24. septembra bodo Cradle Of Filth izdali koncertni album Live Bait For The Dead. To bo dvojni CD, na prvem bodo posnetki iz koncerta 14. aprila v Nottinghamu, na drugem pa bo malo mešano – priredbe, mixi, demo, itd. Track lista – CD1: Intro - The Ceremony Opens, Lord Abortion, Ebony Dressed For Sunset, The Forest Whispers My Name, Cthulhu Dawn, Dusk And Her Embrace, The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh, Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids, Her Ghost In The Fog, Summer Dying Fast, Interlude - Creatures That Kissed In Cold Mirrors, From The Cradle To Enslave, Queen Of Winter Throned. CD 2: Born In A Burial Gown - The Polished Coffin Mix, No Time To Cry - Sisters Of No Mercy Mix, Funeral In Carpathia - Soundcheck Recording, Deleted Scenes Of A Snuff Princess, Scorched Earth Erotica - Original Demo(n) Version, Nocturnal Supremacy - Soundcheck Recording, From The Cradle To Enslave - Under Martian Rule Mix, The Fire Still Burns, No Time To Cry - Sisters Of No Mercy – Video.

Na DVD-ju bo izšel Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult koncert iz 15. oktobra 1980 v New Yorku. Track lista Black Sabbath – War Pigs, Neon Knights, N.I.B., Iron Man, Paranoid, Heaven And Hell, Die Young. Track lista Blue Öyster Cult – Doctor Music, Cities On Flame, Divine Wind, Godzilla, Roadhouse Blues, Born To Be Wild, Here's Johnny. /M.P./

Končno je znana točna track lista Sepultura live albuma Under A Pale Grey Sky, ki izide 17. septembra. Posnet je bil 16. decembra 1996 na zadnjem koncertu z Maxom Cavalero. CD1: Itsari (intro), Roots Bloody Roots, Spit, Territory, Breed Apart, Attitude, Cut-Throat, Troops Of Doom, Beneath The Remains/Mass Hypnosis, Born Stubborn, Desperate Cry, Necromancer, Dusted, Endangered Species. CD2: We Who Are Not As Others, Straighthate, Dictatorshit, Refuse/Resist, Arise/Dead Embryonic Cells, Slave New World, Biotech Is Godzilla, Inner Self, Policia, We Gotta Know, Kaiowas, Ratamahatta, Orgasmatron. /M.P./

10. julija začnejo v Greenhouse FX Studios s producentom Jean Francois Dagenaisom s snemanjem svojega osmega studijskega albuma floridski death metalci Malevolent Creation. Albumu bo naslov The Will To Kill in bo prvi z novim vokalistom Kylom Symonsom (Hate Plow) in bobnarjem Justinom DiPintom (ex- Divine Rapture). Album izide kasneje letos, med snemanjem pa bodo posneli 14 novih pesmi, 2 iz albuma Stillborn bodo posneli na novo, za Tribute To Metallica pa bodo posneli priredbo Metal Militia. /M.P./

Under A Pale Grey Sky je naslov koncertnega Sepultura albuma, ki izide 27. avgusta. Najbrž že veste, da bodo na njem posnetki z zadnjega koncerta z Maxom Cavalero. Na njem bodo naslednji komadi: Roots Bloody Roots, Spit, Territory, Breed Apart, Attitude, Cut-Throat, Troops Of Doom, Beneath The Remains, Mass Hypnosis, Born Stubborn, Desperate Cry, Necromancer, Dusted, Endangered Species, We Who Are Not As Others, Straighthate, Dictatorshit, Refuse/Resist, Arise, Slave New World, Biotech Is Godzilla, Inner Self, Policia (TITAS), We Gotta Know (CRO-MAGS), Kaiowas, Ratamahatta, Orgasmatron (MOTÖRHEAD). /M.P./

Na Hammerfall DVD/VHS-u The Templar Renegade Crusades, ki izide 21. maja bodo naslednje pesmi: I Want Out (video), Unchained (live - Švica), Legacy Of Kings (live – ZDA), Remember Yesterday (live - Japonska), Warriors Of Faith (live - Čile), Let The Hammer Fall (live - Švedska), I Believe (live - Švedska), Breaking The Law (video), Renegade (video), Always Will Be (video), Raise The Hammer (live - Švica), Stronger Than All (live - Čile), Templars Of Steel (live - Nemčija), Let The Hammer Fall (live - Nemčija), Renegade (live - Nemčija), HammerFall (live - Nemčija), Heeding The Call (live – Švedska, akustična verzija), A Legend Reborn (video). Poleg tega bo na DVD/VHS-ju še veliko zanimivega materiala, na DVD-ju pa bo še 20 minut bonus materiala. /M.P./

