Mark your calendars: rock album releases for 2009

Before you complain that they forgot a lot of bands, this a hard rock/metal/death metal/emo/rock/etc. site. Not many bands that Current features will not be on the list.

Here's a run down of what's coming out:

January

1/6
Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing (Live in Germany)
Woe of Tyrants – Kingdom of Might
Desolation House – Self-Titled

1/13
Crooked X – Self-Titled
(hed) PE – Ordo Ab Chao
Kreator – Hordes Of Chaos
Saxon – Into The Labyrinth
Royal Bliss – Life In-Between
Too Pure To Die – Confess
Metallica – Collectors Box Set

1/20
John Frusciante – The Empyrean
Reel Big Fish - Fame, Fortune and Fornication
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder – Living For Death
The Kinks – Beat, Beat, Beat DVD
Various Artists – Jimi Hendrix Tribute: Third Stone From the Sun

1/27
Rush – Retrospective 3 CD/DVD
Sepultura – A-LEX
Despised Icon – Montreal Assault Live DVD
Bruce Springsteen – Working on a Dream
Hoobastank – For(n)ever
Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
Grave Digger – Ballads of a Hangman

Other Tentative January Releases
Grave Digger – Ballads of a Hangman
Combichrist – Today We Are All Demons


February

2/3
Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague
The Fray – Self-Titled
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Lonely Road
Chris Cornell - Scream

2/10
Luna Mortis – The Absence
Iron Butterfly – Concert and Documentary DVD

2/24
Lamb of God – Wrath
God Forbid – Earthsblood
Hatebreed – For the Lions

Other Tentative February Releases
U2 – No Line on the Horizon
Third Eye Blind – Ursa Major
Dark Moor - Autumnal


March

3/10
New Found Glory – Without A Fight
Testament – Live at Eindhoven

3/24
The Decemberists – Hazards of Love

3/31
Silverstein – Currently Untitled

Other Tentative March Releases
Madina Lake – Attics To Eden


April

4/14
Dave Matthews Band – Currently Untitled

4/21
Chimaira – Currently Untitled


Early 2009

Anthrax – Worship Music
Poison The Well – Currently Untitled
Mastodon – Crack the Skye
Killswitch Engage – Currently Untitled
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Currently Untitled
Our Lady Peace – Escape Artist
Megadeth – Currently Untitled
Queensryche – American Soldier
Deftones - Eros
Hurt – Goodbye To The Machine
Lacuna Coil – Shallow Life
Candlemass – Currently Untitled
Dream Theater – Currently Untitled
Rx Bandits – Currently Untitled
Blessthefall – Currently Untitled
Duff McKagan’s Loaded - Sick


Late 2009

Slash – Currently Untitled
Good Charlotte - Cardiology
Portugal. The Man – Currently Untitled
KoRn – Currently Untitled
Alice In Chains – Currently Untitled
Rammstein – Currently Untitled
Angels and Airwaves – Currently Untitled
Alexisonfire – Currently Untitled
Jimmy Eat World – Currently Untitled
KISS – Currently Untitled
Coldplay – Currently Untitled
Down – Down IV
Flaming Lips – Currently Untitled
Iron Maiden – Currently Untitled
Deep Purple – Currently Untitled
No Doubt – Currently Untitled