Compiled by Jason Ritchie

January – March 2019
July – September 2019

April

5th

ANIMAL DRIVE ‘Back To The Roots’ (covers EP) Frontiers

BAD NEWS ’32nd Anniversary Box Set’

BRANT BJORK ‘Jacoozzi’ Heavy Psych Sounds Records

DAVID BOWIE ‘Spying Through The Keyhole’ (box set)

Datura4 ‘Blessed is the Boogie’ Alive Naturalsound Records

EXUMER ‘Hostile Defiance’ Metal Blade Records

DON FELDER ‘American Rock ‘N’ Roll’ BMG (inc. guests Slash, Joe Satriani & Sammy Hagar)

MIKE & THE MECHANICS ‘Out Of The Blue’ (re-recordings + 3 new songs)

99 CRIMES S/T Perris Records

PERIPHERY ‘Periphery IV: HAIL STAN’ 3DOT Recordings/Roadrunner

THE QUIREBOYS ‘Amazing Disgrace’ Off Yer Rocka

Todd Rundgren’s Utopia ‘Live at the Chicago Theatre’

SKOLD ‘Never Is Now’ Cleopatra Records

THE SQUARES S/t (Joe Satriani’s first band) Strange Beautiful Music

SWORN ENEMY ‘Gamechanger’

TYKETTO ‘We’ve Got Tomorrow, We’ve Got Tonight’ (CD/DVD) Frontiers

12th

COSMOGRAF ‘Mind Over Depth’

THE ELECTRIC BOYS ‘Gone Gone Gone’ (EP)

Melissa Etheridge ‘The Medicine Show’

THE FLAMING LIPS ‘King’s Mouth’

GLEN HANSARD ‘This Wild Willing’

BRUCE HORNSBY ‘Absolute Zero’

KESTON COBBLERS CLUB ‘Siren’

KNIGHT’S REIGN (re-issue) Tribunal Records

LASTWORLD ‘Time’ (Jim Shepherd/David Cagle) MelodicRock Records

MESSANO (re-issue) Tribunal Records

Graham Parker ‘Squeezing Out Sparks: Solo Acoustic 40th Anniversary’

Simon Phillips ‘Protocol’ (6CD box set) Phantom Recordings

13th

JEFF TYWEEDY (WILCO) ‘Warmer’ dBpm Records (limited edition vinyl)

19th

RYAN ADAMS ‘Big Colours’

Allegaeon ‘Apoptosis’ Metal Blade Records

THE FALLEN STATE ‘A Deadset Endeavour’

FRACTAL UNIVERSE ‘Rhizomes of Insanity’ Metal Blade Records

GRAND MAGUS ‘Wolf God’ Nuclear Blast

HELLOWEEN ‘Keeper Of The Seven Keys: The Legacy’,‘Gambling With The Devil’ (re-issues) Nuclear Blast

LEGION ‘Rising’ The Rock Company

STEVIE NICKS ‘Stand Back: 1981-2017′ (3CD) Rhino

THE ROLLING STONES ‘Hon’ (3CD compilation)

JORDAN RUDESS (DREAM THEATER)‘Wired For Madness’ Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group

SISTER SHOTGUN ‘Fragments’ Pavement Entertainment

SHOTGUN SAWYER ‘Bury The Hatchet’ Ripple Music

SNOWY WHITE AND THE WHITE FLAMES ‘The Situation’

26th

ASTRAL DOORS ‘Worship Or Die’

Baker Gurvitz Army ‘Since Beginning: 1974-76′ (3CD box set)

Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso ‘Transiberiana’ Inside Out

BE-BOP DELUXE ‘Futurama’ (2CD re-issue) Cherry Red

BB MAK TBA Pledge Music

J.J. CALE ‘Stay Around’

CATFISH & THE BOTTLEMEN ‘The Balance’

ROB COTTINGHAM (CAIRO) ‘Back Behind The Orchard Tree’ (digitak only; physical release late 2019)

CRANBERRIES ‘In The End’

