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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.

May 7, 2013
Acolyte - Alta (Mordgrimm)
Amber - Lovesaken (Halo Of Flies)
The Amenta - Flesh Is Heir (Listenable)
Atrocity - Okkult (Napalm)
Control Human Delete - The Prime Mover (Code 666)
Damnation Angels - Bringer Of Light (Massacre)
Delain - Interlude (Napalm)
Dug Pinnick - Naked (MVD)
Earthling - Dark Path (Forcefield)
F.K.U. - 4: Rise Of The Mosh Monsters (Napalm)
Freedom Call - Ages Of Light (SPV)
Gama Bomb - The Terror Tapes (AFM)
Gloomball - The Distance (SPV)
Grime - Deteriorate (Forcefield)
In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad (Sensory)
Kingdom Come - Outlier (SPV)
Magister Templi - Lucifer Leviathan Logos (Cruz Del Sur)
Metal Law - Lawbreaker Re-Release (Metal On Metal)
Mpire Of Evil - Crucified (Deadline)
Nordheim - Refill (Maple Metal)
Rhapsody Of Fire - Live: From Chaos To Eternity (AFM)
Sacred Gate - Tides Of War (Metal On Metal
Sadgiqacea - False Prism (Candlelight)
Sidious - Ascension to the Throne ov Self (Kaotoxin)
Sodom - Epitome Of Torture (SPV)
Temple of Thieves - Passing Through The Zeros (Goomba)
Tormented - Death Awaits (Listenable)
V8 Wankers - Got Beer? (SPV)
Vicious Rumors - Electric Punishment (SPV)

May 14, 2013
Adoran - Adoron (Consouling)
Aggressa - Nuclear Death Re-Release (Iron Bonehead)
Ape Machine - Mangled By The Machine (Ripple)
Arckanum - Fenris Kindir (Season Of Mist)
Artizan - Ancestral Energy (Pure Steel)
Beyond Creation - The Aura (Season Of Mist)
Beyond Mortal Dreams - Dreaming Death (Lavadome)
Black Cowgirl - Black Cowgirl (Restricted Release)
Bolzer - Aura EP (Iron Bonehead)
Cultura Tres - Rezando Al Miedo (Devouter)
Death Karma - A Life Not Worth Living EP (Iron Bonehead)
Death Ray Vision - Get Lost Or Get Dead (Bullet Tooth)
Devil - Gather The Sinners (Soulseller)
The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer (Sumerian)
Enshine - Origin (Rain Without End)
Entrails - Raging Death (Metal Blade)
Escape The Fate - Ungrateful (Eleven Seven)
Extinction Protocol - Aeonic Obliteration (P2)
Fatal Smile - 21st Century Freaks (FS)
From Far Away - Recover Repeat (At Your Command)
Gravewurm - Infernal Minions (Hells Headbangers)
Heart In Hand - Almost There (Siege Of Amida)
Hexvessel - Iron Marsh EP (Svart)
Hybrid - Angst (Deepsend)
Immolation - King Of Conspiracy (Nuclear Blast)
Intoxicated - Rock N Roll Hellpatrol (Hells Headbangers)
Kadavar - Abra Kadavar! (Nuclear Blast)
Killing Joke - The Singles Collection (Spinefarm)
Kings Destroy - A Time Of Hunting (War Crimes)
Lifeforms - Multidimensional (Lifeforce)
The Monolith Deathcult - Tetragrammaton (Season Of Mist)
Mortal Form - The Reckoning (My Kingdom)
My Dying Bride - The Manuscript EP (Peaceville)
Negator - Gates To The Pantheon (Prosthetic)
Ocellus - Departure (Pavement)
Ogdru Jahad - I (Iron Bonehead)
Orchid - The Mouths Of Madness (Nuclear Blast)
Pop Evil - Onyx (eOne)
The Resistance - Scars (Armoury)
Steve Von Till - As The Crow Flies Re-Release (Neurot)
Thinning The Herd - Freedom From The Known (Saint Marks)
Tribulation - The Formulas Of Death (Invictus)
Trucker Diablo - Songs Of Iron (Ripple)
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Mind Control (Metal Blade)
Utopium - Vicious Consolation / Virtuous Totality (Bleak)
Vindictiv - Cage Of Infinity (Escape)
Zolle - Zolle (Supernatural Cat)
Zombiefication - At The Caves Of Eternal (Pulverised)

