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 in the year 2010.

Bands disbanded

  • Abscess
    Abscess (band)
    Abscess was a hardcore punk-influenced death metal band from Oakland, California. The band was formed in 1994 by Chris Reifert and Danny Coralles, both former members of Autopsy....

  • Acheron
    Acheron (band)
    Acheron are an American black/death band, originally based in Florida.-History:Founded in 1988 by vocalist/bassist/songwriter Vincent Crowley , Acheron's musical output is almost exclusively Satanic and anti-Christian in content. Early albums featured interludes by Peter H. Gilmore...

  • The Autumn Offering
    The Autumn Offering
    The Autumn Offering is an American metalcore band that formed in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1999. After achieving some degree of local success, the band was signed to Stillborn Records, founded by Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed, in 2003. The band released one album through this label...

  • Despised Icon
    Despised Icon
    Despised Icon was a Canadian deathcore band from Montreal, Quebec. Formed in 2002, the band is notable for the use of two vocalists; Alexandre Erian, takes use of a mid-range screaming technique, and Steve Marois for the low growling vocals, and high pitched screamed vocals...

  • Destroy the Runner
    Destroy the Runner
    Destroy the Runner was an American metalcore band from San Diego, California, United States. Tim Lambesis of As I Lay Dying managed them for their album Saints, and did so again with Jason Rudolph for their second album I, Lucifer....

  • Detente
    Detente (band)
    Detente is a thrash metal band founded in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. The group's original line-up included Dawn Crosby on vocals, Steve Hochheiser on bass, Dennis Butler on drums and Ross Robinson and Caleb Quinn on guitars,.-History:...

  • Dio
    Dio (band)
    Dio was an American heavy metal band from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Formed in 1982 and led by vocalist Ronnie James Dio, after he left Black Sabbath with intentions to form a new band with fellow former Black Sabbath member, drummer Vinny Appice. Naming the band Dio made sense from a commercial...

  • Exivious
    Exivious
    Exivious is a heavy metal band, featuring former members of American progressive metal band Cynic and current members of Dutch band Textures. They released one self-titled album independently. Exivious incorporate heavy metal riffs with a jazz fusion approach to phrasing and time signatures,...

  • Fear My Thoughts
    Fear My Thoughts
    Fear My Thoughts was a melodic death metal band from Rheinfelden, Germany, founded in 1997. Their album, Vulcanus, was produced by Jacob Hansen and was released on January 15, 2007. Their new home is in Freiburg. Songs for the latest album, Isolation, were written by Fear My Thoughts...

  • Fellsilent
    Fellsilent
    Fellsilent were a British experimental metal band from Milton Keynes. They possessed a technical, polyrhythmic style similar to bands such as Meshuggah and Sikth. The band also focused on some melodic elements...

  • Finch
    Finch (American band)
    Finch was an American rock band from Temecula, California. The band released an EP Falling Into Place and two full-length albums, What It Is to Burn and Say Hello to Sunshine before declaring a hiatus in 2006. Finch reformed in 2007, playing a reunion show on November 23 at the Glasshouse in...

  • Gwen Stacy
    Gwen Stacy (band)
    Gwen Stacy was an American metalcore band that was signed with Solid State Records. Their name came from the comic book character Gwen Stacy, who appeared in the comic book The Amazing Spider-Man as the girlfriend of Peter Parker...

  • Heaven & Hell
  • Isis
    Isis (band)
    Isis was a Los Angeles, California-based post-metal band, founded in Boston, Massachusetts, with a career spanning from 1997 to 2010...

  • Luna Mortis
    Luna Mortis
    Luna Mortis was an American heavy metal band based in Madison, Wisconsin.The band was formed in late 2001 in Monroe, Wisconsin as The Ottoman Empire. In 2006, the band self-released their debut studio album, Way of the Blade. In June 2007, Luna Mortis played the first Flight of the Valkyries...

  • Narnia
  • The Number Twelve Looks Like You
    The Number Twelve Looks Like You
    The Number Twelve Looks Like You was a mathcore band from Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Their music combined elements of grindcore, progressive metal, hardcore punk and jazz...

  • Olympos Mons
    Olympos Mons (band)
    Olympos Mons was a Finnish power metal band, formed in 2002 by guitarist Jari Sundström and singer Ian E. Highhill.- History :The two original members' passion for symphonic metal led to them founding an own band, to be able to develop their musical creativity entirely...

  • Red Harvest
    Red Harvest (band)
    Red Harvest was a Norwegian industrial metal band from Oslo. Their 2002 album Sick Transit Gloria Mundi was nominated for a Norwegian Grammy and an alternative Grammy in the "Best Metal Album" category...

  • Revolution Renaissance
    Revolution Renaissance
    Revolution Renaissance was a multinational power metal band founded by guitarist Timo Tolkki after he left Stratovarius in 2008. The band released three studio albums before disbanding in 2010.-New Era:...

  • Salt the Wound
    Salt the Wound
    Salt the Wound is an American deathcore band from Cleveland, Ohio, formed in 2001. They released two EPs and two full-length studio albums. After the release of their debut album, Carnal Repercussions the band would continuously tour to an overwhelming extent, which led to their disbandment...

  • Theatre of Tragedy
    Theatre of Tragedy
    Theatre of Tragedy was a Norwegian band from Stavanger, active between 1993 and 2010. They are best known for their earlier albums, which provided a great deal of influence to the gothic metal genre.-Biography:...

  • Wrench in the Works
    Wrench in the Works
    Wrench in the Works were an American Christian metal band originating from Hartford, Connecticut. The band is currently signed to Facedown Records and in the process of recording new music for their upcoming album...

  • Xasthur
    Xasthur
    Xasthur was a Californian one-man black metal band formed in 1995 by Scott Conner, who goes by the pseudonym "Malefic". Although similar in terms of low-fi production and the wearing of corpse paint, musically and lyrically Xasthur's focus is usually not on paganism, Satanism or anti-Christian...

  • Zyklon
    Zyklon
    Zyklon is the German word for Cyclone.It may also refer to:* Zyklon, a Norwegian industrial blackened death metal band.* Zyklon B, a pesticide ultimately used by Nazi Germany in gas chambers...


Bands reformed

  • Abruptum
    Abruptum
    Abruptum was a black metal and dark ambient band from Sweden formed in 1989 by IT , All , and Ext. IT had already planned to create the band in 1987, but it wasn't until 1990 that he found the right members to do it. The same year, they recorded their first two demos. After the release of the...

  • Acheron
    Acheron
    The Acheron is a river located in the Epirus region of northwest Greece. It flows into the Ionian Sea in Ammoudia, near Parga.-In mythology:...

  • Autopsy
    Autopsy (band)
    Autopsy is a death metal band, founded in 1987 in the United States by Chris Reifert. They disbanded in 1995, but have reunited as of July 2009.-Biography:...

  • Battleaxe
    Battleaxe (band)
    Battleaxe is a heavy metal band from Sunderland, England. As one of the notable bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene, they started out with the name Warrior and morphed into Battleaxe sometime in early 1980. The band consisted of Dave King , Brian Smith , Steve Hardy , and Ian Thompson...

  • Byzantine
    Byzantine (band)
    Byzantine is a heavy metal band from Charleston, West Virginia that formed in 2000. The band consists of frontman and co-founder Chris "OJ" Ojeda , Brian Henderson , Matt Wolfe and Michael "Skip" Cromer . They have released three studio albums on Prosthetic Records...

  • Coroner
    Coroner (band)
    Coroner is a Swiss thrash metal/progressive metal band from Zurich. They garnered relatively little attention outside of Europe. Formed in 1983, the band broke up in 1996, but decided to reform 14 years later. The band will perform at multiple live venues and festivals around the world in 2011,...

  • Empyrium
    Empyrium
    Empyrium is a German symphonic folk/doom metal and neofolk/dark folk band.- Band's history :Empyrium was founded in 1994 by Markus Stock and Andreas Bach, but later many other participated....

  • Exhumed
    Exhumed (band)
    Exhumed is an American death metal band from San Jose, California, most recently signed to Relapse Records. They were formed in 1990, when sole remaining founding member Matt Harvey was at the age of 15. Exhumed spent much of the ensuing decade hacking its way through numerous demos, split CDs,...

  • Godflesh
    Godflesh
    Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham, England. Originally known as Fall of Because, they formed in 1988 by Justin K. Broadrick and G.C. Green and disbanded in 2002. Godflesh's innovative music is widely regarded as a foundational influence on industrial metal and post-metal...

  • Lord Belial
    Lord Belial
    Lord Belial is a Swedish black metal band. The band formed in 1992 and released their debut album in 1995; placing them among the pioneers of Swedish black metal. Their sound has been compared with bands such as Dissection....

  • Lock Up
    Lock Up (UK band)
    Lock Up is a deathgrind side project originally formed by Shane Embury , Nicholas Barker and Jesse Pintado...

  • Morgoth
    Morgoth (band)
    Morgoth is a German death metal band that was formed in 1985 by Rüdiger Hennecke and Carsten Otterbach in Meschede. Originally the name Cadaverous Smell was used and the band played grindcore / noise style. When Harry Busse joined the band they renamed themselves to "Minas Morgul". In 1985 the band...

  • Murderdolls
    Murderdolls
    Murderdolls is an American horror punk supergroup, founded during 2002 in Hollywood, California. The band line-up consists of core members Wednesday 13 and Joey Jordison. Former members include Ben Graves, Acey Slade, Eric Griffin & Tripp Eisen....

  • Nightfall
    Nightfall (band)
    Nightfall is a Greek heavy metal band from Athens. Formed by vocalist/bassist Efthimis Karadimas in 1991, the group is currently signed to Metal Blade Records.- History :...

  • Salt the Wound
    Salt the Wound
    Salt the Wound is an American deathcore band from Cleveland, Ohio, formed in 2001. They released two EPs and two full-length studio albums. After the release of their debut album, Carnal Repercussions the band would continuously tour to an overwhelming extent, which led to their disbandment...

  • Sanctuary
    Sanctuary (band)
    Sanctuary is an American heavy metal band founded in Seattle in 1985. The band consisted of Warrel Dane , Lenny Rutledge , Sean Blosl, Jim Sheppard , Dave Budbill , and in the end Jeff Loomis.-History:...

  • Soundgarden
    Soundgarden
    Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by singer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto...

  • Tokyo Blade
    Tokyo Blade
    Tokyo Blade is an English heavy metal band, active since 1982. Tokyo Blade is one of the many acts considered part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement from the late 1970s / early 1980s. Tokyo Blade went through many changes of formation and disbanded twice, often changing their musical...

  • Voivod
    Voivod (band)
    Voivod are a Canadian heavy metal band from Jonquière, Quebec, Canada. Their musical style has changed several times since the band's origin in the early 1980s...

  • Wastefall
    Wastefall
    Wastefall is a progressive rock/metal group from Greece. They formed in 2003 and disbanded on August 1, 2008. They reunited in 2010.-Biography:...

  • Quiet Riot
    Quiet Riot
    Quiet Riot is an American Heavy Metal band. They are best known for their hit singles "Metal Health" and "Cum On Feel the Noize". They were founded in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, under the original name Mach 1, before changing the name to Little Women and finally Quiet...


Books

  • Cult of Luna
    Cult of Luna
    Cult of Luna is a Swedish post-metal band from Umeå. They formed from the remnants of a Umeå hardcore punk band called Eclipse in 1998. They slowly garnered critical appreciation and underground popularity with early releases Cult of Luna and The Beyond ; however, it is 2004's Salvation that can...

     plan to release a book explaining the full story behind their Eternal Kingdom
    Eternal Kingdom
    Eternal Kingdom is the fifth full-length album from the Swedish post-metal band Cult of Luna. It was released in 2008 on Earache Records like the band's previous three albums...

     album. The book will be written in Swedish and translated into English, and the hardcover will include an audiobook.

Events

  • Slayer
    Slayer
    Slayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California, in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and...

     frontman/bassist Tom Araya
    Tom Araya
    Tom Araya is a Chilean musician, best known as the bassist and vocalist of the American thrash metal band Slayer...

     to undergo back surgery.
  • Emperor Magus Caligula
    Emperor Magus Caligula
    Emperor Magus Caligula is an extreme metal musician best known as the former vocalist, bassist and lyricist of Swedish black metal band Dark Funeral, performing for the band between 1995 and 2010. He has also been the vocalist of death metal bands Demonoid, replacing Christofer Johnsson, and...

    , B-Force & Dominator all Quit Dark Funeral
    Dark Funeral
    Dark Funeral is a black metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, founded by guitarists Blackmoon and Lord Ahriman in 1993. They are one of the bands to have emerged in Sweden during the Second wave of black metal....

    .
  • Rush
    Rush (band)
    Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart...

     inducted into Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame
    Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame
    The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame is a Canadian non-profit organization, founded in 1998 by Frank Davies, that inducts Canadians into their Hall of Fame within three different categories: songwriters, songs, and those others who have made a significant contribution with respect to...

     2010.
  • Mayhem Festival 2010
    Mayhem Festival 2010
    Mayhem Festival 2010 was the third annual Mayhem Festival created by Kevin Lyman. The 2010 edition of the festival was co-headlined by Korn and Rob Zombie. As in previous years, the main sponsor of the festival is Rockstar Energy drink, and each date had a different Battle of the Bands winner...

     will tour through North America from July through August. The third annual tour will be co-headlined by Korn
    Korn
    Korn is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The current band line up includes four members: Jonathan Davis, James "Munky" Shaffer, Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, and Ray Luzier. The band was formed as an expansion of L.A.P.D.The band released their first demo album,...

     and Rob Zombie
    Rob Zombie
    Rob Zombie is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He founded the heavy metal band White Zombie and has been nominated three times as a solo artist for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.Zombie has also established a career as a film director, creating the...

    .
  • Guitarist Jani Stefanovic
    Jani Stefanovic
    Jani Stefanovic is a guitarist and drummer born 23, May 1979. Jani started playing around the age of 13–14 years old.-Current Bands:*Divinefire*Miseration*Essence of Sorrow *Mehida *The Few Against Many*The Weakening...

     quits Solution .45
    Solution .45
    Solution .45 is a metal supergroup from Sweden and Finland, created by guitarist Jani Stefanovic . Their current lineup includes vocalist Christian Älvestam , guitarists Stefanovic, Patrik Gardberg and Tom Gardiner , bassist Anders Edlund , and...

    .
  • Scorpions
    Scorpions (band)
    Scorpions are a heavy metal/hard rock band from Hannover, Germany, formed in 1965 by guitarist Rudolf Schenker, who is the band's only constant member. They are known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and many singles, such as "No One Like You", "Send Me an Angel", "Still...

     announce that they will retire after touring in support of final album Sting in the Tail
    Sting in the Tail
    Sting in the Tail is the seventeenth studio album by German heavy metal band Scorpions. It was released on March 19, 2010 in Europe and was released on March 23 in North America...

    .
  • AC/DC
    AC/DC
    AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...

     headline Download festival
    Download Festival
    The Download Festival is a three day rock music festival held annually at Donington Park, England . It usually takes place in June...

    , marking their return to Donington
    Donington Park
    Donington Park is a motorsport circuit near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England.Originally part of the Donington Hall estate, it was created as a racing circuit during the pre-war period when the German Silver Arrows were battling for the European Championship...

     for the first time in 19 years, since 1991's Monsters of Rock
    Monsters of Rock
    Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....

    . Also Rage Against the Machine
    Rage Against the Machine
    Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1991, the group's line-up consists of vocalist Zack de la Rocha, bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford, guitarist Tom Morello and drummer Brad Wilk...

     and Aerosmith
    Aerosmith
    Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...

     to headline.
  • In Flames
    In Flames
    In Flames is a Swedish heavy metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1990. Since the band's inception in 1993, they have released ten studio albums and one live DVD...

     founding member Jesper Strömblad
    Jesper Strömblad
    Clas Håkan Jesper Strömblad is a Swedish musician who is currently the guitarist for the bands Dimension Zero & The Resistance...

     quits the band after 17 years due to personal problems in February.
  • Original Megadeth
    Megadeth
    Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...

     bassist Dave Ellefson rejoins the band after departing in 2002.
  • Mike Portnoy
    Mike Portnoy
    Michael Stephen "Mike" Portnoy is an American drummer primarily known as the former drummer, backing vocalist, and a co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater, as well as the temporary drummer for the hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold. Known for his drumming prowess and technical...

     of Dream Theater
    Dream Theater
    Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of their studies to further concentrate on the band that would...

     joins Avenged Sevenfold
    Avenged Sevenfold
    Avenged Sevenfold is an American heavy metal band from Huntington Beach, California. Formed in 1999, the group consists of vocalist M. Shadows, lead guitarist Synyster Gates, rhythm guitarist Zacky Vengeance, bassist Johnny Christ....

     after the death of The Rev
    The Rev
    James Owen Sullivan , more commonly known by his stage name The Reverend Tholomew Plague, often shortened to The Rev, was an American musician, best known as the drummer for the American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold...

    , to record their fifth studio album Nightmare
    Nightmare (Avenged Sevenfold album)
    Nightmare is the fifth studio album by American rock band Avenged Sevenfold, released on July 27, 2010 through Warner Bros. Records. It was produced by Mike Elizondo and mixed in New York City by noted engineer Andy Wallace...

    . The results of The Rev's toxicology reports were released in June 2010, which revealed the cause of death as an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.
  • Rammstein
    Rammstein
    Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band from Berlin, formed in 1994. The band consists of members Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul H. Landers , Oliver "Ollie" Riedel , Christoph "Doom" Schneider and Christian "Flake" Lorenz...

     is banned from Belarus
    Belarus
    Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

     by the Council for Morality due to their "violence, masochism, homosexuality and other abnormalities".
  • US death metal
    Death metal
    Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

     band The Famine
    The Famine
    The Famine was a heavy metal band that formed in 2007 in Arlington, Texas. The band was signed to Solid State Records.-Formation/3-song EP:The band initially formed with three of the original members of Embodyment in former lead vocalist Kris McCaddon, drummer Mark Garza and guitarist Andrew Godwin...

    's studio burnt down, along with their gear and recorded material for their upcoming 2010 release.
  • Behemoth
    Behemoth (band)
    Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, alongside bands such as Vader, Decapitated, Vesania and Hate....

     frontman Nergal
    Nergal
    The name Nergal, Nirgal, or Nirgali refers to a deity in Babylon with the main seat of his cult at Cuthah represented by the mound of Tell-Ibrahim. Nergal is mentioned in the Hebrew bible as the deity of the city of Cuth : "And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal"...

     came to court over the Bible ripping incident in 2007, and was found not guilty on the basis that "The defendant’s behaviour wasn’t recognised as a crime"
  • Textures
    Textures (band)
    Textures is a metal band from the Netherlands, formed in 2001. Textures' lineup revolves around founding members Jochem Jacobs, Stef Broks, Bart Hennephof, and bassist Remko Tielemans who joined in 2007...

     parts ways with their keyboardist Richard Rietdijk to pursue other musical interests.
  • On April 14, Type O Negative
    Type O Negative
    Type O Negative was a gothic metal band from Brooklyn, New York City. The band also incorporated elements of doom metal and thrash metal. Their dramatic lyrical emphasis on themes of romance, depression, and death resulted in the nickname "The Drab Four"...

     front-man Peter Steele
    Peter Steele
    Peter Thomas Ratajczyk , better known by his stage name Peter Steele, was the lead singer, bassist, and composer for the gothic metal band Type O Negative...

     died at age 48.
  • The Human Abstract
    The Human Abstract
    The Human Abstract is an American progressive metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 2004, the group was originally signed to the independent label Hopeless Records, the band then released the two albums Nocturne and Midheaven before signing to E1 Music and releasing Digital Veil...

     replace former lead singer Nathan Ells with Travis Richter (The Color of Violence
    The Color of Violence
    The Color of Violence is an American experimental side project of the post-hardcore band From First to Last. It features From First to Last's drummer Derek Bloom and former guitarist/backup vocalist Travis Richter. The Color of Violence is a way for the members to experiment and have fun with music...

    , ex-From First to Last
    From First to Last
    From First to Last was an American rock band based out of Los Angeles, originally hailing from Valdosta, Georgia and Tampa, Florida. The band released their first EP titled Aesthetic in 2003 with vocalist Phillip Reardon, followed by Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count in 2004 and Heroine in...

    ) and founding guitarist A.J. Minette returns.
  • Judas Priest
    Judas Priest
    Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 1969. The current line-up consists of lead vocalist Rob Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The band has gone through several drummers over the years,...

     won the 2010 Grammy Award
    Grammy Award
    A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

     for Best Metal Performance of "Dissident Aggressor."
  • Debauchery
    Debauchery (band)
    - History :They are currently signed to German label AFM Records and have toured extensively through Europe. The band was formed in 2000 as Maggotcunt, but changed their name in 2002 to Debauchery. Debauchery consisted of Thomas Gurrath and Dani until Dani was forced to leave the band in 2006...

     frontman Thomas "The Bloodbeast" Gurrath was fired from his job as a philosophy trainee teacher at a high school in Stuttgart, Germany for being in a death metal
    Death metal
    Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

     band."
  • Anthrax
    Anthrax (band)
    Anthrax is an American heavy metal band from New York City, formed in 1981. Founded by guitarists Scott Ian and Danny Lilker, the band has since released ten studio albums and 20 singles, and an EP featuring Public Enemy. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene...

     reunite with former singer Joey Belladonna
    Joey Belladonna
    Joey Belladonna is a heavy metal singer and drummer, best known as the lead singer for the heavy metal band Anthrax...

     after his previous departure in 2007.
  • The first ever Sri Lankan metal documentary ARISE - The Sri Lankan Metal Music Documentary was officially screened on 15 May 2010 at Alliance Française de Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  • Ronnie James Dio
    Ronnie James Dio
    Ronald James Padavona , better known as Ronnie James Dio, was an American heavy metal vocalist and songwriter. He performed with, amongst others, Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, and his own band Dio, which means God in Italian. Other musical projects include the collective fundraiser...

     died of stomach cancer at the age of 67 on May 16, 2010.
  • Bay Area Metal legend Debbie Abono
    Debbie Abono
    Debbie Abono was an American manager of death metal and thrash metal bands during the 1980s and 1990s.-Biography:...

     died of cancer at age 80, also on May 16, 2010.
  • Ozzfest
    Ozzfest
    Ozzfest is an annual festival tour of the United States featuring performances by many heavy metal and hard rock musical groups. It was founded by Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon Osbourne, both of whom also organize each yearly tour with their son Jack Osbourne...

     returns with bands such as Ozzy Osbourne
    Ozzy Osbourne
    John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...

    , Mötley Crüe
    Mötley Crüe
    Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981. The group was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil...

    , Rob Halford
    Rob Halford
    Robert John Arthur "Rob" Halford is an English singer-songwriter, who is best known as the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest. He is nicknamed the "Metal God" as a tribute to his influence on metal, and after the Judas Priest song of the same name from 1980's...

     and DevilDriver
    DevilDriver
    DevilDriver is an American heavy metal band from Santa Barbara, California, formed in 2002. The band was originally named Deathride, however, due to copyright issues and the name being taken by several bands, Deathride changed its name to DevilDriver, which refers to bells Italian witches used to...

     on the bill.
  • Arsis re-joined by former bassist Noah Martin.
  • Westboro Baptist Church
    Westboro Baptist Church
    The Westboro Baptist Church is an independent Baptist church known for its extreme stance against homosexuality and its protest activities, which include picketing funerals and desecrating the American flag. The church is widely described as a hate group and is monitored as such by the...

     plans to picket the Ronnie James Dio
    Ronnie James Dio
    Ronald James Padavona , better known as Ronnie James Dio, was an American heavy metal vocalist and songwriter. He performed with, amongst others, Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, and his own band Dio, which means God in Italian. Other musical projects include the collective fundraiser...

     Memorial Service at The Hall Of Liberty in Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills
    Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
    Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery is part of the Forest Lawn chain of Southern California cemeteries. It is at 6300 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California, on the lower north slope at the far east end of the Santa Monica...

    .
  • On May 25, Slipknot
    Slipknot (band)
    Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. Formed in 1995, the group was founded by percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray...

     bassist Paul Gray dies at age 38.
  • Ratt
    Ratt
    Ratt is an American heavy metal band that had significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is best known for songs such as "Round and Round," "Wanted Man," "Lay It Down," "You're in Love", "Slip of the Lip", "Back For More", "Dance", "Body Talk", "I Want a Woman", and "Way Cool Jr." Ratt...

     were forced to cancel their European tour due to Stephen Pearcy
    Stephen Pearcy
    Stephen Erica Pearcy is the lead singer of the 80's metal band Ratt. He has also been in the bands Arcade, Vicious Delite, Vertex, Nitronic, and Band From Hell...

     to undergo emergency hernia surgury.
  • On June 16, "The Big Four of Thrash Metal", Anthrax
    Anthrax (band)
    Anthrax is an American heavy metal band from New York City, formed in 1981. Founded by guitarists Scott Ian and Danny Lilker, the band has since released ten studio albums and 20 singles, and an EP featuring Public Enemy. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene...

    , Megadeth
    Megadeth
    Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...

    , Slayer
    Slayer
    Slayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California, in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and...

     and Metallica
    Metallica
    Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...

    , played together for the first time at the Sonisphere Festival at Bemowo Airport in Warsaw, Poland.
  • The second event of Heavy MTL
    Heavy MTL
    Heavy MTL is a two-day heavy metal and hard rock festival in Montreal, Quebec, at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Sainte-Hélène held in the summer. The 2008 edition attracted a crowd of around 36,000 people....

     will be held in Montreal
    Montreal
    Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

     July 24 and 25, with bands such as Slayer
    Slayer
    Slayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California, in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and...

    , Testament
    Testament (band)
    Testament is an American metal band from Berkeley, California, formed in 1983. They are often credited as one of the most popular bands of the 1980s thrash metal scene...

    , Megadeth
    Megadeth
    Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...

    , Halford
    Halford (band)
    Halford is a heavy metal band formed in 1999 by Rob Halford, the lead vocalist for Judas Priest. Halford formed the band to return to his heavy metal roots...

    , Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...

    , and Avenged Sevenfold
    Avenged Sevenfold
    Avenged Sevenfold is an American heavy metal band from Huntington Beach, California. Formed in 1999, the group consists of vocalist M. Shadows, lead guitarist Synyster Gates, rhythm guitarist Zacky Vengeance, bassist Johnny Christ....

