IWrestledABearOnce so objavili reportažo z nedavne ameriške turneje All Stars Tour, na kateri so sodelovali tudi In This Moment, Emmure, Alesana, For Today, Born Of Osiris, The Ghost Inside, Chelsea Grin in drugi. /B.B./

Niklas Kvarforth, ustanovitelj in frontman švedskih ekstremnih metalcev Shining, bo 7. decembra pri Spinefarm Records izdal solo izdelek z naslovom Fifteen Years Of Absolute Darkness, ki zajema petnajst let njegove pogosto tudi kontroverzne glasbene karijere. Gre za petnajst skladb različnih skupin, pri katerih je Kvarforth gostoval na vokalih. Tako so zajete skladbe bandov Gravdal, Bethlehem, The Vision Bleak in Den Saakaldte, kot tudi do sedaj še neobjavljena alternativna verzija skladbe Förtvivlan, Min Arvedel njegove matične zasedbe. Tracklista je sledeča:

Disk 1:
Kkoagulaa - Excerpt 4
Diabolicum - Salvation Through Vengeance
Manes - Bli Med Mig
In Lingua Murtua - Cold Void Messiah
Monumentum - The Colour Of Compassion
Shining - Förtvivlan, Min Arvedel (alternative version)
Hjarnidaudi - A Darkblue Afternoon
Livsnedad - Fobisk Sälta

Disk 2:
The Vision Bleak – I Dined With The Swans
Glorior Belli - The Night Scalp Challenger
Funeral Dirge - Alpha Sans Omega
Gravdal - Mishandlet
Nekros - The Black Serpent
Bethlehem - Yesterday I Still Died Today
Den Saakaldte – Mesias
/B.B./

For Today bodo januarja prihodnje leto pričeli s snemanjem novega albuma, ki bo izšel pri newyorški založbi Razor & Tie. /B.B./

Eliminator so preko Metalunderground.com v celoti objavili novi album The One They Were Waiting For, ki je ravnokar izšel pri Obskure Somber Records. Tracklista novega albuma je sledeča:
Atish
Calm Before The Storm
Me and The Devil Blues
The Man In The Picture...To Become What One Is
Answers Left Behind
Honey Sacrifice
He Who Laughs Best Today
Goodness Is Dead...Enter The Black Hole, Fucker!
R.I.P.
/B.B./

Domača alter metal zasedba Dirtswitch je 7. septembra izdala prvenec z naslovom Phoenix Down, ki ga lahko naročite preko e-maila order@dirtswitch.com. Album je na voljo kot limited edition digipak s štirinajststranskim bookletom, na njem se pa nahajajo naslednje skladbe:
Restraints
Too Much
Sulfur
Another Breath
Looking Back
Comatose
Over & Over
Innocence
My Story
Overhang
Forever
Today
/B.B./

Like Moths To Flames nameravajo 8. novembra izdati novi album z naslovom When We Don't Exist, katerega je produciral Will Putney (For Today, The Human Abstract). /B.B./

Založba Century Media bo 13. septembra izdala trojno kompilacijo z naslovom Metal For The Masses Volume 9.

Disc One (The Century Family):
Winds of Plague - California
Vampires Everywhere! - Carnage At The Castle
Suicide Silence - You Only Live Once
Architects (UK) - Day In Day Out
iwrestledabearonce - Karate Nipples
Demolisher - Two Sided Coin
Arsonists Get All The Girls - Will Someone Please Turn Down the Ocean
Earth Crisis - Total War
Suffer Well - For Today, For Yesterday, For Everyday
The Devastated - The Devil's Messenger
Arch Enemy - Bloodstained Cross
Turisas - The Great Escape
Deicide - How Can You Call Yourself a God?
7 Horns 7 Eyes - Vindicator
TesseracT - Eden

Disc Two (Nuclear Blast America):
Decapitated - Homo Sum
All Shall Perish - There's Nothing Left
Symphony X - The End Of Innocence
Sepultura - Kairos
Lock Up - Brethren Of The Pentagram
Belphegor - Impaled Upon The Tongue Of Satan
Hell - On Earth As It Is In Hell
Destruction - Hate Is My Fuel
World Under Blood - God Among The Waste
Korpiklaani - Tequila
Agnostic Front - My Life My Way
Graveyard - Ain't Fit To Live Here
While Heaven Wept - Destroyer Of Solace
Before The Dawn - Deathstar
Sylosis - Empyreal
Pain - Dirty Woman
Origin - Expulsion of Fury
Amorphis - You I Need
Scar Symmetry - Extinction Mantra

