Yattering se bodo januarja 2002 odpravili na turnejo z Mortician in Carnal Forge. Med njo bodo izdali nov album Genocide. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: GRAVE DIGGER: The Grave Digger, DREAM THEATER: Live Scenes From New York, SODOM: M-16, BORKNAGAR: Empiricism, SYMPHONY X: The Live On The Edge Of Forever, RAGE: Best Of – All G.U.N. Years, CARNAL FORGE: Please…Die!, THE ALMIGHTY: Psycho Narco, BLACK SYMPHONY: Tears Of Blood, CROWBAR: Sonic Excess In It’s Purest Form, MORTIIS: The Smell Of Rain, ROUGH SILK: Symphony Of Life, KARMA TO BURN: Almost Heathen, RUDESS JORDAN: Feeding The Wheel in NOVEMBRE: Novembrine Waltz.

Švedski thrasherji Carnal Forge so doživeli nekaj kadrovskih sprememb. Po odhodu kitarista Johana Magnussona je basist Petri Kuusisto »poprijel« za kitaro, na bas pa je prišel Lars Linden, ki tudi njihov webmaster. Band je že končal s snemanjem nove plošče Please…Die!, ki bo izšla v začetku prihodnjega leta. Znana je že track lista: Everything Dies, No Resurrection, A World All Soaked In Blood, Fuel For Fire, Welcome To Your Funeral, Please...Die! (Aren't You Dead Yet), A Higher Level Of Pain, Hand Of Doom, Becoming Dust, Butchered, Slaughtered, Strangled, Hanged, Totalitarian Torture in Slaves. /M.P./

Kitarist Johan Magnusson je zapustil Carnal Forge. Namesto njega bo kitaro igral dosedanji basist Petri Kuusisto, novi basist pa je sedaj Lars Linden (-ex Rosicrucian/Slapdash). /M.P./

Zaenkrat so potrjeni naslednji bandi, headlinerjev pa še niso objavili: ANNIHILATOR (CAN) – DIMMU BORGIR (N) - HAMMERFALL (S) – IN FLAMES (S) - SUBWAY TO SALLY (D) – RAGE (D) - NEVERMORE (USA) – PAUL DIANNO & KILLERS (GB) - PRIMAL FEAR (D) – SODOM (D) - THERION (S) - NIGHTWISH (FIN) - GRAVE DIGGER (D) - ARTCH /Reunion (N) - BEHEMOTH (PL) – BLACKSHINE (S) – BRAINSTORM (D) - CAGE (USA) – CARNAL FORGE (S) – CHINCHILLA (D) - CRYPTOPSY (CAN) - CULPRIT /Reunion (USA) – DARK TRANQUILLITY (S) – DECEASED (USA) – DESASTER (D) – ENSLAVED (N) – EXCITER (CAN) – EXHUMED (USA) – EXUMER /Reunion (D) - HOLY MOSES /Reunion (D) - KRISIUN (BRAS) – LACUNA COIL (I) – MÄGO DE OZ (E) – METALIUM (D) – MORTICIAN (USA) – NAGLFAR (S) - NAPALM DEATH (GB) – NASUM (S) – NIGHTFALL (GR) - NOSTRADAMEUS (S) – OPETH (S) – SINS OF THY BELOVED (N) - SOILWORK (S) – SONATA ARCTICA (FIN) - TAD MOROSE (S) - TANKARD (D) – THE DESTRÖYER 666 (AUS) - THE HAUNTED (S) – TOURNIQUET (USA) - VINTERSORG (N) – VOIVOD (CAN) – WARHAMMER (D)

Ta teden so izšle naslednje nove plošče: OVERKILL: Bloodletting, THE HAUNTED: Made Me Do It, MOLLY HATCHET: Kingdom Of XII, SONATA ARCTICA: Successor (EP), PRETTY MAIDS: Carpe Diem, SIX FEET UNDER: Graveyard Classics, SKYCLAD: Folkimon, TAD MOROSE: Undead, THE 69 EYES: Blessed Be, CARNAL FORGE: Firedemon, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY: Americas Volume Dealer, DIVINE EMPIRE: Dammed To Inherit, EYEHATEGOD: Confederacy Of Ruined Lives, GRIFFIN: Wasteland Serenades ter singel IRON MAIDEN: Out Of The Silent Planet