2025 is upon us and it is always fun anticipating what new albums will come out in the year. Since today would normally be a Friday New Release post, let’s look at the new releases coming our way in 2025. There are quite a few we already know about, but some haven’t been officially announced or even a date set yet.

Last year, there were a few artist I was hoping would release an album that might have or might not have released one.  It is always fun to hope for new music from these bands, but sometimes there are disappointments.  Here are the ones I was hoping to get new albums from last year and what actually happened…

• Def Leppard – It is time for The Collection Vol. 4!! Come on boys, give it to us!! Or a new album…whichever you want. Well – we didn’t get a new album, but we got a new live album ‘One Night Only: Live at the Leadmill’ which was pretty great.  
• Kiss – I will keep this on the list until I die!!  Time to start up more Soundboard LPs or another box set…give us something! Still nothing!! No new album, no more Soundboards LPs and not even a release of The Final Show from MSG…come on guys (or label) and hurry it up. Give us something other than Anniversary Editions with nothing new.
• Guns ‘N Roses – Rumors, Rumors, Rumors!!  Will we ever get a new album! – Still nothing…no new albums…more tour announcements. Honestly, I don’t really care anymore so what.
• Aldo Nova – He keeps talking about a 2CD set for over 3 years and still nothing much, but will he get around to releasing the full Life & Times of Eddie Gage? I hope so. – Nothing at all from him in 2024 but live shows.  Dude!! Where is the new music???
• Bon Jovi – A new album WITH RICHIE SAMBORA!!! – No, no Richie album, but we got a new album with ‘Forever’ and it wasn’t half bad.  Still waiting on that 40th Anniversary Box Set!!
• Robbie Williams – Hey Robbie, time for a new pop album…no more Trance please!! – No new album but at the end of the year he released a Biopic with his character as a monkey. Movie will get a wide release in 2025 and a soundtrack…which is on order.

Okay, are there albums I want to see this year from some of my favorite bands that haven’t been announced or in some cases even rumored?  Of course there are.  These are the bands I want new albums from this year…but it might not happen.

• Def Leppard – It is time for The Collection Vol. 4!! Come on boys, give it to us!! Or a new album…whichever you want.
• Kiss – I will keep this on the list until I die!!  Time to start up more Soundboard LPs or another box set…give us something! Even give us the Blu Ray of the final Kiss show that I was at, that would be awesome too!!
• Guns ‘N Roses – Rumors, Rumors, Rumors!!  Will we ever get a new album! Do we even care anymore? Not really, but I’ll keep on the list.
• Aldo Nova – He keeps talking about a 2CD set for over 3 years and still nothing much, but will he get around to releasing the full Life & Times of Eddie Gage? I hope so.
• Billy Idol – There are rumors of a new album and even Steve Stevens showed a test pressing..could it be??!!
• Paul Laine – In 2024, there were rumors of a solo album and a full Jet City Junkies release…please…please…Give us both!!!
• Creed – They had a massively successful tour in 2024 and it will continue in 2025…will there be new music? Oh, please say it will be so!

From what I have gathered around the internet, here are the bands that should have new albums out in 2025 or are rumored, but no dates announced yet. The ones I would give a try will be highlighted in Blue. The ones with Dates Announced are at the bottom of this post. The list is building up nicely!!

