Edguy bodo 20. januarja izdali album Rocket Ride, na katerem bodo naslednji komadi: Sacrifice, Rocket Ride, Wasted Time, Matrix, Return To The Tribe, The Asylum, Save Me, Catch Of The Century, Out Of Vogue, Superheroes, Trinidad in Fucking With Fire. /S.P./

13. junija bo izšel Marduk DVD z naslovom Blackcrowned. Na njem bodonaslednji posnetki: Hamburg, 1999: Panzer Division Marduk, Burn my Coffin, Baptism by Fire, The Sun Turns Black as Night; Norrköping, 1993: Wolves, Holy Inquisition; Krokek, 1992: Still Fucking Dead, Within the Abyss; Hengelo, 1997: Dark Endless; Heidenheim, 1995: The Sun Has Failed; Lössnitz, 1999: Burn my Coffin; Bradford, 1996: Materialized in Stone; Dynamo Open Air, 1999: The Black; San Francisco, 2001: Azrael, Beyond the Grace of God; Essen, 1999: Those of the Unlight, Sulphur Souls; Strassbourg, 2001: Jesus Christ...Sodomized (bonus), La Grande Danse, Macabre (bonus).  /M.P./

20. junija izide Used And Abused... In Live We Trust, limited edition In Flames box set z dvema DVDjema in dvema CDjema.
DVD 1: Live At Sticky Fingers (7. september 2004): 1. F(r)iend, 2. The Quiet Place, 3. Dead Alone, 4. Touch Of Red, 5. Like You Better Dead, 6. My Sweet Shadow, 7. Evil In A Closet, 8. In Search For I, 9. Borders And Shading, 10. Superhero Of The Computer Rage, 11. Dial 595 – Escape, 12. Bottled, 13. Behind Space, 14. Artifacts Of The Black Rain, 15. Moonshield, 16. Food For The Gods, 17. Jotun, 18. Colony, 19. Pinball Map, 20. Only For The Weak, 21. Trigger, 22. Cloud Connected.
Live at Hammersmith, London (27. december 2004): 1. Pinball Map, 2. System, 3. Cloud Connected, 4. In Search For I, 5. Fucking Hostile, 6. Behind Space, 7. Quiet Place, 8. Trigger, 9. Touch of Red, 10. My Sweet Shadow.
Soundtrack Tour 2004 – Live: 1. Only For The Weak, 2. Clayman.
DVD 2: System (Live in Madrid), Dial 595 – Escape (Live in Australia/Japan). Promotional videos: 1. F(r)iend, 2. My Sweet Shadow, 3. Touch of Red (extended DVD version), 4. The Quiet Place. Intervjuji s člani banda, o snemanju videospotov, koncertih, turnejah itd. /A.J./

9. maja bo pri Osmose Productions izšel prvi Impaled Nazarene live album Death Comes In 26 Carefully Selected Pieces z naslednjimi skladbami: Intro, The Horny And The Horned, Armageddon Death Squad, Goat Perversion, 1999: Karmageddon Warriors, Motorpenis, Kohta Ei Naura Enää Jeesuskaan, The Endless War, Sadhu Satana, Ghettoblaster, Coraxo, Soul Rape, Sadistic 666/Under A Golden Shower, Zero Tolerance, The Maggot Crusher, Let's Fucking Die, Tribulation Hell, We're Satan's Generation, Cogito Ergo Sum, Goat Seeds Of Doom, Condemned To Hell, Intro S.F.P., Sadogoat, Vitutuksen Multihuipennus, The Lost Art Of Goat Sacrificing, Total War – Winter War. /M.P./

Impaled Nazarene bodo ob petnajsti obletnici delovanja konec maja pri Osmose Productions izdali prvi koncertni album Death Comes In 26 Carefully Selected Pieces, ki so ga posneli lanskega decembra v Helsinkih. Na njem bodo naslednje skladbe: Intro, The Horny And The Horned, Armageddon Death Squad, Goat Perversion, 1999: Karmageddon Warriors, Motorpenis, Kohta Ei Naura Enää Jeesuskaan, The Endless War, Sadhu Satana, Ghettoblaster, Coraxo, Soul Rape, Sadistic 666/Under A Golden Shower, Zero Tolerance, The Maggot Crusher, Let's Fucking Die, Tribulation Hell, We're Satan's Generation, Cogito Ergo Sum, Goat Seeds Of Doom, Condemned To Hell, Intro S.F.P., Sadogoat, Vitutuksen Multihuipennus, The Lost Art Of Goat Sacrificing, Total War – Winter War. /M.P./

Znana je track lista Strapping Young Lad DVD-ja For Those Aboot To Rock (Live at the Commodore), ki izide 15. novembra pri Century Media: Dire [Intro], Consequence, Relentless, Rape Song, Home Nucleonics, S.Y.L., In The Rainy Season, Devour, Aftermath, Oh My Fucking God, Force Fed, Detox, All Hail The New Flesh, Far Beyond Metal. Poleg tega bosta na DVD-ju še videospota za Relentless in Detox ter več intervjujev. Medtem pa band že snema nov studijski album. /M.P./

28. januarja bodo četrti album Slaughter Prophecy izdali nemški metalci Sacred Steel. Naslovi kot so Invocation Of The Nameless, Sacred Bloody Steel, The Rites Of Sacrifice, Raise The Metal Fist, Pagan Heart in bonus na digipacku Crush The Holy, Save The Damned nam povedo vse: “pure fucking havy metal”. /M.P./