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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2009.

Reformed bands

• Accept
• Arcturus
• Ark
• Autopsy
• Beneath the Sky
• The Crown
• Decapitated
• Faith No More
• Gorguts
• Saint Vitus (few shows only)
• Steel Attack
• Stigmata
• To/Die/For
• Unanimated
• Year of Desolation

Disbandments

• After Forever
• Angelcorpse
• Animosity
• Battle of Mice
• Burnt by the Sun
• Burst
• Divinity Destroyed
• Embraze
• Falchion
• God Seed
• Gorefest
• Grief
• If He Dies He Dies
• Lock Up
• Lord Belial
• Metal Church
• Nothingface
• The Old Dead Tree
• Opiate for the Masses
• Running Wild
• Subzero
• To/Die/For
• Twilightning
• xDEATHSTARx

Events

• Iron Maiden complete their globe-trotting Somewhere Back in Time World Tour, playing 90 shows in 38 countries.
• Iron Maiden become first heavy metal band to win a Brit Award, winning the Best Live Act at the awards ceremony.
• Former Arsis guitarist Ryan Knight joins The Black Dahlia Murder in late January, replacing John Kempainen, who had left the band in early December 2008.
• Guitarist Doug Weber leaves Terror in January, and is replaced by former No Warning guitarist Jordan Posner.
• Metallica is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 4 April,.
• Cannibal Corpse wins "Greatest Death Metal Song" with "Hammer Smashed Face" in a poll on the Metal Hammer website. Arch Enemy came second with "We Will Rise", Death third with "Crystal Mountain"
• Metallica's 2008 album, Death Magnetic is nominated for four Grammy categories, winning Best Recording Package and Best Metal Performance for "My Apocalypse".
• Finnish metal band Norther parts ways with longtime singer/guitarist Petri Lindroos. Norther has also announced Aleksi Sihvonen (Medicated, ex-Imperanon) as their replacement vocalist.
• Varg Vikernes to be released from prison after 16 years incarcerated for the murder of Øystein Aarseth (aka Euronymous), guitarist of Mayhem and owner of Deathlike Silence Productions record label that Burzum was signed to. Varg was also convicted for setting fire to three churches.
• The Gorgoroth name dispute is concluded with a court verdict recognising Gorgoroth founding member Infernus as the legitimate user of the band name. Contestants Gaahl and King ov Hell form God Seed, but Gaahl retires from metal within a few months and King forms Ov Hell with Shagrath.
• Susperia vocalist Athera suffered a heart attack. He has been diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder and is to undergo a triple heart bypass. On Monday, 16 March 2009 at Rikshospitalet University Hospital in Oslo, Norway, Athera successfully underwent open heart surgery. Surgeons also discovered further problems which resulted in the vocalist also having a main artery – which previously ran to his lungs – connected directly to his heart.
• Dimmu Borgir's Dariusz "Daray" Brzozowski ranked No. 1 drummer in Poland's "Top Drummer" magazine.
• Shadows Fall have announced the formation of their own label in conjunction with Warner Music Group's Independent Label Group and Ferret Music.
• Sonic Syndicate clean vocalist Roland Johansson quits the band.
• Original Arsis drummer Michael VanDyne returns to the band full-time.
• God Forbid has confirmed that rhythm guitarist Dallas Coyle has left the band. They also announced that former Darkest Hour guitarist Kris Norris will be his replacement.
• Sentenced's former lead guitarist Miika Tenkula is found dead on his home; his demise was caused by a heart attack due to a genetic condition. His overall health was presumably worsened by his heavy drinking problem.
• Satyricon bassist Victor Brandt quits the band in April.
• Venom drummer Antton leaves the band to focus on his other musical projects.
• Megadeth and Slayer to co-headline "Canadian Carnage" with Machine Head and Suicide Silence.
• Alexi Laiho from Children of Bodom breaks arm on tour.
• Rigor Mortis guitarist Mike Scaccia to undergo emergency neck surgery. The MRI scan noticed Scaccia has a Cervical Herniated Disc in his lower neck, which could make him paralyzed without immediate surgery.
• Dead to Fall announces farewell show.
• Carpathian Forest guitarist/bassist Tchort leaves the band in May.
• Kataklysm guitarist Jean-Francois Dagenais detained by the FBI. He was arrested and detained for over 5 hours under the presumption of being on the FBI international most wanted list, which he was falsely accused.
• Every Time I Die parts ways with drummer Mike "Ratboy" Novak, who has been with the band for 11 years.
• Deep Purple are issued a fine in Russia for "illegally" playing their own songs in Rostov-on-Don in October 2008.
• Brainstorm sign to AFM Records.
• On 8 July 2009, founding member and original Crimson Glory frontman Midnight died.
• Jørn Lande returns to Masterplan.
• Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine to undergo neck surgery.
• The Bled signs to Rise Records.
• Sonic Syndicate announces new vocalist, Nathan James Biggs.
• ICS Vortex and Mustis leaves Dimmu Borgir.
• Destruction guitarist Mike Sifringer breaks his ring finger in Belgium.
• Former 3 Inches of Blood bassist Brian Redman died on Saturday the 27 September, in a car crash near his home in Tacoma, Washington.
• Evile bassist Mike Alexander fell ill and died at the age of 32 on 5 October, in Luleå, Sweden.
• In a partnership between Earache Records and RapidShare, the Irish thrash metal band Gama Bomb made its [yet unreleased] third studio album, Tales from the Grave in Space, available for free download on 5 November 2009.
• Steven Tyler is laid off from Aerosmith on 14 November 2009. The lay-off was due to multiple facors, being redundancies in the singing-songwriting division, and rising rehab fees that have cost the group millions.
• Mercenary parts ways with drummer Mike Park, vocalist Mikke Sandager and keyboard player Morten Sandager.
• Death and Control Denied's former guitarist Shannon Hamm suffers a heart attack at home on 1 October,.
• Ronnie James Dio is diagnosed with stomach cancer, and is being treated at the Mayo Clinic.
• On 28 December, The Rev, the drummer of Avenged Sevenfold, was found dead at his home in Huntington Beach.