Dave Lombardo bo do konca leta igral s Slayer na njihovih koncertih. Z njim so za kompilacijo Crank It Up posneli tudi priredbo Born To Be Wild – Steppenwolf, kar se je zgodilo prvič po letu 1990 (Seasons In The Abyss). /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: SARCASM: Igra Narave, IRON MAIDEN: Rock In Rio, U.D.O.: Man And Machine, DOWN: Down II, SOILWORK: Natural Born Chaos, GRAVE DIGGER: Tunes Of Wacken, ONWARD: Reawaken, PRETTY MAIDS: Planet Panic, ZAKK WYLDE'S BLACK LABEL SOCIETY: 1919 Eternal, VOMITORY: Blood Rapture, STYGMA IV: The Human Twilight, BLUDGEON: Crucify The Priest, REBELLION: A Tragedy In Steel - Shakespeare's Macbeth, DEAD SOUL TRIBE: Dead Soul Tribe, KAIPA: Notes From The Past, DIABOLICAL: A Thousand Deaths, RAM-ZET: Escape, GILBY CLARKE: Swag in CADAVERIA: The Shadows Madame.

Razni finski glasbeniki so se združili v Death cover bandu Evil Chucks in 1. marca v Helsinkih odigrali koncert posvečen Chucku Schuldinerju. V skupini so sodelovali Alexi Laiho (Children Of Bodom), kitarist Mitja Harvilahti (Moonsorrow), kitarist Janne Pertillä, bassist Oppu Laine (Mannhai, ex- Amorphis), bobnar Nalle Österman (Gandalf), vokalist Taneli Jarva (The Black League, ex- Sentenced) in še en vokalist Jaska Hurskainen (Gandalf). Odigrali so naslednje komade: Zombie Ritual (vokal: Taneli), Born Dead (v.: Jaska), Within The Mind (v.: Alexi), Defensive Personalities (v.: Alexi), Left To Die (v.: Jaska), Infernal Death (v.: Taneli), Pull The Plug (v.: Jaska) in Evil Dead (v.: Taneli). /M.P./

29. aprila bo izšel Nightwish ­box, v katerem bodo vsi dosedanji albumi Angels Fall First, Oceanborn, Wishmaster in Over The Hill And Far Away, v lepem bookletu pa še veliko foto materiala ter raznih informacij. To bo vsem ljubiteljem skupine skrajšalo čakanje na nov studijski album, ki bo izšel 24. junija, bil pa naj bi konceptualen. /M.P./

Znana je track lista novega Soilwork albuma Natural Born Chaos, ki izide marca: Follow The Hollow, As We Speak, The Flameout, Natural Born Chaos, Mindfields, The Bringer, Black Star Deciever, Mercury Shadow (po vsej verjetnosti bonus komad na japonski verziji), No More Angels in Soilworker’s Song Of The Damned. /M.P./

21. januarja izide novi album bivšega maidenovca Blaze-a z naslovom The Tenth Dimension. Poleg navadnega CD-ja bo izšel tudi limited edition 2CD, na katerem bodo koncertni posnetki od The Launch, Futureal (Iron Maiden), Tough As Steel (Wolfsbane) in Evolution, pesem Living Someone Else’s Life, video Ghost In The Machine ter mp3 od Silicon Messiah in Born As A Stranger. Obe verziji bosta vsebovali 28 stranski booklet. /M.P./

Piet Sielck (Iron Savior) je produciral prvenec novincev Airborn, pel back vokale in z njihovim pevcem odpel duet v pesmi Wings. Band zaenkrat še išče založbo. /M.P./

Italijani Horrid bodo konec novembra izdali novi album z naslovom Reborn, na katerem bo 8 pesmi v stilu starega švedskega death metala. Maja se bodo odpravili na evropsko turnejo z Dark Legion in Prejudice. /M.P./

Švedi Nymod so se preimenovali v The Unborn in bodo sedaj pri Andy La Roqueu posneli mini CD s 4 komadi. Več o bandu lahko izveste na njihovi spletni strani www.come.to/nypon. /M.P./