Compiled by Jason Ritchie

July

1st

DOMINATION BLACK ‘Judgement IV’ Pride & Joy Music

THE QUIREBOYS ‘A Bit Of What You Fancy’ (re-recorded debut album)

3rd

WEATHER REPORT ‘Live In London’ Angel Air/Store For Music

6th

ABEL GANZ ‘The Life Of The Honey Bee, And Other Moments Of Clarity’ Abel Records

9th

THE OUTFIELD ‘Demos & Rare Tracks’

10th

BLOODY HEELS ‘Ignite The Sky’ Frontiers

THE CHARLATANS ‘Between 10th and 11th: Expanded Edition’

THE DEAD DAISIES ‘The Lockdown Sessions’ (digital only EP) SPV/Steamhammer

ENSIFERUM ‘Thalassic’ Metal Blade Records

ENUFF Z NUFF ‘Brainwashed Generation’ Frontiers

MICHAEL GRANT & THE ASSASSINS ‘Always The Villain’ Frontiers

THE GRATEFUL DEAD ‘Workingman’s Dead’ (50th anniversary re-issue)

THE JAYHAWKS ‘XOXO’

Kiko Loureiro (MEGADETH) ‘Open Source’

SHINNING BLACK S/T Frontiers (features Mark Boals)

SKERRYVORE ‘Live Across Scotland’

MARK SPIRO (box set of unreleased songs) Frontiers (9CD box set)

STATIC-X ‘Project Regeneration Vol. 1′

TOKYO MOTOR FIST ‘Lions’ Frontiers

VOYAGER ‘Ghost Mile’ (2017 album issued in vinyl) Seasons Of Mist

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT ‘Unfollow The Rules’

17th

BUSH ‘The Kingdom’ BMG

DAMN YANKEES ‘Don’t Tread’ Rock Candy

DARK SARAH ‘Grim’ Napalm Records

DIXIE CHICKS ‘Gaslighter’

Jet Jaguar ‘Endless Nights’ Pride & Joy Music

KANSAS ‘The Absence of Presence’ Inside Out

Toby and the Whole Truth ‘Ignorance Is Bliss’ Jepsongs Recordings

LONELY ROBOT ‘Feelings Are Good’ Inside Out

MACHINE GUN KELLY ‘Tickets to My Downfall’

MASSIVE WAGONS ‘House Of Noise’ Earache Records

JOHN NORUM ‘Another Destination’, ‘Face The Truth’, ‘Total Control’ Rock Candy

ONLY CHILD S/T Rock Candy

PINNACLE POINT ‘Symphony Of Mind’ Escape Music

SABU ‘Heartbreak’ Rock Candy

THE STOOGES ‘Funhouse’ (50th anniversary edition box set) Rhino

U.D.O. ‘We Are One’ AFM Records

24th

SHIRLEY COLLINS ‘Heart’s Ease’ Dominio

ESP ‘Phenomena’

ANDREW GOLD ‘Andrew Gold: Lonely Boy – The Asylum Years Anthology’ (6CD/1DVD Remastered Box Set) Cherry Red Records

MORSE, PORTNOY, GEORGE ‘Cover To Cover Anthology (Vol. 1 – 3)’ Inside Out

PRIMAL FEAR ‘Metal Commando’ Nuclear Blast

26th

OUTLASTED ‘Waiting For Daybreak’ MelodicRock Records

31st

ALCATRAZZ ‘Born Innocent’

JON ANDERSON ’1,000 Hands’ Blue Élan Records

JOE BOUCHARD (Ex-BOC) ‘Strange Legends’

DAMNATION ANGELS ‘Fibre Of Our Being’

FONTAINES D.C. ‘ A Hero’s Death’ Partisan

STEVE HOWE (YES) ‘Love Is’ BMG Records

IQ ‘A Show Of Resistance’ (live album)

KINGMAKER ‘Everything Changed 1991-1995′ (5CD Boxset) Cherry Red Records

LIONHEART ‘Reality Of Miracles’ Metalville Recordings

ALI MAAS AND MICKY MOODY ‘Who’s Directing Your Movie?’

