This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2023.
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Day | Artist | Album |
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13 | Ahab | The Coral Tombs[85] |
Beyond the Black | Beyond the Black[86] | |
Eisregen | Grenzgänger[87] | |
Obituary | Dying of Everything[88] | |
Turmion Kätilöt | Omen X[89] | |
VV | Neon Noir[90] | |
20 | Atrocity | Okkult III[91] |
Dark Princess | Phoenix[92] | |
Imperium Dekadenz | Into Sorrow Evermore[93] | |
Katatonia | Sky Void of Stars[94] | |
Riverside | ID.Entity[95] | |
Sabaton | Heroes of the Great War (EP)[96] | |
Twilight Force | At the Heart of Wintervale[97] | |
27 | ...And Oceans | As in Gardens, So in Tombs[98] |
Ablaze My Sorrow | The Loss of All Hope (EP)[99] | |
Ronnie Romero | Raised on Heavy Radio (covers album)[100] | |
Steve Vai | Vai/Gash[101] | |
Uriah Heep | Chaos & Colour[102] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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3 | All Out War | Celestial Rot[103] |
Korn | Requiem Mass (EP)[104] | |
Memoriam | Rise to Power[105] | |
Russkaja | Turbo Polka Party[106] | |
Victor Smolski | Guitar Force[107] | |
Xandria | The Wonders Still Awaiting[108] | |
10 | Aphyxion | Ad Astra[109] |
Delain | Dark Waters[110] | |
Dream Theater | Distance Over Time Demos (2018) (compilation album)[111] | |
In Flames | Foregone[112] | |
Narrow Head | Moments of Clarity[113] | |
Pierce the Veil | The Jaws of Life[114] | |
Wig Wam | Out of the Dark[115] | |
17 | Avatar | Dance Devil Dance[116] |
Bridear | Aegis of London... Live! (live album)[117] | |
Clint Lowery | Ghostwriter (EP)[118] | |
Code Orange | What Is Really Underneath? (remix album)[119] | |
Hellripper | Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags[120] | |
Jason Bieler | Postcards from the Asylum[121] | |
Man Must Die | The Pain Behind It All[122] | |
Oceanhoarse | Heads Will Roll[123] | |
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs | Land of Sleeper[124] | |
Robin McAuley | Alive[125] | |
See You Next Tuesday | Distractions[126] | |
Skinflint | Hate Spell[127] | |
22 | Lovebites | Judgement Day[128] |
24 | Azaghal | Alttarimme on Luista Tehty[129] |
Dope | Blood Money, Part Zer0[130] | |
Godsmack | Lighting Up the Sky[131] | |
Hammerhedd | Nonetheless[132] | |
Hed PE | 70's Hits from the Pit (covers album)[133] | |
Heidevolk | Werdekeer[134] | |
Hypno5e | Sheol[135] | |
Insomnium | Anno 1696[136] | |
Kauan | ATM Revised[137] | |
Märvel | Double Decade (compilation album)[138] | |
Necrovation | Storm the Void/Starving Grave (EP)[139] | |
Steel Panther | On the Prowl[140] | |
Venomous Concept | The Good Ship Lollipop[141] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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7 | Angel Vivaldi | Away with Words, Pt. 2 (EP)[211] |
Cultura Tres | Camino de Brujos[212] | |
Kiss | Off the Soundboard: Poughkeepsie, New York, 1984 (live album)[213] | |
Paul Gilbert | The Dio Album (covers album)[214] | |
Powerwolf | Interludium[215] | |
Rise of the Northstar | Showdown[216] | |
Tribulation | Hamartia (EP)[217] | |
14 | Atreyu | The Hope of a Spark (EP)[218] |
Dødheimsgard | Black Medium Current[219] | |
Holy Moses | Invisible Queen[220] | |
Infected Rain | The Devil's Dozen (live album)[221] | |
Jesus Piece | ...So Unknown[222] | |
L.A. Guns | Black Diamonds[223] | |
Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall | Hunt the Flame[224] | |
Metallica | 72 Seasons[225] | |
Mike Tramp | Songs of White Lion (covers album)[226] | |
Overkill | Scorched[227] | |
20 | Portrayal of Guilt | Devil Music[228] |
21 | The 69 Eyes | Death of Darkness[229] |
Angus McSix | Angus McSix and the Sword of Power[230] | |
Anthem | Crimson & Jet Black[231] | |
As Everything Unfolds | Ultraviolet[232] | |
Axel Rudi Pell | The Ballads VI (compilation album)[233] | |
Bell Witch | Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate[234] | |
Dorthia Cottrell | Death Folk Country[235] | |
Enter Shikari | A Kiss for the Whole World[236] | |
Liv Kristine | River of Diamonds[237] | |
Magnus Rosén Band | It's Time to Rock the World Again[238] | |
