2018

Silent Killer

Mustasch

• Label: Headbangr
• Released: 6 April 2018

• Heavy metal
• Stoner metal

1. Givin'
2. Winners
3. Libertà
4. Barrage
5. Lawbreaker
6. Fire
7. Silent Killer
8. The Answer
9. Grave Digger
10. Burn

You Can't Kill My Rock 'n Roll

Hardcore Superstar

• Label: Gain
• Released: 21 September 2018

• Hard rock
• Glam metal

1. AD/HD
2. Electric Rider
3. My Sanctuary
4. Hit Me Where It Hurts
5. You Can't Kill My Rock 'n Roll
6. The Others
7. Have Mercy on Me
8. Never Cared for Snobbery
9. Baboon
10. Bring the House Down
11. Medicine Man
12. Goodbye

Exile Amongst the Ruins

Primordial

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 30 March 2018

• Doom metal
• Pagan metal
• Folk metal

1. Nail Their Tongues
2. To Hell or the Hangman
3. Where Lie the Gods
4. Exile Amongst the Ruins
5. Upon Our Spiritual Deathbed
6. Stolen Years
7. Sunken Lungs
8. Last Call

Vicious

Halestorm

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 27 July 2018

• Hard rock
• Alternative rock

1. Black Vultures
2. Skulls
3. Uncomfortable
4. Buzz
5. Do Not Disturb
6. Conflicted
7. Killing Ourselves to Live
8. Heart of Novocaine
9. Painkiller
10. White Dress
11. Vicious
12. The Silence

The Sciences

Sleep

• Label: Third Man
• Released: 20 April 2018

• Stoner metal
• Doom metal

1. The Sciences
2. Marijuanaut's Dream
3. Sonic Titan
4. Antarcticans Thawed
5. Giza Butler
6. The Botanist

Saboteurs of the Sun

Limb

• Label: New Heavy
• Released: 25 May 2018

• Stoner metal

1. Wych Elm
2. Death in absentia
3. Survival Knife
4. Rising Tides
5. The Astronaut
6. Love Has No Name
7. Curse Tablet
8. Man on the Outside
9. Truth Be Damned
10. 100 Years

On Dark Horses

Emma Ruth Rundle

• Label: Sargent House
• Released: 14 September 2018

• Post-rock
• Ethereal wave

1. Fever Dreams
2. Control
3. Darkhorse
4. Races
5. Dead Set Eyes
6. Light Song
7. Apathy on the Indiana Border
8. You Don't Have to Cry

Sonder

TesseracT

• Label: Kscope
• Released: 20 April 2018

• Progressive metal
• Progressive rock

1. Luminary
2. King
3. Orbital
4. Juno
5. Beneath My Skin
6. Mirror Image
7. Silent
8. The Arrow

Vector

Haken

• Label: InsideOut
• Released: 26 October 2018

• Progressive metal
• Progressive rock

1. Clear
2. The Good Doctor
3. Puzzle Box
4. Veil
5. Nil by Mouth
6. Host
7. A Cell Divides

Ascend

Vodun

• Label: New Heavy
• Released: 7 September 2018

• Stoner rock
• Doom metal

1. Spirits Past
2. Started From
3. Providence of Ancestors
4. Ogun's Fight
5. Time Honoured
6. New Doom
7. Elusive Freedom
8. Ascend
9. Rituals
10. For Your Kin

True Rocker

Monster Truck

• Label: Mascot
• Released: 14 September 2018

• Southern rock
• Blues rock

1. True Rocker
2. Thundertruck
3. Evolution
4. Devil Don't Care
5. Being Cool Is Over
6. Young City Heart
7. Undone
8. In My Own World
9. Denim Danger
10. Hurricane
11. The Howlin'

Our Raw Heart

YOB

• Label: Relapse
• Released: 8 June 2018

• Doom metal
• Stoner metal

1. Ablaze
2. The Screen
3. In Reverie
4. Lungs Reach
5. Beauty in Falling Leaves
6. Original Face
7. Our Raw Heart

Applause of a Distant Crowd

Vola

• Label: Mascot
• Released: 12 October 2018

• Progressive rock
• Art rock

1. We Are Thin Air
2. Ghosts
3. Smartfriend
4. Ruby Pool
5. Alien Shivers
6. Vertigo
7. Still
8. Applause of a Distant Crowd
9. Whaler
10. Green Screen Mother

