United Kingdom Metal & Hard Rock Albums of the 2010s

The sixth album by Britain's Bring Me the Horizon, from January 2019: a long step away from metalcore into electronics and pop.

Diamond Head's eighth album, from May 2019, the second with Rasmus Bom Andersen singing.

DragonForce's eighth album, from September 2019: part of it was recorded live on Herman Li's Twitch stream, with Epica's Coen Janssen on keyboards.

The band's third full live album — a late-November 2017 show in Aalborg, Denmark, captured without Raven knowing a tape was running.

The Darkness's sixth album, released in October 2019: their first concept album, a parable of the slow death and glorious rebirth of rock and roll.

Renaissance Men is The Wildhearts’ studio return after a long gap, packing punk impulse, power-pop melody and heavy guitar into compact, high-density songs.

The twelfth studio album, released by Mighty Music on 22 November 2019. Eleven songs running from "Worlds Apart" to "Sail On".

Flesh & Blood presents Whitesnake’s blues-rooted hard-rock language with a modern, tightly focused sound.

The sixth Bullet for My Valentine album, released worldwide by Spinefarm on 29 June 2018. It brings programming and keyboards well forward and is the first record made with Jason Bowld as a full member. The Japanese edition adds seven tracks — piano versions and a live recording among them — for eighteen.

Atomic Generation joins FM’s polished British melodic-rock identity to a blues-tinted hard-rock feel with effortless confidence.

Firepower reignites the heavy-metal language Judas Priest established over decades with a muscular, contemporary sound.

The eleventh Praying Mantis studio album. King Records released the Japanese edition on 9 May 2018, two days before Frontiers issued it elsewhere on the 11th; the Japanese CD adds an alternate mix of "The Last Summer" for twelve tracks.

Saxon's twenty-second album, released on 2 February 2018. "They Played Rock and Roll" is for Motorhead; the album reached five in Germany.

The second album by The Struts of Derby, from October 2018: 1970s glam rock made with today's production.

Cradle of Filth's twelfth studio album, from September 2017, built on the Victorian fascination with death.

Infinite finds Deep Purple drawing on blues, hard rock and improvisational chemistry with both calmness and fire.

DragonForce's seventh album, from May 2017, and their longest studio record, closing its run with the eleven-minute "The Edge of the World".

Paradise Lost's fifteenth album, released by Nuclear Blast on 1 September 2017: slower and heavier with doom than anything before it, as Gregor Mackintosh promised.

The Darkness's fifth album, released in October 2017: the first on which Rufus Tiger Taylor, son of Queen's Roger Taylor, drums throughout.

UFO's first covers album, released by Cleopatra Records on 29 September 2017, honours twelve favourites from the Yardbirds and the Doors to ZZ Top.

Hidden City gathers the Cult’s mystical atmosphere and hard-rock force into a dense, heavy sound.

The eleventh studio album, self-titled, issued by Mighty Music on 21 October 2016 as PMZ 200. Eleven songs, opening with the advance track "Only the Brave".

The fifth Bullet for My Valentine album, released by RCA on 14 August 2015 and produced again by Colin Richardson, who had made The Poison and Scream Aim Fire. Jamie Mathias had replaced Jason 'Jay' James on bass. The Japanese edition followed on 19 August with seven bonus tracks, for eighteen.

Cradle of Filth's eleventh studio album, from July 2015: their first for Nuclear Blast and the first outing for a new line-up.

The self-titled Def Leppard revisits the band’s stacked harmonies, polished guitar sound and buoyant rhythm with a contemporary feel.

Heroes and Villains builds FM’s British melodic rock around warm vocals, smooth guitar and polished chorus work.

The Book of Souls pours Iron Maiden’s heavy riffs, three-guitar melody and dramatic vocals into large, narrative-like structures.

Released on 28 August 2015 and a UK No. 10, Bad Magic is what the band themselves call "the 23rd (and final) studio album". Warner Music Japan issued the Japanese pressing the same day as WPCR-16754.

Paradise Lost's fourteenth album, released by Century Media on 1 June 2015: dark yet melodic, with what Nick Holmes called the death metal edge of their earliest days.

The tenth Praying Mantis studio album, released by Frontiers on 21 August 2015 — the first with Jaycee Cuijpers singing and Hans in 't Zandt on drums. King Records issued the Japanese edition on 26 August with one extra track.

The thirteenth album, paid for in part by a Kickstarter campaign that took over $27,000, and rolled out across territories through SPV/Steamhammer in April 2015.

A covers album made as a reward for the Kickstarter backers who helped fund ExtermiNation; the band's own site files it as a bonus release rather than a studio album.

Saxon's twenty-first album, released on 16 October 2015. It reached three on the UK Rock & Metal chart.

The Darkness's fourth album, from May 2015: produced by Dan Hawkins at his own studio, and opening with "Barbarian", a tale of a Viking invasion.

UFO's 2015 album, produced by Chris Tsangarides in Kent and first out in Japan and Scandinavia on 18 February, was the first with bassist Rob De Luca.

The Purple Album reinterprets material from the Deep Purple era through Whitesnake’s current heavy guitar sound and mature vocals.