Anvil bodo 31. januarja odigrali koncert, ki ga bodo prenašali tudi po internetu. Če vas zanima, si lahko več preberete na naslednji spletni strani: Cyberspace In Your Face (CIFY). /M.P./

Judas Priest so posneli koncert 19. decembra v Brixtonu in ga bodo izdali kot DVD. Na njem bodo naslednji komadi: Metal Gods, Heading Out To The Highway, Grinder, Touch Of Evil, Bloodstained, Victim Of Changes, The Sentinel, One On One, Running Wild, The Ripper, Diamonds And Rust, Feed On Me, Green Manalishi, Beyond The Realms Of Death, Burn In Hell, Hell Is Home, Breaking The Law, Desert Plains, You've Got Another Thing Coming, Turbo Lover in Painkiller, Hellion/Electric Eye, United in Living After Midnight, Hell Bent For Leather. /M.P./

Deep Purple bodo februarja izdali box set 11 singlov, ki so jih izdali med leti 1968 in 1976. Ti so: Hush b/w One More Rainy Day, Kentucky Woman b/w Wring That Neck, Emmaretta b/w Wring That Neck, Hallalujah b/w April - Part One, Black Night b/w Speed King, Strange Kind Of Woman b/w I'm Alone, Fireball b/w Demon's Eye, Never Before b/w When A Blind Man Cries, Woman From Tokyo b/w Super Trouper, Might Just Take Your Life b/w Coronarias Redig in You Keep On Movin b/w Love Child. /M.P./

Dark Moor so pravkar končali s snemanjem tretjega albuma The Gates Of Oblivion, ki bo izšel marca. Naslovnico zanj je naredil Andreas Marshall, pri nekaterih pesmih so sodelovali z Valcavasia zborom in Danom Keyingom (Cydonia). Na albumu so naslednji komadi: In The Heart Of Stone, A New World, The Gates Of Oblivion, Nevermore, Starmaker (Elbereth), Mist In The Twilight, By The Strange Path Of Destiny, The Night Of The Ages, Your Symphony, The Citadel Of The Light, A Truth For Me in Dies Irae (Amadeus). /M.P./

Track lista novega Rage albuma, ki bo izšel maja je: All I Want, Insanity, Down, Set This World On Fire, Seven Deadly Sins, You Want It You'll Get It, Living My Dream, World Of Pain. Dies Irae in Unity. /M.P./

Moštvo prve nemške rokometne lige iz Göppingena si je za letošnjo himno izbralo Primal Fear komad Under Your Spell. /M.P./

Nightwish so nov potrjeni band za Bang Your Head 2002. Že prej potrjeni so bili Gamma Ray, Nevermore, Overkill, Jag Panzer, Magnum, Symphony X, Tankard, Paradox, Titan Force, Rhapsody, Iron Savior, Vanden Plas, Rawhead Rexx, Rival in SA Adams. Dan pred začetkom bodo na Warmup-gigu nastopili Titan Force, Wizard in Powergod. /M.P./

Hrvatje Ashes You Leave so potrjeni za nastop na festivalu Wave Gothic Treffen v Leipzigu. Nastopili bodo v soboto, 18.5.2002. /P.G./

Novica, da AC/DC že pripravljajo novo ploščo drži. V nekem intervjuju sta Brian Johnson in Agnus Young izjavila, da Malcolm Young že piše nov material in da se bodo, kar se da hitro odpravili v studio posnet album, saj nočejo, da bi fani nanj zopet čakali 5 let. /M.P./

4. marca bodo Theatre Of Tragedy izdali svoj 5. album z naslovom Assembly in sledečo track listo: 1. Automatic Lover, 2. Universal Race, 3. Episode, 4. Play, 5. Superdrive, 6. Let You Down, 7. Starlit, 8. Envision, 9. Flickerlight, 10. Liquid Man, 11. Motion. Za januar predvidevajo izdajo singla. /M.P./

18. marca izide prvi album skupine The Jelly Jam, ki je v bistvu nadaljevanje projekta Platypus. Track lista je naslednja: 1. I Can't Help You, 2. No Remedy, 3. Nature, 4. Nature's Girl, 5. Feeling, 6. Reliving, 7. The Jelly Jam, 8. I Am The King, 9. The King's Dance, 10. Wind On The Way, 11. Under The Tree. /M.P./

4. marca bodo Theatre Of Tragedy izdali svoj peti album z naslovom Assembly in sledečo track listo: 1. Automatic Lover, 2. Universal Race, 3. Episode, 4. Play, 5. Superdrive, 6. Let You Down, 7. Starlit, 8. Envision, 9. Flickerlight, 10. Liquid Man, 11. Motion. Za januar predvidevajo izdajo singla. /M.P./

Fifth je nov progresivni thrash band z Nizozemske. Sestavljajo ga: bobnar Spike (ex- Form, Stormrider), kitarist Marcel Coenen (Sun Caged, Stormrider), kitarist Danny Tunker, basist Rob Van Der Loo (Sun Caged) in vokalist Nick Hameury (ex Form). Določili so že nekaj koncertnih datumov, kmalu pa bodo izdali tudi demo CD. Pričakujemo lahko glasbo, ki zveni kot mešanica Pantere, Meshuggah, Cacophony in Strapping Young Lad z nekaterimi progresivnimi elementi. /A.J./

Primal Fear bodo v ponedeljek 26. novembra izdali shaped CD Horrorscope s petimi do sedaj še neizdanimi in bonus komadi: Under Your Spell, Out In The Fields, Horrorscope, Breaker in Kill The King. /M.P./

Za Bang Your Head 2002 v Ballingenu so potrjeni naslednji novi bandi: Jag Panzer, Titan Force, Rival. /M.P./