Releases to look forward to… May 2018
Every year and every month there is loads of rock, industrial and metal that is getting released. Just in case you’d be missing a good one, we’ll be trying to keep you on track by selecting a bunch of releases to remind you of every month! Warning: the dates of release might change still, so if the album doesn’t get released that day after all… don’t shoot the messenger!
May 2nd
| Raven Throne | I Miorvym Snicca Zolak | Atmospheric Black Metal | Non Serviam Records |
May 4th
| Ihsahn | Ámr | Avant-garde Metal | Candlelight Records |
| Dimmu Borgir | Eonian | Symphonic Black Metal | Nuclear Blast |
| Parkway Drive | Reverence | Metalcore | Epitaph Records |
| Fear of Domination | Metanoia | Industrial/Melodic Death Metal | Ranka Kustannus |
| Urfaust | The Constellatory Practice | Atmospheric Black Metal/Ambient | Ván Records |
| Galactic Empire | Episode II | Progressive Instrumental Metal | Rise Records |
| Shinedown | Attention Attention | Hard Rock | Atlantic Records |
| QFT | Live In Space | Rock/Atmospheric Metal | Despotz Records |
| The World Alive | Violent Noise | Metalcore | Fearless Records |
| Angelus Apatrida | Cabaret De La Guillotine | Thrash Metal | Century Media Records |
| Merrimack | Ashes of Purification | Black Metal | Season of Mist |
May 7th
| Lautreamont | Silence of the Deceased | Avant-Garde Extreme Metal |
May 8th
| Factory | Back in the Time Machine | Progressive Rock |
May 10th
| Meka Nism | The War Inside | Nu Metal |
May 11th
| Aborted Fetus | The Ancient Spirits of Decay | Death Metal | Comatose Records |
| Arctic Monkeys | Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino | Rock | Domino |
| Bad Wolves | Disobey | Hard Rock | Eleven Seven Music |
| Wombripper | Infected Tomb | Death Metal | |
| Skinless | Savagery | Death Metal | Relapse Records |
| Flesh Hoarder | Homicidel Necrophile | Death Metal | Comatose Music |
| Abythic | Beneath Ancient Portals | Death Metal | Blood Harvest Records |
| Within The Giant’s Reach | In The Beginning | Nu Metal |
May 15th
| Eye of Solitude | Slaves To Solitude | Funeral Doom Metal |
May 18th
| Alkaloid | Liquid Anatomy | Progressive Death Metal | Season of Mist |
| Five Finger Death Punch | And Justice For None | Metal | Eleven Seven Music |
| Burn The Priest | Legion: XX | Groove/Death Metal | Epic Records |
| Necros Christos | Domedon Doxomedon | Black/Death Metal | Sepulchral Voice Records |
| At The Gates | To Drink From The Night Itself | Melodic Death Metal | Century Media Records |
| Amorphis | Queen of Time | Progressive/Death Metal | Nuclear Blast |
| The Exploding Boy | Alarms! | Dark Indie Rock | Drakkar |
| Flame Acausal | Contra Mundum in Aeternum | Black/Death Metal | Blood Harvest Records/Helter Skelter Productions |
| Valyria | Into the Dying of Time | Melodic Death Metal | |
| Darklands | Hate It Here | Indie/Shoegaze | Atomic Action |
| Spiral Skies | Blues For A Dying Planet | Occult Rock | AOP Records |
| Born Broken | The Years of Harsh Truths and Little Lies | Extreme Metal |
May 25th
| Liv Sin | Inverted EP | Heavy Metal | Despotz Records |
| Candlemass | House of Doom | Doom Metal | Napalm Records |
| Uada | Cult of a Dying Sun | Melodic Black Metal | Eisenwald |
| Midnattsol | The Aftermath | Symphonic/Folk Metal | Napalm Records |
| Lordi | Sexorcism | Heavy Metal/Hard Rock | AFM Records |
| Spock’s Beard | Noise Floor | Progressive Rock | Inside Out Music |
| Witchsorrow | Hexenhammer | Doom Metal | Candlelight Records |
| Kanseil | Fulische | Folk Metal | Rockshots Records |
| Stortregn | Emptiness Fills The Void | Blackened Death Metal | Non Serviam Records |
| Valgrind | Blackest Horizon | Death Metal | Everlasting Spew Records |
| Sharp/Shock | Youth Club | Punk | Heart & Skull |
| Split Cranium | I’m The Devil and I’m OK | D-Beat Hardcore | Ipecac |
May 26th
| Supreme Carnage | Morbid Ways to Die | Death Metal | Raw Skull Recordz |
May 29th
| The Black Sorcery | And The Beast Spake Death From Above | War/Black Death Metal | Krucyator Productions |
May 31st
| Endless | Mad Sick Mind | Death Metal | Necromance Records |
That’s all folks! See you next month!








