Depravity so tukaj objavili celoten album z naslovom Litanies For The World To Suffer, ki je letos izšel v samozaložbi. /P.G./

Znana je tracklista novega Destruction live albuma z naslovom The Curse Of The Antichrist, ki bo izšel 31. avgusta pri AFM Records: The Butcher Strikes Back, Curse The Gods, Mad Butcher, The Alliance Of Hellhoundz, D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N., Eternal Ban, Urge The Greed Of Gain, Thrash Till Death, Metal Discharge, The Damned, Cracked Brain, Soulcollector, Death Trap, Unconscious Ruins, Life Without Sense, The 7 Deadly Sins, The Antichrist, Thrash Till Death, Reject Emotions (three drumkits Wacken Inferno version), Total Desaster, Bestial Invasion. /P.N./

Finci Altaria bodo poleti izdali nov album z naslovom Unholy, na katerem bodo naslednje skladbe: Alterior Motive, Warrior (mp3), Unholy Invasion, Pride & Desire, The Lake, Danger Zone, Steal Your Thunder, Wind Beneath My Wings, We Own The Fire, Ready!, Never Wonder Why in Underdog. /P.G./

V zadnjih dveh tednih so izšli naslednji albumi: AS I LAY DYING – This Is Who We Are (DVD), BELIEVER – Gabriel, BLACK MAJESTY – Tomorrowland, DAATH – The Concealers, DEATH ANGEL – Sonic Beatdown Live In Germany, DISBELIEF – Protected Hell DUSTSUCKER – Diabolo Domination, EARTH CRISIS – To The Death, ELDRITCH – Livequake, ELUVEITIE - Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion, FLASHBACK OF ANGER – Splinters Of Life, GUN BARREL – Outlaw Invasion, IMPELLITTERI – Wicked Maiden, IN THIS MOMENT – The Dream, LACUNA COIL – Shallow Life, MAROON - Order, PAGAN'S MIND – God's Equation, SYMPHONITY – Voice From The Silence, WINTER'S VERGE – Eternal Damnation in WOLFCHANT – Determined Damnation. /A.J./

Criminal so objavili naslovnico in tracklisto albuma White Hell, ki bo izšel konec februarja: 21st Century Paranoia (skladbo lahko slišite na MySpace strani), Crime And Punishment, Incubus, Black Light, The Deluge, Strange Ways, Mobrule, The Infidel, Invasion, Eyes Of Temptation, Bastardom in Sons Of Cain. /P.G./

Norvežani Nocturnal Breed so objavili track listo novega albuma Fields of Rot, ki izide 3. julija pri Agonia Records: Wicked, Vicious & Violent, Fields of Rot, Too Damned To Conquer, Manskinner, In Sickness and in Hell, Invasion of the Body-Thrashers, Iron Bitch, Code of Conduct, The Dead, Scything Harrow. /M.P./

NWOBHM predstavniki Witchfinder General pripravljajo izid zbirke starega, do zdaj neizdanega materiala Buried Amongst the Ruins. Gre za 7” Burning a Sinner, 12” Soviet Invasion in štirih live skladb Satan's Children, Rabies, Phantasmagorical, Soviet Invasion. /M.P./

Tankard so pred kratkim v Stage One studiu začeli s snemanjem novih verzij svojih najbolj znanih skladb za album Best Case Scenario: 25 Years In Beers, ki izide 31. avgusta pri AFM Records. Na limited edition verziji albuma bo tudi tribute to Tankard z osemnajstimi njihovimi priredbami. Track lista je naslednja: Best Case Scenario: 25 Years In Beers: Zombie Attack, Maniac Forces, (Empty) Tankard, Don't Panic, Chemical Invasion, The Morning After, Alien, 666 Packs, Beermuda, Space Beer, Medley (Alcohol, Puke, Mon Cheri, Wonderful Life), Freibier, Nation Over Nation, Two-Faced, Minds On The Moon.
Na A Tribute to Tankard pa bodo naslednje priredbe: Abandoned - Face Of The Enemy, Courageous - The Morning After, Doppelbock - Freibier Für Alle, Fatal Embrace - Acid Death, FKÜ - Space Beer, Frezeebee – Poison, Hatework - Live To Dive, Hyades – Alien, Irreverence – Beermuda, Manticora - Total Addiction, Odium – Sunscars, Paradox - Zombie Attack, Paragon - Two-Faced, Sacred Steel - Empty Tankard, Scornage – Away, Solicitude - Planetwide Suicide, Taste Of Doom – Rectifier, Torment - Chemical Invasion. /M.P./

