11. februarja izide novi Callenish Circle album Flesh-Power-Dominion z naslednjo track listo: Obey Me... , For What's It Good For... , Witness Your Own Oblivion , Take Me Along , Bleeding, Your Final Swansong, Suffer My Disbelief, They Have Chosen, ... in bonus komada Pull The Plug (Death priredba) ter When The Lady Smiles (Golden Earring priredba). /M.P./

11. februarja izide novi Callenish Circle album Flesh-Power-Dominion z naslednjo track listo: Obey Me... , For What's It Good For... , Witness Your Own Oblivion , Take Me Along , Bleeding, Your Final Swansong, Suffer My Disbelief, They Have Chosen, ... in bonus komada Pull The Plug (Death priredba) ter When The Lady Smiles (Golden Earring priredba). /M.P./

4. januarja začenjajo Freedom Call s snemanjem novega albuma. Na njem bo 10 novih pesmi ter priredba. Izšel naj bi poleti 2002. Band ima novega tour – klaviaturista. To je Ferdy Doernberg. /M.P./

Freedom Call bodo na nemškem in švicarskem delu turneje predskupina Blind Guardian. /M.P./

S snemanjem novega albuma The Headless Horseman so končali avstralski power metalci Pegazus. V naslednjih dneh jih čaka še miksanje in dokončno oblikovanje plošče. Band obljublja najboljšo ploščo do sedaj, ki bo tudi malce trša. Znana je track lista: 1. The Headless Horseman, 2. Nightstalker, 3. A Call To Arms, 4. The Patriot, 5. Look To The Stars, 6. Dragon Slayer, 7. Spread Your Wings, 8. Forever Chasing Rainbows, 9. Victim, 10. Neon Angel, 11. Ballad Of A Thin Man. Komad Teh Patriot je posvečen vsem vojakom, ki se v Afganistanu bojujejo proti terorizmu. /M.P./

Nizozemski death metalci Callenish Circle so podpisali z založbo Metal Blade. Njihov naslednji album Flesh-Power-Dominion bo izšel 11. februarja 2002. /M.P./

Track lista Queensryche live albuma Live Evolution: CD 1: Nm 156, Walk In The Shadows, Roads To Madness, The Lady Wore Black, London, Screaming In Digital, Take Hold Of The Flame, Queen Of The Ryche, I Remember Now, Anarchy X, Revolution Calling, Spreading The Disease/Electric, Requiem, Mission, Suite Sister Mary, I Dont Believe In Love, My Empty Room, Eyes Of A Stranger. CD 2: I Am I, Damaged, Empire, Silent Lucidity, Another Rainy Night, Jet City Woman, Liquid Sky, Sacred Ground, Breakdown, Falling Down, Right Side Of My Mind, Hit The Black. /M.P./

Tracklista novega albuma Royal Hunt , The Mission, je naslednja: Take Off, The Mission, Exit Gravity, Surrender, Clean Sweep, Judgment Day, Metamorphosis, World Wide War, Dreamline, Out Of Reach, Fourth Dimension, Days Of No Trust in Total Recall. /M.P./

14. oktobra bo v mestu Tilburg na Nizozemskem koncert v pomoč Chucku Shuldinerju »THE OFFICIAL CHUCK SCHULDINER TRIBUTE FESTIVAL«, na katerem bodo nastopili naslednji bandi: God Dethroned, Altar, Goddes Of Desire, Occult, Callenish Circle, Severe Torture, Thanatos, Mangled, Shadowbreed, Outburst in Flesh Made Sin. /M.P./

Tesla bodo izdali koncertni album, fani pa imajo priložnost izbrati komade, ki bi jih radi slišali na njem. 13 komadov lahko izberete med sledečimi: Cumin' Atcha Live, EZ Come EZ Go, Hang Tough, Gettin' Better, The Way It Is, Song & Emotion, Changes, Signs, Little Suzi, Lazy Days, Crazy Nights, Call It What You Want, Freedom Slaves, Love Song, We're No Good Together, Heaven's Trail (No Way Out), Mama's Fool, Edison's Medicine, Modern Day Cowboy in What You Give. /M.P./

Sascha Gerstner je zapustil Freedom Call. Namesto njega bo sedaj brenkal Cedric "Cede" DuPont, kitarist od banda Symphorce. /M.P./

Na Live In Russia, koncertnem albumu banda U.D.O., ki izide 24. septembra bodo naslednji komadi: Holy, Raiders Of Beyond, Midnight Mover, Independence Day, Metal Eater, Winter Dreams, In The Darkness, Turn Me On, Heaven Is Hell, Run If You Can, Recall The Sin, Midnight Highway, TV War, Animal House, Protectors Of Terror, Break The Rules, Living On A Frontline, Shout It Out, Cut Me Out, They Want War, I'm A Rebel, Like A Loaded Gun, No Limits, Heart Of Gold in Monster Man. Po izidu bodo začeli pripravljati material za naslednjo studijsko ploščo, ki naj bi izšla marca naslednje leto, tako kot DVD Live In Russia. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: SOUL DOCTOR: Soul Doctor, TERRA FIRMA: Harms Way, WISDOM CALL: Wisdom Call, ABSU: Tara, AMEN: Amen, EXMORTEM: Berzerker Legions, EYEHATEGOOD: 10 Years Of Abuse (And Still Broke), FINNTROLL: Jaktens Tid, INSANIA: Sunrise In Riverland, SHADOW: Shadow, HYPNOSKULL: Electronic Music Means War To Us in IZZY STRADLIN: River.

Calling The Knights je naslov novega albuma Švicarjev Emerald, ki bo izšel poleti. /M.P./

Graceful…Yet Forbidding, drugi album nizozemskih Callenish Circle bo sedaj mogoče kupiti po celi Evropi (do sedaj le v Beneluksu). Konec aprila pa se bodo odpravili v studio posneti že naslednji album. /M.P./