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

August 21, 2015
Act Of Defiance - Birth And The Burial (Metal Blade)
Adversarial - Death, Endless Nothing and the Black Knife of Nihilism (Dark Descent)
Altar / Cartilage - Split (Xtreem)
Archer - Culling The Weak (Metalville)
Barrows - Swine Race (Inverse)
Battlecross - Rise To Power (Metal Blade)
Bleach Everything - Free Inside EP (Magic Bullet)
Blistered - The Poison Of Self Confinement (6131)
Bonehunter - Evil Triumphs Again (Hells Headbangers)
Buckcherry - Rock 'N' Roll (F-Bomb)
Butcher Babies - Take It Like A Man (Century Media)
Chris Caffery - Your Heaven Is Real (Metalville)
Coffins - Craving To Eternal Slumber EP (Hammerheart)
Crown - Natron (Candlelight)
Cruciform - Atavism (Infernal Devastation)
Dalkhu - Descend Into Nothingness (Satanath)
Dark Sermon - The Oracle (eOne)
Dead Lord - Heads Held High (Century Media)
The Devil Wears Prada - Space EP (Rise)
Diabolus Arcanium - Path Of Ascension (Transcending Obscurity)
Disturbed - Immortalized (Reprise)
Draugurinn - Isavetur (Nordvis)
Extinction A.D.

- Faithkiller (Good Fight)
The Fiend - Greed Power Religion War (Candlelight)
First Decree - This Is Our Rise (FD Music)
Gamma Ray - Heading For Tomorrow Anniversary Edition (earMusic)
Gaytheist / Rabbits - Gay^Bits Split (Good To Die)
Ghost - Meliora (Loma Vista)
Hate Eternal - Infernus (Season Of Mist)
The Infamous Gehenna - Deathkamp Ov The Soul + Funeral Embrace (Magic Bullet)
Integrity - Palm Sunday Re-Release (Magic Bullet)
Kadavar - Berlin (Nuclear Blast)
Kaledon - Chapter IV: Twilight Of The Gods Re-Release (Scarlet)
Kyy - Travesty Of Light (Saturnal)
Lewis and the Strange Magics - Velveet Skin (Soulseller)
Lychgate - An Antidote For The Glass Pill (Blood)
Lynch Mob - Rebel (Frontiers)
Manegarm - Vredens Tid Re-Release (Black Lodge)
The Murder Of My Sweet - Beth Out Of Hell (Frontiers)
Myrkur - M (Relapse)
Nathan Gray - Nthn Gry EP (Good Fight)
Necrodium - Remnants (Breaking Wheel)
Nekro Drunkz - Absolute Filth (Moribund)
Nuclear - Formula For Anarchy (Candlelight)
Oceans Of Slumber - Blue EP (Century Media)
P.O.D.

- The Awakening (T-Boy / Universal)
Pop Evil - Up (eOne)
Praying Mantis - Legacy (Frontiers)
Publicist UK - Forgive Yourself (Relapse)
Rainbow - Denver 1979 (Cleopatra)
Raise Hell - Written In Blood (Black Lodge)
Renaissance Of Fools - Spring (Metalville)
Rivers Of Nihil - Monarchy (Metal Blade)
Rotting Christ - Lucifer Over Athens (Season Of Mist)
Royal Hunt - XIII: The Devil's Dozen (Frontiers)
Rubikon - Delta (Round Hill)
Scythian - Hubris In Excelsis (Hells Headbangers)
She Must Burn - Under The Shadows EP (Ghost)
Skraeckoedlan - Sagor (Razzia)
Spock's Beard - The Oblivion Particle (Inside Out)
The Sword - High Country (Razor & Tie)
Take Over And Destroy - Vacant Face (Pulverised)
U.D.O. - Navy Metal Night DVD/CD (AFM)
Unbreakable Hatred - Ruins (Unique Leader)
Vaee Solis - Adversarial Light (Signal Rex)
Vardan - Between The Fog and Shadows (Moribund)
Via - Sanitize This (Pavement)
Whoretopsy - Never Tear Us Apart (Vicious Instinct)
Wildlights - Wildlights (Season Of Mist)
Wild Throne - Harvest of Darkness (Roadrunner)
Wolfheart - Shadow World (Spinefarm)
Wombbath - Downfall Rising (Pulverised)

