Compiled by Jason Ritchie

2020

January

3rd

BONFIRE ‘A Fistful Of Fire’ AFM Records

STABBING WESTWARD ‘Dead And Gone’ (EP)

4th

Pröwess ‘Blacktop Therapy’

9th

Lars Eric Mattsson’s ASTRAL GROOVE (25th anniversary edition) Lion Music

10th

Apocalyptica ‘Cell-O’ Silver Lining Music

BAD COMPANY ‘Desolation Angels: 40th Anniversary Edition’

BROTHERS OF METAL ‘Emblas Saga’ AFM Records

HAUNT ‘Mind Freeze’ Shadow Kingdom Records

Mystic Prophecy ‘Metal Division’ Rock Of Angels Records

RAGE ‘Wings Of Rage’ SPV/Steamhammer

17th

ANTI-FLAG ’20/20 Vision’ Spinefarm Records

Bleed The Sky ‘This Way Lies Madness’ Art Is War Records

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB ‘Everything Else Has Gone Wrong’

BONDED ‘Rest In Violence’ Century Media Records

BRITISH LION ‘The Burning’

Marshall Crenshaw ‘Miracle of Science’

THE INSPECTOR CLUZO ‘Brothers In Ideals’

Marcus King [Tedeschi Trucks Band] ‘El Dorado’

LEAGUE OF LIGHTS ‘On A Night Like This’

MAGNUM ‘The Sepent Rings’ SPV/Steamhammer

MALLET ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Hereos’ Indie

SONS OF APOLLO ‘MMXX’ Inside Out

THE UNDERTONES ‘West Banks Songs 1978-1983 – A Best Of’

VICTORIUS ‘Space Ninjas From Hell!’ Napalm Records

24th

ANNIHILATOR ‘Ballistic Sadistic’ Silver Lining Music

BLOODY HEELS Frontiers

BLUE OYSTER CULT ‘Hard Rock Casino Cleveland 2014′ (2CD/DVD) Frontiers

BLUE OYSTER CULT ‘Cult C;lassics’ Frontiers (re-issue)

BREAKING BENJAMIN ‘Aurora’ (features current BOSTON vocalist)

PAUL CARRACK ‘Live: 2000-2020 – The Independent Years’ (5CD box set) Carrack UK

DECARLO ‘Lightning Strikes Twice’ Frontiers

PAUL DI’ANNO ‘Hell Over Waltrop – Live In Germany’ Metalville Records

DIRTY SHIRLEY S/T Frontiers (features GEORGE LYNCH & DINO JELUSICK)

ELEGY OF MADNESS ‘Invisble World’ Pride & Glory

John Fogerty ’50 Year Trip: Live at Red Rocks’ (2LP/DVD)

HO.BO ‘A Man With A Gun Lives Here’ Kono Dischi

JORN ‘Heavy Rock Radio Vol.2 – Executing the Classics’ (covers album) Frontiers

KONVENT ‘Puritan Masochism’ Napalm Records

MARVEL ‘Marvelous’ (EP) The Sign Records

NEKTAR ‘The Other Side’ Esoteric Antenna Records

PASSION S/T Frontiers

PET SHOP BOYS ‘Hotspot’

REVOLUTION SAINTS ‘Rise’ Frontiers

SHADOW BREAKER S/T Pride & Glory

STORM FORCE ‘Age Of Fear’ Escape Music

SUPERGRASS ‘Supergrass: The Strange Ones 1994 – 2008′ BMG

TEMPERANCE ‘Viridian’ Napalm Records

Michael Thompson Band ‘High Times – Live In Italy’ Frontiers

Kirk Windstein (CROWBAR) ‘Dream In Motion’ eOne

WIRE ‘Mind Hive’ Pinkflag

Wolfpakk ‘Nature Strikes Back’ Massacre Records

31st

A LIFE DIVIDED ‘Echoes’ AFM Records

AMBERIAN DAWN ‘Looking For You’ Napalm Records

ANCHOR LANE ‘Casino’

