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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2018.
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | The Algorithm | Compiler Optimization Techniques [550] |
| Arsis | Visitant [551] | |
| Audiotopsy | The Real Now [552] | |
| Cancer | Shadow Gripped [553] | |
| Farmer Boys | Born Again [554] | |
| Hank von Hell | Egomania [555] | |
| Hollywood Undead | Psalms (EP) [556] | |
| The Ocean | Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic [557] | |
| Opeth | Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater (live album) [558] | |
| Sick of It All | Wake the Sleeping Dragon! [559] | |
| Silent Planet | When the End Began [560] | |
| Tenacious D | Post-Apocalypto [561] | |
| 9 | All That Remains | Victim of the New Disease [562] |
| Architects | Holy Hell [563] | |
| Ashes of Ares | Well of Souls [564] | |
| August Burns Red | Winter Wilderness (EP) [565] | |
| Cripple Bastards | La Fine Cresce Da Dentro [566] | |
| Cult Leader | A Patient Man [567] | |
| David Reece | Resilient Heart [568] | |
| Einherjer | Norrøne Spor [569] | |
| Evoken | Hypnagogia [570] | |
| Lacuna Coil | The 119 Show – Live in London (live album) [571] | |
| Psycroptic | As the Kingdom Drowns [572] | |
| Stephen Pearcy | View to a Thrill [573] | |
| 16 | All Hail the Yeti | Highway Crosses [574] |
| Amon Amarth | The Pursuit of Vikings: 25 Years in the Eye of the Storm (live album) [575] | |
| Artillery | The Face of Fear [576] | |
| Memphis May Fire | Broken [577] | |
| Nita Strauss | Controlled Chaos [578] | |
| P.O.D. | Circles [579] | |
| Sigh | Heir to Despair [580] | |
| 17 | Opera IX | The Gospel [581] |
| 23 | Cattle Decapitation | Medium Rarities (compilation album) [582] |
| Conception | My Dark Symphony (EP) [583] | |
| Death Ray Vision | Negative Mental Attitude [584] | |
| Electric Boys | The Ghost Ward Diaries [585] | |
| In the Woods... | Cease the Day [586] | |
| Sinbreed | IV [587] | |
| Sodom | Partisan (EP) [588] | |
| Unearth | Extinction(s) [589] | |
| 30 | Chrome Division | One Last Ride [590] |
| Emigrate | A Million Degrees [591] | |
| Nachtmystium | Resilient (EP) [592] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Lovebites | Clockwork Immortality [593] |
| 7 | Alcatrazz | Parole Denied – Tokyo 2017 (live album) [594] |
| Apocalyptica | Plays Metallica by Four Cellos – A Live Performance (live album) [595] | |
| Carnifex | Bury Me in Blasphemy (EP) [596] | |
| Dark Moor | Origins [597] | |
| Graf Orlock | Examination of Violent Cinema, Volume 1 [598] | |
| Haken | L+1VE (EP) [599] | |
| Jason Becker | Triumphant Hearts [600] | |
| Metal Church | Damned If You Do [601] | |
| Myrkur | Juniper (EP) [602] | |
| Steelheart | Rock'n Milan (live album) [603] | |
| 14 | Venom | Storm the Gates [604] |
| Volbeat | Let's Boogie! Live from Telia Parken (live album) [605] | |
| 17 | Lionize | Cyber Attackers (EP) [606] |
| 21 | Blood Feast | Chopped, Sliced and Diced (EP) [607] |
| Jon Schaffer's Purgatory | Purgatory (EP) [608] |