"My God-Given Right" is the 16th studio album by German power metal band Helloween. It is their seventh consecutive album produced by Charlie Bauerfeind, and their first album released under the label Nuclear Blast since 2003's "Rabbit Don't Come Easy". The album is considered by the band as a "back to the roots" album, while still keeping some modern elements.

Warriors of the World is the ninth album by heavy metal band Manowar. Amongst its varied tracks are tributes to Wagner, Pavarotti, and Elvis Presley. The song Nessun Dorma was dedicated to Adams' mother who had died earlier that year.

For those who are uninitiated, Therion is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded in 1988. They started out as a death metal band but started to incorporate orchestral elements such as choirs, string sections and classical singing. They’ve put out 15 full-length records and "Beloved Antichrist" is their latest offering. There is one important thing to note about this record, which makes it a bit hard to review it. This is a Rock Opera in three acts and with 27 different character roles. There are themes and motifs occurring and re-occurring throughout. Melodies are revisited in different configurations and much of the texture of the record is tightly woven with the story, which you will have to dig into yourself if you want to enjoy this record.

Epica - the quintessential Symphonic Metal act – is poised to release its latest evolutionary gem entitled "The Holographic Principl"e. Die-hard fans of the band will certainly not be disappointed, and Epica weaves enough conventional elements into its sonic tapestry that their seventh studio release will garner a large number of new supporters. Full of traditional bombast and fire, "The Holographic Principle" will stand as one of Epica’s strongest symphonic outings, yet there are countless passages that will appeal to fans of Classical, Orchestral, Operatic, and almost every other Metal genre.

"The Rise of Chaos" is the fifteenth studio album by German heavy metal band Accept. This is the first Accept album with guitarist Uwe Lulis and drummer Christopher Williams, replacing Herman Frank and Stefan Schwarzmann respectively. Like their previous three studio albums, The Rise of Chaos was produced by Andy Sneap, making it the band's fourth collaboration with him. Guitarist Wolf Hoffmann has stated that the album's title refers to the human-caused chaos in the world.

"Beyond the Red Mirror" is the tenth studio album by German metal band Blind Guardian. A concept album and a sequel to "Imaginations from the Other Side", "Beyond the Red Mirror" has been described by Hansi Kürsch as "A story between science fiction and fantasy. The two worlds described have changed dramatically for the worse since then. While there used to be several passages between the worlds, there is only one gate left now: The Red Mirror. It has to be found at any cost".

"The Grinding Wheel" is the 18th studio album by American Thrash metal band Overkill. Witness the thrash's ultimate team of five machined parts shows up and executes to perfection… with a little punk thrown in for bad measure. This edition features Thin Lizzy's cover as bonus track.

"Machine Messiah" is the fourteenth studio album by the Brazilian metal band Sepultura. The band recorded "Machine Messiah" in Sweden with producer Jens Bogren. Machine Messiah is the band's first studio album in over three years, marking the longest gap between two studio albums in their career. The band stated the concept of the album, saying, "The main inspiration around "Machine Messiah" is the robotization of our society nowadays. The concept of a God Machine who created humanity and now it seems that this cycle is closing itself, returning to the starting point. We came from machines and we are going back to where we came from. The messiah, when he returns, will be a robot, or an humanoid, our biomechanical savior".

"Under the Red Cloud" is the twelfth studio album by Finnish masters of Melancholic Metal, Amorphis, released worldwide through Nuclear Blast. Cryptic Rock reviewed the album, finding that it had more of a focus on melody than the previous album, and it had a wider variety of instruments, which was more in line with the band's pre-2012 work. "The Four Wise Ones" was described as an "instant classic" song, "pure melodic death metal at its finest." Cryptic Rock also saw songs that were heavy metal, folk metal and rock ballads.

Vader is a Polish death metal band from Olsztyn, formed in 1983. "The Empire" is the band's eleventh studio album. Driven by aggression, Vader bring their typical dark tunes and morbid leads to the battlefield and once more underline their status as legends. But Vader also bring a lot of diversification; besides the record’s thrashier moments, the tank rolls at a steady pace – straight to the front without compromises and without mercy!

Germany's enduring thrash metal machine KREATOR has been back in the saddle writing top notch, timeless thrash with its last couple of releases, 2017's "Gods of Violence" and 2012's "Phantom Antichrist", reflecting both the genre's roots and an updated approach. "Gods of Violence", in particular, is one of the band's best releases in the last 20 years. Now, closing the longest gap between studio albums in its career, KREATOR return with "Hate Über Allies", a more potent expression of what they've been doing the last decade, but one that also highlights the band's inevitable growth and maturity…

Starting out as a three-piece, Carcass were one of Earache Records' grindcore flagship and had a huge impact on the birth of so-called goregrind style…

"Gods of Violence" is the fourteenth studio album by the German thrash metal band Kreator. It is the band's first studio album in almost five years since 2012, marking the longest gap between two studio albums in their career. On this new studio album, thrash legends Kreator give us more of the same jackhammer style they built the band's name on only without quite as much personality or edge.