ARKADO AOR Heaven

Autumn’s Child S/T AOR Heaven Records

CREAM ‘Goodbye Tour Live 1968′ (4CD box set)

Paul Di’Anno ‘Hell Over Waltrop’

DON DOKKEN ‘Solitary’ Deadline Music

Drive-By Truckers ‘The Unraveling’ ATO Records

EASY ACTION ‘That Makes One’ (re-issue) AOR Heaven

HEATHEN ‘The Evolution of Chaos’ (10th anniversary re-issue)

GLENN HUGHES ‘Justified Man: The Studio Albums 1995-2003′ (6CD box set) Cherry Red

LORDI ‘Killection’ AFM Records

MALONE SIBUN ‘Come Together’

GARY MOORE ‘Live From London’ Mascot Records

BEN POOLE ‘Trio /// Live ‘19′ (double CD)

The Raconteurs ‘Live In Tulsa’

The Ragged Saints ‘Sonic Playground Revisited’ AOR Heaven

TANGERINE DREAM ‘Recurring Dreams’ (reworkings of previously released music) KScope

THEORY OF A DEADMAN ‘Say Nothing’

February

3rd

RICHIE KOTZEN (THE WINERY DOGS, POISON, MR. BIG) ’50 For 50′

7th

Blind Revolution ‘Money, Love, Light’ Rock Of Angels Records

THE CADILLAC THREE ‘Country Fuzz’ Big Machine Records

DELAIN ‘Apocalypse & Chill’

Virgil Donati ‘Ruination’

GODSTICKS ‘Inescapable’ Kscope

GREEN DAY ‘Father Of All…’

HUMANIST Ignition Records

SETH LAKEMAN ‘A Pilgrim’s Tale’

RICHARD MARX ‘Limitless’ BMG (UK release 3 April)

NAPALM DEATH ‘Logic Ravaged By Brute Force’ (EP) Century Media Records

SEPULTURA’Quadra’ Nuclear Blast

Stone Temple Pilots ‘Perdida’

FRANKIE SWAIN ‘September’ (EP)

THOSE DAMN CROWS ‘Point Of No Return’ Earache Records

14th

ANVIL ‘Legal At Last’ AFM Records

ARCHON ANGEL ‘Fallen’ Frontiers (features ZAK STEVENS)

ASH ‘Teenage Wildlife: 25 Years Of Ash’ BMG

BLACK SWAN ‘Shake The World’ (ROBIN McAULEY, JEFF PILSON, REB BEACH, MIKE STARR) Frontiers

Blackwater Conspiracy ‘Two Tails & The Dirty Truth of Love & Revolution’ Bulletproof 20/20 Records

HARDLINE ‘Life Live’ Frontiers

HEAVY PETTIN’ ’4 Play’ (EP)

KREATOR ‘London Apocalypticon – Live At The Roundhouse’ Nuclear Blast

HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS ‘Weather’ BMG

PENDRAGON ‘Love Over Fear’

Psychotic Waltz ‘God Shaped Void’ Inside Out

Marjana Semkina (Iamthemorning) ‘Sleepwalking’ Kscope

SEVEN SPIRES ‘Emerald Seas’ Frontiers

SHARK ISLAND ‘Bloodline’

JAKE SHIMABUKURO ‘Trio’ MUSIC THEORIES RECORDINGS/MASCOT LABEL GROUP

Snake Oil and Harmony ‘Hurricane Riders’ (Dan Reed & Danny Vaughn)

WAITING FOR MONDAY ‘End Of A Dream’ Frontiers

20th

ROBERT HART (ex-BAD COMPANY/DISTANCE) ‘Pure’ Escape Music

21st

THE AMITY AFFLICTION ‘Everyone Loves You…Once You Leave Them’ Pure Noise Records

BIFF BYFORD (SAXON) ‘School Of Hard Knocks’