• Ace Frehley – Origins, Vol. 3
• Adler
• Aldo Nova
• Anthrax
• Armored Saint
• ASAP Rocky – Dont’ Be Dumb
• Bad Company
• Black Label Society
• Blake Shelton
• Billy Idol
• Blondie
• Brian Wilson – Cows in the Pasture
• Bruce Sprinsteen
• Bullet for My Valentine
• Cake
• Car Seat Headrest
• Charlie Puth
• Chris Robinson
• Chris Young
• Clipping
• Clipse
• Corrosion of Conformity
• Cradle of Filth
• Dark Angel
• David Crosby
• Death Angel
• Def Leppard
• Don Airey
  Eric Church
• Exodus
• Fear Factory
• Finger Eleven
• Finn Wolfhard
• Flock of Seagulls
• Forbidden
• Garbage
• George Clinton
• Glenn Hughes
• Guns N’ Roses
• Helloween
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Joe Lynn Turner
• Joe Walsh
• Kesha
• Kinks
• Krokus
• Lady Gaga
• L.A. Guns
• Lana Del Rey
• Last in Line
• LCD Soundsystem
• Lemmy Kilmister
• Living Colour
• Mammoth WVH
• Matt Nathanson
• Megadeth
• Metal Church
• Mick Mars w/ John Corabi
• Miley Cyrus – Something Beautiful
• Morgan Wallen
• Motley Crue
• Morrissey
• Neil Young – Ragged Glory (Expanded Edition)
• Nine Inch Nails
• Noisecontrollers – Harmony
• Oasis
• Primus
• Rihanna
• Robert Plant
• Roger Waters
• Running Wild
• Saweetie – Pretty Bitch Music
• Sophie Ellis-Bextor
• Sparks
• Steve Perry
• Steven Wilson
• Styx
• Superheaven
• Testament
• Tony Iommi
• Triptykon
• Trouble
• U2
• W.A.S.P.
• Whiplash
• ZZ Top

And here is everything that has been announced so far…

JANUARY

• JANUARY 3RD

  • Paleface Swiss – Cursed – (Blood Blast Distribution)
  • Patriarkh – Prophet Ilja – (Napalm Records)

• JANUARY 10th

  • Tremonti – The End Will Show Us How – (Napalm Records)
  • Franz Ferdinand – The Human Fear – (Domino Record Co.)
  • Ringo Starr – Look Up – (Lost Highway Records / Rockabella / UMG Recordings)
  • The Halo Effect – March of the Unheard – (Nuclear Blast)
  • Magnum – Live at KK’s Steel Mill – (Steamhammer)
  • Stick To Your Guns – Keep Planting Flowers – (Sharptone)
  • Ben Barnes – Where the Light Gets In – (Ben Barnes)
  • Lambrini Girls – Who Let The Dogs Out – (City Slang)
  • Moonchild Sanelly – Full Moon – (Transgressive)
  • Krokofant – 6 – (Is It Jazz? Records)
  • Fynn Kliemann – Tod – (twoFinger Records)
  • Mon Rovîa – Act 4: Atonement – (Nettwerk Music Group)

• JANUARY 17TH

  • W.A.S.P. – 7 Savage: 1984-1992 (Box Set) – (Madfish Records)
  • David Gray – Dear Life – (Laugh A Minute Records)
  • Mac Miller – Balloonerism – (Warner Records)
  • Steve Hackett – Live Magic at Trading Boundaries – (InsideOutMusic)
  • The Weather Station – Humanhood – (Fat Possum Records)
  • Tokyo Blade – Time Is the Fire – (Dissonance)
  • Eidola – Mend – (Blue Swan Records / Rise Records)
  • Dark Fortress – Anthems From Beyond the Grave: Live in Europe 2023 – (Century Media Records)
  • Grave Digger – Bone Collector – (ROAR)
  • Sarcator – Swarming Angels & Flies – (Century Media Records)
  • Television Personalities – Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out: Radio Sessions 1980-1983 – (Fire Records)
  • Delivery – Force Majeure – (Heavenly Recordings / [PIAS])
  • Dear Seattle – Toy – (Domestic La La)
  • Echos – QUIET, IN YOUR SERVICE – (Outlast Records)
  • Ela Minus – DIA – (Domino Recording Co)
  • jasmine.4.t – You Are The Morning – (Saddest Factory Records)
  • Rebecca Black – SALVATION – (Rebecca Black)
  • Rose Gray – Louder Please – (Play It Again Sam)
  • Sophie Jamieson – I still want to share – (Sophie Jamieson)
  • Victoria Canal – Slowly, It Dawns – (Polygram)
  • Wafia – Promised Land – (Heartburn Records / Nettwerk Music Group)
  • Josh Ward – Same O’l Cowboy, Different Rodeo – (Smith Entertainment)
  • Ricardo Arjona – SECO – (Memorfosis Enterprises/ Interscope)

