This article summarizes the events related to rock music for the year of 2018.

• Jon Paul Steuer, American punk singer and actor, commits suicide on January 1, at 33 years old.^[46]
• Josiah Boyd, American bassist of A Hill to Die Upon), died in a car accident on January 3, at 32 years old.^[47]
• Ray Thomas, British progressive rock flautist (The Moody Blues), died on January 4, at 76 years old.
• Mikio Fujioka, Japanese guitarist of Babymetal, died on January 5 of injuries from a fall, at 36 years old.^[48]
• Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of The Cranberries, dies on January 15, 2018, at 46 years old.^[49]
• Mark E. Smith, of The Fall, dies of cancer on January 24, 2018, at 60 years old.^[50]
• Zeno Roth, German rock guitarist, dies on February 5, 2018, at 51 years old.^[51]
• Charlie Quintana, American punk rock drummer, dies of a heart attack on March 14, 2018, at 56 years old.^[52]
• Brian Henry Hooper, Australian alternative rock guitarist (Beasts of Bourbon, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists), dies on April 20, 2018, at 55 years old.
• Vinnie Paul, drummer of Pantera and Hellyeah, dies on June 23, 2018, at 54 years old.^[53]
• Jill Janus, lead singer of Huntress, dies on August 17, 2018, of suicide, at 43 years old.^[54]
• Zang Tianshuo, Chinese rock musician, formerly of the band 1989, dies on September 28, of liver cancer, aged 54.^[55]
• Josh Fauver, American rock bassist (Deerhunter), dies on November 2, of unknown causes, at 39 years old.^[56]
• Pete Shelley, leader of the British band Buzzcocks, dies on December 6 of a heart attack, aged 63.^[57]
• Herman Sikumbang, guitarist in the Indonesian band Seventeen, aged 36, and his fellow band members, drummer Windu Andi Darmawan and drummer Awal "Bani" Purbani, are killed in the Sunda Strait tsunami on December 22, when waves hit their stage during a concert.^[58]

• Brand New^[59]
• Rush^[60]
• Say Anything^[61]