Konec septembra pri Earache izide prvi Mortiis DVD, Soul In A Hole. Track lista: Live At The Hackney Ocean, London - September 24, 2004: Intro, Broken Skin, Way Too Wicked, Marshland, The Worst In Me, Monolith, Gibber, Decadent And Desperate, Parasite God, The Loneliest Thing, Asthma, The Grudge, Smell The Witch, Mental Maelstrom, Le Petite Cochon Sordide. Video: Parasite God, Mental Maelstrom, The Grudge, Decadent And Desperate (Absentia). /A.J./

Znana je track lista novega Domain albuma Last Days Of Utopia, ki izide 7. februarja pri Limb Music: Harbour Of Hope, A New Beginning, On Stormy Seas, The Shores Of Utopia, Ocean Paradise, The Beauty Of Love, The Great Rebellion, Endless Rain, Last Days Of Utopia, Underneath The Blue, Left Alone. /M.P./

Send In The Clowns je naslov tretjega albuma belgijskih death metalcev Oceans Of Sadness, ki izide konec novembra. /M.P./

11. oktobra izide nov Sonata Arctica album Reckoning Night. Včeraj so začeli z masteringom, track lista pa je naslednja: Misplaced, Blinded No More, Ain't Your Fairytale, Reckoning Day, Reckoning Night…, Don't Say A Word, The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Real Puppet, My Selene, Wildfire, White Pearl, Black Oceans…, Shamandalie. /M.P./

Znana je track lista za nov Borknagar album Epic, ki naj bi izšel junija/julija pri Century Media: Future Reminiscence, Traveller, Origin, Sealed Chambers of Electricity, The Weight of Wind, Resonance, Relate (Dialogue), Cyclus, Circled, Inner Ocean Hypothesis, Quintessence, The Wonder. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: U.D.O.: Thunderball, IN FLAMES: Soundtrack To Your Escape, MAYHEM: Chimera, AFTER FOREVER: Invisible Circles, KARKADAN: Utomost Schizophrenia, NORTHER: Death Unlimited, HUBI MEISEL: EmOcean, SOULFLY: Prophecy, HORIZON: Worlds Apart, RAGNAROK: Blackdoor Miracle, DARK DISCIPLE: Unholy Hate Gore, IMMORTAL RITES: Art Of Devolution, FACEBREAKER: Bloodred Hell, MASTER: The Spirit Of The West.

Znana ja track lista Star One koncertnega albuma Live On Earth. Dvojnemu CDju bo priložen še DVD. CD:Intro/Lift-Off, Set Your Controls, High Moon, Dreamtime, Eyes of Time, Songs of the Ocean, Dawn of a Million Souls, The Dream Sequencer, Into the Black Hole, Actual Fantasy, Valley of the Queens CD2: Isis and Osiris, Amazing Flight in Space, Intergalactic Space Crusaders, Castle Hall, The Eye of Ra, Starchild, The Two Gates. DVD: Intro/Lift Off, Set Your Controls, High Moon, Dreamtime, Eyes of Time, Songs of the Ocean, Dawn of a Million Souls, The Dream Sequencer, Keyboard solo, Into the Black Hole, Actual Fantasy, Valley of the Queens, Isis and Osiris, Amazing Flight in Space, Bass solo, Intergalactic Space Crusaders, Castle Hall, The Eye of Ra, Starchild, The Two Gates. Izid je napovedan za 28. april. /M.P./

Znana je track lista prihajajočega Led Zeppelin dvojnega DVDja z naslovom Led Zeppelin DVD in trojne CD kompilacije How The West Was Won. LED ZEPPELIN DVD: Royal Albert Hall, January 1970: We're Gonna Groove, I Can't Quit You Baby, Dazed and Confused, White Summer, What Is and What Should Never Be, How Many More Times, Moby Dick, Whole Lotta Love, Communication Breakdown, C'mon Everybody, Something Else, Bring It on Home; Madison Square Garden, July 1973: Black Dog, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I've Been Loving You, The Ocean; Earl's Court, May 1975: Going to California, That's the Way, Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp, In My Time of Dying, Trampled Underfoot, Stairway to Heaven, Knebworth Festival, August 1979: Rock and Roll, Nobody's Fault But Mine, Sick Again, Achilles Last Stand, In the Evening, Kashmir, Whole Lotta Love. HOW THE WEST WAS WON CD: L.A. Drone, Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker, Black Dog, Over the Hills And Far Away, Since I've Been Loving You, Stairway to Heaven, Going to California, That's the Way, Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp, Dazed and Confused, What Is and What Should Never Be, Dancing Days, Moby Dick, Whole Lotta Love (Medley), Rock and Roll, The Ocean, Bring It on Home. /M.P./

Killing Helsinki je naslov koncertnega albuma od The Project Hate, ki izide pozimi. Na njem bo 6 pesmi, posnetih 12. Julija v Heksinkih: I Smell Like Jesus...Dead, Forsaken By The Naked Light Of Day, Can't Wait, The Divine Burning Of Angels, Christianity Delete, With Desperate Hands So Numb in trije demo posnetki iz leta 1999: With Desperate Hands So Numb, Selfconstructive Once Again, Oceans Of Seemingly Endless Bleeding. /M.P./

Naslednji ponedeljek bo pri Century Media izšla kompilacija In The Eyes Of Death Vol. III, ki vključuje 18 pesmi black in death metala: Arch Enemy - Ravenous, Carnal Forge - Hand Of Doom, Dark Tranquillity - Final Resistance, Krisiun - Silent Scream, The Forsaken - Project: The New Breed 666, Twin Obscenity - The Legacy, Borknagar - The Genuine Pulse, Rotting Christ - The Call Of The Aethyrs, Unleashed - Hell's Unleashed, Grave - Morbid Way To Die, God Forbid - Mind Eraser, Shadows Fall - Stepping Outside The Circle, Holy Moses - We Are At War, Scar Culture - Wolverine Blues, Suidakra - Pendragon's Fall, Solefald – Hyperhuman, ...And Oceans - Angelina: Chthonian Earth: Her Face Forms Worms, Sigh - Corpsecry – Angelfall. V Nemčiji bo kompilacija naprodaj za 6,66 €. /M.P./

Stratovarius so končali s snemanjem bobnov, kitar in basov za naslednji album Elements Part 1, ki izide januarja 2003, sedaj pa so na vrsti še klaviature in vokal. Znanih je že nekaj naslovov komadov: Eagleheart, Elements, Soul Of A Vagabond, Find Your Own Voice, Alpha & Omega, Papillon, Drop In The Ocean, Stratofortress. Naslovnico za album bo naredil Derek Riggs. /M.P./

22. aprila bo Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon) izdal album pod imenom Star One. Na njem bodo naslednji komadi: 1. Lift off, 2. Set Your Controls, 3. High Moon, 4. Songs of the Ocean, 5. Masters of Darkness, 6. The Eye of Ra, 7. Sandrider, 8. Perfect Survivor, 9. Intergalactic Space Crusaders, 10. Starchild. /M.P./

Finski black metalci Black Dawn so spremenili svoje ime v The True Black Dawn, ker v ZDA že obstaja neka rap skupina s takim imenom. Band sestavljajo člani And Oceans in Rotten Sound, na njihovem novem albumu Blood For Satan boste lahko že videli njihov novi logo. /M.P./

Bivši pevec ameriških glamerjev Winger, Kip Winger, bo novembra izdal solo album z naslovom Songs From The Ocean Floor. /M.P./