Compiled by Jason Ritchie

2019

January

1st
FATES WARNING ‘Awaken the Guardian Live’

4th
LEGION OF THE DAMNED ‘Slaves of the Shadow Realm’ Napalm Records

11th
BRING ME THE HORIZON ‘Amo’
SOILWORK ‘The Arrival Of Verkligheten’ Nuclear Blast
TAKING BACK SUNDAY ‘Twenty’
DAMIAN WILSON & ADAM WAKEMAN ‘Stripped’

18th
ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE ‘Get It Out’ Megaforce
CARMINE APPICE ‘Guitar Zeus’ (re-issue)
ARCHER NATION ‘Beneath The Dream’ EMP
DUST BOLT ‘Trapped In Fire’ Napalm Records
FEVER 333 ‘Strength In Numb333rs’ Roadrunner Records
FUN LOVIN’ CRIMINALS ‘Another Mimosa’
MICHAEL HARRIS ‘Orchestrate II: Rage and Restraint’ Lion Music
STEPHEN DALE PETIT ’2020 Visions’
JOE JACKSON ‘Fool’
MAGNUM ‘Live at the Symphony Hall’ SPV/Steamhammer
PAPA ROACH ‘Who Do You Trust?’ Eleven Seven Music
RAVEN ‘Screaming Murder Death From Above: Live In Aalborg’ Steamhammer/SPV
SLIM CHANCE ‘New Cross Road’ Fishpool Records
SWITCHFOOT ‘Native Tongue’
THE THREE TREMORS (features TIM ‘Ripper’ OWENS) AFM Records
THUNDER ‘Please Remain Seated’ BMG (previously released songs redone)

21st
THE GODFATHERS ‘This Is War! – The Godfathers Live!’

25th
ALTARAGE ‘The Approaching Roar’ Season Of Mist
BUZZCOCKS (re-issues)
COME TASTE THE BAND AOR Heaven
CORRODED ‘Bitter’
THE DANDY WARHOLS ‘Why You So Crazy’
EVERGREY ‘The Atlantic’ AFM Records
GATHERING OF KINGS ‘First Mission’ (features members of H.E.A.T. Masterplan, Eclipse)
GIN ANNIE ’100% Proof’
STEVE HACKETT ‘At The Edge Of Light’ Inside Out
HEART ‘Live in Atlantic City’ earMUSIC
TOBY HITCHCOCK (PRIDE OF LIONS) ‘Reckoning’ Frontiers
INGLORIOUS ‘Ride To Nowhere’ Frontiers
JETBOY ‘Born To Fly’ Frontiers
JOHN KILZER ‘Scars’
KING DIAMOND ‘Songs For The Dead Live’ (CD/DVD) Metal Blade Records
LOST CROWN ‘Every Night Something Happens’ Bad Elephat Records
MATT MITCHELL & THE COLDHEARTS
MONO ‘Nowhere Now Here’
NEAL MORSE BAND ‘The Great Adventure’ Radiant Records/Metal Blade
QUIET RIOT ‘One Night in Milan’ (CD/DVD) Frontiers
RIVAL SONS ‘Feral Roots’
KANE ROBERTS ‘The New Normal’ Frontiers (inc. ALICE COPPER & KIP WINGER)
SKUNK ANANSIE ’25LIVE@25′
STARBREAKER ‘Dysphoria’ Frontiers
SWALLOW THE SUN ‘When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light’ Century Media Records
WALTER TROUT ‘Survivor Blues’ Provogue/Mascot
VIANNA ‘Forever Free’ Escape Music
ED WYNNE (OZRIC TENTACLES) ‘Shimmer Into Nature’ KScope

30th
TERRA NOVA ‘Raise Your Vocie’ MelodicRock Records
TOTO ’40 Tours Around The Sun’ (DVD, Blu-Ray, 2CD – Japan only)

February

1st
DEEVER ‘You Need This’
GUIDED BY VOICES ‘Zeppelin Over China’ (double album)
TREVOR HORN ‘Reimagines: The Eighties (feat. The Sarm Orchestra)
KILLER BEE ‘Remember The Times’
METALLICA ‘elping hands… Live & Acoustic at The Masonic’
TOM PETTY ‘The Best Of Evrything’
QUANTUM PIG ‘Songs Of Industry And Sunshine’ White Star Record
SOEN ‘Lotus’ Silver Lining Music
WHITE LIES ‘Five’
WILLIE & THE BANDITS ‘Paths’
WITHIN TEMPTATION ‘Resist’ Spinefram Records