Books

• ECW Press will release a book looking at the work of producer Rick Rubin, entitled Rick Rubin: In the Studio, written by biographer Jake Brown on 11 August,.
• Former Stratovarius member Timo Tolkki is to publish his autobiography, Hymn to Life – Entr'acte on 2 November, through Goldenworks Ltd./Blacksmith Ltd.
• At the End of the Day, a book charting the career of Blaze Bayley is to be released on 25 September,.
• All That Matters, a Metallica biography written by Paul Stenning is to be released in October via Plexus Publishing.
• Led Zeppelin: Good Times, Bad Times: A Visual Biography, a book examining the public and private lives of the members of Led Zeppelin, is to be released on 1 October, via Abrams Publishing.
• Rock photographer Neil Zlozower releases Mötley Crüe: A Visual History, 1983–2005 via Chronicle Books.
• A limited-edition book, Vintage KISS Photos: 1974–1981 compiled by Marc Scallatino, is releaded, charting KISS's early days.
• Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth and Gavin Baddeley are to release The Gospel of Filth, a book exploring the history of the band and more general topics of the dark side of humanity, on 31 October,.
• New book announced on the history of metal titled Louder Than Hell: The Unflinching Oral History Of Metal.
• Rudolf Schenker of the Scorpions will release his autobiography, entitled Rock Your Life in Germany on 14 October,.
• Heavy metal magazine Decibel will release Precious Metal: The Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces in July. The book pays tribute to the 25 most influential extreme metal albums of all time. Some of the albums listed include: Slayer's Reign in Blood, Cannibal Corpse's Tomb of the Mutilated, Converge's Jane Doe and Meshuggah's Destroy Erase Improve.
• All Pens Blazing, a heavy metal writer's handbook containing interviews and a history of heavy metal publications, is released on 16 August,.
• Ozzy Osbourne is to release his autobiography, "I Am Ozzy" on 1 October,.
• Bazillion Points Books are to release Only Death is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost, a book exploring the bands Hellhammer and Celtic Frost written by band members Tom Fischer and Martin Eric Ain, in November 2009.
• Two books came from author Joel McIver, the first called The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists with a foreword by Glen Benton of Deicide and the second titled To Live Is To Die: The Life And Death Of Metallica's Cliff Burton, with a foreword by Kirk Hammett.

