Imperium Dekadenz bodo 18. januarja pri založbi Underground Activists/Season Of Mist izdali album z naslovom Procella Vadens. Na njem bodo naslednje skladbe: Die Hoffnung Stirbt..., Lacrimae Mundi, A Million Moons, Ego Universalis, À La Nuit Tombante, An Autumn Serenade, Ocean,Mountains Mirror, The Descent Into Hades, Procella Vadens in ...Wenn Der Sturm Beginnt. /P.G./

Decembra bo založba Earache izdala boxset petih CDjev z naslovom World Wide Metal:
CD1 - USA:
01 Deicide - Desecration
02 Hate Eternal - Nailed to Obscurity
03 Morbid Angel - Immortal Rites
04 Terrorizer - Dead Shall Rise
05 Clutch - Piledriver
06 Municipal Waste - Terror Shark
07 Bonded By Blood - Psychotic Pulse
08 Violator - After Nuclear Devastation
09 Sleep - The Druid
10 Coalesce - Harvest of Maturity
11 Brutal Truth - Anti-Homophobe
12 Order of Ennead - The Culling
13 Oceano - Samael The Destroyer (demo)
14 Adema - Barricades in Time
15 Garden of Shadows - Oracle Moon

CD2 - UK:
01 Napalm Death - Mentally Murdered
02 Carcass - Exhume to Consume
03 Akercocke - Enraptured by Evil
04 Evile - Bathe in Blood
05 SSS - Warhorse
06 Gama Bomb - Hammer Slammer
07 Hellbastard - I Beg in Blood
08 Iron Monkey - 666 Pack
09 Biomechanical - Fallen in Fear
10 Bolt Thrower - Shreds of Sanity
11 Cathedral - Vampire Sun
12 Extreme Noise Terror - Conned Through Life
13 Unseen Terror - Expulsion of Wrath
14 Ignominious Incarceration - The Saviour (demo)
15 The Boy Will Drown - We Take The Out of Psycho Therapist (demo)
16 Narcosis - Ode to A Worthless Fucking Piece of Shit
17 Narcosis - Mouthful of Ammunition
18 Narcosis - A Work Related Murder Spree
19 Godflesh - Tiny Tears
20 Dub War - Million Dollar Love

CD3 - Scandinavia
01 At the Gates - Nausea
02 The Haunted - D.O.A
03 Entombed - But Life Goes On
04 Cult of Luna - Dark Side of the Sun
05 Misery Loves Co – A Million Lies
06 Mortiis - The Loneliest Thing
07 Blood Red Throne - Taste of God
08 Anata - Better Grieved Than Fooled
09 Insision - The Foul Smell of Humans
10 Exmortem - The Pressure of Our Jaws
11 Cadaver Inc - Murderhead
12 Corporation 187 - Perfection in Pain
13 Filthy Christians - Dom Ljuger
14 Carnage - Dark Recollections
15 Deathwitch - Coffin Fornicator
16 Wolverine - Sarah
17 Gandalf - Morning Sun
18 Farmakon - Stretching Into Me
19 Dawn of Relic - Welkins Gat

CD4 - USA
01 Massacre - Biohazard
02 Nocturnus - Neolithic
03 Confessor - Uncontrolled
04 December - Host
05 Society 1 – It Isn't Me
06 Spazztic Blurr - Bedrock Blur
07 OLD - Devolve
08 Usurper - Warriors of Iron and Rust
09 The Chasm - Fortress
10 With Passion - R.J. MacReady
11 Painkiller - Purgatory of Fiery Vulvas
12 Meathook Seed - Famine Sector
13 Anal Cunt - Dead Gay and Dropped
14 Anal Cunt - Phyllis is An Old Annoying Cunt
15 Anal Cunt - You're Dumb
16 December Wolves - Solid Gold Beating
17 Shortie - Truth

CD5 - Europe
01 Vader - Reign Carrion
02 Decapitated - The First Damned
03 Severe Torture - Dismal Perception
04 Linea 77 - Tutto Quello Che No Sempre Voluto
05 Ephel Duath - Imploding
06 Nox – Darkness Undying
07 Lost Soul - World of Sin
08 Blo Torch - Panzerstorm
09 Rabies Caste - Hand Abortion
10 Rakoth - Og' Elend
11 The Elysian Fields - I Am the Unknown Sky
12 Forest Stream - Autumn Elegy
13 Without Face - In the Garden
14 Addiction Crew - What About

/P.G./

Dream Of An Opium Eater je nov potrjeni band za Wacken Open Air. Gre za britansko/norveški projekt, v katerem igrajo Benny Calvert (Killing Joke), Ivar S. Peersen (Enslaved), Reuben Gotto (Twinzero) in Julia Ruzicka (Million Dead). /M.P./

Novi izidi: JON OLIVA'S PAIN: Straight-Jacket Memoirs (EP), CATTLE DECAPITATION: Karma Bloody Karma, THUNDERBOLT: Love & Destruction, LEATHERWOLF: World Asylum, ANDROMEDA: Chimera, LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE: Filthy Notes For Frozen Hearts, FROST: Milliontown, CELLADOR: Enter Deception.

