Tankard so pred kratkim v Stage One studiu začeli s snemanjem novih verzij svojih najbolj znanih skladb za album Best Case Scenario: 25 Years In Beers, ki izide 31. avgusta pri AFM Records. Na limited edition verziji albuma bo tudi tribute to Tankard z osemnajstimi njihovimi priredbami. Track lista je naslednja: Best Case Scenario: 25 Years In Beers: Zombie Attack, Maniac Forces, (Empty) Tankard, Don't Panic, Chemical Invasion, The Morning After, Alien, 666 Packs, Beermuda, Space Beer, Medley (Alcohol, Puke, Mon Cheri, Wonderful Life), Freibier, Nation Over Nation, Two-Faced, Minds On The Moon.
Na A Tribute to Tankard pa bodo naslednje priredbe: Abandoned - Face Of The Enemy, Courageous - The Morning After, Doppelbock - Freibier Für Alle, Fatal Embrace - Acid Death, FKÜ - Space Beer, Frezeebee – Poison, Hatework - Live To Dive, Hyades – Alien, Irreverence – Beermuda, Manticora - Total Addiction, Odium – Sunscars, Paradox - Zombie Attack, Paragon - Two-Faced, Sacred Steel - Empty Tankard, Scornage – Away, Solicitude - Planetwide Suicide, Taste Of Doom – Rectifier, Torment - Chemical Invasion. /M.P./

Mortiis bo 16. aprila pri Earache Records izdal album remiksov Some Kind of Heroin, s predelanim materialom iz The Grudge. Track lista je naslednja: Underdog (Zombie Girl Remix), The Grudge (Gothminister mix), Twist The Knife (The Gibbering mix by Implant), Broken Skin feat. Stephan Groth (Septic Wound mix by XP8), The Grudge (Mental Siege Mix), Gibber (PIG Remix), Way too Wicked (Rape, Dope and the American Way mix by The Kovenant), Gibber (Lysergic Club Mix by Velvet Acid Christ), The Worst in Me (Girls Under Glass Mix), The Grudge (David Wallace Remix), Broken Skin feat. Stephan Groth (Funker Vogt Remix), The Grudge (Emotional Heresy by Kubrick), Decadent & Desperate (Therafuck remix by Dope Stars), Gibber (Gibbering Idiot), Way too Wicked (Absinthium mix), The Worst in Me (Extraction mix by In the Nursery). Mortiis se aprila odpravljajo na turnejo z Deathstars. /M.P./

Nevermore so predvčerajšnjim posneli koncert v Bochumu, ki je pred mesecem dni odpadel zaradi Warrel Daneove bolezni. Snemali so za svoj prvi DVD, odigrali pa so naslednje skladbe: Final Product, My Acid Words, What Tomorrow Knows/Garden of Grey, Next In Line, Enemies of Reality, I, Voyager, The River Dragon Has Come, I Am The Dog, Dreaming Neon Black, Noumenon, Inside Four Walls, Politics of Ecstasy, Dead Heart In A Dead World, Matricide, The Learning, Sentient 6, Narcosynthesis, The Heart Collector, Born, This Godless Endeavor. /M.P./

Nevermore bodo danes v Los Angelesu posneli videospot za skladbo Final Product. Gre za skladbo s prihajajočega albuma This Godless Endeavor, ki ima naslednjo track listo: Born, Final Product, My Acid Words, Bittersweet Feast, Sentient 6, Medicated Nation, The Holocaust of Thought, Sell My Heart for Stones, The Psalm of Lydia, A Future Uncertain, This Godless Endeavor. Pri The Holocaust of Thought kot gost nastopa James Murphy. Nevermore se septembra odpravljajo na headlinersko evropsko turnejo. Termini bodo znani kmalu. /M.P./

Pat (ex- Acid, Crionics, Evereve) je nov kitarist pri Švicarjih Gurd. Band trenutno pripravlja live CD/DVD, ki so ga posneli 1. maja v Prattelnu na koncertu ob desetletnici banda. /M.P./

Švicarski ekstremneži Sludge so prestavili izid svojega tretjega albuma Yellow Acid Rain na začetek devembra. Glasba naj bi bila mešanica Entombed, Celtic Frost, Carcass in zgodnjih Samael. Album je produciral Fredrik Nordström, tukaj pa si lahko downlodate komad Blind Man. /M.P./

Švicarski ekstremneži Sludge, kjer igra tudi Samael kitarist Makro, so podpisali z dansko založbo Mighty Music, kjer naj bi novembra izdali svoj tretji album Yellow Acid Rain. Snemali so v Studio Fredman s Fredrikom Nordströmom. /M.P./

The Forsaken bodo 17. novembra pri Century Media izdali nov album Traces Of The Past, na katerem bo tudi priredba Metallice Blackened. Snemali so v Abyss studiu s producentom Tommyjem Tagtgrenom. Track lista je naslednja: A Time To Die, One More Kill, Acid With Acid – Piece By Piece, Glitches Will Tell, Traces Of The Past, Serpent´s Tounge, God Of Demise, Massive Machinery, The Empire, First Weapon Of Choice, Blackened. /M.P./

Verensipara, stranski projekt Amorphis članov Niclasa Etelavourija, Tomi Koivusaarija in Santeri Kallia bodo 15. maja izdali nov album Happosadetta (Acid Rain po angleško). /M.P./

Macabre pripravljajo nove “recepte” za novi “Murder Metal” album. Znanih je že nekaj naslovov: Hillside Stranglers, Dying To BeWith You, Brudos & Acid Bath Murderer. /M.P./

Na trojnem koncertnem Dream Theater albumu bodo naslednji komadi: Regression, Overture, 1928, Strange Deja Vu, Through My Words, Fatal Tragedy, Beyond This Life, John and Theresa solo, Though Her Eyes, Home, The Dance Of Eternity One, Last Time, The Spirit Carries On, Finally Free, Metropolis Pt. 1, The Mirror Just Let Me Breathe, Acid Rain, Caught in a New Millennium, Another Day, Jordan's solo, Erotomania, Voices, The Silent Man, Learning To Live in A Change Of Seasons. /M.P./

Dream Theater so, kot so napovedali, posneli koncert 30. avgusta v Ballroomu. Izdali naj bi ga kot live CD in DVD. Koncert je bil dolg kar tri in pol ure. Najprej so v celoti odigrali zadnji album Scenes From A Memory, kjer je pri skladbi The Spirit Lives On sodeloval 12-članski zbor. Sledil je Caught In A New Millenium, medley iz Caught In a Web ter New Millenium. Do konca rednega dela so odigrali še električno verzijo Silent Man, Acid Rain od Liquid Tension Experiment ter Another Day. V dodatku pa je sledil še Change Of Seasons v celoti. /M.P./