Heavy-music fans ate well in 2023, and 2024 is shaping up to be just as satisfying. Many of the biggest names in Revolver's world — from Judas Priest to Bad Omens — are set to drop hotly anticipated new albums, and nearly every subgenre is expecting at least a few big-ticket releases to be excited about.
A countless number of records across the headbanging spectrum — thrash, hardcore, death metal, nu-metal, industrial and more — are slated to arrive in the next 365 days. Below are the 55 that we're most looking forward to right now.
Anthrax
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
We've had Anthrax in this annual list since 2018, but 2024 seems like it'll finally be the year. Joey Belladonna officially started tracking vocals with producer Jay Ruston back in November, and the singer said he's "just trying to get something really, really magical" laid down for the follow-up to 2016's For All Kings.
Architects
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
It's been two years since Architects flipped the script with the more melodic and industrialized the classic symptoms of a broken spirit, and the U.K. metalcore heroes are ramping up again. They just returned with a banging new single, "Seeing Red," and shared news of a 2024 tour.
All signs are pointing to a new album — and a heavier one at that.
Bad Omens
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Bad Omens have two albums in the works. One, titled Concrete Forever, will consist of remixes, acoustic renditions and collabs with other artists. The other is a proper sequel to 2022 breakthrough The Death of Peace of Mind. There's no official timeline yet, but fans can rest easy that both will be authentically Bad Omens.
"I don't care about what's popular," frontman Noah Sebastian recently told Kerrang!. "I just like making music that I'm proud of."
Behemoth
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Release Date: TBA
Behemoth just released a full-length in 2022, the characteristically blasphemous Opvs Contra Natvram, but mastermind Adam Nergal Darski is already plotting a follow-up.
"[2024 is] gonna be dedicated, like, full-on Behemoth," the Polish satanist, who also helms the dark folk project Me and That Man, recently told the "Everblack" podcast. And yes, he noted, "there's new music."
Better Lovers
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Release Date: TBA
Featuring current and former members of Every Time I Die, the Dillinger Escape Plan and Fit for an Autopsy, Better Lovers were the heavy-music supergroup of 2023, taking the year by balcony-diving storm with a surprise EP and assorted teeth-rattling singles.
2024 will see the band make their long-form debut, and in this case, there's no question that bigger is better.
Biohazard
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
NYHC icons and rapcore pioneers Biohazard came back in a big way in 2023, reuniting their classic lineup — Evan Seinfeld, Billy Gradziadei, Bobby Hambel and Danny Schuler — for a string for raucous shows. Next up, a new album, the band's first since 2012's Reborn in Defiance, which will surely be packed with more tales from the hard side.
The Black Dahlia Murder
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
The beloved melodeath veterans recently started recording their first album without late vocalist Trevor Strnad, whose position on the mic is now filled by founding guitarist Brian Eschbach.
Drummer Alan Cassidy said the new material is some of his "favorite" yet, and that he wishes Strnad could hear it: "I think he'd be just as proud and excited, if not more so."
Body Count
Title: Merciless
Release Date: TBA
"The new Body Count album is being mixed as we speak," Ice-T tweeted back in July; this year, the LP, tellingly titled Merciless, should finally arrive.
The politically charged metal band's eighth full-length comes with the bar set high — its predecessor, 2020's Carnivore, won a fucking Grammy for standout single "Bum-Rush."
Bring Me the Horizon
Title: POST-HUMAN: NeX GEn
Release Date: TBA
The follow-up to 2020's POST-HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR was supposed to drop last September, but was pushed back indefinitely due to "unforeseen circumstances." We've already heard five of its singles — "DiE4u," "sTraNgeRs," "LosT," "AmEN!" and "DArkSide" — and when the band recently split with keyboardist-producer Jordan Fish, they promised "brand new music coming soon." Let's hope.
Chelsea Wolfe
Title: She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Release Date: February 9th
Chelsea Wolfe scored A24's 2022 slasher movie X and teamed up with Converge on 2021's Bloodmoon: I, but her last proper solo LP was 2019's Birth of Violence.
She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She will change that, and the three dark yet diverse singles we've heard so far are extremely promising.
Chevelle
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Chevelle move fast. The alt-metal stalwarts already had "a whole bunch" of new songs written in the fall of 2022, just one year after their 2021 concept album, NIRATIAS, dropped.
Looks like we won't have to wait much longer to hear them recorded. Late last year, they posted an in-studio video with the hashtag "#newmusicintheworks."
