22. septembra bodo finski power metalci Twilightning pri Spinefarm Records izdali nov album Plague-House Puppet Show z naslednjimi skladbami: Plague-House Puppet Show, Into Treason, The Fiend, Victim of Deceit, Painting the Blue Eyes, In the Fervor's Frontier, Fever Pitch, Diamonds of Mankind, Riot Race, Lubricious Thoughts. /M.P./

Kreator so objavili naslove skladb novega, še neimenovanega albuma, ki je napovedan za januar 2005: Enemy of God, Impossible Brutality, Suicide Terrorist, Murder Fantasies, Dying Race Apocalypse, One Evil Comes - A Milion Follow, Dystopia, World Anarchy, Voices, Under A Blackened Sky, When Death Takes It's Dominion, The Ancient Plague. Naslovnico zanj bo naredil Avstrijec Jochim Luetke. /M.P./

Danski thrasherji Hatesphere so končali z delom za mini album Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Black, ki izide decembra pri Scarlet Records. Track lista je naslednja: Release The Pain, Bark At The Moon (Ozzy Osbourne priredba), Caught In A Mosh (Anthrax priredba), Low Life Vendetta (Live), Bloodsoil (Live), Plague (Live), Hate (Live). /M.P./

Znana je track lista novega Cradle Of Filth albuma Damnation And A Day, ki izide 10. marca: A Bruise Upon The Silent Moon, The Promise Of Fever, Hurt And Virtue, An Enemy Led The Tempest, Damned In Any Language ( A Plague On Words), Better To Reign In Hell, Serpent Tongue, Carrion, The Mordant Liquor Of Tears, Presents From The Poison-Hearted, Doberman Pharaoh, Babalon A.D. (So Glad For The Madness), A Scarlet Witch Lit The Season, Mannequin, Thank God For The Suffering, The Smoke Of Her Burning, End Of Daze. 24. februarja bodo Britanci izdali prvi single Babalon A.D. (So Glad For The Madness), zanj pa so že posneli video spot. Posvečen je 12 Days Of Sodom Marquisa De Sadea. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: FLESHCRAWL: Soulskinner, SIEBENBÜRGEN: Plagued By Thy Angel in EMPIRE: Hypnotica.

Plaguewielder bo naslov novemu albumu Darkthrone, ki naj bi izšel 3. septembra. Snemanje bo potekalo konec tega meseca. /M.P./

Švedski death metalci Throneaeon bodo pri založbi The Plague maja 2001 izdali svoj prvenec. /M.P./