PAUL McARTNEY ‘Flaming Pie’ (re-issue) MPL/Capitol/UMe

THE PSYCHADELIC FURS ‘Made Of Rain’ Cooking Vinyl (postponed from May 1)

DEE SNIDER ‘For The Love Of Metal Live’ Napalm Records

STORMZONE ‘Ignite The Machine’ Metalapolis Records

GEOFF TYSON ‘Drinks With Infinity’

WARKINGS ‘Revenge’ Napalm Records

THE ZOMBIES ‘The Zombies’, ‘I Love You’, ‘R.I.P.’ (vinyl re-issues)

August

1st

HELIX ‘Eat Sleep Rock’ (best of)

7th

ARTIC RAIN ‘The One’ Frontiers

AVATAR ‘Hunter Gatherer’ eOne

BLACK ROSE MAZE S/T Frontiers

BLUE OYSTER CULT ’45th Anniversary – Live In London’ Frontiers

Mary Chapin Carpenter ‘The Dirt And The Stars’

COLLECTIVE SOUL S/T (25th annivesary re-issue)

DEEP PURPLE ‘Whoosh!’ earMUSIC (postponed from June)

DUKES OF ORIENT ‘Freak Show’ Frontiers

Fates Warning ‘The Spectre Within’, ‘No Exit’, ‘Inside Out’ (vinyl re-issues) Metal Blade Records

FORTUNE ‘The Gun’s Still Smokin’ – Live’ Frontiers

JANET GARDNER (ex-VIXEN) & JUSTIN JAMES ‘Synergy’

LIONVILLE ‘Magic Is Alive’ Frontiers

COREY MARKS ‘Who I Am’

ONSLAUGHT ‘Generation Antichrist’ AFM Records

RAMOS ‘My Many Sides’ Frontiers

THE STOOGES ‘Live At Goose Lake: August 8th 1970′ Third Man Records (vinyl only)

THAT JOE PAYNE ‘By Name. By Nature.’

14th

HANNAH ALDRIDGE ”Live in Black and White’ Icons Creating Evil Art

JON ANDERSON ’1,000 Hands’ (CD/vinyl release)

BIFFY CLYRO ‘A Celebration Of Endings’ (postponed from May)

JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD ‘Even In Exile’

HALESTORM ‘Halestorm: Reimagined’ (EP)

Bruce Hornsby ‘Non-Secure Connection’

Lynne Jackaman (Saint Jude) ‘One Shot’

HALESTORM ‘Reimagined’ (EP)

KAMELOT ‘I Am The Empire – Live From The 013′ Napalm Records

ROBBIE KRIEGER ‘The Ritual Begins At Sundown’ The Players Club (postponed from May)

THE LEVELLERS ‘Peace’ On The Fiddle Recordings

SEASON OF DREAMS ‘My Shelter’ Pride & Joy Music

SIMON SAYS ‘Spin This’ Escape Music

TERRA ATLANTICA ‘Age Of Steam’ Pride & Joy Music

21st

ANTHRAX ‘Persistance Of Time’ (30th anniversary edition)

BLUES PILLS ‘Holy Moly’ Nuclear Blast

Eno/Cale ‘Wrong Way Up’, Eno/Wobble ‘Spinner’ (re-issues) All Saints Records

ERASURE ‘The Neon’

THE GEORGIA THUNDERBOLTS S/T Mascot Records

JEFFERSON STARSHIP ‘Mother of the Sun’ (EP)