Please Don't Be Dead

Fantastic Negrito

• Label: Cookking Vinyl
• Released: 22 June 2018

• Blues rock

1. Plastic Hamburgers
2. Bad Guy Necessity
3. A Letter to Fear
4. A Boy Named Andrew
5. Transgender Biscuits
6. The Suit That Won't Come off
7. A Cold November Street
8. The Duffer
9. Dark Windows
10. Never Give up
11. Bullshit Anthem

Eländes Elände

Second Sun

• Label: Gaphais
• Released: 21 September 2018

• Psychedelic rock
• Hard rock

1. Vems Fel
2. Förneka Allt
3. Noll Respekt
4. Sång Till En Slagen Kämpe
5. Enda Sunda Människan i Världen
6. Ingen Tid För Allting
7. Du Ska Se Att Det Blir Sämre
8. Det Betyder Allt
9. Panikångesattack
10. Eländes Elände

Automata II

Between the Buried and Me

• Label: Sumerian
• Released: 13 July 2018

• Progressive metal
• Avant-garde metal

1. The Proverbial Bellow
2. Glide
3. Voice of Trespass
4. The Grid

Desolation

Khemmis

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 22 June 2018

• Doom metal
• Epic doom metal

1. Bloodletting
2. Isolation
3. Flesh to Nothing
4. The Seer
5. Maw of Time
6. From Ruin

The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn

Bloodbath

• Label: Peaceville
• Released: 26 October 2018

• Death metal
• Blackened death metal

1. Fleischmann
2. Bloodicide
3. Wayward Samaritan
4. Levitator
5. Deader
6. March of the Crucifiers
7. Morbid Antichrist
8. Warhead Ritual
9. Only the Dead Survive
10. Chainsaw Lullaby

Family Tree

Black Stone Cherry

• Label: Mascot
• Released: 20 April 2018

• Southern rock
• Hard rock

1. Bad Habit
2. Burnin'
3. New Kinda Feelin'
4. Carry Me on Down the Road
5. My Last Breath
6. Southern Fried Friday Night
7. Dancin' in the Rain
8. Ain't Nobody
9. James Brown
10. You Got the Blues
11. I Need a Woman
12. Get Me Over You
13. Family Tree

Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

Deafheaven

• Label: Anti-Republic
• Released: 13 July 2018

• Blackgaze
• Black metal

1. You Without End
2. Honeycomb
3. Canary Yellow
4. Near
5. Glint
6. Night People
7. Worthless Animal

Starcrawler

Starcrawler

• Label: Rough Trade
• Released: 19 January 2018

• Blues rock
• Art punk

1. Train
2. Love's Gone Again
3. I Love L.A.
4. Different Angles
5. Chicken Woman
6. Pussy Tower
7. Full of Pride
8. Let Her Be
9. Tears
10. What I Want

Elastic Days

J Mascis

• Label: Sub Pop
• Released: 9 November 2018

• Folk

1. See You at the Movies
2. Web So Dense
3. I Went Dust
4. Sky Is All We Had
5. Picking out the Seeds
6. Give It off
7. Drop Me
8. Cut Stranger
9. Elastic Days
10. Sometimes
11. Wanted You Around
12. Everything She Said

Art of Doubt

Metric

• Label: BMG
• Released: 21 September 2018

• Synth pop
• New wave

1. Dark Saturday
2. Love You Back
3. Die Happy
4. Now or Never Now
5. Art of Doubt
6. Underline the Black
7. Dress to Suppress
8. Risk
9. Seven Rules
10. Holding out
11. Anticipate
12. No Lights on the Horizon

The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness

Panopticon

• Label: Nordvis
• Released: 6 April 2018

• Atmospheric black metal
• Americana

1. Watch the Lights Fade
2. En hvit ravns død
3. Blåtimen
4. Sheep in Wolves Clothing
5. A Ridge Where the Tall Pines Once Stood
6. En generell avsky
7. The Singing Wilderness
8. Snow Burdened Branches
9. The Moss Beneath the Snow
10. The Wandering Ghost
11. Four Walls of Bone
12. A Cross Abandoned
13. Beast Rider
14. Not Much Will Change When I'm Gone
15. Echoes in the Snow
16. The Itch
17. At the Foot of the Mountain
18. The Devil Walked in the Woods

Electric Messiah

High on Fire

• Label: eOne
• Released: 5 October 2018

• Stoner metal
• Sludge metal

1. Spewn from the Earth
2. Steps of the Ziggurat / House of Enlil
3. Electric Messiah
4. Sanctioned Annihilation
5. The Pallid Mask
6. God of the Godless
7. Freebooter
8. The Witch and the Christ
9. Drowning Dog