DANKO JONES ‘A Rock Supreme’ Rise Above Records

THE DAMNED THINGS ‘High Crimes’ Nuclear Blast

ENFORCER ‘Zenith’ Nuclear Blast

FAIR WARNING ‘Two Nights To Remember’

CRAIG FINN (THE HOLD STEADY) ‘I Need A New War’ Partisan Records

FORTUNE ’2′ Frontiers

GYPSY ROSE ‘Reloaded’ ScandiRock Records

HARDLINE ‘Life’ Frontiers

LEVERAGE ‘Determunis’ Frontiers

NILS LOFGREN ‘Blue With Lou’

LONERIDER ‘Attitude’ Escape Music

LONELY ROBOT ‘Under Stars’ Inside Out

PUNK MEADOWS (ANGEL) ‘Fallen Angel’ (re-issue)

MICHAEL THOMPSON BAND ‘Love & Beyond’ Frontiers

MIKE MACHINE ‘Alive’ AOR Heaven

CORMAC NEESON (THE ANSWER) ‘White Feather’

ALAN PARSONS PROJECT ‘The Secret’ Frontiers

JIM PETERIK’S WORLD STAGE ‘Winds Of Change’ Frontiers

P!NK ‘Hurts 2B Human’ RCA Records

EDDI READER ‘Stralight’ (EP) Reveal Records

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA ‘Mettavolution’ ATO Records

DAVID A SAYLOR ‘Kiss Of Judas II’ AorBlvd Records

RICK SPRINGFIELD ‘Orchestrating My Life’ August Day Recordings

STEEL PROPHET ‘The God Machine’ ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records

Kiefer Sutherland ‘Reckless & Me’ BMG

TANK ‘Re-Ignition’ Cleopatra Records

TEN ‘Opera Mmnia (The complete works)’ Frontiers

ROB THOMAS (MATCHBOX 20) ‘Chip Tooth Smile’ Atlantic Records

THOR ‘Hammer Of Justice’

TOTAL STRANGER S/T Lions Pride Music

Van Der Graaf Generator ‘Aerosol Grey Machine: 50th Anniversary Edition’

29th

Rough Rockers ‘Smoke And Mirrors’ (EP) RVPrecords

May

1st

HUIS ‘Abandoned’ Unicorn Digital

PHIL ‘SWILL’ ODGERS (THE MEN THEY COULDN’T HANG) ‘Uke Town – Double Demo Album’

3rd

AMON AMARTH ‘Berserker’ Metal Blade Records

BAD RELIGION ‘Age of Unreason’ Epitaph Records

Jonathan Cain (JOURNEY) ‘More Like Jesus’ The Fuel Music

COREY HEART ‘Dreaming Time’ (EP)

Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes ‘End Of Suffering’

L7 ‘Scatter the Rats’ Blackheart Records

LAMB OF GOD ‘Ashes Of The Wake – 15th Anniversary Edition’ (double vinyl)

MYRATH ‘Shehili’ earMusic

MIKE OLDFIELD ‘The Killing Fields’ (box set)

PHENOMENA ‘Anthology’ Cherry Red Records

PHIL X & THE DRILLS (BON JOVI guitarist) ‘Stupid Good Looking’

Pete Seeger ‘The Smithsonian Folkways Collection’ (6CD set)

Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul ‘Summer Of Sorcery’ Wicked Cool/UMe

THE WILDHEARTS ‘Renaissance Men’

4th

THE ENGINE ABOVE ‘Savage Fingers’ (EP)

9th

LARS ERIC MATTSSON ‘Into The Unknown’ Lion Music

10th

Abnormality ‘Sociopathic Constructs’ Metal Blade Records

ARCH/MATHEOS ‘Winter Ethereal’ Metal Blade Records

THE BRINK ‘Nowhere To Run’ Frontiers

JASMINE CAIN ‘Brave’

CANONBALLZ ‘8Ballz2Many’ MelodicRock Recurds

GASOLINE OUTLAWS ‘Light Up The World’

GONG ‘The Universe Also Collapses’ Kscope

SAMMY HAGAR & THE CIRCLE ‘Space Between’ (features SAMMY HAGAR, JASON BONHAM, VIC JOHNSON & MICHAEL ANTHONY) BMG

