Klaviaturist Finn Zierler (Beyond Twilight) je okoli sebe zbral all star zasedbo in jo poimenoval Zierler Projects. V njem sodelujejo bobnar Bobby Jarzombek (Riot, Fates Warning, Halford, ...), kitarist (in studijski basist) Per Nilsson (Scar Symmetry), vokalist Kelly Sundown Carpenter (Adagio, Darkology, ex Beyond Twilight). V živo bo za bas in (back?) vokale poskrbel Truls Haugen (Insense, Circus Maximus). /P.G./

Švedska hard rock zasedba Vanity BLVD s karizmatično pevko Anno Savage na čelu je podpisala pogodbo s koncertno agencijo Dreamtide Music Management. Skupina iz Aveste je bila ustanovljena leta 2005 in si je z grobim 80's orientiranim zvokom in neverjetnim vokalom na dveh samopruduciranih EPjih kmalu ustvarila ime znotraj tamkajšnje scene. Leta 2007 so pri Gain Music Entertainment/Sony BMG izdali debitantski album Rock 'N' Roll Overdose, ki ga je produciral izkušeni Chris Laney (Europe, Candlemass, CrashDiet). Album je prinesel tudi precej uspešni single Share My Pain, ki je kotiral zelo visoko na številnih švedskih radijskih postajah. Kmalu naj bi s producentom Jonasom Kjellgrenom (Sonic Syndicate, Scar Symmetry) pričeli s snemanjem zaenkrat še neimenovanega drugega albuma, katerega izid je napovedan za začetek naslednjega leta. /B.B./

Avstralski ekstremni thrasherji Truth Corroded so objavili videospot za skladbo Pride Of Demise z aktualnega albuma Worship The Bled. Bobne je v studiu posnel Kevin Talley (Six Feet Under, Chimaira, Miser Index, Daath), medtem ko je Jonas Kjellgren (Scar Symmetry) poskrbel za produkcijo. /B.B./

Threat Signal so tukaj objavili kratek insert iz snemanja enega od videospotov. Kot je že znano, skupina z režiserjem Tommyjem Jonesom (All Shall Perish, Kataklysm) trenutno dela kar na dveh videospotih za še neimenovani skladbi z zadnjega albuma. Posneli so tudi novo verzijo skladbe New World Order, v kateri gostuje kitarist Per Nilsson iz Scar Symmetry in bo izšla kot digitalni single. /B.B./

Založba Nuclear Blast na svoji Facebook strani ponuja brezplačen download božične kompilacije, ki prinaša naslednje skladbe:
Destruction - The Price
Hell - Save Us From Those Who Would Save Us
Demonaz - All Blackened Sky
Scar Symmetry - lluminoid Dream Sequence
Chrome Division - Bulldogs Unleashed
Hammerfall - One More Time
Pain - Dirty Woman
Rhapsody Of Fire - Aeons Of Raging Darkness (edit)
Symphony x - Dehumanized
Communic - Destroyer Of Bloodlines
Vader - Come And See My Sacrifice
Seven - Get It
Fleshgod Apocalypse - The Violation (edit)
Tasters - Please Destroy This World
Cipher System - Communicate The Storms
Anthrax - Fight'em Till You Can't
Biohazard - Vengeance Is Mine
Textures - Singularity
We Came As Romans - Mis/understanding
Threat Signal - Fallen Disciples
Texas In July - 1000 Lies
Graveworm - See No Future
Like Moths To Flames - You Won't Be Missed
Gotthard - Remember It's Me
Battle Beast - Enter The Metal World
/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./

Švedski Degradead so preko AOL Music v celoti objavili njihov novi album A World Destroyer, ki je konec junija izšel pri Metalville Records. Album je poslel Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy, Pain) v Abyss Studiu, za produkcijo pa je poskrbela skupina sama v sodelovanju z Jonasom Kjellgrenom (Scar Symmetry, Centinex, World Below). /B.B./

Italijani Disarmonia Mundi, ki jim svoje vokalne sposobnosti posoja tudi Björn "Speed" Strid (Soilwork), bodo 30. junija pri založbi Coroner Records ponovno izdali njihov tretji album Mind Tricks iz leta 2006. Nova razširjena verzija bo izšla v digipak formatu in bo vsebovala nov artwork ter štiri bonus skladbe, med drugim tudi čisto svežo Ringside Seat To Human Tragedy v kateri gostuje Christian Älvestam (Solution .45, ex-Scar Symmetry). Tracklista pa je sledeča:

Resurrection Code
Mindtricks
Celestial Furnace
Nihilistic Overdrive
Parting Ways
Venom Leech And The Hands Of Rain
Liquid Wings
Process Of Annihilation
Last Breed
A Taste Of Collapse
Mouth For War
Celestial Furnace (Acoustic Version)
Ringside Seat To Human Tragedy (feat. Christian Älvestam)
Moon Of Glass
Nihilistic Overdrive (Remix)
/B.B./