Films

On 8 December, Bill Zebub will release Pagan Metal: A Documentary, the first documentary about pagan and folk metal.

Albums released

All releases are studio albums unless otherwise noted.

January

Day	Artist	Album
5	Vreid	Milorg
6	Destroy Destroy Destroy	Battle Sluts
9	Bourbon Crow	Long Way to the Bottom
	Grave Digger	Ballads of a Hangman
	Iron Fire	To the Grave
13	Kreator	Hordes of Chaos
	Saxon	Into the Labyrinth
20	Cattle Decapitation	The Harvest Floor
	Rumpelstiltskin Grinder	Living for Death, Destroying the Rest
23	Sepultura	A-Lex
	Napalm Death	Time Waits for No Slave
	Sirenia	The 13th Floor
	Vision Divine	9 Degrees West of the Moon
26	Architects	Hollow Crown
	Dark Moor	Autumnal
	Ephel Duath	Through My Dog's Eyes
30	Buckethead	Slaughterhouse on the Prairie
	Deathstars	Night Electric Night

February

Day	Artist	Album
3	Cannibal Corpse	Evisceration Plague
	This Ending	Dead Harvest
9	Adagio	Archangels in Black
10	Luna Mortis	The Absence
16	God Forbid	Earthsblood
17	Psyopus	Odd Senses
	Saros	Acrid Plains
	Wolves in the Throne Room	Malevolent Grain (EP)
	Obscura	Cosmogenesis
20	HammerFall	No Sacrifice, No Victory
	Suidakra	Crógacht
23	Autumn	Altitude
	Rotting Christ	Non Serviam — A 20 Year Apocryphal Story (live DVD/CD)
	The Agonist	Lullabies for the Dormant Mind
	Wolf	Ravenous
24	Absu	Absu
	August Burns Red	Lost Messengers: The Outtakes (EP)
	Lamb of God	Wrath
25	Impellitteri	Wicked Maiden
27	Arch Enemy	Manifesto of Arch Enemy (compilation)
	The Burning	Rewakening
	Isole	Silent Ruins
	Lunatica	New Shores
	Malefice	Dawn of Reprisal
	The Sorrow	Origin of the Storm

March

Day	Artist	Album
2	Solitude Aeturnus	Hour of Despair
3	Buried Inside	Spoils of Failure
6	Nightwish	Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places) (live CD/DVD)
	Samael	Above
9	The Haunted	Warning Shots (compilation)
10	Dope	No Regrets
	The Number Twelve Looks Like You	Worse Than Alone
	Yngwie Malmsteen	Angels of Love
11	Dark The Suns	All Ends in Silence
13	Domain	The Chronicles of Love, Hate and Sorrow
15	Thanatos	Justified Genocide
16	Pestilence	Resurrection Macabre
17	Believer	Gabriel
	Kylesa	Static Tensions
	Static-X	Cult of Static
20	Agathodaimon	Phoenix
	Black Messiah	First War of the World
	Ektomorf	What Doesn't Kill Me...
	Delain	April Rain
23	My Dying Bride	For Lies I Sire
	Revolution Renaissance	Age of Aquarius
24	Mastodon	Crack the Skye
25	Fairyland	Score to a New Beginning
	Raven	Walk Through Fire
27	Candlemass	Death Magic Doom
30	Hatesphere	To The Nines
31	Impending Doom	The Serpent Servant
	Queensrÿche	American Soldier
	Wolves in the Throne Room	Black Cascade

