Highlights of this issue :

17 Interviews including:

- HOPESFALL

- NAPALM DEATH

- SKYFORGER

- XASTHUR

110 Album Reviews including:

- ARCTURUS The Sham Mirrors

- AVANTASIA The Metal Opera Pt. II

- BATHORY Nordland I

- BOHREN UND DER CLUB OF GORE Black Earth

- CARPATHIAN FOREST We're Going to Hell for This...Over Ten Years of Perversions

- DECAPITATED Nihility

- HALFORD Crucible

- HAMMERFALL Crimson Thunder

- IMMOLATION Unholy Cult

- LEVIATHAN Verräter

- LYKATHEA AFLAME Elvenefris

- NAPALM DEATH Order of the Leech

- NILE In Their Darkened Shrines

- SATYRICON Volcano

- XASTHUR Nocturnal Poisoning