Metal Church so objavili track listo novega albuma A Light in the Dark, ki izide 29. maja: Light in the Dark, More Than Your Master, Disappear, Pill for the Kill, Mirror of Lies, Light Machine, Blinded by Life, Beyond All Reason, Under the Gun, Caught Up, No Remainds, Watch the Children Play. /M.P./

Tukaj si lahko pogledate live izvedbo zadnjega singla Lacuna Coil, Our Truth, s katerim so prvič nastopili na ameriški televiziji. Album Karmacode je v enem mesecu v ZDA dosegel prodajo 74.000 izvodov. /A.J./

Švedi Lock Vostok bodo aprila pri Escapi Music izdali nov album Destruction Time Again, na katerem gostu Ron Jarzombek (Spastic Ink., Watchtower), Lawrence Mackrory (ex- Darkane) in Tina Gunnarsson. /M.P./

Communic so objavili track listo svojega drugega albuma Waves of Visual Decay: Under a Luminous Sky, Frozen Asleep In the Park, Watching It All Disappear, Fooled by the Serpent, Waves of Visual Decay, My Bleeding Victim, At Dewy Prime. /M.P./

4. aprila izide Pantera DVD z naslovom 3 Vulgar Videos From Hell. Na njem bodo naslednji videi:
Cowboys From Hell The Videos: Cowboys From Hell, Psycho Holiday, Cemetary Gates, Heresy (live), Art of Shredding (live)
Vulgar Video: Mouth For War, This Love, Walk, Domination (live), Primal Concrete Sledge.
Watch It Go: Planet Caravan, I'm Broken, 5 Minutes Alone, Drag the Waters.
Pantera Live From Monsters Of Rock In Moscow: Cowboys From Hell, Primal Concrete Sledge, Psycho Holiday.
Poleg tega bo na DVDju polno bonus materiala v obliki intervjujev in posnetkov s turnej. Pred kratkim pa je njihov album The Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits! v ZDA dosegel platinasto naklado za prodanih milijon izvodov.
/M.P./

Metal Church bodo 29. maja izdali nov album A Light In The Dark. Na njem bo tudi na novo posneta verzija skladbe Watch The Children Pray, ki bo posvečena lani preminulemu bivšemu vokalistu banda, David Wayneu. V začetku junija pa Metal Church prihajajo na krajšo evropsko turnejo. /M.P./

Bobnar Derek Roddy (Hate Eternal) se je pridružil projektu Blotted Silence, ki sta ga ustanovila Ron Jarzombek (Watchtower) in Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse). /M.P./

Testament so tukaj objavili tri komade s svojega novega live albuma Live in London, ki ima naslednjo set listo: The Preacher, The New Order, The Haunting, Electri Crown, Sins of Omission, Souls of Black, Into the Pit, Trial by Fire, Practice What You Preach, Let Go of My World, The Legacy, Over the Wall, Raging Waters in Disciples of the Watch. /S.P./

Argentiski hard-rock band Watchmen po uspešni ameriški turneji snema svoj prvenec. Na internetu pa so že objavili komade On the Road, Time Is Over in Livin' the Heartache. /S.P./

Seven Witches so spremenili naslov prihajajočega albuma iz Metal Nation v Amped, ki izide jeseni pri Regain Records. Gre za prvi album z novim pevcom Alanom Tecchiom (ex- Hades/Watchtower), za skladbo Sunnydale High pa so posneli tudi videospot. /M.P./

Pri Versailles Records bodo jeseni izdali tribute to David Lee Roth album, Just Like Paradise: A Millennium Tribute to Diamond David Lee Roth, na katerem bodo sodelovali trenutni in bivši člani naslednjih bandov: Lillian Axe, Aerosmith, Dokken, Riot, Watchtower, Enuff Znuff, American Dog, Dangerous Toys, Lynch Mob in TNT. Na njem bodo priredbe njegovih solo skladb in seveda obdobja iz Van Halen. /M.P./

Phantom-X, nov projekt, pri katerem sodeluje Omen pevec Kevin Goocher, so podpisali pogodbo z Mausoleum Records. Novembra naj bi izšel prvenec Rise Of The Phantom, na katerem bosta gostovala vokalista Robert Lowe (Solitude Aeturnus) in Jason McMaster (Watchtower). Istočasno se bodo odpravili na evropsko turnejo z Anvil. /A.J./

Cannibal Corpse basist Alex Webster, Watchtower/Spastic Ink kitarist Ron Jarzombek in Lamb Of God bobnar Chris Adler so ustanovili nov projekt, ki zaenkrat nosi ime Machinations Of Dementia. /M.P./

Pri Sanctuary Records bodo kmalu ponovno izdali album zasedbe White Spirit, NWOBHM banda, kjer je igral Janick Gers (Iron Maiden). Album je do sedaj izšel samo kot LP, CD-ju pa bo dodano polno bonus materiala. Track lista je naslednja: CD1: Midnight Chaser, Red Skies, High Upon High, Way of the Kings, No Reprieve, Don't Be Fooled, Fool for the Gods; bonus skladbe: Watch Out, Backs to the Grind (single), Cheetah (single), High upon High (alternate version), Midnight Chaser (alternate version), Suffragettes (Midnight Chaser b-side), Arthur Guitar (High Upon High b-side), Red Skies (alternate version, Muthas Pride EP).
CD2: (demo posnetki) No Reprieve, Cheetah, Backs to the Grind, Nowhere to Run, Can't Take It, High upon High, Red Skies, Midnight Chaser, Suffragettes, Watch Out.
/M.P./

Alan Tecchio (ex- Hades/Watchtower) je novi vokalist pri Seven Witches. /M.P./