Damnatio AeternaJP edition: AmazonDeathless Legacy's Damnatio Aeterna reached shops through Scarlet Records on 7 March 2025,…RELEASE CALENDAR — August 2025
Metal and hard rock CDs released in August 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.
Damnatio AeternaJP edition: AmazonDeathless Legacy's Damnatio Aeterna reached shops through Scarlet Records on 7 March 2025,…
ElectrifiedJP edition: AmazonThe Big Deal, a melodic hard rock band from Serbia with two female singers, reached Japan for the first time with Electrified.…
EverestAmazonEverest is the first Halestorm studio album since Back From the Dead in 2022.…
Chapter IVJP edition: AmazonNine years separate Chapter IV from the last Twins Crew album.…
Band of BrothersAmazonJanne Wirman started Warmen in 2000 as a side project while he was the keyboard player in Children of Bodom, and Band of Brothers is the band's latest.…
Dark BelieverAmazonMartyr have been going in the Netherlands since 1982, and Dark Believer is their first album in three years, the Japanese label notes.…
Make Metal Royal AgainAmazonMake Metal Royal Again is the first Hammer King album for Reaper Entertainment, and it came out worldwide and in Japan on the same day, 15 August 2025.…
An Insatiable ViolenceJP edition: AmazonAn Insatiable Violence is the ninth album by the Montreal death metal band Cryptopsy.…
InquisitionJP edition: AmazonInquisition is the sixth Burning Witches album. Marquee Avalon put the Japanese edition out first, on 20 August 2025 as MICP-11954, with notes,…
Rise of the RulerAmazonSeven years after Beast Reborn, the German melodic power metal band Mob Rules returned with Rise of the Ruler,…
The Devil's AsylumJP edition: AmazonThe Devil's Asylum is, by the Japanese label's count, the fourteenth album from Vicious Rumors,…
Balance (Expanded Edition)JP edition: AmazonBalance was the tenth Van Halen studio album, and Rhino marked its thirtieth anniversary on 15 August 2025 with a five-disc expanded edition of two CDs,…
Made in Japan (Super Deluxe Edition)JP edition: AmazonDeep Purple's Made in Japan was recorded over three nights in August 1972 — 15 and 16 August at Festival Hall in Osaka and 17 August at the Nippon Budokan…
Formae MentisJP edition: AmazonFormae Mentis is the first full-length album by Just Reborn, an Italian symphonic power metal quartet with a female lead singer.…
SymbiosisJP edition: AmazonSymbiosis runs five tracks and about 25 minutes, and the Japanese label counts it as the fifth release by Tyrmfar,…