Howard Jones ‘Transform’

Paul McCartney ‘Egypt Station: Traveller’s Edition’

PORT NOIR ‘The New Routine’ Inside Out

POSSESSED ‘Revelatons Of Oblivion’ Nuclear Blast

WANG CHUNG ‘Orchesography’

WHITESNAKE ‘Flesh And Blood’ Frontiers & Rhino/Atlantic

DANNY WARSNOP (ASKING ALEXANDRIA) ‘Shades of Blue’ Sumerian Records

Per Wiberg ‘Head Without Eyes’ Despotz Records

17th

AMULET ‘The Inevitable War’ Dissonance Productions

AVATAR ‘The King Live In Paris’ Entertainment One (eOne)

BIG BIG TRAIN ‘Grand Tour’

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY ‘Sonic Brew: 20th Anniversary Blend 5.99 – 5.19′ eOne Music

THE BRINK ‘Nowehere To Run’ Frontiers

CRAZY LIXX ‘Forever Wild’ Frontiers

DOGFACE ‘From the End to the Beginning’ Scandirock Records

FIRST SIGNAL ‘Line of Fire’ Frontiers

FLOATING WORLDS ‘Battleship Oceania’ Pride & Joy Music

JAMIE FREEMAN ‘Dreams About Falling’

PAUL GILBERT ‘Behold Electric Guitar’ Music Theories Records

KATATONIA ‘Night Is The New Day’ Peaceville Records

Carole King ‘Live at Montreux 1973′

RONNIE LANE ‘Just For A Moment 1973-1997′ (box set) Universal Music

LOUDNESS ‘Live In Tokyo’ (2CD/DVD) earMusic

Nick Lowe ‘Love Starvation/Trombone’

PAIUL McCARTNEY ‘Egypt Station – Explorer’s Edition’ (expanded double LP edition)

MORANO ‘Icognito’

THE NATIONAL ‘I am Easy To Find’

OCTOBER TIDE ‘In Splendor Below’ Agonia Records

TONY PALMER & TANGERINE DREAM ‘Coventry Cathedral Live 1975′ (box set)

RAMMSTEIN S/T

RESTLESS SPIRITS S/T Frontiers

SAINT VITUS S/T Season Of Mist

Savage Messiah ‘Demons’ Century Media Records

TRAFFIC ‘The Studio Albums 1967-1974′ (box set)

Jimmie Vaughan ‘Baby, Please Come Home’

WARRIOR SOUL ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Disease’

23rd

THE TRUTH ‘Keep On Keeping Up’ (EP)

24th

ALLIANCE ‘Fire And Grace’ Escape Music

Black Oak Arkansas ‘Underdog Heroes’ Purple Pyramid Records

REBECCA DOWNES ‘More Sinner Than Saint’

DIAMOND HEAD ‘The Coffin Train’ Silver Lining Music

Steve Miller Band ‘Complete Albums Volume 2: 1977-2011′ (18 LP box set)

My Dying Bride ‘A Harvest Of Dread’ (book & rarities box set) Peaceville

PINL FAIRIES ‘The Polydor Years’ Retroworld (box set)

RAMMSTEIN ‘Rammstein’

SOTO ‘Origami’ Inside Out

STING ‘My Songs’ Polydor

StormHammer ‘Seven Seals’ Massacre Records

THE STRAY CATS ’40′

TANITH ‘In Another Time’ Metal Blade Records

TOTO ‘All In’ (13 CD box set)

THE WATERBOYS ‘Where The Action Is’ Cooking Vinyl

X-Romance ‘Voices From The Past’ AOR Heaven

27th

BATON ROUGE ‘Shake Your Soul’ (re-issue) Rock Candy

30th

MANOWAR ‘The Final Battle I’ (EP)

