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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2023.
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | Ahab | The Coral Tombs [87] |
| Beyond the Black | Beyond the Black [88] | |
| Eisregen | Grenzgänger [89] | |
| Obituary | Dying of Everything [90] | |
| Turmion Kätilöt | Omen X [91] | |
| VV | Neon Noir [92] | |
| 20 | Atrocity | Okkult III [93] |
| Dark Princess | Phoenix [94] | |
| Imperium Dekadenz | Into Sorrow Evermore [95] | |
| Katatonia | Sky Void of Stars [96] | |
| Riverside | ID.Entity [97] | |
| Sabaton | Heroes of the Great War (EP) [98] | |
| Twilight Force | At the Heart of Wintervale [99] | |
| 27 | ...And Oceans | As in Gardens, So in Tombs [100] |
| Ablaze My Sorrow | The Loss of All Hope (EP) [101] | |
| Ronnie Romero | Raised on Heavy Radio (covers album) [102] | |
| Steve Vai | Vai/Gash [103] | |
| Uriah Heep | Chaos & Colour [104] | |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | All Out War | Celestial Rot [105] |
| Korn | Requiem Mass (EP) [106] | |
| Memoriam | Rise to Power [107] | |
| Russkaja | Turbo Polka Party [108] | |
| Victor Smolski | Guitar Force [109] | |
| Xandria | The Wonders Still Awaiting [110] | |
| 10 | Aphyxion | Ad Astra [111] |
| Delain | Dark Waters [112] | |
| Dream Theater | Distance Over Time Demos (2018) (compilation album) [113] | |
| In Flames | Foregone [114] | |
| Narrow Head | Moments of Clarity [115] | |
| Pierce the Veil | The Jaws of Life [116] | |
| Wig Wam | Out of the Dark [117] | |
| 17 | Avatar | Dance Devil Dance [118] |
| Bridear | Aegis of London... Live! (live album) [119] | |
| Clint Lowery | Ghostwriter (EP) [120] | |
| Code Orange | What Is Really Underneath? (remix album) [121] | |
| Hellripper | Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags [122] | |
| Jason Bieler | Postcards from the Asylum [123] | |
| Man Must Die | The Pain Behind It All [124] | |
| Oceanhoarse | Heads Will Roll [125] | |
| Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs | Land of Sleeper [126] | |
| Robin McAuley | Alive [127] | |
| See You Next Tuesday | Distractions [128] | |
| Skinflint | Hate Spell [129] | |
| 22 | Lovebites | Judgement Day [130] |
| 24 | Azaghal | Alttarimme on Luista Tehty [131] |
| Dope | Blood Money, Part Zer0 [132] | |
| Godsmack | Lighting Up the Sky [133] | |
| Hammerhedd | Nonetheless [134] | |
| Hed PE | 70's Hits from the Pit (covers album) [135] | |
| Heidevolk | Werdekeer [136] | |
| Hypno5e | Sheol [137] | |
| Insomnium | Anno 1696 [138] | |
| Kauan | ATM Revised [139] | |
| Märvel | Double Decade (compilation album) [140] | |
| Necrovation | Storm the Void/Starving Grave (EP) [141] | |
| Steel Panther | On the Prowl [142] | |
| Venomous Concept | The Good Ship Lollipop [143] | |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Angel Vivaldi | Away with Words, Pt. 2 (EP) [215] |
| Cultura Tres | Camino de Brujos [216] | |
| Kiss | Off the Soundboard: Poughkeepsie, New York, 1984 (live album) [217] | |
| Paul Gilbert | The Dio Album (covers album) [218] | |
| Powerwolf | Interludium [219] | |
| Rise of the Northstar | Showdown [220] | |
| Tribulation | Hamartia (EP) [221] | |
| 14 | Atreyu | The Hope of a Spark (EP) [222] |
| Dødheimsgard | Black Medium Current [223] | |
| Holy Moses | Invisible Queen [224] | |
| Infected Rain | The Devil's Dozen (live album) [225] | |
| Jesus Piece | ...So Unknown [226] | |
| L.A. Guns | Black Diamonds [227] | |
| Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall | Hunt the Flame [228] | |
| Metallica | 72 Seasons [229] | |
| Mike Tramp | Songs of White Lion (covers album) [230] | |
| Overkill | Scorched [231] | |
| 20 | Portrayal of Guilt | Devil Music [232] |
| 21 | The 69 Eyes | Death of Darkness [233] |
| Angus McSix | Angus McSix and the Sword of Power [234] | |