    .
  • Early Graves
    Early Graves
    Early Graves is a metal band from San Francisco, California that includes aspects of thrash and hardcore in their music. The band formed in 2007 from the ashes of tech metal band Apiary. They have toured the U.S. extensively with The Handshake Murders, Gaza, The Funeral Pyre and Unearth, amongst...

     vocalist Makh Daniels died in an automobile accident on August 1, 2010. The Funeral Pyre
    The Funeral Pyre
    The Funeral Pyre is an American blackened death metal band from La Habra, California, United States. The band has released three studio albums, two EPs, and two split 7" albums, and consists of guitarists James Joyce and Justin Garcia, vocalist John Strachan, drummer Alex Hernandez, and bassist...

     guitarist Justin Garcia fell asleep behind the wheel, and was taken with guitarist Tyler Jensen to the hospital with non life threatening injuries.
  • Fear Factory
    Fear Factory
    Fear Factory is an American industrial metal band. Formed in 1989, they have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes. Over the course of their career they have evolved from a succession of styles, as well as steadily pioneered a combination of the styles death metal,...

     members narrowly avoid bus fire. The cause of the fire was the rear-wheel catching fire, but luckily their trailer was left unscathed.
  • Death of Desire
    Death of Desire
    Death of Desire is a metal band formed in Bruchsal, Germany in 2008, featuring Mayhem drummer Hellhammer and vocalist Dawn Desirée. Their debut album ANTIhuman has been recorded in Knut Magne Valle's Mølla Studio and it has been speculated that the album will be released in 2011, it was initially...

     vocalist Dawn Desirée was kidnapped by unknown members of a promotion agency, and guitarist Morbid was assaulted.
  • Reunited Byzantine
    Byzantine (band)
    Byzantine is a heavy metal band from Charleston, West Virginia that formed in 2000. The band consists of frontman and co-founder Chris "OJ" Ojeda , Brian Henderson , Matt Wolfe and Michael "Skip" Cromer . They have released three studio albums on Prosthetic Records...

     return without Tony Rohrbough, and introduce Brian Henderson as their new lead-guitarist.
  • Behemoth
    Behemoth (band)
    Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, alongside bands such as Vader, Decapitated, Vesania and Hate....

     frontman Adam "Nergal" Darski
    Adam Darski
    Adam Michał Darski also known by his stage name Nergal and previously Holocausto, is a Polish musician and television personality, best known for being the frontman for blackened death metal band Behemoth.- Biography :...

     is hospitalized due to advanced stage leukemia. Behemoth subsequently cancels all remaining summer festivals, and their Russian, Baltic States, and US tour. Adam "Nergal" Darski
    Adam Darski
    Adam Michał Darski also known by his stage name Nergal and previously Holocausto, is a Polish musician and television personality, best known for being the frontman for blackened death metal band Behemoth.- Biography :...

     underwent a bone marrow transplant surgery, and is currently recovering.
  • Acid Reign
    Acid Reign
    -Early career :Acid Reign were formed by Mark Ramsey Wharton , Ian Gangwer , Howard "H" Smith , and future Cathedral member Gary "Gaz" Jennings . Second guitarist Kevin Papworth joined in 1987....

     announce they will be re-mastering and re-issuing their albums, by legendary producer Bill Metoyer who has worked with such bands as Slayer
    Slayer
    Slayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California, in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and...

    , Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
    Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
    Dirty Rotten Imbeciles is a thrash metal/crossover thrash band from the United States that formed in Houston, in 1982. The band currently comprises founding members, vocalist Kurt Brecht and guitarist Spike Cassidy, as well as drummer Rob Rampy and bassist Harald Oimoen.D.R.I...

    , Corrosion of Conformity
    Corrosion of Conformity
    Corrosion of Conformity is an American heavy metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina formed in 1982. For almost the majority of its existence, the band has consisted of guitarist Woody Weatherman, bassist Mike Dean , drummer Reed Mullin and vocalist and rhythm...

     and Sacred Reich
    Sacred Reich
    Sacred Reich is a Phoenix, Arizona-based thrash metal band that formed in 1985. Singer/songwriter Phil Rind's interest was in socially conscious and political speed metal. After several records on Metal Blade Records, they signed to Hollywood Records for a short stint, but later returned to Metal...

    .
  • X Japan
    X Japan
    is a Japanese heavy metal band founded in 1982 by Yoshiki and Toshi. Originally named X , the group achieved their breakthrough success in 1989 with the release of their second album Blue Blood...

     are planning a North American tour after both Otakon
    Otakon
    Otakon is a fan convention in the United States focusing on East Asian popular culture and its fandom. The name is a portmanteau derived from convention and the Japanese word otaku...

     and Lollapalooza
    Lollapalooza
    Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and hip hop bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups. The music festival hosts more than 160,000 people over a...

    , visiting Canada and the United States.
  • After 25 years, Mike Portnoy
    Mike Portnoy
    Michael Stephen "Mike" Portnoy is an American drummer primarily known as the former drummer, backing vocalist, and a co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater, as well as the temporary drummer for the hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold. Known for his drumming prowess and technical...

     leaves Dream Theater
    Dream Theater
    Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of their studies to further concentrate on the band that would...

     on September 8, 2010.
  • Ari Nissilä, Toni Kansanoja, Kari Vähäkuopus, and Mikko Nevanlahti all leave Catamenia
    Catamenia
    Catamenia is a melodic black metal band from Finland, founded in 1995 by original members Riku Hopeakoski and Mika Tönning in Oulu. They have been signed to Massacre Records ever since their first full-length, Halls of Frozen North in 1998. As of 2010, they have released nine albums, 1 EP, and one...

     on October 4, 2010.
  • Sweet Savage
    Sweet Savage
    Sweet Savage are a metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1979. The band once included former Dio and Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell...

     founding guitarist Trevor Fleming died on October 2.
  • Gotthard
    Gotthard (band)
    Gotthard is a Swiss hard rock/heavy metal band founded in Lugano by Steve Lee and Leo Leoni. Their last eleven albums have all reached number 1 in the Swiss album charts, making them one of the most successful Swiss acts ever....

     singer Steve Lee dies on October 5, 2010.
  • The Autumn Offering
    The Autumn Offering
    The Autumn Offering is an American metalcore band that formed in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1999. After achieving some degree of local success, the band was signed to Stillborn Records, founded by Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed, in 2003. The band released one album through this label...

     parts ways with guitarist Tommy Church on November 1, 2010.
  • Queensrÿche
    Queensrÿche
    thumb|250px|right|Queensrÿche's classic line-up performing at the [[Sauna Open Air Metal Festival]] 2011 in [[Tampere]], [[Finland]]. Left to right: bass Eddie Jackson, lead vocals Geoff Tate, drums Scott Rockenfield and guitars Michael Wilton....

     survive a bomb attack in Iraq
    Iraq
    Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

     while playing to the American troops.
  • Armando Acosta, the ex-drummer of Saint Vitus
    Saint Vitus (band)
    Saint Vitus is an American doom metal band from Los Angeles, formed in 1978. They consist of founding members Dave Chandler and Mark Adams , alongside sporadic singer Scott Weinrich and recently added drummer Henry Vasquez...

     died on November 25.
  • King Diamond
    King Diamond
    Kim Bendix Petersen , better known by his stage name King Diamond, is a Grammy Award nominated Danish heavy metal musician. As a vocalist, he is known for his extensive vocal range, in particular his usage of falsetto. He is the lead vocalist for both Mercyful Fate and the eponymous King Diamond...

     underwent a successful triple-bypass surgury on November 29.
  • Avenged Sevenfold
    Avenged Sevenfold
    Avenged Sevenfold is an American heavy metal band from Huntington Beach, California. Formed in 1999, the group consists of vocalist M. Shadows, lead guitarist Synyster Gates, rhythm guitarist Zacky Vengeance, bassist Johnny Christ....

     parts ways with former Dream Theater
    Dream Theater
    Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of their studies to further concentrate on the band that would...

     drummer Mike Portnoy
    Mike Portnoy
    Michael Stephen "Mike" Portnoy is an American drummer primarily known as the former drummer, backing vocalist, and a co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater, as well as the temporary drummer for the hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold. Known for his drumming prowess and technical...

    .

Films

  • MVD Visual and Sexy Intellectual will release a documentary
    Documentary
    A documentary is a creative work of non-fiction, including:* Documentary film, including television* Radio documentary* Documentary photographyRelated terms include:...

     DVD about Rage Against the Machine
    Rage Against the Machine
    Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1991, the group's line-up consists of vocalist Zack de la Rocha, bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford, guitarist Tom Morello and drummer Brad Wilk...

     on February 23. The film is titled Revolution in the Head: Rage Against the Machine and the Art of Protest.
  • Industrial metal
    Industrial metal
    Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and many different types of heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM.Industrial metal's...

     act Ministry
    Ministry (band)
    Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded by lead singer Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s. Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its most successful album Psalm 69: The Way to...

     will release their film Fix: The Ministry Movie in 2010.
  • Mathawaada Chithrapata will release the first Sri Lankan
    Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

     metal music documentary titled ARISE-The Sri Lankan Metal Music Documentary
    Arise (film)
    Arise - The Sri Lankan Metal Music Documentary is a 2010 feature film documentary about Sri Lankan metal music. The film was directed and produced by Naveen Marasinghe and Dinesh Guneratne....

     showcasing the lives and the reasons behind the Sri Lankan metal music scene.
  • Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, and Megadeth will release The Big 4 DVD Box Set on November 2, featuring footage of all the bands' live sets from the Big 4 tour.

Albums released

(All releases are studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

s unless otherwise noted.)
The most successful metal album released in 2010 was Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...

's The Final Frontier
The Final Frontier
The Final Frontier is a 1986 album by the heavy metal band Keel. It was the band's second album to be produced by KISS bassist Gene Simmons. Videos were filmed for the tracks "Because the Night" and "Tears of Fire."...

, topping the charts in 32 countries. It was also #1 in Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer is a monthly heavy metal music magazine published in the United Kingdom by Future Publishing, and in several other countries by different publishers. Metal Hammer articles feature both mainstream bands and more unusual acts from the whole spectrum of heavy metal music...

's list of '50 Greatest albums of 2010'.

January

Day Artist Album
4 Textures
Textures (band)
Textures is a metal band from the Netherlands, formed in 2001. Textures' lineup revolves around founding members Jochem Jacobs, Stef Broks, Bart Hennephof, and bassist Remko Tielemans who joined in 2007...

Extracts 2004–2009 (compilation)
5 Marc Rizzo
Marc Rizzo
Marc Rizzo is the lead guitarist of American metal band Soulfly and formerly of Ill Niño. He has featured on four Soulfly albums to date: Prophecy, Dark Ages, Conquer, and Omen. He has also released three solo instrumental albums; Colossal Myopia, The Ultimate Devotion, and Legionnaire...

Legionnaire
14 Aborted
Aborted
Aborted is a Belgian death metal band formed in Waregem, Belgium in 1995. The group comprises vocalist and founder Sven de Caluwé, guitarists Eran Segal and Mike Wilson, bassist J.B. Van Der Wal, and drummer Ken Bedene. The band members of Aborted are from Belgium, France, Israel, United Kingdom,...

Coronary Reconstruction
Coronary Reconstruction
Coronary Reconstruction is an EP by the Belgian death metal band Aborted, released on January 14, 2010 through Century Media Records. The album is the first to be recorded with the band's new 2009 line-up, and was released mainly as a digital EP, with only 1,000 physical copies made...

15 Dark Sanctuary
Dark Sanctuary
Dark Sanctuary is a French Neoclassical band which was formed in 1996 in Paris, Île-de-France.-History:The band's first official release was a 20 minute single track MCD, Funeral Cry, released in 1997...

Dark Sanctuary
Demonic Resurrection
Demonic Resurrection
Demonic Resurrection is a melodic blackened death metal band from Mumbai, India formed in the year 2000. Demonic Resurrection's current line-up consists of Sahil "The Demonstealer" Makhija on vocals and rhythm guitars, Daniel Rego on lead guitars, Husain Bandukwala on bass, Virendra "Viru" Kaith on...

The Return to Darkness
The Return To Darkness
The Return to Darkness is the third full-length album by the Indian Death metal band Demonic Resurrection. It was released on January 15, 2010 through Demonstealer Records. The band was signed to Candlelight Records for worldwide distribution. The album was released on Candlelight Records on July...

Exodus
Exodus (band)
Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1980 in Richmond, California. Spanning a career of over 30 years, Exodus has gone through numerous lineup changes, two extended hiatuses, and the deaths of two former band members. Guitarist Gary Holt remains the only constant member of the band,...

Shovel Headed Tour Machine
Shovel Headed Tour Machine: Live At Wacken & Other Assorted Atrocities
Shovel Headed Tour Machine: Live At Wacken & Other Assorted Atrocities is a live DVD album by American thrash metal band Exodus. It was recorded at Exodus's July 2008 performance at the Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany...

 (live DVD/CD)
Ace Frehley
Ace Frehley
Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Kiss. He took on the persona of the "Spaceman" or "Space Ace" when the band adopted costumes and theatrics...

Behind the Player (DVD)
Mnemic
Mnemic
Mnemic is a Danish metal band, formed in Aalborg, Denmark in 1998. Their music has been described as a fusion between metalcore, melodic death metal, industrial metal and progressive metal, with additional elements of thrash metal and groove metal, to form a style the band themselves have...

Sons of the System
Sons of the System
Sons of the System is the fourth album by Danish industrial metal band Mnemic, released in Europe on January 18, 2010 and in North America on January 26, 2010....

18 Abigor
Abigor
Abigor is an Austrian black metal band formed in 1993.-History:The band was formed in 1993 by P.K. and T.T. After the release of several demos, original vocalist Tharen left the band and was replaced by Silenius, who recorded vocals for all Abigor releases until the recording of Channeling the...

Time Is The Sulphur in the Veins of the
Saint
Shining
Shining (Norwegian band)
Shining is a Norwegian band that started out as an acoustic jazz quartet in 1999. Their sound has since become more experimental and extreme, incorporating elements from metal and progressive rock as well as 19th and 20th century classical music....

Blackjazz
Blackjazz
Blackjazz is the fifth studio album by the Norwegian band Shining, released through Indie Recordings on 18 January 2010.- Singles :Shining performed the world premiere of the song Fisheye live on Store Studio, a culture talk show on NRK, 10 October 2009...

Valkyrja
Valkyrja
Valkyrja is a swedish black metal band, created late 2004. First demo was released in March as a cd-r under the name Funeral Voices. Re-released on cassette September 11th, including additional material, on underground label Deathkrush Productions - re-titled Far Beyond...

Contamination
19 Six Feet Under
Six Feet Under (band)
Six Feet Under is an American death metal band from Tampa, Florida, formed in 1993. The band was originally a side project by Cannibal Corpse vocalist Chris Barnes with guitarist Allen West of Obituary...

Graveyard Classics 3
Graveyard Classics 3
Graveyard Classics III is the third cover album by Six Feet Under. It was released on January 19, 2010 on Metal Blade Records.The Album was Recored at D.O.I. Digital Audio in Tampa, Florida...

Sigh
Sigh (band)
is a Japanese extreme metal band from Tokyo, formed in 1990. They are credited as being one of the first Japanese black metal bands, when the majority of black metal in early 1990s came from Scandinavia. They gradually shifted from a more traditional black/thrash metal sound, to a more...

Scenes from Hell
Scenes From Hell
Scenes from Hell is the eighth full-length studio album by the Japanese extreme metal band Sigh. It is the band's first full-length recording to feature Dr. Mikannibal...

Sons of Azrael
Sons of Azrael
Sons of Azrael is an American death metal band from Buffalo, New York, that formed in spring 2004.-History:Sons of Azrael signed a contract with Ironclad/Metal Blade records in fall 2006. Their first album, The Conjuration of Vengeance, was released in August 2007. In March 2008, Greg DiPasquale ...

Scouting The Boneyard
20 Royal Hunt
Royal Hunt
Royal Hunt is a progressive metal band based in Denmark, founded in 1989 by keyboardist Andre Andersen. The band is known for creating melodic music with a progressive and symphonic flair. They made a huge success during mid-90s with their classic albums Moving Target and Paradox mainly in Japan...

X
X (Royal Hunt album)
X is the tenth studio album released by the band Royal Hunt on January, 20th, 2010 on Scarlet Records in Europe and on Marquee/Avalon Records in Japan.-Track listing:All songs written by André Andersen.# "Episode X " - 1:59...

21 Tokyo Blade
Tokyo Blade
Tokyo Blade is an English heavy metal band, active since 1982. Tokyo Blade is one of the many acts considered part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement from the late 1970s / early 1980s. Tokyo Blade went through many changes of formation and disbanded twice, often changing their musical...

Live in Germany (DVD)
22 Dark Fortress
Dark Fortress
Dark Fortress is a black metal band from Landshut, Germany, formed in 1994. They have released six studio albums, a split album and a demo album.-Early:...

Ylem
Ylem (album)
-Personnel:*Morean – vocals*V. Santura – lead guitar*Asvargr – guitar*Draug – bass guitar*Paymon – keyboard*Seraph – drums-External links:*...

Node
Node (band)
Node is an Italian death metal band formed in Milan in 1994 and currently signed to Scarlet Records. Their last full length album is titled In the End Everything Is a Gag.-Members:*Giacomo Lavatura – vocals...

In the End Everything Is a Gag
Orden Ogan
Orden Ogan
Orden Ogan is a German power metal band with progressive and folk metal elements. They are the organisers of the German metal festival WinterNachtsTraum.-History:...

Easton Hope
24 Primordial
Primordial (band)
Primordial is an extreme metal band from Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland. It was formed in 1987 by Pól MacAmlaigh and Ciarán MacUiliam . Their sound melds black metal with Irish folk music.-Biography:...

All Empires Fall (DVD)
25 Deathbound
Deathbound
Deathbound is a four-piece death metal band from Vaasa, Finland. They formed in 1995 and are still active. They are signed to Dynamic Arts Records and have released four albums, their most recent being Non Compos Mentis .-History:...

Non Compos Mentis
Dream Evil
Dream Evil
Dream Evil is a heavy metal band from Sweden, assembled and integrated by renowned musical producer Fredrik Nordström in 1999.-Biography:Producer Fredrik Nordström had the ambition of creating a power metal band of his own for a long time, but had difficulty finding anyone with musical ideals...

In the Night
In the Night (album)
In the Night is the 5th full length album by the Swedish power metal band Dream Evil.-Track listing:#"Immortal" - 4:38#"In the Night" - 3:15#"Bang Your Head" - 3:52#"See the Light" - 3:40#"Electric" - 3:50#"Frostbite" - 3:31#"On the Wind" - 3:45...

Ihsahn
Ihsahn
Ihsahn is a Norwegian composer, guitar, bass, keyboard player and vocalist. He is best known for his work with Norwegian black metal band Emperor. He has appeared in Thou Shalt Suffer, up until March 4, 2006, played in Peccatum with his wife Ihriel , and now devotes himself to his solo project,...

After
After (Ihsahn album)
After is the third studio solo album by former Emperor frontman Ihsahn. This album is the final album in a planned trilogy of albums by Ihsahn.-Background:...

In Mourning
In Mourning (band)
In Mourning is a progressive death metal band from Falun, Sweden. They are currently signed with the Singaporean label Pulverised Records. Their latest album Monolith was released on January 25, 2010. Their two albums released to date have been well received by the Metal...

Monolith
Monolith (In Mourning album)
- Musicians :* Tobias Netzell – vocals , guitars* Bjorn Pettersson – guitars* Tim Nedergard – guitars* Christian Netzell – drums* Tim Nedergard – bass...

Myrath
Myrath
Myrath, formerly known as X-Tazy, is an Oriental metal band from Tunisia formed in 2001.- Biography :Myrath , a metal band from Tunis, Tunisia, started out as a teenage cover band formed in 2001 by guitarist Malek Ben Arbia and became in just a few years, a respected band by the international...

Desert Call
Desert Call
Desert Call is the second studio album by Tunisian progressive metal band Myrath, released on January 25, 2010 through XIII Bis Records in Europe and Nightmare Records worldwide. The album was produced by Adagio's keyboardist Kevin Codfert...

Orphaned Land
Orphaned Land
Orphaned Land is an Israeli progressive metal band, formed in 1991, that combines Death/doom, Jewish and Arabic influences.- History :In 1992, the band changed its name from the original Resurrection to Orphaned Land....

The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOR
The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOr
The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR is the fourth full-length studio album by the Israeli metal band Orphaned Land. The album was released on January 25, 2010, after many delays. ORwarriOR means "light warrior" or "warrior of light", representing a conceptual hero of the battle of light versus...

26 Apocalyptica
Apocalyptica
Apocalyptica is a band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 1993. The band is composed of classically trained cellists Eicca Toppinen, Paavo Lötjönen, and Perttu Kivilaakso and drummer Mikko Sirén...

MAG: S.V.E.R. (soundtrack)
Fozzy
Fozzy
Fozzy is an American heavy metal/hard rock band, formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1999. Lead singer Chris Jericho , who is also a professional wrestler, resides in Florida, while the rest of the band lives in Georgia. The band is currently signed to Riot! Entertainment...

Chasing the Grail
Chasing the Grail
Chasing the Grail is the fourth album from the Heavy Metal band Fozzy. It is their first album since the release of All That Remains and was released on January 26, 2010.- Background :...

Greeley Estates
Greeley Estates
Greeley Estates is an American metalcore band from Phoenix, Arizona. Formed in 2002, the band has released five full-length studio albums and one EP...

No Rain, No Rainbow
No Rain, No Rainbow
No Rain, No Rainbow is the fourth studio album by American metalcore band, Greeley Estates. It is their last release with guitarist Alex Torres...

Living Sacrifice
Living Sacrifice
Living Sacrifice is a Christian heavy metal band that formed in September 1989 in Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. The band has released seven studio albums, out of which the first three were recorded under R.E.X. Records with their original vocalist Darren Johnson as a more thrash metal and death metal...

The Infinite Order
The Infinite Order
- Personnel :Living Sacrifice*Bruce Fitzhugh - Lead Vocals, Guitar*Rocky Gray - Lead Guitar*Arthur Green - Bass, Vocals*Lance Garvin - DrumsGuest Musicians*David Bunton - Vocals on Tracks 2 and 9...

Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies is a U.S. crossover thrash band founded in 1981 in Venice, Los Angeles, California by Mike Muir, its leader and only permanent member. The band is sometimes credited as one of "the fathers of crossover thrash"...

Live at the Olympic Auditorium
Live at the Olympic Auditorium
Live at the Olympic Auditorium is a concert film by American rock band Suicidal Tendencies, recorded live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, 2005...

 (DVD)
27 Troll
Troll (band)
-Biography:It was founded in 1992, when 14-year-old Stian Arnesen aka "Nagash" started writing music with Glaurung and Fafnir. When Glaurung and Fafnir left the project, Nagash continued Troll as a solo project and released Trollstorm over Nidingjuv in 1995 and Drep de kristne in 1996.Following the...

Neo-Satanic Supremacy
29 Bruce Kulick
Bruce Kulick
Bruce Howard Kulick is an American guitarist, musician and a member of the band Grand Funk Railroad. Previously, Kulick had been a longtime member of the band Kiss....

BK3
BK3 (album)
BK3 is the third solo album by rock guitarist Bruce Kulick. It was released by Twenty4 Records on February 2, 2010.Bruce Kulick has been the lead guitarist for Grand Funk Railroad since 2001. He was the lead guitarist for Kiss from 1984 to 1996....

Crematory
Crematory (band)
Crematory is a gothic/melodic death metal band formed in Mannheim, Germany in 1991.- History :The band received its earliest recognition in the mid-1990s by touring with My Dying Bride, Tiamat and Atrocity. Much like the latter two groups, the band had begun as traditional death metal, then evolved...

Infinity
Infinity (Crematory album)
Infinity is the 11th studio album by Crematory, distributed through Massacre Records. A preview of the song "Infinity" is listen-able on the bands myspace.-Track listing:- Reception :-Personnel:*Gerhard "Felix" Stass - Growling...

Excalion
Excalion
Excalion is a Finnish Power Metal band that started in December 2000 in Konnevesi, central Finland. The name came from an incorrectly remembered name, possibly Excalibur, suggested by ex-bassist Timo Sahlberg.-History:...

High Time
Freedom Call
Freedom Call
Freedom Call is a German power metal band formed in 1998.-Biography:Freedom Call was formed in 1998 by old friends Chris Bay and Daniel Zimmermann during an off-period for the latter's main band, Gamma Ray...

Legend of the Shadowking
Legend of the Shadowking
-Credits:*Chris Bay – vocals, guitar*Lars Rettkowitz – guitar*Samy Saemann – bass guitar*Dan Zimmermann – drums...

Gamma Ray
Gamma Ray (band)
Gamma Ray is a power metal band from Hamburg, northern Germany, founded and fronted by Kai Hansen after his departure from the German power metal Helloween. Hansen is the current lead vocalist, guitarist as well as the chief songwriter of Gamma Ray. The band is known as one of the most prominent...

To the Metal
To the Metal
-Album versions:# Regular jewel case CD# Limited edition featuring an additional DVD # Red vinyl in gatefold packaging# Collectors’ edition featuring CD and 7” vinyl with 2 unreleased tracks, completely hand-signed-Critical reception:...

Keel
Keel (band)
Keel is an American heavy metal band founded in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. They were known for their rock anthem "The Right to Rock." The band was active until 1989, with a brief reunion in 1998. Keel reunited in 2008 and is currently touring for their 25th anniversary.-History:Keel was...

Streets of Rock & Roll
Streets of Rock & Roll
Streets of Rock & Roll is a studio album by heavy metal band Keel, released in 2010. It marks the band's first studio recording since their 2008 reunion and is the first to feature new bassist Geno Arce.-Track listing:#Streets of Rock & Roll - 4:46...

Overkill
Overkill (band)
Overkill is an American thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. They have gone through many line-up changes, with singer Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth and bassist D.D. Verni remaining from the original lineup. Along with Anthrax , the band is one of the most successful East Coast thrash metal...

Ironbound
Ironbound (album)
Ironbound is the fifteenth full length studio album by American thrash metal band Overkill, which was released on January 29, 2010 in Europe on Nuclear Blast Records and in the U.S. on February 9, 2010 on E1 Music...


February

Day Artist Album
1 Blaze Bayley
Blaze Bayley
Blaze Bayley is an English singer and songwriter. He has been the lead singer of Wolfsbane from 1984 to 1994, and nowadays since their recent reunion. Blaze is however world-known for having been the lead singer of British metal band Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999...

Promise and Terror
Promise and Terror
Promise and Terror is the fifth and last studio album by English heavy metal band Blaze Bayley, released in 2010. It is the second studio album released by the band since they changed their name from Blaze...

2 Charred Walls of the Damned
Charred Walls of the Damned
The band's first single, "Ghost Town", was released on December 1, 2009. Their debut album, Charred Walls of the Damned, was released on compact disc and iTunes on February 2, 2010. Blabbermouth.net reported around 2,200 copies were sold in the United States in its first week of release...

Charred Walls of the Damned
Nostradameus
Nostradameus
Nostradameus is a power metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. They formed in 1998. The band is still active today. Their latest release is Illusion's Parade.-Current:*Freddy Persson - Vocals*Jake Fredén - Guitar*Lennart Specht - Guitar...

Illusion's Parade
Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He founded the heavy metal band White Zombie and has been nominated three times as a solo artist for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.Zombie has also established a career as a film director, creating the...

Hellbilly Deluxe 2
Hellbilly Deluxe 2
Hellbilly Deluxe 2: Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls and the Systematic Dehumanization of Cool is the fourth solo studio album by former White Zombie frontman Rob Zombie. The album is a companion to Rob Zombie's debut album Hellbilly Deluxe...

Through the Eyes of the Dead
Through the Eyes of the Dead
Through the Eyes of the Dead is an American deathcore band from Florence, South Carolina, formed in 2003. They have released three full-length albums, one EP, and one split album with The Knife Trade.-History:...

Skepsis
Skepsis (album)
Skepsis is the third studio album by American deathcore band Through the Eyes of the Dead.-Track listing:...

5 Arsis Starve for the Devil
Starve for the Devil
Starve for the Devil is an album by technical death metal band Arsis that was released on February 9, 2010, via Nuclear Blast Records.-History:...

Meshuggah
Meshuggah
Meshuggah is an extreme metal band from Umeå, Sweden, formed in 1987. Meshuggah's line-up has primarily consisted of founding members vocalist Jens Kidman and lead guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, drummer Tomas Haake, who joined in 1990, and rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström, who joined in 1992...