Cradle of Filth
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Cradle of Filth's follow-up to 2021's Existence Is Futile has been in the works since early 2023. It'll be the symphonic black-metal vampires' first with guitarists Marek "Ashok" Šmerda and Donny Burbage, and keyboardist-vocalist Zoe Marie Federoff.
Dani Filth said it's "got a very Dusk… and Her Embrace vibe about it," dubbing it both an extension of their last album but also "different" — possibly hinting that it'll include the band's headline making collab with Ed Sheeran.
Deftones
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
If the band's riffmaster Stephen Carpenter is to be trusted, we could have a new Nick Raskulinecz-produced Deftones album as soon as spring. But considering how busy Chino Moreno's electronic side project ††† (Crosses) is to start the year, we're thinking we'll have to wait a little longer.
No matter when the follow-up to 2020's Ohms finally arrives, we're fucking here for it.
Bruce Dickinson
Title: The Mandrake Project
Release Date: March 1st
The Iron Maiden singer's first solo album in 19 years was previewed by a song with death-metal growls(!), the unexpectedly crushing "Afterglow of Ragnarok." It also includes a re-work of Maiden's 2015 Book of Souls standout "If Eternity Should Fail," dubbed "Eternity Has Failed."
Oh, The Mandrake Project is also accompanied by a 12-issue graphic novel series.
Dream Theater
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
When the prog-metal vets announced their reunion with co-founding drum virtuoso Mike Portnoy, they also revealed that new music was on the way.
This next batch will be the group's 16th LP overall and their first with Portnoy since 2009's Black Clouds & Silver Linings. Dream Theater fans have a lot to look forward to.
Exodus
Title: TBA
Release Date: Late 2024
Last we heard from Exodus frontman Steve "Zetro" Souza, the Bay Area thrash lords were planning to enter the studio in spring 2024 and then hopefully have a new album in heshers' hands by the end of the year.
According to him, they're also planning to preview some of the new material live before it drops — something Souza says they've never done before.
Fear Factory
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Fear Factory spent 2023 on tour, road-testing new vocalist Milo Silvestro. This year, we'll get to hear what he sounds like on recording.
Guitarist Dino Cazares said the industrial-metal band's first album without co-founding vocalist Burton C. Bell will be wrapped up by this summer, if all goes according to plan.
Gatecreeper
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Gatecreeper's first full-length since 2019's Deserted LP and 2021's An Unexpected Reality EP has been finished since August 2023. It was recorded with Converge's Kurt Ballou at his famed GodCity Studios, and frontman Chase Mason previously revealed that Dismember drummer Fred Estby was involved in some way.
We're hoping for more "stadium death metal."
Ghost
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Release Date: TBA
Ghost impresario Tobias Forge has always had a grand vision for his theatrical occult-rock troupe, so maybe it's no surprise that he already has plans in place for the band's upcoming sixth album, the follow-up to 2022's Impera. But not only that — as of a December interview with Metal Hammer, he even has "a few songs" written.
Expect another switch-up, of course, but never fear: "If it comes from my notebook, it will sound like Ghost," Forge assured.
Gojira
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Release Date: TBA
Gojira's 2021 opus Fortitude was the biggest album of the French crushers' career, earning them a Billboard No. 1 spot, a Grammy nomination and loads of acclaim.
As of last fall, its follow-up was still in the writing stages, but drummer Mario Duplantier told old-school Gojira fans exactly what they want to hear: "I have a feeling it's going to be heavier."
Halestorm
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Release Date: TBA
The follow-up to 2022's Back From the Dead is on its way.
According to bassist Josh Smith, the hard-rock hit-makers banged out 10 to 12 songs last fall that all sound "undeniably Halestorm."
Lyrically, however, frontwoman Lzzy Hale looks to be treading new ground. "I've been writing in a lot of subjects that I haven't necessarily touched on before, and been kind of exploring those things," she teased.
High on Fire
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Matt Pike celebrated the 25th anniversary of his sludge-thrash outfit High on Fire in 2023, but also looked ahead to its future. He and his bandmates — including new drummer Coady Willis, of Melvins and Big Business fame — hit GodCity Studio with longtime producer Kurt Ballou to record HOF's upcoming ninth album.
It was completed in June; look for an early 2024 release.
