Birth of MaliceJP edition: AmazonBirth of Malice is the Napalm Records album Destruction released in 2025, and Marquee Incorporated put the Japanese CD (MICP-11941) in shops on 5 March,…RELEASE CALENDAR — March 2025
Metal and hard rock CDs released in March 2025. 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.
Birth of MaliceJP edition: AmazonBirth of Malice is the Napalm Records album Destruction released in 2025, and Marquee Incorporated put the Japanese CD (MICP-11941) in shops on 5 March,…
Do Not Go to War With the Demons of MazandaranJP edition: AmazonMetal Hammer placed Do Not Go to War With the Demons of Mazandaran second in its progressive metal albums of 2024, behind Opeth and ahead of Nightwish.…
BioluminescenceAmazonBioluminescence is the third Dawn of Ouroboros album and the first of theirs to be pressed in Japan. The four-piece from Oakland,…
Wrath and RuinAmazonWrath and Ruin opens on the six-minute "The Sword And The Cross" and closes on another long piece, "The Last of My Kind",…
ResurrectionAmazonResurrection is the third Black & Damned album, produced by former Primal Fear guitarist Stefan Leibing.…
Velvet IncandescenceJP edition: AmazonVelvet Incandescence is the second Dawn of Ouroboros album, out on Prosthetic Records on 21 April 2023 and given its first Japanese pressing by SPIRITUAL B…
The Dormant StrangerJP edition: AmazonCoroner Records released The Dormant Stranger in Italy on 21 March 2025; King Records had put the Japanese CD (KICP-4078) out two days earlier,…
Limited DeaditionAmazonLimited Deadition — the title is Lordi's pun on "limited edition" and "dead" — arranges sixteen tracks as if they were a television broadcast,…
NebulaAmazonNebula is the second album by As The World Dies, the British progressive death metal band formed in 2018 whose 2022 debut Agonist drew enough attention to…
The Screaming of the ValkyriesAmazonThe Screaming of the Valkyries keeps Cradle of Filth where they have been for more than thirty years: extreme metal with gothic and symphonic weight behind…
AlienizedJP edition: AmazonAlienized is the first Mantric Momentum record to be pressed in Japan,…
TriumviroJP edition: AmazonTriumviro is the first album by The 7th Guild, a side project of Tommy Fuller, the main songwriter in the Italian band Skeletoon.…
Classical Variations and Themes 2: Ultima ThuleJP edition: AmazonThirty years after his first solo album, Classical Variations and Themes, Timo Tolkki wrote its sequel.…
Reunion LiveJP edition: AmazonReunion Live catches the original G3 line-up back together on one night at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles: Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson,…
I Am DeathJP edition: AmazonBloodstain made I Am Death within six months of forming — three classmates at a music school in Sweden started the band in the autumn of 2023 — and it was…
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3CD limited editionDon Airey has played keyboards for Rainbow, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake and Gary Moore,…
Pow! Right in the KisserAmazonPow! Right in the Kisser is a record with a different drummer on almost every track: Ray Luzier of Korn, Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe, Brent Fitz,…
To Cross or To BurnJP edition: AmazonTo Cross or To Burn is the second album by Venamoris, the duo of drummer Dave Lombardo — of Slayer and Suicidal Tendencies — and singer-songwriter Paula Lo…
NoisesJP edition: AmazonNoises is the second album by Flush, an alternative metal band from Helsinki whose sound mixes punk, grunge and metal into something heavy and loud.…
NemesisJP edition: AmazonNemesis is the fourth full-length from The Wring, a Canadian one-man progressive metal project,…
We Are LegionJP edition: AmazonWe Are Legion is the second full-length by Reflection of Flesh, an American brutal metal trio, and it runs to eight tracks of destructive rhythm work,…
Magam bajnokaJP edition: AmazonMagam bajnoka is the first album by Terra Nullius, a Hungarian five-piece whose line-up includes a cellist and whose folk metal dissolves classical and tra…