April

Day	Artist	Album
3	Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky	The Grand Partition and the Abrogation of Idolatry
6	Cauldron	Chained to the Nite
	Code	Resplendent Grotesque
7	The Color of Violence	Youthanize
9	Beherit	Engram
10	Eluveitie	Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion
14	Agoraphobic Nosebleed	Agorapocalypse
	Brutal Truth	Evolution Through Revolution
	Karl Sanders	Saurian Exorcisms
15	Ajattara	Noitumaa
	Rudra	Brahmavidya: Transcendental I
	Soilent Green	Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction
16	Emperor	Live Inferno (live CD/DVD)
17	Death Angel	Sonic German Beatdown – Live in Germany (live album)
	Disbelief	Protected Hell
	Endstille	Verführer
	Maroon	Order
19	Mastercastle	The Phoenix
20	Earth Crisis	To the Death
	Hacride	Lazarus
	Lacuna Coil	Shallow Life
21	Black Label Society	Skullage (compilation/DVD)
	Bloodbound	Tabula Rasa
	Chimaira	The Infection
	Dååth	The Concealers
22	National Napalm Syndicate	Devolution of Species
24	God Dethroned	Passiondale
	Powerwolf	Bible of the Beast
	Wolfchant	Determined Damnation
27	Blood Tsunami	Grand Feast for Vultures
	Heaven and Hell	The Devil You Know
	Nadja	When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV (cover album)
	OSI	Blood
28	Animals as Leaders	Animals as Leaders
29	Impiety	Terroreign (Apocalyptic Armageddon Command)
	Jungle Rot	What Horrors Await

May

Day	Artist	Album
1	Buckethead	A Real Diamond in the Rough
4	Edenbridge	LiveEarthDream
	The Gathering	The West Pole
5	The Chariot	Wars and Rumors of Wars
	The Devil Wears Prada	With Roots Above and Branches Below
	Hatebreed	For the Lions (cover album)
	Isis	Wavering Radiant
	Nachtmystium	Doomsday Derelicts (EP)
	Necrodeath	Phylogensis
	Zao	AWAKE?
6	Obliterate	Something Wrong
8	Epica	The Classical Conspiracy (live album)
	Lacrimosa	Sehnsucht
	The Lord Weird Slough Feg	Ape Uprising!
11	Devils Whorehouse	Blood & Ashes
	Nattefrost	Engangsgrill
	Vomitory	Carnage Euphoria
12	Sacred Oath	Sacred Oath
	The Black Dahlia Murder	Majesty (DVD)
13	Spiritus Mortis	The God Behind The God
15	Tim "Ripper" Owens	Play My Game
18	Old Man's Child	Slaves of the World
	Stratovarius	Polaris
	Sunn O)))	Monoliths and Dimensions
	Susperia	Attitude
19	Warbringer	Waking into Nightmares
20	Mystic Prophecy	Fireangel
	Marilyn Manson	The High End of Low
22	Cage	Science of Annihilation
	Devin Townsend	Ki
	Neaera	Omnicide – Creation Unleashed
	Primal Fear	16.6 (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)
	Skyclad	In The... All Together
	Therion	The Miskolc Experience (Live Album)
	Unanimated	In the Light of Darkness (The Covenant of Death)
25	Ava Inferi	Blood of Bacchus
	Heaven Shall Burn	Bildersturm – Iconoclast II (The Visual Resistance) (DVD)
	Pathosray	Sunless Skies
	Xasthur	All Reflections Drained
26	Bury Your Dead	It's Nothing Personal
	Khanate	Clean Hands Go Foul
	Marilyn Manson	The High End of Low
	Minsk	With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
	Nahemah	A New Constellation
27	Alestorm	Black Sails at Midnight
	Glittertind	Landkjenning
	Stream of Passion	The Flame Within
	Trail of Tears	Bloodstained Endurance
29	Amorphis	Skyforger
	Andreas Kisser	Hubris I & II
	Devourment	Unleash the Carnivore
	Necrophobic	Death To All
	Týr	By the Light of the Northern Star
	UFO	The Visitor