Alive
Alive (Meshuggah video)
Alive is a concert film by Swedish heavy metal band Meshuggah. The film was released as a double album through Nuclear Blast on 5 February 2010 in Europe and 9 February 2010 in North America....

 (live CD/DVD)
Necrodeath
Necrodeath
Necrodeath is an Italian extreme metal band from Liguria. It is one of the first extreme metal bands originating in Italy. They take inspiration from Slayer, Possessed, Kreator, Celtic Frost and Bathory...

Old Skull (cover album)
Rage
Rage (band)
Rage are a German heavy metal band, formed in 1984. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild and Blind Guardian.-Background:...

Strings To A Web
Strings To A Web
Strings to a Web is the 19th studio album by the German heavy metal band Rage, released in Europe on February 5 2009 through Nuclear Blast Records...

6 Buckethead
Buckethead
Brian Carroll , better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 34 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists...

Shadows Between the Sky
Shadows Between the Sky
-Notes:* The song "Walk on the Moon" has a similar riff to The Deli Creeps song "Buried Deep Stays Buried Still".* "Sea Wall" has a similar Melody to "Spell of the Gypsies" From Electric Tears....

8 Ov Hell
Ov Hell
Ov Hell is a Norwegian black metal supergroup started by Shagrath and King ov Hell in 2009. The band's debut album, The Underworld Regime, was released in February 2010 by Indie Recordings.-Background:...

The Underworld Regime
The Underworld Regime
-Personnel:*Shagrath – lead vocals*King ov Hell – bass guitar, backing vocals*Teloch – lead guitar*Ice Dale – lead guitar*Frost – drums...

9 Fear Factory
Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American industrial metal band. Formed in 1989, they have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes. Over the course of their career they have evolved from a succession of styles, as well as steadily pioneered a combination of the styles death metal,...

Mechanize
Mechanize
Mechanize is the seventh studio album by Fear Factory. It is the first album to feature Gene Hoglan on drums and the first since 2001's Digimortal to include original guitarist and founding member Dino Cazares who rejoined the band after a reconciliation with vocalist Burton C. Bell in April 2009...

Icarus Witch
Icarus Witch
Icarus Witch is a heavy metal band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, formed in 2004 by bassist Jason Myers. The band has 4 cds on Cleopatra records.They are most notably known for being former Iron Maiden's singer Paul Di'Anno's United States/Canada backup band on several tours...

Draw Down the Moon
Killing Time
Killing Time (band)
Killing Time is an influential New York Hardcore band. From their beginnings in 1988, under the name Raw Deal, they went on to record two full-length albums and several EPs, singles, and compilation tracks. The band went through three hiatus before formally disbanding in 1998. However, the band...

Three Steps Back
Look What I Did
Look What I Did
Look What I Did is an American post-hardcore band, formed in 2001 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The music combines elements of jazz/fusion, hardcore, metal, and progressive pop punk...

Atlas Drugged
15 Sarah Jezebel Deva
Sarah Jezebel Deva
Sarah Jane , better known by her stage name Sarah Jezebel Deva, is a British vocalist. She was the female vocalist in Cradle of Filth for 14 years and also fronts her own band, Angtoria. In 2009, Deva started her self-titled solo project. The debut album A Sign of Sublime was released in February...

A Sign Of Sublime
Rotting Christ
Rotting Christ
Rotting Christ is a Greek black metal band formed in 1987. They are noted for being one of the first black metal bands within this region, as well as a premier act within the European underground metal scene.- Line-up :...

Aealo
Aealo
Aealo is the tenth full length album by Greek black metal band Rotting Christ. The CD was recorded between July and October 2009 at Lunatech Studios in Katerini, Greece....

Six Magics
Six Magics
Six magics is a Chilean metal group formed initially by Pablo Stagnaro, Erick Avila, Nicholas Espinoza, J.Pizarro and Sergio Villarroel. At first, Erick composed music and edited while J. Pablo wrote the lyrics. Their songs were originally all in Spanish, but they hoped to later write in English...

Behind the Sorrow
16 Carnifex
Carnifex (band)
Carnifex is an American deathcore band from San Diego, California. Formed in 2005, they are currently signed to Victory Records and have released four studio albums...

Hell Chose Me
Hell Chose Me
-Personnel:Carnifex* Shawn Cameron - drums* Scott Lewis - vocals* Ryan Gudmunds - guitar* Cory Arford - guitar* Fred Calderon - bassProduction*Produced by Carnifex and Zack Ohren*Engineering, tracking, mixing and mastering by Zack Ohren...

Chelsea Grin
Chelsea Grin (band)
Chelsea Grin is an American deathcore band from Salt Lake City, Utah. Formed in 2007, the group is currently signed to Artery Recordings and have released one EP and two full-length albums...

Desolation of Eden
Desolation of Eden
Desolation of Eden is the debut full-length album by American deathcore band, Chelsea Grin. It was released February 16, 2010 through Artery Recordings. Upon its release, the album reached 21 on the Top Heatseekers chart...

17 Finntroll
Finntroll
Finntroll is a folk metal band from Helsinki, Finland. They combine elements of black metal and folk metal. Finntroll's lyrics are mostly in Swedish, the only exception being the song "Madon Laulu" on Visor Om Slutet...

Nifelvind
Nifelvind
-External links:**...

Miss May I
Miss May I
Miss May I is an American metalcore band from Troy, Ohio. On December 6, 2008, Miss May I announced that they had been signed to Rise Records. The band's debut album, Apologies Are for the Weak, reached #29 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers, and #66 on Top Independent Albums. Their song, "Forgive and...

Monument
Monument (Miss May I album)
Monument is the second studio album from the Metalcore band Miss May I, and their first with bassist and clean vocalist Ryan Neff. The album debuted at #76 on the Bilboard 200 chart, making it the band's highest charting album to date.-Release:...

19 Eluveitie
Eluveitie
Eluveitie is a folk metal band from Winterthur, Switzerland. The band formed in 2002 and their first EP, Vên came out in 2003. The band then released a full-length album, Spirit in June 2006. In November 2007, Eluveitie was signed by Nuclear Blast....

Everything Remains as It Never Was
Everything Remains as It Never Was
Everything Remains is the fourth full-length album by the Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie. Produced by Colin Richardson, it was released on February 19, 2010 through Nuclear Blast.-Track listing:# "Otherworld" - 1:57...

Fuck the Facts
Fuck the Facts
Fuck the Facts is a Canadian grindcore band from Ottawa, Ontario, formed in 1998. They began in the late nineties as a solo recording project constructed by musician Topon Das. After many early recordings, including split tapes with groups from around the world, Fuck the Facts began developing a...

Unnamed
Unnamed EP
-Personnel:*Topon Das – guitar*Mathieu Vilandré – drums, guitar*Mel Mongeon – vocals, artwork*Marc Bourgon – bass, vocalsAdditional*Dave Sarazin – drum recording*Craig Boychuk – mixing*Alan Douches – mastering*Johnny Ibay – guest guitar solo...

 (EP)
Jon Oliva's Pain
Jon Oliva's Pain
Jon Oliva's Pain is the latest project of Savatage co-founder Jon Oliva.-Band history:Originally, the project consisted entirely of solo recordings by Oliva, but after several months of work he was joined by former members of Circle II Circle to form a band.The band's first performance was at the...

Festival
Festival (Jon Oliva's Pain album)
Festival is the fourth release by the band Jon Oliva's Pain. Released in February 2010 in Europe, it peaked at #87 in the German MRC Radio Charts....

Throes of Dawn
Throes of Dawn
Throes of Dawn is a Black metal band from Finland, formed in 1994 by Henri Koivula and Jani Heinola . Throes Of Dawn's Music and lyrics has been known as emotional and progressive Dark Metal ....

The Great Fleet of Echoes
20 Stam1na
Stam1na
Stam1na is a Finnish heavy metal musical group native of Lemi, South Karelia. Their music is arguably best described as progressive metal with some thrash, death and alternative influences, and is sung in Finnish language.-Name:...

Viimeinen Atlantis
Viimeinen Atlantis
Viimeinen Atlantis is the fourth album by Finnish thrash metal band Stam1na. It was released on February 10, 2010. It features keyboardist Emil Lähteenmäki for the first time as a permanent band member....

22 Abscess
Abscess (band)
Abscess was a hardcore punk-influenced death metal band from Oakland, California. The band was formed in 1994 by Chris Reifert and Danny Coralles, both former members of Autopsy....

Dawn of Inhumanity
At the Gates
At the Gates
At the Gates is an extreme metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, and a major progenitor of the Gothenburg death-metal sound. Their early albums lean towards a death metal sound, but later albums sound more like melodic death metal.Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007 for a...

The Flames of the End
The Flames of the End
The Flames of the End is a three-disc DVD set from Swedish metal band At The Gates. Its main feature is a 2-hour+ documentary detailing the history of the band and their successful reunion tour, directed by guitarist and founding member Anders Bjorler...

 (DVD set)
Borknagar
Borknagar
Borknagar is a progressive black metal band from Bergen, Norway, founded in 1995 by Øystein Garnes Brun. The band's style combines folk metal and black metal with progressive and melodic elements...

Universal
Universal (Borknagar album)
Universal is the eighth full-length album by the Norwegian metal band Borknagar. It marks the return of guitarist Jens F. Ryland. The band's former vocalist ICS Vortex performed vocals on the track My Domain. The album was intended to be released in the fall of 2009, but the release date was...

23 High on Fire
High on Fire
High on Fire is a stoner metal band from Oakland, California, that was formed in 1998. Matt Pike, the band's frontman and founder, previously played guitar for the influential stoner doom band Sleep.-History:...

Snakes for the Divine
Snakes for the Divine
Snakes for the Divine is the fifth studio album by High on Fire.-History and recording:Snakes for the Divine was recorded at The Pass Studios in Los Angeles with producer Greg Fidelman. The album cover art and track listing were revealed on the band's Myspace page on January 6, 2010. Snakes for the...

Mutiny Within
Mutiny Within
Mutiny Within was a metal band from Edison, New Jersey. The band was formed in 2002 by bassist Andrew Jacobs originally as a Children of Bodom cover band. They disbanded in 2011.-Formation :...

Mutiny Within
Mutiny Within (album)
Mutiny Within is the self-titled debut album by New Jersey heavy metal band, Mutiny Within, released on February 23, 2010 in the US, and on April 26, 2010 in the UK, both through Roadrunner Records. The album was recorded at Bieler Bros...

24 Dark Tranquillity
Dark Tranquillity
Dark Tranquillity is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg. They are one of the longest-standing bands from the original Gothenburg metal scene, and are one of the most integral pioneers of the melodic death metal genre of music....

We Are the Void
We Are the Void
We Are The Void is the ninth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity.It is their first album with new bassist Daniel Antonsson....

Kalmah
Kalmah
Kalmah is a melodic death metal band from Oulu, Finland that formed in 1998. In less than a year after its formation, Kalmah was signed by Spinefarm Records. The word "kalmah" is Karelian and could be translated as "to the grave" or "to the death."-History:...

12 Gauge
Reflexion
Reflexion (band)
Reflexion is a mix of Gothic Metal, Alternative Metal and Melodic Hard Rock band from Finland.Formed as Enchanted in 1995, but in 1996 they changed their name to Barbarianz, and then to Reflexion in 2000.-Members:* Juha Kylmänen – Vocals...

Edge
Edge (Reflexion album)
Edge is the third studio album by the Finnish band Reflexion. It was recorded at Mastervox, State Railroad and Park Street Studios, mixed by Hiili Hiilesmaa at Coalhole and mastered at Chartmakers by Svante Forsback.- Track listing :...

26 Catamenia Cavalcade

March

Day Artist Album
1 Mortemia
Mortemia
Mortemia is a Norwegian gothic metal one-man band created in 2009 by Morten Veland, the founder of Tristania and Sirenia. On July 6, 2009 the band announced it had signed with Napalm Records. The band's first album, titled Misere Mortem, was released in February 2010. A song from the album, "The...

Misere Mortem
Misere Mortem
Misere Mortem is the first studio album by the Norwegian band Mortemia.The design was done by the agency angst-im-wald.-Track listing:# "The One I Once Was" - 4:46# "The Pain Infernal and the Fall Eternal" - 5:16# "The Eye of the Storm" - 5:10...

2 The Bled
The Bled
The Bled is a hardcore band from Tucson, Arizona. The group formed in 2001, originally under the name "The Radiation Defiance Theory", but changed it because of its length...

Heat Fetish
Heat Fetish
Heat Fetish is the fourth and final studio album released by American hardcore band The Bled. The album is their first release through Rise Records after parting ways with Vagrant Records in 2009...

Derdian
Derdian
Derdian is a power metal band from Milan, Italy. The band was formed in 1998.- Biography :'Henry Pistolese' and Marco Covelli founded the band in 1998 and initially intended it to be a thrash metal style. The two founders were joined in this project by Luigi Trapani and Samuele Carrari . They...

New Era Pt. 3 - The Apocalypse
3 Ludicra
Ludicra
Ludicra was a metal band from San Francisco. They originally formed in 1998 as a quartet and later expanded to five members. Ludicra's sound has been described as black metal or as avant-garde metal. Influences include bands such as Darkthrone, Gorgoroth, Dødheimsgard, and Bethlehem, and genres...

The Tenant
Metsatöll
Metsatöll
Metsatöll is an Estonian folk metal band.The name "Metsatöll" is an ancient Estonian euphemism for wolf, which is reflected in the harshness of their lyrics...

Äio
Äio
"Äio" is the release from Estonian folk-metal group Metsatöll. It was issued in 2010 on Spinefarm Records all over the world. It features heavy use of traditional instruments such as the lokulaud, torupill, kannel & angipill, in addition to the typical metal band instrumentation -Reception:In the...

5 Soulgrind
Soulgrind
Soulgrind is a black metal band from Finland. Its members hail from different black metal musical projects such as Thy Serpent, and Finntroll. Its lyrics deal with paganism, and their latest album "Pakana" is Finnish for "pagan".-Members:...

The Tuoni Pathway
8 White Wizzard
White Wizzard
White Wizzard are an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2007. The band has released two EP's and two albums, Over the Top released in 2010, and Flying Tigers released in 2011.-History:...

Over the Top
Over the Top (White Wizzard album)
-Music videos:A music video for the song "Over the Top" was released on January 29, 2010. The video featured the band playing in a snowy Western town and combating a "Jazz Wizard"....

9 Daughters
Daughters (band)
Daughters is an American grindcore/mathcore/noise rock band formed in 2001 in Providence, Rhode Island after the demise of Providence-based As the Sun Sets. Daughters have four releases including their self-titled EP, Canada Songs LP Hell Songs and last album Daughters . The band has re-released...

Daughters
Daughters (album)
Daughters is Daughters' debut EP released on City of Hell in 2002. It was released as a 7" vinyl and is now out of print.-Track listing:#"Hello Assholes" - 1:00#"Flattery Is a Bunch of Fucking Bullshit" - 1:35...

Demon Hunter
Demon Hunter
Demon Hunter is an American heavy metal band from Seattle, Washington, started in 2000 by brothers Don Clark and Ryan Clark. All of Demon Hunter's members are Christians and express their love for Jesus in many of their songs. Although the brothers created the band, only one remains, Don Clark...

The World Is a Thorn
The World Is a Thorn
The World Is a Thorn is Demon Hunter's fifth studio album, which was released March 9, 2010. The album is described by the band as their "heaviest but most melodic" album yet...

Immolation
Immolation (band)
-History:The band formed in May 1986 by Andrew Sakowicz and Dave Wilkinson under the name Rigor Mortis . The name was changed to Immolation in April 1988, after the Warriors of Doom demo which was recorded as Rigor Mortis and Demo I which was recorded as Immolation...

Majesty and Decay
Majesty and Decay
Majesty and Decay is Immolation's eighth full length album, released March 9, 2010. It was recorded at New York's Millbrook Sound Studios and was produced by Paul Orofino and mixed by Zack Ohren.-Track listing:#"Intro" – 1:19#"The Purge" – 3:19...

8 Burzum
Burzum
Burzum is a musical project by Varg Vikernes . It began during 1991 in Bergen, Norway and quickly became prominent within the early Norwegian black metal scene...

Belus
Belus (album)
- Charts :...

12 Theatre of Tragedy
Theatre of Tragedy
Theatre of Tragedy was a Norwegian band from Stavanger, active between 1993 and 2010. They are best known for their earlier albums, which provided a great deal of influence to the gothic metal genre.-Biography:...

Addenda (EP)
15 Katatonia
Katatonia
Katatonia is a Swedish metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström .-1991-1993:The early Katatonia releases, such as the EP Jhva Elohim Meth.....

The Longest Year
The Longest Year
The Longest Year is an EP by the Swedish band Katatonia. "Sold Heart" is the only track on this EP to be previously unreleased. The videos for "The Longest Year" and "Day & then the Shade" were directed by Charlie Granberg and Lasse Hoile, respectively...

 (EP)
Killing Addiction
Killing Addiction
Killing Addiction is a death metal-grindcore band hailing from the Florida music scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s that spawned dozens of bands in the death metal genre...

Fall Of The Archetypes
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...

Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross
Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross
Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross is a symphonic metal concept album released in 2010 by actor Christopher Lee. It is Christoper Lee's first full-length album released when Lee was 88 years old. The album won the 'Spirit of Hammer' award from the 2010 Metal Hammer Golden God awards ceremony...

16 Armored Saint
Armored Saint
-Early career:Armored Saint was formed in 1982 by brothers Phil Sandoval and Gonzo Sandoval , and guitarist David Prichard, while attending South Pasadena High School. Next to join were singer John Bush also a South Pasadena High School Alumni and bassist Joey Vera...

La Raza
La Raza (album)
-Personnel:*John Bush - vocals*Jeff Duncan - guitars*Phil Sandoval - guitars*Joey Vera - Bass and production*Gonzo Sandoval - drums*Bryan Carlstrom - Engineering and Mixing*John Nuss - Assistant Engineer*Maor Appelbaum - Mastering-External links:*...

Landmine Marathon
Landmine Marathon
Landmine Marathon is an American extreme metal band from Phoenix, Arizona.The band started in 2004 and is currently signed with Prosthetic Records...

Sovereign Descent
Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer–songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, playwright, record producer, poet, and political activist...

Elect the Dead Symphony
Elect the Dead Symphony
-Chart positions:-External links:*...

 (live DVD/CD)
19 Sadist
Sadist (band)
Sadist is a progressive death metal band from Genoa, Italy, founded in 1991. The band split up in 2000 after releasing their Lego album, but reunited in 2005 and released their self-titled album in 2007. Their compositions involve a heavy usage of guitar solos and keyboard solos, with progressive,...

Season In Silence
Scorpions
Scorpions (band)
Scorpions are a heavy metal/hard rock band from Hannover, Germany, formed in 1965 by guitarist Rudolf Schenker, who is the band's only constant member. They are known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and many singles, such as "No One Like You", "Send Me an Angel", "Still...

Sting in the Tail
Sting in the Tail
Sting in the Tail is the seventeenth studio album by German heavy metal band Scorpions. It was released on March 19, 2010 in Europe and was released on March 23 in North America...

Unleashed
Unleashed (band)
Unleashed is a Swedish death metal band that was formed in 1989 by Johnny Hedlund. Viking culture, recollection of a pre-Christian world, and Norse folklore are common themes found in the band's songs. A number of their recent songs also contain references to J. R. R. Tolkien.-Biography:Unleashed...

As Yggdrasil Trembles
As Yggdrasil Trembles
As Yggdrasil Trembles is the 10th studio album by the Swedish death metal band Unleashed. It was released on March 19, 2010 by Nuclear Blast Records.-Track listing:- Reception :-Personnel:* Johnny Hedlund – vocals, bass...

22 Enthroned
Enthroned
Enthroned is a black metal band formed in Charleroi in 1993 by Cernunnos. He soon recruited guitarist Tsebaoth and a vocalist from grindcore/black metal band Hecate who stayed until the end of December 1993. Then bassist/vocalist Sabathan joined. The band released a 5-track demo tape in mid-1994...

Pentagrammaton
Pentagrammaton (album)
Pentagrammaton is the tenth studio album by the Belgian black metal band, Enthroned. The artwork was created by Neraath and the layout was done by Nornagest & Neraath...

Poisonblack
Poisonblack
Poisonblack is a Finnish heavy/gothic metal band led by singer/guitarist Ville Laihiala, known for his vocals with the band Sentenced from 1996 - 2005...

Of Rust and Bones
Of Rust and Bones
Of Rust and Bones is the fourth studio album by the Finnish gothic metal band Poisonblack. It was released on March 22, 2010 in Europe by Century Media Records.- Track listing :# "Sun Shines Black" - 4:50# "Leech" - 3:48# "My World" - 3:57...

Ragnarok Collectors of the King
Triptykon
Triptykon
Triptykon is a musical project of Thomas Gabriel Fischer, founding member of the pioneering heavy metal bands Hellhammer, Celtic Frost and Apollyon Sun. Fischer announced his departure from Celtic Frost in May 2008 and shortly afterwards revealed his new project would be entitled Triptykon...

Eparistera Daimones
Eparistera Daimones
-Formats:Eparistera Daimones has been released in several formats including CD, Digipak CD, and Double Gatefold LP.- Chart positions :-Personnel:...

23 Diabolic
Diabolic
Diabolic is an American death metal band from Tampa, Florida, founded in 1998 by drummer Aantar Lee Coates and guitarist Brian Malone.-Biography:...

Excisions of Exorcisms
The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Dillinger Escape Plan is an American mathcore band from Morris Plains, New Jersey. The group originated in 1997 after the disbanding of Arcane, a hardcore punk trio consisting of Ben Weinman, Dimitri Minakakis, and Chris Pennie. The band's current line-up consists of guitarist Ben Weinman,...

Option Paralysis
Option Paralysis
Option Paralysis is the fourth full-length studio album by American mathcore band The Dillinger Escape Plan, released on March 23, 2010. After having fulfilled their contract with Relapse Records, the band released the album through Party Smasher Inc., their own new imprint in collaboration with...

Down
Down (band)
Down is an American heavy metal supergroup that formed in 1991 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The band's current lineup consists of vocalist Phil Anselmo, guitarist Pepper Keenan, guitarist Kirk Windstein, bassist Pat Bruders and drummer Jimmy Bower. Since their formation, Down has gone on hiatus twice...

Down VI: Diary of a Mad Band
Down VI: Diary of a Mad Band
-Disc 2:-Credits:* Phil Anselmo - vocals* Pepper Keenan - guitars* Kirk Windstein - guitars* Jimmy Bower - drums* Rex Brown - bass*Layout & Design - Pepper Keenan & Vance Kelly*Artwork - Vance Kelly-Tour dates:...

 (live DVD/CD)
24 Svartsot
Svartsot
Svartsot is a Danish folk metal band formed in 2005 in Randers. Svartsot blend death and black metal with contemporary metal-styles and Nordic folk music.-History:On December 17, 2008, Michael Lundquist Andersen, Niels Thøgersen, Claus B...

Mulmets Viser
Mulmets Viser
-Track listing:#"Æthelred" - 3:32#"Lokkevisen" - 3:44#"Havfruens Kvad" - 4:05#"Højen på Glødende Pæle" - 3:58#"På Odden af Hans Hedenske Sværd" - 5:07#"Laster og Tarv" - 3:38#"Den Svarte Sot" - 6:16#"Kromandens Datter" - 3:55#"Grendel" - 2:52#"Jagten" - 4:29...

26 Cathedral
Cathedral (band)
Cathedral are a doom metal band from Coventry, England. The group forged a link between early doom metal and a 1990s extreme metal aesthetic, making doom slower and heavier. Their debut album, Forest of Equilibrium, is considered a classic of the genre. They later on changed their doom style,...

The Guessing Game
The Guessing Game
The Guessing Game is the ninth full-length album by the British doom metal band Cathedral. It was released on March 26, 2010. It is the first double-album from the band....

Heidevolk
Heidevolk
Heidevolk is a folk/viking metal band from the Netherlands. The lyrical themes of their music are inspired by nature, the history of Gelderland, and the history of Germanic mythology. All of their lyrics are in their native language, Dutch...

Uit oude Grond
Uit oude Grond
Uit Oude Grond is the third studio album by the Dutch folk/viking metal band Heidevolk, which was released on March 26, 2010.-Track listing:# "Nehalennia"# "Ostara"# "Vlammenzee"...

Negură Bunget
Negura Bunget
-Biography:Negură Bunget formed at the end of 1994, as a duo, with Hupogrammos Disciple on guitars, vocals, and keyboards, and Negru on drums. In 1997, Sol'Faur Spurcatu joined the group on guitar...

Vîrstele Pamîntului
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights (band)
Wuthering Heights is a Danish heavy metal band, with a somewhat eclectic musical style which falls in somewhere between progressive, folk, and power metal.- Biography :...

Salt
Xasthur
Xasthur
Xasthur was a Californian one-man black metal band formed in 1995 by Scott Conner, who goes by the pseudonym "Malefic". Although similar in terms of low-fi production and the wearing of corpse paint, musically and lyrically Xasthur's focus is usually not on paganism, Satanism or anti-Christian...

Portal of Sorrow
Portal of Sorrow
Portal of Sorrow is the eighth and final studio album by American black metal act Xasthur.- Track listing :...

29 Alcest
Alcest
Alcest is a musical project born in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France. It began in 2000 with three members – Neige, Aegnor and Argoth. This band released a demo of black metal songs in 2001. Shortly after, Aegnor and Argoth left the band, leaving Neige as the sole member...

Écailles de Lune
Écailles de Lune
Écailles de Lune is the second studio album by Alcest, released on March 29, 2010 by Prophecy Productions.-Track listing:Source: Amazon-Personnel:* Neige - bass, vocals, guitar, synth* Winterhalter - drum...

30 Pantera
Pantera
Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas. Formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell in 1981, bassist Rex Brown would join in late 1981 with vocalist Terry Glaze. Looking for a new and heavier sound, Pantera had Terry replaced in 1987 with Phil Anselmo as...

1990-2000: A Decade Of Dominance
(compilation)
Rotten Sound
Rotten Sound
Rotten Sound is a grindcore band from Vaasa, Finland, formed in 1993. The band comprises vocalist Keijo Niinimaa, guitarist Mika Aalto, bassist Kristian Toivainen and drummer Sami Latva...

Napalm (EP)
31 Kiuas
Kiuas
Kiuas is a heavy metal band from Espoo, Finland. Their music has influences from power metal, folk metal and different styles of extreme metal. Influences from progressive metal can also be heard in some songs.-History:...

Lustdriven
Lustdriven
Lustdriven is the fourth studio album by Heavy metal band Kiuas. It was released March 31, 2010 by Spinefarm Records.-Track listing:-Personnel:* Ilja Jalkanen – vocals* Mikko Salovaara – guitars, vocals* Markku Näreneva – drums...


April

Day Artist Album
2 The Foreshadowing
The Foreshadowing
The Foreshadowing are an Italian gothic metal/doom metal band with ambient influences.-Origins:The band was officially formed at the dawn of 2005, but the project was actually started back in 1998, from an idea of Alessandro Pace ), who involved his friends Andrea Chiodetti and Francesco Sosto ...

Oionos
The Vision Bleak
The Vision Bleak
The Vision Bleak is a gothic metal band from Germany formed in 2000, consisting of former Empyrium member Ulf Theodor Schwadorf and former Nox Mortis member Allen B Konstanz. The band's themes are most notably orientated towards horror....

Set Sail to Mystery
3 Avantasia
Avantasia
Avantasia is a heavy metal project created by Tobias Sammet, vocalist and frontman of the band Edguy. The project's title is a portmanteau of the words "avalon" and "fantasia" and describes "a world beyond human imagination"...