• JANUARY 24TH

  • Kane Brown – The High Road – (Sony Music Nashville)
  • Eric Clapton – Meanwhile – (Surfdog / Eric Clapton)
  • Larkin Poe – Bloom – (Tricki Woo)
  • Teddy Swims – I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy: Part 2 – (Warner Records)
  • Joey McIntyre – Freedom – (Bowen Arrow Productions)
  • JoJo – NGL – (Clover Music / BMG Rights Mgmt)
  • Mogwai – The Bad Fire – (Temporary Residence)
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter – Looking For The Thread – (Lambent Light Records)
  • Ty Myers – The Select – (Records Label / Columbia Records)
  • Wardruna – Birna – (Fimbilljod Productions / Sony Music)
  • Iggy Pop – Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023 – (earMusic)
  • Dax Riggs – 7 Songs For Spiders – (Bright Shadow / Fat Possum Records)
  • Fleshbore – Painted Paradise – (Transcending Obscurity)
  • High. – Come Back Down – (Kanine Records)
  • The Great Old Ones – Kadath – (Season of Mist)
  • Vukovi – My God Has Got A Gun – (Sharptone)
  • Wildness – Avenger – (Frontiers Records)
  • Riverside – Live ID – (InsideOutMusic)
  • Benjamin Booker – Lower – (Fire Next Time Records / Thirty Tiger)
  • Matt Berry – Heard Noises – (Witchazel / Acid Jazz Acquisitions)
  • FKA Twigs – Eusexua – (Young Recordings / Atlantic Records)
  • Max McNown – Night Diving – (Fugitive Recordings)
  • Horsegiirl – V.I.P. Very Important Pony E.P. – (Three Six Zero Recordings)
  • C. Duncan – It’s Only A Love Song – (Bella Union)

• JANUARY 31st

  • Thin Lizzy – Thin Lizzy: The Acoustic Session – (Universal)
  • Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson & Steve Vai – G3: 25th Anniversary Tour – (EarMusic)
  • Dio – The Very Beast of Dio Vol. 2 – (Niji Entertainment Group / BMG Rights Mgmt)
  • All That Remains – Antifragile – (All That Remains)
  • Kim Wilde – Closer – (Wildflower Records / Cherry Red Records)
  • Manic Street Preachers – Critical Thinking – (Sony Music)
  • The Night Flight Orchestra – Give Us The Moon – (Napalm Records)
  • Chris Harms – 1980 – (Napalm Records)
  • Rory – Restoration – (Sadcore)
  • Pentagram – Lightning In a Bottle – (Heavy Psych Sounds)
  • Great American Ghost – Tragedy of the Commons – (Sharptone)
  • The Hellacopters – Overdriver – (Nuclear Blast)
  • moe. – Circle of Giants – (Fatboy Records / ATO Records)
  • Kilmara – Journey To The Sun – (Roar)
  • Robert Ascroft – Echo Still Remains – (Hand Drawn Dracula)
  • Lilly Hiatt – Forever – (New West Records)
  • Penny & Sparrow – Lefty – (I Love You / Thirty Tigers)
  • Everyone Says Hi – Everyone Says Hi – (Prediction Records / Chrysalis)
  • Thomas Erak & The Ouroboros – (AU) – (Equal Vision Records)
  • L.S. Dunes – Violet – (Fantasy Records)
  • Jonathan Hulten – Eyes of the Living Night – (KScope / Snapper Music)
  • Eddie Chacon – Lay Low – (Stones Throw Records)
  • Thorbjorn Risager & The Black Tornado – House of Sticks – (Mascot Label Group / Provogue)

