Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: SARCASM: Igra Narave, IRON MAIDEN: Rock In Rio, U.D.O.: Man And Machine, DOWN: Down II, SOILWORK: Natural Born Chaos, GRAVE DIGGER: Tunes Of Wacken, ONWARD: Reawaken, PRETTY MAIDS: Planet Panic, ZAKK WYLDE'S BLACK LABEL SOCIETY: 1919 Eternal, VOMITORY: Blood Rapture, STYGMA IV: The Human Twilight, BLUDGEON: Crucify The Priest, REBELLION: A Tragedy In Steel - Shakespeare's Macbeth, DEAD SOUL TRIBE: Dead Soul Tribe, KAIPA: Notes From The Past, DIABOLICAL: A Thousand Deaths, RAM-ZET: Escape, GILBY CLARKE: Swag in CADAVERIA: The Shadows Madame.

Razni finski glasbeniki so se združili v Death cover bandu Evil Chucks in 1. marca v Helsinkih odigrali koncert posvečen Chucku Schuldinerju. V skupini so sodelovali Alexi Laiho (Children Of Bodom), kitarist Mitja Harvilahti (Moonsorrow), kitarist Janne Pertillä, bassist Oppu Laine (Mannhai, ex- Amorphis), bobnar Nalle Österman (Gandalf), vokalist Taneli Jarva (The Black League, ex- Sentenced) in še en vokalist Jaska Hurskainen (Gandalf). Odigrali so naslednje komade: Zombie Ritual (vokal: Taneli), Born Dead (v.: Jaska), Within The Mind (v.: Alexi), Defensive Personalities (v.: Alexi), Left To Die (v.: Jaska), Infernal Death (v.: Taneli), Pull The Plug (v.: Jaska) in Evil Dead (v.: Taneli). /M.P./

20. aprila bo v Sao Paolu v Braziliji južnoameriski Thrash Of The Titans festival. Nastopajoči: Sepultura, Machine Head, Testament, Anthrax, Exodus, Vio-Lence, Death Angel, Sadus, Flotsam And Jetsam in Heathen. /M.P./

Avstralski death/thrasherji Gospel Of The Horns so podpisali z založbo Invictus, pri kateri bodo poleti izdali svoj prvenec. Avgusta se bodo odpravili na evropsko turnejo. /M.P./

Švedski death metalci Spawn Of Possession so podpisali z Unique Leader Records. Junija bodo začeli snemati nov album, ki naj bi izšel jeseni. Sledila bo turneja. /M.P./

Nemški heavy metalci Chinchilla bodo 11. marca izdali nov album z naslovom The Last Millenium. Znana je že track lista: The Last Millenium, War Machine, Demons We Call, Nighttrain Of Death, Father Forgive Me, After The War, Victims Of The Night, The Boys Are Back In Town, They Are Liars, The Highest Price. /M.P./

25. februarja pričakujte naslednji brutalni napad s strani Cannibal Corpse, ki bodo izdali nov album Gore Obsessed. Na njem bodo naslednji komadi: Hatchet To The Head, Pit Of Zombies, Dormant Bodies Bursting, Savage Butchery, Compelled To Lacerate, Drowning In Viscera, Hung And Bled, Sanded Faceless, Mutation Of The Cadaver, When Death Replaces Life in Grotesque. /M.P./

25. februarja pričakujte naslednji brutalni napad s strani Cannibal Corpse, ki bodo izdali nov album Gore Obsessed. Na njem bodo naslednji komadi: Hatchet To The Head, Pit Of Zombies, Dormant Bodies Bursting, Savage Butchery, Compelled To Lacerate, Drowning In Viscera, Hung And Bled, Sanded Faceless, Mutation Of The Cadaver, When Death Replaces Life in Grotesque. /M.P./

