Bivši Soil frontman Ryan McCombs je uradno postal glavni vokalist v bandu Drowning Pool. /S.P./

16. maja pri Metal Blade izide tribute to Cannibal Corpse album z naslovom Butchered & Hammered - A Tribute to Cannibal Corpse. Spoštovanje do enega največjih death metal bandov vseh časov so na dveh CDjih izkazali: Sonata Arctica - A Skull Full Of Maggots, Tristania - Edible Autopsy, Iced Earth - Meat Hook Sodomy, Nightwish - Butchered At Birth, Hammerfall - Hammer Smashed Face, Poisonblack - Addicted To Vaginal Skin, Rhapsody - Fucked With A Knife, Lacuna Coil - She Was Asking For It, Tiamat - Devoured By Vermin, Doro - Orgasm Through Torture, Crystal Ball - Disposal Of The Body, Skid Row - Blood Drenched Execution, In Flames - Unleashing The Bloodthirsty, Symphony X - Hacksaw Decapitation, Six Feet Under - Pit Of Zombies, Epica - Drowning In Viscera, Crematory - Frantic Disembowelment in Falconer - The Wretched Spawn. /M.P./

Švedski death metalci Anata so končali z delom za svoj tretji album Under A Stone With No Inscription, ki izide pri Earache podružnici Wicked World. Track lista je naslednja: Shackled To Guilt, A Problem Yet To Be Solved, Entropy Within, Dance To The Song Of Apathy, Sewerages Of The Mind, Built On Sand, Under The Debris, The Drowning, Leaving The Spirit Behind, Any Kind Of Magic Or Miracle. /M.P./

Judas Priest pevec Tim “Ripper” Owens trenutno po ZDA nastopa s cover bandom The Sickness, kjer igrata dva njegova bivša kolega basist Dennis Hayes (Winters Bane) in bobnar Tim Semelsberger. The Sickness na koncertih igrajo priredbe bandov kot Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, Godsmack, Creed, Papa Roach in Drowning Pool. /M.P./

25. marca bodo svoj prvenec izdali Dead Soul Tribe – band Damona Gravesa, bivšega Psychotic Waltz pevca. Track lista albuma je: Powertrip, Comin' Down, Anybody There, The Haunted, The Drowning Machine, You, Under The Weight Of My Stone, Once, One Bullet, Empty, Cry For Tomorrow, Into... (bonus), Into The Spiral Cathedral (bonus). /M.P./

25. februarja pričakujte naslednji brutalni napad s strani Cannibal Corpse, ki bodo izdali nov album Gore Obsessed. Na njem bodo naslednji komadi: Hatchet To The Head, Pit Of Zombies, Dormant Bodies Bursting, Savage Butchery, Compelled To Lacerate, Drowning In Viscera, Hung And Bled, Sanded Faceless, Mutation Of The Cadaver, When Death Replaces Life in Grotesque. /M.P./

25. februarja pričakujte naslednji brutalni napad s strani Cannibal Corpse, ki bodo izdali nov album Gore Obsessed. Na njem bodo naslednji komadi: Hatchet To The Head, Pit Of Zombies, Dormant Bodies Bursting, Savage Butchery, Compelled To Lacerate, Drowning In Viscera, Hung And Bled, Sanded Faceless, Mutation Of The Cadaver, When Death Replaces Life in Grotesque. /M.P./

Po končani evropski turneji z Vader, Cryptopsy in Dying Fetus so Aborted pričeli s pripravo komadov za split CD z Misery Index, Brodequin in Drowning. Band tudi že pripravlja nov material za CD, ki ga nameravajo izdati naslednjo zimo. /M.P./

Drowned bodo svoj prvenec Bone Grinder izdali junija pri Cogumelo Records. /M.P./