Avstralski progresivni power metalci Eyefear so podpisali z Dockyard 1, kjer bodo izdali nov album A World Full of Grey. Album je miksal Andy La Rocque, ki je za album prispeval tudi dve solaži. /M.P./

Full Blown Chaos je nov potrjeni band za Metal Camp. /M.P./

Cataract so se razšli s kitaristom Simonom Fullemannom. Band si bo začasno vzel odmor, v katerem bo med drugim iskal tudi Simonovega naslednika. /M.P./

Marca prihodnje leto izide rerelease Cannibal Corpse klasike Vile, ki bo naslovljena Vile Live. Gre za dvojni album, ki bo vključeval bonus DVD s posnetki iz obdobja albuma Vile iz leta 1997 (San Francisco, 4. februar). Track lista DVDja je naslednja: Perverse Suffering, Stripped Raped and Strangled, Covered with Sores, Monolith, Addicted to Vaginal Skin, Force Fed Broken Glass, Fucked with a Knife, Gutted, Bloodlands, Shredded Humans, Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead, A Skull Full of Maggots, Devoured by Vermin, Hammer Smashed Face, Pulverized, Puncture Wound Massacre, Mummified in Barbed Wire, Orgasm Through Torture. /M.P./

Full Moon in St. Petersburg je naslov novega Rage DVDja, ki izide 23. februarja pri Nuclear Blast. Gre za dvojni DVD. Na prvem bo koncert posnet letos v St. Petersburgu v Rusiji, dva videospota, TV posnetki iz Brazilije ter posnetki z letošnjega nastopa na Masters of Rock festivalu v Vizovicah na Češkem. Na drugem DVDju bo daljši dokumentarec, posnet na zadnji ruski turneji, dokumentarec posnet na evropski turneji, vsak član banda pa je prispeval tudi svoje prispevke. /M.P./

Konec januarja pri Candlelight Records izide Crowbar DVD Live: With Full Force, ki je bil posnet lani na tem znanem nemškem festivalu. Track lista DVDja je naslednja: Self-Inflicted, I Am Forever, The Lasting Dose, Burn Your World, New Dawn, High Rate Extinction, Planets Collide, All I Had (I Gave), Slave No More (video). /M.P./

Crowbar končujejo z delom za svoj prvi live DVD, ki so ga posneli lani poleti na festivalu With Full Force. Izšel naj bi v začetku 2007. /A.J./

15. novembra bodo pri Spinefarm Records izdali best of Sonata Arctica album, The Collection 1999-2006, na katerem bosta tudi na novo posneti verziji skladb My Land in Replica. Track lista pa je naslednja: The Ruins of My Life, 8th Commandment, Don't Say A Word, Victoria's Secret, Tallulah, Wolf & Raven, Black Sheep, Broken, Kingdom for a Heart, FullMoon, My Land, The Cage, Last Drop Falls, UnOpened, San Sebastian, Ain't Your Fairytale, Replica, Wolf & Raven (video), The Cage (live at Tavastia), Kingdom for a Heart (live at Tavastia). /M.P./

Pri Roadrunner Records bodo 22. septembra izdali best of albume od Sepulture, Type O Negative in Fear Factory. Track liste so naslednje.
Sepultura – The Best Of: Troops Of Doom, Beneath The Remains, Inner Self, Arise, Dead Embryonic Cells, Desperate Cry, Refuse/Resist, Territory, Slave New World, Biotech Is Godzilla, Roots Bloody Roots, Attitude, Ratamahatta
Type O Negative - The Best Of: Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity, Christian Woman, Black No. 1, Too Late: Frozen, Love You To Death, My Girlfriend´s Girlfriend, Cinnamon Girl, Everyone I Love Is Dead, Everything Dies, Highway Star, I Don´t Wanna Be Me, Life Is Killing Me.
Fear Factory - The Best Of: Martyr, Scapegoat, Scumgrief, Demanufacture, Self-Bias Resistor, Zero Signal, Replica, Shock, Edgecrusher, Resurrection, Cars, Linchpin. /M.P./

Heaven Shall Burn, Cataract, Maroon, God Forbid, Full Blown Chaos, Purified In Blood In Another Perfect Murder se sredi septembra odpravljajo na evropsko turnejo The Hell On Earth Tour 2006. /M.P./

Ameriški death metalci Suffocation so začeli s snemanjem istoimenskega albuma, ki izide septembra pri Relapse Records. Naslovnico za album bo naredil JonZig (Skingraver Tattoo Studio), album pa snemajo v Full Force Studios v Long Islandu. /M.P./

6.6.06 bodo Slayer izdali EP Eternal Pyre. Na njem bo Cult, skladba s prihajajočega albuma, live verzija Dead Skin Mask, posneta lani na With Full Force festivalu, “behind the scenes” posnetki s snemanja novega albuma in petminutni izsek iz Live Intrusion videa. Izid še neimenovanega albuma je napovedan za 25. julij. /M.P./

Na limited edition verziji novega Cannibal Corpse albuma Kill, ki izide 27. marca, bo tudi live DVD, na katerem bo posnet njihov celoten nastop 8. aprila 2004 v Strasbourgu. Track lista DVDja Hammered Smashed Laiterie je naslednja: Shredded Humans, Puncture Wound Massacre, Fucked With A Knife, Stripped, Raped And Strangled, Decency Defied, Vomit The Soul, Unleashing The Bloodthirsty, Pounded Into Dust, The Cryptic Stench, They Deserve To Die, Dormant Bodies Bursting, Gallery Of Suicide, Pit Of Zombies, The Wretched Spawn, Devoured By Vermin, A Skull Full Of Maggots, Hammer Smashed Face. /M.P./

Rage so objavili track listo novega albuma Speak Of The Dead, ki izide spomladi pri Nuclear Blast: Mortituri te Salutant, Prelude of Souls, Innocent, Depression, No Regrets, Confusion, Black, Beauty, No Fear, Soul survivor, Full Moon, Kill Your Gods, Turn my world Around, Be with me or be Gone, Speak of the Dead. Za skladbo No Fear so posneli videospot, ki bo vključen tudi na soundtracku za psihološki triler Ludgers Fall. /M.P./

Sonata Arctica so objavili track listo DVD-ja/CD-ja For the Sake of Revenge, ki izide 31. marca 2006: Intro, Misplaced, Blinded No More, Fullmoon / White Pearls Black Oceans, Victoria's Secret, Broken, 8th Commandment, Shamandalie, Kingdom for a Heart, Replica, My Land, Black Sheep, Sing in Silence/the End of this Chapter, San Sebastian, Gravenimage, Don't Say a word, The Cage, Vodkaa... (hava nagila). /S.P./