24. septembra bodo Cradle Of Filth izdali koncertni album Live Bait For The Dead. To bo dvojni CD, na prvem bodo posnetki iz koncerta 14. aprila v Nottinghamu, na drugem pa bo malo mešano – priredbe, mixi, demo, itd. Track lista – CD1: Intro - The Ceremony Opens, Lord Abortion, Ebony Dressed For Sunset, The Forest Whispers My Name, Cthulhu Dawn, Dusk And Her Embrace, The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh, Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids, Her Ghost In The Fog, Summer Dying Fast, Interlude - Creatures That Kissed In Cold Mirrors, From The Cradle To Enslave, Queen Of Winter Throned. CD 2: Born In A Burial Gown - The Polished Coffin Mix, No Time To Cry - Sisters Of No Mercy Mix, Funeral In Carpathia - Soundcheck Recording, Deleted Scenes Of A Snuff Princess, Scorched Earth Erotica - Original Demo(n) Version, Nocturnal Supremacy - Soundcheck Recording, From The Cradle To Enslave - Under Martian Rule Mix, The Fire Still Burns, No Time To Cry - Sisters Of No Mercy – Video.

Švedi Infernal, kjer igra bivši Dark Funeral kitarist Blackmoon bodo konec tega meseca posneli mini CD Summon Forth The Beast, na katerem bosta tudi dve priredbi in sicer Bleed For The Devil od Morbid Angel in Of Doom od Bathory. Jeseni pa se band vrne v studio posnet celoten album, ki bo izšel prihodnje leto pri Hammerheart Records. /M.P./

Dark Funeral so se zaradi finančni težav odločili, da bodo evropsko turnejo nadaljevali le še s Tidfall. Tako so morali Anorexia Nervosa, Occult in Ragnarok prekiniti s turnejo in odpotovati domov. /M.P./

Wolfen Society, band članov Acheron, Incantation, Dark Funeral in The Electric Hellfire Club, bodo 28.januarja izdali MCD Conquer Divine. /M.P./

Razšli so se Guidance Of Sin. Člani banda so udeleženi v nekaj projektih, edini omembe vredni pa je The Dead, v katerem sta Linus Nirbrants in Tob Sillmans. The Dead so izdali split CD z Birdflesh, na novo pa so posneli še 6 komadov, pri katerih so sodelovali tudi člani Dark Funeral. /M.P./

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./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: KREATOR: Violent Revolution, EDGUY: Mandrake, BRUCE DICKINSON: The Best Of, QUEENSRYCHE: Live Evolution, SAXON: Killing Ground, VIRGO: Virgo, DARK FUNERAL: Diabolis Interium, TRISTANIA: World Of Glass, HEAVENLY: Sign Of The Winner, WITCHERY: Symphony For The Devil, MEZARKABUL: Unspoken, MADRIGAL: I Die You Soar, HYPNOS: The Revenge Ride, SOLEFALD: Pills Against The Ageless Ills, THANATEROS: The First Rite, SAVIOUR MACHINE: Legend Part III, GLENN HUGHES: Building The Machine, REBAELLIUN: Annihilation, MIDNIGHT SUN: Metal Machine, SOILENT GREEN: A Delected Symphony For The Beaten Down, INHUMAN: Rebellion, DARKEST HOUR: So Sedated, So Seen, BETHLEHEM: Schatten aus der Alexander Welt, TWIN OBSCENITY: Bloodstone, SNAKEGOD: Invitation in MANHAI: The Sons Of Yesterday's Black Grouse.

Nemški black metalci Agathodaimon so pravkar posneli svoj tretji album, ki se bo imenoval Chapter Three. Izid je napovedan za 12. november, track lista pa je naslednja: An Angel's Funeral, Spirit Soldier, Paradise Beyond, The Ending Of Our Yesterday, Past Shadows, Yesterday's Reprise, Departure, Sacred Divinity, Burden Of Time. /M.P./

Na letošnjem X-Mass Fest 2001, ki bo med 11. in 22. decembrom, bodo nastopili naslednji bandi: Cannibal Corpse, Kreator, Marduk, Nile, Dark Funeral, Krisiun in Vomitory. /M.P./

Na naslednjem Grave Digger albumu The Grave Digger bodo naslednji komadi: Son Of Evil, The Grave Digger, Raven, Scythe Of Time, Spirits Of The Dead, The House, King Pest, Black Cat, Haunted Palace, Funeral Procession, Silence. Band bo poleti igral na nekaterih festivalih. /M.P./

Dark Funeral končujejo s pripravo novega albuma Diabolus Interium, katerega datum izida še ni znan. Komadi pa so že: The Arrival Of Satan's Empire, Hail Murder, Goddess Of Sodomy, Diabolis Interium, An Apprentice Of Satan, Thus I Have Spoken, Armageddon Finally Comes in Heart Of Ice. /M.P./

Dark Funeral pripravljajo koncertno videokaseto. /M.P./

Januarja 2001 se bodo Dark Funeral odpravili v studio posneti nov album. /M.P./

Na Iced Earth EP-ju Mellancholy, ki bo izšel januarja, bodo poleg naslovne skladbe še I Died For You, Watching Over Me, live verzija Colours, ki je izpadla iz Alive In Athens ter naslednje priredbe Shooting Star (Bad Company), Electric Funeral (Black Sabbath) in The Ripper (Judas Priest). /M.P./

Matte Modin iz Defleshed je novi član black metalcev Dark Funeral. /M.P./