V zadnjih dveh tednih so izšli naslednji albumi: EXODUS: Shovel Headed Kill Machine, GAMMA RAY: Majestic, U.D.O.: Mission No. X, NIGHTWISH: Highest Hopes - The Best Of Nightwish, HATESPHERE: The Sickness Within, PATHS OF POSSESSION: Promises In Blood, SHAKRA: Fall, SIEGES EVEN: The Art Of Navigating By The Stars, DARKMOON: Of Bitterness And Hate, TRIVIUM: Ascendancy, SOULFLY: Dark Ages, LANVALL: Melolydian Garden, HIGHLAND GLORY: Forever Endevour, AKERCOCKE: Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone, SINCE THE FLOOD: Valor And Vengeance, SOULRELIC: Love Is A Lie We Both Believed.

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: CANDLEMASS: Candlemass, FALCONER: Grime Vs. Grandeur, JACOB'S DREAM: Drama Of The Ages, UNSANE: Blood Run, RIBSPREADER: Congregating The Sick in LEAVE'S EYES: Elegy (mini CD).

Američani Jacobs Dream bodo 2. maja pri Metal Blade Records izdali svoj tretji album Drama of the Ages. To bo prvi album z novim pevcem Chazom Bondom, ostali člani banda pa so vsi iz originalne postave. /M.P./

Nemški power metalci Paragon bodo 18. aprila izdali nov studijski album Revenge, z naslednjo track listo: Impaler, Assassins, Traitor, Master Of The Seas, Revenge, Symphony Of Pain, Beyond The Veil, Battle Rages On, Art Of War, Empire Of The Lost, The Gods Made Heavy Metal (bonus, Manowar priredba). /A.J./

Oktobra izide nov Def Leppard best of album Best of Def Leppard. Na njem bo 17 skladb: Pour Some Sugar On Me, Photograph, Love Bites, Let's Get Rocked, Two Steps Behind, Animal, Heaven Is, Rocket, When Love & Hate Collide, Action, Long, Long Way To Go, Make Love Like A Man, Armageddon It, Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad, Rock Of Ages, Hysteria, Bringin' On The Heartbreak. Limited edition verziji bo priložen še bonus CD z: Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop), Waterloo Sunset, Promises, Slang, Foolin', Now, Rock Brigade, Women, Let It Go, Too Late For Love, High 'N' Dry (Saturday Night), Work It Out, Billy's Got A Gun, Another Hit And Run, Stand Up (Kick Love Into Motion), Wasted, Die Hard The Hunter. Istočasno pa bo izšel še DVD, na katerem bo 30 njihovih videospotov. /M.P./

Superjoint Ritual bodo 5. oktobra izdali nov live DVD z naslovom Live At CBGB's: Changing The Face Of Music Through Uncompromising Images in naslednjo track listo: Antifaith, Fuck Your Enemy, The Introvert, Personal Insult, The Destruction Of A Person, Permanently, The Alcoholik, Waiting For The Turning Point, One Song/Ozena, Stealing A Page Or Two From Armed & Radical Pagans. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: UNLEASHED: Sworn Allegiance, ICED EARTH: The Blessed And The Damned, VAN HALEN: The Best Of Both Worlds, METAL CHURCH: The Weight Of The World, TURISAS: Battle Metal, STEEL PROPHET: Beware, DEMONOID: Riders Of The Apocalypse, ANTHRAX: Music Of Mass Destrucion DVD, NINNUAM: Process Of Life Separation, TIME MACHINE: Reviviscence, WEINHOLD: From Heaven Through The World To Hell, LEVIATHAN: Tentacles Of Whorror in MORGION: Cloaked By Ages.

Ameriški power metalci Jacobs Dream imajo novega pevca Chaza Bonda (Biogenesis). Band se pripravlja na snemanje svojega tretjega albuma Drama Of The Ages, ki naj bi izšel pozno poleti. /M.P./

Švedski death metalci Anata so končali z delom za svoj tretji album Under A Stone With No Inscription, ki izide pri Earache podružnici Wicked World. Track lista je naslednja: Shackled To Guilt, A Problem Yet To Be Solved, Entropy Within, Dance To The Song Of Apathy, Sewerages Of The Mind, Built On Sand, Under The Debris, The Drowning, Leaving The Spirit Behind, Any Kind Of Magic Or Miracle. /M.P./