COLLATERAL S/T Roulette Media Records

Demons & Wizards ‘III’ Century Media Records

DIO Angry Machines, Magica, Killing The Dragon, Master Of The Moon (re-issues with bonus materal) BMG

PETER GREEN ‘The End of the Game: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition’

STEVE HARLEY ‘Uncovered’

H.E.A.T. ‘II’ Gain Music

TAME IMPALA ‘The Slow Rush’ Fiction Records

SONNY LANDRETH ‘Blacktop Run’

Marty And The Bad Punch ‘Walk A Straight Line’

PATR METHENEY ‘From This Place’

VINNIE MOORE (UFO) ‘Soul Shifter’ Mind’s Eye Music/Cargo

OZZY OSBOURNE ‘Ordinary Man’ Epic Records

IAN PARRY ‘In Flagrante Delicto’ Metal Mind Productions

POLARIS ‘The Death Of Me’ SharpTone Records

SECRET RULE ‘Against’ Pride & Joy Music

SILENT TIGER ‘Ready For Attack’ MelodicRock Records

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ’18 Tracks’, ‘Live In New York City, ‘The Rising’, ‘Devils & Dust’, ‘Live In Dublin’ (vinyl re-issues)

SYTERIA ‘Reflection’ Syteria/Cargo

We Sell The Dead ‘Black Sleep’ earMusic

28th

The Allman Brothers Band ‘Trouble No More: 50th Anniversary Collection’ (box set)

AUDREY HORNE ‘Waiting For The Night’ (live album) Napalm Records

CB3 ‘Aeons’

JESSE DAMON ‘Damon’s Rage’ AOR Heaven

THE DOWLING POOLE ‘See You, See Me’

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH ‘F8′

JOHN HOLDEN ‘Rise And Fall’

Intronaut ‘Fluid Existential Inversions’ Metal Blade Records

NILS PATRICK JOHANSSON ‘The Great Conspiracy’ Metalville

LIAR ‘Sunset Plaza Drive’ Escape Music

NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA Nuclear Blast

The Outlaws ‘Dixie Highway’

SHAFT OF STEEL ‘Steel Heartbeat’ AOR Heavem

SHAKARA ‘Mad World’ AFM Records

SLIVERTHORNE (Brian Tichy & Pete Shoulder THE UNION) (EP) Golden Robot Records

THOR ‘Rising’

TOUNDRA ‘Das Cabinet des Dr.Caligari’ Inside Out

WISHBONE ASH ‘Coat Of Arms’ SPV/Steamhammer

ZZ TOP ‘ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas’ (DVD, Blu-Ray) Eagle Rock Entertainment

29th

THE MOOD GROOVE ‘Some Left, Some Stayed’ (inc. JK Northrup & Larry Hart)

March

6th

ALLEN/OLZON ‘Worlds Apart’ Frontiers

Victor Smolski’s ALMANAC ‘Rush Of Death’ Nuclear Blast

AOR ‘The Best of the Westcoast Spirit’

Blue Öyster Cult ’40th Anniversary – Agents Of Fortune – Live 2016′ Frontiers

Blue Öyster Cult ‘Heaven Forbid’ Frontiers (re-issue)

BODY COUNT ‘Carnivore’ Century Media

BURNING WITCHES ‘Dance With The Devil’ Nuclear Blast

CREMATORY ‘Unbroken’ Napalm Records

DEACON BLUE ‘City Of Love’

ELIXIR ‘Voyage Of The Eagle’ Dissonance Productions

RORY GALLAGHER ‘Check Shirt Wizzard – Libe In ’77′ (2CD/3LP) Chess/UMC

GRAND DESIGN ‘V’ GMR Music Group

Harem Scarem ‘Change The World’ Frontiers

KHYMERA ‘Master Of Illusions’ Frontiers

MOLLY KARLOFF ‘Supernaturalation’ (EP)

