Finci bojevniki Turisas bodo junija izdali album The Varangian Way s track listo: To Holmgard And Beyond, A Portage To The Unknown, Cursed Be Iron, Fields Of Gold, In The Court Of Jarisleif, Five Hundred And One, The Dnieper Rapids in Miklagard Overture. /S.P./

Cannibal Corpse so objavili track listo novega albuma Kill, ki izide 21. marca pri Metal Blade: The Time To Kill Is Now, Make Them Suffer, Murder Worship, Submerged In Boiling Flesh, Five Nails Through The Neck, Purification By Fire, Death Walking Terror, Barbaric Bludgeonings, The Discipline Of Revenge, Brain Removal Device, Necrosadistic Warning, Maniacal, Infinite Misery. Po izidu albuma bodo Cannibal Corpse nastopali na No Mercy Festivals turneji, ki ji bo sledila še headlinerska evropska turneja. /M.P./

Švedski death metalci Nominon so objavili track listo novega albuma Recremation, ki izide spomladi pri Konquer Records: Submit to Evil, Hordes of Flies, Buried by Me, The End Written In Blood, Mirror of Dead Flesh, Sickening, Under the Five-pointed Star, Into Black, Condemned to Die, Spit On Your Grave (Whiplash priredba). /M.P./

30. maja izide nov Shadow Gallery album z naslovom Room Five. /M.P./

21. marca pri Armageddon Music izide trojni CD Armageddon Over Wacken Live 2004, na katerem bodo naslednje skladbe:
CD 1: ANTHRAX – Indians. ANTHRAX – Only, DESTRUCTION – Nailed to the cross, CHILDREN OF BODOM – Sixpounder, CANNIBAL CORPSE – Dormant Bodies Bursting, MAYHEM – Pargans Fears, DEATH ANGEL – Thicker Than Blood, UNLEASHED – To Asgaard We Fly, ORPHANAGE – Five Crystals, EKTOMORF – I Know Them, EKTOMORF – Destroy, BAL-SAGOTH – The Emperial Lexicon, MNEMIC – Ghost, CATHEDRAL – Stained Glass Horizon, NEVERMORE – Enemies Of Reality.
CD 2: DIO – Holy Diver, DIO – Don't Talk to Stragers, HELLOWEEN – Dr Stein, DORO – Für immer, KOTIPELTO – Reasons, MYSTIC PROPHECY – In The Land Of The Dead, BRAINSTORM – Hollow Hideaway, MOTÖRHEAD – We are Motörhead, MOTÖRHEAD – Life Is A Bitch, PARAGON – Green Hell, WEINHOLD – Strike, FEINSTEIN – Rebelutions, JBO – Arschloch und Spass Dabei, BLAZE BAYLEY – Fear of the Dark.
CD 3: VANGUARD – Forgive, RECKLESS TIDE – Death Train, RECKLESS TIDE – Equality, GRIFFIN – The Sentence, HOBBS ANGEL OF DEATH – Crucifiction, DR. ROCK – Wicked Show, DR. ROCK – Dr. Rock, EVERFEST – See Me Rising, SUFFERAGE – Civilized, GUN BARREL – Only A Passenger, GUTBUCKET – 82 Hours Bus Hellride, GUTBUCKET – You Never Know, SUPERSOMA – Missing Nola, THORA – Christ Abuse, METHEDRAS – Wreck n Roll, ZODIAC MINDWARP – Like A Hurricane, RAUNCHY – Summer Of Overload, ELÄKELÄISET – Humppa (Jump).
/M.P./

Progresivni metalci Shadow Gallery so podpisali z Inside Out. Band trenutno snema nov album, ki zaenkrat nosi naslov Room Five, izšel pa bo v začetku prihodnjega leta. /M.P./

Znana je tracklista albuma Inventory of the Morgue švedskih death/thrasherjev Reculsion: Eaten From Within, Thrive On My Hate, Inventory of the Morgue, Five Clics (And You're Dead), Peel of Your Skin, Inner Demon, Let Me Die, Disemodied Soul, Snapshot, Battered in I'm Free. /P.G./

Ta teden so izšli: SAXON: Lionheart, VADER: The Beast, SHADOWS FALL: The War Within, SEVEN WITCHES: Year Of The Witch, DREAM THEATER: Five Years In A Livetime + Live In Tokyo (CD/DVD), ROTTING CHRIST: Sanctus Diavolos, SILENT FORCE: Worlds Apart, DIVERCIA: Cycle Of Zero.

Na bonus live DVD-ju prihajajočega Anvil albuma Back To Basics bodo posnetki z nastopa na Wacken Open Air 1998: Five Knuckle Shuffle, Smoking Green, Old School, Winged Assassins, Forged in Fire, March of the Crabs, Metal on Metal, 666, Mothra. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: SOILWORK: Figure Number Five, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY: The Blessed Hellride, DEREK SHERINIAN: Utopia in CAGE: Darker Than Black.

Soilwork so prihajajoči album naslovili s Figure Nunmber Five. Izide 5. maja, z naslednjo track listo: Rejection Role, Overload, Figure Number Five, Strangler, Light the Torch, Departure Plan, Cranking the Sirens, Brickwalker, The Mindmaker, Distortion Sleep, Downfall 24. /M.P./

Bivši Thin Lizzy/Motörhead kitarist Brian Robertson bo skupaj s Five Fifteen nastopil na njihovi skandinavski turneji. /M.P./