May 21, 2013
Acherontas - Amenti (World Terror Committee)
Airbourne - Black Dog Barking (Roadrunner)
Burning Rain - Epic Obsession (Frontiers)
Circle - Six Day Run (Ektro)
Decaying - The Last Days Of War (Hellthrasher)
Death Of An Era - The Great Commonwealth EP (Artery)
Erlen Meyer - Erlen Meyer (Shelsmusic)
Extrema - The Seed Of Foolishness (Scarlet)
Fact - Burundanga (Good Fight)
For The Broken - Aurora (Imminence)
Gaytheist - Hold Me...But Not So Tight (Good To Die)
Hebosagil - Lähtö (Ektro)
Masteroid - MMXIII (Inverse)
NK - Nothing To Be Gained Here (Triple Crown)
A Pale Horse Named Death - Lay My Soul To Waste (SPV)
Palisades - Outcasts (Rise)
The Poodles - Tour De Force (Frontiers)
PTSD - A Sense Of Decay (My Kingdom)
Ruindom - In The Eyes Of Death (Inverse)
Saffire - From Ashes To Fire (Inner Wound)
Satan - Life Sentence (Listenable)
Svart Crown - Profane (Listenable)
Timo Tolkki's Avalon - The Land Of New Hope (Frontiers)
U.D.O. - Steelhammer (AFM)
Zed - Desperation Blues (I And I)

May 28, 2013
Age Of Taurus - Desperate Souls of Tortured Times (Metal Blade)
Antigama - Meteor (Selfmadegod)
Anvil - Hope In Hell (The End)
ASG - Blood Drive (Relapse)
Black Star Riders - All Hell Breaks Loose (Nuclear Blast)
Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark (Rise Above)
Burial Vault - Incendium (Apostasy)
Cadaveria - Horror Metal - Undead Edition Re-Release (Bakerteam)
Cerna - Restoring Life (Domestic Genocide)
Chaostar - Anomima (Season Of Mist)
Dark Tranquillity - Construct (Century Media)
Dew-Scented - Insurgent (Prosthetic)
Dio - Finding The Sacred Heart: Live In Philly 1986 DVD (Eagle Rock)
Eldkraft - Shaman (Poison Tongue)
Gardenjia - EPO (Memorial)
Gevurah - Necheshirion (Profound Lore)
Haraball - Sleep Tall (Fysisk Format)
Humiliation - Turbulence From The Deep (Deepsend)
Iron Tongue - The Dogs Have Barked, The Birds Have Flown (Neurot)
Judas Priest - Epitaph DVD (Legacy)
Kylesa - Ultraviolet (Season Of Mist)
Leprous - Coal (Inside Out)
Lux Interna - There Is Light In The Body... (Pesanta Urfolk)
Mortuary Drape - Tolling 13 Knell Re-Release (Peaceville)
Pasadena Napalm Division - Pasadena Napalm Division (Minus Head)
Sacred Oath - Fallen (Angel Thorne)
Shining - One One One (Prosthetic)
Slidhr - Deluge (Debemur Morti)
Sound Of Contact - Dimensionaut (Inside Out)
Tesseract - Altered State (Century Media)
Zombiekrig - Den Vänstra Stigens Ljus (GMR)

June 4, 2013
Artlantica - Across The Seven Seas (SPV)
Be'Lakor - Of Breath And Bone (Kolony)
Bruce Soord & Jonas Renske - Wisdom Of Crowds (Kscope)
Colosso - Abrasive Peace (Mulligore)
Cynthesis - ReEvolution (Sensory)
Darkall Slaves - Abysses of Seclusion (Kaotoxin)
Death Valley Driver - Graveyard Death (Diminished Fifth)
Demon Lung - The Hundredth Name (Candlelight)
De Profundis - The Emptiness Within (Kolony)
Eshtadur - Stay Away From Evil and Get Close to Me (Gate Of Horror)
Fair Warning - Sundancer (SPV)
Gloomball - The Distance (SPV)
Gothminister - Utopia (AFM)
Gyze - Fascinating Violence (Coroner)
The Kolmas - Kolmas Testi (Ektro)
Magnus Rising - Whatever It Takes (L8R)
Megadeth - Super Collider (Tradecraft)
Metal Mike - The Metalworker (CMM)
Mirthless - A Dirge For Your Suicide (Dunkelheit)
Naam - Vow (Tee Pee)
Powerworld - Cybersteria (SPV)
Pylon - The Harrowing Of Hell (Roxx)
Revelation's Hammer - Revelation's Hammer (My Kingdom)
Set And Setting - Equanimity (Science Of Silence)
Shoot The Girl First - Follow The Clouds (Artery)
Slussenanalys - Aquila Helvetos Asfaltos (Ektro)
Sofy Major - Idolize (Solar Flare)
Suidakra - Eternal Defiance (AFM)
Various Artists - Bloodbrothers II: A Compilation of Recordings by Rock/Metal Bands From Cyprus (Pitch Black)