Texas Hippie Coalition | The Name Lives On[239] | |
28 | Cradle of Filth | Trouble and Their Double Lives (live album)[240] |
Crown the Empire | Dogma[241] | |
Disciple | Skeleton Psalms[242] | |
Elvenking | Reader of the Runes – Rapture[243] | |
Graveworm | Killing Innocence[244] | |
Iced Earth | Hellrider/I Walk Among You (EP)[245] | |
IGNEA | Dreams of Lands Unseen[246] | |
Majesty | Back to Attack[247] | |
Necronomicon | Constant to Death[248] | |
Runemagick | Beyond the Cenotaph of Mankind[249] | |
Smoulder | Violent Creed of Vengeance[250] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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7 | 1476 | In Exile[331] |
Bangalore Choir | Center Mass[332] | |
Better Lovers | God Made Me an Animal (EP)[333] | |
Blackbraid | Blackbraid II[334] | |
Blaze Bayley | Damaged Strange Different and Live (live album)[335] | |
Bloodbound | Tales from the North[336] | |
Butcher Babies | Eye for an Eye... / ...'Til the World's Blind[337] | |
Fen | Monuments to Absence[338] | |
Nita Strauss | The Call of the Void[339] | |
The Raven Age | Blood Omen[340] | |
Will Haven | VII[341] | |
14 | Edge of Paradise | Hologram[342] |
Eleine | We Shall Remain[343] | |
Evile | The Unknown[344] | |
Fallstar | Sacred Mirrors[345] | |
Freedom Call | The M.E.T.A.L. Fest (live album)[346] | |
Kim Dracula | A Gradual Decline in Morale[347] | |
Vendetta | Black as Coal[348] | |
Voyager | Fearless in Love[349] | |
21 | Akercocke | Decades of Devil Worship (live album)[350] |
Cadaver | The Age of the Offended[351] | |
Soil | Restoration (compilation album)[352] | |
Voivod | Morgöth Tales[353] | |
The Zenith Passage | Datalysium[354] | |
26 | Hanabie. | Reborn Superstar![355] |
28 | Contrarian | Demos & Oddities: 1995–1999 (compilation album)[356] |
From Ashes to New | Blackout[357] | |
Girlschool | WTFortyfive?[358] | |
Mutoid Man | Mutants[359] | |
Panzerchrist | Last of a Kind[360] | |
Sevendust | Truth Killer[361] | |
Signs of the Swarm | Amongst the Low & Empty[362] | |
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats | Slaughter on First Avenue (live album)[363] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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4 | Crypta | Shades of Sorrow[364] |
Skindred | Smile[365] | |
11 | George Lynch & Jeff Pilson | Heavy Hitters II (covers album)[366] |
Kataklysm | Goliath[367] | |
King Kobra | We Are Warriors[368] | |
Megaherz | In Teufels Namen[369] | |
Tarja | Rocking Heels: Live at Metal Church (live album)[370] | |
18 | Atreyu | The Moment You Find Your Flame (EP)[371] |
Cyhra | The Vertigo Trigger[372] | |
Horrendous | Ontological Mysterium[373] | |
Nocte Obducta | Karwoche (Die Sonne Der Toten Pulsiert)[374] | |
Orbit Culture | Descent[375] | |
Ringworm | Seeing Through Fire[376] | |
Skálmöld | Ýdalir[377] | |
Slipknot | Live at MSG (live album)[378] | |
Spirit Adrift | Ghost at the Gallows[379] | |
Warmen | Here for None[380] | |
22 | Dethklok | Dethalbum IV[381] |
25 | Alice Cooper | Road[382] |
The Armed | Perfect Saviors[383] | |
Asking Alexandria | Where Do We Go from Here?[384] | |
Blut Aus Nord | Disharmonium – Nahab[385] | |
Dethklok | Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar (soundtrack album)[381] | |
Endstille | Detonation[386] | |
Exmortus | Necrophony[387] | |
Filter | The Algorithm[388] | |
Hurricane | Reconnected[389] | |
Incantation | Unholy Deification[390] | |
Lions at the Gate | The Excuses We Cannot Make[391] | |
U.D.O. | Touchdown[392] | |
The Word Alive | Hard Reset[393] | |
28 | Exhumed | Beyond the Dead (EP)[394] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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6 | Carnifex | Necromanteum[452] |
Heavy Load | Riders of the Ancient Storm[453] | |
Heretoir | Nightsphere[454] | |
Iron Savior | Firestar[455] | |
October Tide | The Cancer Pledge[456] | |
Of Mice & Men | Tether[457] | |
Prong | State of Emergency[458] | |
Svalbard | The Weight of the Mask[459] | |
13 | Amorphis | Queen of Time (Live at Tavastia 2021) (live album)[460] |
Beartooth | The Surface[461] | |
Krieg | Ruiner[462] | |
Laster | Andermans Mijne[463] | |