Noise Records ob 20. obletnici založbe pripravljajo obsežno kompilacijo 20 Years In Noise: 1983-2003. Na njej bo 2 krat po 20 skladb njihove bogate zgodovine: CD1: Gamma Ray: Short As Hell, Kamelot: Forever, Dragonforce: Heart Of A Dragon, Helloween: Heavy Metal Is The Law, Running Wild: Under Jolly Roger, Iron Savior: Iron Savior, Seven Witches: Mental Messiah, Conception: Water Confines, Rage: Her Diary's Black Pages, Skyclad: A Minutes Piece, Watchtower: Hidden Instincts, Sinner: Danger Zone, Grave Digger: Heavy Metal Breakdown, Tankard: Zombie Attack, Pissing Razors: Regret, Kreator: Pleasure To Kill, Voivod: Ravenous Medicine, Hellhammer: Massacra, Celtic Frost: The Usurper, Coroner: Reborn Through Hate. CD2: Mezarkabul: Take My Time, Lefay: Save Our Souls, Tyran Pace: Hot To Rock, Scanner: Warp 7, Mind Odyssey: Fire In The Sky, Helicon: Black & White, Exciter: Cold Blooded Murder, Vendetta: Metal Law, Stigmata: Greed Machine, Dave Sharman: Pandora's Box, Mindset: If The Devil Wore Adidas, Fleischmann: Fleischwolf, Tura Satana: Kiss Or Kill, Mordred: Everyday's A Holiday, D.A.M.: Terror Squad, Deathrow: N.L.Y.H., Secrecy: Like Burning One's Boat, Messiah: Lycantropus Erectus, Mania: The Expulsion, Lemming Project: Rejection. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: AVANTASIA: Metal Opera Part 2, RIOT: Through The Storm, ANVIL: Still Going Strong, LAKE OF TEARS: The Neonai, ROTTING CHRIST: Genesis, L.A. GUNS: Waking The Dead, SPOCKS BEARD: Snow, GLENN HUGHES: Different Stages – The Best Of, TUNNELVISION: Tomorrow, DEEP INSIDE MYSELF: At A Late Hour, AD INFERNA: Lempire Des Sens, THE BERZERKER: Dissimulate, RAZLIČNI IZVAJALCI: In The Eyes Of Death Vol. 3 in single NIGHTWISH: Bless The Child.

Glenn Hughes bo 26. avgusta izdal dvojni best of album Different Stages, na katerem bodo naslednje pesmi: CD 1: Burn (live), You Kill Me, Highball Shooter, Muscle & Blood (live), Save Me Tonight (I'll Be Waiting), Addiction, You Keep On Moving (live), Can't Stop The Flood, No Stranger To Love (live), From Now On, CD 2:, Death Of Me, I Got Your Number (live), The State I'm In, Your Love Is Alright (live), Gettin' Tighter, This Life, Freedom, Lady Double Dealer (live), Redline, Stormbringer (live). /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: ANNIHILATOR: Waking The Fury, RHAPSODY: Power Of The Dragonflame, MEGADETH: Rude Awakening, KALMAH: They Will Return, ARCH ENEMY: Wages Of Sin, HUGHES-TURNER PROJEKT: Hughes-Turner Projekt in GAMMA RAY: 6 CD Box.

Dark Moor so pravkar končali s snemanjem tretjega albuma The Gates Of Oblivion, ki bo izšel marca. Naslovnico zanj je naredil Andreas Marshall, pri nekaterih pesmih so sodelovali z Valcavasia zborom in Danom Keyingom (Cydonia). Na albumu so naslednji komadi: In The Heart Of Stone, A New World, The Gates Of Oblivion, Nevermore, Starmaker (Elbereth), Mist In The Twilight, By The Strange Path Of Destiny, The Night Of The Ages, Your Symphony, The Citadel Of The Light, A Truth For Me in Dies Irae (Amadeus). /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: OZZY OSBOURNE: Down To Earth, ANCIENT: Proxima Centauri, U.D.O.: Live From Russia, JOE LYNN TURNER: Slam, SUNSET SPHERE: Storm Before Silence, CYBERIA: Mindcontrol, PROJECTO: Crown Of Ages, V.A.: Tribute To Accept II, V.A.: Blood, Sweat And Tears – Tribute To Type O Negative in V.A.: Originators Of The Northern Darkness – Tribute To Mayhem