The HarpAmazonThe Harp is the debut album by Auro Control, a power metal band out of São Paulo, Brazil. The name works twice over: auro is Latin for gold,…RELEASE CALENDAR — May 2024
Metal and hard rock CDs released in May 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.
The HarpAmazonThe Harp is the debut album by Auro Control, a power metal band out of São Paulo, Brazil. The name works twice over: auro is Latin for gold,…
WarriorsJP edition: AmazonWarriors is the album Feuerschwanz built for listeners outside Germany. The medieval-themed folk metal band turned twenty in 2024,…
Coagulated BlissJP edition: AmazonCoagulated Bliss is the sixth studio album by Full of Hell, and their first in about two and a half years — they started on it the moment When No Birds San…
The DeceiversAmazonThe Deceivers is the album that brought Dååth back. The Atlanta band had not released one since The Concealers in 2009,…
Celebration Day - 30 Years Of Mob RulesAmazonCelebration Day - 30 Years Of Mob Rules is a two-disc, thirty-track set marking thirty years of the German melodic power metal band, who formed in 1994.…
Down The MountainsideJP edition: AmazonDown The Mountainside is the record that introduced the Swedish four-piece Quantum to Japan. Anton Ericsson leads on bass and vocals,…
Killing For RevengeJP edition: AmazonKilling For Revenge is the first studio album in four years from Six Feet Under, the Florida death metal band fronted by Chris Barnes,…
PhantomaJP edition: AmazonPhantoma is the sixth album by Unleash The Archers, the Vancouver power metal band fronted by Brittney Slayes.…
RaptureAmazonRapture is the third solo album by Anette Olzon, the Swedish singer most people know from her years in Nightwish, and her first in about three years.…
CrownshiftAmazonCrownshift is the debut album by the Finnish band of the same name, and it exists because of a promise. Daniel Freyberg,…
Child Within The ManAmazonChild Within The Man is Sebastian Bach's first solo album in ten years — and, as he tells it, one that genuinely took more than ten years to make.…
Midnight DreamsJP edition: AmazonMidnight Dreams is a straight-ahead power metal album by Valentino Francavilla, the Italian guitarist best known from White Skull.…
Ascending In SynergyJP edition: AmazonAscending In Synergy is the second album by the German symphonic metal band Elvellon, and the first of theirs to be released in Japan.…
From Hell I RiseAmazonFrom Hell I Rise is the first album Kerry King has released under his own name, after forty years of driving thrash metal as the guitarist in Slayer.…
Mind Burns AliveAmazonMind Burns Alive is the fifth album by Pallbearer, the doom metal band from Little Rock, Arkansas, and their first in four years.…
FymJP edition: AmazonFym is the third album by Azure, the progressive rock band formed in Brighton, England, and the first of theirs to be pressed in Japan,…
Half Black HeartJP edition: AmazonHalf Black Heart is the fifth album by New Years Day, the Anaheim, California rock band fronted by Ash Costello, and their first in about five years.…
Pro XristouJP edition: AmazonPro Xristou is the fourteenth album by Rotting Christ, and their first in five years since The Heretics.…
Universe IIIJP edition: AmazonUniverse III is the third album in a line that began in 1982 in Upplands Väsby, Sweden,…
Let The Fury RiseAmazonLet The Fury Rise is the debut album by Bloodorn, the power metal band the French guitarist Nils Courbaron put together alongside his work in the symphonic…
Toxic GraceAmazonToxic Grace is the fourth album by Evildead, the Los Angeles thrash metal band that formed in 1987 around Juan Garcia,…
Pleasure Beats The PainAmazonPleasure Beats The Pain is the second album by Remedy, the Swedish melodic hard rock band built around the guitarist Roland Forsman — a writer for One Desi…
HardtonesJP edition: AmazonHardtones is the first album in some years under the name of Euge Valovirta,…
Anno Domini 1989-1995AmazonAnno Domini 1989-1995 is a four-CD box covering the years Tony Martin sang for Black Sabbath. Headless Cross (1989),…
Banished By SinJP edition: AmazonBanished By Sin is the thirteenth album by Deicide, the Florida death metal band who have held the same satanic line since their 1990 debut,…
HellbutcherAmazonHellbutcher is the debut album by the band Hellbutcher, formed by the singer of the same name who fronted the Swedish black metal band Nifelheim.…