Jinjer
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Jinjer's new album was "80 percent" written as of last June, and according to bassist Eugene Abdukhanov, it's going to be uniquely hard-hitting.
"It's more aggressive," the Ukrainian musician said. "I think all the negativity [stemming from Russia's invasion of Ukraine], we just directed it into the music... There are songs which were written literally under shelling, under bombing."
Job for a Cowboy
Title: Moon Healer
Release Date: February 23rd
Job For a Cowboy's new album is a decade in the making, and it'll also be their debut with drummer Navene Koperweis.
The singles we've heard thus far, "The Agony Sweeping Storm" and "The Forever Rot," are both total mind-benders that remind us why JFAC are every deathcore fan's favorite tech-death band.
Judas Priest
Title: Invincible Shield
Release Date: March 8th
Pull that leather jacket out of the closet and start practicing your fist-pumps, because Rob Halford and Co.'s new offering is coming up fast.
First single "Panic Attack" was a goddamn ripper. Second single "Trial by Fire" was equally teeth-knocking. All these years later and the Priest still sound bulletproof — almost like they're protected by some sort of Invincible Shield.
Killswitch Engage
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Release Date: TBA
Killswitch Engage's follow-up to 2019's Atonement should finally arrive "mid-to-late next year," according to the latest update from frontman Jesse Leach.
"I think it sounds like Killswitch," the singer teased. "But we're really pushing to do different lyrics, different themes, different sounds. None of it's gonna be phoned in."
Kerry King
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Ever since Slayer's untimely 2019 dissolution, fans have been waiting for guitarist Kerry King to rain blood again. 2024 will finally be the year his follow-up project is unveiled.
So far, we know former Slayer drummer Paul Bostaph is part of it, and former Slayer/current Exodus guitarist Gary Holt is not. We've seen the razor-edged, upside-down-cross logo. We're looking forward to the festival shows announced so far.
Otherwise, many questions remain unanswered — but not for long.
King Diamond (and Mercyful Fate)
Title: The Institute
Release Date: TBA
It's gonna be a big year for the King. After dropping the song "Masquerade of Madness" in 2019, the great Dane is finally set to deliver his 13th eponymous album, and first in 17 years, The Institute.
Maybe even better, his OG band Mercyful Fate appears poised to drop new music — reportedly, a single or two — which would be their first in almost a quarter of a century!
Kittie
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Release Date: TBA
Kittie debuted a new song, the ferocious "Vultures," this past summer at the inaugural Sick New World fest, and this fall, the Lander sisters and Co. were in the studio with producer Nick Raskulinecz. All signs point to a new album, which would be the band's first since 2011's I've Failed You, coming this year.
Said drummer Mercedes Lander in October: "We are just really stoked to write 1,200 percent bangers."
Knocked Loose
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Release Date: TBA
The breakdown lords of Louisville dribbled out ferocious music in 2021 (A Tear in the Fabric of Life EP) and 2023 (Upon Loss singles), but 2019's A Different Shade of Blue was their last full-length.
They're not the kind of band who drop hints about studio time or speculate on release schedules, but the field for new Knocked Loose is wide open in 2024 — and so is the mosh pit.
Korn
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Korn's 2022 album, Requiem, was a hit with old and new-school Korn fans, despite its lack of bassist Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, who's been on an extended absence from the band since 2021.
Fieldy's status within the band remains unclear as we kick off 2024, but last fall guitarist Brian "Head" Welch confirmed there will be "new music coming out next year."
Are you ready?
Kublai Khan
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Kublai Khan's spring tour with Sunami, Judiciary and Momentum will leave every city with more broken bones than when they arrived. And it sure would be nice if the Texas mosh mavens had some new material to soundtrack the hurtin' with.
They teased a 2024 release on Instagram late last year, so we know they're scheming something.
Lacuna Coil
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Release Date: TBA
Cristina Scabbia recently told us that what she's most looking forward to in 2024 is a new Lacuna Coil record. The Italian alt-metal group were still in writing mode when we spoke with the singer late last year.
"There're some things that are sounding very Lacuna Coil," she teased of the band's first album since 2019's Black Anima. "And there are other things that are completely different."
Limp Bizkit
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Since the Halloween 2021 release of their last album, Still Sucks, Limp Bizkit have been riding high, headlining major festivals, bringing cool young bands out on tour with them, and breaking the internet with hilarious and bizarre new stage outfits.