Danes v oddaji Metal detektor: Sacred Dawn, progresivni heavy metalci iz Čikaga, udarjajo v tretje … Po osmih letih nov album japonskega kulta Sabbat … Manic Depression: thrash iz Moskve … Za zbiratelje: Machine Head 10" EP v nakladi 1000 kosov … Xerath tudi v drugo moderni in orkestralni ... Scar Symmetry še vedno korak pred ostalimi melodičnimi death metal bandi … Nov zvok Pestilence z osemstrunskimi kitarami … Miasmal: švedski death metal stare šole … Panzerchrist končno objavili nov album … Krallice in Altar Of Plagues v black metalu našli novo dimenzijo … Forgotten Tomb: Italija niso samo mandolina, sonce in pica. Metal detektor je na sporedu vsak ponedeljek ob 22.00 na Radiu Študent, 89.3 MHz ali www.radiostudent.si. /M.P.C./

Christian Muenzner, kitarist skupine Obscura, bo kmalu izdal solo album z naslovom Timewarp. Pri snemanju so mu pomagali bobnar Hannes Grossmann (Obscura, Blotted Science), klaviaturist Daniel Galmarini (Mercury Falling), basista Steve DiGiorgio (ex Death, Sadus, ...) in Jacob Smidt (Defeated Sanity), poleg njih pa so gostovali tudi Derek Taylor, Per Nilsson (Scar Symmetry), Ryan Knight (The Black Dahlia Murder), Bob Katsonis (Firewind) in Alex Guth (Stormwarrior). /P.G./

Anathema, Hail Of Bullets in Scar Symmetry so novi potrjeni bandi za festival Brutal Assault. /P.G./

11. februarja bo izšla videokompilacija z naslovom Nuclear Blast Clips Vol.1, na kateri bodo naslednji videospoti:
Accept - Teutonic Terror
Sabaton – Uprising
Blind Guardian - A Voice In The Dark
Dimmu Borgir - Dimmu Borgir
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Death Angel - Truce
Avantasia - Dying For An Angel
Sonic Syndicate - Turn It Up
Filter - The Inevitable Relapse
Soilwork - Deliverance Is Mine
Exodus - Downfall
Kataklysm - Push The Venom
Overkill - Bring Me The Night
Eluveitie - Thousandfold
Equilibrium - Der Ewige Sieg
Ex Deo - The Final War
Suicidal Angels - Beyond The Laws Of Church
Arsis - Forced To Rock
Mnemic - Diesel Uterus
Tarot - I Walk Forever
Indica - Islands Of Light
Callejon - Sommer, Liebe, Kokain
Scar Symmetry - The Iconoclast
Filter - No Love
All Ends - Generation Disgrace
Rhapsody Of Fire - Sea Of Fate
Decrepit Birth - The Resonance
Suffocation - Cataclysmic Purification
Nile - Permitting The Noble Dead To Descend To The Underworld
Behemoth - Alas, Lord Is Upon Me (cenzurirana verzija)

Bonus komadi:
Dimmu Borgir - Gateways
Sonic Syndicate - My Own Life
Sonic Syndicate - Revolution, Baby
Nightwish - The Islander
Behemoth - Ov Fire And The Void (cenzurirana verzija)

Bonus live posnetki:
Exodus - Children Of A Worthless God
Meshuggah - Straws Pulled At Random
Amorphis - The Castaway
Behemoth - Ov Fire And The Void
Doro - Rock You Like A Hurricane
Candlemass - The Bleeding Baroness
Immortal - Tyrants

/P.G./

Vreid, Wolf, A Pale Horse Named Death, The Sorrow, 9mm Assi Rock'N'Roll, Devil Sold His Soul, Vader, Destruction, Melechesh, Scar Symmetry, Revamp in Sylosis so novi potrjeni bandi za festival Summer Breeze, ki se bo odvijal med 17. in 20. avgustom (17.8. bo v šotoru potekal t.i. Nuclear Blast Night) 2011. Nastop so potrdili tudi Saltatio Mortis, Bolt Thrower, Caliban, Primordial, J.B.O., The Haunted, Vomitory, Arch Enemy, Kvelertak, Kalmah, Suicidal Tendencies, Týr, Witchery, Farmer Boys, Hail Of Bullets, Corvus Corax, Hammerfall, Skeletonwitch, Excrementory Grindfuckers, Hayseed Dixie, Kampfar, Marduk, Sonic Syndicate, Tarja, Turisas, Moonsorrow in Decapitated.

Tukaj si lahko ogledate video skupine Scar Symmetry za skladbo The Iconoclast. /P.G./

Tukaj si lahko ogledate napovednik albuma The Reckoning švedskih thrash/death metalcev Arise, ki izide 22. marca. Na njem so kot gostje sodelovali Jonas Kjellgren (Scar Symmetry, Carnal Forge), Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity) in Jake Fredém (Nostradameus). /A.J./