We are in May 2023, and lots of new metal and hard rock albums release this month. We will also help you to discover which metal and hard rock genre albums end of Spring 2023.

May 2023 will be a new month for metal and hard rock fans all around the world due to the release of these albums, and more bands will follow suit. Let’s go and check the list of monthly or yearly releases, which we will also update on the future album release calendar if anything changes below!

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Cattle Decapitation, DevilDriver, Ghost, Def Leppard with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Theraphy? and more bands will release their new album on May 2023. These albums come in various versions like box sets, EPs, and LP editions, including a deluxe edition too.

Check out below which rock and metal bands gonna release new albums this and next month above. Also, you can also check last month April 2023 here.

Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite

Release Date:  May 12 – Label: Metal Blade Records

Cattle Decapitation release a new album “Terrasite” on May 12th, 2023. They achieved the pinnacle of this with 2019’s Death Atlas, maybe causing some to feel they had nowhere else to go after such an accomplishment. However, they are back with Terrasite, which is their most audacious statement to date.

Cattle Decapitation’s vocalist Josh Elmore also shares his thoughts about the new album:

“I wanted to do the 180° opposite of Death Atlas. I already had the concept idea from years back and since Death Atlas was so dark and brooding, I wanted a completely opposite effect – I wanted this to take place in the daylight. I’ve always found daytime horror to be really unsettling so I wanted to make sure what was going on on the cover took place in the light of day, which also finds its place within the lyrics.”

Cattle Decapitation – “Terrasite” tracklist:

1. Terrasitic adaptation – 5:01
2. We eat our young – 3:55
3. Scourge of the offspring – 4:28
4. The insignificants – 4:43
5. The storm upstairs – 5:27
6. …And the world will go on without you – 4:14
7. A photic doom – 4:26
8. Dead end residents – 5:09
9. Solastalgia – 4:56
10. Just another body – 10:15

DevilDriver – Dealing With Demons Vol. II

Release Date:  May 12 – Label: Napalm Records

Dealing With Demons I, the first half of DevilDriver‘s two-part Dealing With Demons tale, was well-praised by influential publications worldwide.

This will be seen as a turning point in the DevilDriver tale if the second half of this enormous undertaking matches the first. And now Dealing With Demons Vol. II, DevilDriver‘s tenth full-length album.

Dealing With Demons Vol. II, which Steve Evetts produced and engineered with extra engineering help from guitarist Mike Spreitzer, is unquestionably stronger and mercilessly harsher than its predecessor.

Combating Demons Vol. II is not only the more brutal of the two albums; it also symbolizes the deepest parts of the legendary leader Dez Fafara’s mind and the ultimate exorcism of the demons that have long plagued the band’s music.

DevilDriver – “Dealing With Demons Vol. II” tracklist:

DWD Vol II:

1. I Have no Pity
2. Mantra
3. Nothing Lasts Forever
4. Summoning
5. Through the Depths
6. Bloodbath
7. It’s a Hard Truth
8. If Blood is Life
9. This Relationship Broken

DVD Vol. I:

1. Keep Away From Me
2. Vengeance Is Clear
3. Nest Of Vipers
4. Iona
5. Wishing
6. You Give Me A Reason To Drink feat. Simon Blade Fafara
7. Witches
8. Dealing With Demons
9. The Damned Don’t Cry
10. Scars Me Forever

Ghost – Phantomime EP

Release Date:  May 19 – Label: Loma Vista Records

The release of “Phantomime EP” will take place with Ghost’s first live performances in 2023, which will include appearances at festivals and headline shows across Europe in May and June.

These shows will include Primavera Sound 2023, where the band will share the stage with Blur, Depeche Mode, Halsey, and Kendrick Lamar, among others, and Sweden Rock Festival 2023, where Ghost will be one of four headliners alongside Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, and Motley Crue.

Ghost – “Phantomime” EP tracklist:

1. “See No Evil” (Television)
2. “Jesus He Knows Me” (Genesis)
3. “Hanging Around” (The Stranglers)
4. “Phantom of the Opera” (Iron Maiden)
5. “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)” (Tina Turner)

Def Leppard with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Drastic Symphonies

Release Date:  May 19 – Label: UMe Records

Def Leppard will collaborate with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to release a new album called Drastic Symphonies on May 19th, 2023.

The band significantly “deconstructed and reimagined” some of their biggest singles while recording at Abbey Road Studios. Along with the new vocal and guitar recordings, the tunes also feature novel arrangements.

Put your safety belts on for a thrilling audio trip. On the brand-new CD Drastic Symphonies, rock and classical aristocracy come together. Def Leppard worked with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to radically rework and deconstruct some of their biggest hits while recording at Abbey Road Studios in London.

The band’s new vocal and guitar records reflect this audacious revision of the symphonic hits formula. available on a 2LP picture disc with a limited edition. includes an extra track on vinyl.

Def Leppard with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Drastic Symphonies “Drastic Symphonies” tracklist:

1. TURN TO DUST
2. PAPER SUN
3. ANIMAL
4. POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME (STRIPPED VERSION)
5. HYSTERIA
6. LOVE BITES
7. GOODBYE FOR GOOD THIS TIME
8. LOVE
9. GODS OF WAR
10. ANGELS (CAN’T HELP YOU NOW)
11. BRINGIN’ ON THE HEARTBREAK
12. SWITCH 625
13. TOO LATE FOR LOVE
14. WHEN LOVE & HATE COLLIDE
15. KINGS OF THE WORLD

Therapy? – Hard Cold Fire

Release Date:  May 5 – Label: Marshall Records

Five years after the “Cleave” album, Therapy? has returned with their new album “Hard Cold Fire,” though it took a little longer than ever.