June 11, 2013
Aborym - Dirty (Agonia)
Author & Punisher - Women & Children (Seventh Rule)
Arrayan Path - IV: Stigmata (Pitch Black)
Behexen - Rituale Satanum Re-Release (Debemur Morti)
Black Sabbath - 13 (Vertigo)
The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack (Metal Blade)
Cardinals Folly - Strange Conflicts of the Past (Shadow Kingdom)
Celldweller - Celldweller Re-Release (Celldweller Productions)
Children Of Bodom - Halo Of Blood (Nuclear Blast)
Church Of Misery - Thy Kingdom Scum (Metal Blade)
Civil War - The Killer Angels (Despotz)
Creations - Unworthy/Humility (Mediaskare)
Dark Buddha Rising - Dakhmandal (Svart)
Deafhaven - Sunbather (Deathwish)
The Devil's Blood - III: Tabula Rasa or Death and the Seven Pillars (Metal Blade)
Drunk Dad - Morbid Reality (Eolian Empire)
Evile - Skull (Earache)
Fejd - Nagelfar (Napalm)
Fin - Fated By Will And Iron (Disorder)
Full Of Hell - Rudiments Of Mutilation (A389)
Haust - No (Fysisk Format)
House Vs. Hurricane - Crooked Teeth (Equal Vision)
Integrity - Suicide Black Snake (Magic Bullet)
Into The Flood - Vices (Century Media)
Johansson & Speckmann - Sulphur Skies (Vic)
Jorn - Traveler (Frontiers)
Lacrimas Profundere - Antiadore (Napalm)
Magnus Karlsson - Freefall (Frontiers)
Master - Unknown Soldier (Vic)
Necronomicon - Rise Of The Elders (Season Of Mist)
Noisem - Agony Defined (A389)
Power Trip - Manifest Decimation (Southern Lord)
Pylon - The Harrowing Of Hell (Roxx)
Scale The Summit - The Migration (Prosthetic)
Seth - The Howling Spirit (Season Of Mist)
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn (Napalm)
Trail Of Tears - Oscillation (Massacre)
Tristania - Darkest White (Napalm)

June 18, 2013
Angels Of Babylon - Thundergod (Scarlet)
Brutus - Behind The Mountains (Svart)
Bukowski Family - Unpleasantries Abundant (Artificial God)
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus - Live at Roadburn 2011 (Svart)
Cardiant - Verge (Inverse)
Carrier Flux - Objection (Code 666)
Chthonic - Bú-Tik (Spinefarm)
The Custodian - Necessary Wasted (The Lasers Edge)
Dark Moor - Ars Musica (Scarlet)
Death Dealer - War Master (Steel Cartel)
Deveykus - Pillar Without Mercy (Tsadik)
Falling In Reverse - Fashionably Late (Epitaph)
Fell Voices - Regnum Saturni (Gilead)
Fractured Spine - Songs Of Slumber (Inverse)
Heart Attack - Stop Pretending (Apathia)
High On Fire - Spitting Fire Live Vol.1 and 2 (eOne)
Infinita Symphonia - Infinita Symphonia (Scarlet)
Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony (Spinefarm)
Lychgate - Lychgate (Gilead)
Masterplan - Novum Initium (AFM)
Meads Of Asphodel - Sonderkommando (Candlelight)
Nox Ultima - From Delirium To Catharsis (Inverse)
Pitch Black Process - Hand Of God (Sliptrick)
Potential Threat SF - Civilization Under Threat (Old School Metal)
Unconventional Disruption - Flood To Euthanasia (Memorial)
Valient Thorr - Our Own Masters (Volcom)

June 25, 2013
Abnormal Thought Patterns - Manipulation Under Anesthesia (Lifeforce)
Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods (Metal Blade)
Attila - About That Life (Artery)
August Burns Red - Rescue & Restore (Solid State)
Behexen - Rituale Satanum Re-Release (Debemur Morti)
Damned Spring Fragrantia - Divergences (Basick)
Dio - Magica Re-Release (Niji)
Firewind - Apotheosis: Live 2012 (Firewind)
Havok - Unnatural Selection (Candlelight)
Iliac Thorns - It (Inverse)
Imprecation - Satanae Tenebris Infinita (Dark Descent)
Insanity - Death After Death Re-Release (Hells Headbangers)
Lantern - Below (Dark Descent)
Lesbian - Forestelevision (Translation Loss)
Locrian - Return To Annihilation (Relapse)
Man's Gin - Rebellion Hymns (Profound Lore)
Morality Crisis - Boats (Minnesconsin)
Mouth Of The Architect - Dawning (Translation Loss)
Mumakill - Flies Will Starve (Relapse)
Necrotic Disgorgement - Documentaries of Dementia (Comatose)
Nosdrama - Gravity (Inverse)
One Inch Giant - The Great White Beyond (Soulseller)
Orphaned Land - All Is One (Century Media)
Palms - Palms (Ipecac)
Queensryche - Queensryche (Century Media)
Ramming Speed - Doomed to Destroy, Destined To Die (Prosthetic)
Scorpion Child - Scorpion Child (Nuclear Blast)
Send Me Home - The Struggle EP (Harbor)
Serj Tankian - Orca (Serjical Strike)
Sister Sin - Dance Of The Wicked Re-Release (Victory)
Skeletal Spectre - Voodoo Dawn (Pulverised)
Spirits Of The Dead - Rumours Of A Presence (The End)
Svartsyn - Black Testament (Agonia)
The Vein - Scouring the Wrekage of Time (Shadow Kingdom)
White Wizzard - The Devils Cut (Earache)

