Unleashed so nov potrjen band za festival 70000 Tons Of Metal. Zaenkrat je potrjenih 25 od 40 skupin: Agent Steel, Amon Amarth, Death Angel, Ensiferum, Epica, Exodus, Fear Factory, Finntroll, Forbidden, Iced Earth, Korpiklaani, Marduk, Moonspell, Obituary, Rage, Raven, Saxon, Sodom, Sonata Arctica, Swashbuckle, Testament, Trouble, Unleashed, Uli Jon Roth in Witchburner. /P.G./

Swashbuckle bodo 10. septembra izdali album z naslovom Crime Always Pays..., na katerem bodo naslednje skladbe:
Slowly Wept The Sea
We Are The Storm
This Round's On YOU!
Powder Keg
Where Victory Is Penned
Of Hooks And Hornswogglers
A Time Of Wooden Ships & Iron Men
Crime Always Pays
Raw Doggin' At The Raw Bar
The Gallow's Pole Dancer
Legacy's Allure
At The Bottom Of A Glass
To Steal A Life
You Bring The Cannon, We'll Bring The Balls
Surf-N-Turf (For Piratical Girth)
Rope's End
/P.G./

Agent Steel, Fear Factory in Iced Earth so novi potrjeni bandi za festival 70000 Tons Of Metal, ki se bo odvijal med 24. in 28. januarjem 2011 na povratnem križarjenju od Miamija do Cozumela (Mehika). Nastopilo bo 40 skupin, zaenkrat pa so potrjene naslednje: Agent Steel, Amon Amarth, Death Angel, Epica, Exodus, Fear Factory, Finntroll, Forbidden, Iced Earth, Moonspell, Obituary, Raven, Saxon, Sodom, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, Swashbuckle, Testament, Trouble, Uli Jon Roth in Witchburner. Več informacij o festivalu najdete tu. /P.G./

Exodus so nov potrjen band za festival 70000 Tons Of Metal, , ki se bo odvijal med 24. in 28. januarjem 2011 na povratnem križarjenju od Miamija do Cozumela (Mehika). Nastopilo bo 40 skupin, zaenkrat pa so potrjene naslednje: Amon Amarth, Death Angel, Epica, Exodus, Finntroll, Forbidden, Moonspell, Obituary, Raven, Uli Jon Roth, Saxon, Sodom, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, Swashbuckle, Testament, Trouble in Witchburner. Več informacij o festivalu najdete tu. /P.G./

Poljski ekstremneži Hate bodo v začetku junija pričeli s snemanjem novega studijskega albuma Erebos, ki bo izšel še letos pri Listenable Records. Trenutno so na ameriški turneji s Hypocrisy, Swashbuckle in Blackguard. /A.J./

Bootsmann Collins je nov bobnar v skupini Swashbuckle. /P.G./

Ensiferum, Equilibrium, Swashbuckle in Heidevolk se jeseni odpravljajo na evropsko Heidenfolk turnejo. Konec septembra se bodo ustavili tudi v ljubljanski Cvetličarni. /A.J./

Od 13. julija do 30. avgusta so izšli naslednji albumi: 3 INCHES OF BLOOD – Here Waits Thy Doom, AHAB – The Divinity Of Oceans, ARKAEA – Years In The Darkness, AUGURY – Fragmentary Evidence, BEHEMOTH – Evangelion, CALIBAN – Say Hello To Tragedy, CHTONIC – Mirror of Retribution, DEVILDRIVER – Pray For Villains, HACKNEYED – Burn After Reaping, HAIL OF BULLETS – Warsaw Rising, MACBETH – Gotteskrieger, NARNIA – Course Of A Generation, PAIN – Cynic Paradise (DVD), RAVAGE – The End Of Tomorrow, REBELLION – Arise - History Of The Vikings Pt. 3, SWASHBUCKLE – Back To The Noose, SYRACH – A Dark Burial, TENET – Sovereign, VADER – Necropolis, VALKYRJA – The Invocation Of Demise, WINDS OF PLAGUE – The Great Stone War.

V današnji oddaji Metal detektor posliušamo nove albume zasedb Leprous, Cripper, Eryn Non Dae, Ex-Deo, Xerath, The Project Hate MCMXCIV, Hail Of Bullets, Rebellion, Swashbuckle in Imperial Vengeance. Metal detektor je na sporedu vsak ponedeljek ob 22.00 na Radiu Študent, 89.3MHz ali www.radiostudent.si. /M.P.C./

Swashbuckle so na svoji MySpace strani objavili prihajajoč album z naslovom Back To The Noose. /P.G./