According to guitarist Wes Borland, 2024 could bring new music. "We want to get recording," he told Guitar World last spring. "We're talking about a travel destination to make an album together next year. We're looking at places, so new music… yessir!"
Keep the dad vibes going.
Loathe
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Release Date: TBA
Loathe frontman Kadeem France told us a new album is "absolutely" coming down the pike in 2024. What's more, the singer thinks the new songs they've written are "honestly some of the best music I've listened to in a long time."
The U.K. band's Deftones-y metalcore breakthrough, I Let It in and It Took Everything, was one of 2020's best albums, so France's enthusiasm has us beyond stoked.
Mastodon
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Release Date: TBA
Guitarist Bill Kelliher said last fall that it's "past time" to record a new Mastodon album, the follow-up to 2021 double-album Hushed and Grim, and that he hopes it gets underway early this year.
As for the direction it might take, this is Mastodon we're talking about — so there's a wide range of possibilities.
"We've talked about doing like a punk-rock album where it's much quicker, faster, straight to the punch, kind of really fast music," Kelliher said. "We've talked about rock operas, we've talked about soundscapes."
Ministry
Title: HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES
Release Date: March 1st
"A lot of people say artists and athletes should shut up and play ball. No, I'm on this trip, too. If I see something, I say something. That reflects on where each album goes." So said industrial kingpin Al Jourgensen last August when announcing Ministry's upcoming 16th LP.
As promised, HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES is packed with politically charged invectives. It's also packed with guest appearances, including features by COC and Down's Pepper Keenan and Dead Kennedys icon Jello Biafra.
Mudvayne
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
After reforming in 2021, Mudvayne revealed to Revolver in 2022 that they were kicking around ideas for new music, which would mark the nu-metal mutants' first since their 2009 self-titled album.
This past fall, singer Chad Gray gave Australia's Heavy Magazine an update, noting that Mudvayne have some demos done, and "you can tell it's special."
We can't wait to dig in.
Nails
Title: TBA
Release Date: Summer
After 2016's snarling You Will Never Be One of Us, Nails played out here and there for a few years and then dipped. The hardcore extremists haven't gigged or dropped music in the 2020s, but mastermind Todd Jones finally confirmed LP No. 4 is coming this summer via Nuclear Blast.
Kurt Ballou engineered it, so you know it's going to tear your face off — in a good way.
Ozzy Osbourne
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
After 2022's Patient No. 9, Ozzy pledged to "go out on the fucking road and never come home again." Unfortunately, his ongoing health issues waylaid those plans for the foreseeable future, but he refuses to sit still.
"I've done two albums fairly recently," he said last fall. "But I want to do one more album [with producer Andrew Watt] and then go back on the road."
P.O.D.
Title: Veritas
Release Date: TBA
P.O.D. have friends in heavy places, and they've called in a couple for their upcoming 10th album: Randy Blythe and Tatiana Shmayluk, vocalists of Lamb of God and Jinjer, respectively.
Blythe guests on the nu-metal rager "Drop," Shmayluk on the sing-along anthem "Afraid to Die." Both bode well for P.O.D.'s Veritas, their first full-length in six years.
Power Trip
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Power Trip lead guitarist Blake Ibanez started teasing a new album in 2022 — their first without late frontman Riley Gale — and then he went mum on the subject in 2023. But the band's surprise reunion set (with Skourge/Fugitive frontman Seth Gilmore on the mic) last month raised our suspicions once again.
"I think everybody that enjoyed Nightmare Logic will really like it," Ibanez said in 2022 of the thrash crew's unheard material. Count us in.
The Pretty Reckless
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
According to Taylor Momsen, the Pretty Reckless "stepped foot into a studio" back in early 2023, so the grungy hard-rock band's "next chapter" is long underway.
Momsen and Co. haven't spilled any further details on the Death By Rock and Roll follow-up, but the singer-songwriter said they're "super, super excited" about the new material. And the band wished fans a happy new year with the following message: "May 2024 bring new hope and new adventures for us all... and mostly… new music!!!"
Shadows Fall
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Shadows Fall reunited onstage in 2021 and then spent last year recording their first new material since 2012's Fire in the Sky LP.
The metalcore OGs are working with producer Zeuss, and the brief in-studio clip they posted last fall boasted some high-powered shredding. The simple, tantalizing caption? "New Shadows Fall coming along."
