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Heavy Metal CD Release Dates

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Here are upcoming North American heavy metal CD releases. Dates subject to change, and the information is supplied by record companies and artists. If there's an upcoming CD with a U.S. release date you don't see listed here, send me an email.

February 7, 2012
The 11th Hour - Lacrima Mortis (Napalm)
Chimp Spanner - All Roads Lead Here EP (Basick)
Iron Fire - Voyage Of The Damned (Napalm)
The Kandidate - Facing the Imminent Prospect of Death (Napalm)
Nephelium - Coils Of Entropy
Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression (Nuclear Blast)

February 14, 2012
Amoral - Beneath (The End)
Anguish - Through The Archdemons Head (Dark Descent)
Anvil - Pound For Pound Re-Release (The End)
Anvil - Strength Of Steel Re-Release (The End)
Anvil - Worth The Weight Re-Release (The End)
Avatar - Black Waltz (eOne)
Beneath The Massacre - Incongruous (Prosthetic)
Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony (Rise Above)
Breag Naofa - Breag Naofa (Panic)
Carnalation - Deathmask (Spinefarm)
Celestial Season - Forever Scarlet Passion Re-Release (Metalhit)
The Devastated - Devil's Messenger (Century Media)
Dimesland - Creepmoon (Vendlus)
Dunderbeist - Black Art & Crooked Tails (Indie)
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II (Southern Lord)
Goatwhore - Blood For The Master (Metal Blade)
The Howling Void - Megaliths of the Abyss Re-Release (Metalhit)
Immolith - Stormdragon (Metalhit)
Iron Mask - Black As Death (AFM)
Knives Out - Black Mass Hysteria (Razor To Wrist)
Lillian Axe - XI: The Days before Tomorrow (CME)
Macabra - Blood-Nurtured Nature (Metalhit)
Nocturnal Torment - They Come At Night (Deathgasm)
Ominous Crucifix - The Spell of Damnation (FDA Rekotz)
Orange Goblin - A Eulogy For The Damned (Candlelight)
Pilgrim - Mystery Wizard (Metal Blade)
Ribozyme - Presenting The Problem (Indie)
Strikemaster - Vicious Nightmare (Metalhit)
Temple Of Baal/Ritualization - The Visions Of Fading Mankind Split (Agonia)
Witchaven - Terrorstorm (Metalhit)
Wykked Wytch - The Ultimate Deception (Goomba)
Zombie Inc - A Dreadful Decease (Massacre)

February 21, 2012
Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction (Profound Lore)
Soen - Cognitive (Spinefarm)

February 28, 2012
77 - High Decibels (Listenable)
Asphyx - Deathhammer (Century Media)
Autopsy - All Tomorrow's Funerals (Peaceville)
Caliban - I Am Nemesis (Century Media)
Christian Mistress - Possession (Relapse)
Church Of Misery - Master Of Brutality Re-Release (Rise Above)
Church Of Misery - The Second Coming Re-Release (Rise Above)
Coldworker - The Doomsayer's Call (Listenable)
Corrosion Of Conformity - Corrosion Of Conformity (Candlelight)
Death - Vivus! (Relapse)
Degradead - Live At Wacken And Beyond DVD (Metalville)
Desaster - The Arts Of Destruction (Metal Blade)
Destroyer 666 - Cold Steel...For An Iron Age Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Djerv - Djerv (Indie)
Dyscarnate - And So It Came To Pass (Siege Of Amida)
Eluveitie - Helvetios (Nuclear Blast)
Forgjord - Sielunvihollinen (Hammer Of Hate)
Freedom Call - Land Of The Crimson Dawn (SPV)
Funeral Heaven/Plecto Aliquem Capite - Astral Mantras of Dyslexia Split (Dunkelheit)
Funeral Whore - Step Into Damnation (Chaos)
Imminent Sonic Destruction - Recurring Themes (FC)
Insense - Burn In Beautiful Fire (Indie)
I, The Breather - Truth And Purpose (Sumerian)
Lay Down Rotten - Mask Of Malice (Metal Blade)
Monarch - Omens (At A Loss)
Morbid Angel - Illud Divinum Insanus – The Remixes (Season Of Mist)
Napalm Death - Utilitarian (Century Media)
Nattfog - Mustan Auringon Riitti (Hammer Of Hate)
Nitrogods - Nitrogods (SPV)
Nothnegal - Decadence (Season Of Mist)
Opera Diabolicus - 1614 (Metalville)
Opera IX - Strix Maledictae in Aeternum (Agonia)
Rhope - Turning Maybes Into Reality (Bakerteam)
Savage Messiah - Plague Of Conscience (Earache)
Stéphan Forté - The Shadows Compendium (Listenable)
Terrorizer - Hordes Of Zombies (Season Of Mist)
T.R.A.M. - Lingua Franca (Sumerian)
UFO - Seven Deadly (SPV)
Veil Of Maya - Eclipse (Sumerian)

March 6, 2012
Cult Cinema - Iscariot (Siege Of Amida)
Diabolus In Musica - The Wanderer (Napalm)
Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma (Code 666)
Heidevolk - Batavi (Napalm)
Hellsaw - Trist (Napalm)
Pharoah - Bury The Light (Cruz del Sur)
Xandria - Neverworld's End (Napalm)

