DTF 2021 Release Date Calendar

[SoundscapeMN]

The 2021 Titles and Anticipation are starting to show up more, so here's the new 2021 Albums Calendar Topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2021_albums
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/coming-soon/date

January
1: The Dirty Nil - Fuck Art
8: Magnum – Dance of the Black Tattoo
8: Sammy Hagar and the Circle – Lockdown 2020
8: The Lickerish Quartet - Threesome Vol., 2 (Digital. The Vinyl/CD coming in March)
13: Giraffe - Giraffe Box Set
13: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Pukebox (EP)
15: Voodoo Circle - Locked & Loaded
21: The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Last Great Thunderstorm Warnings
22: Creye - II
22: The Dead Daisies – Holy Ground
22: Steve Hackett - Under A Mediterranean Sky
22: Here Lies Man - Ritual Divination
22: LABYRINTH - Welcome To The Absurd Circus
22: Scarred - Scarred
22: Therion - Leviathan
22: Typhoon - Sympathetic Magic
22: W.E.T. - Retransmission
22: WIG WAM - Never Say Die
29: Accept - Too Mean To Die
29: Need - Norchestrion: A Song For the End
29: Michael Schenker Group – Immortal
29: Soen – Imperial
29: Tribulation - Where the Gloom Becomes Sound
29: Weezer - OK Human
29: Steven Wilson - The Future Bites

February
2: Radical Face - Hidden Hollow, Vol. One - Singles
5: Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
5: Cult of Luna - The Raging River
5: Foo Fighters - Medicine At Midnight
5: Ken Hensley – My Book of Answers
5: Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe
12: Arc of Life - Arc of Life
12: James Durbin - The Beast Awakens
12: God is an Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10
12: Joel Hoekstra's 13 - Running Games
12: Inglorious – We Will Ride
12: Kreek - Kreek
12: The Pretty Reckless – Death By Rock and Roll
12: Timmy Sean - A Tale from the Other Side
12: SIMULACRUM - Genesis
12: Sirenia - Riddles, Ruins & Revelations
12: Thunder – All the Right Noises
19: Lake Of Tears Ominous
19: Mogwai - As the Love Continues
19: Ricky Warwick – When Life Was Hard And Fast
25: Vektor / Cryptosis - Transmissions of Chaos EP (Split)
26: A.C.T - Heatwave (EP)
26: Alice Cooper - Detroit Stories
26: Anneke van Giersbergen - The Darkest Skies are the Brightest
26: Architects - Those That Wish To Exist
26: Epica – Omega
26: Evergrey - Escape Of The Phoenix
26: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - L. W.
26: Long Distance Calling - Ghost [EP]
26: Steve Lukather - I Found The Sun Again
26: Moonspell - Hermitage
26: NOFX - Single Album
26: Of Mice & Men - Timeless EP
26: Joseph Williams - Denizen Tenant
26: Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Way Down In The Rust Bucket [Live album]

March
5: The Anchoress - The Art of Losing
5: Chevelle - Niratias
5: A Day to Remember - You're Welcome
5: Kings Of Leon - When You See Yourself
5: Mason Hill – Against The Wall
5: Pat Metheny - Road to the Sun
5: of Montral - I Feel Safe With You, Trash
5: Courtney Swain - FountainHead
5: Witherfall - Curse of Autumn
12: Ronnie Atkins - One Shot
12: Dark Heavens - Nuclear Eagle
12: Heart Healer - The Metal Opera by Magnus Karlsson
12: Ordan Ogan - Final Days
12: Saga - Symmetry
12: Secret Sphere - Lifeblood
12: Stortregn - Impermanence
12: Sunstorm - Afterlife
12: Thunder – All the Right Noises
12: Rob Zombie – The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy
19: Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails over the Country Club
19: Dvne - Etemen Ænka
19: Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm
19: Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 2: The Golden Orb
19: Mono - Beyond the Past • Live in London with the Platinum Anniversary Orchestra
19: Saxon – Inspirations
19: Ringo Starr - Zoom In
19: Sting - Duets
26: Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow (reissue CD + DVD)
26: Evanescence - The Bitter Truth
26: The Hirsch Effekt - GREGÆR (EP)
26: Gleb Kolyadin  - Water Movements
26: The Reign of Kindo - Wither [EP/Single]
26: Jasun Tipton - The Dream to Fly
26: Tomahawk - Tonic Immobility
26: Wheel - Resident Human