Slaughter to Prevail
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
The Florida-via-Russia deathcore troupe released the heavy-as-hell "Viking" single last July, and then started tracking drums for the full album in August. They haven't offered any more updates since then, but frontman Alex Terrible told Revolver in our Winter 2023 cover story that the working title is Hate Is in the Air.
Expect demonic vibes.
Slipknot
Title: Look Outside Your Window
Release Date: TBA
While the possibility for a brand-new Slipknot album is also on the table, we've already gotten Shawn "Clown" Crahan's word that the 'Knot's long-awaited unreleased "Radiohead vibe" album is coming this year. Recorded during the All Hope Is Gone sessions and shelved for over 15 years, Look Outside Your Window has been a Maggot white whale for what feels like an eon.
Speed
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Australia's top hardcore export rose to international prominence on the backs of 2022's gnarsty EP Gang Called Speed. They currently have a reputation for world-class mayhem at their live shows, and the scene is hungry for whatever they have cooking under the hood.
The time is right for more Speed.
Spiritbox
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Since the 2021 release of their star-making debut LP, Eternal Blue, Spiritbox enjoyed a short-and-quick approach with two EPs, 2022's Rotoscope and 2023's The Fear of Fear. This year, they'll focus on the full-length format once again.
"We want to prove it to ourselves that we can do another album and it's gonna go well," singer Courtney LaPlante told us in late 2023. "I thought that having some sort of success in the first one would make me feel like I've proved it to myself. But in fact it's just made us even more driven and on-edge."
Static-X
Title: Project: Regeneration Vol. 2
Release Date: January 26th
The current iteration of Static-X — featuring the band's OG lineup plus masked vocalist-guitarist Xer0 — has served as a tribute to the "Evil Disco" industrialists' late frontman Wayne Static, who died in 2014. The two-part Project: Regeneration series features Static's final vocal performances and musical compositions, so Vol. 2 represents the closing of a chapter.
Where the band goes from here, fans will have to wait and see.
Serj Tankian
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Serj Tankian die-hards can expect not one but two new EPs from the System of a Down frontman this year.
One is a "collaboration-and-covers record," he revealed to us, and the other is a solo "rock" EP that boasts unused songs spanning his whole career — including one from the early SOAD days "that for some reason never fit anywhere."
Testament
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
A new Testament album with Dave Lombardo on the drums was supposed to land in 2023, but things changed. Since then, Lombardo was replaced behind the kit by Chris Dovas, but the group's first record since 2020 is underway.
"We turned Nashville into Thrashville," Testament posted from the studio just last month. "Get ready, Legions!"
TOOL
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
TOOL took 13 long years to release their last album, 2019's magisterial Fear Inoculum, but the prog-metal titans seem determined to take much less time on its follow-up.
Bassist Justin Chancellor recently told Revolver, "Time is precious now, so you try and look for ways to be more efficient... We've had a lot of discussion about that and how we can bring a new record to fruition in a slightly different way." Meanwhile, drummer Danny Carey has repeatedly spoken of a possible EP.
Could 2024 be the year? We're not holding our breaths, but hope springs eternal.
Turnstile
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Thus far, Turnstile have released an album every three years (2015's Nonstop Feeling, 2018's Time & Space and 2021's Glow On). So while the reigning leaders of hardcore haven't said a peep about fresh tunes, they're on schedule for another stage-dive-able masterpiece in 2024.
These guys have never failed to "KEEP. IT. MOVE-ING."
Wage War
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Florida metalcore mainstays Wage War released an album every two years between 2017 and 2021, so now they're overdue.
Having toured with everyone from Slipknot and Three Days Grace to their hometown peers in A Day to Remember over the last few years, surely these Ocala boys are feeling the inspiration to go bigger and bolder than ever before.
YOB
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
YOB's last album, 2018's transcendent Our Raw Heart, was inspired by the serious health issues and near-death experience suffered by main man Mike Scheidt in early 2017.
The doom-metal lifers closed out 2023 with two December shows in their hometown of Eugene, Oregon. 2024 could bring Our Raw Heart's long-awaited follow-up, which would be the band's first release with new drummer Dave French.
Rob Zombie
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
As of spring 2023, Rob Zombie said his impending follow-up to 2021's The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy was "going good."
It'll be the monster-metal maestro's first in nearly 20 years without longtime guitarist John 5, who joined Mötley Crüe in early 2023 and was replaced in Zombie's lineup by his OG axman Mike Riggs, who played on Hellbilly Deluxe and The Sinister Urge.