Queen of Time

Amorphis

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 18 May 2018

• Progressive metal
• Melodic death metal

1. The Bee
2. Message in the Amber
3. Daughter of Hate
4. The Golden Elk
5. Wrong Direction
6. Heart of the Giant
7. We Accursed
8. Grain of Sand
9. Amongst Stars
10. Pyres on the Coast

Blackout

Audrey Horne

• Label: Napalm Records
• Released: 2018

• Hard rock

1. This Is War
2. Audrevolution
3. Blackout
4. This One
5. Midnight Man
6. Light Your Way
7. California
8. Satellite
9. Naysayer
10. Rose Alley

Ruins

First Aid Kit

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 19 January 2018

• Folk
• Indie folk

1. Rebel Heart
2. It's a Shame
3. Fireworks
4. Postcard
5. To Live a Life
6. My Wild Sweet Love
7. Distant Star
8. Ruins
9. Hem of Her Dress
10. Nothing Has to Be True

Ritual

Soulfly

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 19 October 2018

• Thrash metal
• Groove metal

1. Ritual
2. Dead Behind the Eyes
3. The Summoning
4. Evil Empowered
5. Under Rapture
6. Demonized
7. Blood on the Street
8. Bite the Bullet
9. Feedback!
10. Soulfly XI

Attention Attention

Shinedown

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 4 May 2018

• Hard rock
• Alternative metal

1. The Entrance
2. Devil
3. Black Soul
4. Attention Attention
5. Kill Your Conscience
6. Pyro
7. Monsters
8. Darkside
9. Creatures
10. Evolve
11. Get up
12. Special
13. The Human Radio
14. Brilliant

Wasteland

Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats

• Label: Rise Above
• Released: 12 October 2018

• Heavy psych
• Stoner rock

1. I See Through You
2. Shockwave City
3. No Return
4. Blood Runner
5. Stranger Tonight
6. Wasteland
7. Bedouin
8. Exodus

Hear the Rivers

Greenleaf

• Label: Napalm
• Released: 9 November 2018

• Stoner rock

1. Let It out!
2. Sweet Is the SOund
3. A Point of a SSecret
4. Good Ol'goat
5. The Rumble and the Weight
6. We Are the Pawns
7. Oh My Bones
8. In the Caverns Below
9. High Fever
10. The Rivers Lullaby

Northern Sun Sessions

The Virginmarys

• Label: Treehearts
• Released: 16 November 2018

• Garage rock
• Blues rock

1. Look out for My Brother
2. S.O.S.4.U.N.I.
3. Eye for an Eye
4. For the Two of Us
5. Blind Lead the Blind
6. Get Me Back Home
7. Northern Sun
8. Wanna Be Free
9. Flags
10. Step up
11. All Fall Down

Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone

Sylvaine

• Label: Season of Mist
• Released: 2 November 2018

• Blackgaze
• Post-metal

1. Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone
2. Mørklagt
3. Abeyance
4. Worlds Collide
5. Severance
6. L'appel du vide

Firepower

Judas Priest

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 9 March 2018

• Heavy metal

1. Firepower
2. Lightning Strike
3. Evil Never Dies
4. Never the Heroes
5. Necromancer
6. Children of the Sun
7. Guardians
8. Rising from Ruins
9. Flame Thrower
10. Spectre
11. Traitors Gate
12. No Surrender
13. Lone Wolf
14. Sea of Red

Resonant Sun

Earth Ship

• Label: Pelagic
• Released: 5 October 2018

• Sludge metal
• Stoner metal

1. A Handful of Flies
2. Smoke Filled Sky
3. Barren
4. Resonant Sun
5. Dormant
6. Whiplash
7. Crimson Eyes
8. River of Salt

Civilisation

Southern Empire

• Label: Giant Electric Pea
• Released: 20 July 2018

• Progressive rock

1. Goliath's Moon
2. Cries for the Lonely
3. Crossroads
4. Innocence & Fortune

Rainier Fog

Alice in Chains

• Label: BMG
• Released: 24 August 2018

• Alternative metal
• Doom metal

1. The One You Know
2. Rainier Fog
3. Red Giant
4. Fly
5. Drone
6. Deaf Ears Blind Eyes
7. Maybe
8. So Far Under
9. Never Fade
10. All I Am

