction while connecting musicianship with catchy songwriting.
Infinite finds Deep Purple drawing on blues, hard rock and improvisational chemistry with both calmness and fire.
A five-track mini-album that compresses Fuki’s commanding vocals and the Gacharic Spin players’ virtuosity into a heavier, sharper modern loud-rock attack.
Monumentum packs Eclipse’s modern hard-rock precision and melodic-rock-sized hooks into a very concentrated form.
Walk the Earth crystallizes the mix Europe have developed since their reunion: the weight of seventies hard rock and a distinctly Scandinavian sense of melody.
Silver carries Gotthard’s warm melody, blues-tinted guitar and approachable hard-rock instinct with calm confidence.
Great White's thirteenth studio album, released on 2 June 2017, reunited the band with Michael Wagener, producer of its first EP and debut album.
Greta Van Fleet's eight-song double EP of 10 November 2017: the four songs of that April's debut EP, Black Smoke Rising, joined by four new recordings, namely the originals "Edge of Darkness" and "Talk on the Street" and covers of Sam Cooke and Fairport Convention. It won Best Rock Album at the 61st Grammy Awards, and its first Japanese edition, an SHM-CD, came out in August 2024.
Into the Great Unknown expands H.E.A.T’s big-chorus melodic rock through a broader soundstage and modern production detail.
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Retribution places Jeff Scott Soto’s soulful vocal power in a heavier, more modern rock setting.