Wyked Wytch so tukaj objavili dva nova demo posnetka komadov The Awakening in Beneath Our Skin, ki bosta na njihovem novem albumu The Awakening. /S.P./

Capa Fear je nov kitarist pri Nizozemcih Goddess Of Desire. Ti bodo 18. julija pri Armageddon Media izdali nov album Awaken Pagan Gods, na katerem bodo naslednje skladbe: Awakening the Gods, March to Meet, Dead End Street, Holy War, Bloodstained Sight, Awaken Pagan Gods, Demolition, Victory Is Mine, Scream for Metal True, Booze, Nothing's Free, Majesty of Metal. /M.P./

Nemški power/thrash metalci Psychotron so objavili naslovnico novega albuma Pray For Salvation, na katerem bodo naslednje skladbe: Pray For Salvation, Arms Of Morpheus, Traitor, The Graves, Casing Shadows, The Awakening, Circle Of The Damned, The Hourglass, Life On Borrowed Time, Shattered Illusion. /M.P./

Znana je track lista novega Grave albuma Fiendish Regression, ki izide 23. avgusta pri Century Media: Last Journey, Reborn, Awakening, Breeder, Trial by Fire, Out of the Light, Inner Voice, Bloodfeast, Heretic. Kot bonus skladbi pa so posneli še Saint Vitus priredbo Burial At Sea in na novo svojo klasiko Autopsied. /M.P./

Znana je tracklista Imperia albuma The Ancient Dance of Qetesh, ki naj bi izšel junija: Awakening, The Ancient Dance of Qetesh, Entering the Perspective, Escape, Scared For Love, Mysted By Desire, Requiem, Mordor, In Your Mind, Angelchild, Secret Garden, Chill Out. /P.G./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: DISILLUSION: Back To Times Of Splendor, METALIUM: As One, VOIVOD: War And Pain (3CD), BATTLELORE: The Journey (DVD + CD), KHOLD: Morke Gravers Kammer, CRUACHAN: Pagan, PRIMEsth: Beautiful Awakening, V.A.: Monsters Of Metal vol.2 (DVD), EVIL MASQUERADE: Welcome To The Show in MADMEN & SINNERS: Madmen & Sinners.

31. maja bodo Dark Tranquillity ob svoji petnajsti obletnici delovanja izdali dvojni CD z redkim in prej neizdanim materialom, Exposures - In Retrospect And Denial. Track lista je naslednja: CD1 Static, The Poison Well, Misery In Me, Cornered, In Sight, No-One, Exposure, Yesterworld, Unfurled By Dawn, Midwinter/Beyond Enlightenment, Vernal Awakening, Void Of Tranquillity. CD2 (live) - The Wonders At Your Feet, The Treason Wall, Hedon, White Noise/Black Silence, Haven, Punish My Heaven, Monochromatic Stains, Indifferent Suns, Format C: For Cortex, Insanity's Crescendo, Hours Passed In Exile, The Sun Fired Blanks, Damage Done, Lethe, Not Built To Last, ThereIn, Zodijackyl Light, Final Resistance, Ex Nihilo. /M.P./

Nocturnal Rites so končali s snemanjem videospota za komad Awakening s prihajajočega album New World Messiah, ki izide 22. marca. Album so posneli v studiu Finnvox, naslovnico pa je oblikoval ruski umetnik Leo Hao (poznan po delu za Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Primal Fear in prejšnji Nocturnal Rites album). /A.J./

Track lista novega Nocturnal Rites albuma New World Messiah, je naslednja: New World Messiah, Against The World, Avalon, Awakening, Egyptica, Break Away, End Of Days, The Flame Will Never Die, One Nation, Nightmare. /M.P./

Fireball Ministry, hard rockerji iz Los Angelesa, so podpisali z Nuclear Blast. Band igra mešanico rock n’ rolla v (Grand Funk Railroad) in heavy metala (Black Sabbath, Judas Priest). Album The Second Great Awakening, sicer njihov tretji, izide septembra. /M.P./

Track lista težko pričakovanega Nevermore albuma Enemies Of Reality, ki izide 28. julija, je naslednja: Enemies of Reality, Ambivalent, Never Purify, Tomorrow Turned into Yesterday, I Voyager, Create the Infinite, Who Decides, Noumenon, Seed Awakening. /M.P./

Prong so končali z delom za prihajajoči, še neimenovani album, ki izide junija. Prvi studijski album po Rude Awakening iz leta 1996 sta producirala Tommy Victor in Steve Bruno. /M.P./

Kreator so koncali s pripravljanjem koncertnega DVD/CDja Live Kreation (Revisioned Glory). Izid je napovedan za poletje. Track lista DVDja je naslednja: The Patriarch, Violent Revolution, Reconquering The Throne, Extreme Aggression, People Of The Lie, Lost, Coma Of Souls, All Of The Same Blood (Unity), Phobia, Black Sunrise, Pleasure To Kill, Renewal, Servant In Heaven - King In Hell, Terrible Certainty, Riot Of Violence, Terrorzone, Betrayer, Flag Of Hate, Tormentor. Na dvojnem DVDju bo še veliko materiala z zadnje turneje, obširna zgodovina banda in vsi njihovi uradni video spoti. Na dvojnem CDju bodo vse skladbe iz DVDja plus Second Awakening, Under The Guillotine, Golden Age, Awakening Of The Gods, Leave This World Behind. Izšla bo tudi Deluxe Edition verzija, ki bo v bistvu cetvorni CD/DVD Box. Ljubitelji vynila pa bodo lahko kupili tudi cetvorni LP Box z 32-stranskim bookletom. /M.P./

A Flame To The Ground Beneath je naslov drugega albuma Švedov Lost Horizon, ki bo izšel 10. februarja pri Music For Nations. Track lista Awakening The World naslednika je: Transdimensional Revelation, Pure, Lost In The Depths Of Me, Again Will The Fire Burn, The Song Of Earth, Cry Of A Restless Soul, Think Not Forever, Highlander (The One), Deliverance. /M.P./

Symphony X so razkrili track listo albuma The Odyssey, ki izide 28. oktobra: The Odyssey, King of Terrors, Awakenings, Incantations of the Apprentice, Inferno (Unleash the Fire), Wait with the Wicked, Accolade II, Frontiers, The Turning. /M.P./