April
1: Isla - The Mediterranean Gardener
2: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee At STATE'S END!
9: Blaze Bayley - War within me
9: Devil Sold His Soul - Loss
9: Kauan - Ice Fleet
15: Kevin Gilbert - Call Me Kai
16: Dark Horse White Horse - Dark Horse White Horse [EP]
16: Marty Friedman / Tokyo Jukebox 3
16: Greta Van Fleet – The Battle at Garden's Gate
16: Hail the Sun - New Age Filth
16: Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 3
16: Motorpsycho - Kingdom Of Oblivion
16: Andy Stott - Never the Right Time
23: Art d'Ecco - In Standard Definition
23: Bruno Pernada - Private Reasons
23: Ciccada - Harvest
23: Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space
23: The Mars Volta - La Realidad De Los Sueños (Vinyl Box Set)
23: The Mars Volta - Landscape Tantrums (Stream)
23: Neptunian Maximalism - Solar Drone Ceremony
23: Odal - Welten Mutter
23: Paysage d'Hiver - Geister
23: Porter Robinson - Nurture
23: The Prize Fighter Inferno - The City Introvert
23: Spectral Lore - Ετερόφωτος
25: The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra - Flirting with Chaos
30: The Coral - Coral Island
30: Gojira - Fortitude
30: Mick Fleetwood & Friends – Mick Fleetwood & Friends Celebrate the Music of Peter Green & The Early Years of Fleetwood Mac
30: Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God
30: Michael Nesmith - Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings
30: Royal Blood - Typhoons
30: Vienna Circle - Secrets of the Rising Sun
30: Steve Von Till - A Deep Voiceless Wilderness
30: Vreid - Wild North West


May
4: Marillion - With Friends At St. David's
7: Squid - Bright Green Field
7: Weezer - Van Weezer
11: Teramaze- Sorella Minore
14: Dordeduh - Har
14: Frost* - Day And Age
14: Myles Kennedy - The Ides of March
14: Scott Mathews - New Skin
14: Subterranean Masquerade - Mountain Fever
15: Ours - The Bella Fall
15: Ours - Ours
21: Micky Dolenz - Sings Nesmith
21: Gary Numan - Intruder
21: VOLA - Witness
26: black midi - Cavalcade
28: The Flight of Sleipnir - Eventide
28: Perturbator - Lustful Sacraments
28: Silver Lake (By Esa Holopainen) - Silver Lake

June
1: Hannes Grossmann - To Where the Light Retreats
4: Crowded House - Dreamers Are Waiting
4: Giant Sky - Giant Sky
4: Paul Gilbert - Werewolves of Portland
4: Rise Against - Nowhere Generation
9: Tokyo Jihen - 音楽 (Music) (Ongaku)
11: Azure - Of Brine And Angel's Beaks
11: Danny Elfman - Big Mess
11: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021)
11: Garbage - No Gods No Masters
11: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000
11: Mr. Bungle - The Night They Came Home
11: Paradigm Blue - Transist
18: Helloween - Helloween
18: Kings Of Convenience - Peace or Love
18: Styx: Crash Of The Crown
18: Timo Tolkki's Avalon - The Enigma Birth
25: Dream Theater - Live In Japan 2017
25: William Fitzsimmons - Ready the Astronaut
25: Nemophila - Oiran - extended release
25: Thy Catafalque - Vadak

July
2: At the Gates - The Nightmare of Being
2: Justice Cow - Underglam
9: Hardline - Heart, Mind and Soul
9: Hybrid - Black Halo
16: Matt Bellamy - Cryosleep
16: John Mayer - Sob Rock
16: Ours - Ballet the Boxer I [Remastered/Reimagined]
16: Resurrection Kings - Skygazer
16: Umphrey's McGee - You Walked Up Shaking in Your Boots but You Stood Tall and Left a Raging Bull
23: Dream Theater - A Dramatic Tour of Events - Select Board Mixes
23: A Formal Horse - Meat Mallet
30: Big Big Train - Common Ground
30: Lakes - Start Again
30: Netherbird - Arete
30: Prince: Welcome 2 America

