Hard Rock 2020s Albums - Page 2

In August 1976 Lemmy, Eddie Clarke and Phil Taylor recorded together for the first time at Manticore Studio in Fulham. The tape was lost for decades; restored, it came out on 27 June 2025 for the band's fiftieth anniversary.

NEMOPHILA’s fourth album, written by the four members and renewing the band’s heaviness, emotional vocals and free-form mixture.

A second full album arriving in the band's second year, closing on the four-part suite “Shisha no Sho.”

A first maxi single sold at the venues from the opening night of the band's first national tour, its sleeve the artist photograph that had been shot before the songs existed.

EvangelCore 1 finds PEYTON PARRISH shaping Viking/folk heroism, heavy modern-metal beats and cinematic choruses into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

A live acoustic EP recorded in the Catacombs of Paris on 8 July 2024, the first time a musical act had been allowed to play there with the city's permission.

A four-CD, fifty-track anthology for the band’s fiftieth year, running from both sides of the 1973 debut single through vault recordings and live versions.

A two-CD, thirty-one-track anthology for the band’s sixtieth year, laid out in order from 1972 to 2022.

The long-awaited Christmas album, released in 2025.

The Darkness's eighth album, released in March 2025. It reached number two in the UK, the band's highest chart placing since their debut.

The Hellacopters' ninth album, released by Nuclear Blast on 31 January 2025 and the first they made with Nicke Andersson producing alone.

Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts, a 2025 album by THE WILDHEARTS, pits punk roughness and hard-rock thickness against dangerously catchy pop hooks.

Nine songs, about forty-two minutes, rebuilding the Decca-era material around new acoustic playing by Eric Bell.

The Wild Card by TREAT: track list, Spotify player, music videos and English liner notes on METAL BOOST.

A five-track EP that opens TRiDENT’s major-label chapter with a sense of daybreak, renewed purpose and an increasingly open, singable rock sound.

Apex finds W.E.T. shaping melodic rock that combines AOR smoothness, hard-rock push and Scandinavian clarity into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

Coming Home presents AXXIS’s long-developed melodic hard-rock brightness with the relaxed confidence of a seasoned band.

A 2024 full-length that channels BAND-MAID’s global experience into technical hard rock, strong songs and cinematic scale.

A Japan-only compilation closing the band’s fortieth year. The standard edition holds the sixteen songs a Japanese fan vote chose, about an hour and twenty-one minutes.

Arriving in BON JOVI’s fortieth-anniversary year, Forever brings the band’s open-hearted spirit and life-affirming outlook to the front.

The advance song from Forever, issued as a CD single in Japan alone. The disc carries the radio edit.

=1 finds DEEP PURPLE welcoming a fresh guitar color while reaffirming the essentials that have long defined the band: spontaneity, sharp riffing, and unshakable groove.

Megalomanium II pushes ECLIPSE’s talent for immediately memorable choruses and hard-edged guitar riffs to the front with very little hesitation.

The eighth album, and the first to reach number one in Germany, with 12 in Austria and 11 in Switzerland. It is also the second-to-last record with Hannes Braun singing.

The last EP recorded with founding vocalist Kotono — five songs led by the title track, whose video came out three months ahead of the release and carried the band to its first European shows.

Eleven songs from Schenker’s years in UFO, re-recorded with guest singers. Eleven tracks, about sixty minutes.

Their first release after moving to Big Machine: two new songs and a Beastie Boys cover, three tracks running about twelve minutes.

Ten reconnects MR. BIG’s high-level musicianship with the strength of melodies anyone can carry away.

NEMOPHILA’s third album, concentrating scale, technique, melody and modern heaviness ahead of the band’s Budokan milestone.

A self-produced first mini album sold only at the venue and by mail order on the day of the band's first-anniversary headline show; all 500 copies went at once.

The band's VAA debut and first full album, conceived as a single score on which eleven genre-crossing songs are written out.

Kingdoms of Magical Rock is a twenty-two-track covers set on which PEYTON PARRISH turns songs from film and animation into weighty rock.

Soul centers PEYTON PARRISH’s husky, forceful voice and connects rock’s direct emotional charge with hooks that stay in the ear.

The thirteenth Praying Mantis studio album, released on 19 April 2024 by Frontiers and, the same day in Japan, by Marquee Incorporated. It marks the band's fiftieth year; the Japanese edition adds an alternate version of the title track for twelve songs.

Against the Winds delivers REVOLUTION SAINTS’ classic melodic-hard-rock approach with direct heat.

Orgy of the Damned is a covers record in which SLASH goes deeply into the classic blues that forms part of his musical foundation.

A 2024 record the band describes as its acoustic project.

Released in 2024; it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Christian Albums chart.

TMG's second album, twenty years after the first: Tak Matsumoto, Eric Martin and Jack Blades with Matt Sorum on drums, and guest turns from BABYMETAL and LiSA.

TRiDENT’s second full album, reorganizing key songs from 2022 onward with new material to present twelve tracks of attack, melody and live-driven momentum.

A five-track EP that expands TRiDENT’s range through spicy riffs, nocturnal atmosphere and more intimate melodic writing.

A live album recorded at The Patriot Club in Wales in 2023 and released on 26 April 2024. The band describes the set as drawing on tracks from across the decades, and it places the 1980s material beside recent songs. "Gangland" and "Keeping Me Alive" previewed it.

Crimson & Jet Black is Anthem's seventeenth studio album, released on 21 April 2023. It is their first album of new material in about six years, sung entirely in English and released worldwide on the same day, and it reached No. 14 on the Japanese weekly chart.

Life Is But a Dream... pushes AVENGED SEVENFOLD far beyond a simple metal framework and into an intensely experimental, existential space.

The first of two 10th-anniversary compilations: fourteen songs, mostly single A-sides, running from "Thrill" through to "Different".

The second 10th-anniversary compilation: eleven songs drawn from album tracks and B-sides rather than the singles.

OUTBURST condenses new songs and re-recordings into a five-track mini album that captures BLINDMAN’s place during its twenty-fifth-anniversary era.

Vol. 10 delivers BUCKCHERRY’s straight-ahead rock-and-roll instincts with no unnecessary detours.

CoreLeoni's first live album, drawn from the Rock Generation Tour of 2022 — the first tour with Eugent Bushpepa — and specifically the show in Spiez, Switzerland on 25 March 2022. Metalville Records released it on 27 October 2023.

Eleven years after its previous studio record, Heaven Comes Down returns to the shades of melody and guitar lyricism that define DOKKEN.

Megalomanium packs the kind of rock songs ECLIPSE does best: short, sharp and instantly memorable.

The first Eriksplanations album documents the YouTube cover work that grew during recovery through eight songs associated with Dio, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, KISS and more.

After a fifteen-year studio gap, Six makes it clear that EXTREME has always been far more than a one-hit story.