Old Corpse Road so posneli priredbo skladbe Equimanthorn, klasike skupine Bathory, z albuma Under the Sign of the Black Mark za prihajajoči dvojini trubute album z naslovom Voices From Valhalla, ki bo aprila izšel pri Godreah Records. Poleg njih s svojimi priredbami sodelujejo še Taake, Thornium, Nine Covens, Folkvang, Meads Of Asphodel, Eastern Front, Throne Of Katarsis, Bloodshed Walhalla, Gods Tower, Skyforger, Sigh, Nokturnal Mortum, Mael Mórdha, Darkest Era, Ancient Ascendant, Vrani Volosa, Hellsword in drugi. /B.B./

Prve potrjene skupine za festival Masters Of Rock, ki bo od 12. do 15. julija 2012 v Vizovicah na Češkem, so Within Temptation, Thin Lizzy, Arch Enemy, Stratovarius, Kamelot, Korpiklaani, Exodus, Pain, Tiamat, Deathstars, Sabaton, Freedom Call, Saltatio Mortis, The Sorrow, Paul Di'Anno, Skyforger, Hell, Kissin' Dynamite, Horkyze Slize, Arakain, Suicidal Angels, Salamandra, Odium, Milking The Goatmachine, Visaci Zamek, Doga, Vitacit, Unisonic in Legendy se vrací. /B.B./

Egons je nov kitarist v skupini Skyforger. /P.G./

Exodus, Khold in Nevermore so novi potrjeni bandi za festival Brutal Assault, ki se bo odvijal med 11. in 13. avgustom, nastop pa so zaenkrat napovedali tudi Dordeduh, Excrementory Grindfuckers, Exhumed, Gorgus, Kvelertak, Morbid Angel, Skeletonwitch, Skyforger, Suicidal Tendencies, Trigger The Bloodshed, Triptykon in Vader.

Znani so prvi bandi, ki bodo nastopili na češkem festivalu Brutal Assault 2011: Morbid Angel, Suicidal Tendencies, Trigger The Bloodshed, Skyforger, Excrementory Grindfuckers, Skeletonwitch, Kvelertak, Gorguts, Vader, Exhumed, Triptykon in Dordeduh.

Skyforger, zadnji studijski album Amorphis, je na Finskem presegel 15.000 prodanih izvodov in dosegel zlato naklado. Live DVD Forging The Land Of Thousand Lakes izide v jutri. /A.J./

V zadnjih štirih tednih so izšli naslednji albumi: ARMA GATHAS – Dead To This World, AS I LAY DYING – The Powerless Rise, AXEL RUDI PELL – The Crest, BLACK MAJESTY – In Your Honour, BRAIN DRILL – Quantum Catastrophe, CANDLEMASS – Ashes To Ashes (DVD), CRASHDIET – Generation Wild, DIVINITY – The Singularity, EISREGEN – Schlangensonne, EVIG NATT – Darkland, EXODUS – Exhibit B: The Human Condition, EXTREME – Take Us Alive (DVD), GLYDER – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, ICED EARTH – Box Of The Wicked, KARMA TO BURN – Appalachian Incantation, KEEP OF KALESSIN – Reptilian, KISSIN' DYNAMITE – Addicted To Metal, KIVIMETSÄN DRUIDI – Betrayal, Justice, Revenge, LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE – The Grandiose Nowhere, LEGION OF THE DAMNED – Slaughtering... (DVD), MASTER – The Human Machine, MUTINY WITHIN – Mutiny Within, RHAPSODY OF FIRE – The Frozen Tears Of Angels, RIPE – A Moment Of Forever, SALEM – Playing God And Other Short Stories, SAWTHIS – EGod, SKYFORGER – Kurbads, STORMZONE – Death Dealer, TAROT – Gravity Of Light, TESLA – Alive In Europe, THE BONES – Berlin Burnout (DVD). /A.J./

Današnji Metal detektor začenjamo z novimi upi nemškega heavy metala/hard rocka Kissin' Dynamite, sledijo thrasherji Elimination in Stigmatized. Paul Speckman, underground death metal veteran, je z Master objavil deseti album. Poslušali bomo tudi Britance The Breathing Process in preverili, kaj nam Neige ponuja na drugem Alcest albumu. Po sedmih letih je končno izšel novi Skyforger album, medtem pa so The Ocean za letos pripravili kar dva albuma. Tudi Metsatöll in Bison B.C. v tej oddaji ne bodo spregledani. Metal detektor je na sporedu vsak ponedeljek ob 22.00 na Radiu Študent, 89.3MHz ali www.radiostudent.si. /M.P.C./

11. maja izide Kurbads, nov studijski album Skyforger. Track lista: Curse Of The Witch, Son Of The Mare, The Nine-Headed, Bewitched Forest, In The Yard Of The Father's Son, The Devilslayer, The Stone Sentinel, In The Underworld, Black Rider, The Last Battle, Kurbads. Tukaj lahko poslušate komad Son Of The Mare. /A.J./

Tukaj si lahko ogledate trailer prihajajoči album Skyforger, Kurbads. /A.J./

Skyforger so podpisali z založbo Metal Blade. Album z naslovom Kurbads bo izšel konec aprila. /P.G./

Keep Of Kalessin, Shining, Månegarm, God Dethroned, Skyforger in Darkane so novi potrjeni bandi za festival Kaltenbach Open Air. /P.G./

Ta teden novo v On Parole trgovini: Absu, Anorexia Nervosa, Arkona, Artillery, Bathory, Behemoth, Bestial Mockery, Bewitched, Burzum, Cirith Gorgol, Dark Tranquillity, Enslaved, Exodus, Immortal, Impaled Nazarene, Konkhra, Lääz Rockit, Macabre, Manegarm, Marduk, Mayhem, Nachtmystium, Necromantia, Novembers Doom, Onslaught, Pestilence, Sadus, Samael, Shining, Skyforger, Slayer, Smargroth, Solitude Aeturnus, The Stone in Xentrix. Več na www.on-parole.com. /M.P.C./

V zadnjih dveh tednih so izšli naslednji albumi: ALESTORM – Black Sails At Midnight, AMORPHIS – Skyforger, BLAZE BAYLEY – The Night That Will Not Die (double live CD), DARKNESS DYNAMITE – The Astonishing Fury Of Mankind, GLITTERTIND – Landkjenning, HARDCORE SUPERSTAR – Beg For It, MOLOTOV SOLUTION – The Harbinger, NEAERA – Omnicide – Creation Unleashed, STIGMATA – The Wounds That Never Heal,STREAM OF PASSION – Flame Within, STRYDEGOR – Back On Ancient Traces, THERION – The Miskolc Experience (CD/DVD), TRAIL OF TEARS – Bloodstained Endurance, TYR – By the Light of the Northern Star in UFO – The Visitor. /A.J./

Amorphis so na svoji MySpace strani objavili celoten album z naslovom Skyforger, ki bo izšel 29. maja. /P.G./