August
6: George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (50th Anniversary Box Set)
13: The Killers - Pressure Machine
20: Between the Buried and Me - Colors II
20: Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
20: Dream Theater - Train of Thought Instrumental Demos
20: Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
20: Trifecta - Fragments
27: The Beach Boys - Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971 (Box Set)
27: Jinjer - Wallflowers
27: Leprous - Aphelion
27: The Neal Morse Band - Innocence and Danger
27: Sculptured - The Liminal Phase
29: Tony MacAlpine - Equilibrium
30: The Mask of the Phantasm - New Axial Age

September
3: Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
3: Tuesday the Sky - The Blurred Horizon
10: Steve Hackett - Surrender Of Silence
10: Hail Spirit Noir - Mannequins
10: Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament
16: Bleu - Six Tape
17: Alien Weaponry - Tangoroa
17: Carcass - Torn Arteries
17: Dream Theater - Master Of Puppets [Archival]
17: A Dying Planet - When the Skies are Grey
17: Eidola - The Architect
17: Mono - Pilgrimage of the Soul
17: Thrice - Horizons/East
17: Vega - Anarchy and Unity
24: Aeon Zen - Transversal
24: Rivers of Nihil - The Work
24: Shelter Red - Beast of the Field
24: Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb
24: Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner's Mind
24: Tremonti - Marching in Time
25: Altesia - Embryo

October
1: Enslaved - Caravans to the Outer World
1: Rachel Flowers - Bigger on the Inside
1: Marjana Semkina - Disillusioned (EP)
1: Yes - The Quest
1: Hans Zimmer - James Bond: No Time To Die OST
5: Teramaze - And The Beauty They Perceive
8: Hiromi - Silver Lining Suite
8: Manimal - Armageddon
8: Negroni's Trio - Esperanzas/Hopes
8: Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon
8: The Warning - Mayday [EP]
15: The Beatles - Let It Be (Special Edition Box Set)
15: Dug Pinnick - Joy Bomb
15: Carlos Santana - Blessings And Miracles
15: Twelve Foot Ninja - Vengeance
15: The Dear Hunter - The Indigo Child (OST) [Digital]
22: Biffy Clyro - The Myth of Happily Ever After
22: Dream Theater - A View from the Top of the World
22: Duran Duran - Future Past
22: Elton John - The Lockdown Sessions
22: Others By No One - Book II: Where Stories Come From
22: Pepe Deluxe - Phantom Cabinet Vol. 1
22: PFM - I Dreamed of Electric Sheep
22: The Pineapple Thief - Nothing But The Truth
22: Devin Townsend - The Puzzle
22: Devin Townsend - Snuggles
22: U.D.O. - Game Over
29: Tori Amos - Ocean To Ocean
29: Be'lakor - Coherence
29: Jerry Cantrell - Brighten
29: Kayo Dot - Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
29: Mastodon - Hushed And Grim
29: Moron Police -  The Stranger and the Hightide [EP]

November
1: Circe Link and Christian Nesmith - Cosmologica
2: Diablo Swing Orchestra - Swagger & Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole
2: The Gloomcatcher - Red Markers
5: ABBA - Voyager
5: Bent Knee - Frosting
5: Bullet for my Valentine - Bullet for my Valentine
5: Omnium Gatherum - Origin
12: Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
15: The Dear Hunter - The Indigo Child (OST) [Vinyl]
19: Big Wreck - 7.1 [EP]
19: Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I
19: Der Weg einer Freiheit - Noktvrn
19: Sting: The Bridge
19: Swallow the Sun - Moonflowers
22: Kevin Gilbert - Covers
26: Cynic - Ascension Codes
26: Deep Purple: Turning To Crime
26: Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion- We Are The Truth
26: In Mourning - The Bleeding Veil
26: The Tea Party - Blood Moon Rising (European Exclusive)
26: The Tea Party - Sunshower [EP]

December
2: Jessy Ribordy - Into the Winter
3: Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Reunite (Archival)
3: Hands of Despair - The Crimson Boughs and Other Short Tales
15: Nemophila- Revive

[SoundscapeMN]

