- OBSCURA shares video for new single ‘The Sun Eater’
- NUNSLAUGHTER shares video for “Rotten Messiah”
- AUTOPSY to record new album later this year
- GHOST wins Swedish GRAMMIS ‘Best Hard Rock/Metal’ award for ‘Skeletá’
- Mother company DEAN GUITARS wins lawsuit against Dimebag Darrell’s estate
- SLAYER’s TOM ARAYA named Grand Marshal for ‘Würth 400’ at Texas Motor Speedway
- PEAVEY announces the PBK™12BT and PBK 15BT powered speaker systems
- YNGWIE MALMSTEEN has finished recording his “very neoclassical“ new solo album
- STONE SOUR guitarist JOSH RAND’s THE L.I.F.E. PROJECTsigns with FRONTIERS MUSIC SRL
- SATANIC PLANET, featuring DAVE LOMBARDO, signs with RELAPSE RECORDS
- Vansind – Hævnen
- Pro-Pain – Stone Cold Anger
- Tabernis – Seasons Of The Dark Hive
- Hokka – Via Miseria IV
- Lovebites – Outstanding Power
- Cnoc An Tursa – A Cry For The Slain
- Lantlôs – Nowhere In Between Forever
- The Quill – Master Of The Skies
- Venom – Into Oblivion
- Hardline – Shout
