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Heavy Metal CD Release Dates

By Chad Bowar, About.com

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.

October 13, 2009
Baroness - Blue Record (Relapse)
The Destro - Harmony Of Dischord (Metal Blade)
Edgend - A New Identity (Nightmare)
Future's End - Memoir Of A Broken Man (Nightmare)
Grave Robber - Inner Sanctum (Retroactive)
King Diamond - Graveyard Re-Release (Metal Blade)
King Diamond - The Spider's Lullabye Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Leaves Eyes - Njord (Napalm)
Lye By Mistake - Fea Jur (Blackmarket Activities)
Lynch Mob - Smoke And Mirrors (Frontiers)
Marduk - Wormwood (Regain)
Narnia - Course Of A Generation (Nightmare)
Skeletonwitch - Breathing The Fire (Prosthetic)
Skyfire - Esoteric (Pivotal)
Those Who Lie Beneath - An Awakening (Rise)
Ultimatum - Lex Metalis (Retroactive)
Warmen - Japanese Hospitality (Spinefarm)

October 20, 2009
Belphegor - Walpurgis Rites Hexenwahn (Nuclear Blast)
Converge - Axe To Fall (Epitaph)
Fu Manchu - Signs Of Infinite Power (Century Media)
Gwen Stacy - A Dialogue (Solid State)
Incite - The Slaughter (I Scream)
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick Re-Release (Earache)
Naam - Naam (Tee Pee)
Portal - Swarth (Profound Lore)
Rammstein - Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da (Vagrant)
Saviours - Accelerated Living (Kemado)
Scar Symmetry - Dark Matter Dimensions (Nuclear Blast)
Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder (Neurot)
Various Artists - Saw VI Soundtrack (Trustkill)
White Mice - Ganjahovahdose (20 Buck Spin)

October 27, 2009
3 - Revisions (Metal Blade)
36 Crazyfists - Underneath A Northern Sky DVD (Ferret)
The Abominable Iron Sloth – Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Heaviness (Blackmarket Activities)
Agathodaimon - Phoenix (E1)
Atreyu - Congregation Of The Damned (Hollywood)
Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect (Victory)
Bride - Tsar Bomba (Retroactive)
Dir En Grey - Average Blasphemy DVD (The End)
Graveworm - Diabolical Figures (E1)
Hackneyed - Burn After Reaping (E1)
Halford - III: Winter Songs (Metal God)
Ideamen - May You Live In Interesting Times (Rotten)
Pelican - What We All Come To Need (Southern Lord)
The Red Chord - Fed Through The Teeth Machine (Metal Blade)
The Red Shore - Unconsecrated Special Edition (Rise)
Saviours - Accelerated Living (Kemado)
Suffocation - The Close Of A Chapter: Live In Quebec (Relapse)
Theatre Of Tragedy - Forever Is The World (AFM)
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind (Metal Blade)
Vreid - Milorg (The End)
WASP - Babylon (Demolition)
Winger - Karma (Frontiers)

November 3, 2009
The 11th Hour - Burden Of Grief (Napalm)
Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi (Napalm)
Defiance - The Prophecy (Candlelight)
Epica - Design Your Universe (Nuclear Blast)
Geist - Galeere (Prophecy)
Genitorturers - Blackheart Revolution (MVD)
Hellbastard - The Need To Kill (Selfmadegod)
Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity (Nuclear Blast)
Mayhem - Pure F----ing Mayhem DVD (Prophecy)
Mr. Death - Detached From Life (Agonia)
Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest (Nuclear Blast)
Nocturnal Fear - Metal Of Honor (Moribund)
Oppressor - The Solstice of Agony and Corrosion (MVD)
Savage Messiah - Insurrection Rising (Candlelight)
Shadow Gallery - Digital Ghosts (InsideOut)
Slayer - World Painted Blood (Columbia)
Various Artists - Swedish Death Metal Soundtrack (3 CDs) (Prophecy)
We Came As Romans - To Plant A Seed (Equal Vision)

November 10, 2009
AC/DC - Backtracks (Columbia)
Amon Amarth - Versus The World Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Anthrax - Among The Living CD/DVD Re-Release (Island)
Coalesce - Ox EP (Relapse)
The Company Band - The Company Band (Red)
Dark Funeral - Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus (Regain)
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter - Licht (The End)
Gaza - He Is Never Coming Back (Metal Blade)
Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt (Regain)
Gwar - America Must Be Destroyed Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Jacobs Dream - Beneath The Shadows (Retroactive)
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day (Peaceville)
King Diamond - House Of God Re-Release (Metal Blade)
King Diamond - Voodoo (Metal Blade)
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough (Profound Lore)
Outbreak - Outbreak (Trustkill)
These Are They - Who Linger (The End)
Throwdown - Deathless (E1)
Vampire Mooose - The Reel (Rotten)
Witchmaster - Trücizna (Ibex Moon)

November 17, 2009
Barren Earth - Our Twilight (Peaceville)
Dark Tranquillity - Where Death Is Most Alive CD and DVD (Century Media)
Devin Townsend - Addiction (InsideOut)
Suffokate - No Mercy, No Forgiveness (Century Media)
Swallow The Sun - New Moon (Spinefarm)
Voivod - Tatsumaki: Voivod in Japan 2008 DVD (MVD)

November 24, 2009
Acheron - The Final Conflict: Last Days Of God (Ibex Moon)
Fatalist - The Depths Of Inhumanity (Ibex Moon)
Impious - Death Domination (Metal Blade)
Megasus - Megasus (20 Buck Spin)
Various Artists - Grind Madness At The BBC (Earache)

December 1, 2009
Stratovarius - Elements Pt. 1 Re-Release (Metal Mind)
Stratovarius - Elements Pt. 2 Re-Release (Metal Mind)
Temple Of Baal - Lightslaying Rituals (Agonia)

December 22, 2009
Mudvayne - Mudvayne (Epic)

January 12, 2010
Suicidal Angels - Sanctify The Darkness (Nuclear Blast)

January 19, 2010
Miseration - The Mirroring Shadow (Lifeforce)
Six Feet Under - Graveyard Classics 3 (Metal Blade)

January 26, 2010
Absu - Absu Deluxe Edition (Candlelight)
Carpathian Forest - We’re Going To Hollywood For This – Live Perversions (Metal Mind)
Green Carnation - Alive and Well in Krakow (Metal Mind)
Ihsahn - After (Candlelight)
Mnemic - Sons Of The System (Nuclear Blast)

February 9, 2010
Fear Factory - Mechanized (Candlelight)
Overkill - Ironbound (E1)

End Of Upcoming Releases - Archive of Previous Releases and Links To CD Reviews Begins On Page 2

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