Angel of Babylon
Angel of Babylon
Angel of Babylon is the fifth full-length Avantasia album by German power metal vocalist Tobias Sammet, released on April 3, 2010 along with The Wicked Symphony...

The Wicked Symphony
The Wicked Symphony
-Track listing: -Personnel:* Tobias Sammet - Lead vocals, Bass guitar, Keyboards, Organ * Sascha Paeth - Guitars, Keyboards, Bass guitar Producer* Eric Singer - Drums * Miro - Keyboards, Orchestration...

Salem Playing God and Other Short Stories
Playing God and Other Short Stories
Playing God and Other Short Stories is the seventh studio album by Israeli death metal band Salem, released on April 3, 2010.The album features At the Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg singing lead vocals on "The Mark of the Beast Part 2" and co-lead vocals on "The Mark of the Beast Part 1".The album...

5 DarkSun
DarkSun
DarkSun is a power metal band from Asturias, Spain. Formed in 2002 after the split of Nörthwind, the band has since released 4 studio albums. DarkSun has often cited Blind Guardian, Helloween, Angra, and Rage as their biggest and most important influences....

Touching the Sun
October File
October File
October File are a British Post-Punk Band, named after the die Kreuzen album. Their debut album was released in 2004; subsequent releases followed on the labels Golf Records and Candlelight Records. Their music uses elements of punk, hardcore and industrial metal, often with political overtones...

Our Souls To You
Primitive Graven Image
Primitive Graven Image
Primitive Graven Image is a black metal band from England, who have recently released their second album "Celebrating Impending Chaos" through Envenomation Records.- The Beginnings :...

Celebrating Impending Chaos
6 Slash
Slash (musician)
Saul Hudson , known by his stage name Slash, is a British-American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During his later years with Guns N'...

Slash
Darkthrone
Darkthrone
Darkthrone is a Norwegian black metal band. They formed in 1987 as a death metal band, but after embracing the black metal style in 1991, they became a driving force in the Norwegian black metal scene. For most of this period Darkthrone has consisted of just two musicians, Nocturno Culto and...

Circle the Wagons
Circle the Wagons
Circle the Wagons is the fourteenth album by the Norwegian band Darkthrone. The album was released on 5 April 2010. Fenriz, the band's drummer, describes the music as Darkthrone's "own brand of heavy metal/speed metal-punk" and declares it a further shift from their old black metal style...

Veil of Maya
Veil of Maya (band)
Veil of Maya is an American deathcore band, formed in Oak Park, Illinois in 2004. They are currently signed with Sumerian Records. They have recorded and released three full-length albums, All Things Set Aside , The Common Man's Collapse and [id], released through Sumerian Records...

[id
Id (Veil of Maya album)
[id] is the third studio album by the technical deathcore band Veil of Maya. It was released through Sumerian Records on April 6, 2010. They worked with producer Michael Keene from labelmates The Faceless on this album. Keene also produced The Common Man's Collapse, released in 2008.-Track...

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9 Solution .45
Solution .45
Solution .45 is a metal supergroup from Sweden and Finland, created by guitarist Jani Stefanovic . Their current lineup includes vocalist Christian Älvestam , guitarists Stefanovic, Patrik Gardberg and Tom Gardiner , bassist Anders Edlund , and...

For Aeons Past
For Aeons Past
-Band members:* Christian Älvestam - vocals* Jani Stefanovic - lead and rhythm guitars* Tom Gardiner - lead and rhythm guitars* Rolf Pilve - drums* Anders Edlund - bass-Guests:* Mikko Härkin - keyboards* Mikael Stanne - backing vocals, lyrics...

13 Astral Doors
Astral Doors
Astral Doors is a Swedish heavy metal band formed in 2002. They have released five studio albums and an EP. Their latest work is Requiem Of Time, released in February 2010...

Requiem of Time
Bison B.C.
Bison B.C.
Bison B.C. are a heavy metal band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.They are currently signed to California based Metal Blade records....

Dark Ages
Bleeding Through
Bleeding Through
Bleeding Through is an American metalcore band from Orange County, California. Formed in 1999, the band blends influences stemming from modern hardcore punk, symphonic black metal, and melodic death metal...

Bleeding Through
Bleeding Through (album)
Bleeding Through debuted at number 143 on the US Billboard 200 with 3,700 copies sold in the first week. This is significantly lower than Bleeding Through's previous album, 2008's Declaration, which peaked at number 101 and sold 6,000 copies in the first week.-Track listing:# "A Resurrection" –...

Cancer Bats
Cancer Bats
Cancer Bats are a hardcore punk/sludge metal band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-Background:Cancer Bats originated in May 2004 with singer Liam Cormier and guitarist Scott Middleton, former member of Toronto heavy metal band At the Mercy of Inspiration...

Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones
Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones
Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones is the third studio album by Canadian hardcore punk band Cancer Bats. It was released on April 13, 2010 through Distort Entertainment in Canada. The name of the album derives from each of the band members personal nickname There was also a limited bonus DVD that came...

Judgement Day
Judgement Day (band)
Judgement Day is a three piece "string metal" band from Oakland, California.-Beginnings :Brothers Anton and Lewis Patzner started off playing metal violin and cello duets on the streets in Berkeley, California in 2002. They quickly released a seven-song acoustic EP and began playing rock shows as...

Peacocks/Pink Monsters
The Ocean Heliocentric
Heliocentric (The Ocean Collective album)
Heliocentric is the fourth studio album by the German experimental metal band The Ocean, released on April 9, 2010, and marks the recording debut of vocalist Loïc Rossetti...

War of Ages
War of Ages
War of Ages is a Christian metalcore band formed during the summer of 2002 in Erie, Pennsylvania. They have five music videos: "All Consuming Fire", "Stand Your Ground", "Through the Flames", "Strength Within", and "Collapse". Aaron Harkness aka Aaron Martyr made an appearance in Stand your Ground...

Eternal
Eternal (War of Ages album)
-Members:*Leroy Hamp – Vocals*Steve Brown – Guitar*Branon Bernatowicz – Guitar*TJ Alford – Bass*Alex Hamp – Drums...

Lair of the Minotaur
Lair of the Minotaur
Lair of the Minotaur is a thrash/sludge metal band from Chicago, Illinois.-History:Lair Of The Minotaur was formed by vocalist/guitarist Steven Rathbone in 2003 due to his other band, 7000 Dying Rats, becoming solely a studio project, giving up playing live...

Evil Power
Evil Power
Evil Power the fourth full album from the band Lair of the Minotaur was announced in February of 2010 and released on April 13, 2010 under the newly created Grind-House Records, an independent record label to replace their last label Southern Lord Records....

Woe of Tyrants
Woe of Tyrants
Woe of Tyrants is an American death metal band from Chillicothe, Ohio, formed in 2004.-History:Woe of Tyrants released their critically acclaimed debut album Behold the Lion through Tribunal Records in June 2007, and were soon in talks with several major players in the independent label market...

Threnody
Wormrot
Wormrot
Wormrot is a Singaporean grindcore band formed in 2007, immediately after the founding members completed their mandatory two years of National Service....

Abuse
16 Periphery
Periphery (band)
Periphery is an American metal band from Bethesda, Maryland , formed in 2005.- Formation and lineup changes :Periphery was formed by guitarist Misha Mansoor in 2005...

Periphery
Periphery (album)
Periphery is the debut studio album by American djent band Periphery, signed by Sumerian Records and released on April 20, 2010. Many songs on the track list had been written long before the release date but due to vocalist complications the debut album had been postponed on several occasions...

19 Order of Ennead
Order of Ennead
Order of Ennead are an American self described 'philosophical virtuoso death metal' band formed in Tampa, Florida. It includes two members of the death metal band Deicide, and the student of a former guitarist of the band...

An Examination of Being
An Examination of Being
Order of Ennead is the second studio album of Tampa based death metal band, Order of Ennead. It was recorded at AudioHammer Studios in Sanford, Florida with producer Mark Lewis.-Track listing:- Personnel :* Steve Asheim – drums, percussion...

20 Kayo Dot
Kayo Dot
Kayo Dot is an American avant-rock/experimental music group that was formed in 2003 by Toby Driver. They released their debut album Choirs of the Eye on John Zorn's Tzadik Records label that year. Tzadik's descriptive label on that album reads: "Kayo Dot powerfully integrates elements of modern...

Coyote
Engel
Engel (band)
Engel is a melodic death metal band with alternative influences from Gothenburg, Sweden. They are currently signed to French label Season of Mist, but released their debut album Absolute Design via SPV GmbH/Steamhammer on October 31, 2007...

Threnody
Threnody (Engel album)
-Release history:-Personnel:* Magnus "Mangan" Klavborn – vocals* Niclas Engelin – guitars* Marcus Sunesson – guitars* Steve Drennan – bass* Daniel "Mojjo" Moilanen – drums...

Ratt
Ratt
Ratt is an American heavy metal band that had significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is best known for songs such as "Round and Round," "Wanted Man," "Lay It Down," "You're in Love", "Slip of the Lip", "Back For More", "Dance", "Body Talk", "I Want a Woman", and "Way Cool Jr." Ratt...

Infestation
Infestation (album)
Infestation is the seventh studio album by American glam metal band Ratt. It is the band's first original effort since their self-titled album in 1999. It marks the Ratt studio debut for guitarist Carlos Cavazo, formerly of Quiet Riot...

Sevendust
Sevendust
Sevendust is an American heavy metal band from Atlanta, Georgia. Formed in 1994 by bassist Vince Hornsby, drummer Morgan Rose and guitarist John Connolly. After their first demo, lead vocalist Lajon Witherspoon and guitarist Clint Lowery joined the group...

Cold Day Memory
Cold Day Memory
Cold Day Memory is the eighth studio album by American alternative metal band Sevendust released on April 20, 2010. This album marks the return of guitarist Clint Lowery who previously left Sevendust in 2004 to work with Dark New Day...

Sick of It All
Sick of It All
Sick of It All is an American hardcore punk band from Queens, New York. Formed in 1986, the band consisted of brothers Lou Koller on vocals and Pete Koller on lead guitar, Rich Cipriano on bass, and Armand Majidi on drums. There have been only two member changes since their inception, with Max...

Based on a True Story
Based on a True Story (Sick of It All album)
Based on a True Story is the ninth studio album by Sick of It All. It was released on April 20, 2010, on the band's new label Century Media Records . It was the band's first album in four years, following the release of Death to Tyrants in 2006, the longest gap between albums in Sick of It All's...

23 Audiovision
Audiovision
Christian Liljegren, known for his work in Narnia and Divinefire started up Audiovision during 2003 as his solo project. The first album The Calling was released in late 2004 in Europe and Japan, and it was produced by Lars Chriss [Lion’s Share, Road to Ruin]...

Focus
Candlemass
Candlemass
Candlemass are an influential Swedish doom metal band established in 1984 by Leif Edling , their leader and songwriter. The band is originally from Stockholm. After releasing five full-length albums and touring extensively throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Candlemass disbanded in 1994, but...

Ashes to Ashes Live (live DVD)
Tarot
Tarot (band)
Tarot is a heavy metal band from Finland. They are most famous for the song “Wings of Darkness” from the 1986 album Spell of Iron. While having enjoyed a broad underground popularity in Finland, the band has never been very famous elsewhere until gaining new success in the recent years when their...

Gravity of Light
Gravity of Light
Gravity of Light is the eighth studio album by the Finnish heavy metal band, Tarot. It was released in Finland on March 10, 2010 and is scheduled to be released in Europe on April 23, 2010 and in the US on June 8, 2010.-Track Listing :...

26 1349
1349 (band)
1349 is a Norwegian black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1997. Their name comes from the year the Black Death reached Norway.- History :1349 formed in 1997 and comprises several former members of the band Alvheim...

Demonoir
Demonoir
Demonoir is the fifth full-length album by Norwegian Black metal band 1349. The new album shows "a return to the band's more traditional, raw-yet-technical black metal sound." It was released on 26th April 2010 in Europe and the day after in North America....

Axel Rudi Pell
Axel Rudi Pell
Axel Rudi Pell is a German guitar player, playing melodic heavy metal. He started off with the band Steeler before leaving to start his solo career in 1989 with the eponymous band Axel Rudi Pell...

The Crest
The Crest (Axel Rudi Pell album)
The Crest is the fourteenth album by German speed/power metal guitarist Axel Rudi Pell, and was released in 2010 on Steamhammer/SPV records.-Track listing:All songs by Axel Rudi PellDisc 1:# "Prelude of Doom" - 1:32# "Too Late" - 5:58...

Bullet for My Valentine
Bullet for My Valentine
Bullet for My Valentine are a Welsh heavy metal band from Bridgend, formed in 1998. The band is composed of Matt Tuck , Michael Paget , Jason James , and Michael Thomas . They were formed under the name Jeff Killed John and started their music career by covering songs by Metallica and Nirvana...

Fever
Fever (Bullet for My Valentine album)
Fever is the third studio album by Welsh heavy metal band, Bullet for My Valentine. Containing eleven tracks, the album was released on 26 and 27 April 2010 in the UK and in the US, respectively. The album sold 71,000 copies in the US and 21,965 in the UK in its first week of release to debut at...

Kivimetsän Druidi
Kivimetsän Druidi
Kivimetsän Druidi is a folk metal band from Kouvola, Finland. 'Kivimetsän Druidi' is Finnish for "druid of the stone forest".-Band history:Their lyrics are based on the fantasy novel Joni Koskinen is writing. The novel tells a story from The Land of the Crystal Mountain and Stone Forest.'KmD'...

Betrayal, Justice, Revenge
Master The Human Machine
Raintime
Raintime
Raintime is an Italian progessive / power metal band, founded in 1999. The band was initially significantly inspired by Dream Theater, and as such composed songs which leaned towards the progressive metal genre. They then recorded an instrumental demo entitled Jump In the Past.After the demo was...

Psychromatic
Psychromatic
Psychromatic is the third album from Italian metal band Raintime. It was released on March 16, 2010. The first single from this album will be "Fire Ants".-Track listing:# Fire Ants# Turned Up and Down# Never Ending Stairway# Nothing But a Mistake...

Skyforger
Skyforger
Skyforger is a heavy metal band from Latvia which was formed in 1995 out of the remains of doom metal band Grindmaster Dead. Most of their songs are about pagan gods and warfare; they also play traditional Latvian folk songs and metal covers. Although Skyforger is known for their folk metal, their...

Kurbads
Kurbads (Skyforger album)
Kurbads is the fifth studio album by the Latvian folk metal band Skyforger.-Track listing:# Curse Of The Witch - 05:04# Son Of The Mare - 05:26# The Nine-headed - 03:56# Bewitched Forest - 05:15# In The Yard Of The Father's Son - 00:39...

27 Drowning Pool
Drowning Pool
Drowning Pool is a four-piece alternative metal band from Dallas, Texas.-Early days :Drowning Pool rose to fame while playing along with Ozzy Osbourne during an Ozzfest tour. Their 2001 debut album, Sinner was certified platinum within six weeks...

Drowning Pool
Drowning Pool (album)
-Personnel:* Ryan McCombs - vocals* C. J. Pierce - guitar* Mike Luce - drums* Stevie Benton - bass-Chart positions:-Singles charts:...

Mouth of the Architect
Mouth of the Architect
Mouth of the Architect is an American atmospheric post-metal band from Dayton, Ohio, creating music influenced by and similar to Neurosis, Isis, Pelican, Cult of Luna, and various post-metal bands.-Biography:...

The Violence Beneath (EP)
Twilight
Twilight (band)
Twilight is an American black metal band formed in 2005 and originally commissioned by the Swedish underground label Total Holocaust Records. Members of the band all go by pseudonyms: "Azentrius" , "Hildolf" , "Imperial" , "Malefic" and "Wrest" .Although Twilight has so...

Monument To Time End
30 Eisregen
Eisregen
Eisregen is a German death metal / black metal band which formed in 1995. The members are from Tambach-Dietharz, a village in Thuringia.- History :In English, Eisregen translates to "Ice Rain"...

Schlangensonne
Lacrimas Profundere
Lacrimas Profundere
Lacrimas Profundere is a gothic metal band from Germany. Their name means "to shed tears" in Latin. Their stylistic aesthetic has evolved over time, originally a death doom rooted gothic metal band, they have progressively changed their style to a more mainstream gothic style with the late...

The Grandiose Nowhere
The Grandiose Nowhere
The Grandiose Nowhere is the ninth studio album by Lacrimas Profundere, released on April 30, 2010.-Track listing:-Bonus limited edition Digipack tracks:"All Is Suffering""Of Words and Rain"...

Rhapsody of Fire
Rhapsody of Fire
Rhapsody of Fire is an Italian symphonic power metal band led by Alex Staropoli. Since forming in 1993, the band has released eight studio albums, one live album, two EPs, and a live DVD...

The Frozen Tears of Angels
The Frozen Tears of Angels
-Concept:There is a growing fear of war on the horizon for the enchanted lands. The Disciples of the Black Order are gathering their army to unleash their long lost Black Messiah, Nekron, from his prison, to unleash pure evil and chaos upon the world. The wizards of the White Dragon's Order feel it...

Saltatio Mortis
Saltatio Mortis
Saltatio Mortis is a German medieval metal group. They are recognized as one of the leading bands of the genre. The latin name means "dance of death".- Studio albums :* 2001: Tavernakel* 2002: Das zweite Gesicht...

Manufactum II

May

Day Artist Album
4 Deftones
Deftones
Deftones are an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, founded in 1988. The band consists of Chino Moreno , Stephen Carpenter , Chi Cheng , Frank Delgado , and Abe Cunningham . Currently Sergio Vega is standing in on bass while Cheng recovers from a car accident...

Diamond Eyes
Diamond Eyes
Diamond Eyes is the sixth album by American Alternative metal band Deftones, released worldwide on May 4, 2010 through Warner Bros. and Reprise Records...

Dokken
Dokken
Dokken is an American heavy metal and hard rock band formed in 1978. They split up in 1989 but reformed four years later. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide...

Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits (Dokken album)
Greatest Hits is the eleventh studio album by heavy metal band Dokken. It is a collection of re-recorded 1980s hits along with two new tracks. On March 1, 2010, it was digitally released to iTunes and Amazon.com. The physical album with additional tracks was released in the US by Cleopatra Records...

Godsmack
Godsmack
Godsmack is an American heavy metal band from Lawrence, Massachusetts, formed in 1995. The band is composed of founder, frontman and songwriter Sully Erna, guitarist Tony Rombola, bassist Robbie Merrill, and drummer Shannon Larkin...

The Oracle
The Oracle (Godsmack album)
The Oracle, formerly known as Saints & Sinners, is the fifth studio album by American hard rock band Godsmack, released in the U.S. on May 4, 2010....

Nonpoint
Nonpoint
Nonpoint is an American nu metal band formed in 1997. The band consists of Elias Soriano and Rob Rivera . Currently they are signed to Razor & Tie and working on new a record which is expected to be released in Spring 2012....

Miracle
Miracle (Nonpoint album)
Miracle is the sixth studio album by American hard rock/metal band Nonpoint. The album's title track will also serve as its first single. This is the first Nonpoint album to feature new guitarist, Zach Broderick who joined the band in late 2008 following the departure of original member Andrew...

5 Ufomammut
Ufomammut
-History:Hailing from Italy, Ufomammut released their first album, Godlike Snake under Beard of Stars Records in 2000. This was followed in 2004 by the release of Snailking, their second full length release. Snailking has since been reissued by Supernatural Cat Records in 2009. In 2007 the band...

Eve
6 Defeated Sanity
Defeated sanity
Defeated Sanity is a German death metal band from Dachsbach, Bavaria, that was formed in 1994, originally as a side project of guitarist Wolfgang Teske and his son, drummer Lille Gruber. Gruber is the only original remaining member left in the band, following the departure of Teske in July 2008....

Chapters Of Repugnance
7 Exodus
Exodus (band)
Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1980 in Richmond, California. Spanning a career of over 30 years, Exodus has gone through numerous lineup changes, two extended hiatuses, and the deaths of two former band members. Guitarist Gary Holt remains the only constant member of the band,...

Exhibit B: The Human Condition
Exhibit B: The Human Condition
-Charts & Certifications:-Personnel:*Rob Dukes – Vocals*Gary Holt – Lead and rhythm guitars*Lee Altus – Lead and rhythm guitars*Jack Gibson – Bass*Tom Hunting – Drums, Percussion*Brendon Small - Guitar solo on "Devil's Teeth"...

Pro-Pain
Pro-Pain
Pro-Pain is a New York-based hardcore band formed in 1991 by vocalist and bass guitarist Gary Meskil and drummer Dan Richardson, both former members of Crumbsuckers. Debut album Foul Taste of Freedom was released in 1992, displaying hardcore punk and rap metal influences, after which the band...

Absolute Power
Absolute Power (Pro-Pain album)
Absolute Power is the twelfth studio album by New York-based hardcore and Groove Metal band Pro-Pain. The album was released on May 5, 2010, by AFM Records.-Track listing:# "Unrestrained" – 3:47# "Destroy The Enemy" – 4:47...

8 Violator
Violator (band)
Violator are a thrash metal band from Brazil, formed in 2002 by Pedro Arcanjo, Pedro Agusto, and David Araya. After 6 years of playing in the metal underground, the band signed with Brazilian label "Kill Again Records" and released their debut album, "Chemical Assault"...

Annihilation Process (EP)
10 Keep of Kalessin
Keep of Kalessin
Keep of Kalessin is an extreme metal band from Trondheim, Norway formed in 1993. The group's early lineup consisted of Ghash on vocals, Obsidian C. on guitars and keyboards, Warach on bass, and Vyl on drums. They released two albums under this lineup: Through Times of War in 1997, and Agnen: A...

Reptilian
Reptilian (album)
Reptilian is the fifth studio album by the Norwegian extreme metal band Keep of Kalessin, released on 10 May 2010 in Europe and on 8 June 2010 in North America through Nuclear Blast...

Madder Mortem
Madder Mortem
Madder Mortem is a Norwegian progressive metal band. They were formed in 1993 as Mystery Tribe.-Current lineup:* Agnete M. Kirkevaag − Vocals * BP M...

Where Dream and Day Collide (EP)
11 As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying (band)
As I Lay Dying is an American metalcore band from San Diego, California. Founded in 2000 by Tim Lambesis and having completed their first Line-up in 2001, the band consists of vocalist Tim Lambesis, drummer Jordan Mancino, lead guitarist Nick Hipa, rhythm guitarist Phil Sgrosso, and bassist Josh...

The Powerless Rise
The Powerless Rise
The Powerless Rise is the fifth studio album by American metalcore band As I Lay Dying. The album was released on May 7, 2010 in Europe and was released on May 11, 2010 in the United States. The Powerless Rise debuted at #10 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 38,000. The album features three...

Beneath the Sky
Beneath The Sky
-About the band:Beneath The Sky formed in mid 2004 after the collapse of their previous bands Makeshyft, and Blind Judgment.Through constant promotion and regional touring, Beneath The Sky have gained fans all across the USA and in many other parts of the world...

In Loving Memory
In Loving Memory (Beneath the Sky album)
Beneath the Sky's third studio album, entitled In Loving Memory, was released on May 11, 2010. This marks the first release after the bands short break up starting in August 2008, and ending in March 2009.-Track listing:-Personnel:Beneath the Sky...

Brain Drill
Brain Drill
Brain Drill is an American death metal band formed in 2005 from Ben Lomond, California. They are signed to Metal Blade Records and released their full length debut album entitled Apocalyptic Feasting on February 5, 2008...

Quantum Catastrophe
Quantum Catastrophe
Quantum Catastrophe is the second studio album by American technical death metal band Brain Drill, released through Metal Blade on May 11, 2010.-Background:...

Fuck the Facts
Fuck the Facts
Fuck the Facts is a Canadian grindcore band from Ottawa, Ontario, formed in 1998. They began in the late nineties as a solo recording project constructed by musician Topon Das. After many early recordings, including split tapes with groups from around the world, Fuck the Facts began developing a...

Disgorge Mexico: The DVD
Disgorge Mexico: The DVD
Disgorge Mexico: The DVD is the first video release by Canadian grindcore band Fuck the Facts. The DVD has two parts. The first part is a multi-camera recording of the August 2, 2008 concert in which the band performed their then-newest album Disgorge Mexico live in its entirety...

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Howl
Howl (American band)
Howl is an American Doom metal band from Providence, Rhode Island, formed in 2006. They released their debut full-length album, Full of Hell, in May 2010.- Biography :...

Full of Hell
Full of Hell
Full of Hell is the full-length debut studio album by American doom metal band Howl, released through Relapse Records on May 11, 2010. After signing a recording contract with Relapse Records in May 2009, Howl re-released their self-titled EP, Howl, on July 21, 2009. To promote the EP, the band...

Low Twelve
Low twelve
Low Twelve is an American Heavy Metal band from Bloomington. They typically play in a Thrash Metal style, and often take inspiration from historical figures and events for their music. The Band currently consists of Founder/Lead Singer and Bassist Pete Altieri, Drummer Travis Waterman, Les Aldridge...

Splatter Pattern
Misery Index
Misery Index (band)
Misery Index is an American deathgrind band formed in 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, by Jason Netherton on vocals and bass guitar, Mike Harrison on vocals and guitar, and Kevin Talley on drums. From 2006-2010, its line-up consisted of Netherton on vocals and bass guitar, Sparky Voyles...

Heirs to Thievery
Heirs to Thievery
Heirs To Thievery is the fourth full length album by American deathgrind band Misery Index. It was released by Relapse Records on May 11, 2010.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Adam Jarvis - drums*Mark Klöppel - vocals, guitar...

Attila
Attila (metal band)
Attila is an American metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, that was formed in 2005. They have released four full-length albums. Their most successful album Outlawed was produced by Joey Sturgis, released on August 16, 2011 and debuted on Billboard 200 at 87 position...

Rage
Rage (Attila album)
Rage is the third full-length album by American metalcore band Attila. The album was released on May 11, 2010, through Artery Recordings. It is the band's debut release on the label...

14 Black Majesty
Black Majesty
Black Majesty is a power metal band from Melbourne, Australia. The band was formed in 2001 by ex-members of prominent bands on the Australian metal scene and after the release of a three track sampler album they were signed to a 5-album contract with German-based label LMP Records...

In Your Honor
In Your Honor
In Your Honor is the fifth studio album by Foo Fighters, released on June 14, 2005 on BMG. It consists of two discs. The first contains up beat rock songs and the second disc contains mellower acoustic songs.-Development:...

Mael Mórdha
Mael Mórdha
Mael Mórdha is a doom metal band from Dublin, Ireland. Its name can also be written in traditional Irish typography, as Mael Mórḋa. The band's music melds doom metal with Irish folk music to create what has been referred to as "Gaelic doom metal".-History:...

Manannán
Pretty Maids
Pretty Maids
Pretty Maids are a Danish heavy metal band from Horsens, Denmark. Formed in 1981 by Ronnie Atkins and Ken Hammer. Their sound and music can be described as classic guitar-laden heavy rock with a strong emphasis on melodic elements like vocals and keyboards....

Pandemonium
15 Kekal
Kekal
Kekal is a heavy metal band formed in 1995 in Jakarta, Indonesia. According to Allmusic, Kekal was one of the first heavy metal bands from Indonesia to make international inroads, and according to Keith Kahn Harris was one of the few extreme metal bands from Southeast Asia to ever make more than a...