MY DYING BRIDE ‘The Ghost Of Orion’ Nuclear Blast

The Neal Morse Band ‘The The Great Adventour: Live in Brno 2019′ Inside Out

NOVENA ‘Eleventh Hour’ Frontiers

PETER AND THE TEST TUBE BABIES ‘Fuctifano’ Arising Empire

Romeo’s Daughter ‘Organik’ (EP)

ROSE TATTOO ‘Outlaws’ Cleopatra Records

ROSS THE BOSS ‘Born Of Fire’ AFM Records

10th

TREVOR RABIN ‘Changes’ (10CD box set)

13th

Conny Bloom ‘Game! Set! Bloom!’ Target Music

CLANNAD ‘In A Lifetime’ BMG

DEADRISEN ‘Deadrisen’ AFM Records

GOTTHARD ’13′ Nuclear Blast

SASS JORDAN ‘Rebel Moon Blues’ Stony Plain

KINGS OF DUST S/T Shock Records/Vanity Music Group

David Reece ‘Cacophony Of Souls’ El Puerto Records

THE UNITY ‘Pride Box’ SPV/Steamhammer

VOODOO VEGAS ‘Live In Singapore’

WOLF ‘Feeding The Machine’ Century Media Records

14th

HYSTERIA ‘Rock Police’

18th

Y&T ‘Live Club Citta Kawasaki’

20th

THE DIRTY KNOBS ‘Wreckless Abandon’ (features MIKE CAMPBELL ex-TOM PETTY)

DIZZY MIZZ LIZZY ‘Alter Echo’ Sony Music

Heaven Shall Burn ‘Of Truth And Sacrifice’ Century Media Records

IVANHOE ‘Blood and Gold’ Massacre Records

ADAM LAMBERET ‘Velvet’

Morrissey ‘I Am Not A Dog On A Chain’ Étienne/BMG

Renaissance ‘Turn of the Cards’ (re-issue box set)

Sinister ‘Deformation of the Holy Realm’ Massacre Records

SKY VALLEY MISTRESS ‘Faithless Rituals’

SteelCity ‘March II’ Perris Records

DAVID CLATON THOMAS (BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS) ‘Say Somethin’ Linus Entertainment

27th

THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE ‘Diamonds’ Metropolis Records

RORY BLOCK ‘Prove It On Me’ Stony Plain

GINA ROSE BRUCE ‘Can’t Make You Love Me’ Dot Dash

BUFFALO SUMMER ‘Desolation Blue’ Silver Lining Music

CANDLEMASS ‘The Pendulum’ (EP) Napalm Records

DEPECHE MODE ‘SPiRiTS in the Forest’ (DVD)

BRIAN FALLON ‘Local Honey’

BELLA FLACK ‘Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete Africa Sessions’ Craft Recordings

IGORRR ‘Spirituality And Distortion’ Blade Records

IN THIS MOMENT ‘Mother’ Atlantic Records

INTENSE ‘Songs Of A Broken Future’ Pure Steel Records

IRIST Order Of The Mind’ Nuclear Blast

NEWMAN ‘Worth Dying For’ AOR Heaven

THE ORB ‘Abolition of the Royal Familia’ Cooking Vinyl

The Alan Parsons’ Project ‘Ammonia Avenue’ (BluRay box set) Esoteric Recordings

PEARL JAM ‘Gigaton’ Monkeywrench Records/Republic Records

RATT ‘Ratt: The Atlantic Years 1984-1990′ Cherry Red Records

RIOT ‘Rock world (Rare & Unreleased 87-95)’ Metal Blade Records

Jack Russell´s Great White ‘Once Bitten – Acoustical Bites’

RUSH ‘Permanent Waves’ (re-issue)

SAM SWEENEY ‘Unearth Repeat’ Hudson Records

TESLA ‘Five Man London Jam’

30th

Frank Vestry ‘My Collection’ Lions Pride Music

31st

THE BOOMTOWN RATS ‘Citizens Of Boomtown’

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Power Plays w/c 9 December 2024

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