Tukaj je na voljo predogled prvenca italijanske death metal zasedbe My Darkest Side z naslovom Voices From Room Zero, ki 31. avgusta izide pri založbi SG Records. Tracklista je sledeča:
Intro
Chalice Of Scorn
Innocent's Revenge
Cursed Mask Of Punishment
Voices from Room Zero
Hibernation Of Primordial Instinct
The Will Of Seth
Bringer Of Lies
My Sixth Sense
/B.B./

Založba Crucial Blast Records na svojem Bandcamp profilu ponuja brezplačen download nove kompilacije z naslovom Heresies 2012. Tracklista je sledeča:
Gnaw Their Tongues – Hic Est Enim Calix Sanguinis Mei
Iron Forest – Mountain Of Teeth
Husere Grav – Serpent Saviour
Theologian – Abandon All Hope
Wold – We Kill For Her
Reclusa – Dead In The Eyes
Timemotheye – Witchwalker
Fecalove – Darwin II
Lucifer's Foreskin – Satanic Evil
Mors Sonat – The Sweet Long Legs Of Hate
Glass Coffin – Tongue Of The Dog
Crown Of Bone – Blood Chalice
Luasa Raelon – Messenger
Project:Void – Leech
Funerary Call – Transference From The Void
Ehnahre – Animals
Pusdrainer – Grinding My Teeth Into Dust
Korperswache – Burning Man
Sutcliffe JUgend – Feeding The Mouth That Bites You
T.O.M.B. – Serpent Moon Seance
Yami Kurae – Il Ballo delle Teste
Rotorvator – Domenica
Actuary – Baptized In Flames
/B.B./

Jordanski death metalci Chalice Of Doom se pripravljajo na snemanje drugega albuma, ki naj bi se začelo poleti. /B.B./

Spodaj si lahko ogledate posnetke nastopa Forbidden, 4. julija iz Dynamo kluba v Eindhovnu na Nizozemskem. Chalice Of Blood, Forbidden Evil, Twisted Into Form. /A.J./

V zadnjih treh tednih so izšli naslednji albumi: GRAVE DIGGER: 25 To Live, HELLOWEEN: Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy, OLD MAN'S CHILD: Vermin, PRIMAL FEAR: Seven Seals, CRYPTOPSY: Once Was Not, MANNTIS: Sleep In Your Grave, STREAM OF PASSION: Embrace The Storm, PALLAS: The Dreams Of Men, NEAL MORSE: ?, DAWNRIDER: Fate Is Calling, CHALICE: Shotgun Alley, AVIAN: From The Depths Of Time, EISREGEN: Hexenhaus, CENTVRION: Invulnerable, DUNGEON: Resurrection, GALLOGLASS: Heavenseeker, GUN BARREL: Bombard Your Soul, TNT: All The Way To The Sun, ULI JON ROTH: Sky Of Avalon/Prologue To The Symphonic Legends, SIX FEET UNDER: A Decade In The Grave (box), THE CROWN: 14 Years Of No Tomorrow (3 DVD set) in TANKARD: Fat, Ugly And Still (A)live (DVD).

24. oktobra pri Massacre Records izide nov Chalice album Shotgun Alley, ki ga bodo posneli v House Of Audio studiu s producentom Dennisom Wardom. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: DIMMU BORGIR: Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, OPETH: Blackwater Park, TRANSATLANTIC: Live In America, CHALICE: Chronicles Of Dysphoria, RYDELL: Per Ardura Ad Astra ter THORNS: Thorns.