Moderni Francozi Toronto Is Broken so v sodelovanju s Sebotage in Fight The Fade izdali single Anaesthesia.

Nemške starešine speed/power metala Scanner se po skoraj devetih letih zatišja končno vračajo z novim materialom. 12. januarja bo luč sveta ugledala nova plošča The Cosmic Race, ki bo izšla pri Rock Of Angels Records. Tracklista:

The Earth Song
Face The Fight
Warriors Of The Light
Dance Of The Dead
Scanner’s Law
A New Horizon
Farewell To The Sun
Space Battalion
The Last And First In Line

Ameriški thrash metalci Degrave so s komadom Overlord napovedali svoj tretji album z naslovom Volume, ki bo izšel 3. novembra pri Horror Pain Gore Death Productions in bo prinesel devet komadov:

The Unseen Force
Corpsewood Curse
Speeding Black Leather Hell
Midnight Assassin
Nuremburg Nights
The Butchers Apron
Marked For Death
Campaign Of Sin
Howl Of The Horde

Na svoj račun naj bi prišli ljubitelji zasedb, kot so Anthrax, D.R.I., Exodus, Hammer Fight, Megadeth, Motorhead, Municipal Waste, Obituary, Overkill, Pantera, Slayer ali Toxic Holocaust.

Portugalska black metal zasedba Gaerea je objavila najnovejši video za komad Dormant. Tokrat gre za poseben video, ki ga je posnel Claudio Marino. Komentar banda:

»Complementing the song's aural journey, the video art installation accompanying "Dormant" delves into the anguish and struggle for survival. The visuals depict the main character, trapped and enclosed in a tormenting world, as water relentlessly pours over his body, simulating drowning and suffocation. This immersive and visceral experience offers a harrowing glimpse into the protagonist's fight for life, evoking a range of emotions and challenging viewers to confront their own mortality.«

Nemške thrash metal legende Sodom napovedujejo izid novega EP-ja z naslovom 1982. EP sicer ne bo zajemal novih komadov, bo pa poslušalcem približal začetke banda z njegovega prvega dema. Poleg starih komadov bo EP zajemal še lanski single 1982, celotna tracklista pa je takšna:

1982 (Remix)
Witching Metal
Victims Of Death
Let's Fight In The Darkness Of Hell
Equinox

Španski heavy metalci Slowburn so razkrili, da bo njihov drugi studijski album z naslovom Fire Starter izšel 17. oktobra pri založbi Fighter Records. Plošček prinaša teh deset komadov:

Psycho War
Exiled
The Beast
On Fire
I'm Revenge
Two Years
Touch the Sky
Last Chance
Falling
The Price of Liberty

Legendarni nemški heavy metalci U.D.O. so minuli petek izdali album Touchdown in besedilni video za pesem Fight For The Right s tega albuma.

Francoski moderni power metalci Asylum Pyre so posneli videospot za pesem Underneath Heartskin z aktualnega albuma Call Me Inhuman (The Sun - The Fight - part 5).

Angleški heavy metalci Forged In Black z besedilnim videospotom za pesem Be One With Fire napovedujejo album Lightning in the Ashes. Tretji bandov plošček bo izšel 20. juija pri Fighter Records in bo vseboval deset komadov:

Be One With Fire
Lightning in the Ashes
Dusk Breather
Dark Lord Requiem
War Torn Skull
Chains of the Damned
Building a Beast
Brother’s Keeper
Hellucinator
Detonation Ritual

Legendarni U.D.O. bodo avgusta izdali album Touchdown. To bo njihov 18. dolgometražec, vseboval pa bo trinajst pesmi:

Isolation Man
The Flood
The Double Dealer's Club
Fight For The Right
Forever Free
Punchline
Sad Man's Show
The Betrayer
Heroes Of Freedom
Better Start To Run
The Battle Understood
Living Hell
Touchdown

Na spodnji sliki lahko preverite datume prihajajočih evropskih nastopov velikih Nemcev.

Italijanski heavy metalci Bad As so podpisali za založbo Wormholedeath Records in napovedali svoj četrti dolgometražec. Ta bo nosil naslov Fight The Demons in bo vseboval enajst komadov:

Fear
You Better Run
The War is On
Fight The Demons
Nemesis
Where Did The Love Go
Inside A Dream
Awake
As I Walk Away
The Answer
Free

Rival Sons so objavili videospot za novi single Bird in the Hand, ki je del njihovega prihajajočega albuma Darkfighter. Ta bo izšel 2. junija.

Nastala je nova t. i. superskupina z imenom How We End. Sestavljajo jo Jen Manura (ex-Evanescence, kitara), Diva Satanica (ex-Nervosa, vokal), Jake E (ex-Amaranthe, vokal), Tom Naumann (Primal Fear, kitara), Mitch Kunz (bas) in Adde Larsson (bobni).

Danes ob 19. uri boste lahko naj tej povezavi prisluhnili prvem singlu My Fighting Heart.

Po tem, ko so pred kratkim turnejo odpovedali White Ward, je ista usoda doletela blackened death metalce 1914 iz Ukrajine. Upamo, da se stvari umirijo in nas bo zasedba lahko obiskala letos poleti na festivalu Črna Loka. Sledi bandova izjava za medije:

»Many of you could have been noticing a recent wave of European tours cancellations by UA bands. Unfortunately, 1914 is not an exception here. With heavy hearts we must inform you that we cannot play for our fans this April and have to cancel our upcoming tour.

Just to make it clear, it is still a 'wartime' on the territory of our land, and this specific time makes it impossible to leave the borders by the men of a conscript age. How could we travel last year? It was possible to get a special permission from the state authorities for the artists to leave the country and do shows and other activities in order to aid the country and spead the truth about unprovoked and brutal war started by russia. There were some irresponsible people who used such permissions to leave the country and never come back, and after it became public and went through a media - the state authorities stopped granting the special permissions for the artists by artificially overcomplicating the process of getting all the necessary documents, by enlarging the list of the documents and making it impossible for bands to obtain what is needed. This affected a lot of different bands in UA.

Last couple of weeks for us were in a constant fight with that new stupid system trying to show that we had a positive experience of returning back home after foreign tours, trying to display the value of such tours for our country benefit, but no matter how hard we tried - we couldn't break that system and it made impossible for us to go and play this time. We want to apologize to our fans, other bands, promoters, but currently we are powerless here. We will work hard to be able to get to our other shows this year, maybe the ice will melt and we will see some easement in the future, but currently we just did everything we could.

Міністерство культури та інформаційної політики України - Thank you for nothing!«

Francoski moderni power metalci Asylum Pyre so posneli še zadnji videospot pred izdajo prihajajočega petega ploščka Call Me Inhuman (The Sun - The Fight - part 5). Tokrat so izbrali pesem There, I could Die.