31st

ASH ’94-’04 (limited edition 7″ singles box set) BMG/Echo/Infectious Records

BAI BANG ‘Best Of 4′ Lions Pride Music

JIMMY BARNES ‘My Criminal Record’ Bloodlines

D-A-D ‘Prayer for the Loud’ AFM Records

DARKTHRONE ‘Oldstar’ Peaceville

DEATH ANGEL ‘Humanicide’ Nuclear Blast

ELP ‘Emerson, Lake & Palmer: The Anthology (1970-1998)’ (4LP box set) BMG

Janet Gardner (ex-VIXEN) ‘Your Place In The Sun’ Pavement Entertainment

GLORYHAMMER ‘Legends From Beyond The Galactic Terrorvortex’ Napalm Records

HELIX ‘Old School’ Perris Records

FRANK IERO AND THE FUTURE VIOLENTS ‘Barriers’

JOANovARC S/T

KING HOBO ‘Mauga’

DUFF McKAGAN ‘Tenderness’

KING CRIMSON ‘Heaven And Earth’ (1990-2008 box set)

NTH ASCENSION ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ Metatronic Records

Robert Randolph and the Family Band ‘Brighter Days’ Provogue/Mascot Label Group

ROYAL REPUBLIC ‘Club Majesty’ Nuclear Blast

Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band ‘The Traveler’ Concord Records

SLADE ‘Feel The Noize – The Singlez Box’ BMG

TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION ‘High In The Saddle’ eOne

TOXPAK ‘Kämpfer’ Napalm Records

VADER ‘Thy Messenger’ (EP) Nuclear Blast

VARIOUS ‘Melodic Rock Records: Left Off the First 99′ Melodic Rock Records

VENOM ‘In Nomine Satanas’ BMG Records

June

7th

BOB DYLAN ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings’ (14CD box set)

ENTHRONED ‘Cold Black Suns’ Seasons Of Mist

Perry Farrell (JANE’S ADDICTION) ‘Kind Heaven’ BMG

Firespawn ‘Abominate’ Century Media Records

PETER FRAMPTON ‘All Blues’

GENESIS ‘Seconds Out’ Virgin/UMC (half-speed mastered reissue)

HOLLIS BROWN ‘Ozone Park’ Cool Green Recordings

MAJESTICA ‘Above The Sky’ Nuclear Blast

MONTANKA S/T Napalm Records

MOTIONLESS IN WHITE ‘Disguise’ Roadrunner Records

AXEL RUDI PELL ‘XXX Anniversary Live’ SPV/Steamhammer

PETER PERRETT ‘Humanworld’ Domino

PINK FLOYD ‘The Division Bell’ (25th anniversary translucent blue vinyl)

THE RODS ‘Brotherhood Of Metal’ Steamhammer/SPV

THE ROLLING STONES ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Circus’ (expanded re-issue)

RUSH ‘Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland’ (4LP)

SANTANA ‘Africa Speaks’ Concord Music

SAVOY BROWN ‘City Night’ Quatro Valley Records

SCHON & HAMMER ‘Untold Passion’, ‘Here To Stay’ (re-issues) BGO Records

TANZWUT ‘Seemannsgarn’ AFM Records

DANNY VAUGHN (TYKETTO) ‘Myths, Legends & Lies’ Townsend Records

Donnie Vie (ex-ENUFF Z’NUFF) ‘Beautiful Things’ Deko Music

VULTURE ‘Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves’ Metal Blade Records

WARRIOR SOUL ‘Rock n’ Roll Disease’ Livewire/Cargo

WHEELS OF FIRE ‘Begin Aagin’

XENTRIX ‘Bury The Pain’ Listenable Records

14th

BARONESS ‘Gold & Grey’ Abraxan Hymns Records

BONFIRE ‘Live On Holy Ground – Wacken 2018′ Pride & Joy Music

CHAOS MAGIC featuring CATERINA NIX ‘Furyborn’ Frontiers

Roger Daltrey ‘The Who’s Tommy Orchestral’

DORJA ‘Gemini’ Absolute Label Services

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds ‘Black Star Dancing’ (EP)

HATE ‘Auric Gates of Veles’ Metal Blade Records

JONES ‘Carver’s Law’