Geometria

Thy Catafalque

• Label: Season of Mist
• Released: 4 May 2018

• Avant-garde metal
• Progressive electronic

1. Hajnali csillag
2. Szamojéd freskó
3. Töltés
4. Gőte
5. Sárember
6. Hajó
7. Lágyrész
8. Sík
9. Balra a nap
10. Tenger, tenger
11. Ének a búzamezőkről

Survive Sunrise

ASG

• Label: Relapse Records
• Released: 15 June 2018

• Stoner rock

1. Survive Sunrise
2. Execution Thirst
3. Up from My Dreams
4. Lightning Song
5. Hawks on the Run
6. The Heaven Moon
7. Kubrick Colors
8. God Knows Me
9. Heavy Scars
10. Weekend Money
11. Lamb Song
12. Florida Sleep on

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mewithoutYou

• Label: Run for Cover / Big Scary Monsters
• Released: 5 October 2018

• Avant-garde rock
• Post-hardcore

1. 9:27a.m., 7/29
2. Julia (or, 'Holy to the LORD' on the Bells of Horses)
3. Another Head for Hydra
4. [doormouse sighs]
5. Winter Solstice
6. Flee, Thou Matadors!
7. Tortoises, All the Way down
8. 2,459 miles
9. Wendy & Betsy
10. New Wine, New Skins
11. Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore
12. Break on Through (to the Other side) [pt. Two]

Vacuum

Entropia

• Label: Arachnophobia
• Released: 28 September 2018

• Post-metal
• Atmospheric sludge metal

1. Poison
2. Wisdom
3. Astral
4. Vacuum
5. Hollow
6. Endure

Gateways

The Vintage Caravan

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 31 August 2018

• Hard rock
• Blues rock

1. Set Your Sights
2. The Way
3. Reflections
4. On the Run
5. All This Time
6. Hidden Streams
7. Reset
8. Nebula
9. Farewell
10. Tune out
11. The Chain

Cleave

Therapy?

• Label: Marshall
• Released: 21 September 2018

• Alternative metal
• Punk rock

1. Wreck It Like Beckett
2. Kakistocracy
3. Callow
4. Expelled
5. Success? Success Is Survival
6. Save Me form the Ordinary
7. Crutch
8. I Stand Alone
9. Dumbdown
10. No Sunshine

... As We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye

Chapel of Disease

• Label: Ván
• Released: 23 November 2018

• Death 'n' roll
• Death metal

1. Void of Words
2. Oblivious — Obnoxious — Defiaant
3. Song of the Gods
4. Null
5. 1,000 Different Paths
6. The Sound of Shallow Grey

Reverence

Parkway Drive

• Label: Epitaph
• Released: 4 May 2018

• Heavy metal
• Metalcore

1. Wishing Wells
2. Prey
3. Absolute Power
4. Cemetery Bloom
5. The Void
6. I Hope You Rot
7. Shadow Boxing
8. In Blood
9. Chronos
10. The Colour of Leaving

Book of Bad Decisions

Clutch

• Label: Weathermaker Music
• Released: 7 September 2018

• Blues rock
• Hard rock

1. Gimme the Keys
2. Spirit of '76
3. Book of Bad Decisions
4. How to Shake Hands
5. In Walks Barbarella
6. Vision Quest
7. Weird Times
8. Emily Dickinson
9. Sonic Counselor
10. A Good Fire
11. Ghoul Wrangler
12. H.B. Is in Control
13. Hot Bottom Feeder
14. Paper & Strife
15. Lorelei

I'll Be Your Girl

The Decemberists

• Label: Capitol
• Released: 16 March 2018

• Folk rock
• Synth-pop

1. Once in My Life
2. Cutting Stone
3. Severed
4. Stairwatcher
5. Tripping Along
6. Your Ghost
7. Everything Is Awful
8. Sucker's Prayer
9. We All Die Young
10. Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes
11. I'll Be Your Girl

Eat the Elephant

A Perfect Circle

• Label: BMG
• Released: 20 April 2018

• Progressive rock
• Avant-garde rock

1. Eat the Elephant
2. Disillusioned
3. The Contrarian
4. The Doomed
5. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
6. TalkTalk
7. By and down the River
8. Delicious
9. DLB
10. Hourglass
11. Feathers
12. Get the Lead out

Prequelle

Ghost

• Label: Loma Vista
• Released: 1 June 2018

• Hard rock
• Doom metal

1. Ashes
2. Rats
3. Faith
4. See the Light
5. Miasma
6. Dance Macabre
7. Pro Memoria
8. Witch Image
9. Helvetesfönster
10. Life Eternal