24. februarja bodo Fates Warning izdali DVD z naslovom The View From Here. Na njem bo moč najti sledeče: proces snemanja Disconnected (2000) in Parallels (1990) albumov, intervjuja z originalnima članoma Joe DiBiasejom in Frankom Arestijem, foto galerijo, diskografijo, video spote: Silent Cries (1988), Anarchy Divine (1988), Through Different Eyes (1989), Nothing Left To Say (live 1998), Point of View (1991), Eye To Eye (1992), Monument (1994), Pleasant Shade of Gray Parts X-XII (1997), At Fates Hands (live 1998), Prelude To Ruin (live 1998), The Eleventh Hour/Point Of View (live at Dynamo 1998). Kot bonus pa bodo na drugem DVDju dodali Live At The Dynamo, ki je že izšel na VHS formatu. /M.P./

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./

27. avgusta bodo Scorpions izdali DVD z naslovom A Savage Crazy World. Na njem bodo posnetki iz koncerta v Berlinu leta 1991: Bad Boys Running Wild, Hit Between The Eyes, I Can't Explain, The Zoo, Rhythm of Love, Crazy World, Can't Live Without You, Blackout, Dynamite, Lust or Love, Big City Nights, Rock You Like A Hurricane in videospoti: Rhythm of Love, Believe In Love, Walking On The Edge, Rock You Like A Hurricane, Still Loving You, Passion Rules The Game, Tease Me Please Me, Don't Believe Her, Send Me An Angel, Wind of Change, Alien Nation, Holiday, No One Like You in I'm Leaving You. /M.P./

Po albumu Pleasurdome, ki je izšel pred osmimi leti, bodo Avstrijci Disharmonic Orchestra 9. septembra izdali nov album z naslovom Ahead. /M.P./

Za vse, ki že komaj čakate Exodus v Wacknu, je tu set-lista s koncerta 4. maja v San Franciscu: The Last Act Of Defiance, Fabulous Disaster, ‘Til Death Do Us Part, A Lesson In Violence, Chemi-kill, Seeds Of Hate, And Then There Were None, Corruption, Cajun Hell, No Love, Pleasures Of The Flesh, Piranha, Toxic Waltz, Bonded By Blood, Strike Of The Beast. /M.P./

18. marca bo pri Nuclear Blast izšla kompilacija Death Is Just The Beginning – Classics. Na njem bodo naslednji komadi: 1. Amorphis - Black Winter Day, 2. Amorphis - Against Widows, 3. Benediction - The Grotesque, 4. Benediction - Ashen Epitaph, 5. Benediction - Down On Whores, 6. Dismember - Casket Garden, 7. Dismember - Dreaming In Red, 8. Dismember – Skinfather, 9. Gorefest – Freedom, 10. Gorefest – Erase, 11. Gorefest – Fear, 12. Hypocrisy - Pleasure Of Molestation, 13. Hypocrisy - Inferior Devoties, 14. Hypocrisy - Roswell 47, 15. Kataklysm - The Awakener, 16. Meshuggah - Terminal Illusions, 17. Meshuggah – Transfixion, 18. Mortification - Scrolls Of The Megilloth, 19. Mortification - Noah Was A Knower, 21. Pungent Stench - Viva la muerte, 22. Sinister – Leviathan, 23. Therion - A Black Rose, 24. Therion - The Beauty In Black. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: GRAVE DIGGER: The Grave Digger, DREAM THEATER: Live Scenes From New York, SODOM: M-16, BORKNAGAR: Empiricism, SYMPHONY X: The Live On The Edge Of Forever, RAGE: Best Of – All G.U.N. Years, CARNAL FORGE: Please…Die!, THE ALMIGHTY: Psycho Narco, BLACK SYMPHONY: Tears Of Blood, CROWBAR: Sonic Excess In It’s Purest Form, MORTIIS: The Smell Of Rain, ROUGH SILK: Symphony Of Life, KARMA TO BURN: Almost Heathen, RUDESS JORDAN: Feeding The Wheel in NOVEMBRE: Novembrine Waltz.

Švedski thrasherji Carnal Forge so doživeli nekaj kadrovskih sprememb. Po odhodu kitarista Johana Magnussona je basist Petri Kuusisto »poprijel« za kitaro, na bas pa je prišel Lars Linden, ki tudi njihov webmaster. Band je že končal s snemanjem nove plošče Please…Die!, ki bo izšla v začetku prihodnjega leta. Znana je že track lista: Everything Dies, No Resurrection, A World All Soaked In Blood, Fuel For Fire, Welcome To Your Funeral, Please...Die! (Aren't You Dead Yet), A Higher Level Of Pain, Hand Of Doom, Becoming Dust, Butchered, Slaughtered, Strangled, Hanged, Totalitarian Torture in Slaves. /M.P./

Quiet Riot so že posneli nov album Guilty Pleasures, ki bo zelo v stilu osemdesetih. Produciral ga je John Rollo, datum izida zaenkrat še ni znan. /M.P./

Quiet Riot novi album Guilty Pleasures bo izšel junija, single Rock The House pa se že vrti po ameriških radijskih postajah. /M.P./

Kreator so trenutno zaposleni s pisanjem materiala za nov album, ki naj bi bil glasbeno nadaljevanje, kjer so končali s Coma Of Souls. Prvi naslovi pesmi so: Getto War, Violent Revolution, Second Awakening ter System Decay. Bend bo tudi ponovno izdal prve tri albume Endless Pain, Pleasure To Kill in Terrible Certainty, na katerih naj bi bili tudi videospoti ter čisto nove naslovnice. Izdali pa naj bi tudi še en Best of album, za katerega bodo pesmi preko interneta izbrali fani. Vseboval pa naj bi tudi redke demo in koncertne posnetke. /M.P./

25. januarja bo založba Metal Blade Records izdala DVD kompilacijo z naslovom Metalmeister. Posnetkov je za dobro uro in pol, na disku pa bo 19 spotov iz 19-letne zgodovine založbe, diskografija skupin, slike in intervjuji. Na DVDju boste našli: SIX FEET UNDER - 'Victim Of The Paranoid', ARMORED SAINT - 'Reign Of Fire', FATES WARNING - 'Point Of View', GALACTIC COWBOYS - 'Nothing To Say', CANNIBAL CORPSE - 'Sentenced to Burn', GWAR - 'Gor Gor', MERCYFUL FATE - 'The Uninvited Guest', GRIP INC. - 'Ostracized', KING'S X - 'Fade', Fates Warning - 'A Pleasant Shade Of Gray Part 1' (live), Armored Saint - 'March Of The Saint' (live), Lizzy Borden - 'Psychopath' (live), TROUBLE - 'Run To The Light', SACRED REICH - 'Low', FLOTSAM AND JETSAM - 'Monster', MERCYFUL FATE - 'Witches Dance', GWAR - 'Sick Of You', Lizzy Borden intervju iz leta 1990... /P.G./