2025 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2025.

Bands disbanded

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Events

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  • On January 30, Sum 41 is scheduled to play the final date of their farewell tour at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.[6]
  • On April 19, Savatage will play their first show in nearly ten years at the Monsters of Rock festival in São Paulo.[8][9]
  • Following major personnel changes in 2024, Grave frontman Ola Lindgren announced that the band's original members will reunite for select 2025 festival performances, highlighting their first three classic albums — Into the Grave, You'll Never See..., and Soulless — with no current plans for new material or extensive touring.[10]
  • After internal tensions that forced the band to cancel all 2024 live dates and go on hiatus, My Dying Bride announced that they are scheduled to return to live performances in 2025. These shows will feature guest vocalist Mikko Kotamäki of Swallow the Sun, temporarily filling in for founding member and vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe.[11]
  • Angra announced that the band will take a touring and recording hiatus after finishing the tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of their album Temple of Shadows in March.[1]
  • Lynch Mob is scheduled to wrap up what was announced as a year-long farewell tour, titled "The Final Ride".[3]
  • Peso, drummer of Necrodeath, announced that the band will split up for the second and final time at the end of 2025, following the release of a final album and a farewell tour.[4]
  • Uriah Heep are scheduled to begin a farewell tour, titled The Magician's Farewell, in February, which will last for about two or three years.[12]

Albums expected

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January

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Day Artist Album
3 Paleface Swiss Cursed[13]
10 Ex Deo Year of the Four Emperors (EP)[14]
The Halo Effect March of the Unheard[15]
Stick to Your Guns Keep Planting Flowers[16]
Tremonti The End Will Show Us How[17]
17 Dark Fortress Anthems from Beyond the Grave (live album)[18]
Eidola Mend[19]
Grave Digger Bone Collector[20]
Tokyo Blade Time Is the Fire[21]
24 Avatarium Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead[22]
Bumblefoot Bumblefoot ...Returns![23]
Harakiri for the Sky Scorched Earth[24]
Labyrinth In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye[25]
Oni Genesis (EP)[26]
Thin Lizzy Acoustic Sessions[27]
31 All That Remains Antifragile[28]
Pentagram Lightning in a Bottle[29]
Thomas Erak (AU)[30]

February

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Day Artist Album
7 Dream Theater Parasomnia[31]
Jinjer Duél[32]
Majestica Power Train[33]
Marko Hietala Roses from the Deep[34]
Obscura A Sonication[35]
14 Bleeding Through Nine[36]
Dawn of Solace Affliction Vortex[37]
Dynazty Game of Faces[38]
Lacuna Coil Sleepless Empire[39]
Mantar Post Apocalyptic Depression[40]
Raven Can't Take Away the Fire (EP)[41]
21 Hirax Faster Than Death[42]
Killswitch Engage This Consequence[43]
Manntra Titans[44]
Nachtblut Todschick[45]
Sacrifice Volume Six[46]
Scour Gold[47]
28 Architects The Sky, the Earth & All Between[48]
Avantasia Here Be Dragons[49]
Brainstorm Plague of Rats[50]
Dirkschneider Balls to the Wall – Reloaded (covers album)[51]
Robin McAuley Soulbound[52]

March

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Day Artist Album
7 Destruction Birth of Malice[53]
Smith / Kotzen Black Light / White Noise[54]
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea[55]
14 Coheed and Cambria Vaxis Act III: The Father of Make Believe[56]
Nightstalker Return from the Point of No Return[57]
Ricky Warwick Blood Ties[58]
21 Lordi Limited Deadition[59]
28 Arch Enemy Blood Dynasty[60]
The Darkness Dreams on Toast[61]
Memphis May Fire Shapeshifter[62]

April

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Day Artist Album
4 Bleed from Within Zenith[63]
11 Elvenking Reader of the Runes – Luna[64]
25 Landmvrks The Darkest Place I've Ever Been[65]

May

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Day Artist Album
2 Crematory Destination[66]
16 Bury Tomorrow Will You Haunt Me, with That Same Patience[67]

September

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Day Artist Album
5 Primal Fear Domination[68]

Artists with material in production

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References

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