FEBRUARY

• FEBRUARY 7th

  • Wilder Woods – Curioso – (Dualtone Music Group / MNRK Records)
  • Rush – Rush 50 (Anniversary Super Deluxe) – (Mercury Records / Anthem Records)
  • Will Hoge – Carousel – (Will Hoge)
  • Dave Matthews Band – Where Are You Going: The Singles – (RCA Records / Sony Music)
  • Dream Theater – Parasomnia – (Ytse Jams Inc. / InsideOutMusic)
  • Thundermother – Dirty & Divine – (AFM Records / Soulfood Music Distribution)
  • JohnnySwim – When the War is Over – (Mr And Mrs Swim)
  • Jinjer – Duel – (Napalm Records)
  • Majestica – Power Train – (Nuclear Blast)
  • Death By Unga Bunga – Raw Muscular Power – (Jansen Records)
  • Obscura – A Sonication – (Nuclear Blast)
  • Days of Jupiter – The World Was Never Enough – (Reigning Phoenix Music)
  • Inhaler – Open Wide – (Polydor Records / Universal Music)
  • Squid – Cowards – (Warp Records)
  • Saor – Amidst The Ruins – (Season of Mist)
  • The Rumjacks – Dead Anthems – (Australian Broadcast Company)
  • The Jellybricks – Dreaming in Stereo – (Wicked Cool Records)
  • Sharon Van Etten – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory – (Jagjaguwar)
  • Michigander – Michigander – (Totally Normal Records / Thirty Tigers)
  • Olly Alexander – Polari – (Polydor Records / Universal Music)
  • Biig Piig – 11:11 – (Sony Music)
  • corook – committed to a bit – (Atlantic Records)

• FEBRUARY 14th

  • Lacuna Coil – Sleepless Empire – (Century Media Records / 119 Productions)
  • Gillan – 1978-1982 Deluxe – (Edsel Records)
  • The Velveteers – A Million Knives – (Easy Eye Sound / Concord)
  • Alessia Cara – Love & Hyperbole – (Def Jam Recordings / Universal Recordings)
  • Sidewalk Prophets – Looking Up – (Curb Records)
  • The War And Treaty – Plus One – (Mercury Nashville / UMG)
  • John Lodge – Love Conquers All E.P. – (Halesouth Ltd)
  • Bartees Strange – Horror – (4AD Ltd)
  • Sicksense – Cross Me Twice – (Earache Records)
  • Hangman’s Chair – Saddiction – (Nuclear Blast)
  • Doves – Constellations for the Lonely – (EMI / Universal Music)
  • LoanShark – No Sins To Confess – (Roar)
  • Punk Rock Factory – All Hands On Deck – (Cooking Vinyl)
  • The Wombats – Oh! The Ocean – (AWAL Recordings)
  • Winona Fighter – My Apologies to the Chef – (Rise Records)
  • Mereba – The Breeze Grew A Fire – (Secretly Canadian)
  • Horsegirl – Phonetics On And On – (Matador Records)
  • The Altons – Heartache in Room 14 – (Daptone Records)
  • Bill Medley – Straight From The Heart – (Curb Records)

• FEBRUARY 21st

  • Killswitch Engage – This Consequence – (Metal Blade Records)
  • Tate McRae – So Close To What – (RCA Records / Sony Music)
  • Silverstein – Antibloom – (UNFD)
  • Sam Fender – People Watching – (Polydor Records / Universal Music)
  • Scour – Gold – (Housecore Records)
  • The Murder Capital – Blindness – (Human Seasons Records)
  • Anxious – Bambi – (Run For Cover Records)
  • One Ok Rock – Detox – (Fueled by Ramen / Elektra Music Group)
  • Max Frost – Shelby Ave – (Nettwerk Music Group)
  • Paul Thorn – Life Is Just A Vapor – (Perpetual Obscurity)
  • David Leonard – Just Jesus – (Provident Label Group / Sony Music)
  • Nao – Jupiter – (Little Tokyo Recordings / Sony Music)

