RELEASE CALENDAR — October 2025

Metal and hard rock CDs released in October 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.

26 releases / updated

BabylonDIRKSCHNEIDER & THE OLD GANGAmazonDirkschneider & The Old Gang's Babylon came out on 3 October 2025 through Reigning Phoenix Music,…
The ResidencySAMMY HAGAR & THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS BANDAmazonSammy Hagar & The Best of All Worlds Band's The Residency came out through Big Machine Rock on 10 October 2025,…
LegendsSABATONAmazonSabaton's Legends, the Swedish power metal band's eleventh studio album and its first on Better Noise Music, was released on 17 October 2025,…
SteelboundBATTLE BEASTAmazonBattle Beast's Steelbound came out through Nuclear Blast on 17 October 2025 as the Finnish band's seventh studio album,…
Dissonance TheoryCORONERJP edition: AmazonCoroner's Dissonance Theory came out through Century Media Records on 17 October 2025, the Swiss technical metal band's first album since 1993's Grin,…
Behind the CurtainROYAL HUNTJP edition: AmazonAn EP holding a single version, two live recordings from 2023 and two acoustic performances; the Japanese pressing is a limited edition.
UtopieAEPHANEMERJP edition: AmazonAephanemer's Utopie came out through Napalm Records on 31 October 2025, two days after Marquee's Avalon label released it in Japan (MICP-11986),…
Carrion LordOPHIDIAN MEMORYJP edition: AmazonOphidian Memory's Carrion Lord first appeared on 27 September 2024 and reached CD through Wormholedeath on 21 March 2025; Wormholedeath Japan's imported ed…
DeafeningBLOODRIDEJP edition: AmazonBloodride's Deafening, the fifth studio album by the Helsinki thrash metal band formed in 2000, came out through Wormholedeath Records on 25 July 2025,…

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