Disc Three (Classics from The Century Family):
Arch Enemy - Taking Back My Soul
Dark Tranquility - Through Smudged Lenses
Despised Icon - Retina
Eyehategod - 30$ Bag
God Forbid - Precious Lie
In This Moment - Daddy's Fallen Angel
iwrestledabearonce - I'm Cold and There Are Wolves After Me
Lacuna Coil - Heaven's a Lie
Nevermore - The River Dragon Has Come
Shadows Fall - Idle Hands
Strapping Young Lad - Shitstorm
Suicide Silence - The Disease
Turisas - The Dnieper Rapids
Winds of Plague - One Body Too Many
/B.B./

Nothing Til Blood so objavili videospot za skladbo Stands True s prihajajočega albuma When Lambs Become Lions, ki 27. septembra izide pri Strike First Records. Ploščo je produciral Jamie King (Between The Buried And Me, For Today). /B.B./

Corrosion Of Conformity bodo v okviru njihove evropske turneje jutri nastopili tudi v dunajski Areni. Skupina nastopa v originalni zasedbi iz konca 80ih z Mikom Deanom na vokalu in bo tako odigrala legendarna albuma Animosity ter Technocracy kot tudi nekaj novih skladb. Na turneji jih spremljajo še Soilent Green, Today Is The Day in Rwake. /B.B./

Caliban so ravno končali s snemanjem EPja Coverfield, na katerem so predelali Type O Negative (My Girlfriend's Girlfriend), Rammstein (Sonne), At The Gates (Blinded By Fear) in The Beatles (Helter Skelter). Coverfield bo izšel v začetku maja, takrat pa se prične tudi njihova evropska turneja imenovana Cover Europe With..., na kateri jih bodo spremljali še As Blood Runs Black, Adept in For Today. Tukaj pa si lahko ogledate trailer za prihajajočo tunejo. /B.B./

Japonci X.Y.Z.-A bodo 11 novembra izdali nov album z naslovom Learn From Yesterday! Live For Today! Hope For Tomorrow! /P.G./

Stratovarius so objavili naslovnico in tracklisto albuma Polaris: Deep Unknown, Falling Star, King Of Nothing, Blind, Winter Skies, Forever Is Today, Higher We Go, Somehow Precious, Emancipation Suite I: Dusk, Emancipation Suite II: Dawn in When Mountains Fall. /P.G./

29. oktobra izide EP NWOBHM veteranov Tygers Of Pan Tang z naslovom Back & Beyond, na katerem bo pet komadov, od tega dva nova (Live For Today in Bury The Hatchet) in trije na novo posneti (Hellbound, Take It, Rock And Roll Man). /P.G./

Znana je vsebina Sentenced DVDja Buried Alive, ki izide 27. novembra pri Century Media.
DVD1: The Farewell Performance:
Intro, Where Waters Fall Frozen, May Today Become The Day, Neverlasting, Bleed, The Rain Comes Falling Down, Everfrost, Sun Won't Shine, Dead Moon Rising, Despair-Ridden Hearts, The Suicider / Excuse Me While I Kill Myself (medley), The War Ain't Over, Nepenthe, Northern Lights, The Way I Wanna Go, Dance On The Graves, Noose, Aika Multaa Muistot (Everything Is Nothing), Farewell, No One There, Drown Together, Cross My Heart And Hope To Die, Brief Is The Light, Vengeance Is Mine, End Of The Road. DVD2: animirana foto galerija, diskografija, foto & signing session, festival & club tour, videospoti: Nepenthe, Bleed, Noose, The Suicider, Killing Me Killing You, No One There, Everfrost, Despair-Ridden Hearts ter intervjuji z bandom. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: ANNIHILATOR: All For You, DREAM EVIL: The Book Of Heavy Metal, CARCASS: Choise Cuts, DARK TRANQUILLITY: Exposures, MY DARKEST HATE: At War, ELDRITCH: Portrait Of The Abyss Within, UNHOLY GHOST: Torrential Reign, RELEWANT FEW: The Art Of Today in FALL OF THE LEAFE: Volvere.