Bloodbath so končali z delom za svoj naslednji album Nightmares Made Flesh, ki izide jeseni pri Century Media. Na njem bo dvanajst skladb, od tega so po štiri prispevali Anders Nystrom, Jonas Renkse in Dan Swanö. Poleg njih je v bandu še Peter Tägtgren. /M.P./

Rage trenutno v Blind Guardian studiu s producentom Charliejem Bauerfeindom končujejo z delom za prihajajoči DVD From the Cradle to the Stage. Na njem bo januarski koncert iz Bochuma, »making of« DVD, vsi videospoti, dokumentarec, razni live posnetki, fotografije, diskografija in še kaj. Izid je napovedan za september. Track lista nastopa iz Bochuma pa je sledeča: Akustični set: Intro, Deep In The Night, Vanished In Haze, After The End, Wake The Nightmares, Turn The Page. Navadni koncert: War Of Worlds, Great Old Ones, Paint The Devil On The Wall, Sent By The Devil, Firestorm, Down, Prayers Of Steel, Suicide, Days Of December, Unity, Drum Solo, Enough's Enough, Invisible Horizons, Set This World On Fire, Flesh & Blood, Guitar Solo, Soundchaser, Straight To Hell, Back In Time, Refuge, From The Cradle To The Grave, Black In Mind, Solitary Man, Don't Fear The Winter, All I Want, Higher Than The Sky. /M.P./

Steve Vai bo 18. novembra izdal dvojni live DVD Live at the Astoria London, ki je bil posnet 6. in 7. decembra v Londonu. V njegovem all-star spremljevalnem bandu so takrat bili Billy Sheehan (bass), Virgil Donati (bobni), Tony MacAlpine (kitara, klaviature) in Dave Weiner (kitara). Track lista je naslednja: Shyboy, Giant Balls of Gold, Erotic Nightmares, Blood & Glory, Dave's Party Piece, Blue Powder, Crying Machine, The Animal, Bangkok, Tony's Solo, Bad Horsie, Chameleon, Down Deep Into the Pain, Fire, Little Wing, Whispering a Prayer, Incantation, Jibboom, For the Love of God, Liberty, The Attitude Song. /M.P./