June

Day	Artist	Album
1	Avulsed	Nullo (The Pleasure of Self-Mutilation)
	Buckethead	Forensic Follies
	Pantheon I	Worlds I Create
2	1349	Revelations of the Black Flame
4	Pelican	Ephemeral (EP)
8	Hate	The Litanies of Satan (DVD)
	Steel Panther	Feel the Steel
9	Amoral	Show Your Colors
	The Autumn Offering	Requiem
	Coalesce	OX
	Darkness Dynamite	The Astonishing Fury of Mankind
	Mortification	The Evil Addiction Destroying Machine
15	Artillery	When Death Comes
	Riverside	Anno Domini High Definition
16	Graveworm	Diabolical Figures
	Madder Mortem	Eight Ways
	Sworn Enemy	Total World Domination
19	Deströyer 666	Defiance
	Ex Deo	Romulus
	Goatwhore	Carving Out The Eyes of God
22	Asphyx	Death...The Brutal Way
	Drudkh	Microcosmos
	Nightrage	Wearing a Martyr's Crown
	Spinal Tap	Back from the Dead
23	Darkest Hour	The Eternal Return
	Dream Theater	Black Clouds & Silver Linings
	Seventh Angel	The Dust of Years
	Voivod	Infini
24	Elias Viljanen	Fire-Hearted
26	Korpiklaani	Karkelo
	U.D.O.	Infected (EP)
29	Amberian Dawn	The Clouds of Northland Thunder
	Anaal Nathrakh	In the Constellation of the Black Widow
30	Blood Red Throne	Souls of Damnation
	Killswitch Engage	Killswitch Engage
	Obituary	Darkest Day
	Shining	Shining VI: Klagopsalmer
	Suicide Silence	No Time to Bleed

July

Day	Artist	Album
6	The Project Hate	The Lustrate Process
	Skyfire	Fractal (EP)
7	Born of Osiris	A Higher Place
	Church of Misery	House of the Unholy
	Grief of War	Worship
	Job for a Cowboy	Ruination
	Moss	Tombs of the Blind Drugged (EP)
	Novembers Doom	Into Night's Requiem Infernal
	Suffocation	Blood Oath
14	Arkaea	Years in the Darkness
	Arsonists Get All the Girls	Portals
	August Burns Red	Constellations
	DevilDriver	Pray for Villains
	Jorn	Spirit Black
	Judas Priest	A Touch of Evil: Live
	We Were Gentlemen	Living Hell
17	Horna	Musta Kaipuu
	Manowar	Thunder in the Sky (EP)
	Merauder	God is I
20	Onslaught	Live Damnation (live album)
21	Atheist	Unquestionable Presence: Live at Wacken (live album)
	Stryper	Murder by Pride
	For the Fallen Dreams	Relentless
	The Word Alive	Empire (EP)
22	Ahab	The Divinity of Oceans
	Persefone	Shin-Ken
24	Leaves' Eyes	My Destiny (EP)
	Narnia	Course of a Generation
27	Dismember	Under Bloodred Skies (DVD)
	Nazxul	Iconoclast
28	Divine Heresy	Bringer of Plagues

August

Day	Artist	Album
3	Ghost Brigade	Isolation Songs
4	Man Must Die	No Tolerance For Imperfection
6	Dead and Divine	The Machines We Are
7	Behemoth	Evangelion
10	Chthonic	Mirror of Retribution
11	Bloody Panda	Summon
	Winds of Plague	The Great Stone War
18	Burnt by the Sun	Heart of Darkness
	Goreaphobia	Mortal Repulsion
	Gwar	Lust in Space
	Otep	Smash the Control Machine
21	U.D.O.	Dominator
	Vader	Necropolis
24	Caliban	Say Hello to Tragedy
	Municipal Waste	Massive Aggressive
25	Azaghal	Teraphim
	Oh, Sleeper	Son of the Morning
26	Leaves' Eyes	Njord
	Warmen	Japanese Hospitality
28	Axxis	Utopia
	Guilt Machine	On This Perfect Day
	Illdisposed	To Those Who Walk Behind Us
	Jorn	The Dukebox (best of)
	Krypteria	My Fatal Kiss
	Saltatio Mortis	Wer Wind Sat
	The 69 Eyes	Back in Blood