Želite postati bobnar pri Slayer?!? Ti bodo februarja začeli z avdicijo za Bostaphovega namestnika. Sicer je že malo pozno, a vendar: kandidati morajo do 1. februarja poslati VHS, na kateri igrajo Slayer komade, biografijo, opisati glasbene izkušnje in sodelovali bodo lahko na avdicijah 7.2. v Dallasu in 13.2. v San Franciscu. Še naslovi komadov, ki jih morajo kandidati znati odigrati na avdiciji: Disciple, God Send Death, Stain of Mind, Angel Of Death, Postmortem/Raining Blood, South of Heaven, War Ensemble, Seasons in the Abyss, Hell Awaits, Haunting the Chapel, Chemical Warfare.
Manjka seveda še naslov: Slayer Drum Search Contest, c/o RSMA, Inc., 8981 Sunset Blvd., Suite 102West Hollywood, CA 90069, USA

Judas Priest so posneli koncert 19. decembra v Brixtonu in ga bodo izdali kot DVD. Na njem bodo naslednji komadi: Metal Gods, Heading Out To The Highway, Grinder, Touch Of Evil, Bloodstained, Victim Of Changes, The Sentinel, One On One, Running Wild, The Ripper, Diamonds And Rust, Feed On Me, Green Manalishi, Beyond The Realms Of Death, Burn In Hell, Hell Is Home, Breaking The Law, Desert Plains, You've Got Another Thing Coming, Turbo Lover in Painkiller, Hellion/Electric Eye, United in Living After Midnight, Hell Bent For Leather. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: BOLT THROWER: Honour-Valour-Pride, PUNGENT STENCH: Masters Of Moral – Servants Of Sin, EDENBRIDGE: Arcana, SILENT FORCE: Infatuator, SINISTER: Creative Killings, ENSLAVED: Monumension, TIDFALL: Instinct Gate, STORMLORD: At The Gates Of Utopia, AETERNUS: Ascension Of Terror, MÖRK GRYNING: Maelstrom Chaos, KING KOBRA: Hollywood Trash, BLOOD RED THRONE: Monument Of Death in VARIOUS ARTISTS: Century Media – 10 Years Anniversary.

Tu je track lista drugega albuma Sins Of Omission z naslovom The Creation: 1. Intro 2. The Secret Agenda 3. Pound For Pound 4. (R)Evolution 5. Angel Killers 6. The Rape... 7. ...Of Innocence 8. A Wicked Slaughterhouse Tale 9. The Grinder 10. Sinners Redemption 11. Angel Of Death. Zadnja je priredba legendarnega Slayer komada. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: BRAINSTORM: Metus Mortis, ANGRA: Rebirth, MY DYING BRIDE: The Dreadful Hours, PINK CREAM 69: Endangered, MSG: Be Aware Of Scorpions, CARPATHIAN FOREST: Morbid Fascination Of Death, POWERGOD: Bleed For The Gods, STORMWIND: Reflections, ANOREXIA NERVOSA: New Obscurant's Order, GORELORD: Force Fed On Human Flesh, REVOLVER: The Unholy Mother Of Fuck, V.A.: The Boys Are Back – Tribute To Thin Lizzy ter singel KATATONIA: Tonight's Music.

Prejšnji teden so pri Earache Records izdali DVD kompilacijo i-Crusher na katerem so naslednje pesmi: MORTIIS - Parasite God, THE HAUNTED - Bury Your Dead, LINEA 77 - Ketchup Suicide, MORBID ANGEL - God Of Emptiness, THE BERZERKER - Forever, CADAVER INC. - Rupture, GANDALF - Morning Sun, GODFLESH - Christbait Rising, CATHEDRAL - 'Black Sunday', NAPALM DEATH - 'Scum' (live 1989), CARCASS - Tools Of The Trade (live 1992), ENTOMBED - Stranger Aeons'(live 1992), RABIES CASTE - Got It From Blake, DECEMBER - Umbilical, DECEMBER WOLVES - Public Aquarian Freebase, INSISION - Trapped Within, EPHEL DUATH - Embossed, ULTRAVIOLENCE – Elektra in AUTONOMY - But I Thought. /M.P./

11. februarja bo izšel nov The Crown album Cowned In Terror, na katerem bodo naslednje pesmi: Crowned In Terror, Under The Whip, Drugged Unholy, World Below, Out For Blood, The Speed Of Darkness, I Am Hell, Satanist, Death Is The Hunter, Death Metal Holocaust. /M.P.