Divine Heresy, nov band bivšega Fear Factory kitarista Dina Cezaresa, bodo avgusta pri Roadrunner Records (Century Media v ZDA) izdali prvenec Bleed The Fifth. Člana banda sta zaenkrat še bobnar Tim Yeung (ex- Hate Eternal, Vital Remains) in vokalist Tommy Vext. /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./

Švedski death metalci Vomitory so končali z delom za nov album Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize, ki so ga s producentom Rikardom Löfgrenom posneli, miksali in masterizirali v Leon Music Studiu. Na albumu bodo naslednje skladbe: Eternal Trail Of Corpses, Scavenging The Slaughtered, Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize, The Burning Black, Defiled And Inferior, March Into Oblivion, Whispers From The Dead, Heresy, Flesh Passion, Cremation Ceremony. Album izide 23. aprila pri Metal Blade Records. /M.P./

Grški black metalci Ravencult so podpisali z Dark Essence Records, kjer bodo 26. marca izdali album Temples of Torment z naslednjimi skladbami: The Sigil of Baphomet, In Times of Demise, Onslaught Command, Blessed In Heresy, Commence the Burning of Heavens, The Nightsky Codex, Utter Cold Void, The Needles of Truth. /M.P./

Karl Sanders (Nile) in Erol Unala (ex- Apollyon Sun/Celtic Frost) bosta gostovala na prvencu brazilskih doom metalcev Amarna Sky, Rising Heresy. /M.P./

Znana je track lista Entombed EPa When In Sodom, ki izide 6. junija pri Threeman Recordings: When in Sodom, Carnage, Thou Shalt Kill, Heresy, Amen. /M.P./

4. aprila izide Pantera DVD z naslovom 3 Vulgar Videos From Hell. Na njem bodo naslednji videi:
Cowboys From Hell The Videos: Cowboys From Hell, Psycho Holiday, Cemetary Gates, Heresy (live), Art of Shredding (live)
Vulgar Video: Mouth For War, This Love, Walk, Domination (live), Primal Concrete Sledge.
Watch It Go: Planet Caravan, I'm Broken, 5 Minutes Alone, Drag the Waters.
Pantera Live From Monsters Of Rock In Moscow: Cowboys From Hell, Primal Concrete Sledge, Psycho Holiday.
Poleg tega bo na DVDju polno bonus materiala v obliki intervjujev in posnetkov s turnej. Pred kratkim pa je njihov album The Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits! v ZDA dosegel platinasto naklado za prodanih milijon izvodov.
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Ameriški death metalci Nile so končali s snemanjem novega albuma In Their Darkened Shrines, ki izide 2. septembra. Posneli so ga v Soundlab Studios, producirala sta ga Karl Sanders in Bob Moore, na njem pa bodo naslednji komadi: 1. The Blessed Dead, 2. Execration Text, 3. Sarcophagus, 4. Kheftiu Asar Butchiu, 5. Unas Slayer Of The Gods, 6. Churning The Maelstrom, 7. I Whisper In The Ear Of The Dead, 8. Wind Of Horus, 9. In Their Darkened Shrines, I. Hall of Saurian Entombment, II. Invocation to Seditious Heresy, III. Destruction Of The Temple Of The Enemies Of Ra, IV. Ruins. /M.P./

Nile pripravljajo material za naslednika Black Seeds Of Vengeance, ki ga bodo začeli snemati v začetku prihodnjega leta. Znanih je nekaj naslovov: The Blessed Dead, Execration Text, Kheftiu Asar Butchiu, Sarcophagus, In Their Nighted Shrines in Invocation To Sedetious Heresy. /M.P./