On Thorns I Lay | On Thorns I Lay[464] | |
Oni | The Silver Line[465] | |
Ronnie Atkins | Trinity[466] | |
Sulphur Aeon | Seven Crowns and Seven Seals[467] | |
Sven Gali | Bombs and Battlescars[468] | |
Theocracy | Mosaic[469] | |
Varg | Ewige Wacht[470] | |
20 | The Amenta | Plague of Locus (EP)[471] |
Angelus Apatrida | Aftermath[472] | |
The Callous Daoboys | God Smiles Upon the Callous Daoboys (EP)[473] | |
Cirith Ungol | Dark Parade[474] | |
Dog Eat Dog | Free Radicals[475] | |
Lynch Mob | Babylon[476] | |
Myrkur | Spine[477] | |
Night Ranger | 40 Years and a Night with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra (live album)[478] | |
Temperance | Hermitage – Daruma's Eyes Pt. 2[479] | |
Within Temptation | Bleed Out[480] | |
27 | Autopsy | Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts[481] |
Dokken | Heaven Comes Down[482] | |
Doro | Conqueress Forever Strong and Proud[483] | |
End | The Sin of Human Frailty[484] | |
Icarus Witch | No Devil Lived On[485] | |
In This Moment | Godmode[486] | |
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | The Silver Cord[487] | |
Mark Tremonti | Christmas Classics New & Old (covers album)[488] | |
Obscura | A Celebration I – Live in North America (live album)[489] | |
Of Virtue | Omen[490] | |
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs | Live in New York (live album)[491] | |
Poppy | Zig[492] | |
Sorcerer | Reign of the Reaper[493] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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3 | Angra | Cycles of Pain[494] |
Atreyu | A Torch in the Dark (EP)[495] | |
Bad Wolves | Die About It[496] | |
Dying Wish | Symptoms of Survival[497] | |
Green Lung | This Heathen Land[498] | |
Insomnium | Songs of the Dusk (EP)[499] | |
Kontrust | Madworld[500] | |
Mortuary Drape | Black Mirror[501] | |
Serenity | Nemesis AD[502] | |
Silent Planet | Superbloom[503] | |
Spiritbox | The Fear of Fear (EP)[504] | |
Suffocation | Hymns from the Apocrypha[505] | |
Watain | Die in Fire – Live in Hell (Agony and Ecstasy Over Stockholm) (live album)[506] | |
8 | Nemophila | The Initial Impulse (EP)[507] |
10 | Diviner | Avaton[508] |
Gama Bomb | Bats[509] | |
Helmet | Left[510] | |
Hinayana | Shatter and Fall[511] | |
Secret Sphere | Blackened Heartbeat[512] | |
Sodom | 1982 (EP)[513] | |
Tarja | Dark Christmas (covers album)[514] | |
Vastum | Inward to Gethsemane[515] | |
11 | Mike Mangini | Invisible Signs[516] |
17 | Aeternus | Philosopher[517] |
Celeste | Epilogue(s) (EP)[518] | |
Corroded | Plague[519] | |
DGM | Life[520] | |
Eldritch | Innervoid[521] | |
Lacey Sturm | Kenotic Metanoia[522] | |
Nonpoint | Heartless (EP)[523] | |
Racetraitor | Creation and the Timeless Order of Things[524] | |
Sadus | The Shadow Inside[525] | |
Texas in July | Without Reason (EP)[526] | |
20 | Impending Doom | Last Days (EP)[527] |
24 | Bernie Marsden | Working Man[528] |
Cruciamentum | Obsidian Refractions[529] | |
29 | Panopticon | The Rime of Memory[530] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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1 | Demoncy | Black Star Gnosis[531] |
Extortionist | Devoid (EP)[532] | |
Ghost | 13 Commandments (compilation album)[533] | |
Omega Diatribe | Deviant[534] | |
Paradise Lost | Icon 30[535] | |
Visions of Atlantis | A Pirate's Symphony[536] | |
4 | Xibalba | Aztlán (EP)[537] |
8 | Atreyu | The Beautiful Dark of Life[538] |
Dimmu Borgir | Inspiratio Profanus (covers album)[539] | |
Ektomorf | Vivid Black[540] | |
Judicator | I Am the Void (EP)[541] | |
Polkadot Cadaver | Echoes Across the Hellscape[542] | |
Porcupine Tree | Closure/Continuation.Live (live album)[543] | |
Trick or Treat | A Creepy Night Live (live album)[544] | |
15 | Children of Bodom | A Chapter Called Children of Bodom (The Final Show in Helsinki Ice Hall 2019) (live album)[545] |
Evergrey | From Dark Discoveries to Heartless Portraits (compilation album)[546] | |
Hed PE | Detox[547] | |
Rob Arnold | Menace[548] | |
Therion | Leviathan III[549] | |
Troll | Trolldom[550] | |
26 | Die Apokalyptischen Reiter | Die Mutter des Teufels (EP)[551] |
29 | Lord of the Lost | Weapons of Mass Seduction (covers album)[552] |