- NIGHTWISH side project AURI recruits drummer KAI HAHTO for third album
- ELVENKING release new single and video “Luna”
- DAVID LEE ROTH: ‘The Warner Recordings 1985-1994’ box set due in February
- STEVEN WILSON releases trailer ‘The Overview’ album
- LACUNA COIL shares new single ‘Gravity’ from upcoming ‘Sleepless Empire’ album
- LUNA GUITARS introduces the Oracle Rose acoustic/electric guitar
- SAOR release single “The Sylvan Embrace” featuring Jo Quail
- OBSCURA shares video for new single ‘Evenfall’
- ENSIFERUM releases video for ‘The Howl’
- MARKO HIETALA (Ex-NIGHTWISH ) releases new single ‘Rebel Of The North’
- Avatarium – Between You, God, The Devil And The Dead
- Fabulae Dramatis – Violenta
- Empires Of Eden – Guardians Of Time
- Old Wainds – Stormheart
- DGM – Endless
- The Third Circle – I (EP)
- Officium Triste – Hortus Venenum
- Thulcandra – Live Demise
- Synlakross – Mental Parasites
- Dani Hart – Slaying Bluebeard