August 28, 2015
Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig (Napalm)
Audiotopsy - Natural Causes (Napalm)
Black .44 - No Blanks (Inverse)
Blood Divisions - Blood Divisions EP (Metal Blade)
Bridge To Grace - Origins (Run)
Carousel - 2113 (Tee Pee)
Cavern - Outsiders (Grimoire)
Creeping - Revenant (Iron Bonehead)
Deep Black - Nails (Van)
Die Krupps - V: Metal Machine Music (SPV)
Embassy Of Silence - Verisimilitude (Inverse)
F--k The Facts - Desire Will Rot (Noise Salvation)
Graben - Graben (Wooaaargh)
Grim Vision - War Agony EP (Bastardized)
Kalmen - Course Hex (Van)
King Dude - Songs Of Flesh & Blood... (Van)
Kobra and the Lotus - Words Of The Prophets EP (Titan)
Motorhead - Bad Magic (UDR)
Never To Arise - Gore Whores On The Killing Floor (Cimmerian Shade)
Nile - What Should Not Be Unearthed (Nuclear Blast)
Path Of Samsara - The Fiery Hand (Van)
Pentagram - Curious Volume (Peaceville)
Plaguewielder - Chambers Of Death (HPGD)
Putridity - Ignominious Atonement (Willowtip)
Reds'cool - Press Hard (SPV)
Rifftera - Pitch Black (Inverse)
Root - Zjeveni Re-Release (I Hate)
Simulacrum - Sky Divided (Inverse)
Soilwork - The Ride Majestic (Nuclear Blast)
Sparrows - Dragging Hell EP (New Damage)
The Spirit Cabinet - Hystero Epileptic Possessed (Van)
Tad Morose - St. Demonius (Despotz)
Theologian - A Means By Which To Break The Surface... (Nothing Under The Sun)
Urn - Epiphany (Dark Moon)
Wederganger - Halfvergaan Ontwaakt (Van)

September 4, 2015
Abominor - Opus: Decay (Invictus)
Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud (Nuclear Blast)
Ancient Altar - Dead Earth (Midnite Collective)
Axis - Show Your Greed (Good Fight)
Black Tongue - The Unconquerable Dark (Century Media)
Black Trip - Shadowline (SPV)
Broken Flesh - Broken Flesh (Luxor)
Burn Halo - Wolves Of War (eOne)
Cemetery Lust - Screams Of The Violated Re-Release (Hells Headbangers)
Chaos Frame - Paths To Exile (Nightmare)
Conveyer - When Given Time To Grow (Victory)
Cretus - Dux Mea Lux EP (Pavement)
Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages (Profound Lore)
Daikhu - Descend Into Nothingness (Iron Bonehead)
Decomposed - Hope Finally Died Re-Release (Candlelight)
Diemonds - Never Wanna Die (Napalm)
Eat The Gun - Howlinwood (SPV)
Five Finger Death Punch - Got Your Six (Prospect Park)
Grime - Circle Of Molesters (Argento)
Hammercult - Built For War (SPV)
Hell:On - Once Upon A Chaos (Ferrum)
Inhuman - Conquerors Of The New World (Satanath)
Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls (BMG)
IIVII - Colony (Consouling Sounds)
Lament Cityscape - The Torn (Battleground)
Mad Max - Thunder, Storm and Passion (SPV)
Midas Fall - The Menagerie Inside (Monotreme)
Modern Pain - Peace Delusions (Bridge Nine)
Morbid Slaughter - A Filthy Orgy Of Horror and Death (Boris)
Nechochwen - Heart Of Akamon (Nordvis)
Necromancy - Ancient Wrath EP (Nuclear War Now!)
Once Human - The Life I Remember (earMusic)
Pig Destroyer - Prowler In The Yard Re-Release (Relapse)
Purtenance - To Spread The Flame Of Ancients (Xtreem)
Pyramidal / Domo - Jams From The Sun Split (Lay Bare)
Ramming Speed - No Epitaphs (Prosthetic)
Rito Profanitorio - Grimoirios E Invocaciones... (Dunkelheit)
Riverside - Love, Fear And The Time Machine (Inside Out)
Rosey Finch - Witchboro (Lay Bare)
Sibiir - Swallow and Trap Them (Disiplin)
Simple Lies - Let It Kill (Bakerteam)
Sinister - Dark Memorials (Massacre)
Temple of Void - Of Terror and The Supernatural Re-Release (Shadow Kingdom)
Ten - The Dragon And The Saint EP (Rocktopia)
Thundermother - Road Fever (Despotz)
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - The Night Creeper (Rise Above)

