What New Albums are Coming Up in 2018? Here’s What We Know So Far [UPDATE]
Now that we’re almost done with 2017, it’s time to seriously start looking at what the year ahead has in store. Thanks to my friends Jack and Sarah at Teknicolor Marketing out of Cleveland, here’s a preview of what we know of 2018 so far.
January 12
Arcade Fire, “Put Your Money On Me” 12-Inch
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Wrong Creatures
Black Veil Brides, Vale
The Neighbourhood, Imagine EP
January 19
Anvil, Pounding the Pavement
Bahamas, Earthtones
Belle and Sebastian, How to Solve Our Human Problems (Part 2)
Black Label Society, Grimmest Hits
Fall Out Boy, MANIA
First Aid Kit, Ruins
Kimbra, Primal Heart
Meat Beat Manifesto, LiE
Moon Taxi, Let The Record Play
Of Monsters and Men, Defy
Porches, The House
The Go! Team, Semicircle
They Might Be Giants, I Like Fun
tUnE-yArDs, I can feel you creep into my private life
January 26
Calexico, The Thread That Keeps Us
Django Django, Marble Skies
Loudness, Rise to Glory
Machine Head, Catharsis
Mimicking Birds, Layers of Us
Nightmares On Wax, Shape The Future
Ty Seagull, Freedom’s Goblin
Simple Minds, Walk Between Worlds
Sleeping Giant, I Am
2 February 2018
AWOLNATION, Here Come The Runts
Don Broco, Technology
Field Music, Open Here
DZ Deathrays, Bloody Lovely
Hookworms, Microshift
Milk & Bone, Deception Bay
Rae Morris, Someone Out There
Rhye, BLOOD
February 9
Brian Fallon, Sleepwalkers
Dashboard Confessional, Crooked Shadows
Franz Ferdinand, Always Ascending
Fu Manchu, Clone Of The Universe
Gogo Penguin, A Humdrum Star
Good Tiger, I Will Be Gone
Holy Motors, Slow Sundown
Joan as Police Woman, Damned Devotion
Legend Of The Seagullmen, Legend of the Seagullmen
Son Lux, Brighter Wounds
The Wombats, Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life
February 16
Belle & Sebastian, How To Solve Our Human Problems (Part 3)
Born Ruffians, Uncle, Duke & The Chief
Escape The Fate, I Am Human
Fischerspooner, Sir
I’m With Her, See You Around
Loma, Loma
Marlon Williams, Make Way For Love
Neal Morse Life & Times
Ought, Room Inside The World
Pianos Become the Teeth, Wait For Love
Pop Evil, Pop Evil
Senses Fail, If There Is Light It Will Find You
Superchunk, What A Time To Be Alive
U.S. Girls, In A Poem Unlimited
Wild Beasts, Last Night All My Dreams Came True
February 23
Caroline Rose, LONER
Darlingside, Extralife
The Family, Crest The War: Act 1
Fever Ray, Plunge
Lionlimb, Tape Recorder
Janiva Magness, Love Is A Army
S. Carey, Hundred Acres
Screaming Females, All At Once
Young Jesus, Young Jesus
March 2
Andrew W.K., You’re Not Alone
Anna Burch, Quit The Curse
Anna von Hausswolff, Dead Magic
Buffalo Tom, Quiet and Peace
Camp Cope, How To Socialize and Make Friends
Lucy Dacus, Historian
Death Ween Group, Deaner Rock 2
Heaven, All Love Is Blue
Moby, Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt
Mt. Joy, Mt Joy
Rolo Tomassi, Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
March 9
David Byrne, American Utopia
Gengahr, Where Wildness Grows
Jimi Hendrix, Both Sides of the Sky
The Fratellis, In Your Own Sweet Time
Ministry, Amerikkkant
Myles Kennedy, Year Of The Tiger
Tax, The Heat Change Your Position
March 23
Guided By Voices, Space Gun
Lissie, Castles
Rick Parfitt, Over and Out (Posthumous Release)
March 30
The Vaccines, Combat Sports
April 6
Manic Street Preachers, Resistance is Futile
May 18
Echo & the Bunnymen, Stars, The Oceans & The Moon
As for the rest of the year, we can expect material from:
- The 1975
- A Perfect Circle
- Arctic Monkeys
- Bastille
- Travis Barker
- Barns Courtney
- Belly
- The Blue Stones
- Black Label Society
- The Breeders
- Bring Me The Horizon
- Bullet For My Valentine
- Cane Hill Too Far Gone
- Car Seat Headrest
- Julian Casablancas & The Voidz
- Castlecomer
- Catfish & the Bottlemen
- Craig David
- The English Beat MARCH
- I Prevail
- Interpol
- Judas Priest, Firepower (March)
- Jungle
- Major Lazer
- Paul McCartney
- MGMT
- Muse (first quarter)
- My Bloody Valentine
- My Morning Jacket
- Nine Inch Nails
- ONR
- Panic! At the Disco
- Parade of Lights
- Peace
- The Prodigy
- The Record Company (Concord)
- Rise Against (Capitol)
- The Offspring
- Slipknot
- Bruce Springsteen
- Stone Temple Pilots (With new singer Jeff Gutt)
- The Sword Used Future
- Tool (We can only hope.)
- Vampire Weekend Mitsubishi Macchiato
- Vesperteen
- Jack White, Boarding House Reach
- The Word Alive (Fearless)
- Charli XCX
Machine Head’s new record “Catharsis”, to be released January 28
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/robb-flynn-discusses-machine-heads-very-grooving-and-melodic-new-album-catharsis-this-isnt-us-at-our-heaviest/
Judas Priest’s new record “Firepower” to be released in January 2018 (probably), with a tour to follow.
http://loudwire.com/judas-priest-2018-north-american-tour-new-album-firepower/