Confirmed Titles
The ANABASIS - The Battle - An Opioid Story
Blind Ego (RPWL guitarist) - Preaching To The Choir
Daniel Cavanagh - Cellar Door
Kevin Gilbert - The Shaming of the True (Vinyl)
Gospel - Absurd Challenge
Darren King - Lockers (1st single out July 9th)
Labyrinth - Welcome to the Absurd Circus
The Lickerish Quartet - Threesome Vol., 2 (Vinyl/CD coming in March)
Moron Police - Cowboys Galore [EP]
NewVillager - Suite
The Polyphonic Spree - Salvage Enterprise
Radical Face - Hidden Hollow [EP]
The Red Paintings - Anthems for Unwanted Wars
Carlos Santana - Blessings And Miracles
Michael Sweet - Reborn Again (Spring)

Likely
Agent Fresco
Tori Amos
Anciients
Angra - Temple of Shadows In Concert
Animals as Leaders
Avenged Sevenfold
A-Z (Mark Zonder + Ray Alder's new Band)
Be'lakor
Blind Guardian
Canvas Soiaris
Childish Japes
Cloud Cult
Deep Purple
Dirty Loops (August?)
Dissona
Ghost
Grimus
Mayer Hawthorne
Helloween
In the Presence of Wolves
Insomnium
Dave Kerzner
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (3 albums)
Major Parkinson
Mike Mangini
David Maxim Micic
Megadeth
Meshuggah
Metallica
Muse
Ne Obliviscaris
Neverending White Lights - Act IV
Obscure Sphinx
Omnium Gatherum
Ostura
Ozzy Osbourne
Pain of Salvation
Pattern-Seeking Animals
Persefone
Radical Face
Rammstein
The Reign of Kindo - Wither & Bloom (possible title)
Run Rivers
Carlos Santana 2 additional albums? besides "Blessings And Miracles"
Small Leaks Sink Ships (Summer?)
St.Vincent - "Locked and Loaded"?
Team Me
Trivium
Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators
Steve Vai
Tremonti
Vonavi
Wayward Sons
Within Temptation
Zero Hour

?
Enchant
Imogen Heap
Six Roaming Owls
The Tea Party

I'll Believe it when I Hold it in my hand
dredg: Their drummer Dino chimed in a fans forum on FB here saying maybe late in 2022
Guns N Roses
Karnivool

2022 (more likely)

January
7: Wilderun - Epigone
22: The Ferrymen - One More River To Cross
28: Big Big Train - Welcome To The Plane

February
11: Amorphis - Halo
18: Star One - Revel In Time
21: Dream Theater - The Majesty Demos [Archival]
25: Allegaeon - Damnum
25: Scorpions - Rock Believer
25: Tears for Fears - The Tipping Point

March
4: Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark
25: Animals As Leaders - Parrhesia

June
24: Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation

July
29: dredg - Leitmotif [20th Anniversary Vinyl]

TBA
Alter Bridge
Archive - Archive12 (working title)
Josh Benash (ex-Kiss Kiss)
Bend Sinister
Bryan Scary
Capital Cities
Coheed and Cambria
The Dear Hunter - Antimai
Dirt Poor Robins - Queen of the Night
The Family Crest - The War Act II
The Flower Kings - By Royal Decree (Spring)
The Gathering - Beautiful Distortion (Spring)
King's X (double album)
James LaBrie - Beautiful Shade of Gray
Kimbra (announcement coming in November 2021)
Oddland - Vermilion
Devin Townsend - Lightwork
Warpaint
The Warning

[Crow]

Devin Townsend announced "The Puzzle" on twitter literally today, set for Spring 2021
https://twitter.com/dvntownsend/status/1325870458575613952

might be what "Lightwork" got renamed too, not sure

[HOF]

Big Big Train
- The Underfall Yard re-issue in March
- new studio album in June/July

[Max Kuehnau]

likely: Within Temptation (which I anticipate greatly btw)

[Nachtmerrie]

Confirmed:
Need - Norchestrion: A Song For the End (January 29)

Likely:
Animals as Leaders
Gojira

[Max Kuehnau]

Detroit Stories by Alice Cooper is now confirmed to be released on Febuary 26th, 2021. (https://twitter.com/alicecooper/status/1326570392354480129)

[Nachtmerrie]

Announced today

Cult of Luna - The Raging River (February 5th)

[Zydar]

The new Foo Fighters album 'Medicine At Midnight' will be released in 2021. No confirmed date yet.

https://www.amazon.com/Medicine-At-Midnight-Foo-Fighters/dp/B08MVZFBFN?tag=ultimategui0f-20

[Mladen]

dredg

I think it's time these guys got moved to the I'll Believe it when I Hold it in my hand section.