September 11, 2015
Avulsed - Altar of Disembowelment EP (Xtreem)
Exxasens - Back To Earth (Aloud)
Howls Of Ebb - The Marrow Veil EP (I, Voidhanger)
I Cried Wolf - Hollow Heart (Crooked Noise)
Kaiserreich - Cuore Nero (De Tenebrarum Principio)
Lament Cityscape - Torn (Battleground)
Limb - Terminal (New Heavy Sounds)
Luna Soul - Blood Moon (Cargo)
Nightfell - Darkness Evermore (20 Buck Spin)
The Secret VI - Mixed Episode EP (Vanity)
Sabbath Assembly - Sabbath Assembly (Svart)
Slayer - Repentless (Nuclear Blast)
Speedtrap - Straight Shooter (Svart)
Venom Prison - The Primal Chaos (Soaked In Torment)

September 18, 2015
Anfinnsaas - Anfinnsaas (Autumnsongs)
Ares Kingdom - The Unburiable Dead (Nuclear War Now!)
Atila - V (Signal Rex)
Atreyu - Long Live (Spinefarm)
Big Brave - Au De La (Southern Lord)
The Black Dahlia Murder - Abysmal (Metal Blade)
Blacklisters - Adult (Smalltown America)
Bleed Someone Dry - Post Mortem Veritas (Fire Was Born)
Blessthefall - To Those Left Behind (Fearless)
Broken Hope - Live Disease at Brutal Assault DVD (Century Media)
Christian Mistress - To Your Death (Relapse)
Cropsy Maniac / Burial Ground / Grave Wax / Severed Limbs - Four Paths To Horror Split (HPGD)
Crossfaith - Xeno (Razor & Tie)
Deep Purple - From the Setting Sun...(In Wacken) (earMusic)
Deep Purple - ...To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo) (earMusic)
Devil City Angels - Devil City Angels (Century Media)
Evilheart - Quinquaginta Re-Release (Test Your Metal)
Funeral Horse - Divinity For The Wicked (Artificial Head)
Funeral Throne - Threshold (Blut & Eisen)
Golden Void - Berkana (Thrill Jockey)
Grift - Syner (Nordvis)
Harlott - Proliferation (Metal Blade)
Horisont - Odyssey (Rise Above)
In Twilight's Embrace - The Grim Muse (Arachnophobia)
Kill Ritual - Karma Machine (Scarlet)
King Heavy - King Heavy (Cruz Del Sur)
Kraanium - Chronicles Of Perversion (Comatose)
Leaves Eyes - King Of Kings (AFM)
Magister Templi - Into Duat (Cruz del Sur)
Malevolent Creation - Dead Man's Path (Century Media)
Masterplan - Keep Your Dream A Live DVD/CD (AFM)
Masters Of Metal - From Worlds Beyond (Metalville)
Metal Allegiance - Metal Allegiance (Nuclear Blast)
Moon - Render Of The Veils (Moribund)
More To Monroe - Appalachia EP (Roadrunner)
Motion City Soundtrack - Panic Stations (Epitaph)
Movimento d’Avanguardia Ermetico - Torri del Silenzio (Avant Garde)
My Dying Bride - Feel The Misery (Peaceville)
Neurotic November - Fighting Words (Victory)
Of Feather And Bone - Embrace The Wretched Flesh (Good Fight)
One Machine - The Final Cull (Scarlet)
Operation Mindcrime - The Key (Frontiers)
Pyogenesis - A Century In The Curse Of Time (AFM)
Reflections - The Color Clear (eOne / Good Fight)
Ritual Killer - Exterminance (Season Of Mist)
Scale The Summit - V (Prosthetic)
Serial Butcher - Brute Force Lobotomy (Unique Leader)
Seven Witches - The Way Of The Wicked (ILS)
Shinedown - Threat To Survival (Atlantic)
Skepticism - Ordeal (Svart)
Stahlmann - Co2 (AFM)
Stratovarius - Eternal (earMusic)
Terminal Function - Clockwork Sky (Willowtip)
Tesseract - Polaris (eOne)
To Die For - Cult (Massacre)
Toseland - Renegade (Metalville)
Tsar Bomb - Extermians IX:XI (Cimmerian Shade)
Tsjuder - Antiliv (Season Of Mist)
Tyranny - Aeons In Tectonic Internment (Dark Descent)
Vardan - From The Pale Moonlight (Moribund)
Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower (Relapse)
Witchsorrow - No Light Only Fire (Candlelight)