| Anthem | Crimson & Jet Black [235] | |
| As Everything Unfolds | Ultraviolet [236] | |
| Axel Rudi Pell | The Ballads VI (compilation album) [237] | |
| Bell Witch | Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate [238] | |
| Dorthia Cottrell | Death Folk Country [239] | |
| Enter Shikari | A Kiss for the Whole World [240] | |
| Liv Kristine | River of Diamonds [241] | |
| Magnus Rosén Band | It's Time to Rock the World Again [242] | |
| Texas Hippie Coalition | The Name Lives On [243] | |
| 28 | Cradle of Filth | Trouble and Their Double Lives (live album) [244] |
| Crown the Empire | Dogma [245] | |
| Disciple | Skeleton Psalms [246] | |
| Elvenking | Reader of the Runes – Rapture [247] | |
| Graveworm | Killing Innocence [248] | |
| Iced Earth | Hellrider/I Walk Among You (EP) [249] | |
| IGNEA | Dreams of Lands Unseen [250] | |
| Majesty | Back to Attack [251] | |
| Necronomicon | Constant to Death [252] | |
| Runemagick | Beyond the Cenotaph of Mankind [253] | |
| Smoulder | Violent Creed of Vengeance [254] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 1476 | In Exile [337] |
| Bangalore Choir | Center Mass [338] | |
| Better Lovers | God Made Me an Animal (EP) [339] | |
| Blackbraid | Blackbraid II [340] | |
| Blaze Bayley | Damaged Strange Different and Live (live album) [341] | |
| Bloodbound | Tales from the North [342] | |
| Butcher Babies | Eye for an Eye... / ...'Til the World's Blind [343] | |
| Fen | Monuments to Absence [344] | |
| Nita Strauss | The Call of the Void [345] | |
| The Raven Age | Blood Omen [346] | |
| Will Haven | VII [347] | |
| 14 | Edge of Paradise | Hologram [348] |
| Eleine | We Shall Remain [349] | |
| Evile | The Unknown [350] | |
| Fallstar | Sacred Mirrors [351] | |
| Freedom Call | The M.E.T.A.L. Fest (live album) [352] | |
| Kim Dracula | A Gradual Decline in Morale [353] | |
| Vendetta | Black as Coal [354] | |
| Voyager | Fearless in Love [355] | |
| 21 | Akercocke | Decades of Devil Worship (live album) [356] |
| Cadaver | The Age of the Offended [357] | |
| Soil | Restoration (compilation album) [358] | |
| Voivod | Morgöth Tales [359] | |
| The Zenith Passage | Datalysium [360] | |
| 26 | Hanabie. | Reborn Superstar! [361] |
| 28 | Contrarian | Demos & Oddities: 1995–1999 (compilation album) [362] |
| From Ashes to New | Blackout [363] | |
| Girlschool | WTFortyfive? [364] | |
| Mutoid Man | Mutants [365] | |
| Panzerchrist | Last of a Kind [366] | |
| Sevendust | Truth Killer [367] | |
| Signs of the Swarm | Amongst the Low & Empty [368] | |
| Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats | Slaughter on First Avenue (live album) [369] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Carnifex | Necromanteum [458] |
| Heavy Load | Riders of the Ancient Storm [459] | |
| Heretoir | Nightsphere [460] | |
| Iron Savior | Firestar [461] | |
| October Tide | The Cancer Pledge [462] | |
| Of Mice & Men | Tether [463] | |
| Prong | State of Emergency [464] | |
| Svalbard | The Weight of the Mask [465] | |
| 13 | Amorphis | Queen of Time (Live at Tavastia 2021) (live album) [466] |
| Beartooth | The Surface [467] | |
| Krieg | Ruiner [468] | |
| Laster | Andermans Mijne [469] | |
| On Thorns I Lay | On Thorns I Lay [470] | |
| Oni | The Silver Line [471] | |
| Ronnie Atkins | Trinity [472] | |
| Sulphur Aeon | Seven Crowns and Seven Seals [473] | |
| Sven Gali | Bombs and Battlescars [474] | |
| Theocracy | Mosaic [475] | |
| Varg | Ewige Wacht [476] | |
| 20 | The Amenta | Plague of Locus (EP) [477] |
| Angelus Apatrida | Aftermath [478] | |
| Bloodred Hourglass | How's the Heart? [479] | |
| The Callous Daoboys | God Smiles Upon the Callous Daoboys (EP) [480] | |
| Cirith Ungol | Dark Parade [481] | |
| Dog Eat Dog | Free Radicals [482] | |
