Hard Rock and Metal New Releases — March 2011

We're about to be three months into 2011, and as the winter chill burns off, an influx of hard rock and metal releases are on their way. The economy is looking up and metal certainly is not in any sort of recession. All metal subgenres are well represented this March, which won't be a boring month for metal fiends.

Children of Bodom will shred their way back into our lives with 'Relentless Reckless Forever,' while Jag Panzer will soar their way to new heights along with the techy metal mathematicians of the Human Abstract, who will deliver 'The Scourge of Light' and 'Digital Veil,' respectively, on March 8.

March 15 brings the rap-metal stylings of Gold-sellers Hollywood Undead alongside the dirty Southern sounds of Weedeater. Trap Them's 'Darker Handcraft' is also on tap that week. No two albums on shelves this particular week sound alike.

TesseracT and Born of Osiris emerge from the underground on March 22, as do Swedish metal stalwarts the Haunted and Canadian forward thinkers Protest the Hero.

March 29 is blackened by Lightning Swords of Death and concussed by Cavalera Conspiracy, who are on their second record. Viking metallers Amon Amarth will pillage with 'Surtur Rising' on this day as well.

March is more metal than a mouthful of cavities.

March 1, 2011

American Heritage -- 'Sedentary' (Translation Loss)

Dying Fetus -- 'Grotesque Impalement' Re-Release (Relapse)

Dying Fetus -- 'Killing on Adrenaline' Re-Release (Relapse)

Omnium Gatherum -- 'New World Shadows' (Lifeforce)

Rwake -- 'Hell Is a Door to the Sun Re-Release' (Relapse)

Scale the Summit -- 'Collective' (Prosthetic)

March 8, 2011

Bloodshot -- 'Murder the World' (Scarlet)

Children of Bodom -- 'Relentless Reckless Forever' (Universal)

Condemned -- 'Condemned 2 Death' (Nuclear Blast)

The Georgian Skull -- 'Mother Armageddon, Healing Apocalypse' (Scarlet)

The Human Abstract -- 'Digital Veil' (E1) J

Jag Panzer -- 'The Scourge of the Light' (SPV)

Long Distance Calling -- 'Long Distance Calling' (Superball)

Trust Company -- 'Dreaming in Black and White' (E1)

Turisas -- 'Stand Up and Fight' (Century Media)

Wino -- 'Adrift' (Exile on Mainstream)

March 15, 2011

Across the Sun -- 'Before the Night Takes Us' (Metal Blade)

As Blood Runs Black -- 'Instict' (Mediaskare)

Cannibal Corpse -- 'Global Evisceration DVD' (Metal Blade)

Deadlock -- 'Bizarro World' (Lifeforce)

Hollywood Undead -- 'American Tragedy' (A&M)

Ken Mode -- 'Venerable' (Profound Lore)

Kvelertak -- 'Kvelertak' (The End)

Rotten Sound -- 'Cursed' (Relapse)

Trap Them -- 'Darker Handcraft' (Prosthetic)

Weedeater -- 'Jason...the Dragon' (Southern Lord)

March 22, 2011

Agnostic Front -- 'My Life, My Way' (Nuclear Blast)

Assassin -- 'Breaking the Silence' (SPV)

Born of Osiris -- 'The Discovery' (Sumerian)

The Haunted -- 'Unseen' (Century Media)

My Inner Burning -- 'Eleven Scars' (SPV)

Odd Dimension -- 'Symmetrical' (Scarlet)

Protest the Hero -- 'Scurrilous' (Vagrant)

Straight Line Stitch -- 'The Fight of Our Lives' (E1)

Tesseract -- 'One' (Century Media)

Woods of Ypres -- 'Woods IV: The Green Album' (Earache)

March 29, 2011

Amon Amarth -- 'Surtur Rising' (Metal Blade)

Beardfish -- 'Mammoth' (InsideOut)

Benighted -- 'Asylum Cave' (Season of Mist)

Cavalera Conspiracy -- 'Blunt Force Trauma' (Roadrunner)

Clutch -- 'Blast Tyrant Re-Release' (Weathermaker)

Goes Cube -- 'In Tides and Drifts' (The End)

Lightning Swords of Death -- 'The Extra Dimensional Wound' (Metal Blade)

Mercenary -- 'Metamorphosis' (Prosthetic)

Obscura -- 'Omnivium' (Relapse) Of Legends -- 'Stranded' (Season of Mist)

Ommatidia -- 'In This Life, or the Next' (Season Of Mist)

True Widow -- 'As High as the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth' (Kemado)

Whitesnake -- 'Forevermore' (Frontiers)

Within Temptation -- 'The Unforgiving' (Roadrunner)