RELEASE CALENDAR — April 2024

Metal and hard rock CDs released in April 2024. The calendar is grouped by Japanese street date, so a title whose import edition reached shops in another month is still listed here — each card states both dates. Every album links to its track list, music videos and CD details.

24 releases / updated

2023 A.D.JEFF KOLLMANJP edition: Amazon2023 A.D. is an all-instrumental guitar album by Jeff Kollman, the American guitarist, and his first solo record in about three years.…
RankarumpuKORPIKLAANIAmazonRankarumpu is the twelfth album by Korpiklaani. Jonne Järvelä, still the face of the band, started the unit Shamaani Duo back in 1993,…
DefiancePRAYING MANTISAmazonDefiance is the latest studio album by Praying Mantis, the English veterans of the new wave of British heavy metal whose standing in Japan goes back to the…
Satanic NorthSATANIC NORTHAmazonSatanic North is the debut album by the band of that name, which Petri Lindroos and Janne Parviainen — the singer and the drummer of the Finnish folk metal…
Take a PieceABOUT USJP edition: AmazonTake a Piece is the second album by About Us, a melodic rock band from the Wokha district of Nagaland, in the north-east of India.…
FegefeuerFEUERSCHWANZJP edition: AmazonFegefeuer is a two-disc record by Feuerschwanz, the German medieval-themed folk metal band: a studio album on the first disc and a concert recorded at Wack…
Zero Four OneGLASGOWJP edition: AmazonZero Four One is the only album Glasgow ever made. The four-piece formed in 1982, in the middle of the new wave of British heavy metal,…
InsaniumWHOM GODS DESTROYJP edition: AmazonInsanium is the debut album by Whom Gods Destroy, the band Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal and Derek Sherinian put together after Mike Portnoy's return to Dream Thea…
Tattoo MeLEE AARONAmazonTattoo Me is the first covers album Lee Aaron has made, some forty years into a career in which she and Doro Pesch between them established what a woman fr…

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