| Lynch Mob | Babylon [483] | |
| Myrkur | Spine [484] | |
| Night Ranger | 40 Years and a Night with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra (live album) [485] | |
| Temperance | Hermitage – Daruma's Eyes Pt. 2 [486] | |
| Within Temptation | Bleed Out [487] | |
| 27 | Autopsy | Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts [488] |
| Dokken | Heaven Comes Down [489] | |
| Doro | Conqueress Forever Strong and Proud [490] | |
| End | The Sin of Human Frailty [491] | |
| Icarus Witch | No Devil Lived On [492] | |
| In This Moment | Godmode [493] | |
| King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | The Silver Cord [494] | |
| Mark Tremonti | Christmas Classics New & Old (covers album) [495] | |
| Obscura | A Celebration I – Live in North America (live album) [496] | |
| Of Virtue | Omen [497] | |
| Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs | Live in New York (live album) [498] | |
| Poppy | Zig [499] | |
| Sorcerer | Reign of the Reaper [500] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Angra | Cycles of Pain [501] |
| Atreyu | A Torch in the Dark (EP) [502] | |
| Bad Wolves | Die About It [503] | |
| Dying Wish | Symptoms of Survival [504] | |
| Green Lung | This Heathen Land [505] | |
| Insomnium | Songs of the Dusk (EP) [506] | |
| Kontrust | Madworld [507] | |
| Mortuary Drape | Black Mirror [508] | |
| Serenity | Nemesis AD [509] | |
| Silent Planet | Superbloom [510] | |
| Spiritbox | The Fear of Fear (EP) [511] | |
| Suffocation | Hymns from the Apocrypha [512] | |
| Watain | Die in Fire – Live in Hell (Agony and Ecstasy Over Stockholm) (live album) [513] | |
| 8 | Nemophila | The Initial Impulse (EP) [514] |
| 10 | Diviner | Avaton [515] |
| Gama Bomb | Bats [516] | |
| Helmet | Left [517] | |
| Hinayana | Shatter and Fall [518] | |
| Secret Sphere | Blackened Heartbeat [519] | |
| Sodom | 1982 (EP) [520] | |
| Tarja | Dark Christmas (cover album) [521] | |
| Vastum | Inward to Gethsemane [522] | |
| 11 | Mike Mangini | Invisible Signs [523] |
| 17 | Aeternus | Philosopher [524] |
| Celeste | Epilogue(s) (EP) [525] | |
| Corroded | Plague [526] | |
| DGM | Life [527] | |
| Eldritch | Innervoid [528] | |
| Lacey Sturm | Kenotic Metanoia [529] | |
| Nonpoint | Heartless (EP) [530] | |
| Racetraitor | Creation and the Timeless Order of Things [531] | |
| Sadus | The Shadow Inside [532] | |
| Texas in July | Without Reason (EP) [533] | |
| 20 | Impending Doom | Last Days (EP) [534] |
| 24 | Bernie Marsden | Working Man [535] |
| Cruciamentum | Obsidian Refractions [536] | |
| 29 | Panopticon | The Rime of Memory [537] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Demoncy | Black Star Gnosis [538] |
| Extortionist | Devoid (EP) [539] | |
| Ghost | 13 Commandments (compilation album) [540] | |
| Omega Diatribe | Deviant [541] | |
| Paradise Lost | Icon 30 [542] | |
| Visions of Atlantis | A Pirate's Symphony [543] | |
| 4 | Xibalba | Aztlán (EP) [544] |
| 8 | Atreyu | The Beautiful Dark of Life [545] |
| Dimmu Borgir | Inspiratio Profanus (covers album) [546] | |
| Ektomorf | Vivid Black [547] | |
| Judicator | I Am the Void (EP) [548] | |
| Polkadot Cadaver | Echoes Across the Hellscape [549] | |
| Porcupine Tree | Closure/Continuation.Live (live album) [550] | |
| Trick or Treat | A Creepy Night Live (live album) [551] | |
| 15 | Children of Bodom | A Chapter Called Children of Bodom (The Final Show in Helsinki Ice Hall 2019) (live album) [552] |
| Evergrey | From Dark Discoveries to Heartless Portraits (compilation album) [553] | |
| Hed PE | Detox [554] | |
| Rob Arnold | Menace [555] | |
| Therion | Leviathan III [556] | |
| Troll | Trolldom [557] | |
| 26 | Die Apokalyptischen Reiter | Die Mutter des Teufels (EP) [558] |
| 29 | Lord of the Lost | Weapons of Mass Seduction (covers album) [559] |