July 2, 2013
42 Decibel - Hard Rock N Roll (SPV)
Autopsy - The Headless Ritual (Peaceville)
Darkane - The Sinister Supremacy (Prosthetic)
Edenbridge - The Bonding (SPV)
Ecnephias - Necrogod (Code 666)
Huntress - Starbound Beast (Napalm)
Impiety - Vengeance Hell Immemorial (Hells Headbangers)
Oliva - Raise The Curtain (AFM)
Raven - Rock Until You Drop: A Long Day's Journey DVD (SPV)
Rebellious Spirit - Gamble Shot (SPV)
Sanktuary - Something Fierce (Spread The Metal)
Venomous Maximus - Beg Upon The Light (Napalm)

July 9, 2013
Besieged - Victims Beyond All Help Re-Release (Unspeakable Axe)
Coffins - The Fleshland (Relapse)
Corsair - Alpha Centauri EP Re-Release (Shadow Kingdom)
Earthen Grave - Earthen Grave (Ripple)
I Killed Everyone - Necrospire (Pavement)
Lord Dying - Summon The Faithless (Relapse)
Lycus - Tempest (20 Buck Spin)
Monsters Scare You - Die A Legend (Century Media)
Nothnegal - Nothnegal EP (Season Of Mist)
Pest - The Crowning Horror (Agonia)
Shroud Eater - Dead Ends (The Path Less Traveled)
Spheron - Ecstasy Of God (Apostasy)
Unkind - Pelon Juuret (Relapse)
Whitesnake - Made In Britain: The World Record (Frontiers)
Wilson - Full Blast F--kery (Easy Killer)
Witch Cross - Axe To Grind (Hells Headbangers)

July 16, 2013
The Aristocrats - Culture Clash (Boing)
Hammercult - Anthems Of The Damned (SPV)
Kryptos - The Coils of Apollyon (AFM)
Phillip Anselmo - Walk Through Exits Only (Housecore)
Seven Witches - Rebirth (Frostbyte)
Trouble - The Distortion Field (FRW)
Victorius - The Awakening
(SPV)

July 23, 2013
Baroness - Live at the Maida Vale - BBC (Relapse)
Black Tusk - Tend No Wounds EP (Relapse)
Fight Or Flight - A Life By Design? (Warner Brothers)
Five Finger Death Punch - TBA (Prospect Park)
GrandExit - The Dead Justifies The Means (Lifeforce)
Lord Dying - Summon The Faithless (Relapse)
Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds (20 Buck Spin)
Misery Signals - Absent Light (Self)
Old Gods - Stylized Violence (Force Again)
Serj Tankian - Jazz-iz Christ (Serjical Strike)
Star & Dagger - Tomorrowland Blues (Cauldron 333)
True Widow - Circumambulation (Relapse)
We Came As Romans - Tracing Back Roots (Equal Vision)
The Winery Dogs - The Winery Dogs (Loud and Proud)

July 30, 2013
Chimaira - Crown Of Phantoms (eOne)
Death SS - Resurrection (Scarlet)
Mercenary - Through Our Darkest Days (Prosthetic)

August 6, 2013
Asking Alexandria - From Death To Destiny (Sumerian)
Exhumed - Necrocracy (Relapse)
Impiety - The Impious Crusade EP (Hells Headbangers)
The Lumberjack Feedback - Hand Of Glory (Kaotoxin)
Revocation - Revocation (Relapse)

August 20, 2013
Front Beast - Demon Ways Of Sorcery (Hells Headbangers)
Watain - The Wild Hunt (Century Media)

August 27, 2013
Michael Monroe - Horns And Halos (Spinefarm)
Tarja - Colours In The Dark (Armoury)

September 3, 2013
Deliverance - Hear What I Say! (Roxx)

September 10, 2013
Lalu - Atomic Ark (Sensory)

September 24, 2013
Hirax - Immortal Legacy (SPV)

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