Konec junija pri Sanctuary Visual Entertainment izide prvi DVD Brucea Dickinsona z naslovom Anthology, na katerem bo za šest ur materiala, videospotov, live posnetkov, neizdanega in starega materiala (iz obdobja Samson). Na prvem DVDju bo koncert Dive Dive Live, posnet v Los Angelesu leta 1990 z naslednjimi skladbami: Riding With The Angels, Born In '58, Lickin' The Gun, Gypsy Road, Dive Dive Dive, Drum Solo, Zulu Zulu, The Ballad Of Mutt, Son Of A Gun, Hell On Wheels, All The Young Dudes, Tattooed Millionaire, No Lies, Fog On The Tyne, Winds Of Change, Sin City, Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter, Black Night.
Na prvem DVDju bo tudi koncert, posnet na Skunkworks turneji leat 1996 v španskih mestih Pamplona in Gerona z naslednjimi skladbami: Space Race, Back From The Edge, Tattooed Millionaire, Inertia, Faith, Meltdown, I Will Not Accept The Truth, Laughing In The Hiding Bush, Tears Of The Dragon, God's Not Coming Back, Dreamstate, The Prisoner.
Drugi DVD je naslovljen Scream For Me Brazil, na njem pa so posnetki iz istoimenskega live albuma, posnetega leta 1999 v Sao Paolu (posneto je iz publike): King In Crimson, Gates Of Urizen, Killing Floor, Book Of Thel, Tears Of The Dragon, Laughing In The Hiding Bush, Accident Of Birth, The Tower, Darkside Of Aquarius, The Road To Hell.
Na tretjem DVDju bo štirinajst videospotov: Tattooed Millionaire, All The Young Dudes, Dive Dive Dive, Born In '58, Tears Of The Dragon, Shoot All The Clowns, Back From The Edge, Inertia, Accident Of Birth, Road To Hell, Man Of Sorrows, Killing Floor, The Tower, Abduction ter petnajtminutni live posnetek banda Samson iz leta 1980.
/M.P./

Znana ja track lista Star One koncertnega albuma Live On Earth. Dvojnemu CDju bo priložen še DVD. CD:Intro/Lift-Off, Set Your Controls, High Moon, Dreamtime, Eyes of Time, Songs of the Ocean, Dawn of a Million Souls, The Dream Sequencer, Into the Black Hole, Actual Fantasy, Valley of the Queens CD2: Isis and Osiris, Amazing Flight in Space, Intergalactic Space Crusaders, Castle Hall, The Eye of Ra, Starchild, The Two Gates. DVD: Intro/Lift Off, Set Your Controls, High Moon, Dreamtime, Eyes of Time, Songs of the Ocean, Dawn of a Million Souls, The Dream Sequencer, Keyboard solo, Into the Black Hole, Actual Fantasy, Valley of the Queens, Isis and Osiris, Amazing Flight in Space, Bass solo, Intergalactic Space Crusaders, Castle Hall, The Eye of Ra, Starchild, The Two Gates. Izid je napovedan za 28. april. /M.P./

Manmadegod, band bivšega Forbidden kitarista Craiga Locicera in bobnarja Steva Jacobsa, bo januarja 2003 izdal prvenec z naslovom Million Dollar Gun. /M.P./

Bruce Dickinson je na Sweden Rock Festivalu odigral naslednje Iron Maiden klasike: Revelations, Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter, The Prisoner in Powerslave. Poleg tega pa še polno komadov iz vseh svojih solo albumov: Silver Wings, Back From The Edge, Broken, Accident Of Birth, Dark Side Of Aquarius, The Tower, Tears Of The Dragon, Laughing In The Hiding Bush, Innerspace in Tattoed Millionaire. Za konec je odigral še priredbo Toma Jonesa, Delilah. Podobno set listo lahko pričakujete tudi v Wacknu. /M.P./

Tu je track lista novega The Almighty albuma Psycho-Narco: Galvanize, 427 Freak Horsepower, Ruse, Soul On A Roll, Begging, Hate The World, Waiting For Earthquakes, If I Knew What I Wanted, 7 X, Big Idea Idiot, Mondo Balordo ,Blowout Kit For The Underdog, Witness Relocation Programme in Million Times Nothing. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: ARMORED SAINT: Nod To The Old School, DOUBLE DEALER: Devide At The Top, MY DYING BRIDE: Meisterwerk 2, POVERTY`S NO CRIME: One In A Million, BLUE ÖYSTER CULT: Curse Of The Hidden Mirror, KONG: 88795, THUG MURDER: The 13th Round, CRADLE OF FILTH: Bitter Suites To Succubi (EP) ter single HOLY MOSES: Master Of Desaster.

Ta teden so izšle naslednje nove plošče: YNGWIE MALMSTEEN`S RISING FORCE: War To End All Wars, ABSCESS: Tormented, CHINCHILLA: Madness, DERANGED: III, DIAS IRAE: Immolated, ONKEL TOM: Ich glaub nicht an den Weihnachtsmann, SKYLARK: The Divine Gates Part II Gate Of Heaven, THANATOS: Angelic Encounters, DRILLER KILLER: And The Winner Is…, GRIEF OF EMERALD: Malformed Sea, ISEGRIM: Dominus Infernus Ushanas ter singel STRATOVARIUS: A Million Light Years Away. Izšla pa je tudi videokaseta STRATOVARIUS: Infinite Visions.