Nemški power metalci Symphorce so končali z delom za nov album Twice Second, ki izide 12. januarja pri Metal Blade. Snemali so v House Of Audio studiu s producentom Achimom Köhlerjem. Track lista je naslednja: Fallen, Tears, Whatever Hate Provides, Cause Of Laughter, In The Cold, Take What's Mine, Face Of Pain, Searching, Two Seconds To Live, Cry On My Shoulder, Under The Curse (bonus na digi pack verziji). /M.P./

Wykked Wytch so končali z delom za svoj tretji album Nefret, ki izide v začetku prihodnjega leta. Track lista je naslednja: Nefret, Fatal Intentions, Eternal Lies, Illfate, Seduced By Fear, Many Lives, Trauma, The Soul Awaits, Cursed Destiny. /M.P./

Znana je track lista novega Impaled Nazarene albuma All That You Fear, ki izide 3. novembra pri Osmose Productions: Kohta Ei Naura Enää Jeesuskaan, Armageddon Death Squad, The Endless War, The Maggot Crusher, Curse Of The Dead Medusa, Suffer In Silence, Halo Of Flies, Recreate Thru Hate, Goat Seeds Of Doom, Even More Pain, Tribulation Hell, Urgent Need To Kill, All That You Fear. /M.P./

Znana je track lista prihajajočega Morbid Angel albuma Heretic: Cleansed In Pestilence (Blade Of Elohim), Enshrined By Grace, Beneath The Hollow, Curse The Flesh, Praise The Strength, Stricken Arise, Place Of Many Death, Abyssous, God Of Our Own Divinity, Within Thy Enemy, Memories Of The Past, Victorious March Of Reign The Conqueror, Drum Check, Born Again. /M.P./

Blind Guardian so objavili naslove pesmi, ki jih bodo igrali na Blind Guardian Open Air festivalu (13. in 14. junij). Oba večera bodo nastopali kot headlinerji z različno set listo. Izjema je le prvih pet pesmi, ki jih bodo igrali oba dneva: Mirror Mirror, And Then There Was Silence, The Bard's Song (In The Forest), Valhalla, Imaginations From The Other Side, Battlefield, Punishment Divine, Nightfall, Into The Storm, And The Story Ends, I'm Alive, Bright Eyes, A Past & Future Secret, Somewhere Far Beyond, Theatre Of Pain, The Bard's Song (The Hobbit), Welcome To Dying, Harvest Of Sorrow, Majesty, The Soulforged, Under The Ice, Time Stands Still, The Curse Of Feanor, Holy War, Mourning Hall, The Script For My Requiem, Lord Of The Rings, Time What Is Time, Journey Through The Dark, Last Candle, Lost In The Twilight Hall, Banish From Sanctuary, Run For The Night. /M.P./

Znana je track lista Destruction live albuma Alive Devastation, ki spomladi izide na Japonskem (drugod po svetu izide jeseni): Intro / Curse The Gods, Nailed To The Cross, Eternal Ban, Machinery Of Lies, Bullets From Hell, Tears Of Blood, Live Without Sense, Thrash Till Death, Mad Butcher, The Butcher Strikes Back, Intro / Total Desaster, Invincible Force, Bestial Invasion. /M.P./

Nizozemski death metalci God Dethroned bodo nov album Into The Lungs Of Hell izdali z bonus CD-jem, na katerem bodo naslednje skladbe: God Dethroned (na novo posneta verzija), Satan's Curse (Possessed priredba), The Execution Protocol (live), The Grand Grimoire (live), Nocturnal (live), Under a Silver Moon (live), The Somberness Of Winter (live), Serpent King (live), Villa Vampiria (video spot), Under The Golden Wings Of Death (video spot). Koncertne skladbe so bile posnete februarja 2000 na Death Metal Massacre Tour v Hollywwodu (Whiskey A-Go Go). /M.P./