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17 Cynic
Cynic (band)
Cynic is an American progressive rock band, incorporating experimental music, alternative, metal and jazz fusion elements, founded in Miami, Florida and currently based in Los Angeles, California. Their first album, Focus, released on September 14, 1993, is widely regarded as a landmark release of...

Re-Traced
Re-Traced
Re-Traced is an EP by the technical metal band Cynic. It is composed of four re-interpretations of songs from their album Traced in Air, as well as one new song. It was released through Season of Mist on May 17.-History:...

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Annihilator
Annihilator (band)
Annihilator is a Canadian heavy metal band hailing from Ottawa, Ontario, also from Vancouver, British Columbia between 1987-2002 by founding member, vocalist, guitarist and bassist Jeff Waters. The band has been around since 1984 and is the biggest selling heavy metal artist from Canada in history,...

Annihilator
Annihilator (album)
Annihilator is the thirteenth studio album by the Canadian thrash metal band Annihilator. It was released on May 17, 2010 in Europe.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Jeff Waters - guitars, bass and backing vocals*Dave Padden - lead and backing vocals...

18 Anew Revolution
Anew Revolution
Anew Revolution is an American hard rock band.-History:Anew Revolution was formed by ex-Unloco frontman Joey Duenas and includes Frank "Frankie" Salvaggio and Rob Urbani, former members of Slaves on Dope...

iMerica
IMERICA
iMerica is the second full-length studio album from Anew Revolution. The album was released on May 18, 2010 via Koch Records.As with Rise, no new songs from the live EP Live At The Machine Shop! were re-recorded or included on this album....

Fleshgod Apocalypse
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Fleshgod Apocalypse is an Italian symphonic technical death metal band.-Biography:Fleshgod Apocalypse was formed during 2007 and recorded their first demo the same year. The demo was re-released the following year on a split CD with fellow Italian bands Septycal Gorge, Modus Delicti, and Onirik....

Mafia (EP)
Iced Earth
Iced Earth
Iced Earth is an American heavy metal band from Tampa, Florida. Originally formed under the name "Purgatory" in 1984, Iced Earth has released a total of ten studio albums, one live album, three EP's, two compilations and boxsets...

Box of the Wicked
Box of the Wicked
Box Of The Wicked is a box set released by the American heavy metal band Iced Earth, which include all the albums from the Something Wicked Saga concept...

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Silent Civilian
Silent Civilian
Silent Civilian is a metalcore band originating from Los Angeles, California. Following his departure from nu metal band Spineshank in 2004, frontman Jonny Santos felt he wanted to move in a different direction musically and start from scratch...

Ghost Stories
Ghost Stories (Silent Civilian album)
Ghost Stories is the second album by the metalcore music group Silent Civilian, the follow-up to Rebirth of the Temple. It was released on May 18, 2010....

Widow Sunday
Widow Sunday
Widow Sunday is a industrial metal band formed in Framingham, Massachusetts in 2007. Widow Sunday was the nickname of Madame Dimanche, a 19th century Parisian woman who grew an 8-inch bone horn from the center of her forehead in her late 70's. A wax cast of the abnormality can be found in the...

In These Rusted Veins
In These Rusted Veins
In These Rusted Veins is the debut full length album by Widow Sunday, released in May 2010 through Rat Pak Records. "ITRV" was produced and engineered by Shane Frisby at the Brick Hithouse in Hyannis, MA, and mixed and mastered by Peter Rutcho at Damage Studios in Southbridge, MA over the winter...

19 Loudness
Loudness (band)
is a Japan-based heavy metal band formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi. They were the first Japanese heavy metal act signed to a major label in the United States, releasing twenty-three studio albums...

King of Pain
King of Pain (Loudness album)
King of Pain is the twenty-third studio album by Japanese band Loudness. It was released in 2010 only in Japan. It also marks the full-length debut of drummer Masayuki Suzuki....

Pain of Salvation
Pain of Salvation
Pain of Salvation is a Swedish progressive rock band featuring Daniel Gildenlöw, who is the lyricist, chief composer, guitarist, and lead vocalist. Their sound is characterised by powerful, accentuated guitar work, broad vocal range, abrupt switching between heavy and calm passages, intense...

Road Salt One
Road Salt One
-Limited Edition Digipack:The Japanese edition has a bonus track after Innocence titled "Tip Toe Two". The drum parts in the song are played by Daniel Gildenlow.Concept, music and lyrics by Daniel Gildenlöw.-Band Members:...

21 Aeon
Aeon (band)
Aeon is a death metal band that formed in Östersund, Sweden in 1999. The band comprises vocalist Tommy Dahlström, guitarists Sebastian Nilsson and Daniel Dlimi, bassist Marcus Edvardsson and drummer Arttu Malkki. The band released its debut album, Bleeding the False, in 2005; and the second album...

Path of Fire
Path of Fire
- Background :As former bassist Max Carlberg had left Aeon at the time of the album recording and studio sessions had already been booked, preventing replacement bassist Victor Brandt from learning the songs in time, the bass on Path of Fire is handled by Aeon's guitarists Zeb Nilsson and Daniel...

Detente
Detente (band)
Detente is a thrash metal band founded in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. The group's original line-up included Dawn Crosby on vocals, Steve Hochheiser on bass, Dennis Butler on drums and Ross Robinson and Caleb Quinn on guitars,.-History:...

Decline
Heaven Shall Burn
Heaven Shall Burn
Heaven Shall Burn is a German heavy metal band from Saalfeld, formed in 1996. They combine an aggressive metal sound with lyrics that show a militant support of anti-racism and fighting social injustice. All members of the band are vegan.-Biography:...

Invictus (Iconoclast III)
Invictus (Iconoclast III)
Invictus is the sixth studio album by German Metalcore band Heaven Shall Burn and is the last part of the Iconoclast trilogy, following their previous studio album Iconoclast and the live CD/DVD Bildersturm: Iconoclast II .It was released on 21 May 2010 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland...

Masterplan Time To Be King
Time to Be King
Time To Be King is the fourth studio album by the multinational power metal band Masterplan. This album marks the return of the band's original singer Jørn Lande. He left the band in 2006, citing musical differences as the reason...

Sabaton
Sabaton (band)
Sabaton is a Grammis-nominated power metal band from Falun, Sweden formed in 1999. The band's main lyrical themes are those of historical wars. This is heard in albums Primo Victoria, Attero Dominatus and Coat of Arms where all of the songs, except final tracks, take inspiration from historical...

Coat of Arms
Coat of Arms (album)
-Personnel:* Joakim Brodén - vocals* Rickard Sundén - guitars* Oskar Montelius - guitars* Pär Sundström - bass* Daniel Mullback - drums* Daniel Mÿhr - keyboards-Chart performance:-Certifications:- Notes :...

Y&T
Y&T
Y&T is an American hard rock/heavy metal band formed in 1974. They hail from Oakland, California...

Facemelter
Facemelter
Facemelter is the twelfth studio album by American hard rock/heavy metal band Y&T, which was released on May 21, 2010 through the Frontiers Records label...

24 Dew-Scented
Dew-Scented
Dew-Scented is a German thrash metal, death metal band. They have released eight studio albums and are currently signed to Metal Blade Records and Prosthetic Records . Their name is inspired by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe...

Invocation
Enforcer
Enforcer (band)
Enforcer is a heavy metal band formed in 2004 in Arvika, Sweden.Enforcer plays and performs in a style very similar to older speed metal bands like Agent Steel, Exciter and Anvil...

Diamonds
Leng Tch'e
Leng Tch'e
Leng Tch'e is a grindcore band based in Belgium. The band describes their style as "razorgrind", a combination of grindcore with death metal, stoner rock and metalcore....

Hypomanic
25 Dir En Grey
Dir en grey
Dir En Grey is a Japanese metal band formed in 1997 and currently signed to Firewall Div., a sub-division of Free-Will. As of 2011, they have recorded eight full-length records...

Uroboros
Uroboros -With the Proof in the Name of Living...- At Nippon Budokan
Uroboros -With the Proof in the Name of Living...- At Nippon Budokan is a live DVD from Dir En Grey released May 26, 2010 in Japan, May 25, 2010 in US and May/June 2010 in Europe...

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Krokus
Krokus (band)
Krokus is a hard rock/heavy metal band from Switzerland. They enjoyed moderate success in North America during the 1980s.Krokus was founded in Solothurn in 1974 by bassist Chris von Rohr and guitarist Tommy Kiefer...

Hoodoo
Hoodoo (Krokus album)
-Line-Up:*Marc Storace - vocals, Guitar*Fernando Von Arb - Guitar*Chris Von Rohr - Bass Guitar*Freddy Steady - drums*Mark Kohler - guitar...

Rosetta
Rosetta (band)
Rosetta is an American post-metal band from Philadelphia incorporating elements of post-hardcore, shoegazing, drone, post-rock, avant-garde, and ambient, with influences as diverse as Neurosis and Isis, My Bloody Valentine, Frodus, and Stars of the Lid...

A Determinism of Morality
A Determinism of Morality
A Determinism of Morality is the third full-length album by post-metal band Rosetta. The album was released on May 25, 2010 through Translation Loss Records on CD...

Soulfly
Soulfly
Soulfly is a heavy metal band formed in 1997 based in Phoenix, Arizona. The original lyrical content revolved around spirituality and religious themes, with later albums encompassing other themes including war, violence, aggression, hatred and anger. Soulfly is led by former Sepultura frontman Max...

Omen
Omen (album)
-Personnel:*Max Cavalera - vocals, 4-strings guitar, sitar*Marc Rizzo - guitar, flamenco guitar*Bobby Burns - bass*Joe Nunez - drums, percussion*Branden Krull - keyboards*Greg Puciato - vocals on "Rise of the Fallen"...

Starkweather
Starkweather (band)
Starkweather is a metal band from Philadelphia, United States that formed in 1989. Starkweather helped pioneer the hardcore/heavy metal crossover sound that would later be known as "metalcore"...

This Sheltering Night
This Sheltering Night
This Sheltering Night is a studio album released by American rock band Starkweather. The album was released on May 25, 2010 through Deathwish Inc.....

26 Sotajumala
Sotajumala
Sotajumala is a Finnish death metal band from Jyväskylä, formed in 1998. The band has released two full-length albums, two mcds, one single and one split EP . They have played a lot of shows in their home country, including Tuska, Jalometalli, Nummirock, Lutakko Liekeissä and Pellavarock festivals...

Kuolemanpalvelus
28 Disbelief
Disbelief
Disbelief is a metal band from Hesse, Germany. Their music is rooted in death metal, but has melancholic tendencies.- Biography :...

Heal
Enemy of the Sun
Enemy of the Sun (band)
- History :The band was founded in 2006 and named after the Neurosis' album of the same name from 1993. Their most famous member is Waldemar Sorychta, who had previously played in bands like Despair, Grip Inc. and Voodoocult and who made a name in producing many metal bands in the 1990s. At the...

Caedium
Exilia
Exilia
Exilia is an Italian nu metal band. They combine elements of alternative metal, rock, and hard rock in their music.-History:Exilia formed in 1993 in Milan, Italy, when Masha met guitarist Elio Alien....

Naked
Magica
Magica (band)
Magica is a Romanian female-fronted power metal band.- History :Magica started in February 2002 as a project of Bogdan Costea, guitarist of a local gothic metal band, Interitus Dei. The reason for starting this band was Bogdan's desire to play the music that he likes: heavy metal & melodic...

Dark Diary
Dark Diary
Dark Diary is the fifth full-length studio album release by the Romanian Power metal band Magica.-Track listing:# Anywhere But Home 4:22# Tonight 03:32# Never Like You 03:59# Wait For Me 04:18# Need 04:00# Release My Demons 04:08...

31 Anathema
Anathema (band)
Anathema are an English band from Liverpool primarily known for their ever evolving sound. Beginning as pioneers of the death/doom metal sub-genre, their later albums have been associated with genres such as alternative rock, progressive rock, art rock, new prog, and post-rock.-History:Anathema...

We're Here Because We're Here
Lyzanxia
Lyzanxia
Lyzanxia is a French metal group that combine thrash metal with elements of death metal.-Biography:Lyzanxia were formed in 1996 by the Potvin brothers. They quickly recorded their first demo, RIP My Skin, it displayed the band's potential. In 1997 the band produced an 11 song demo entitled Lullaby...

Locust
Nevermore The Obsidian Conspiracy
The Obsidian Conspiracy
The Obsidian Conspiracy is the seventh album by American heavy metal band Nevermore. The album was released on June 8, 2010 in North America by Century Media and was released at the end of May in Europe. The band's previous album, This Godless Endeavor was released in 2005, making the five year gap...

Slechtvalk
Slechtvalk
Slechtvalk is an extreme metal band from The Netherlands, formed in 1999. Previously signed to Fear Dark Record and currently to Whirlwind Records, the group has released four albums, a split-CD with Kekal, a single and a DVD...

A Forlorn Throne
A Forlorn Throne
A Forlorn Throne is the fourth full-length album by Slechtvalk released in May 2010.-Recording:The band went to Sweden's Studio Mega in late 2009 with producer Johan "the ant" Örnborg to record A Forlorn Throne. It was mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street, and the cover artwork...


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1 Diskreet
Diskreet
Diskreet is a death metal band which is based in Topeka, Kansas and formed in 2003. They are currently signed to UK based label Siege of Amida Records with US distribution from Candlelight Records.-History:...

Engage The Mechanicality
Engage The Mechanicality (album)
Engage the Mechanicality is a debut album by an American technical death metal band, Diskreet.- Track listing :- Personnel :Diskreet*Andy Taylor - Drums*Stephen Babcock - Vocals*Gerren Andres - Guitar*Malcolm Pugh - Guitar/Backing Vocals...

Stick to Your Guns
Stick to Your Guns
Stick to Your Guns is an American hardcore band from Orange County, California, formed in 2003. They are currently signed to Sumerian records, and have released three full-length albums to date. "The Hope Division" was released June 1, 2010 through Sumerian Records.-Biography:Stick to Your Guns is...

The Hope Division
The Hope Division
The Hope Division is the third release by American melodic hardcore band Stick to Your Guns.-Track listing:#Where the Sun Never Sleeps - 3:24#What Goes Around - 1:38#Faith in the Untamed - 3:41#Amber - 3:34#Wolves at the Door - 3:19...

2 Primal Fear
Primal Fear (band)
Primal Fear is a German power metal and speed metal band formed in 1997 by Ralf Scheepers and Mat Sinner . Sinner & Scheepers formed the band after Ralf was not hired as Rob Halford's replacement in Judas Priest...

16.6- All Over The World (live DVD)
Live in the USA (live CD)
4 Five Star Prison Cell
Five Star Prison Cell
Five Star Prison Cell was a four-piece band from Melbourne, Australia, whose music was generally labelled as tech metal or math rock. They were known for their use of unusual time signatures, dissonant guitar riffs, and a vocal approach that explored many different avenues and styles.-History:Five...

Matriarch
Vanden Plas
Vanden Plas (band)
Vanden Plas is a German progressive metal band, based in Kaiserslautern and founded in the mid 1980s. In 1991, they recorded the song "Keep On Running" as an anthem for the local national league football club FC Kaiserslautern, and did the same in 1994 with "Das Ist Für Euch"...

The Seraphic Clockwork
The Seraphic Clockwork
The Seraphic Clockwork is the sixth full-length album by the German progressive metal band Vanden Plas released through Frontiers Records.-Track listing:# "Frequency" – 6:16# "Holes in the Sky" – 5:26# "Scar of an Angel" – 7:27...

7 Purified in Blood
Purified in Blood
Purified in Blood is a Norwegian metalcore band from Hommersåk, near Sandnes. They started up in the winter of 2003, and dissolved in January 2007. April 25, 2008, PiB though announced that they now are back...

Under Black Skies
Watain
Watain
Watain is a Swedish black metal band from Uppsala, formed in 1998. The band's name is taken from a recording by the American black metal group Von.- History :...

Lawless Darkness
Lawless Darkness
-Personnel:* Erik Danielsson – vocals, bass* Håkan Jonsson – drums* Pelle Forsberg – guitar* Set Teitan – lyrics on "Hymn to Qayin"* Pete Helmkamp - lyrics on "Total Funeral"* Carl McCoy - vocals at the ending of "Waters of Ain"...

8 Circle of Dead Children
Circle of Dead Children
Circle of Dead Children is a deathgrind band formed on October 24, 1998, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania known for being purveyors of pure aural destruction with their claustrophobic, dense take on extreme metal...

Psalm of the Grand Destroyer
Eyes Set to Kill
Eyes Set to Kill
Eyes Set to Kill is an American metalcore band from Tempe, Arizona. Sisters Alexia and Anissa Rodriguez, along with former vocalist Lindsey Vogt started the band in 2003. Lindsey Vogt departed the band in mid-2007 due to issues with management...

Broken Frames
Broken Frames
Broken Frames is the third studio album by American rock band Eyes Set to Kill. The album was released on June 8, 2010 by Break Silence Records. The album consists of 12 songs and DVD of their interviews and music videos from Reach to Deadly Weapons...

The Funeral Pyre
The Funeral Pyre
The Funeral Pyre is an American blackened death metal band from La Habra, California, United States. The band has released three studio albums, two EPs, and two split 7" albums, and consists of guitarists James Joyce and Justin Garcia, vocalist John Strachan, drummer Alex Hernandez, and bassist...

Vultures At Dawn
The Haunted
The Haunted
The Haunted is a Swedish metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1996.The original members were Anders & Jonas Björler, Peter Dolving, Adrian Erlandsson and Patrik Jensen...

Road Kill
Road Kill (The Haunted album)
Road Kill is the second live album by the thrash/melodic death metal band The Haunted. The live tracks were recorded at Melkweg, Amsterdam on February 13, 2009...

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Lamb of God
Lamb of God (band)
Lamb of God is an American heavy metal band from Richmond, Virginia. Formed in 1994, the group consists of vocalist Randy Blythe, guitarists Mark Morton and Willie Adler, bassist John Campbell, and drummer Chris Adler...

Hourglass (box set)
Kingdom of Sorrow
Kingdom of Sorrow
Kingdom of Sorrow is an American heavy metal band which features Kirk Windstein of Crowbar and Down, along with Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed.- History :...

Behind the Blackest Tears
Behind the Blackest Tears
- Special edition bonus tracks :# "Soldiers of Hell" – 3:29 # "No Class" – 2:39 - Personnel :* Jamey Jasta - vocals* Kirk Windstein - guitar, vocals* Charlie Bellmore - guitar, bass* Nick Bellmore - drums...

MyChildren MyBride
Mychildren Mybride
MyChildren MyBride is an American Christian metalcore band originating from Madison, Alabama. They are signed to Solid State Records after being noticed by extensive constant touring, including various dates in European countries.-History:...

Lost Boy
Lost Boy
Lost Boy is the second full length album by American metalcore band MyChildren MyBride. It was released on June 8, 2010 through Solid State Records...

Nachtmystium
Nachtmystium
Nachtmystium is an American psychedelic black metal band formed by Blake Judd, formerly known as Azentrius, and Pat McCormick. The band's name is derived from the German word Nacht meaning "night", and the made-up term mystium which resembles the Latin adjective mysticum...

Addicts: Black Meddle, Part II
Addicts: Black Meddle, Part II
-LP release:-Production:*Produced by Chris Black and Nachtmystium*Engineered and mixed by Sanford Parker*Mastered by Collin Jordan at BR Mastering, Chicago, IL-Nachtmystium:*Blake Judd – Lead and rhythm guitars, vocals...

Whitechapel
Whitechapel (band)
Whitechapel is an American deathcore band from Knoxville, Tennessee. The group comprises vocalist Phil Bozeman, guitarists Ben Savage, Alex Wade, Zach Householder; bassist Gabe Crisp and drummer Ben Harclerode. Their band name is derived from a district in the built-up inner city of London, known...

A New Era of Corruption
A New Era of Corruption
A New Era of Corruption is the third studio album by the American deathcore band Whitechapel. It was released worldwide on June 8, 2010, through Metal Blade Records...

The Ghost Inside
The Ghost Inside (band)
The Ghost Inside is an American Melodic Hardcore band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2006.As A Dying Dream, they released one EP, Now or Never. Not long after, they changed their name to The Ghost Inside, and released a full length studio album entitled Fury and the Fallen Ones...

Returners
Returners (album)
Returners is the second album by The Ghost Inside and was released on June 8, 2010.-Track listing:-Credits:Performers* Jonathan Vigil - lead vocals, lyrics* Aaron Brooks - guitars, bass, backing vocals* KC Stockbridge - drumsAdditional credits...

10 Mekong Delta
Mekong Delta (band)
Mekong Delta is a German progressive/thrash metal band, formed in 1985.-History:The band was founded by a group of German metal musicians with the goal to 'musically outshine' all then-current, independent releases. The line-up and the history of the group was to be "the best kept secret in the...

Wanderer on the Edge of Time
Wanderer on the Edge of Time
Wanderer on the Edge of Time is the 9th album from progressive/thrash metal band Mekong Delta, released in June, 2010.-Track listing:# Intro - Concert Guitar - 02:18# Ouverture - 02:50# "A certain fool" // Movement 1 - 03:37...

14 Grave
Grave (band)
Grave is a Swedish death metal band that formed in 1986 by vocalist and guitarist Ola Lindgren, who is their only constant member. The band had particular success in the early 1990s, and their first four albums, Into the Grave, You'll Never See..., Soulless and Hating Life, cemented their...

Burial Ground
Burial Ground
Burial Ground is the ninth studio album by Swedish death metal band Grave, released in June 2010.-Track listing:# "Liberation" - 3:40# "Semblance In Black" - 7:50# "Dismembered Mind" - 6:10# "Ridden With Belief" - 7:57# "Conquerer" - 4:44...

Setherial
Setherial
Setherial is a Swedish black metal band founded in 1993 by guitarists Alastor Mysteriis and Devothan. They play a faster style of black metal like certain popular bands Marduk and Dark Funeral...

Ekpyrosis
15 In Fear and Faith
In Fear and Faith
In Fear and Faith is an American rock band from San Diego, California. Formed in 2006, the group is currently signed to Rise Records and have released two studio albums and two EPs. Their debut full-length, Your World on Fire, being released nearly a year after the band's signing to Rise in 2008,...

Imperial
Imperial (album)
-Personnel:In Fear and Faith* Ramin Niroomand - lead guitar, keyboards, piano* Mehdi Niroomand - drums* Tyler McElhaney - bass guitar* Cody "Duke" Anderson - unclean vocals* Scott Barnes - clean vocals* Noah Slifka - rhythm guitarAdditional musicians...

Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...

Scream
Scream (Ozzy Osbourne album)
-Tour Edition CD2:-Personnel:Musicians*Ozzy Osbourne – vocals, production*Gus G – guitars*Rob "Blasko" Nicholson – bass*Tommy Clufetos – drums, percussion*Adam Wakeman – keyboardsAdditional personnel*Kevin Churko – production, engineering, mixing...

18 Equilibrium
Equilibrium (band)
Equilibrium is a Folk metal band from Germany. The band's music combines elements of folk and symphonic metal with various instruments including electric guitars, strings and flutes. Their riffs reflect traditional Germanic melodies....

Rekreatur
Rekreatur
- Charts :- Personnel :* Robert "Robse" Dahn – lead vocals* René Berthiaume – guitar/keyboards* Andreas Völkl – guitar* Sandra Völkl – bass* Manuel DiCamillo – drums...

21 Kerion
Kerion (band)
Kerion is a symphonic metal band from France.-Biography:French Symphonic Metal band Kerion features a majestic choir directed by Phil Gordana and a lyrical singer as their guest vocalist. Their albums don beautiful cover art by master artist JP Fournier , and have been mixed in Harkam Studio by...

The Origins
Kvelertak
Kvelertak
Kvelertak is a six-piece rock & roll band from Stavanger, Norway. All lyrics are written in Norwegian, the band's native language, and concerning Norse mythology/Viking folklore...

Kvelertak
Kvelertak (album)
Kvelertak is the eponymous debut album by the Norwegian band Kvelertak, released June 21, 2010 through Indie Recordings. The album was released in North America on March 15, 2011 through The End Records with six bonus tracks—four live recordings from the group's BBC sessions and two demo...

Void of Silence
Void Of Silence
Void of Silence is a doom metal band from Italy formed in 1999 by Riccardo Conforti and Ivan Zara with the intention of creating music that would be the perfect union among its different influences: the one Dark/Ambient with gothic and industrial junction for the first one, and the one doom metal...

The Grave of Civilization
Ramesses
Ramesses (band)
Ramesses is a sludge/doom metal band from Dorset, England, featuring ex-members of Electric Wizard.-Biography:Ramesses was formed in February 2003 by Tim Bagshaw and Mark Greening with Adam Richardson formerly of Lord of Putrefaction, Spirmyard, and Hexed...

Take The Curse
Witchery
Witchery
Witchery is a Swedish thrash/speed metal band, formed by former members of Satanic Slaughter in 1997. The current lineup consists of vocalist Emperor Magus Caligula , ex-Devian), guitarists Patrik Jensen and Rickard "Richard Corpse" Rimfält, bassist Sharlee D'Angelo, and drummer Martin Axenrot...

Witchkrieg
Witchkrieg
-Witchery:*Erik "Legion" Hagstedt: Vocals*Patrik Jensen: Rhythm Guitar*Rille Rimfält: Rhythm & Lead Guitar*Sharlee D'Angelo: Bass*Martin Axenrot: Drums, Percussion-Additional musicians:Guest Leads:*Andy LaRocque*Kerry King*Hank Shermann*Lee Altus...

22 Danzig
Danzig (band)
Danzig is an American heavy metal band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for the singer/songwriter Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk bands The Misfits and Samhain...

Deth Red Sabaoth
Deth Red Sabaoth
Deth Red Sabaoth is the ninth studio album by Danzig, released on June 22, 2010 through Evilive/The End Records. Deth Red Sabaoth marked Danzig’s highest-charting album since the release of Danzig 4p in 1994.-Background:...

Early Graves
Early Graves
Early Graves is a metal band from San Francisco, California that includes aspects of thrash and hardcore in their music. The band formed in 2007 from the ashes of tech metal band Apiary. They have toured the U.S. extensively with The Handshake Murders, Gaza, The Funeral Pyre and Unearth, amongst...

Goner
Yakuza
Yakuza (band)
Yakuza is an avant-garde metal band, formed in Chicago in 1999. They have been acclaimed for their incorporation of jazz and world music elements.-History:...

Of Seismic Consequence
Of Seismic Consequence
Of Seismic Consequence is the fifth full-length studio album by Chicago-based progressive metal band Yakuza. It was released on June 22, 2010 by Profound Lore Records.-Track listing:#"The Ant People" - 3:48#"Thinning the Herd" - 3:37...

23 Amorphis
Amorphis
Amorphis is a Finnish heavy metal band started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Initially, the band was a death metal act, but on later albums they evolved into playing other types of genres, which include heavy metal, progressive metal, and folk metal...

Forging The Land Of Thousand Lakes (DVD)
Charon
Charon (band)
Charon was a Finnish gothic metal band from Raahe, Finland.-Biography:Charon was founded in 1992 by Mario Tepšić, Teemu Hautamäki, Pasi Sipilä, and Jasse Hast and was originally a brutal death metal act. After releasing three promo albums and two demos, all self-released, the band signed a record...

A-Sides, B-Sides & Suicides
A-Sides, B-Sides & Suicides
A-Sides, B-Sides & Suicides is a compilation album by the Finnish metal band Charon. It was released on June 22, 2010, containing old material, as well as unreleased stuff, such as b-sides and their first unreleased demo...

