Waves in Autumn, Burning Season EP (Independent): According to a press release, the Italian heavy rockers “deploy a vivid and heart-rendering brand of modern heavy on their new album, a mission statement to nurture both the environment and an atmosphere within the music industry where collaboration thrive[s].”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bruce Dickinson, The Mandrake Project (BMG): The Iron Maiden frontman releases his first solo album in 21 years. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ministry, HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES (Nuclear Blast): LouderSound called the industrial pioneers’ 16th studio album “boisterous and ballsy, covering dirty politics, climate change, corporate bullies, media misogyny and much more.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kaiser Chiefs, Kaiser Chiefs’ Easy Eighth Album (Polydor): The UK stadium rockers go for a funk pop-meets-indie rock sound on their latest album, inspired by their work with Nile Rodgers. Clash Music said of the work, “the band have torn up the rule book and returned with a groove-laden and fresh sound that in most parts soars.”

 

 

 

 

Liam Gallagher & John Squire, Liam Gallagher John Squire (Warner)

Mannequin Pussy, I Got Heaven (Epitaph)

Pissed Jeans, Half Divorced (Sub Pop)

Sheer Mag, Playing Favorites (Third Man)

Uranium Club, Infants Under the Bulb (Iron Lung)

Another Sky, Beach Day (Republic Records (N. America)/Fiction (World))

The Bevis Frond, Focus on Nature (Fire)

Big Big Train, The Likes of Us (InsideOut)

Firewind, Stand United (AFM)

Jade Dust, Grey Skies (Extinction Burst/Ebullition)

Hands of Goro, Hands of Goro (BSP Records)

New Years Day, Half Black Heart (Century Media)

Zakk Sabbath, Doomed and Forever Doomed (Magnetic Eye)

Beyrevra, Echoes: Vanished Lore Of Fire (Trollzorn)

Blind Channel, Exit Emotions (Century Media)

Clouds Taste Satanic, 79 A.E. (Majestic Mountain)

Defocus, There Is A Place For Me On Earth (Arising Empire)

Devastator, Conjurers Of Cruelty (Listenable)

Suicidal Angels, Profane Prayer (Nuclear Blast)

Suldusk, Anthesis (Napalm)

Surgical Strike, 24/7 Hate (Metalville)

Tigers On Opium, Psychodrama (Heavy Psych Sounds)

T.S.O.L., A-Side Graffiti (Kitten Robot)

Volcandra, The Way Of Ancients (Prosthetic)

Edgeflame, In Vaulted Halls Entombed (Wrath Vault)

Nachtfalter, Abschied (Independent)

Messiah, Christus Hypercubus (High Roller Records)

Haunt, Dreamers (Independent)

Saturnalia Temple, Paradigm Call (Listenable Records)

Anthares, After the War (M & O Music)

Northern Genocide, The Point of No Return (Inverse Records)

David Reece, Baptized by Fire (El Puerto Records)

Opera Magna, Heroica (On Fire Records)

Uzlaga, Depthdweller (Intertidal Recordings)

The Black Hounds, All Kingdoms Fall (Independent)

Profane Burial, My Plateau (Independent)

InnerSphere, In the Shadows of the Sun (Smile Music)

Shallow Waters, All Colours Blur to One (Meuse Music Records)

We Follow the Earth, Extinct (Independent)

Celestial Sword, Nocturnal Divinity (Death Prayer Records)

Beenkerver, De rode weduwe (Vendetta Records)

Angmodnes, Rot of the Soul (Tragedy Productions)

Vorus, Desolate Eternities (Loud Rage Music)

A Somber Funeral, Summertime Sorrow (Silent Watcher Records)

Etoile Filante, Mare Tranquillitatis (Northern Silence Productions)

Pestilential Shadows, Devil’s Hammer (Northern Silence Productions)

Nadir, Standing at the Cosmic Horizon (Independent)