September 25, 2015
Black Breath - Slaves Beyond Death (Southern Lord)
Black Wing - Is Doomed (The Flenser)
Casablanca - Miskatonic Graffiti (Despotz)
Church - Unanswered Hymns (Battleground)
Cryptic Brood - Wormhead EP (Xtreem)
Days Of Collapse - We Got This Far (Imminence)
Deathcode Society - Eschatonizer (Osmose)
Dark Buddha Rising - Inversum (Neurot)
Dead Letter Circus - Aesthesis (The End)
Division Speed - Division Speed (High Roller)
Dolch - I & II (Van)
Godslave - Whatever We Want EP (Green Zone)
Graveyard - Innocence & Decadence (Nuclear Blast)
Heat Dust - Heat Dust (The Flenser)
Horna - Hengen Tulet (WTC)
Huntress - Static (Napalm)
Iniquitous Savagery - Subversions Of The Psyche (Grindethic)
Krallice - Ygg Huur (Avantgarde)
Mantric - Sin (Loyal Blood)
One OK Rock - 35xxxv (Warner Brothers)
Parkway Drive - Ire (Epitaph)
Shrine Of Insanabilis - Disciples Of The Void (WTC)
Sivyj Yar - Burial Shrouds (Avantgarde)
Tank - Valley of Tears (Metal Mind)
Todesstoss - Hirngemeer (I, Voidhanger)
Vampire - Cimmerian Shade EP (Century Media)
VI - De Praestgiis Angelorum (Agonia)
We Hunt Buffalo - Living Ghosts (Fuzzorama)

October 2, 2015
42 Decibel - Rolling In Town (SPV)
Behold! The Monolith - Architects Of The Void (Self)
Black Grail - Misticismo Regrisivo (Tyrannus)
Blood - Christbait Re-Release (Vic)
Carma - Carma (Labyrinth)
Children of Bodom - I Worship Chaos (Nuclear Blast)
Clutch - Psychic Warfare (Weathermaker)
Cochise - The Sun Also Rises For Unicorns (Metal Mind)
Deafheaven - New Bermuda (Anti)
Denner / Shermann - Satan's Tomb EP (Metal Blade)
De Profundis - Kingdom Of The Blind (Wicker Man)
Essence - Prime (Spinefarm)
Evil Army - Violence and War EP (Hells Headbangers)
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Gray Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Fit For An Autopsy - Absolute Hope, Absolute Hell (eOne)
For Today - Wake (Nuclear Blast)
Heart Of A Coward - Deliverance (Century Media)
The Jokers - Hurricane (SPV)
Kylesa - Exhausting Fire (Season Of Mist)
Lux Ferre - Excaecatio Lux Veritatis (Altare)
Monastery - Ripping Terror '91 (Vic)
Orcumentary - Destroy The Dwarves (Orc Rock)
Promethee - Unrest (Lifeforce)
Queensryche - Condition Human (Century Media)
Sevendust - Kill The Flaw (7Bros)
Stormgrey - Pray Crawl Suffer (Vic)
Temple Of Baal - Mysterium (Agonia)
Tetragrammacide - Typhonian Wormholes... EP (Iron Bonehead)
Trivium - Silence In The Snow (Roadrunner)
Venefixion - Defixio EP (Iron Bonehead)
W.A.S.P. - Golgotha (Napalm)
The Winery Dogs - Hot Streak (Loud and Proud)

