Znanih je že nekaj naslovov iz novega Hammerfall albuma, ki izide oktobra: Traiblazers, Riders Of The Storm, Hearts On Fire, The Unforgiven Blade, Hero0s Return in Angel Of Mercy (Chastain priredba). /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: ANNIHILATOR: Waking The Fury, RHAPSODY: Power Of The Dragonflame, MEGADETH: Rude Awakening, KALMAH: They Will Return, ARCH ENEMY: Wages Of Sin, HUGHES-TURNER PROJEKT: Hughes-Turner Projekt in GAMMA RAY: 6 CD Box.

Andy Newby je pri Return To The Sabbat na kitari zamenjal Simona Jonesa. /M.P./

Track lista prvega Megadeth live albuma Rude Awakening, ki izide 19. marca, je naslednja: CD1 - Dread And The Fugitive Mind, Kill The King, Wake Up Dead, In My Darkest Hour, Angry Again, She-Wolf, Reckoning Day, Devil's Island, Train Of Consequences, A Tout Le Monde, Burning Bridges, Hangar 18, Return To Hangar in Hook In Mouth. CD2 - Almost Honest, 1000 Times Goodbye, Mechanix, Tornado Of Souls, Ashes In Your Mouth, Sweating Bullets, Trust, Symphony Of Destruction, Peace Sells in Holy Wars. /M.P./

Izid tretjega Trans Siberian Orchestra albuma Beethovens Last Night je prestavljen na 22. april. Na jesen so prestavljeni tudi prvi načrtovani evropski koncerti. Track lista albuma je: Overture, Midnight, Fate, What Good This Deafness, Mephistopheles, What Is Eternal, The Moment, Vienna, Mozart, The Dreams Of Candlelight, Requiem, I'll Keep Your Secrets, The Dark, Für Elise, After The Fall, A Last Illusion, This Is Who You Are, Beethoven, Mephistopheles' Return, Misery, Who Is This Child in A Final Dream. /M.P./

Izid tretjega Trans Siberian Orchestra albuma Beethovens Last Night je prestavljen na 22. april. Na jesen so prestavljeni tudi prvi načrtovani evropski koncerti. Track lista albuma je: Overture, Midnight, Fate, What Good This Deafness, Mephistopheles, What Is Eternal, The Moment, Vienna, Mozart, The Dreams Of Candlelight, Requiem, I'll Keep Your Secrets, The Dark, Für Elise, After The Fall, A Last Illusion, This Is Who You Are, Beethoven, Mephistopheles' Return, Misery, Who Is This Child in A Final Dream. /M.P./

Track lista novega Tiamat albuma Judas Christ, ki izide 18. februarja, je The Return Of The Son Of Nothing, So Much For Suicide, Vote For Love, The Truth´s For Sale, Fireflower, Sumer By Night, Love Is As Good As Soma, Angel Holograms, Spine, I Am In Love With Myself, Heaven Of High, Too Far Gone. /M.P./

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Warhammer in No Return so novi bandi, ki so podpisali za Nuclear Blast. /M.P./

They Will Return je naslov novega albuma Fincev Kalmah. Na njem bodo naslednje pesmi: Hollowheart, Swamphell, Principle Hero, Human Fates, They Will Return, Kill the Idealist, The Blind Leader, My Nation ter presenečenje – še neimenovana priredba. /M.P./

19. marca bo izšel prvi koncertni Megadeth album z naslovom Rude Awakening. Naslovnico zanj je naredil Storm Thorgerson, ki je najbolj poznan po naslovnicah za Pink Floyd in Led Zeppelin. Na dvojnem albumu bodo naslednje klasike: Dread & The Fugitive Mind, Kill the King, Wake Up Dead, In My Darkest Hour, Angry Again, She Wolf, Reckoning Day, Devil's Island, Train of Consequences, A Tout Le Monde, Burning Bridges, Hangar 18, Return to Hangar, Hook in Mouth, Almost Honest, 1000 Times Goodbye, Mechanix, Tornado of Souls, Ashes in Your Mouth, Sweating Bullets, Trust, Symphony of Destruction, Peace Sells, Holy Wars ... The Punishment Due. 9. aprila bo Rude Awakening izšel tudi kot DVD in VHS. /M.P./

No Return so med 22.10. in 5.11. posneli 11 novih pesmi ter videospot posvečen Chucku Schuldinerju. /M.P./

Abattoir (ameriški, ne slovenski) bodo 23. oktobra izdali koncertni album No Sleep 'Til Kalamazoo, ki so ga posneli 16. junija na festivalu v Michiganu. Track lista je naslednja: Vicious Return, The Enemy, Under My Skin, Vicious Attack, Everybody Dies, Stronger Than Evil, Off, Screams From The Grave in Ace Of Spades. Album bo moč za 10$ + 3$ (poštni stroški) dobiti le prek njihove spletne strani. /M.P./

No Return bodo novembra posneli nov album, kateremu bo sledila evropska turneja. /M.P./

Novi Uriah Heep Tribute album, A Return To Fantasy, bo izšel 27. avgusta pri Century Media. na njem bodo naslednji bandi in komadi: Angel Dust ("Easy Livin'"), Liege Lord ("Too Scared To Run") featuring Joe Comeau and Paul Nelson, Tad Morose ("Rainbow Demon"), Axel Rudi Pell ("July Morning"), Narnia ("Sunrise"), Freebase ("Suicidal Man"), Sacred Steel ("Return To Fantasy"), Blind Guardian ("The Wizard"), Gamma Ray("Look At Yourself"), Nightingale ("Stealin'"), Lana Lane ("Weep In Silence"), Onward ("Bird Of Prey"), Easy Livin' ("Circle Of Hands"). /A.J./

Martin Walkyier (Skyclad) bo po koncertu 28. maja zapustil band in se posvetil svojemu novemu projektu Return To The Sabbat. /M.P./