With so many new metal and hard rock albums being released each week, it can be difficult to keep up. We’re making things a lot easier for you by keeping track of all the 2023 releases in one convenient location.
Check back often or bookmark this page, because this list is updated on a regular basis. Dates are supplied by record labels and are subject to change.
LOUDWIRE PLAYLISTS:
Jan. 6, 2023
Anti-Flag – Lies They Tell Our Children (Heartagram)
Serenity – Memoria DVD/CD (Napalm)
Sons Of Cult – Back To The Beginning (Xtreem)
Throat Locust – Dragged Through Glass EP (Self)
Varmia – Prolog EP (M-Theory)
Jan. 13, 2023
Ahab – The Coral Tombs (Napalm)
Antimozdebeast – Vision (Self)
Anubis – Decreation Day EP (Self)
Beyond The Black – Beyond The Black (Nuclear Blast)
Crom – The Era Of Darkness (From The Vaults)
Defy The Curse – Horrors Of Human Sacrifice (Hammerheart)
Draken – Book Of Black (Majestic Mountain)
Endtime/Cosmic Reaper – Doom Sessions Vol. 7 EP (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Jared James Nichols – Jared James Nichols (Black Hill)
Kommandant – Titan Hammer (ATMF)
Obituary – Dying Of Everything (Relapse)
Screamer – Kingmaker (Steamhammer/SPV)
Turmion Katilot – Omen X (Nuclear Blast)
Ville Valo – Neon Noir (Spinefarm)
Jan. 20, 2023
Atrocity – Okkult III (Massacre)
Big City – Sunwind Sails (Frontiers)
Celestial Wizard – Winds Of The Cosmos (Scarlet)
Dryad – The Abyssal Plain (Prosthetic)
Gypsy Chief Goliath/End Of Age – Turned To Stone Chapter 7 Split (Ripple)
Half Life – Like A Jungle (Club Inferno)
Heroes And Monsters – Heroes And Monsters (Frontiers)
Imperium Dekandez – Into Sorrow Evermore (Napalm)
Issa – Lights Of Japan (Frontiers)
Katatonia – Sky Void Of Stars (Napalm)
Laura Cox – Head Above Water (earMusic)
Maneskin – Rush! (Epic/Sony)
Natt – Natt (Edged Circle)
Riverside – ID.Entity (InsideOut)
Seether – Disclaimer Re-Release (Craft)
Slegest – Avstand (Dark Essence)
Ten – Something Wicked This Way Comes (Frontiers)
Tidal Wave – The Lord Knows (Ripple)
Tribunal – The Weight Of Remembrance (20 Buck Spin)
Twilight Force – At The Heart Of Wintervale (Nuclear Blast)
U.F.O. – No Heavy Petting Re-Release (Chrysalis)
Jan. 27, 2023
…And Oceans – As In Gardens, So In Tombs (Season Of Mist)
Anzillu – Ex Nihilo (M-Theory)
Arctic Rain – Unity (Frontiers)
Conjureth – The Parasitic Chambers (Memento Mori)
Crowne – Operation Phoenix (Frontiers)
Dismal – Via Entis (Aural)
Dokken – The Elektra Albums 1983-1987 Box Set (BMG)
Dust Prophet – One Last Look Upon The Sky (Self)
Electric Mob – 2 Make U Cry & Dance (Frontiers)
Girish And The Chronicles – Back On Earth (Frontiers)
Girlschool – The School Report 1978-2008 (HNE)
Green Day – Nimrod Re-Release (Warner)
Holocaust – Heavy Metal Mania: The Complete Recordings Volume 1 – 1980-1984 (HNE)
Hour Of Penance – Misotheism Re-Release (Agonia)
Knogjarn – Mera Bedövning EP (Indie)
Liv Sin – Kali Yuga (Mighty)
Love Gang – Meanstreak (Heavy Psych Sounds)
New Miserable Experience – ,em>Philosophy On Pessimism (Translation Loss)
Obelyskkh – Ultimate Grace Of God (Exile On Mainstream)
Ominous Scriptures – Rituals Of Mass Self-Ignition (Willowtip)
Oozing Wound – We Cater To Cowards (Thrill Jockey)
Pelican – City Of Echoes Re-Release (Thrill Jockey)
Ronnie Romero – Raised On Heavy Radio (Frontiers)
Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts: Act Two (Martha’s Music/Thirty Tigers)
Soen – Cognitive Re-Release (Silver Lining)
Soen – Tellurian Re-Release (Silver Lining)
Steve Vai – Vai/Gash (Mascot)
Suasion – The Infinite (Atomic Fire)
The Tangent – Pyramids, STars & Other Stories: The Tangent Live Recordings 2004-2017 (InsideOut)
Uriah Heep – Chaos & Colour (Silver Lining)
White Reaper – Asking for a Ride (Elektra)
Feb. 3, 2023
Fvnerals – Let The Earth Be Silent (Prophecy)
Leprous – Aphelion Tour Edition (InsideOut)
Memorium – Rise To Power (Reaper)
Mithridatum – Harrowing (Willowtip)
Nervochaos – Chthonic Wrath (Emanzipation)
Russkaja – Turbo Polka Party (Napalm)
Sanguisugabogg – Homicidal Ecstasy (Century Media)