October 9, 2015
Alucarda - Raw Howls (The Church Within)
Coheed and Cambria - The Color Before The Sun (300)
He Whose Ox Is Gored - Op Amps EP (Void Assault)
Irata - Sweet Loris (Retro Futurist)
Kowloon Walled City - Grievances (Neurot)
Monster Magnet - Cobras and Fire (The Mastermind Redux) (Napalm)
Seamount - Nitro Jesus (The Church Within)

October 16, 2015
Black Tide - Chasing Shadows (Pavement)
Caligula's Horse - Bloom (Inside Out)
Cult Leader - Lightless Walk (Deathwish)
Dead To A Dying World - Litany (Gilead)
Gentlemans Pistols - Hustler's Row (Nuclear Blast)
Gorod - A Maze Of Recycled Creeds (Unique Leader)
Hanging Garden - Blackout Whiteout (Lifeforce)
Joel Hoekstra's 13 - Dying To Live (Frontiers)
Lik - Mass Funeral Evocation (War Anthem)
Martina Edoff - Unity (Into)
Melted Space - The Great Lie (Sensory)
Michael Monroe - Blackout States (Spinefarm)
Pagan's Mind - Full Circle CD/DVD (SPV)
Panopticon - Autumn Eternal (Nordvis / Bindrune)
Rage Against The Machine - Live At Finsbury Park DVD (Eagle Rock)
Recitation - Carrion (Indisciplinarian)
Sadist - Hyaena (Scarlet)
Saxon - Battering Ram (UDR)
Shining - International Blackjazz Society (Spinefarm)
So Hideous - Lorestine (Prosthetic)
Speaking The King's - Carousel (Nuclear Blast)
Stryper - Fallen (Frontiers)
Tarja - Ave Maria (earMusic)
Thy Catafalque - Sgurr (Season Of Mist)
Ugly Kid Joe - Uglier Than They Used Ta Be (Metalville)
White Widows Pact - True Will (New Damage)
With The Dead - With The Dead (Rise Above)
Zombi - Shape Shift (Relapse)

October 23, 2015
Cane Hill - Cane Hill EP (Rise)
Curse Of The North - Curse Of The North: I (Static Tension)
Exquisite Ending - The Rite Of Misanthropism: Psalms V to IX (Hibernacula)
Failure Anthem - First Word Problems (Razor & Tie)
Vehemence - Forward Without Motion (Battleground)
Vhol - Deeper Than Sky (Profound Lore)

October 30, 2015
Abhorrent Deformity - Entity of Malevolence (Comatose)
All Them Witches - Dying Surfer Meets His Maker (New West)
Black Yo)))ga - Asanas Ritual, Vol. 1 (Screaming Crow)
Escape The Fate - Hate Me (Eleven Seven)
Hatchet - Fear Beyond Lunacy (The End)
Puscifer - Money Shot (Puscifer)
Sacrificium Carmen - Ikuisen Tulen Kammiossa (Saturnal)
Satanika - Total Inferno (Osmose)
Teramaze - Her Halo (Music Theories)
Visceral Throne - Those Who Have Fallen Beyond The Grace Of God EP (Comatose)

November 6, 2015
Bauda - Sporelights (Temple of Tortuous)
Bodyfarm - Battle Breed (Cyclone Empire)
Chastain - We Bleed Metal (Leviathan)
Gold - No Image (Profound Lore)
Horn - Feldpost (Invictus)

November 13, 2015
Cochise - The Sun Also Rises For Unicorns (Metal Mind)
Intronaut - The Direction Of Last Things (Century Media)
Saint Diablo - Devil Horns And Halos (Eclipse)

November 27, 2015
Blackosh - Whores, Booze & Black Metal (Iron Bonehead)
Obscene Entity - Lamentia (Tridroid)
Sergeant Steel - Riders Of The Worm (Boyz Tyme)

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