11. februarja izide novi Callenish Circle album Flesh-Power-Dominion z naslednjo track listo: Obey Me... , For What's It Good For... , Witness Your Own Oblivion , Take Me Along , Bleeding, Your Final Swansong, Suffer My Disbelief, They Have Chosen, ... in bonus komada Pull The Plug (Death priredba) ter When The Lady Smiles (Golden Earring priredba). /M.P./

11. februarja izide novi Callenish Circle album Flesh-Power-Dominion z naslednjo track listo: Obey Me... , For What's It Good For... , Witness Your Own Oblivion , Take Me Along , Bleeding, Your Final Swansong, Suffer My Disbelief, They Have Chosen, ... in bonus komada Pull The Plug (Death priredba) ter When The Lady Smiles (Golden Earring priredba). /M.P./

Down so s producentom Warrenom Rikerjem so končali s snemanjem novega, še neimenovanega albuma. Do sedaj je znan le datum izida na Japonskem – 13.marec. Če banda še ne poznate: sestavljajo ga Phil Anselmo (Pantera), Peeper Keenan (Corrosion Of Conformity), Jimmy Bower (Eyehategod) in Kirk Windstein (Crowbar), ki so skupaj odraščali v New Orleansu. Po izidu je možna tudi turneja. /M.P./

Metal Blade so pod svoje okrilje vzeli kalifornijske thrash/death metalce The Fallen. Band je lani v lastni režiji že izdal album, sedaj pa v studiu Marka Zonderja (Fates Warning) snemajo Front Toward Enemy, prvenec za Metal Blade. Izid je napovedan za pomlad. /M.P./

Čez mesec dni bo izšel AC/DC DVD, ki je bil posnet letos junija na olimpijskem štadionu v Münchenu. Na njem bo 21 klasik iz njihove 25-letne kariere ter še nekaj, nikoli videnih intervjujev s posameznimi člani skupine. Track lista je naslednja: Stiff Upper Lip, You Shook Me All Night Long, Problem Child, Thunderstruck, Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be, Hard As A Rock, Shoot To Thrill, Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution, What Do You Do For Money Honey, Bad Boy Boogie, Hells Bells, Up To My Neck In You, The Jack, Back In Black, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Highway To Hell, Whole Lotta Rosie, Let There Be Rock, T.N.T., For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) in Shot Down In Flames. /M.P./

Prejšnji teden so pri Earache Records izdali DVD kompilacijo i-Crusher na katerem so naslednje pesmi: MORTIIS - Parasite God, THE HAUNTED - Bury Your Dead, LINEA 77 - Ketchup Suicide, MORBID ANGEL - God Of Emptiness, THE BERZERKER - Forever, CADAVER INC. - Rupture, GANDALF - Morning Sun, GODFLESH - Christbait Rising, CATHEDRAL - 'Black Sunday', NAPALM DEATH - 'Scum' (live 1989), CARCASS - Tools Of The Trade (live 1992), ENTOMBED - Stranger Aeons'(live 1992), RABIES CASTE - Got It From Blake, DECEMBER - Umbilical, DECEMBER WOLVES - Public Aquarian Freebase, INSISION - Trapped Within, EPHEL DUATH - Embossed, ULTRAVIOLENCE – Elektra in AUTONOMY - But I Thought. /M.P./

Track lista novega Sinergy albuma Suicide By My Side je naslednja: I Spit On Your Grave, The Sin Trade, Violated, Me, Myself, My Enemy, Written In Stone, Nowhere For No One, Passage To The Fourth World, Shadow Island, Suicide By My Side in Remembrance. /M.P./

Šved Mats Karlsson je novi bobnar pri Sinergy. Zamenjal je Tommi Lillmana, ki se je odločil, da se bo v celoti skoncentriral na delo pri To Die For. Mats je bivši študent Glasbenega inštituta v Los Angelesu in se bo sedaj preselil v Helsinke, od koder prihajajo Sinergy. Drugače pa so že končali s snemanjem novega albuma Suicide By My Side, ki naj bi izšel februarja. /M.P./

AC/DC so na trenutni evropski turneji v svoj repertoar po dolgem času dodali pesmi Problem Child, What Do You Do For Money Honey ter Up To My Neck In You, katero igrajo sploh prvič, odkar je v bandu pevec Brian Johnson. /M.P./

Objavljene so najbolj verjetne zasedbe bandov, ki bodo nastopili 11.8. v dvorani Maritime Hall v San Franciscu.
Anthrax: John Bush, Scott Ian, Frank Bello, Charile Benante, Paul Crook
Death Angel: Mark Osegueda, Rob Cavestany, Ted, Dennis Pepa, Andy Galeon
Exodus: Paul Baloff, Gary Holt, Rick Hunolt, Tom Hunting, Jack Gibson. Vabilo je prejel tudi Kirk Hammet, a njegov nastop še ni potjen
Forbidden Evil: Russ Anderson, Glen Alvelais, Matt Camacho, Paul Bostaph (če ga ne bo ga nadomesti Jeremy Colson), Craig Locicero (Tim Calvert ali Steve Smyth)
Heathen: Dave Godfrey, Lee Altus, Mike Jastremski, Darren Minter
Laaz Rockit: Michael Coons, Arron Jellum, Scott Sargent, Willie Lange, Will Carroll
Legacy: Steve "Zetro" Souza, Eric Peterson, Alex Scolnick, Steve Smyth, Steve DiGiorgio, Jon Allen
M.O.D.: Billy Milano, Joseph Affe, Kevin Talley, Sparky
Sadus: Daren Travis, Steve DiGiorgio, Jon Allen
S.O.D.: Billy Milano, Scott Ian, Danny Liker, Charlie Benante
Vio-Lence: Sean Killian, Phil Demmel, Deen Dell, Perry Strickland, Ray Vegas
Še dobra novica za tiste, ki želijo darovati denar v sklad. Na uradni strani (www.thrashofthetitans.com) boste za prispevek, ki bo večji od 10$ dobili geslo za dostop do posebne strani, na kateri bodo redki, stari posnetki skupin, slike itd. /P.G./

Ta teden so izšle naslednje plošče: AMORPHIS: Am Universum, HALFORD: Live Insurrection, THRESHOLD: Hypothetical, STYGMA IV: Phobia, IRON FIRE: On The Edge, KATATONIA: Last Fair Deal Gone Down, SUSPERIA: Predominance, SKYFIRE: Timeless Departure, SKINLESS: Foreshadowing Our Demise, LOST HORIZON: Awakening The World, MYSTIC CIRCLE: The Great Beat, TROLL: Universal, ULVER: Perdition City, ARK: Burn The Sun, ANASARCA: Moribund, ABIGOR: Satanized, EARTH CRISIS: Last Of The Same, EXTREME NOISE TERROR: Being And Nothing in GUTTERMOUTH: Covered With Ants.

Iron Maiden so s skladbo Wicker Man med nominiranci za Grammya v kategoriji Best Metal Performance. Poleg njih so z Revolution Is My Name nominirani tudi Pantera.  /M.P./

22.1. bodo svoj prvenec izdali švedski melodični death metalci The Forsaken. Skupina naj bi imela v svoji glasbi agresivnost At The Gates, melodičnost in tehničnost Arch Enemy ter obskurnost Morbid Angel. /M.P./