September

Day	Artist	Album
8	3 Inches of Blood	Here Waits Thy Doom
	Advent	Naked And Cold
	Dethklok	The Dethalbum II
9	Ablaze My Sorrow	The Suicide Note (EP)
	Candiria	Toying with the Insanities
	Ensiferum	From Afar
	Insomnium	Across the Dark
	Thunderstone	Dirt Metal
11	Secrets of the Moon	Privilegivm
	Threat Signal	Vigilance
13	The Gates of Slumber	Hymns of Blood & Thunder
14	Skyfire	Esoteric
15	The Black Dahlia Murder	Deflorate
	Dream Theater	Wither (EP)
	Dying Fetus	Descend into Depravity
	Every Time I Die	New Junk Aesthetic
	It Dies Today	Lividity
	Kittie	In The Black
	Living Colour	The Chair in the Doorway
	Megadeth	Endgame
	Meliah Rage	Masquerade
	Ministry	The Last Dubber (Re-mix Album)
	Protest the Hero	Gallop Meets the Earth (live CD/DVD)
	Salt the Wound	Ares
	Shadows Fall	Retribution
	Skinlab	The Scars Between Us
18	At Vance	Ride the Sky
	Danger Danger	Revolve
	Europe	Last Look at Eden
	Lynch Mob	Smoke And Mirrors
	Sonata Arctica	The Days of Grays
	Theatre of Tragedy	Forever Is the World
21	Diablo Swing Orchestra	Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious
	Evile	Infected Nations
	Ronny Munroe	The Fire Within
	Sinister	Prophecies Denied (DVD)
22	Children of Bodom	Skeletons in the Closet
	Despised Icon	Day of Mourning
	Echoes of Eternity	As Shadows Burn
	Five Finger Death Punch	War Is the Answer
	Parkway Drive	The DVD (DVD)
	Skindred	Shark Bites and Dog Fights
24	Buckethead	Needle in a Slunk Stack
	Marduk	Wormwood
25	Destruction	The Curse of the Antichrist – Live in Agony (live album)
	Immortal	All Shall Fall
	Metalium	Grounded – Chapter Eight
	Paradise Lost	Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
26	Tyrants Blood	Crushing Onward into Oblivion
28	Arch Enemy	The Root of All Evil
	Dalriada	Arany-Album
	Redemption	Snowfall on Judgment Day
29	Alice in Chains	Black Gives Way to Blue
	Austrian Death Machine	Double Brutal
	Black Cobra	Chronomega
	Doomriders	Darkness Come Alive
	Evergreen Terrace	Almost Home
	Hatebreed	Hatebreed

