Enthrallment bodo pri založbi Metal Age Productions izdali nov album z naslovom Immerse Into Bloody Bliss. /P.G./

Sear Bliss, Arkona in Unleashed so novi potrjeni bandi za festival Ragnarök. /P.G./

V današnji oddaji Metal detektor poslušamo nove plošče bandov Rex Devs, Darkthrone, Overkill, Power, Mystic Prophecy, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Duskfall, Sear Bliss, Helloween in Manegarm. Metal detektor je na sporedu ob 22:00 na Radiu Študent, 89.3 MHz ali http://www.radiostudent.si. /M.P.C./

28. maja izide Katatonia live CD/DVD z naslovom Live Consternation, ki je bil posnet lani na Summer Breeze festivalu. Track lista je naslednja: Leaders, Wealth, Soil's Song, Had to (Leave), Cold Ways, Right into the Bliss, Ghost of the Sun, Criminals, Deliberation, July, Evidence. /M.P./

Madžarski black metalci Sear Bliss so podpisali s Candlelight Records. Band trenutno dela na novem, še neimenovanem albumu. /M.P./

Madžari Sear Bliss so objavili video za komad Two Worlds Collide. /P.G./

Novi izidi: SACRED STEEL: Live Blessings, SINAMORE: A New Day, DEATHSTARS: Termination Bliss, DEVIN TOWNSEND: Synchestra, DARK FORTRESS: Seance, FIREBALL MINISTRY: Their Rock Is Not Our Rock, SAMAEL: Era One/Lessons In Magic #1, MAJESTY: Songs Of A New Millenium (single), LIV KRISTINE: Fake A Smile (EP), REQUIEM: Government Denies Knowledge, DEMIRICOUS: One.

Švedi Deathstars so objavili video za komad Cyanide, ki je na njihovem drugem albumu Termination Bliss. /S.P./

Brazilci Krisiun so nov potrjen band za festival Party.San Open Air, ki se bo odvijal od 11. do 13. avgusta v Nemčiji. Do sedaj potrjeni bandi: Entombed, Suffocation, Necrophobic, Cirith Gorgor, Disparaged, Sear Bliss, 1349 in Secrets Of The Moon. /P.G./

Defleshed so objavili track listo novega albuma May the Flesh Be With You, ki izide 21. marca pri Regain Records: Stripped to the Bone, Abstinence for Turbulence, Chain Reaction, Reclaim the Beat, Grind and Rewind, Under Destruction, Red Hot, Bulldozed (Back to Basic), Ignorance is Bliss, May the Flesh be with You, Needless to Pray, Aggroculture, Over and Out. /M.P./

Madžarski black metalci Sear Bliss naj bi še letos izdali DVD, na katerem bo koncert ob 10. obletnici delovanja banda, ki je bil posnet februarja letos v Budimpešti. /M.P./

Flowing Tears bodo marca izdali nov album z naslovom Razorbliss. /M.P./

Kot smo že pisali, Iced Eart šef Jon Schaffer istočasno pripravlja novi Iced Earth in Demons & Wizards plošči. Iced Earth izdelku bo naslov Glorious Burden, s snemanjem pa naj bi začeli januarja v Morrisound Studios, kjer so posneli že vse svoje plošče. Znanih je že 19 delovnih naslovov pesmi, ki pa se lahko še spremenijo. Nekatere od teh bodo uvrščene na Demons & Wizards album: The Reckoning (Don't Tread On Me), Hollow Man, And The Anger Flows, Honesty And The Damage Done, Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death, When The Eagle Cries, Gettysburg, Red Badge Of Courage, My Life, Tale Of A Sale, Solitude II, The Glorious Burden, The Opportunist, The Haunting, This Virus Called Man, A Gift Or A Curse?, Ignorance Is Bliss, Deception In The Desert. /M.P./

Double Live Annihilation je naslov prihajajočega Annihilator koncertnega albuma, ki izide januarja. Prvi uradni koncertni izid po In Command (Live 1989-1990) je bil posnet junija v Evropi in bo vseboval naslednje pesmi: Murder, Ultra Motion, The Box, Denied, The Blackest Day, King Of The Kill, Torn Lunatic Asylum, Set The World On Fire, I Am In Command, Refresh The Demon, Syn. Kill 1, Never Neverland, Striker, Bliss, Phantasmagoria, Crystal Ann, Alison Hell, Shallow Grave. /M.P./

Bivši Stryper bobnar Robert Sweet je z Davidom Oearsonom in Trevorom Barrom (oba Static) ustanovil nov band Blissed. Maja bodo končali s snemanjem prvenca, nato pa bodo odigrali prve koncerte. /M.P./