 (Compilation)
Grand Magus Hammer of the North
Hammer of the North
Hammer of the North is the fifth full-length album by Swedish heavy metal band Grand Magus. The CD was recorded at 301 studios outside of Stockholm, Sweden, and features artwork by Necrolord...

26 Stigmata
Stigmata (band)
Stigmata is a Sri Lankan heavy metal band based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, formed in 1999. This band is not to be confused with the legendary hardcore/metal band, Stigmata, from Troy, Ny.-Early years:...

Psalms of Conscious Martyrdom
Psalms of Conscious Martyrdom
Psalms of Conscious Martyrdom is the third studio album by Sri Lankan heavy metal band Stigmata, released in June 2010. The album has been described as "an incredible journey through passageways of extreme metal with amazing technical dexterity, infectious melodies and heavy grooves to rip the skin...

28 Sodom
Sodom (band)
Sodom is a German Thrash metal trio from Gelsenkirchen, formed in 1981.Along with the bands Kreator and Destruction, Sodom is considered one of the "big three" of Teutonic thrash metal...

Lords Of Depravity II (DVD)
Severe Torture
Severe Torture
Severe Torture is a death metal band from the Netherlands, formed in 1997 by drummer Seth van de Loo and bassist Patrick Boleij.-History:The band was formed in 1997 by Thijs van Laarhoven on guitar, Seth van de Loo on drums, Erik de Windt on vocals, Jelle on guitar and Patrick Boleij on bass guitar...

Slaughtered
29 Angelus Apatrida
Angelus Apatrida
Angelus Apatrida is a thrash metal band formed in 2000 in Albacete, Spain.-Biography:Angelus Apatrida is one of the most influential bands in the Spanish metal scene together with Legen Beltza, Killem and Rancor...

Clockwork
Haste the Day
Haste the Day
Haste the Day was an American Christian metalcore band signed with Solid State Records that was formed in Carmel, Indiana 2001. Their band is named after a lyric in the hymn "It Is Well With My Soul." The band released their debut release, an extended play titled That They May Know You, in 2002,...

Attack of the Wolf King
Attack of the Wolf King
Attack of the Wolf King is the fifth and final studio album from Haste the Day. The album was released on June 29, 2010 through Solid State Records. A song from the album, entitled "Travesty" was released on the band's MySpace on May 4. Lyrics for "Travesty" were released on May 21, 2010 on the...

Knut
Knut (band)
Knut is a sludge metal/post-hardcore band from Geneva, Switzerland that formed in 1994. Early material was put out on Snuff Records, which was run by Séverin and Mounir. They are currently signed to Hydra Head Records, which is owned and operated by Aaron Turner of Isis...

Wonder
Mastodon
Mastodon (band)
Mastodon is an American heavy metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 1999. The band is composed of bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders, guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds, guitarist Bill Kelliher and drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor...

Jonah Hex: Revenge Gets Ugly
Jonah Hex: Revenge Gets Ugly EP
Jonah Hex: Revenge Gets Ugly EP is the official score for the 2010 film Jonah Hex directed by Jimmy Hayward and starring Josh Brolin. The score was composed by American sludge metal band Mastodon and film composer Marco Beltrami...

 (EP)
Parkway Drive Deep Blue
Deep Blue (album)
Deep Blue is the third album by Australian metalcore band Parkway Drive. It was recorded in Los Angeles, California and was released on 29 June 2010 through Epitaph Records. The album debuted at number 2 on the ARIA charts and at number 39 on the Billboard 200 chart...

30 Edenbridge
Edenbridge (band)
Edenbridge is a symphonic metal band from Austria.-History:Edenbridge was formed in 1998 by guitarist and keyboardist Lanvall, his girlfriend - vocalist Sabine Edelsbacher - and bassist Kurt Bednarsky. The line-up was completed when drummer Roland Navratil joined the band...

Solitaire
Solitaire (Edenbridge album)
- Reception :The album received positive reviews from the critics. The complex sound, a flawless production and the vocal abilities of singer Sabine Edelsbacher have been noted by both About.com and the German Sonic Seducer magazine...


July

Day Artist Album
2 Contrive
Contrive
Contrive are a heavy metal band from Melbourne, Australia formed in 1999. Their musical style has been compared to that of Sepultura.The band consists of bassist Tim Stahlmann and twin brothers Paul Haug and Andrew Haug...

The Internal Dialogue
Soilwork
Soilwork
Soilwork is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast. Formed in late 1995 by Björn Strid and Peter Wichers, originally under the name Inferior Breed, the band changed their name in late 1996 to Soilwork .Their sound is a fusion of the classic...

The Panic Broadcast
The Panic Broadcast
The Panic Broadcast is the eighth studio album from Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork, released July 2 in Europe and July 13 in North America, 2010. The album marks the return of long-time Soilwork guitarist and founder Peter Wichers, who also picks up the role as the album's producer. The...

6 Helstar
Helstar
Helstar is a heavy metal band from Houston, Texas, formed in 1982.-History:Helstar began with a basic metal style in 1983 with 2 demos, followed by their first studio album in 1984 titled Burning Star for Combat Records, making them label mates with Megadeth and Exodus. Struggles within the band...

Rising from the Grave
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza is an American extreme metal band, from Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Founded in 2004, the group derived their name from celebrity Tony Danza, upon one of his professions being tapdancing...

Danza III: The Series of Unfortunate Events
Danza III: The Series of Unfortunate Events
Danza III: The Series of Unfortunate Events is the third release by American extreme metal band The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza. The album was released July 6, 2010 via Guy Kozowyk's Black Market Activities.-Critical reception:...

Valkyrie
Valkyrie (band)
-Biography:Driven by brothers Jake and Pete Adams, Valkyrie draws from pre-metal style to create a rich and earthy stoner metal sound. They formed in summer 2002 as a three-piece consisting of vocalist/guitarist Jake Adams, bassist Eric Seaman, and drummer Luke Shafer. In 2004 Jake's brother Pete...

Man of Two Visions
A Plea for Purging
A Plea for Purging
A Plea for Purging is a metalcore band based out of Nashville, TN.-Biography:After forming in 2005, A Plea for Purging quickly gained a reputation for hard work, with a heavy touring schedule that included over 200 live shows in their first year together. They released the "A Plea for Purging EP"...

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a book by the English poet and printmaker William Blake. It is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs. Like his other books, it was published as printed sheets...

12 Norma Jean
Norma Jean (band)
Norma Jean is an American metalcore band from Douglasville, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. Since their inception in 1997 and replacement of members throughout the years, the band's only original member is the guitarist, Chris Day...

Meridional
Meridional (album)
Meridional is the fifth studio album by American metalcore band Norma Jean. The album was released on July 12, 2010, and is also the band's first release through Razor & Tie since leaving Solid State Records in 2009...

Devil Sold His Soul
Devil Sold His Soul
Devil Sold His Soul are an ambient influenced progressive metal/post-hardcore band from the South of England signed to Century Media. Three of the band joined from Mahumodo, thought to be a pioneer of the British hardcore scene...

Blessed & Cursed
13 Canvas Solaris
Canvas Solaris
Canvas Solaris were an American progressive metal band from Statesboro, Georgia, formed in 1999, and disbanded in 2011. Though they first played with vocals, they moved on to instrumental, drawing influence from bands as diverse as Cynic, Rush, King Crimson, Death, Watchtower, and The Mars...

Irradiance
Hell Within
Hell Within
Hell Within is a metalcore band founded in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1998. After recording two albums as Twytch, the band changed their name to Hell Within and released Asylum of the Human Predator through Lifeforce Records in 2005. After extensive touring across the United States and lineup...

God Grant Me Vengeance
Hellyeah
Hellyeah
Hellyeah is an American heavy metal supergroup, consisting of Mudvayne vocalist Chad Gray and guitarist Greg Tribbett, Nothingface guitarist Tom Maxwell, Damageplan bassist Bob Zilla, and former Pantera and Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul. The idea to form a supergroup originated in 2001 on the...

Stampede
Stampede (Hellyeah album)
-Track listing:-Charts:- Personnel:*Chad Gray – vocals*Greg Tribbett – guitars*Tom Maxwell – guitars*Bob Zilla – bass*Vinnie Paul – drums...

In This Moment
In This Moment
In This Moment is an American metalcore band from North Hollywood , California. Formed in 2005, the group has released three albums to date, all through Century Media Records.-Founding:...

A Star-Crossed Wasteland
A Star-Crossed Wasteland
-Critical reception:The album received overwhelmingly positive reviews upon its release. The NewReview gave the album a 4 out of 5 and stated "The band have put out a monumental work that is utterly and completely enjoyable that sets the standard— and boy is it high." The Boston Herald gave it a...

Korn
Korn
Korn is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The current band line up includes four members: Jonathan Davis, James "Munky" Shaffer, Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, and Ray Luzier. The band was formed as an expansion of L.A.P.D.The band released their first demo album,...

Korn III – Remember Who You Are
16 Darkseed Poison Awaits
19 The Eyes of a Traitor
The Eyes of a Traitor
The Eyes of a Traitor are a British metalcore band from Harpenden in Hertfordshire, UK, who formed in the summer of 2006. They have released two extended plays, and two full-length studio albums. The band consists of vocalist Jack Delany, guitarists Tim George and Matthew Pugh, bassist Jack...

Breathless
Breathless (The Eyes of a Traitor album)
Breathless is the second studio album by British metal band The Eyes of a Traitor. It was released in Europe via Listenable Records on July 12, 2010 and in North America on July 27...

20 The Acacia Strain
The Acacia Strain
The Acacia Strain is an American deathcore band from Chicopee, Massachusetts. Originally founded in 2001, the band itself has undergone numerous changes in the member line-up...

Wormwood
Wormwood (The Acacia Strain)
Wormwood is the fifth studio album by The Acacia Strain. The album was released on July 20, 2010 on Prosthetic Records. Wormwood reached #67 on the US Billboard Top 200 chart. The song "Jonestown" was released as a single in June 2010, and was available at the website for Prosthetic Records...

Chimaira
Chimaira
Chimaira is an American heavy metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 1998, the group is a notable member of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal scene. The band's name is derived from the word Chimera, a monstrous creature in Greek mythology...

Coming Alive
Coming Alive
Coming Alive is the second video album by Cleveland groove band Chimaira. It is a 3-disc set. Disc one features a 2 & a half hour documentary on the making of & touring of The Infection. It will also include footage from festivals. Disc two will feature the entire Chimaira Christmas 10 show and a...

 (DVD/CD)
Early Man
Early Man (band)
Early Man is a heavy metal band from Brooklyn, New York, now based in Los Angeles, California. Guitarist and vocalist Mike Conte began performing under the name "Early Man" in the early 2000s, and when drummer Adam Bennati moved to New York in 2003, the two formed the nucleus for the current line-up...

Death Potion
Impending Doom
Impending Doom
Impending Doom is a Christian deathcore band from Riverside, California.-History:Brook Reeves and Manny Contreras started the band in 2005 with ex members Chris Forno, Isaac Bueno, and Jon. After releasing the The Sin and Doom of Godless Men EP, Greg Pewthers joined on third guitar after leaving...

There Will Be Violence
There Will Be Violence
There Will Be Violence is the third studio album by Christian deathcore band Impending Doom and was released worldwide on July 20, 2010 via Facedown Records....

Lillian Axe
Lillian Axe
Lillian Axe is a hard rock band from New Orleans who write and perform music from acoustic ballads to full out heavy metal anthems. Four studio recordings were released before they disbanded in 1995...

Deep Red Shadows
Mose Giganticus
Mose Giganticus
Mose Giganticus is an American synth punk / heavy metal band founded in Bensalem, Pennsylvania in 1999, and currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

Gift Horse
Valdur
Valdur
Valdur is a black metal band formed in 2003 in Mammoth Lakes, California. The band's first release was a self-titled demo in 2005, an effort which would give the group exposure and lead to a record contract with Bloody Mountain Records...

Raven God Amongst Us
26 36 Crazyfists
36 Crazyfists
36 Crazyfists is a four-piece metal band originating from Anchorage, Alaska. They are now based in Portland, Oregon. The band's name comes from a Jackie Chan movie, Jackie Chan And The 36 Crazy Fists...

Collisions and Castaways
Collisions and Castaways
Collisions and Castaways is the fifth studio album by Alaskan metalcore band 36 Crazyfists. The album was released in the UK on July 26, 2010 and in the rest of the world on July 27, 2010...

27 Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold is an American heavy metal band from Huntington Beach, California. Formed in 1999, the group consists of vocalist M. Shadows, lead guitarist Synyster Gates, rhythm guitarist Zacky Vengeance, bassist Johnny Christ....

Nightmare
Nightmare (Avenged Sevenfold album)
Nightmare is the fifth studio album by American rock band Avenged Sevenfold, released on July 27, 2010 through Warner Bros. Records. It was produced by Mike Elizondo and mixed in New York City by noted engineer Andy Wallace...

Decrepit Birth
Decrepit Birth
Decrepit Birth is a death metal band from Santa Cruz, California, USA, signed to Nuclear Blast. They have released three studio albums through Unique Leader Records and a demo independently...

Polarity
Polarity (Decrepit Birth album)
Polarity is the third studio album by the American death metal band, Decrepit Birth.A music video for the song The Resonance was filmed, and is the band's first music video. It was directed by Ann Christin "Anki" Rihm...

The Rotted
The Rotted
-History:The band was formed from the ashes of death metal / grindcore ensemble Gorerotted by ex-members Ben McCrow, Tim Carley, and Phil Wilson, along with Gian Pyres and Nate Gould due to a musical progression and a desire for less limiting lyrical themes: the band themselves say that The...

Anarchogram (EP)
29 Darkane
Darkane
Darkane is a melodic death / progressive thrash metal band that originated in Helsingborg, Sweden in 1998. Their music contains ample thrash elements interspersed with acoustic interludes and symphonic features, such as the in studio use of synthesizers and occasionally full orchestras and choir...

Layers Of Live (DVD)
30 Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian is a German power metal band formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany. They are often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in the power metal and speed metal subgenres...

At the Edge of Time
At the Edge of Time
At the Edge of Time is the ninth studio album by the German power metal band Blind Guardian. A two CD version of the album was released, with the second disc containing 8 tracks. The artwork for the album was created by Colombian artist Felipe Machado Franco. The album was released in Europe on...


August

Day Artist Album
3 Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert
Paul Brandon Gilbert is an American guitarist. He is well known for his technical guitar work with Racer X and Mr...

Fuzz Universe
Fuzz Universe
Fuzz Universe is the third full length instrumental album and 9th overall by hard rock guitar virtuoso Paul Gilbert.-Track listing:# "Fuzz Universe" - 7:05# "Olympic" - 5:59# "The Count Juan Chutrifo" - 3:10# "Bach Partita in Dm" - 3:28...

Dax Riggs
Dax Riggs
Dax David Riggs , is an American musician from Houma, Louisiana, most well known for formerly fronting the sludge band Acid Bath in the 1990s. Dax has been a part of many projects since then, including Agents of Oblivion and Deadboy & the Elephantmen. In 2007 he began releasing material under his...

Say Goodnight To The World
Say Goodnight To The World
- Tracklisting :#Say Goodnight To The World#I Hear Satan#You Were Born To Be My Gallows#Gravedirt On My Blue Suede Shoes#Like Moonlight#No One Will Be A Stranger#Heartbreak Hotel#Sleeping With The Witch#Let Me Be Your Cigarette...

All Out War
All Out War (band)
All Out War is an American hardcore metal band from Newburgh, New York. Formed in 1991, they have released five full-length albums between 1997 and 2010.-Career:...

Into the Killing Fields
5 Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air is a summer open air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany...

Wacken Open Air 2009 (DVD)
6 Immortal
Immortal (band)
Immortal is a black metal band from Bergen, Norway, founded in 1990 by current frontman/guitarist Abbath Doom Occulta and former guitarist Demonaz Doom Occulta...

The Seventh Date of Blashyrkh
The Seventh Date of Blashyrkh
The Seventh Date of Blashyrkh is black metal band Immortal's first live DVD. All content is from the Wacken Open Air set they performed in 2007, as part of their comeback tour, The Seventh Date of Blashyrkh.-Track listing:#"The Sun No Longer Rises"...

 (DVD)
Lordi
Lordi
Lordi is a Finnish hard rock/heavy metal band, formed in 1996 by the band's lead singer, songwriter and costume-designer, Mr. Lordi. The band is known for wearing monster masks and using pyrotechnics during concerts...

Babez for Breakfast
Babez For Breakfast
- Background :"As for the album title, it is an ironic answer to the question of whether monsters eat babies for breakfast or not. We twisted the final letter ‘s’ to a ‘z’, which changed the pronunciation. With this twist we wanted to state that this album is not as serious as Deadache", frontman Mr...

10 The Binary Code
The Binary Code (band)
The Binary Code are an American progressive death metal band formed in Bergen County, New Jersey in 2004 by guitarist Jesse Zuretti. They have recorded and released several EPs and one full-length album, "Suspension of Disbelief," which was issued as a digital-only release on December 15, 2009 by...

Priest (EP)
Bonded by Blood
Bonded by Blood (band)
Bonded by Blood is an American thrash metal band, named after Exodus' debut album Bonded by Blood. Like its labelmates Evile, Gama Bomb, and Municipal Waste, Bonded by Blood is part of the thrash metal revival movement, whose aesthetic embraces not only the 1980s thrash metal music, but the fashion...

Exiled to Earth
Black Label Society
Black Label Society
Black Label Society is a heavy metal band formed by Zakk Wylde, with nine studio albums, one live album, two compilation albums, one EP, and three video albums released since formation of the band.-Formation and Sonic Brew :...

Order of the Black
Order of the Black
-Personnel:*Zakk Wylde – vocals, guitars, piano*John DeServio – bass, backing vocals*Will Hunt – drums*Nick Catanese – guitar Production*Produced by Zakk Wylde*Associate producer – John DeServio*Engineered by Adam Klumpp...

Crash
Crash (South Korean band)
-History:Crash was formed in 1991 with the lineup of Ahn Heung-Chan , Jung Yong-Wook and Yoon Doo-Byung . They were also the first Korean band provoking slam dance and stage diving in their concert....

The Paragon of Animals
The Paragon of Animals (album)
It is the 6th album produced by South Korean thrash metal band Crash, released on itunes on August 10, 2010. A music video for Crashday has been made and it is available to watch on Youtube.-Track listing:#Crashday 5:00#Ruination Effect 5:31...

16 Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...

The Final Frontier
The Final Frontier
The Final Frontier is a 1986 album by the heavy metal band Keel. It was the band's second album to be produced by KISS bassist Gene Simmons. Videos were filmed for the tracks "Because the Night" and "Tears of Fire."...

17 Knights of the Abyss
Knights of the Abyss
Knights of the Abyss is an American deathcore band from Glendale, Arizona, formed in 2005.-Biography:Knights of the Abyss was formed in 2005 after drummer Andy Rysdam had left his former band Job for a Cowboy. They have recorded two full-length albums, which were released by Siege of Amida Records...

The Culling of Wolves
Miss May I
Miss May I
Miss May I is an American metalcore band from Troy, Ohio. On December 6, 2008, Miss May I announced that they had been signed to Rise Records. The band's debut album, Apologies Are for the Weak, reached #29 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers, and #66 on Top Independent Albums. Their song, "Forgive and...

Monument
Monument (Miss May I album)
Monument is the second studio album from the Metalcore band Miss May I, and their first with bassist and clean vocalist Ryan Neff. The album debuted at #76 on the Bilboard 200 chart, making it the band's highest charting album to date.-Release:...

18 Satanic Warmaster
Satanic Warmaster
Satanic Warmaster is a black metal band from Lappeenranta in southern Finland. Musician "Satanic Tyrant Werwolf" began recording under this name in 1999...

Nachzehrer
20 Kataklysm
Kataklysm
Kataklysm is a Canadian death metal band. They call their musical style "northern hyperblast" after an advertisement in M.E.A.T. magazine describing another band, Fear Factory, as "hyperblast". The term refers to the extremely fast blast beats that Kataklysm's drummer, Max Duhamel, fuses into the...

Heaven's Venom
Heaven's Venom
Heaven's Venom is an album by Canadian death metal band Kataklysm.Heaven's Venom - August 13, 2010 / August 24, 2010 -Track listing:#A Soulless God - 5:04#Determined - 4:54#Faith Made of Shrapnel - 5:38...

Toxik
Toxik
Toxik is an American thrash metal band from Peekskill, New York. The band plays a style of thrash metal with elements of progressive metal, which would later be named "progressive thrash metal". Initially active from 1985 to 1992, the band reformed in 2007....

Think Again (DVD)
Tarja Turunen
Tarja Turunen
Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli is a Finnish singer-songwriter and composer. She is a full lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves....

What Lies Beneath
21 SIC
SIC (band)
SIC is a modern hardcore/thrash metal band from Torshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands.- 2002 - 2006: The First Steps :The band was formed in 2002 by guitarist Eddie Jacobsen. In 2003 singer Mikkjal G. Hansen joined the band and in February 2005 the fold was joined by drummer Magnus Hansen,...

Fighters They Bleed
23 Apocalyptica
Apocalyptica
Apocalyptica is a band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 1993. The band is composed of classically trained cellists Eicca Toppinen, Paavo Lötjönen, and Perttu Kivilaakso and drummer Mikko Sirén...

7th Symphony
7th Symphony (album)
-Digital download:Digital download versions include the standard 10 track edition and the limited 12 track edition of the album, with additional bonus tracks "Spiral Architect" or "Return Game"...

Ion Dissonance
Ion Dissonance
Ion Dissonance is a Canadian mathcore/deathcore band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They're known for their technical mathcore style but changed to a more heavy, groove based style with the release of their 2007 album Minus the Herd.-History:...

Cursed
Cursed (Ion Dissonance album)
Cursed is the fourth studio album by the Canadian mathcore/deathcore band Ion Dissonance, released on August 24, 2010 through Century Media in North America, Doom Patrol Records in Japan, and Basick Records in Europe...

24 The Devil Wears Prada
The Devil Wears Prada (band)
The Devil Wears Prada is an American metalcore band from Dayton, Ohio. Formed in 2005, they are currently signed to Warner Music Group...

Zombie (EP)
Helmet
Helmet (band)
Helmet is an alternative metal band from New York City formed in 1989. Founded by vocalist and lead guitarist Page Hamilton, Helmet has had numerous lineup changes, and Hamilton has been the only constant member....

Seeing Eye Dog
Seeing Eye Dog
Seeing Eye Dog is the seventh studio album by Helmet, released on September 7, 2010 via Work Song, the label imprint shared by singer/songwriter Joe Henry and Helmet mainman Page Hamilton's manager...

Malevolent Creation
Malevolent Creation
Malevolent Creation is a death metal band originally hailing from Buffalo, New York. Moving to Florida in 1987, they became a part of the emergent local death metal scene, landing a deal with Roadrunner Records...

Invidious Dominion
Invidious Dominion
Invidious Dominion is the eleventh album by the Floridian death metal band Malevolent Creation. It was released on August 24, 2010 via Nuclear Blast.- Track listing :-Personnel:*Brent Hoffman - vocals*Gio Geraca - lead guitar...

Shadows Fall
Shadows Fall
Shadows Fall is an American heavy metal band from Springfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1995. They are one of the few contemporary metal bands who take their lyrical influence from Eastern philosophy and some references to the Rastafari culture...

Madness In Manila: Shadows Fall Live In The Philippines 2009
Madness in Manila
Madness in Manila: Shadows Fall Live in The Philippines 2009 is the second concert DVD by American thrash metal band Shadows Fall and was released on October 26, 2010 via Everblack Industries/Ferret Music...

 (DVD)
The Showdown
The Showdown (band)
The Showdown is a southern metal/metalcore band based in Elizabethton, Tennessee. While the members of the band are Christian and the band is signed to a Christian record label, the band does not consider itself a Christian act, according to guitarist Josh Childers...

Blood In The Gears
The Sword
The Sword
The Sword is an American heavy metal band that formed in Austin, Texas, in 2003. Since its inception the band has comprised vocalist and guitarist John D. Cronise, guitarist Kyle Shutt and bassist Bryan Richie, and currently includes touring drummer Jimmy Vela following Trivett Wingo's departure in...

Warp Riders
Warp Riders
Warp Riders is the third studio album by American heavy metal band The Sword, released on August 24, 2010. Recorded between February and April 2010 at Wire Recording in Austin, Texas, the album was produced by Matt Bayles, marking the first time the band had hired an external producer...

25 Tristania
Tristania (band)
Tristania is a band from Norway, formed in 1996 by Morten Veland, Einar Moen and Kenneth Olsson. Tristania's music is usually classified as symphonic gothic metal with doom/death metal influences , due to its strong ties with the goth metal's history...

Rubicon
Rubicon (Tristania album)
Rubicon is the sixth full-length album by the Norwegian band Tristania. It is the first Tristania album to feature female vocalist Mariangela Demurtas, who replaced former frontwoman Vibeke Stene.- Overview :...

Sonic Syndicate
Sonic Syndicate
Sonic Syndicate is a melodic death metal band from Falkenberg, Sweden. They are influenced by Swedish melodic death metal bands such as In Flames, Soilwork and metalcore bands like Killswitch Engage.....

We Rule the Night
27 Liv Kristine
Liv Kristine
Liv Kristine Espenæs Krull , better known as Liv Kristine, is the former vocalist for the band Theatre of Tragedy and current vocalist for the band Leaves' Eyes.- Career :...

Skintight
30 Dagoba
Dagoba (band)
Dagoba is a French industrial metal/groove metal band formed in 2000 by vocalist Shawter out of a previous band.-Biography:In 2001, Dagoba signed on Enternote Records and recorded its first EP, Release the Fury, in digipak format and accompanied by a video for "Rush"...

Poseidon
Poseidon (album)
Poseidon is the fourth full-length studio album released by French metal band Dagoba. It was released on August 30, 2010 through the French record label XIII Bis Records. The album was recorded at Hyperion Studio in Marseille, France with producer "Brew" Varea and was mixed by Dave Chang at Philia...

Mar De Grises
Mar de Grises
Mar de Grises is a Chilean death/doom metal band created in 2000. A good translation of "Mar de Grises" would be "Sea of Grief", even when Grises is the plural form for grey, the color of sorrow in Spanish as it is blue in English.-History:...

Streams Inwards
Neurosis
Neurosis (band)
Neurosis is a post-metal band, based in Oakland, California. They formed in 1985 as a hardcore punk band, and their sound progressed towards a doom metal style that also included influences from dark ambient and industrial music as well as incorporating elements of folk music...

Live At Roadburn 2007 (DVD)
Nightfall
Nightfall (band)
Nightfall is a Greek heavy metal band from Athens. Formed by vocalist/bassist Efthimis Karadimas in 1991, the group is currently signed to Metal Blade Records.- History :...

Astron Black and the Thirty Tyrants
Sahg
Sahg
Sahg is a four-piece Norwegian metal band formed in the summer of 2004. After years of involvement on different ends of the Norwegian rock and metal scene, four hard rock devotees teamed up under the name Sahg. The band consists of King on bass, Olav on lead vocals and guitar, Thomas on guitar and...

Sahg III
Spiritual Beggars
Spiritual Beggars
Spiritual Beggars is a hard rock/stoner metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed by Michael Amott, who is known from Arch Enemy, Carcass and Carnage.- Biography :...

Return to Zero
Return to Zero (Spiritual Beggars album)
Return To Zero is the 7th album by the Swedish stoner rock band Spiritual Beggars.It was released in Europe on August 30, 2010. It is their first album to feature Apollo Papathanasio of Firewind on vocals.-Track listing:...