October

Day	Artist	Album
2	Scar Symmetry	Dark Matter Dimensions
5	Marionette	Enemies
6	Ancestors	Of Sound Mind
	Hirax	El Rostro de la Muerte
	HORSE the band	Desperate Living
	Inhale Exhale	Bury Me Alive
	KISS	Sonic Boom
	Powerman 5000	Somewhere on the Other Side of Nowhere
9	Belphegor	Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn
	Lifelover	Dekadens (EP)
	Mob Rules	Astral Hand (EP)
10	Pythia	Beneath the Veiled Embrace
12	Ram-Zet	Neutralized
	Slowmotion Apocalypse	Mothra
	W.A.S.P.	Babylon
13	Baroness	Blue Record
	Dawn of Azazel	Relentless
	Saviours	Accelerated Living
	Skeletonwitch	Breathing the Fire
14	Decadence	Chargepoint
	Waltari	Below Zero
16	Brainstorm	Memorial Roots
	Epica	Design Your Universe
	Fragments of Unbecoming	The Everhaunting Past/Chapter IV – A Splendid Retrospection
	Rammstein	Liebe ist für alle da
	Winger	Karma
19	Katatonia	Night Is the New Day
	Skitliv	Skandinavisk Misantropi
20	Converge	Axe to Fall
	Portal	Swarth
21	Freak Kitchen	Land of the Freaks
	Gorgoroth	Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt
	Russian Circles	Geneva
22	Månegarm	Nattväsen
23	Hypocrisy	A Taste of Extreme Divinity
	Savage Circus	Of Doom and Death
	Transatlantic	The Whirlwind
24	To-Mera	Earthbound (EP)
26	Dark Tranquillity	Where Death Is Most Alive (live CD/DVD)
	Hellbastard	Eco-War (mini-CD)
	Hellbastard	The Need to Kill
	My Dying Bride	Bring Me Victory (EP)
	Rob Halford	Halford III - Winter Songs
	Shadow Gallery	Digital Ghosts
27	Atreyu	Congregation of the Damned
	Between the Buried and Me	The Great Misdirect
	Pelican	What We All Come to Need
	The Red Chord	Fed Through The Teeth Machine
	Suffocation	Live in Quebec – The Close of a Chapter (live album)
	Whiplash	Unborn Again
28	Arkona	Goy, Rode, Goy!
	Hollenthon	Tyrants and Wraiths (EP)
30	Annihilator	Live at Masters of Rock (Video album)
	Nile	Those Whom the Gods Detest
	Ruins	Front The Final Foes
	Within Temptation	An Acoustic Night at the Theatre (Live Album)
31	Welicoruss	Apeiron

November

Day	Artist	Album
2	Slayer	World Painted Blood
3	Defiance	The Prophecy
	Genitorturers	Blackheart Revolution
5	Gama Bomb	Tales from the Grave in Space
6	Brainstorm	Just Highs No Lows (12 Years of Persistence) (best-of)
	Impious	Death Domination
	Sonic Syndicate	Rebellion (EP)
10	Jacobs Dream	Beneath the Shadows
	Krallice	Dimensional Bleedthrough
	Swallow the Sun	New Moon
	Throwdown	Deathless
	Witchmaster	Trücizna
11	Lonewolf	The Dark Crusade
13	Mob Rules	Radical Peace
	Nostradameus	Illusion's Parade
	Running Wild	ReUnation – A Tribute to Running Wild (tribute album)
16	Miseration	The Mirroring Shadow
	Urgehal	Ikonoklast
17	Devin Townsend	Addicted
	Helix	Vagabond Bones
	Rush	Working Men (Live Album)
18	Dark Funeral	Angelus Exuro pro Eternus
	Nightwish	Lokikirja (box set)
19	Obituary	Live Xecution – Party. San 2008 (live DVD)
23	Metallica	Français Pour Une Nuit (live DVD)
24	Scorpions	Amazonia – Live in the Jungle (live DVD)
25	Elis	Catharsis
	Outrage	Outrage
27	Manowar	Hell on Earth V (DVD)
30	Metallica	Orgullo, Pasión Y Gloria - Tres Noches En La Ciudad De México (DVD)

December

Day	Artist	Album
1	Carcass	Pungent Excruciation: Live (live album)
3	Master's Hammer	Mantras
7	Yngwie Malmsteen	High Impact (compilation)
8	Nonpoint	Cut the Cord (EP)
9	Disarmonia Mundi	The Isolation Game
16	Helloween	Unarmed - Best of 25th Anniversary
18	Coronatus	Fabula Magna
	Heavenly	Carpe Diem
	Tankard	Open All Night – Reloaded (DVD)
22	Mudvayne	Mudvayne
23	Heathen	The Evolution of Chaos
26	Nokturnal Mortum	The Voice of Steel

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