Steffen Brunner je nov vokalist pri Powerworld, bandu bivšega Freedom Call basista Ilkerja Ersina. Band je pred kratkim končal s snemanjem prvenca The Second Face, ki izide kasneje letos pri še neznani založbi. /M.P./

8. maja izide Mötley Crüe live CD Carnival Of Sins – Live, ki so ga posneli na lanskoletni svetovni turneji. Na njem bodo naslednje skladbe: CD1: Shout At The Devil, Too Fast For Love, Ten Seconds To Love, Red Hot, On With Show, Too Young To Fall In Love, Looks That Kill, Louder Than Hell, Live Wire, Girls, Girls, Girls, Wild Side, Bonus enhanced video: Too Fast For Love;
CD2: Don`t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away), Primal Scream, Glitter, Without You, Home Sweet Home, Dr. Feelgood, Same Ol`Situation, Sick Love Song, If I Die Tomorrow, Kickstart My Heart, Helter Skelter, Anarchy In The UK, Bonus Enhanced video: Dr. Feelgood.
/M.P./

Paths Of Possession so objavili komad Bleed The Meek s prihajajočega albuma Promises In Blood, ki v ZDA izide 4. oktobra. Track lista: Darklands, The Butcher's Bargain, Bleed the Meek, The Second Coming, Where the Empty Gods Lie, Heart for a Heart, In My Eyes, Erzsebert, Promises in Blood, Bring Me the Head of Christ, Through the Fiery Halls, The Icy Flow of Death. /A.J./

Darkane so objavili videospot za novo skladbo Secondary Effects. /M.P./

Darkane so objavili naslovnico novega albuma Layers Of Lies, ki izide 27. junija: Amnesia of the Wildoerian Apocalypse, Secondary Effects, Organic Canvas, Fading Dimensions, Layers of Lies, Godforsaken Universe, Klastrophobic Hibernation, Vision of Degradation, Contaminated, Maelstrom Crisis, Decadent Messiah, The Creation Insane. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: AT VANCE: Chained, BARCODE: Showdown in SCAAR: The Second Incision.

Švedski moderni thrasherji Scaar so podpisali s Karmageddon Media, kjer bodo 4. aprila izdali nov album The Second Incision. Naslovnica za album je delo Niklasa Sundina. /M.P./

Sean Vandergift (ex- From A Second Story Window) je nov pevec pri Vehemence. /M.P./

Layers Of Lies je delovni naslov novega Darkane albuma, ki je napovedan za maj pri Nuclear Blast. Za eno izmed skladb z albuma, Secondary Effect bodo kmalu posneli tudi videospot. /M.P./

Znana je tracklista Entreat. albuma Deincubation, ki izide 25.1.: Ride (Desperado), Non Plus Ultra, Few Seconds In Clearness, Compressed Time And Space, Words, The Salesmen Of Dreams, Miss Norbet, Imperfect ID, Incubate Scare, The Wrath Of Who We Wish To Be in In Need Of An End. /P.G./

Indigo Child so izdali prvenec re-Death, ki so ga snemali v dB Recordings s producentom Dalijem (Dusk Delight). Za vse informacije in prodajo albuma se lahko interesenti obrnejo kar na e-mail , album pa stane 2.500 SIT + poštnina. Še track lista albuma: 01101 10111 01010 (DNA), 60 Seconds of Life, Involve Synthetic, Bitter fact of Conclusion, Death, Divine Communication, N.E.R.V., Roots of Eden, Self Confronting, re-Birth. /M.P./

Morifade so objavili del komada, ki je posnet z novim vokalistom Kristianom Wallinom. Tu lahko poslušate izsek skladbe z naslovom The Second Coming. /P.G./

Znana je track lista novega Evidence One albuma Tattooed Heart, ki izide 15. novembra pri Nuclear Blast: Moonsigh, Virus In My Veins, Written In Blood, Tattooed Heart, Infinite Seconds, When Thunder Hits The Ground, In Love And War, Slave To The Machine, Anything I Need To Know, Child Of Insanity, Wall Of Lies (bonus). /M.P./

Second Sky je nov projekt, v katerem sodelujejo Dan Swanö (Nightingale, Unicorn, Edge OF Sanity itd.), Peter Edwinzon in Peter Damin. Inspiracija so bandi kot Marillion, Kansas, Asia, Pink Floyd in drugi. Gre za "post-progresivo", s poudarkom na petju ter različnih konceptih besedil. Pred kratkim so podpisali tudi pogodbo z The End Records. /A.J./

Angleški power metalci Intense bodo 26. aprila pri Underground Symphony Records izdali svoj nov album Second Sight. Posneli so ga v Thin Ice studiu s producentom Karlom Groomom (Threshold). /M.P./