• FEBRUARY 28th

  • Architects – The Sky, The Earth & All Between – (Epitaph)
  • Mdou Moctar – Tears of Injustice – (Matador Records)
  • Panda Bear – Sinister Gift – (Domino Record Co.)
  • Avantasia – Here Be Dragons – (Napalm Records)
  • The Devil Makes Three – Spirits – (New West Records)
  • Dark Chapel – Spirit in the Glass – (MNRK Records)
  • Grima – Nightside – (Napalm Records)
  • Brainstorm – Plague of Rats – (Reigning Phoenix Music)
  • Tigercub – The Perfume of Decay (Redux) – (Loosegroove Records)
  • The Chills – Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs – (Fire Records)
  • Bonnie Trash – Mourning You – (Hand Drawn Dracula)
  • Yo La Tengo – Old Joy E.P. – (Mississippi Records)
  • Aaron Mikal – Good Grief E.P. – (La Reserve Records)
  • Eric Bass Presents – I Had A Name – (Eric Bass Presents)
  • Will Wilde – The Blues Is Still Alive – (VizzTone)
  • Ichiko Aoba – Luminescent Creatures – (Hermine / Psychic Hotline)
  • Bradley Simpson – The Panic Years – (Insanity Records / Sony Music)
  • Lisa – Alter Ego – (RCA Records / Lloud Co)
  • Banks – Off With Her Head – (Her Name is Banks, Inc.)
  • Hope Tala – Hope Handwritten – (Jasmine Music / PMR Records / Secretly Distribution)
  • Sean McConnell – Skin – (Silent Desert Music)

MARCH

• MARCH 7TH

  • Smith Kotzen – Black LIght / White Noise – (BMG Rights Mgmt)
  • Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea – (Pale Chord Music / Rise Records)
  • Destruction – Birth of Malice – (Napalm Records)
  • Ricky Warwick – Blood Ties – (Earache Records)
  • Sasami – Blood on the Silver Screen – (Domino Recordings)
  • The Tubs – Cotton Crown – (The Tubs)
  • The Lathums – Matter Does Not Define – (Modern Sky UK)
  • Rose Betts – There is No Ship – (Nettwerk Music Group)
  • Melin Melyn – Mill on the Hill – (Blomonj Ltd)
  • Haley Mae Campbell – Dear Life – (Haley Mae Campbell)

• MARCH 14TH
  • Coheed and Cambria – The Father of Make Believe – (Virgin Music Group)
  • Jon Anderson – Live: Perpetual Change – (Frontiers Records)
  • SOM – Let The Light In – (Pelagic Records)
  • Moonshine Bandits – Confessions of an Outlaw – (Moonshine Bandits)
  • Jason Boland & The Stragglers – The Last Kings of Babylon – (Proud Souls Entertainment / Thirty Tigers)

• MARCH 21ST

  • Lordi – Limited Deaditionfd – (Reigning Phoenix Music)
  • The Horrors – Night Life – (Universal Music / Fiction Records)
  • Floodlights – Underneath – ([PIAS])
  • Old Mervs – Old Mervs – (Dew Process / Universal Music)
  • David Ramirez – All the Not So Gentle Reminders – (Blue Corn Music)

• MARCH 28th

  • The Darkness – Dreams on Toast – (Napalm Records)
  • Sick Puppies – Wave the Bull – (ONErpm)
  • Arch Enemy – Blood Dynasty – (Savage Messiah Music / Century Media)
  • Memphis May Fire – Shapeshifter – (Rise Records)

APRIL

• April 4TH

  • Bleed From Within – Zenith – (Nuclear Blast)

• April 11TH

  • Cabal – Everything Rots – (Nuclear Blast)

• April 25TH

  • Landmvrks – The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been – (Arising Empire)

MAY

• MAY 9TH

  • The Amazons – 21st Century Fiction – (Nettwerk Music Group)

• MAY 16TH

  • Bury Tomorrow – Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience – (Music For Nations)

I am sure a lot will pop up that we have no idea is coming…and that is awesome!! Let me know what you are looking forward to the most in 2025!! And Happy New Year!!