Michael Landau ‘Liquid Quartet Live’ The Players Club/Mascot Label Group

MAD MAX ‘Stormchild Rising’ SPV/Steamhammer

PILOT ‘The Albums Box Set’ Cherry Red Records

THE TANGENT ‘Auto Reconnaissance’ InsideOutMusic

UNLEASH THE ARCHERS ‘Abyss’ Napalm Records

VICIOUS RUMOURS ‘Celebration Day’ SPV/Steamhammer

28th

AMARANTHE Nuclear Blast

AT THE MOVIES ‘The Soundtrack Of Your Life Vol 1′

Barclay James Harvest ‘Barclay James Harvest And Other Short Stories’ (2CD/1DVD Remastered & Expanded Box) Cherry Red Records

TIM BOWNESS ‘Late Night Laments’ InsideOutMusic

MATTY JAMES CASSIDY ‘Old Souls’

DIESEL ‘Sunset Suburbia’

DOKKEN ‘The Lost Songs: 1978-1981′ Silver Lining Music

PETER GABRIEL ‘Plays Live’

HELIX ‘Eat Sleep Rock’ (best of + one new song)

EDDIE JOBSON ‘Eddie Jobson Live’ Globe Music Media

Katrina & The Waves ‘Hearts, Loves & Babys’

THE KILLERS ‘Imploding The Mirage’

LYNCH MOB ‘Wicked Sensation Reimagined’ Rat Pak Records

MERCURY REV ‘All Is A Dream’ (limited edition double coloured vinyl) Cherry Red Records

METALLICA ‘S&M2’

TONY MITCHELL ‘The Church Of A Restless Soul’ AOR Heaven

PAIN OF SALVATION ‘Panther’ Inside Out

John Petrucci (DREAM THEATER) ‘Terminal Velocity’ (with MIKE PORTNOY)

SAVOY BROWN ‘Ain’t Done Yet’ Quarto Valley Records

SEETHER ‘Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum’

SMASH INTO PIECES ‘Arcadia’

STORMBURST ‘Highway To Heaven’ AOR Heaven

TANNA ‘Storm In Paradise’ AOR Heaven

WALTER TROUT ‘Ordinary Madness’ Provogue Records

VANISHING POINT ‘Dead Elysium’ AFM Records

RICK WAKEMAN ‘The Red Planet’

WHITE LION ‘All You Need Is Rock ‘N’ Roll – The Complete Albums Box Set’ Cherry Red Records

Roy Wood & Wizzard ‘Main Street’ Cherry Red Records

WIZZARD ‘Introducing Eddy & The Falcons’ Cherry Red Records

31st

THE WATERBOYS ‘Good Luck, Seeker’ Cooking Vinyl

September

4th

LEE ABRAHAM (GALLAHAD) ‘Harmony/Synchronicity’ F2 Music

ALL THEM WITCHES ‘Nothing As The Ideal’ New West Records

SIMON COLLINS ‘Becoming Human’ Frontiers

Cult Of Lilith ‘Mara’ Metal Blade Records

Rikard Sjöblom’s Gungfly ‘Alone Together’

THE HAWKINS ‘Silence is a Bomb’ The Sign Records

HELL IN THE CLUB ‘Hell Of Fame’ Frontiers

John 5 And The Creatures ‘Live Invasion’ (CD, DVD)

JIM KIRKPATRICK (FM) ‘Ballad of a Prodigal Son’

LANDFALL Frontiers

NEW MOON JELLY ROLL FREEDOM ROCKERS ‘Volume 1′

PERFECT PLAN ‘Ime For A Miracle’ Frontiers

THE PINEAPPLE THIEF ‘The Versions Of Truth’ Kscope

RISING STEEL ‘Fight Them All’ Frontiers

THE ROLLING STONES ‘Goat’s head Soup’ (re-issue)

STRYPER ‘Even The Devil Belives’ Frontiers

THROWING MUSES ‘Sun Racket’

VARIOUS ‘AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex’ (includes ELTON JOHN, U2, JOAN JETT, TODD RUNDREN & more on a double CD)

7th

GALLAHAD ‘Following Ghosts’ (3CD re-issue)

11th

BROKEN TEETH ‘Evil In The Queue’ (live DVD/CD)

