Finski death thrasherji Enemy Is Us so podpisali z Rising Realm Records. S snemanjem novega albuma bodo začeli aprila, izid pa je napovedan za konec poletja. /M.P./

Znana je tracklista Judas Priest boxseta Metalogy:CD 1 - Never Satisfied, Deceiver, Tyrant, Victim Of Changes (Live), Diamonds & Rust (Live)**, Starbreaker (Live)**, Sinner, Let Us Prey, Dissident Aggressor, Exciter, Beyond The Realms Of Death, Better By You Better Than Me, Invader, Stained Class in The Green Manalish (With The Two Pronged Crown) (Live)*.
CD 2 - Killing Machine, Evening Star, Take On The World, Delivering The Goods, Evil Fantasies, Hell Bent For Leather, Breaking The Law (Live)**, Living After Midnight, Rapid Fire, Metal Gods, Grinder (Live)*, The Rage, Heading Out To The Highway, Hot Rockin’ (Live)**, Trouble Shooter, Solar Angels, Desert Plains, Hellion (Live)**/Electric Eye (Live)** in Screaming For Vengeance.
CD 3 - Riding On The Wind, Bloodstone, You've Got Another Thing Comin', Devil's Child, Freewheel Burning, Jawbreaker, The Sentinel, Love Bites (Live)*, Eat Me Alive, Some Heads Are Gonna Roll, Rock Hard Ride Free, Night Comes Down, Turbo Lover, Private Property, Parental Guidance, Out In The Cold in Heart Of A Lion (demo)*.
CD 4 - Ram It Down, Heavy Metal, Come & Get It, Blood Red Skies, Painkiller, Between The Hammer & The Anvil, Touch Of Evil, Metal Meltdown, Nightcrawler, All Guns Blazing, Jugulator, Bloodstains, Machine Man in Feed On Me.
(*prej neizdan komad, **prvič na CDju).
DVD: Koncert iz Memphisa (1983). /P.G./

Chaosbreed, finski death metal band, ki ga sestavljajo Nalle Österman (ex- Gandalf), Oppu Laine (Mannhai, ex- Amorphis), Marko Tarvonen (Moonsorrow), Esa Holopainen (Amorphis) in Taneli Jarva (The black League, ex- Sentenced), bodo konec meseca pri finski založbi Rising Realm Records izdali prvi EP z naslovom Unleashed Carnage. Drugače pa že pripravljajo material za prvi pravi album, ki bo izšel pozimi. Snemali bodo avgusta v Sunlight Studios s producentom Tomasom Skogsbergom. /M.P./

13. januarja bo izšel Judas Priest koncertni album Live In London, ki je pred kratkim izšel na DVDju. Na njem bodo tudi skladbe, ki niso bile vključene na DVDju. Track lista: Metal Gods, Heading Out To The Highway, Grinder, Touch Of Evil, Blood Stained, Victim Of Changes, The Sentinel, One On One, Running Wild, Ripper, Diamonds & 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, Painkiller, Hellion/Electric Eye, United, Living After Midnight, Hell Bent For Leather. /M.P./

Blood Red Throne so končali s snemanjem komadov za mini CD Affiliated With The Suffering. Na njem bodo tri neizdane pesmi z Deathmix 2000 promo CD-ja, ena do sedaj že izdana, potem neizdana pesem iz kompilacije Nordic Metal II in priredba Massacre klasike Cryptic Realms. Mini CD bo izšel v začetku maja.Takrat tudi začnejo s snemanjem novega celotnega albuma. Imajo pa tudi novega bobnarja, ki sliši na ime Espen »Beist« Antonsen. /M.P./

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./

Iced Earth bodo začeli delati na enajstih priredbah, ki jih bodo izdali na albumu Tribute To The Gods. Te so: IRON MAIDEN - The Number Of The Beast in Hallowed Be Thy Name, KISS - Creatures Of The Night in God Of Thunder, BLUE OYSTER CULT Cities On Flame in Burning For You, ALICE COOPER - Dead Babies, AC/DC - Long Way To The Top (If You Want To Rock N Roll) in Highway To Hell, BLACK SABBATH - Black Sabbath in JUDAS PRIEST - Screaming For Vengeance. Album bo izšel v dveh verzijah, kot samostojen in kot del box seta, v katerem bodo tudi remastirani prvi trije albumi ter Enter The Realm demo. Oboje naj bi izšlo še letos. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšle naslednje plošče: WITHIN TEMPTATION: Mother, DIVINE DECAY: Songs Of The Damned, PROFANITY: Slaughtering Thoughts, THORNSPAWN: Empress From The Realms Of Blasphemy, STONE IN EGYPT: Stone In Egypt, ARKHON INFAUSTUS: Hell Injection, BLOOD STAINED DUSK: Dirge Of Death`s Silence in TRIBUTE TO CARCASS: Requiems Of Revulsion.

Naglfar bodo še to jesen posneli nov album, ki ga bodo izdali proti koncu leta ali pa na začetku prihodnjega leta. Tukaj so naslovi nekateri komadov: Devoured By Naglfar, Shifting Through The Spectral Realms, Ex Infernis, Of Gorgors Spawned Through Witchkraft. /M.P./