- Diamond Rowe (TETRARCH) becomes the first ever female Jackson signature guitar artist
- XANDRIA release single “No Time To Live Forever”
- SOILWORK announce guitarist SIMON JOHANSSON as new permanent member
- ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ features in KAT VON D’s ‘I Am A Machine’ video
- COHEED AND CAMBRIA release new video for ‘Blind Side Sonny’
- OZZY OSBOURNE and family to appear at ‘Son Of Monsterpalooza’ horror film convention in Burbank
- LACUNA COIL announce new album “Sleepless Empire”
- BEHEMOTH release live video for ‘The Thousand Plagues I Witness’
- BLACKSTAR AMPLIFICATION and JARED JAMES NICHOLS announce signature amp and cab
- Original ANVIL guitarist DAVE ALLISON dies at 68
- Ad Infinitum – Abyss
- The Black Dahlia Murder – Servitude
- Cult Of Scarecrow – In Nomine Filiorum
- Nightwish-Yesterwynde
- Firtan – Ethos
- Pure Reason Revolution – Coming Up To Consciousness
- Dimbild – Dunkelglöd
- Trelldom – …By The Shadows…
- Wolfheart – Draconian Darkness
- Portrait – The Host