JORN ‘Live On Death Road’ Frontiers

KARO ‘Heavy Birthday I & II’

Carole King ‘Live at Montreux 1973′

Dave Matthews Band ‘Rhino’s Choice’

MERGING FLARE ‘Revolt Regime’ Ram It Down Records

MINDKEY ‘Aliens In Wonderland’ Frontiers

NEAL MORSE ‘Jesus Christ – The Exorcist’ (2CD/3LP) Frontiers

NEBULA S/t Heavy Psych Sound

Chris Robinson Brotherhood ‘Servants of the Sun’ Silver Arrow Records

SANDNESS ‘Untamed’ Rockshots Records

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ‘Western Stars’

SWEET OBLIVION featuring GEOFF TATE S/t Frontiers

TANGERINE DREAM ‘In Search Of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979′ (box set) Universal

Timo Tolkki’s Avalon ‘Return To Eden’ Frontiers

21st

AMERICAN TEARS ‘White Flags’ Escape Music

DEF LEPPARD ‘Volume Two’ (10LP/CD box set) UME/Virgin

Drivin N Cryin ‘Live the Love Beautiful’

HEADLINE MANIACS ‘The Chronicles of Dr. Leddfoot’ 3MS Music

(HED) P.E. ‘Stampede’ Pavement Entertainment

HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES ‘Rise’ earMUSIC

Memoriam ‘Requiem For Mankind’ Nuclear Blast

Mercury Rising ‘Paradise For A Troubled Mind’ (EP)

TONY MILLS ‘Beyond the Law’ Battlegod Productions

MOONLIGHT HAZE ‘De Rerum Natura’

ROB MORATTI ‘Renaissance’ AOR Heaven

WILLIE NELSON ‘Ride Me Back Home’

NITRATE ‘Open Wide’ AOR Heaven

PRINCE ‘Originals’ (demos)

THE RACONTEURS ‘Help Us Strangers’ Third Man Records

The Rolling Stones ‘Bridges To Bremen’ (DVD, Blu-ray, digital, DVD/2CD, Blu-ray/2CD, triple vinyl) Eagle Rock

Chris Shiflett (FOO FIGHTERS) ‘Hard Lessons’

Teramaze ‘Are We Soldiers’ Mascot Label Group

This Winter Machine ‘A Tower Of Clocks’ F2 Music

TRAVIS ‘Live At Glastonbury ’99′ & ‘The Man Who’ (20th anniversary re-issue)

24th

STEELEYE SPAN ‘EST’D 1969′

28th

THE ALARM ‘∑ (Sigma)’

The Allman Betts Band ‘Down To The River’

The B-52’s ‘Cosmic Thing’ (30th anniversary expanded edition)

THE BLACK KEYS ‘Let’s Rock’

Bloodred Hourglass ‘Godsend’ Out On Line Music

Bloody Hammers ‘The Summoning’ Napalm Records

COLLECTIVE SOUL ‘Blood’

THE DOOBIE BROTHERS ‘Live From the Beacon Theatre’

FAHRAN ‘Vapours’

FICTION SYXX ‘The Alternate Me’ MelodicRock Records

Generation Axe (Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Zakk Wylde, Nuno Bettencourt) ‘The Guitars That Destroyed the World (Live in China)’

THE GIFT ‘Antenna’ Bad Elephant

Gov’t Mule ‘Bring On The Music – Live at The Capitol Theatre’ Provogue/Mascot Label Group

MAGMA ‘Zëss’ Seventh Records

MAJESTY ‘Legends’ Napalm Records

HANK MARVIN ‘Gold’ (3CD/2LP)

REALITY SUITE ‘Awaken’ Lions Pride Music

TURILLI/LIONE RHAPSODY ‘Zero Gravity (Rebirth And Evolution)’ Nuclear Blast

TBA

IRON MAIDEN Dance Of Death, A Matter Of Life And Death (standard/collectors), The Final Frontier, The Book Of Souls (re-issues) EMI

January – March 2019
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Power Plays w/c 9 December 2024

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Featured Albums w/c 9 December 2024

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