Terror
Terror (band)
Terror is a hardcore punk band from Los Angeles, California. Their second album One with the Underdogs sold over 40,000 copies. They have also been on tours throughout Europe , Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Mexico and South America...

Keepers Of the Faith
31 10 Years
10 Years
10 Years is an American alternative metal band, formed in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1999.-Early Years, Into the Half Moon :10 Years was initially formed in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1999 with singer Mike Underdown, drummer Brian Vodinh, bassist Lewis Cosby, and guitarists Ryan "Tater" Johnson and Matt...

Feeding the Wolves
The Autumn Offering
The Autumn Offering
The Autumn Offering is an American metalcore band that formed in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1999. After achieving some degree of local success, the band was signed to Stillborn Records, founded by Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed, in 2003. The band released one album through this label...

The Autumn Offering
The Autumn Offering (album)
The Autumn Offering is the fifth and final studio album by American heavy metal band The Autumn Offering. The album was released on August 31, 2010 through Victory Records...

Cephalic Carnage
Cephalic Carnage
Cephalic Carnage is an American grindcore band formed in 1992 in Denver, Colorado. The band comprises vocalist Lenzig Leal, guitarists Steve Goldberg and Brian Hopp, drummer John Merryman and bassist Nick Schendzielos...

Misled by Certainty
Misled by Certainty
Misled by Certainty is the sixth studio album by the Colorado-based deathgrind band Cephalic Carnage. The album was released on August 31, 2010, via Relapse Records, and had 1300 copies sold in the United States in its first week, appearing at the #24 position on Billboard Heatseekers. This is the...

Disturbed Asylum
Asylum (Disturbed album)
Asylum is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Disturbed. Taking inspiration from aspects of lead singer David Draiman's life, Asylum is meant to take a fresh direction in the band's music career, while remaining consistent with the band's previous albums. The album was released on...

Houwitser Bestial Atrocity
Murderdolls
Murderdolls
Murderdolls is an American horror punk supergroup, founded during 2002 in Hollywood, California. The band line-up consists of core members Wednesday 13 and Joey Jordison. Former members include Ben Graves, Acey Slade, Eric Griffin & Tripp Eisen....

Women and Children Last
For Today
For Today (band)
For Today is an American Christian metalcore band from Sioux City, Iowa, formed in 2005. They are currently signed to Razor & Tie. They have released one EP, Your Moment, Your Life, Your Time, and three full-length albums: Ekklesia on April 1, 2008, Portraits on June 9, 2009, and their third studio...

Breaker
Breaker (For Today album)
- Personnel :For Today*Mattie Montgomery - lead vocals*Ryan Leitru - lead guitar, background vocals*Mike Reynolds- rhythm guitar*Brandon Leitru - bass guitar*David Morrison - drums, percussionProduction*Produced, Engineered, Mixed, and mastered by Will Putney...

The Word Alive
The Word Alive
The Word Alive is an American metalcore band from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 2008, the band is currently signed to Fearless Records. Their 2009 label debut, Empire reached position 15 on the Top Heatseekers, meeting a great amount of positive acclaim upon its release in 2009...

Deceiver
Deceiver (The Word Alive album)
Deceiver received generally positive reviews by many. Allmusic explained that the album "covers a lot of familiar territory. Where the album gets interesting is in the guitar acrobatics of Tony Pizzuti and Zack Hansen, who like to keep things lightning fast and intricate" and "for anyone looking...


September

Day Artist Album
1 Acid Drinkers
Acid Drinkers
Acid Drinkers are Polish thrash metal band formed in September 1986 in Poznań. Acid Drinkers were formed on September 21, 1986 consisting of Tomasz "Titus" Pukacki and Robert "Litza" Friedrich . The band's style from back then to present is thrash metal, with influences of heavy metal...

Fishdick Zwei - The Dick Is Rising Again (cover album)
Atrocity
Atrocity (band)
Atrocity is a German Heavy Metal band formed in Ludwigsburg.-History:First started in 1985 as Instigators and playing grindcore, Atrocity arose as a death metal band with their debut EP, Blue Blood, in 1989, followed soon by Hallucinations, a concept album about drug use...

After the Storm
3 Death Angel
Death Angel
Death Angel is a Filipino-American thrash metal band from Concord, California, initially active from 1982 to 1991 and again since 2001. Death Angel has released six studio albums, two demo tapes, one box set and two live albums....

Relentless Retribution
Relentless Retribution
- Reception :-Charts:-Personnel:*Mark Osegueda - vocals*Rob Cavestany - guitars, vocals*Ted Aguilar - guitars*Damien Sisson - bass*Will Carroll - drums*Jason Suecof - Guitar solos on "Truce"...

The Red Shore
The Red Shore
The Red Shore were an Australian death metal band from Melbourne, Victoria, formed in 2004. The band claims their style is a combination of death metal and technical death metal, though they are often referred to as a deathcore band....

The Avarice of Man
The Avarice of Man
The Avarice of Man is the third and last album by Australian Death Metal band The Red Shore, released on 3 September 2010. It is their first and only album to be released through record label Roadrunner Records and the only to Chase Butler on vocals and Tim Shearman on drums. The album was recorded...

7 Megadeth
Megadeth
Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...

Rust in Peace Live
Rust in Peace Live
Rust in Peace Live is a live album by American heavy metal band Megadeth, released in 2010 through Shout! Factory in Blu-ray, DVD, and CD formats. Filmed at the Hollywood Palladium on March 31, 2010, the performance showcases Megadeth's 1990 album, Rust in Peace played in its entirety with the same...

 (DVD)
Stone Sour
Stone Sour
Stone Sour is an American rock band from Des Moines, Iowa. Since 2006, the group has been composed of Corey Taylor , Jim Root , Josh Rand, , Shawn Economaki and Roy Mayorga . Original drummer Joel Ekman left the group in 2006...

Audio Secrecy
Audio Secrecy
Audio Secrecy is the third studio album by American rock band Stone Sour. It was recorded and produced by the band and Nick Raskulinecz at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. On June 10, the band released a free download of "Mission Statement", which was later released as a single on iTunes....

 
Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies is a U.S. crossover thrash band founded in 1981 in Venice, Los Angeles, California by Mike Muir, its leader and only permanent member. The band is sometimes credited as one of "the fathers of crossover thrash"...

No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family
No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family
-External links:*...

9 Marseille
Marseille (band)
Marseille are a British heavy metal band from Liverpool, England.-History:Marseille formed in Liverpool in early 1976, and released their debut album, Red, White and Slightly Blue on the Mountain Records label in 1978. Original members were Paul Dale , Neil Buchanan , Andy Charters , Keith Knowles ...

Unfinished Business
10 Swashbuckle
Swashbuckle (band)
Swashbuckle are an American thrash metal band from Mercer County, New Jersey, formed in 2005. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast Records...

Crime Always Pays...
Kamelot
Kamelot
Kamelot is an American symphonic power metal band from Tampa, Florida. The band was formed by Thomas Youngblood and Richard Warner in 1991. Norwegian vocalist Roy Khan joined for the album Siége Perilous, and shared song-writing duties with Youngblood until his departure in April 2011.As of 2010,...

Poetry for the Poisoned
Poetry for the Poisoned
Poetry for the Poisoned is the ninth studio album from metal band Kamelot. It was released on the earMUSIC label, a subdivision of Edel, on September 10, 2010 in Europe, and four days later in North America by the band's own label, KMG Recordings. It was the last release to feature longtime...

Volbeat Beyond Hell/Above Heaven
13 Autopsy
Autopsy (band)
Autopsy is a death metal band, founded in 1987 in the United States by Chris Reifert. They disbanded in 1995, but have reunited as of July 2009.-Biography:...

The Tomb Within
The Tomb Within
The Tomb Within is an EP by the American death metal band Autopsy, released September 13, 2010 on Peaceville Records on CD and 12” vinyl. This is the first recording Autopsy made after their split-up in 1995 and reunion in 2010...

 (EP)
DragonForce
DragonForce
DragonForce are an English power metal band from London. Formed in 1999, the group is known for its long and fast guitar solos, fantasy-based lyrics, and electronic sounds in their music to add to their retro video game-influenced sound. Guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman are the only two...

Twilight Dementia
Twilight Dementia
-Personnel:*ZP Theart – lead vocals*Herman Li – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals*Sam Totman – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals*Vadim Pruzhanov – keyboards, piano, theremin, Kaoss Pad, backing vocals*Dave Mackintosh – drums, backing vocals...

 (live album)
14 The Absence
The Absence
The Absence is an American death metal band from Tampa, Florida. Their style has been described as aggressive thrash metal with Scandinavian metal influences. They are currently signed to Metal Blade Records...

Enemy Unbound
Enemy Unbound
Enemy Unbound is the third studio album by melodic death metal band The Absence.During the final recording stages of the album, drummer Justin Reynolds suffered a car accident and sustained injuries to his back and neck...

Accept
Accept
Accept is a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled by former vocalist Udo Dirkschneider, guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and bassist Peter Baltes. Their beginnings can be traced back to the late 1960s...

Blood of the Nations
Blood of the Nations
Blood of the Nations is Accept's twelfth studio album. It is the band's first studio recording since 1996's Predator and the first album to feature vocalist Mark Tornillo and drummer Stefan Schwarzmann. It is the first album without Udo Dirkschneider on vocals since Eat the Heat in 1989...

Beneath the Massacre
Beneath the Massacre
Beneath the Massacre is a Canadian death metal band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Their debut album, Evidence of Inequity, was released in 2005, under Galy Records. In early 2006, the band signed with Prosthetic Records and has since released their first full-length album, Mechanics of...

Marée Noire (EP)
Flotsam and Jetsam
Flotsam and Jetsam (band)
Flotsam and Jetsam is a thrash metal band that formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1982.-1981-1986: The beginning:The band's original name was "Paradox" founded by Drummer Kelly David-Smith and two other guitarists, until 1982 when bassist Jason Newsted joined. Jason had come to Phoenix with his band...

The Cold
The Cold (album)
The Cold is the tenth album by thrash metal band Flotsam and Jetsam. It was released on 14 September 2010. The album artwork was created by Travis Smith.-Track listing:All tracks by Flotsam and Jetsam#"Hypocrite" - 4:06#"Take" - 4:19#"The Cold" - 7:19...

Sully Erna
Sully Erna
Salvatore Paul "Sully" Erna , is an American vocalist and primary songwriter for the American heavy metal band, Godsmack. Erna is also a guitarist and drummer, performing these both on albums and during live shows. He has a daughter named Skylar Brooke Erna and an older sister named Maria.-Early...

Avalon
Avalon (Sully Erna album)
Avalon is the first solo studio album by American rock musician Sully Erna, released on September 14, 2010. Avalon is a combination of work that took Sully Erna almost seven years to complete.-Background:...

System Divide
System Divide
System Divide is an extreme modern metal/melodic death metal band, formed by the couple Sven de Caluwé and Miri Milman , and originating and featuring members from Israel, Belgium and the US.-History:...

The Conscious Sedation
The Conscious Sedation
The Conscious Sedation is the debut full-length studio album by gothic/melodic death metal band System Divide, released on September 14, 2010...

17 Elvenking
Elvenking (band)
Elvenking is a folk/power metal band from Italy. As of 2010, the band has released one demo, one single, and six full-length studio albums.- Biography :...

Red Silent Tides
Secret Sphere
Secret Sphere
Secret Sphere is an Italian symphonic power metal band from Alessandria formed by guitarist Aldo Lonobile in 1997.- Band members :*Aldo Lonobile − guitars*Ramon R...

Archetype
Therion
Therion (band)
Therion is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christian Book of Revelation...

Sitra Ahra
Sitra Ahra
Sitra Ahra is the fourteenth full-length musical album by Therion released on 17 September 2010 in Europe, and 26 October 2010 in North America. It is the first studio release since Gothic Kabbalah in 2007...

20 Drudkh
Drudkh
Drudkh is a Ukrainian metal band that mixes elements of folk metal and black metal. They were formed by Roman Saenko, prolific metal musician, the leading member of Hate Forest, Dark Ages and Blood of Kingu; Thurios, the leading member of Astrofaes and, with Saenko, a former member of Hate Forest;...

Handful of Stars
Handful of Stars
-Personnel:*Thurios - vocals, guitars, keyboards*Roman - guitars*Krechet - bass*Vlad - drums, keyboards...

Manticora
Manticora
Manticora is a Heavy metal band from Hvidovre, Denmark formed in 1996 by Lars and Kristian Larsen. Their current label is Locomotive Music. Their lyrical content typically consists of literature, fantasy, and science fiction. Although they are considered to be a progressive power metal band, they...

Safe
Metallica
Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...

Six Feet Down Under
Six Feet Down Under
-Personnel:* James Hetfield - lead vocals, rhythm guitar* Lars Ulrich - drums* Kirk Hammett - lead guitar, backing vocals* Jason Newsted - bass, backing vocals on tracks 1-6* Robert Trujillo - bass, backing vocals on tracks 7-8...

 (EP)
Raunchy A Discord Electric
A Discord Electric
A Discord Electric is Danish band Raunchy's fifth album. It was released on in Denmark, October 8 in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, October 11 in the rest of Europe, and October 12 in the US.- Reception :-Track listing:- Personnel :...

21 Opeth
Opeth
Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. Though the group has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force throughout the years...

In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall is a live double album by the Swedish progressive death metal band, Opeth. The DVD was recorded on April 5, 2010 and was released on September 20, 2010 in Europe and on September 21, 2010 in the rest of the world...

 (live DVD)
Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer–songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, playwright, record producer, poet, and political activist...

Imperfect Harmonies
Imperfect Harmonies
Imperfect Harmonies is the second studio album by Armenian-American singer Serj Tankian. The album was released on September 21, 2010 through Reprise Records and Serjical Strike Records.-Release and promotion:...

Torche
Torche
Torche is a band from Miami, Florida, whose sound is often described as stoner metal, or sludge metal.-Biography:The group was formed in 2004 by Steve Brooks , Juan Montoya , Jonathan Nuñez and Rick Smith Torche is a band from Miami, Florida, whose sound is often described as stoner metal, or...

Songs for Singles
Songs for Singles
Songs for Singles is an EP by the American rock band Torche. The album was released on September 21, 2010 through Hydra Head Records. It is the first Torche album, and second release after the split single Chapter Ahead Being Fake, to not feature guitarist Juan Montoya.-Writing and recording:Torche...

 (EP)
24 Circle II Circle Consequence of Power
Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir is a Norwegian black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. Dimmu borgir means "dark cities" or "dark castles/fortresses" in Icelandic, Faroese and Old Norse. The name is derived from a volcanic formation in Iceland, Dimmuborgir...

Abrahadabra
Abrahadabra (album)
Abrahadabra is Norwegian symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir's ninth studio album, released in 2010. The first single from the album, "Gateways", was released on August 20 in Europe and August 24 in North America. On September 14 a video for "Gateways" was released featuring Djerv front-woman,...

Exciter
Exciter (band)
Exciter is a Canadian speed metal band from Ottawa, Ontario. They are widely considered to be one of the first speed metal bands and a seminal influence of the thrash metal genre. Exciter have sold nearly 2.3 million units in the USA and a total sells at 10 million units worldwide...

Death Machine
Revolution Renaissance
Revolution Renaissance
Revolution Renaissance was a multinational power metal band founded by guitarist Timo Tolkki after he left Stratovarius in 2008. The band released three studio albums before disbanding in 2010.-New Era:...

Trinity
Trinity (Revolution Renaissance album)
Trinity is the third and final album by Revolution Renaissance, released on September 24, 2010.-Tracklist:#"Marching with the Fools" - 5:07#"Falling to Rise" - 4:12#"A Lot Like Me" - 4:32#"The World Doesn`t Get to Me" - 4:24...

27 Cataract
Cataract (band)
Cataract is a Swiss metalcore band, signed to Metal Blade Records.-Biography:Cataract was formed in 1998 by guitarist Simon Füllemann, guitarist Greg Mäder and drummer Ricky Dürst. Their first self-titled demo was recorded in six hours and mixed in another four hours in the bed room of vocalist...

Killing The Eternal
The Crown
The Crown (band)
The Crown is a death / thrash metal band from Trollhättan, Sweden. Originally, they used the name Crown of Thorns but were forced to change their name due to another band already using that name. Their music and lyrics are inspired by death, antireligious themes and rebellion. They are known to...

Doomsday King
Enslaved
Enslaved (band)
Enslaved is a progressive black metal band formed in June 1991 in Sveio, Norway, and currently based out of Bergen, Norway.-History:Enslaved was formed in June 1991 by Ivar Bjørnson and Grutle Kjellson when they were 13 and 17 years old, respectively. The band name was inspired by an Immortal demo...

Axioma Ethica Odini
Axioma Ethica Odini
Axioma Ethica Odini is the eleventh album by Norwegian progressive viking metal band Enslaved. It was released on September 27, 2010 via Indie Recordings in Europe and on September 28, 2010 via Nuclear Blast in North America.-Track listing:...

28 Abigail Williams
Abigail Williams (band)
Abigail Williams is an American metal band, originally from Phoenix, Arizona, but now based in Los Angeles. Formed in 2004, the group would suffer constant changes to their line-up...

In the Absence of Light
In the Absence of Light
-Personnel:* Ken Sorceron – vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards* Ian Jekelis – guitar* Ken Bedene – drums...

August Burns Red
August Burns Red
August Burns Red is an American metal band, from Manheim, Pennsylvania. Formed in 2003, the group began their first performances while a majority of the members were attending their senior year of high school, and soon began playing shows around Lancaster, before being signed to CI Records, and...

Home
Home (August Burns Red album)
Home is a live album by metalcore band August Burns Red released through Solid State Records. in a CD/DVD format.It was filmed live on June 4, 2010 at Warehouse 54 in Manheim, Pennsylvania and was released on September 28, 2010 through Solid State Records.August Burns Red played different songs...

 (live DVD/CD)
Avian
Avian (band)
Avian is a melodic power metal band founded in 2002 by guitarist Yan Leviathan. The band features singer Lance King. In 2005 they released their debut album From the Depths of Time, a concept album dealing with the end of days and a warning to mankind. Musically, Avian is influenced by bands...

The Path (EP)
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...

Theatre Of Death: Live At Hammersmith 2009 (DVD)
Halford
Halford (band)
Halford is a heavy metal band formed in 1999 by Rob Halford, the lead vocalist for Judas Priest. Halford formed the band to return to his heavy metal roots...

Halford IV: Made of Metal
Halford IV: Made of Metal
Halford IV: Made of Metal is the fourth studio album by the heavy metal band Halford, the solo project of Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford. Produced by Roy Z and recorded during 2009 and 2010. the album was released on September 28, 2010...

James LaBrie
James LaBrie
Kevin James LaBrie is a Canadian vocalist who is best known as the lead singer of the American progressive metal band Dream Theater.-Early life:...

Static Impulse
Static Impulse
Static Impulse is the second solo album and fourth solo project by Dream Theater lead singer James LaBrie released on September 28, 2010. In late August 2010, LaBrie released two songs from the album titled "One More Time" and "I Need You"....

Mushroomhead
Mushroomhead
Mushroomhead is an American industrial metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 1993 in Cleveland Warehouse District, the band's music can be described as a synthesis of alternative music, heavy metal, and electro-industrial...

Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children
Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children (album)
Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children is the seventh studio album by industrial metal band Mushroomhead. The album was released on September 28, 2010 by Megaforce Records. The first single from the album is the song, "Come On" which was released on August 16, 2010.On August 31, 2010, "Come On" was...

October Tide
October Tide
October Tide is a death/doom metal side project that was created in 1995 by Katatonia vocalist Jonas Renkse and then Katatonia guitarist Fred Norrman.-1995 - 1999:...

A Thin Shell
A Thin Shell
- Personnel :October Tide*Tobias Netzell – vocals*Fredrik Norrman – guitar*Robin Bergh – drumsOther Personnel*Jonas Kjellgren – bass, mixing & producer...

Powerglove
Powerglove (band)
Powerglove is an American power metal band. They are known to play metal versions of classic video game themes. The band is named after the Power Glove, a NES controller accessory.-Early years, Total Pwnage and Metal Kombat :...

Saturday Morning Apocalypse
Saturday Morning Apocalypse
Saturday Morning Apocalypse is the second studio album by metal/power metal band Powerglove, released September 28, 2010 through E1 Music. This album strays from Powerglove's usual brand of video game metal, and instead centers around TV, cartoon, and movie themes the band grew up with. This is the...

Slipknot
Slipknot (band)
Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. Formed in 1995, the group was founded by percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray...

(sic)nesses
(sic)nesses
nesses is the fourth video album by American heavy metal band Slipknot, released on September 28, 2010. The double-disc release features a recording of their headlining performance at the 2009 Download Festival, along with a 45-minute behind the scenes documentary created by percussionist Shawn...

 (live DVD)
Unearthly Trance
Unearthly Trance
Unearthly Trance is a sludge metal/doom metal trio from Brooklyn/Queens New York, composed of guitarist-vocalist Ryan Lipynsky, bassist Jay Newman, and drummer Darren Verni. They were formed in 2000 and have released material on leading labels of the genre like Southern Lord, Rise Above Records...

V
29 Angra
Angra (band)
Angra is a Brazilian metal band from São Paulo, Brazil known for its symphonic interludes, highly technical instrumental playing and Brazilian regional elements.- Biography :...

Aqua
Aqua (Angra album)
- Standard version :- Disc 1 :- Disc 2 :- Side one :- Side two :- Side three :- Side four :- Personnel :* Eduardo Falaschi - Vocals* Kiko Loureiro - Guitar* Rafael Bittencourt - Guitar...

Iron Fire
Iron Fire
Iron Fire is a Danish power and speed metal band which was formed in 1995 under the name Misery. The name was soon changed to Decades Of Darkness and finally to Iron Fire.During their history, Iron Fire had a very unstable line-up...

Metalmorphosized
30 Place of Skulls As A Dog Returns

October

Day Artist Album
1 Grave Digger
Grave Digger (band)
Grave Digger are a German heavy metal/power metal band formed in 1980. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s.-Band history:...

The Clans Will Rise Again
The Clans Will Rise Again
The Clans Will Rise Again is Grave Digger's fifteenth album. It is a "loose sequel" to their Tunes of War album. It was released on October 1, 2010.-Track listing:All music composed by Boltendahl/Ritt/Becker- Reception :- Personnel :...

Melechesh
Melechesh
Melechesh is a Assyrian-Armenian black metal band that originated in Jerusalem. Ashmedi started the band as a solo project in 1993. In the following year, guitarist Moloch and drummer Lord Curse were added to the line-up...

The Epigenesis
4 Bring Me the Horizon
Bring Me the Horizon
Bring Me the Horizon are a British metalcore band from Sheffield, Yorkshire, who formed in 2004. Bring Me the Horizon constits of Oliver Sykes as the lead vocalist, lead guitarist Lee Malia, rhythm guitarist Jona Weinhofen, bassist Matt Kean and drummer Matt Nicholls...

There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret
There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret
There Is a Hell, Believe Me, I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret. is the third full-length studio album by British metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon, released on 4 October 2010 in the United Kingdom and majority of Europe, and 5 October 2010 in the United States. The album's...

5 Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani
Joseph "Joe" Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, with multiple Grammy Award nominations...

Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards
Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards
* "Light Years Away" was made available to download for free on September 7 in exchange for the customer advertising the download in a Facebook post or Twitter tweet.* The two bonus tracks are also available to purchase individually from Napster.- Personnel :...

10 Mortiis
Mortiis
Mortiis is a band from Notodden, Norway fronted by Håvard Ellefsen, who is also known as the namesake of the band. The name is a misspelling of the word 'mortis', which is the pronunciation used by the band. However, Mortiis started as the solo project of Ellefsen as a means to convey a story...

Perfectly Defect
Perfectly Defect (Mortiis album)
Perfectly Defect is an album by Mortiis, released 10 October 2010 as a free internet download. Prior to being released, the official Mortiis website had a countdown clock...

11 UnSun
UnSun
UnSun is a Polish Gothic metal band formed by ex-guitarist Maurycy "Mauser" Stefanowicz of death metal band Vader. Their debut album, entitled The End of Life, was released on September 22, 2008 by Century Media Records.Their second album Clinic for Dolls was released on October 11, 2010 via Mystic...

Clinic for Dolls
Clinic for Dolls
Clinic for Dolls is the second album by Polish Gothic metal band UnSun. Released on October 11, 2010. A music video was created for the song Home. The video shows the band playing in from of a train station and alternates scenes between the band playing and Aya on a train...

12 All That Remains
All That Remains (band)
All That Remains is an American heavy metal band from Springfield, Massachusetts, which formed in 1998. They have released five studio albums, a live CD/DVD, and have sold nearly 800,000 records...

...For We Are Many
Dakrya Crime Scene
Intronaut
Intronaut
Intronaut is a progressive metal band from Los Angeles, California.Their style, while rooted in metal, is extremely forward-thinking and psychedelic, complete with complex polyrhythms, intense, haunting melodies, and vocal harmonies, combined with progressive and jazzy instrumental breaks.Their...

In the Valley of Smoke
Valley of Smoke
-Personnel:Intronaut*Sacha Dunable – guitar, vocals*Dave Timnick – guitar, vocals*Danny Walker – drums*Joe Lester – bassGuests musicians*Justin Chancellor Production*Josh Newell - producer-Release:...

Madball
Madball
Madball is a New York-based hardcore band that originated in the late 1980s, as a side-project of Agnostic Front .- History :Madball was founded in 1988 and featured most of Agnostic Front's members...

Empire
Empire (Madball album)
Empire is an album by New York hardcore punk band Madball. Recorded in Florida during the Summer 2010 and entirely produced by Erik Rutan, it was released on October 10, 2010.-Track listing:-Personnel:* Freddy Cricien - vocals* Mitts - guitar...

Motionless in White
Motionless in White
Motionless in White is an American metalcore band from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Formed in 2005, the group is known for its dark horror-themed lyrics and physical appearances, that of which heavily correspond to gothic imagery. Motionless in White is currently signed to Fearless Records and have...

Creatures
Creatures (Motionless in White album)
Creatures is the debut album by American metal band Motionless in White, released on October 12, 2010 through Fearless Records. The album spawned three singles, "Abigail", "Immaculate Misconception", and the title track, all three of which had accompanied music videos as well...

Negligence
Negligence (band)
Negligence is a Slovenian thrash metal band, formed in 2000. The group is currently signed to Metal Blade Records and has released two albums, the last one in 2010.-History:...

Coordinates of Confusion
15 All Ends
All Ends
All Ends is an alternative metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, founded in 2003. It started as a side project of the In Flames guitarists Björn Gelotte and Jesper Strömblad, but currently they are no longer playing with All Ends.- History :...

A Road To Depression
Magic Kingdom
Magic Kingdom (band)
Magic Kingdom is a Neo-classical power metal band from Belgium. It was formed in 1998 and is currently active. Their lyrics are typically themed in the areas of fantasy and the supernatural.-Lineup:...

Symphony of War
Mirror of Deception
Mirror of Deception
Mirror of Deception is German doom metal band, formed in 1990.-Biography:Along with Dawn of Winter, Mirror of Deception is Germany's longest running traditional doom act...

A Smouldering Fire
Rhapsody of Fire
Rhapsody of Fire
Rhapsody of Fire is an Italian symphonic power metal band led by Alex Staropoli. Since forming in 1993, the band has released eight studio albums, one live album, two EPs, and a live DVD...