8th
BEAST IN BLACK ‘From Hell With Love’ Nuclear Blast
BLOOD RED SAINTS ‘Pulse’ AOR Heaven
MICHAEL BOLTON ‘A Symphony of Hits’ eOne Music
BUSTED ‘Half Way There’
John Diva & The Rockets Of Love ‘Mama Said Rock Is Dead’ Steamhammer/SPV
MIKAEL ERLANDSSON ‘Capricorn Six’ AOR Heaven
HERMAN FRANK ‘Fight The Fear’ AFM Records
HUMBLE PIE ‘Joint Effort’
THE LEMONHEADS ‘Varshions 2′
MERCURY REV ‘Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweetie Revisited’
MORANO ‘Incognito’ MelodicRock Records
BOB MOULD ‘Sunshine Rock’ Merge Records
THE QUIREBOYS ‘Amazing Disgrace’
Robin Trower ‘The Studio Albums 1973-1983′ (10 disc set)
ROSY VISTA ‘Unbelievable’ SPV/Steamhammer
JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR ‘Reckless Heart’ Silvertone/Sony Music

15th
AVANTASIA ‘Moonglow’ Nuclear Blast
BABY ANIMALS ‘Greatest Hits’ (inc. 3 new songs)
BODY COUNT ‘Carnivore’
ELIZA CARTHY ‘Restitute’
ELECTRIC MARY ‘Mother’
EMERALD SABBATH ‘Ninth Star’ Plastic Head Distribution
FOREIGNER ‘The Greatest Hits of Foreigner Live in Concert’
AVRIL LAVINGE ‘Head Above Water’ BMG
LONG RYDERS ‘Psychedelic Country Soul’
MILLENCOLIN ‘SOS’ Epitaph
FERNANDO PERDOMO ‘Out To Sea 2′
RAIN OR SHINE ‘The Darkest Part Of me’ Perris Records
Tedeschi Trucks Band ‘Signs’
NICHOLAS WALDO ‘Vital Elements’ Lion Music

22nd
CANDLEMASS ‘The Door To Doom’ Napalm Records
The Claypool Lennon Delirium ‘South Of Reality’ ATO Records
DEAD WITCHES ‘The Final Exorcism’ Heavy Psych Sounds
DELAIN ‘Hunter’s Moon’ Napalm Records
DEMON HEAD ‘Hellfire Ocean Void’
DREAM THEATER ‘Distance Over Time’ Inside Out
FIND ME ‘Angels In Blue’ Frontiers
FM ‘The Italian Job’ (live CD/DVD) Frontiers
GRIM REAPER ‘At The Gates’
JOSEPH HAYDN ‘Reworks’ Lion Music
IMPERIA ‘Flames of Eternity’ Massacre Records
RON KEEL BAND ‘Fight Like A Band’ EMP Records
KING CRIMSON ‘King Crimson 1972-74′ (box set)
LAST IN LINE ‘II’ Frontiers
MAXIMO PARK ‘As Long As We Keep Moving’ (DVD/CD)
JOJM MAYALL ‘Nobody Told Me’
O.R.k ‘Ramagehead’ KScope
OVERKILL ‘The Wings Of War’ Nuclear Blast
PRETTY MAIDS ‘A Blast From The Past’ Frontiers (12CD box set)
REO Speedwagon ‘Classic Years 1978-1990′ (nine-disc set)
RHAPSODY OF FIRE ‘The Eight Mountains’ AFM Records
ROCK GODDESS ‘This Time’
SPIRITS OF FIRE (features TIM ‘Ripper’ OWENS & CHRIS CAFFERY) S/T Frontiers
TORA TORA ‘Bastards Of Beale’ Frontiers
TUG OF WAR ‘Soulfire’ Escape Music
PHIL VINCENT ,Hypocrite’ Rock Company Records
VISION OF ATLANTIS ‘The Deep and the Dark Live’ Napalm Records
WEST BOUND ‘Vol. 1′ Frontiers

March

1st
BRYAN ADAMS ‘Shine A Light’ Universal
BACKYARD BABIES ‘Silver & Gold’ Century Media
BLAZE BAYLEY ‘Live In France’
TIM BOWNESS ‘Flowers At The Scene’ inside Out
IAN BROWN ‘Ripples’
CATS IN SPACE ‘Daytrip To Narnia’
Collective Soul ‘Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid’ (re-issue)
DARKWATER ‘Human’ Ulterium Records
DEMON HUNTER ‘War’, ‘Peace’
DEVICIOUS ‘Reflections’ Metropolis Records
DIEKLUTE ‘Planet Fear’ Cleopatra Records
GANG OF FOUR ‘Happy Now’
HORIZONS EDGE ‘Let The Show Go On’ Fastball Music
IN FLAMES ‘I, The Mask’ Nuclear Blast
Ron Keel Band ‘Fight Like A Band’ EMP Outlaw Records
LEVERET ‘Diversions’
TARA LYNCH ‘Evil Enough’ Cargo Records (inc. Vinnie Appice, Tony MacAlpine & Mark Boals)
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard ‘Yn Ol I Annwn’
QUEENSRYCHE ‘The Verdict’ Century Media
SISTERS OF SUFFOCATION ‘Humans Are Broken’ Napalm Records
STATEMENT ‘Force Of Life’ Mighty Music
MIKE TRAMP ‘Stray From The Flock’ Mighty Music
WEEZER ‘The Black Album’ Atlantic