March 13, 2012
Amberian Dawn - Circus Black (Spinefarm)
Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve (Peaceville)
Cannibal Corpse - Torture (Metal Blade)
Depths Of Hatred - Aversionist (Galy)
Drudkh - Eternal Turn of the Wheel (Season Of Mist)
Epica - Requiem For The Indifferent (Nuclear Blast)
Float Face Down - Exitium Verum (Rite of Passage)
Impending Doom - Baptized In Filth (eOne)
A Liquid Landscape - Nightingale Express (Lasers Edge)
Lord Mantis - Pervertor (Candlelight)
Primitive Weapons - The Shadow Gallery (Prosthetic)
PanzerBastard - Gods, Thugs and Madmen (Patac)
Redeemer - First Degree (Rite Of Passage)
Shear - Breaking The Stillness (Lifeforce)
Sigh - In Somniphobia (Candlelight)
Soulfly - Enslaved (Roadrunner)
Spawn Of Possession - Incurso (Relapse)
Thunderkraft - Totentanz (Svarga)
Xerxes - Our Home Is A Deathbed (No Sleep)

March 20, 2012
Bang Tango - Pistol Whipped In The Bible Belt (78 Productions)
Unsane - Wreck (Alternative Tentacles)

March 27, 2012
3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal (Century Media)
Astra - The Black Chord (Metal Blade)
Aura Noir - Out To Die (Indie)
Axel Rudi Pell - Circle Of The Oath (SPV)
Bejelit - Emerge (Bakerteam)
Black Breath - Sentenced To Life (Southern Lord)
Borknagar - Urd (Century Media)
Cynic - The Portal Tapes (Season Of Mist)
Dark Empire - From Refuge To Ruin (Nightmare)
Furyon - Gravitas (Frontiers)
Hemina - Synthetic (Nightmare)
Hour Of Penance - Sedition (Prosthetic)
Iron Maiden - En Vivo! DVD/CD (Universal)
Kill Devil Hill - Kill Devil Hill (SPV)
Mad Max - Another Night Of Passion (SPV)
Make Me Famous - It's Now Or Never (Sumerian)
Mencea - Pyrophobic (Indie)
Meshuggah - Koloss (Nuclear Blast)
Ministry - Relapse (AFM)
Naglfar - Teras (Century Media)
Nashville Pussy - From Hell To Texas Deluxe Edition (SPV)
OSI - Fire Make Thunder (Metal Blade)
Overkill - The Electric Age (eOne)
A Sound Of Thunder - Out Of The Darkness (Nightmare)
Stick To Your Guns - Diamond (Sumerian)
Stigmhate - The Sun Collapse (Bakerteam)
The Way Of Purity - Biteback (Wormholedeath)
Wretched - Son Of Perdition (Victory)

April 3, 2012
Akphaezya - Anthology IV (Code 666)
Beak - Eyrie (Someoddpilot)
Beyond Terror Beyond Grace - Nadir (Willowtip)
Lonewolf - Army Of The Damned (Napalm)

April 10, 2012
Emmure - Slave To The Game (Victory)
Enthroned - Obsidium (Agonia)
ETHS - III (Season Of Mist)
Exumer - Fire & Damnation (Metal Blade)
Jeff Loomis - Plains Of Oblivion (Century Media)
Massive Assault - Death Strike (FDA Rekotz)
Mpire Of Evil - Hell To The Holy (Scarlet)
Municipal Waste - The Fatal Feast (Nuclear Blast)
Pelican - Ataraxia/Taraxis EP (Southern Lord)
The Safety Fire - Grind The Ocean (Inside Out)
Svartsyn - The True Legend Re-Release (Agonia)
Taproot - The Episodes (Victory)
Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light (Earache)

April 17, 2012
Deathhammer - Onward To The Pits (Hells Headbangers)
Dragonforce - The Power Within (Roadrunner)
Hellvetron - Death Scroll of Seven Hells and Its Infernal Majesties (Hells Headbangers)
Ufomammut - Oro: Opus Primum (Neurot)

April 24, 2012
7 Horns 7 Eyes - Throes Of Absolution (Century Media)
Anathema - Weather Systems (The End)
Bereft - Leichenhaus (The End)
Cancer Bats - Dead Set On Living (Metal Blade)
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo - Tree of Tongues (Mediaskare)
Fair Warning - Best And More (SPV)
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol (Century Media)
Prong - Carved Into Stone (Long Branch)
Running Wild - Shadowmaker (SPV)
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion (Roadrunner)
Unleashed - Odalheim (Nuclear Blast)
Vesperian Sorrow - Stormwinds of Ages (The Path Less Traveled)

May 1, 2012
St. Vitus - Lillie: F-65 (Season Of Mist)
Theatres Des Vampires - Moonlight Waltz Tour 2011 DVD/CD (Dreamcell11)

May 8, 2012
Crack Up - Heads Will Roll Re-Release (Metal Mind)

May 22, 2012
Firewind - Few Against Many (eOne)
Royal Thunder - CVI (Relapse)

June 5, 2012
Kreator - Phantom Antichrist (Nuclear Blast)
Rise To Remain - City Of Vultures (Century Media)

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