Nemški death/thrash metalci Burden Of Grief so končali s snemanjem tretjega albuma Fields Of Salvation. Sedaj se odpravljajo v Jailhouse Studios, kjer je na vrsti miks s producentom Tommyjem Hansenom. Album izide še letos. Posneli pa so tudi Running Wild priredbo Raise Your Fist za morebitno udeležbo na Running Wild tribute albumu. /M.P./

Khanate so končali s snemanjem svojega drugega albuma, ki so ga naslovili Things Viral. Na njem bodo štirje komadi: Commuted, Fields, Dead, Too Close Enough To Touch. /P.G./

20.januarja bodo pri Nuclear Blast izdali nov tribute album, tokrat v čast Thin Lizzy. Pod naslovom Emerald – A Tribute To The Wild One se “skrivajo” naslednje priredbe: SKYCLAD – Emerald, JOHN NORUM - Wild One, PRIMAL FEAR - Out in the Fields, ANTHRAX - Cowboy Song, SIX FEET UNDER – Jailbreak, SINNER - The Sun Goes Down, RUNNING WILD – Genocide, PRETTY MAIDS - Please Don't Leave Me, PEGAZUS – Warriors, GODGORY - This Is The One, MORDRED - Johnny The Fox, GARDENIAN - Gotta Give It Up, STEEL PROPHET – Massacre, THERION – Southbound in CHINCHILLA - The Boys Are Back In Town. /M.P./

3. februarja izide koncertni album belgijskih black metalcev Ancient Rites z naslovom And The Hordes Stood As One. Datum izida DVDja še ni znan. Track lista je naslednja: The Return, Exile (Les litanies de Satan), Victory Or Valhalla (Last Man Standing), Total Misanthropia, Aris, And the Horns Called for War, North Sea, Infant Sacrifices to Baalberith, Blood of Christ, Longing for the Ancient Kingdom, Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), Ode to Ancient Europa, (Het Verdronken Land van) Saeftinge, Overture to the Sun, On Golden Fields (De Leeuwen Dansen), Mother Europe, Evil Prevails, Fatherland, Dim Carcosa. Na DVDju bo še spot za Victory Or Valhalla in različni backstage posnetki zadnje turneje. /M.P./

Nemci Arctic Fields trenutno s producentom Rolandom Grapowom (Masterplan, ex- Helloween) snemajo prvenec z naslovom Prism. /M.P./

Roland Grapow trenutno producira prvenec Nemcev Arctic Fields. /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./

Primal Fear bodo v ponedeljek 26. novembra izdali shaped CD Horrorscope s petimi do sedaj še neizdanimi in bonus komadi: Under Your Spell, Out In The Fields, Horrorscope, Breaker in Kill The King. /M.P./

Primal Fear se bodo po končani južnoameriški turneji decembra odpravili v studio posnet svoj 4. album, ki zaenkrat nosi naslov Black Sun, na vinilu pa bodo izdali tudi 7" single, na katerem bosta komada Out In The Fields in Breaker. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšle naslednje plošče: SIX FEET UNDER: True Carnage, IN FLAMES: The Tokyo Showdown – Live In Japan 2000, DECEASED: Behind The Mourner’s Veil, KARABOUDJAN: Sbrodj ter THRONEAEON: Neither Of Gods,
prejšnji teden pa: APOCALYPTICA: Live (DVD), CREMATORY: Remind, HYPOCRISY: 10 Years Of Chaos And Confusion, TORMENT: Not Dead Yet, SUPREME MAJESTY: Tales Of A Tragic Kingdom, DRAGONHAMMER: The Blood Of A Dragon ter FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM: From Gehenna To Here.

Nick D`Virgilio in Neal Morse (Spock`s Beard) sta na nedavni turneji po Nemčiji in Nizozemskem posnela dvojni live album. Na tem bo slišati tudi člane skupine Dream Theater, in sicer na treh skladbah: Papa Was A Rolling Stone (The Temptations), Baba O`Riley (The Who), Mike Portnoy pa je zapel pesem Strawberry Fields (The Beatles). /M.P./

Ta teden so izšle naslednje plošče: CATAMENIA: Eternal Winter`s Prophecy, Labyrinth: Sons of Thunder, PISSING RAZORS: Fields of Disbelief, SOLSTICE: Halycon, SYMPHORCE: Sinctuary, THYRFING: Urkraft, VIOLATION: Monnlight`s Child, WHITE SKULL: Public Glory, Secret Agony ter single HAMERFALL: Renegade