Razpadli norveški black metalci Emperor bodo marca prihodnje leto izdali 2CD kompilacijo z naslovom Scattered Ashes – A Decade Of Emperial Wrath. Sestavili so jo člani banda, vsebovala pa bo tudi neizdane in redke skladbe. CD1: Curse You All Men, The Tongue Of Fire, The Majesty Of The Night Sky, Cosmic Keys To My, Creations & Times, Wrath Of The Tyrant, The Loss & Curse Of Reverence, An Elegy Of Icaros, I Am The Black Wizards, Thus Spake The Nightspirit (live), Ye Entrancemperium, In The Wordless Chamber, With Strength I Burn, Inno A Satana. CD 2: A Fine Day To Die, Aerie Descent, Cromlech, Gypsy, Funeral Fog, I Am, Sworn (ULVER remix), Lords Of The Storms, My Empire's Doom, Moon Over Kara-Shehr, Witches Sabbath, Ancient Queen, In Longing Spirit. /M.P./

Kot smo že pisali, Iced Eart šef Jon Schaffer istočasno pripravlja novi Iced Earth in Demons & Wizards plošči. Iced Earth izdelku bo naslov Glorious Burden, s snemanjem pa naj bi začeli januarja v Morrisound Studios, kjer so posneli že vse svoje plošče. Znanih je že 19 delovnih naslovov pesmi, ki pa se lahko še spremenijo. Nekatere od teh bodo uvrščene na Demons & Wizards album: The Reckoning (Don't Tread On Me), Hollow Man, And The Anger Flows, Honesty And The Damage Done, Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death, When The Eagle Cries, Gettysburg, Red Badge Of Courage, My Life, Tale Of A Sale, Solitude II, The Glorious Burden, The Opportunist, The Haunting, This Virus Called Man, A Gift Or A Curse?, Ignorance Is Bliss, Deception In The Desert. /M.P./

The More You Suffer… je naslov četrtega, pravkar posnetega Carnal Forge albuma, ki bo izšel v začetku prihodnjega leta. Na njem bodo naslednje skladbe: Divine Killing Breed Machine, Deep Rivers Of Blood, Destroy Life, Bullet Proof God Material, Deathblow, Cursed, Breaking Boundaries, Ripped & Torn, Hits You Like A Hammer, Baptized In Fire, H.B.F. Suicide, My Bloody Rampage, Into Oblivion, Let Me Bleed. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: DANZIG: Danzig 777: I Luciferi, FREEDOM CALL: Eternity, SUPERJOINT NATURAL: Use Once And Destroy, IRON SAVIOR: Condition Red, WARHAMMER: Curse Of The Absolute Eclipse, CRYSTAL BALL: Virtual Empire, ARACHNES: Apocalypse, ETERNA: The Gate in EVERON: Bridge.

Italijanski black metalci Stormlord so končali s snemanjem svojega drugega albuma At The Gates Of Utopia, ki bo izšel novembra preko založbe Scarlet. Tukaj je še track lista: Under The Samnites' Spears, I Am Legend, Xanadu (A Vision In A Dream),... And Winter! Was, At The Gates Of Utopia (instrumental), The Curse Of Medusa, The Burning Hope, A Sight Inwards ter The Secrets Of The Earth. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: ARMORED SAINT: Nod To The Old School, DOUBLE DEALER: Devide At The Top, MY DYING BRIDE: Meisterwerk 2, POVERTY`S NO CRIME: One In A Million, BLUE ÖYSTER CULT: Curse Of The Hidden Mirror, KONG: 88795, THUG MURDER: The 13th Round, CRADLE OF FILTH: Bitter Suites To Succubi (EP) ter single HOLY MOSES: Master Of Desaster.

Ta teden so izšle naslednje nove plošče: STRATOVARIUS: Intermission, JACOBS DREAM: Theatre Of War, THEATRE OF TRAGEDY: Closure:Live, DARKTHRONE: Soulside Journey, DERANGED: Deranged, ANCIENT RITES: Dim Carcosa, AMERICAN STEEL: Jagged Thoughts, LOSS: Verdict Of Posterity, STORMLORD: The Curse Of Medusa, SAVIOUR MACHINE: Synopsis, ENTHORNED: Armoured Bastial Hell, IMMEMOREAL: Temple Of Retribution, THY INFERNAL: Warlords Of Hell, CIRCLE OF DEAD CHILDREN: The Genocide Machine ter single JUDAS PRIEST: Demolition Man.