Sam joined Perran for an impromptu weekend at the first and last UK Deathfest, in a week that also saw the first Taylor Hawkins tribute show, Fat Mike hinting that NOFX will be calling it quits, and Darkthrone continually topping their own album announcements like the kings they are.

Releases:
Parkway Drive - Darker Still
Ozzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9
Stray From the Path - Euthanasia
Bloodbath - Survival of the Sickest
Revocation - Netherheaven
Electric Callboy - Tekkno
Tallah - The Generation of Danger
I Am - Eternal Steel
Demon Hunter - Exile
Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed
Armor for Sleep - The Rain Museum
Afghan Wigs - How Do You Burn?
Flogging Molly - Anthem
Fallujah - Empyrean
Crippled Black Phoenix - Banefyre
Valborg - Der Alte