The Cold Embrace of Fear - A Dark Romantic Symphony
Symphorce
Symphorce
Symphorce was a German progressive power metal band, originally assembled in 1998.- Biography :The band was formed in October 1998 by singer Andy B. Franck. He created the name Symphorce as a play of words, a portmanteau of symphony and force. It was a few months later, in 1999 that they released...

Unrestricted
17 Crionics
Crionics
Crionics is a Polish blackened death metal band from Kraków, formed in 1997 by Michał Skotniczny, Dariusz Styczeń, "Marcotic" and Maciej Zięba. In their early years they played fast and melodic music under the strong influence of Norwegian black metal band Emperor.-Band history:A year after the...

N.O.I.R. (EP)
18 The Meads of Asphodel
The Meads of Asphodel
The Meads of Asphodel are an experimental black metal band with pronounced medieval and Eastern influences from Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.-Biography:...

The Murder of Jesus The Jew
20 Amberian Dawn
Amberian Dawn
Amberian Dawn is a Finnish symphonic power metal band, formed in 2006 by Tuomas Seppälä and Tommi Kuri. Their third album End of Eden was released on Spinefarm Records in October 2010.-Atheme One :...

End of Eden
End of Eden
End of Eden is the third studio album by Amberian Dawn, and the first released on Spinefarm Records, previous albums having been released on KHY Suomen Musiikki...

Arckanum
Arckanum
Arckanum is a Swedish black metal project formed in 1993 by Johan "Shamaatae" Lahger, who is the only constant member. Shamaatae is also an author of occult literature. His first published work titled PANPARADOX was released the 13th of July 2009 and is published by Ixaxaar...

Sviga Læ
22 Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...

Darkly Darkly Venus Aversa
Forbidden
Forbidden (band)
Forbidden is a thrash metal band from the San Francisco Bay Area. Formed in 1985 as Forbidden Evil, the group was founded by Russ Anderson and Craig Locicero, who are both permanent members. Since their formation, Forbidden have broken up and reformed twice with numerous line-up changes...

Omega Wave
Omega Wave
Omega Wave is the title of Forbidden's fifth studio album, released in 22 October 2010. It is the band's first studio recording in 13 years and the first album to feature two new band members, Steve Smyth on guitar and Mark Hernandez on drums.-Production:The album was produced by guitarist Craig...

Neaera
Neaera (band)
Neaera is a melodic death metal band from Münster, Germany, currently signed to Metal Blade Records. Recently, they have completed their fifth album, Forging the Eclipse, which was released on October 22/25, 2010 in Europe and on October 26, 2010 for the rest of the world.-Musical style:Tobias Buck...

Forging the Eclipse
Forging the Eclipse
Forging the Eclipse is the fifth studio album by German melodic death metal band Neaera. It was released on October 26, 2010 through Metal Blade Records...

Virgin Steele
Virgin Steele
Virgin Steele is a heavy metal band from New York, originally formed in 1981.The band released a few career highlights albums...

The Black Light Bacchanalia
The Black Light Bacchanalia
The Black Light Bacchanalia is the twelfth album by New York heavy/power metal group Virgin Steele, released via SPV/Steamhammer on October 22, 2010 in Germany, Austria & Switzerland, and the rest of Europe on October 25, 2010 & on November 9, 2010, in the USA.The album is issued in CD format,...

25 The Burning
The Burning (Band)
The Burning is a Danish metal band from Jyllands capital Aarhus.-Biography:The group was founded in 2005 by Johnny Haven and Rasmus Normand Rasmus had played in Panzerchrist before and later with Johnny Haven in progressive metal band Awedge.Dissatisfied with the more melodic direction of the...

Hail the Horde
Helheim Åsgards Fall (EP)
Tank
Tank (band)
Tank is a British heavy metal band, formed in 1980 by Algy Ward, a former member of The Damned. The band is known as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement...

War Machine
Triptykon
Triptykon
Triptykon is a musical project of Thomas Gabriel Fischer, founding member of the pioneering heavy metal bands Hellhammer, Celtic Frost and Apollyon Sun. Fischer announced his departure from Celtic Frost in May 2008 and shortly afterwards revealed his new project would be entitled Triptykon...

Shatter
Shatter (EP)
-Release:Shatter has been released in multiple formats, as a CD, 12" vinyl, and a digital download.A music video for the song Shatter has also been released.-Line-up:* Thomas Gabriel Fischer - vocals, guitar, programming* V...

 (EP)
26 Agathocles
Agathocles (band)
Agathocles is a Belgian political grindcore band that began in 1985. They are mainly known for producing a large quantity of split seven-inch EPs...

This is Not a Threat, It's a Promise
Dååth
Dååth
Dååth is an American heavy metal band from Atlanta, Georgia. Their music incorporates styles such as thrash metal, death metal, industrial metal, grunge and some traces of gypsy jazz.-History:...

Dååth
Dååth (album)
Dååth is the fourth studio album by American death metal band Dååth, released on October 26, 2010 through Century Media Records.-Track listing:-Personnel & Credits:*Sean Zatorsky - vocals*Eyal Levi – guitar , producer , engineer...

Firewind
Firewind
Firewind is a Greek power metal band. Formed in 1998, the group is currently signed to Century Media Records and was originally a small project created by guitarist, Gus G. to showcase his demo, Nocturnal Symphony in 1998. Firewind later became a full band over three years later when they recorded...

Days of Defiance
Days of Defiance
Days of Defiance is the sixth studio album by Greek heavy metal band Firewind. It was released on October 25, 2010 in Europe and October 26 in North America.- Track listing :# "The Ark Of Lies" - 4:45# "World On Fire" - 4:39# "Chariot" - 4:39...

Ill Niño
Ill Niño
Ill Niño is an American six-piece metal band from New Jersey founded in 1998. The band has sold over 3.3 million units worldwide; they have 5 studio albums and 10 music videos.-History:...

Dead New World
Dead New World
- Personnel :Cristian Machado: VocalsDiego Verduzco: Rhythm GuitarAhrue Luster: Lead guitarLazaro Pina: BassDave Chavarri: DrumsDaniel Couto: Percussion...

Krieg
Krieg
Krieg is a black metal band from Somers Point, New Jersey in the United States of America. They play a low-fi, "raw" style, drawing influence from the Darkthrone-esque style of black metal and did not use synthesizers or folk instruments, in their recordings. The band formed in 1995, initially as...

The Isolationist
Kylesa
Kylesa
Kylesa is a metal band that was formed in Savannah, Georgia. Their music incorporates experimentalism with sludgy riffs, drop-tuned guitars and elements of psychedelic rock. The group was established in 2001 by the former members of Damad, with the addition of guitar player Laura Pleasants who is...

Spiral Shadow
Spiral Shadow
Spiral Shadow, Kylesa's fifth full-length album, was released on October 25, 2010, in Europe and October 26, 2010, in the United States by Season of Mist.-Reception:...

Monster Magnet
Monster Magnet
Monster Magnet is an American stoner rock band. Hailing from Red Bank, New Jersey, the group was founded by Dave Wyndorf , John McBain and Tim Cronin...

Mastermind
Mastermind (Monster Magnet album)
Mastermind is the eighth studio album by the American stoner rock band Monster Magnet. A video for the first single, Gods and Punks, was released on October 1, 2010. The album was released on October 25, 2010.The album debuted at No...

Sacred Oath
Sacred Oath
Sacred Oath is an American heavy metal band from Bethel, Connecticut.-History:Sacred Oath was originally formed in 1985 by Rob Thorne and Pete Altieri while the two were classmates at Bethel High School...

World On Fire
Slough Feg The Animal Spirits
Star One
Star One
Star One is a Dutch progressive metal supergroup/side-project of Arjen Anthony Lucassen of Ayreon fame. Unlike Ayreon, the band did not follow one storyline; instead, each song was a different story with a sci-fi concept, most of the tracks based on existing movies and series.-Origins and first...

Victims of the Modern Age
Victims of the Modern Age
Victims of the Modern Age is the second studio album by Star One released on the recording label Inside Out on October 25, 2010 in the United States...

Withered
Withered
Withered is an American extreme metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, founded by Chris Freeman and Mike Thompson. Both members also participate in a crust punk/grindcore band, Social Infestation, which also features Mastodon bassist Troy Sanders.-Overview:...

Dualitas
Diskreet
Diskreet
Diskreet is a death metal band which is based in Topeka, Kansas and formed in 2003. They are currently signed to UK based label Siege of Amida Records with US distribution from Candlelight Records.-History:...

Engage the Mechanicality
27 Verjnuarmu
Verjnuarmu
Verjnuarmu is a heavy metal band from Finland singing in the Savo dialect of the Finnish language.Performing in a dialect is rare in the Finnish heavy metal scene. Sometimes their style is dubbed as "Savo metal"...

Lohuton
29 Heljareyga Heljareyga
Heljareyga (album)
-Album Notes:All songs and lyrics by Heri JoensenThanks To: Merle Doering, Kristian Blak, Thomas Caser, Kristian "Kohle" Kohlmannslehner, Nadine Bonifer, Kai Stahlenberg, Jan Yrulund & Jimmy Kater....

The Sorrow
The Sorrow
The Sorrow is a metalcore/melodic death band from Austria. They were formed in 2005 by Mathias Schlegl and Andreas Mäser from the band Disconnected and Dominik Immler and Tobias Schädler from Distance...

The Sorrow
War from a Harlots Mouth
War From a Harlots Mouth
War from a Harlots Mouth is a German metalcore band from Berlin, formed in 2005. Consisting of vocalist Nico, guitarists Simon and Daniel, bassist Filip, and drummer Paul, the band is noted for a distinct musical style consisting of infusing many different genres into their songs, such as math...

MMX
MMX (War from a Harlots Mouth album)
MMX is the third studio album by German metalcore band War from a Harlots Mouth. It was released on October 29, 2010 through Lifeforce Records.-Background:...

30 Shape of Despair
Shape of Despair
Shape of Despair is an Atmospheric/Funeral Doom metal band from Finland that was formed in 1995 as Raven until 1998, when the band decided to change their name to the current one.-History:...

Written In My Scars (EP)
31 Helloween
Helloween
Helloween is a German power metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band was a pioneering force in the European Power Metal movement and their second and third studio albums, Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt...

7 Sinners
7 Sinners
7 Sinners is the thirteenth studio album by Helloween, released October 31, 2010.A video clip for "Are You Metal?" was released 11 October 2010. Its visuals draw from the Saw movie franchise and play on clichés of the metal genre...


November

Day Artist Album
1 Ross the Boss Hailstorm
2 Anal Cunt
Anal Cunt
Anal Cunt, also known as AxCx and A.C., was an American grindcore band that formed in Newton, Massachusetts in 1988. Since its inception, the band underwent a number of line-up changes. Known for its grindcore musical style and controversial lyrics, Anal Cunt released eight full-length studio...

Wearing Out Our Welcome
Escape The Fate
Escape The Fate
Escape the Fate is an American post-hardcore band from Las Vegas, Nevada formed in 2005 and originally from Pahrump, Nevada. They have released three EPs and three full-length studio albums. Dying Is Your Latest Fashion was the band's debut album and only album to feature vocalist Ronnie Radke...

Escape the Fate
Escape the Fate (album)
Escape the Fate is the third studio album and major label debut by American post-hardcore band Escape the Fate, the second with vocalist Craig Mabbitt. It is the band's first album released on Interscope Records following their departure from Epitaph. It was released worldwide on November 2, 2010...

3 Machinae Supremacy
Machinae Supremacy
Machinae Supremacy is a Swedish band that combines modern heavy metal and alternative rock with chiptunes. Self-defined as "SID metal", many of their songs use a SidStation that features the SID chip of the Commodore 64...

A View From the End of The World
A View From the End of The World
A View From The End of The World is the fourth album by the Swedish metal band Machinae Supremacy, which was released on November 3, 2010.-Track listing:Official track listing released by the band:#"A View From the End of the World" – 3:52...

5 Allen/Lande
Allen-Lande
Allen/Lande is a melodic rock/heavy metal band project formed in 2005 by guitarist Magnus Karlsson with two high acclaimed metal vocalists: Masterplan vocalist Jørn Lande and Symphony X vocalist Russell Allen...

The Showdown
The Showdown (album)
The Showdown is the third collaboration album between Masterplan vocalist Jorn Lande and Symphony X vocalist Russell Allen once again featuring Starbreaker guitarist Magnus Karlsson handling production, arrangement and songwriting...

Forgotten Tales
Forgotten Tales
Forgotten Tales is a Canadian power metal band from Quebec City, Quebec originally assembled in 1999.-Biography:Forgotten Tales got their start in 1999 as a cover band, with the intent of covering power metal songs by their favorite European bands...

We Shall See The Light
8 Aborym
Aborym
Aborym is an Italian/Norwegian industrial black metal band, initially hailing from Taranto, Apulia, in Italy. The band has described their music as "alien-black-hard/industrial", whilst Allmusic described them as playing "a truly original brand of futuristic black metal [with] jagged samples,...

Psychogrotesque
Atheist
Atheist (band)
Atheist is a technical death metal band from Florida, founded in 1984, whose music combines metal riffs with subtle Latin music arrangements and jazz fusion.- History :...

Jupiter
Jupiter (Atheist album)
Jupiter is the name of the fourth studio album by the American technical death metal band Atheist. It is their first studio album in 17 years since the release of Elements in 1993.-Overview:...

Deathspell Omega
Deathspell Omega
Deathspell Omega are a French black metal band. Their lyrical content deals primarily with Satanism on a metaphysical level – as the band has stated that "all other interpretations of Satan are intellectually invalid" – and other various theological topics...

Paracletus
Paracletus
Paracletus is the fifth full-length studio album recorded by the French black metal band Deathspell Omega, released on 9 November 2010 through Norma Evangelium Diaboli along with Season of Mist...

Therapy?
Therapy?
Therapy? is an alternative metal band from Northern Ireland. The band was formed in 1989 by guitarist–vocalist Andy Cairns from Ballyclare and drummer-vocalist Fyfe Ewing from Larne, Northern Ireland. The band initially recorded their first demo with Cairns filling in on bass guitar...

We're Here To The End
We're Here to the End
We're Here to the End, is the first full-length live album by the band Therapy?, and the second album to be released on Blast Records, part of The Global Music Group family...

9 Am I Blood
Am I Blood
Am I Blood, formerly named St. Mucus, is a heavy/thrash metal band from Kerava, Finland. The band was formed in 1992 with later to be Amorphis front-man Pasi Koskinen, who was originally the singer of the band. They parted ways with Koskinen in 1995, just one month before the recording of debut...

Existence of Trauma
Behemoth
Behemoth (band)
Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, alongside bands such as Vader, Decapitated, Vesania and Hate....

Evangelia Heretika (DVD)
First Blood
First Blood (band)
First Blood are a hardcore band from San Francisco, CA. Their Trustkill Records debut album is titled Killafornia. Four years later they released Silence Is Betryal on Bullet Tooth Records.-Background:...

Silence Is Betrayal
Gwar
Gwar
Gwar is a satirical heavy metal band formed in Richmond, Virginia, United States, in 1984. The band is best known for its elaborate science fiction/horror film inspired costumes, obscene lyrics and graphic stage performances, which feature humorous enactments of politically and morally taboo...

Bloody Pit of Horror
Bloody Pit of Horror (GWAR album)
Bloody Pit of Horror is the twelfth studio album by Gwar. On September 8, Gwar announced the official release date of the new album to be November 9, 2010 on Metal Blade Records....

Oceano
Oceano (band)
Oceano is an American deathcore band from Chicago, IL formed in 2006. The band signed to Earache Records and released their debut album, Depths on April 7, 2009. Their second album, Contagion was released on November 9, 2010.-History:...

Contagion
Contagion (Oceano album)
Contagion is the second album by American deathcore band Oceano, released November 9, 2010 through Earache Records. A video for "Weaponized" was released on November 4th. -Track listing:# "Precursor To Enslavement" - 3:48# "Viral Re-Animation Contagion is the second album by American deathcore band...

Sargeist
Sargeist
Sargeist is a Finnish black metal band formed in 1999. Originally created as a solo project by Shatraug of the Finnish black metal act Horna, he was joined by other members since 2000, who were subsequently released from the band...

Let the Devil In
Underoath
Underoath
Underoath is an American Christian metalcore band from Tampa, Florida. Founded by Dallas Taylor and Luke Morton on November 30, 1997 in Ocala, Florida, subsequently its additional members were from Tampa, Florida...

Ø (Disambiguation)
Ø (Disambiguation)
Ø is the seventh album by American metalcore band Underoath. Released on November 9, 2010 through Tooth & Nail Records, the album is the band's first without founding member Aaron Gillespie, the first with Daniel Davison, formerly of Norma Jean. As of this album, none of the members that appeared...

Vreid
Vreid
Vreid is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 2004 after the break up of Windir following the death of lead singer and founder Valfar. The remaining members along with new guitarist Ese formed Vreid...

Vreid Goddamnit (DVD)
15 Hate
Hate (band)
Hate is a Polish death metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 1990. Their most recent album, Erebos, was released in 2010, under Listenable Records.-Biography:...

Erebos
Solefald
Solefald
Solefald is a Norwegian avant-garde metal/black metal band that was formed by members Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Lars singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Cornelius singing and playing guitar and bass. The meaning of the band's...

Norrøn Livskunst
Norrøn Livskunst
- Concept :The press release for described the album as such:With "Norrøn livskunst", SOLEFALD looks to the early 1900-century Norway, when a young nation zealously engaged in exploring its cultural roots. Writers, painters and composers rediscovered Norse mythology, the Edda and the sagas. Houses...

19 Astral Doors
Astral Doors
Astral Doors is a Swedish heavy metal band formed in 2002. They have released five studio albums and an EP. Their latest work is Requiem Of Time, released in February 2010...

Testament Of Rock - The Best Of Astral Doors
The Ocean Anthropocentric
Samael
Samael (band)
Samael is a industrial black metal band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland.-Biography:Although much of their music from the mid-1990s onwards has incorporated electronic sounds which would best define their genre as industrial metal, they are an early 2nd Wave black metal band and an innovator for...

Antigod
Antigod
Antigod is an EP by Swiss heavy metal band, Samael.-Track listing:# Antigod# Into the Pentagram # Reign of Light # Slavocracy # Antigod # Ten Thousand Years -Personnel:*Vorph: Vocals, Guitars...

 (EP)
20 Impaled Nazarene
Impaled Nazarene
Impaled Nazarene is a Finnish black metal band that incorporates elements of grindcore in their sound and punk rock in their aesthetics. The band is currently signed to Osmose Productions of France....

Road to the Octagon
22 Sodom
Sodom (band)
Sodom is a German Thrash metal trio from Gelsenkirchen, formed in 1981.Along with the bands Kreator and Destruction, Sodom is considered one of the "big three" of Teutonic thrash metal...

In War and Pieces
In War and Pieces
-Personnel:Sodom* Tom Angelripper - Bass, vocals* Bernemann - Guitars* Bobby Schottkowski - DrumsProduction* Waldemar Sorychta - Producer* Eliran Kantor - Artwork...

23 After the Burial
After the Burial
After the Burial is an American heavy metal band from Twin Cities, Minnesota. The group is currently signed to Sumerian Records and have released two of their three full-length albums through the label...

In Dreams
In Dreams (After the Burial album)
In Dreams is the third album by American heavy metal band, After the Burial. It was released on November 23, 2010 through Sumerian Records. This is the first After the Burial album to feature music videos, which have been produced for the songs "Pendulum" and "Your Troubles Will Cease and Fortune...

Agalloch
Agalloch
Agalloch is an American metal band formed in 1995 in Portland, Oregon. The band is led by vocalist and guitarist John Haughm and so far have released four limited EPs, four full-length albums, two demos, one split album, one compilation album and one live DVD....

Marrow of the Spirit
Marrow of the Spirit
Marrow of the Spirit is the fourth album of the metal band Agalloch, released on November 23, 2010, through Profound Lore Records. The album was recorded entirely in analog on vintage equipment at Audible Alchemy Studios in Portland, Oregon, with Steven Wray Lobdell producing...

The Chariot
The Chariot (band)
The Chariot is an American mathcore band from Douglasville, Georgia, formed in 2003. The current lineup consists of drummer David Kennedy, bassist Jon "KC Wolf" Kindler, vocalist and bandleader Josh Scogin, and guitarists Brandon Henderson and Stephen Harrison. The band has experienced frequent...

Long Live
Long Live
Long Live is the fourth studio album by the American mathcore band The Chariot. The album was released on November 23, 2010.-Writing and recording:...

God Dethroned
God Dethroned
-Biography:God Dethroned was formed in 1991 by singer and guitar player Henri Sattler, with Hans Leegstra and Ard de Weerd. Sattler and Leegstra had previously been in Dysentery; Leegstra, quickly after the band formed, left the music scene altogether. They recorded a demo, Christ Hunt, in 1991,...

Under The Sign Of The Iron Cross
Yngwie Malmsteen Relentless
Relentless (Yngwie Malmsteen album)
Relentless is the 18th solo album by neo-classical metal guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, released on November 23, 2010, through his own Rising Force Records...

Phobia
Phobia (band)
Phobia is a Grindcore band from Orange County, California. The band was formed in 1990 and is heavily influenced by crust punk and grindcore. Their lyrical content focuses mainly on socio-political issues and left-wing politics.- History :...

Unrelenting (EP)
24 Dark Moor
Dark Moor
Dark Moor is a Spanish power metal band from Madrid. Formed in 1993, they produced three full-length albums before undergoing a line-up change in which three members left the band to form their own project, Dreamaker...

Ancestral Romance
Ancestral Romance
Ancestral Romance is the eighth full-length album by the Spanish power metal band Dark Moor, released on 24 November 2010.-Track listing:# "Gadir" - 4:59# "Love From the Stone" - 4:02# "Alaric de Marnac" - 4:42# "Mio Cid" - 6:39# "Just Rock" - 2:35...

Dark the Suns
Dark the Suns
Dark the Suns is a melodic dark/ gothic metal band formed in 2005 in Jyväskylä, Finland. They are signed to Firebox Records.Founded as a solo project by vocalist and guitarist Mikko Ojala in 2005, a demo was followed by the release of the full-length In Darkness Comes Beauty in 2006 once Dark the...

Sleepwalking In A Nightmare
Teräsbetoni
Teräsbetoni
Teräsbetoni is a Finnish heavy metal band. Their first album, Metallitotuus was released in 2005 and has so far sold more than 32,000 copies. Teräsbetoni has been strongly influenced by bands such as Manowar...

Maailma Tarvitsee Sankareita
Maailma tarvitsee sankareita
-Personnel:*Jarkko Ahola - lead vocals, bass*Arto Järvinen: guitar, vocals*Viljo Rantanen: guitar*Jari Kuokkanen: drums...

26 Metallica
Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...

Live at Grimey's
Live At Grimey's
-Personnel:* James Hetfield – vocals, rhythm guitar* Kirk Hammett – lead guitar* Robert Trujillo – bass* Lars Ulrich – drums...

 (live EP)
30 Chapter 14
Chapter 14
Chapter 14 is an American alternative metalcore rock band from Carlsbad, California currently consisting of vocalist Chad Ackerman , guitarist Tanner Sparks , bassist Edwin Peraza, and Jonathan Knauer on drums.-Formation:Founded in 2003 by Ackerman and Sparks the band also consisted of drummer Mike...

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3 Seventh Wonder
Seventh Wonder
Seventh Wonder is a progressive metal band from Stockholm, Sweden formed in 2000. They are currently on the Lion Music record label.-History:...

The Great Escape
The Great Escape (Seventh Wonder album)
The Great Escape is the fourth album by Swedish progressive metal band Seventh Wonder. It was recorded over the Spring and Summer of 2010, and was released on December 3, 2010. It is the first album by the band to feature a track longer than 10 minutes...

Theatres des Vampires
Theatres des Vampires
Theatres des Vampires is an Italian gothic metal band with strong black metal influences, mostly noted for the predominant theme of vampirism within their lyrics.-History and background:In 1994, Alessandro Nunziati form Theatres des Vampires....

Moonlight Waltz
Moonlight Waltz
Moonlight Waltz is the ninth studio album by the Italian extreme gothic metal band Theatres des Vampires. A music video for the song "Carmilla" was filmed on August 28 and 29, directed by David Bracci, who worked on most of Dario Argento's films in the past decade, and has also directed the "Lilith...

7 Death Live In Japan (DVD)
Flyleaf
Flyleaf
Flyleaf is an American alternative metal band, formed in the Belton and Temple, Texas regions in 2000. The band has charted on mainstream rock, Christian pop and Christian metal genres. They performed around the United States in 2003 until releasing their eponymous debut album, Flyleaf, in 2005....

Remember to Live
Remember to Live
Remember to Live is an EP by American rock band Flyleaf and released after the tour supporting their previously released album Memento Mori....

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13 Motörhead The Wörld is Yours
The World Is Yours
The World Is Yours was the world's first color television series, making its debut on June 26, 1951, on five stations of the CBS television network in the eastern United States. This half-hour daytime program was produced and hosted from New York by naturalist and author Ivan T. Sanderson, and...

14 The Damned Things
The Damned Things
The Damned Things are a heavy metal supergroup consisting of Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy, Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano of Anthrax, Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die and Josh Newton formally of Every Time I Die The band's name is inspired by the lyrics in Ram Jam's '70s version of...

Ironiclast
Ironiclast
Ironiclast is the debut album the American heavy metal supergroup The Damned Things. The album was released on December 14, 2010 internationally and a day later in North America. The supergroup includes Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy, Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano of Anthrax and Keith...

Sea of Treachery
Sea Of Treachery
Sea of Treachery is an American metalcore/deathcore band from Hebron, Kentucky formed in 2004. Since forming, they have released three EPs and two full-length studio albums, the first being At Daggers Drawn, which was released on April 29, 2008 on Sumerian Records, and the second being Wonderland,...

Welcome To Wonderland
17 Ektomorf
Ektomorf
- Biography :Ektomorf was founded in 1993 in Mezőkovácsháza, Hungary, a small city near the Romanian border, by Zoltán "Zoli" Farkas. In the actual line-up Zoli - songwriter and mastermind of the band - is the only remaining founder member...

Redemption
Redemption (Ektomorf album)
Redemption is the 9th full length album by Groove Metal band Ektomorf, released December 17th, 2010.-Track listing:#"Last Fight" - 4:16#"Redemption" - 2:51#"I'm In Hate" - 3:25#"God Will Cut You Down" - 3:04#"Stay Away" - 2:25...

Sinister
Sinister (band)
Sinister is a death metal band from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, assembled in 1988, disassembled in 2003, and reassembled in 2005 by Adrie Kloosterwaard on vocals and Alex Paul on guitar...

Legacy Of Ashes
Tankard
Tankard (band)
Tankard is a thrash metal band from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, founded in 1982. After losing their guitarist because of their image as a bunch of drunks, they moved on to issue their first record in 1986. From that point on, the band has continuously made songs and records in the same style they...

Vol(l)ume 14
Vol(l)ume 14
Volume 14 is the fourteenth studio album by German thrash metal band Tankard released through AFM Records.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Andreas "Gerre" Geremia - vocals*Andy Gutjahr - guitar*Frank Thorwarth - bass, backing vocals...

31 Helrunar
Helrunar
Helrunar is a Viking/black metal band from Münster, Germany, founded in 2001. They played at the Summer Breeze Open Air in August 2007, and at the pagan metal Ragnarök Festival in 2008.-Current members:*Skald Draugir - vocals...

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