Iced Earth so končali z miksom in masteringom novega singla Overture of the Wicked, ki izide konec maja/začetek junija. Na njem bodo naslednje skladbe: Ten Thousand Strong, Prophecy, Birth of the Wicked, The Coming Curse. Za Ten Thousand Strong bodo poleti posneli videospot. V prihajajočih tednih pa nameravajo zaključiti tudi s produkcijo albuma Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part 1), ki izide konec avgusta/začetek septembra. Na njem bodo naslednje skladbe: Overture, Something Wicked (Part 1), Invasion, Man's Motivation, The Setian Massacre, A Charge to Keep, Reflections, Ten Thousand Strong, Execution, Order of the Rose, The Clouding, Infiltrate and Assimilate, Retribution Through the Ages, Something Wicked (Part 2), The Domino Decree, Framing Armageddon, When Stars Collide (Born is He), The Awakening. Delovni naslov drugega dela albuma pa se zaenkrat glasi Revelation Abomination Something Wicked (Part 2). Z delom za album naj bi končali med festivalskimi nastopi in svetovno turnejo, izid pa je napovedan za februar/marec 2008. Zaradi zdravstvenih težav v družini basist Bo Wallace ne bo udeležen v prihajajočih aktivnostih pri Iced Earth. Na singleu je bass odigral Jon Schaffer, do konca snemanj in v živo pa bo z njimi sodeloval Dennis Hayes (Beyond Fear). /M.P./

Pri poljski založbi Selfmadegod Records 26. marca izide mini album thrasherjev Hirax, Assassins of War, na katerem bodo naslednje skladbe: Lucifer's Infierno, Summon the Death Dealers, City of the Dead, Invasion, Assassins of War. /M.P./

Earthride, The Gates Of Slumber in Centurions Ghost se aprila odpravljajo na evropsko turnejo Barbaric Invasion 07. /M.P./

Tankard se konec marca odpravljajo v Stage One studio, kjer bodo na novo posneli svoje klasike (Empty) Tankard, Chemical Invasion, The Morning After in Space Beer, ki bodo poleti izšle na best of kompilaciji Best Case Scenario: 25 Years In Beers. /M.P./

22. januarja pri AFM Records izide Destruction album Thrash Anthems, na katerem bodo predelane in na novo posnete Destruction klasike. Album je bil posnet v House of Music Studiu in Little Creek Studio s skoraj enako ekipo kot Inventor Of Evil album. Na Thrash Anthems bo tudi dve novi skladbi Deposition (Your Heads Will Roll) in Profanity, ostale pa so: Invincible Force, Release from Agony, Mad Butcher, Sign of Fear, Death Trap, Life Without Sense, Total Desaster, Bestial Invasion, Reject Emotions, Tormentor, Unconscious Ruins, Curse the Gods, Cracked Brain, Eternal Ban. /M.P./

Izid Black Label Society DVDja The European Invasion - Doom Troopin' Live je iz 27. junija prestavljen na še neznani datum. /M.P./

27. junija izide Black Label Society DVD The European Invasion - Doom Troopin' Live, na katerem bodo posnetki celotnega razprodanega koncerta lani junija v Parizu (Stoned and Drunk, Destruction Overdrive, Been a Long Time, Funeral Bell, Suffering Overdue, In this River, Suicide Messiah, Demise of Sanity, Spread Your Wings, Solo Acoustic Jam, Spoke in the Wheel, Fire it Up, Stillborn, Genocide Junkies), štiri skladbe iz koncerta v Londonu (Been a Long Time, Suicide Messiah, Stillborn, Genocide Junkies), enourni dokumentarec, videospoti (Suicide Messiah, Fire it Up, In This River). /M.P./