Since beginning their career in 1989, the Northern Irish group has routinely put out a new long player every two to three years. Also recorded at the end of 2021, “Hard Cold Fire” had the potential to be released sooner. Therapy? hoped to complete their 30-year anniversary tour first, but the epidemic forced them to postpone it.

Therapy? – “Hard Cold Fire” tracklist:

1. They Shoot the Terrible Master
2. Woe
3. Joy
4. Bewildered Herd
5. Two Wounded Animals
6. To Disappear
7. Mongrel
8. Poundland Of Hope And Glory
9. Ugly
10. Days Kollaps

May 5, 2023

• Blood Ceremony – The Old Ways Remain (Rise Above)
• Burning Witches – The Dark Tower (Napalm)
• Currents – The Death We Seek (SharpTone)
• Curse Of Cain – Curse Of Cain (Atomic Fire)
• Dave Lombardo – Rites Of Percussion (Ipecac)
• Death Goals – A Garden Of Dead Flowers (Prosthetic)
• Deathstars – Everything Destroys You (Nuclear Blast)
• The Devil Wears Prada – Color Decay Deluxe Edition (Solid State)
• Die Humane – The Grotesque (WURMgroup)
• Drain – Living Proof (Epitaph)
• Enforcer – Nostalgia (Nuclear Blast)
• Herod – The Iconoclast (Pelagic)
• Hypocrisy – Abducted Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
• Hypocrisy – The Fourth Dimension Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
• Hypocrisy – Osculum Obscenum Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
• Hypocrisy – Penetralia Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
• Jerome’s Dream – The Gray In Between (Iodine)
• The Modern Age Slavery – 1901 | The First Mother (Fireflash)
• Smokey Mirror – Smokey Mirror (Rise Above)
• Teeth – A Biblical Worship Of Violence EP (Nuclear Blast)
• Tygers Of Pan Tang – Bloodlines (Mighty)
• Therapy? – Hard Cold Fire (Marshall)
• Unearth – The Wretched; The Ruinous (Century Media)
• Vintersea – Woven Into Ashes (M-Theory)
• Weathers – Are We Having Fun? (Sumerian)
• Winger – Seven (Frontiers)

May 12, 2023

• The Acacia Strain – Failure Will Follow (Rise)
• The Acacia Strain – Step Into The Light (Rise)
• The Amity Affliction – Not Without My Ghosts (Pure Noise)
• Battle Born – Blood, Fire, Magic And Steel (Prosthetic)
• Black Spiders – Can’t Die, Won’t Die (Spinefarm)
• Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite (Metal Blade)
• Circus Of Rock – Lost Behind (Frontiers)
• The Dark Side Of The Moon – Metamorphosis (Napalm)
• DevilDriver – Dealing With Demons Vol. II (Napalm)
• Dropkick Murphys – Okemah Rising (Dummy Luck)
• Godsnake – Eye For An Eye (Massacre)
• Heavens Edge – Get It Right (Frontiers)
• Michael Thompson Band – The Love Goes On (Frontiers)
• My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – Sinister Whisperz IV: The Bedroom Tapes (1987-1988) (Sleazebox)
• Oreida – The Eternal (Debemur Morti)
• ScreaMachine – Church Of The Scream (Frontiers)
• Veil Of Maya – [m]other (Sumerian)

May 19, 2023

• Alcatrazz – Take No Prisoners (Silver Lining)
• Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Golden Age Of Music (Music Theories)
• Blindfolded And Led To The Woods – Rejecting Obliteration (Prosthetic)
• Def Leppard With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Drastic Symphonies (UMe)
• Frozen Soul – Glacial Domination (Century Media)
• Ghost – Phantomime EP (Loma Vista)
• Gozu – Remedy (Blacklight)
• Henget – Beyond North Star (Season Of Mist)
• Miscreance – Convergence Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
• Mystic Prophecy – Hellriot (Rock Of Angels)
• Neal Schon – Journey Through Time (Frontiers)
• The Ocean – Holocene (Pelagic)
• Roadwolf – Midnight Lightning (Napalm)
• Sleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden (Spinefarm)
• Sweet & Lynch – Heart & Sacrifice (Frontiers)
• Thulcandra – Hail The Abyss (Napalm)
• The Used – Toxic Positivity (Big Noise)
• Yakuza – Sutra (Svart)

May 26, 2023

• Arrival Of Autumn – Kingdom Undone (Nuclear Blast)
• Brodequin – Festival Of Death Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
• Brodequin – Instruments Of Torture Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
• Brodequin – Methods Of Execution Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
• Hanoi Rocks – The Days We Spent Underground: 1981-1984 Box Set (HNE)
• Immortal – War Against All (Nuclear Blast)
• Incendiary – Change The Way You Think About Pain (Closed Casket)
• Kings Never Die – All The Rats (Metalville)
• Legion Of The Damned – The Poison Chalice (Napalm)
• Metal Church – Congregation Of Annihilation (Rat Pak)
• Mournful Congregation – The Exuviae of Gods – Part II (Osmose/20 Buck Spin)
• Oceanlord – Kingdom Cold (Magnetic Eye)
• Raven – Faster Than The Speed Of Light (HNE)
• Sirenia – 1977 (Napalm)
• Troller – Drain (Relapse)
• Vonavibe – Bleed To Life (Eclipse)

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