[SoundscapeMN]

Vonavi is recording strings for his next record! 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHi3R9iJlfJ/

("Reflection" from 2019 was my Album of the Year).

[SoundscapeMN]

February
26: Anneke van Giersbergen - The Darkest Skies are the Brightest

[Max Kuehnau]

The new Foo Fighters album 'Medicine At Midnight' will be released in 2021. No confirmed date yet.

https://www.amazon.com/Medicine-At-Midnight-Foo-Fighters/dp/B08MVZFBFN?tag=ultimategui0f-20

Yes, now confirmed to be released on February 5th, 2021. (as per their iTunes page)

[Buddyhunter1]

Between The Buried And Me just put out a facebook post confirming a new album for 2021.

In The Presence Of Wolves have also been recording a new album.

[dparrott]

Warpaint was probably going to drop their new album this year before the virus hit.  I know they were working on it.

[Anguyen92]

Add these to the likely pile please:
Myles Kennedy
Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators
Tremonti

[SoundscapeMN]

Warpaint was probably going to drop their new album this year before the virus hit.  I know they were working on it.

 

[nobloodyname]

Wayward Sons will be releasing their third album. No release date or title as yet, though.

[MinistroRaven]

Michael Sweet - Reborn Again

[SoundscapeMN]

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (3 albums)

[Buddyhunter1]

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (3 albums)

Guess they have to make up for only releasing one this year.

[SoundscapeMN]

March
5: Pat Metheny - Road to the Sun
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIYa9-WA37q/

[TAC]

Michael Schenker Group-Immortal-January 29, 2021

[Max Kuehnau]

The Bitter Truth by Evanescence is now confirmed to be released on March 26th, 2021 (as per their Itunes)

[Max Kuehnau]

Likely: Deep Purple (the sessions are about to start around the week of December 14th,2020 according to a recent interview with Don Airey)
Iron Maiden will most likely release their next album in 2021 as well, seeing as it's already finished according to a recent interview by Rodrigo

[Zydar]

Likely: Deep Purple (the sessions are about to start around the week of December 14th,2020 according to a recent interview with Don Airey)
Iron Maiden will most likely release their next album in 2021 as well, seeing as it's already finished according to a recent interview by Rodrigo

Hell yeah, a new Deep Purple album. I've really enjoyed their last couple of albums.

[Max Kuehnau]

Likely: Deep Purple (the sessions are about to start around the week of December 14th,2020 according to a recent interview with Don Airey)
Iron Maiden will most likely release their next album in 2021 as well, seeing as it's already finished according to a recent interview by Rodrigo

Hell yeah, a new Deep Purple album. I've really enjoyed their last couple of albums.

this

[SoundscapeMN]

Likely
Liquid Tension Experiment - "LTE3"?

[Mladen]

Blaze Bayley - War within me (April 9th)

[MinistroRaven]

Dvne - Etemen Ænka (March 19th, 2021)
Evergrey - Escape Of The Phoenix (February 26th, 2021)
Accept - Too Mean To Die (January 15th, 2021)
Steve Hackett - Under A Mediterranean Sky (January 22nd, 2021)

[jingle.boy]

SIMULACRUM / Genesis: 12-Feb
Joel Hoekstra's 13 / Running Games: 12-Feb
Ronnie Atkins / One Shot: 12-Mar
Heart Healer / The Metal Opera by Magnus Karlsson: 12-Mar

[Luoto]

Dvne - Etemen Ænka (March 19th, 2021)

Can't verify this via official sources. One webzine has apparently pulled a news article they released earlier.

[MinistroRaven]

Dvne - Etemen Ænka (March 19th, 2021)

Can't verify this via official sources. One webzine has apparently pulled a news article they released earlier.

I have the album, I pulled the information as the singer requested me to. They will publish all the information by January 15th.

[Luoto]

I have the album, I pulled the information as the singer requested me to. They will publish all the information by January 15th.

Ah, cool. Just realized you're involved with it from the other thread

[The Letter M]

Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 3 - Spring 2021, from InsideOutMusic per today's announcement.

-Marc.