8th
AT THE SUN S/T
BUCKCHERRY ‘Warpaint’ Century Media
CHILDREN OF BODOM ‘Hexed’ Nuclear Blast
JARROD DICKENSON ‘Under A Texas Sky’ (EP)
DORO ‘Backstage To Heaven’ Nuclear Blast
PATTY GRIFFIN S/T
IRON SAVIOR ‘Kill Or Get Killed’ AFM Records
MORANO ‘Incognito’ (features TYKETTO & FIREHOUSE members)
GLENN SHORROCK ‘Glenn Shorrock Sings Little River Band’ Social Family Records
TEMPLE BALL ‘Untamed’
TESLA ‘Shock’ UMC
TÝR ‘Hel’ Metal Blade Records
Townes Van Zandt ‘Sky Blue’
PAUL WELLER ‘Other Aspects – Live At The Royal Festival Hall’ Parlophone Records
WHITESNAKE ‘Slide It In’ (6CD/DVD box set) Rhino
WHITESNAKE ‘Slide It In’ (2CD/2LP re-issue) Rhino
ZEBRAHEAD ‘Brain Invaders’

15th
DAVE BICKLER (ex-SURVIVOR) ‘Darklight’
COMA ROSSI Progressive Gears
DEAF HAVANA ‘Deaf Havana Live at Brixton Academy’
ETERNAL ODYSSEY ‘Awakwning’ EMP Label Group
FALLUJAH ‘Undying Light’ Nuclear Blast
FOREIGNER ‘Live In ’78′ (DVD/Blu-Ray) Eagle Vision
GARY HOEY ‘Neon Highway Blues’ Provogue Records
MICHAEL JESSEN ‘Bulletproof’ MelodicRock Records
Louise Lemon ‘A Broken Heart Is An Open Heart’
MARTIE PETERS GROUP ‘Unfinished Business’ MelodicRock Records
(Francis) Rossi/(Hannah) Rickard ‘We Talk Too Much’ earMUSIC

22nd
APPEARANCE OF NOTHING ‘In Times Of Darkness’ Escape Music
BATTLE BEAST ‘No More Hollywood Endings’ Nuclear Blast
BURNING RAIN ‘Face The Music’ Frontiers
CELLAR DARLING ‘The Spell’ Nuclear Blast
THE END MACHINE S/T Frontiers (features George Lynch, Jeff Pilson, Mick Brown, & Robert Mason)
FROZEN CROWN ‘Crowned In Frost’ Scarlet Records
HAREM SCAREM ‘The Ultimate Collection’ (box set) Frontiers
IRON MAIDEN Powerslave, Somewhere In Time (standard/collectors), Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, No Prayer For The Dying (re-issues) EMI
LA GUNS ‘The Devil You Know’ Frontiers
LAMBCHOP ‘This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You)’
MANSUN ‘Six’ (re-issue) KScope
MEGADETH ‘Warheads On Foreheads’ (best of)
MOTLEY CRUE ‘The Dirt – Soundtrack’
THE MUTE GODS ‘Atheists and Believers’ Inside Out
Peter H. Nilsson ‘Little American Dream’ AOR Heaven
KEITH RICHARDS ‘Talk Is Cheap’ (expanded deluxe-edition box set)
ROULETTE ‘Now’ Black Lodge Records
RPWL ‘Tales From Outer Space’ Gentle Art Of Music
SLEEPER ‘The Modern Age’
TNT ‘Encore – Live In Milan’ Frontiers
TOTO ’40 Tours Around The Sun’ (2CD, DVD,Blu-Ray) Eagle Rock
THE TREATMENT ‘Power Crazy’ Frontiers
TRISHULA ‘Scared To Breathe’ AOR Heaven
ROBIN TROWER ‘Coming Closer To The Day’ Mascot/Provogue
BONNIE TYLER ‘Between The Earth And The Stars’ earMUSIC/Edel
UNDER FIRE (re-issue) Cherry Red Records
WARRIOR featuring Vinnie Vincent (2CD re-issue)

27th
KAATO ‘Slam!’

29th
ANTHEM ‘Nucleas’ Nuclear Blast
STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES ‘Guy’
FOREVER STILL ‘Breathe In Colours’ Nuclear Blast
PETER HAMMILL ‘Not Yet, Not Now’ (live box set)
I PREVAIL ‘Trauma’ Fearless Records
JOURNEY ‘Escape & Frontiers Live in Japan 2017′ Eagle Rock Entertainment
LANCE KING ‘ReProgram’
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN ‘Blue Lightning’ Mascot
A NEW REVENGE ‘Enemies & Lovers’ Golden Robot Records (features TIM ‘Ripper’ OWENS & RUDY SARZO)
STEVIE NICKS ‘Stand Back’ Rhino
SUZI QUATRO ‘No Control’ SPV/Steamhammer
RAGE OF LIGHT ‘Imploder’ Napalm Records
SERGEANT STEEL ‘Best Of’
7HY ‘No Going Back’ Lion’s Pride Music
DEVIN TOWNSEND ‘Empath’ Inside Out
WHITECHAPEL ‘The Valley’ Metal Blade Records

31st
JON ANDERSON ’1,000 Hands’

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