Audiovision je ime solo projekta Narnia pevca Christiana Rivela. K snemanju je privabil mnogo znanih gostov, ki so: Lars Chriss, Jeff Scott Soto (Talisman, Yngwie Malmsteen), Tony Franklin (Whitesnake, Blue Murder, The Firm), Mats Levén (Krux, At Vance, Yngwie Malmsteen), Mic Michaeli (Europe), Michael Höglund (Punchline, Thunder), Thomas Broman (Hughes Turner Project, Glenn Hughes Band, Electric Boys), Thomas Vikström (Brazen Abbot, Candlemass), Tommy Denander (Radioactive), Janne Stark (Locomotive Breath), Carl Johan Grimmark (Narnia) in Andreas Lindahl (Platitude). Istoimenovani album bo izšel kasneje letos pri Rivel Records. /M.P./

Candlemass kitarist Lars Johansson in bobnar Jan Lindh sta z Michaelom Storckom (X-Plode) in Tobbejem Moenom (ex- Redfun, Oz) ustanovila nov band Creozoth. Četverica že snema prvenec. /M.P./

Švedske doom legende Candlemass bodo ta vikend na koncertu v Stockholmu predstavili novo pesem Witches. /M.P./

World Below, nov band Carnal Forge članov Jonasa Kjellgrena in Stefana Westerberga, so za en album podpisali z italijansko založbo Underground Symphony Records. Album Sacrifies To The Moon izide januarja. Glasbeno naj bi bili med Candlemass in zgodnjimi Black Sabbath. /M.P./

1. decembra izide live DVD, posnet na Rock Hard festivalu 7. in 8. junija letos. Track lista je naslednja: GOD DETHRONED - Into The Lungs Of Hell, TRIBE AFTER TRIBE - Out Of Control, CIRCLE II CIRCLE - Watching In Silence, TROUBLE - The Tempter/Bastards Will Pay, NEVERMORE - Who Decides, KREATOR - The Patriarch/Violent Revolution, ANTHRAX - Safe Home, BLIND GUARDIAN - The Script For My Requiem, DARKANE - Violence From Within, THRESHOLD - Long Way Home, ARCH ENEMY - Dead Bury Their Dead, SOILWORK - Follow The Hollow, CANDLEMASS - At The Gallows End, SODOM - Remember The Fallen, IN FLAMES – System, DORO - Burning The Witches, SAXON - Denim And Leather. /M.P./

Ameriški doomerji Trouble bodo konec novembra na Švedskem odigrali koncert s Candlemass in Force Of Evil (band King Diamond in Mercyful Fate članov), ki bo kasneje izšel na DVDju. /M.P./

Candlemass so posneli demo z dvema skladbama Witch in Born In A Tank. Z njim sedaj poizkušajo dobiti pogodbo z založbo. /M.P./

Krux bodo 25. septembra izdali svoj prvi DVD. Na njem bo nastop, posnet 18. maja v Stockholmu. Band sestavljajo Leif Edling (Candlemass), Mats Leven (ex- Malmsteen) ter Entombed člana Peter Stjärnvind in Jörgen Sandstrom. /M.P./

Stormwind, bandu bivšega Candlemass pevca Thomasa Vikstroma in kitarista Thomasa Wolfa, se je pridružil nov klaviaturist Joachim Broden. Na Japonskem je band ravno izdal svoj šesti album Rising Symphony, v Evropi pa naj bi izšel v začetku junija. /A.J./

World Below, band Carnal Forge clanov Jonasa Kjellgrena in Stefana Westerberga, so preložili izid prvenca Sacrifices To The Moon za nedoločen cas. Stilsko naj bi se gibali med Candlemass in zgodnjimi Black Sabbath. /M.P./

V začetku junija bodo Švedi Stormwind izdali svoj šesti album Rising Symphony. Clan banda je med drugim tudi bivši Candlemass vokalist Thomas Vikstrom. Na Japonskem album izide že 23. aprila. /M.P./

Candlemass so prestavili izid koncertnega albuma Doomed For Live – Reunion 2002 za nekaj dni na 27. januar. /M.P./

Novoletno vzdušje je zajelo tudi ekipo Paranoida, zato ta za nekaj dni zapira »štacuno«. Medtem ko vi v rubriki »Nagradne igre« lahko še naprej glasujete za »Naj 2002«, smo to izbrali tudi mi.
Želimo vam čimbolj metalsko leto 2003. /Uredništvo/

Ajda:

Albumi:
DREAM THEATER – Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
PAIN – Nothing Remains The Same
PAIN OF SALVATION – Remedy Lane
PARADISE LOST – Symbol Of Life
RAGE – Unity
SENTENCED – The Cold White Light
SEVEN WITCHES – Xiled To Infinity And One
SINERGY – Suicide By My Side
SOUTHERN STORM – 1999
TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA – Beethoven's Last Night

Koncerti:
NEVERMORE – Bang Your Head
SAVATAGE – povsod
SENTENCED – Salzburg
THE 69 EYES – Dunaj
SOUTHERN STORM, NEGLIGENCE – Ljubljana

Matjaž:

Albumi:
AVANTASIA – Metal Opera Part 2
BLIND GUARDIAN – A Night At The Opera
ENGINE – Superholic
IRON MAIDEN – Eddie's Archive
PAIN OF SALVATION – Remedy Lane
PARADISE LOST – Symbol Of Life
PROSPECT – Moments
SYMPHORCE – PhorcefulAhead
TAD MOROSE – Matters Of The Dark
TERROR 2000 – Faster Disaster

Koncerti:
BRUCE DICKINSON, SAVATAGE – Wacken
SAXON, CANDLEMASS – Bang Your Head
BLIND GUARDIAN – Dunaj
SOUTHERN STORM – Ljubljana

Matija:

Albumi:
HYPOCRISY – Catch 22
GIRLSCHOOL – Not That Innocent
AMON AMARTH – Versus The World
PAIN – Nothing Remains The Same
DORO – Fight
THE CROWN – Crowned In Terror
KATAKLYSM – Shadows And Dust
TIAMAT – Judas Christ
W.A.S.P. – Dying For The World
DREAM EVIL – Dragonslayer

Koncerti:
ALICE COOPER – Munchen
JUDAS PRIEST – Graz
DIO – Graz
KREATOR – Wacken
SAXON – Bang Your Head
UNLEASHED – Wacken

Peter:

Albumi:
DREAM EVIL – Dragonslayer
GRAVE DIGGER – Tunes Of Wacken
KING DIAMOND – Abigail II – The Revenge
REBELLION – Shakespeare's Macbeth
SARCASM – Igra Narave
SCANNER – Scantropolis
SINERGY – Suicide By My Side
STORMWITCH – Dance With The Witches
WARLORD – Rising Out Of The Ashes
W.A.S.P. – Dying For The World

Koncerti:
SOUTHERN STORM – Ljubljana
BLIND GUARDIAN – Dunaj

Znana je track lista Candlemass koncertnega albuma Doomed For Live – Reunion 2002, ki izide 20. januarja: CD 1:Mirror Mirror, Bewitched, Dark Are The Veils Of Death, Demons Gate, Under The Oak, At The Gallows End, Samarithan, Dark Reflections, Mourners Lament , Black Stone Wielder, CD: 2: Well Of Souls, A Sorcerers Pledge, Bearer Of Pain, Ancient Dreams, Somewhere In Nowhere, Solitude, Crystal Ball. /M.P./

Candlemass so prestavili izid DVDja Candlemass Documents Of Doom na 2. december. /M.P./