The Winery Dogs – III (Three Dog)
WuW – L’Orchaostre (Pelagic)
Xandria – The Wonders Still Awaiting (Napalm)
Feb. 10, 2023
Delain – Dark Waters (Napalm)
Distant – Heritage (Century Media)
In Flames – Foregone (Nuclear Blast)
Jenner – To Live Is To Suffer Re-Release (Fighter)
Luger – Revelations Of The Sacred Skull (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Oak – Disintegrate (Season Of Mist)
Paramore – This Is Why (Atlantic)
Pierce The Veil – The Jaws Of Life (Fearless)
Stormo – Endocannibalismo (Prosthetic)
Wig Wam – Out Of The Dark (Frontiers)
Feb. 17, 2023
Avatar – Dance Devil Dance (Thirty Tigers)
Deicide – Bible Bashers (Dissonance)
Half Me – Soma (Arising Empire)
Hail The Void – Memento Mori (Ripple)
Hellripper – Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags (Peaceville)
Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows – Hail To The Underground (Blues Funeral)
Motley Crue – Crücial Crüe: The Studio Albums 1981-1989 (BMG)
Robin McAuley – Alive (Frontiers)
See You Next Tuesday – Distractions (Good Fight)
Skillet – Dominion: Day Of Destiny Deluxe Edition (Atlantic)
Tithe – Inverse Rapture (Profound Lore)
Tramalizer – Fumes Of Funeral Pyres (Soulseller)
Transatlantic – The Final Flight: Live At L’Olympia (InsideOut)
Ulthar – Anthronomicon (20 Buck Spin)
Ulthar – Helionomicon (20 Buck Spin)
Feb. 24, 2023
Big|Brave – Nature Morte (Thrill Jockey)
Death Pill – Death Pill (New Heavy Sounds)
Dope – Blood Money Part Zer0 (Self)
Godsmack – Lighting Up The Sky (BMG)
Heidevolk – Wederkeer (Napalm)
Host – IX (Nuclear Blast)
Hypno5e – Sheol (Pelagic)
Insomnium – Anno 1696 (Century Media)
Motorhead – Bad Magic: Seriously Bad Magic (Silver Lining)
No Spill Blood – Eye Of Night (Svart)
Omega Infinity – The Anticurrent (Season Of Mist)
Siena Root – Revelation (Atomic Fire)
Steel Panther – On The Prowl (Self)
Stoner – Boogie To Baja (Heavy Psych Sounds)
March 3, 2023
Enslaved – Heimdal (Nuclear Blast)
Eyes – Congratulations (Indisciplinarian)
Fake Names – Expendables (Epitaph)
Haken – Fauna (InsideOut)
Lord Sonny The Unifier – America’s Newest Hitmaker (Interstellar Smoke)
Stargazer – Life Will Never Be The Same (Mighty)
Temptress – See (Metal Assault)
Tragedy – I Am Woman (Napalm)
March 10, 2023
The Atomic Bitchwax – Live At Freak Valley Fest (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Blackmore’s Night – Shadow Of The Moon 25th Anniversary Edition (earMusic)
Duel – Live At Hellfest (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Excelerate – Arrival (From The Vaults)
Otherwise – Gawdzillionaire (Mascot)
Roadrunner United – The All-Star Sessions Re-Release (Roadrunner)
Roadrunner United – The Concert (Roadrunner)
March 17, 2023
The Answer – Sundowners (Golden Robot)
Chelsea Grin – Suffer in Heaven (ONErpm)
Ecstatic Vision – Live At Duna Jam (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Entropia – Total (Agonia)
Gideon – More Power. More Pain. (Equal Vision)
John Diva & The Rockets Of Love – The Big Easy (Steamhammer/SPV)
The Lords Of Altamont – To Hell With Tomorrow The Lords Are Now (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Pop Evil – Skeletons (MNRK Heavy)
March 24, 2023
August Burns Red – Death Below (SharpTone)
Babymetal – the Other One (Self)
Dawn Ray’d – To Know The Light (Prosthetic)
Floor Jansen – Paragon (Self)
Liturgy – 93696 (Thrill Jockey)
Ne Obliviscaris – Exul (Season Of Mist)
Subway To Sally – Himmelfahrt (Napalm)
March 31, 2023
Ad Infinitum – Chapter III – Downfall (Napalm)
Bury Tomorrow – The Seventh Sun (Music For Nations)
Lotan – Lotan (Uprising)
Nervochaos – Chthonic Wrath (Emanzipation)
Rotten Sound – Apocalypse (Season Of Mist)
April 7, 2023
Powerwolf – Interludium (Napalm)
Raider – Trial By Chaos (Self)
April 14, 2023
Lucifer Star Machine – Satanic Age (The Sign)
Metallica – 72 Seasons (Blackened)
April 21, 2023
40 Watt Sun – The Inside Room Re-Release (Svart)
40 Watt Sun – Wider Than The Sky Re-Release (Svart
Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts: Act 3 (Martha’s Music)
