Znan je naslov novega Dream Theater albuma. Train Of Thought naj bi izšel 11. novembra, track lista pa je naslednja: As I Am, This Dying Soul, Endless Sacrifice, Honor Thy Father, Vacant, Stream Of Consciousness, In The Name Of God. Album sta producirala John Petrucci in Mike Portnoy, miks pa je naredil Kevin Shirley. Znani so že datumi turneje (glej Koncerti). /M.P./

Ob 15. letnici obstoja ameriških death metalcev Cannibal Corpse bo založba Metal Blade 3. novembra izdala box set s tremi CDji in enim DVDjem naslovljen 15-Year Killing Spree. Track lista je naslednja: Disc One - Best of Volume 1 - Shredded Humans, Put them to Death, Born in a Casket, A Skull Full of Maggots, Gutted, Covered With Sores, Vomit the Soul, Hammer Smashed Face, Addicted to Vaginal Skin, The Cryptic Stench, Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead, Stripped, Raped and Strangled, The Pick-Axe Murders, The Bleeding, Zero the Hero;
Disc Two - Best of Volume 2 - Devoured by Vermin, Disfigured, Monolith, I Will Kill You, Sentenced to Burn, Gallery of Suicide, Dead Human Collection, The Spine Splitter, Pounded Into Dust, I Cum Blood- Live, Fucked With A Knife (live), Unleashing the Bloodthirsty (live), Meathook Sodomy (live), Savage Butchery, Pit of Zombies, Sanded Faceless, Systematic Elimination
Disc Three - Previously Unreleased Material - '89 Demo: A Skull Full of Maggots, The Undead Will Feast, Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains, Put Them to Death, Bloody Chunks; Created To Kill" Sessions: Unburied Horror, Mummified in Barbed Wire, Gallery of the Obscene, To Kill Myself, Bloodlands, Puncture Wound Massacre, Devoured by Vermin, "Gallery of Suicide" Demo: Chambers of Blood, Dismembered and Molested, Gallery of Suicide, Unite the Dead, Crushing the Despised, Headless, Cover Songs: Bethany Home (A Place to Die), Endless Pain, Behind Bars
Disc Four – DVD - 1st Live Cannibal Corpse Show 1989: Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains, The Undead Will Feast, Escape the Torment, Bloody Chunks, Enter at Your Own Risk, Put Them to Death, A Skull Full of Maggots, "Butchered at Birth" Studio Footage 1991 - Drum Sessions & Bass Guitar Overdub; CANNIBAL CORPSE Eats Moscow Alive 1993: Shredded Humans, The Cryptic Stench, Meathook Sodomy, Edible Autopsy, I Cum Blood, Gutted, Entrails Ripped From a Virgin's Cunt, Beyond the Cemetery, A Skull Full of Maggots, Live at The Palace in Hollywood, CA 2002 - From Skin to Liquid, Savage Butchery, Devoured by Vermin, Stripped, Raped and Strangled, Disposal of the Body, Pounded into Dust, Addicted to Vaginal Skin, Meathook Sodomy, Pit of Zombies, Hammer Smashed Face. /M.P./

Znana je track lista novega Impaled Nazarene albuma All That You Fear, ki izide 3. novembra pri Osmose Productions: Kohta Ei Naura Enää Jeesuskaan, Armageddon Death Squad, The Endless War, The Maggot Crusher, Curse Of The Dead Medusa, Suffer In Silence, Halo Of Flies, Recreate Thru Hate, Goat Seeds Of Doom, Even More Pain, Tribulation Hell, Urgent Need To Kill, All That You Fear. /M.P./

Death metalci iz Šoštanja so še eden izmed mnogih bandov, ki bodo nastopili na letošnjem Rock Otočcu. Njihov prvenec Through Endless Torment je kar se tiče produkcijske strani končan, sedaj pa pride na vrsto design CD-ja. Jutri, 14.06.03 pa bodo v Velenju na Velenjskem Radiu 107.8 Mhz ob 16.30h gostili pevca in basista iz skupine, ki bosta predstavila prvenec ter nadaljne načrte banda. /A.J./

Supremacy so sedaj končali s snemanjem prvenca Through Endless Torment. Zadnji je bil na vrsti pevec Marko Duplišak. Kot gosta sta pri snemanju sodelovala solo kitarista Igor Nardin (Noctiferia) in Tat Puruša (Transcendence), sicer tudi producenta albuma. Več informacij o izidu pričakujte kmalu. /M.P./

Supremacy se počasi približujejo koncu snemanja prvenca, ki so mu dali naslov Through Endless Torment. V nedeljo je Dejan Kedačič v Supersoul studiu (Ljubljana) končal s snemanjem kitar, tako da so jim sedaj ostali samo še vokal in solo kitare. To imajo v načrtu posneti še ta mesec. Celoten februar pa bodo Tat Puruša, Igor Nardin (Noctiferia) in band porabili za miks ter mastering. /M.P./

18. decembra na Japonskem izide nov Racer X album Getting Heavier z naslednjo track listo: Dr. X, Lucifer's Hammer, Golden God, Bucket Of Rocks, Go-Gg-Go, Heaven In, Everything's Everything, Empty Man, The Siren's Eye, Ghost Dance, Endless, Catapult To Extinction. V Evropi bo album izšel 24. februarja. Mesec dni pred tem pa bo njihov kitarist Paul Gilbert izdal solo album Burning Organ. /M.P./

Killing Helsinki je naslov koncertnega albuma od The Project Hate, ki izide pozimi. Na njem bo 6 pesmi, posnetih 12. Julija v Heksinkih: I Smell Like Jesus...Dead, Forsaken By The Naked Light Of Day, Can't Wait, The Divine Burning Of Angels, Christianity Delete, With Desperate Hands So Numb in trije demo posnetki iz leta 1999: With Desperate Hands So Numb, Selfconstructive Once Again, Oceans Of Seemingly Endless Bleeding. /M.P./

S snemanjem novega albuma Endless Conflict Theorem so končali Raventhrone. Posneli so ga v Vato Loco Studio na Dunaju, ki je last Martina (Hollenthon, Pungent Stench). /M.P./

Bivši White Lion pevec Mike Tramp bo izdal solo album Recovering The World, na katerem bodo naslednji komadi: Falling Down, Living A Lie, Mr. Death, If It Ain't Gonna Rock, All Up To You, Endless Highway, Darkness, Follow Your Dreams, Do It All Over, Take It Easy, Don't Take My Rock N' Roll in Always Tomorrow. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: JAG PANZER: Mechanized Warfare, KRISIUN: Ageless Venomous, ELVENKING: Heathenreel, LUNAR AURORA: Ars Moriendi, DIABOLIC: Subterraneal Magnitude, EBONY TEARS: Evil As Hell, SIGH: Imaginary Sonicscape, EMBRACE; Endless Journey, BALANCE OF POWER: Perfect Balance, BEYOND TWILIGHT: The Devil’s Hall Of Fame.

Kreator so trenutno zaposleni s pisanjem materiala za nov album, ki naj bi bil glasbeno nadaljevanje, kjer so končali s Coma Of Souls. Prvi naslovi pesmi so: Getto War, Violent Revolution, Second Awakening ter System Decay. Bend bo tudi ponovno izdal prve tri albume Endless Pain, Pleasure To Kill in Terrible Certainty, na katerih naj bi bili tudi videospoti ter čisto nove naslovnice. Izdali pa naj bi tudi še en Best of album, za katerega bodo pesmi preko interneta izbrali fani. Vseboval pa naj bi tudi redke demo in koncertne posnetke. /M.P./