RONNIE EARL ‘Rise Up’

THE FLAMING LIPS ‘American Head’

NEAL MORSE ‘Sola Gratia’ Inside Out

MARILYN MANSON ‘We Are Chaos’ Loma Vista Recordings

MASTODON ‘Medium Rarities’

NIGHT ‘High Tides – Distant Skies’ The Sign Records

ROACHFORD ‘Twice A Lifetime’ BMG (postponed from April)

SKILLET ‘Victorious: The Aftermath’

STRAY CATS ‘Rocked This Town: From LA To London’

RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON ‘Hard Luck Stories (1972 to 1982)’ (box set) UMC/Universal

WINTER’S VERGE ‘The Ballad Of James Tig’ Pride & Joy Music

18th

Tasmin Archer ‘Sweet Little Truths (The EMI Years 1992-1996)’ (3CD) Cherry Red Records

BROTHER FIRETRIBE ‘Feel The Burn’ Odyssey Music

FLEETWOOD MAC ‘Then Play On’ BMG (vinyl only)

FLYING COLORS ‘Third Stage: Live In London’ Music Theories Recordings

ACE FREHLEY ‘Origins Vol.2′ (covers album)

GAZPACHO ‘Fireworker’ KScope

HEATHEN ‘Empire Of The Blind’ Nuclear Blast

LASTWORLD ‘Over The Edge’ Perris Records

ALANIS MORISSETTE ‘Such Pretty Forks In The Road’

NAPALM DEATH ‘Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism’ Century Media

Joan Osborne ‘Trouble and Strife’

OVERLAND ‘Scandalous’ Escape Music

PANTERA ‘Reinventing The Steel’ (20th anniversary edition)

RAVEN ‘Metal City’ SPV

SEMISONIC ‘You’re Not Alone’ (EP)

Derek Sherinian ‘The Pheonix’ Inside Out

TRAPEZE (re-issues) Cherry Red Records

TYGERS OF PAN TANG ‘Ambush’ (re-issue) Mighty Music

KEITH URBAN ‘The Speed Of Now Pt 1′

YUSUF (CAT STEVENS) ‘Tea for the Tillerman2′

22nd

FLEET FOXES ‘Shore’

25th

ALPHA WOLF ‘A Quiet Place To Die’ Greyscale Records/Sharptone Records

ATLAS ‘Parallel Love’ AOR Heaven

AYREON ‘Transitus’ Music Theories Recordings

DEFTONES ‘Ohms’

DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH AOR Heaven

DYBLE LANGDON ‘Between A Breath And A Breath’

FISH ‘Weltschmerz’ (his final studio album) 7Hz Productions

PETER GABRIEL ‘Live In Athens 1987′

STEVE HACKETT ‘Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live At Hammersmith’ Inside Out

IDLES ‘Ultra Mono’ Partisan Records

MINDWARS ‘The Fourth Turning’ Dissonance Productions

TIM MORSE ‘The Archaeology Project’ Bandcamp

Bob Mould ‘Blue Hearts’

THE OCEAN ‘Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic/Cenozoica’ Metal Blade Records

OCEAN HILLS ‘Santa Monica’

The Pretty Things ‘Bare As Bone, Bright As Blood’ Madfish Music

PRINCE ‘Sign O’ the Times’ (box set)

LOU REED ‘New York’ (re-issue 3CD + 2LP + DVD box set) Rhino

THE ROLLING STONES ‘Steel Wheels Live – Atlantic City, New Jersey’ Eagle Rock

SLADE ‘‘Cum On Feel The Hitz: The Best of Slade’ BMG

RAY THOMAS (THE MOODY BLUES) ‘Words and Music’ Cherry Red Records

TORCH ‘Reignited’ Metalville Records

TRISHULA ‘Time Waits For No Man’ AOR Heaven

28th

Marenna-Meister S/T Lions Pride Music

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Power Plays w/c 9 December 2024

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