5. novembra bodo Iron Maiden izdali box set Eddie’s Archive, v katerem bodo trije dvojni CD-ji in še nekaj zanimivosti. Za ogrevanje naj bodo track liste CD-jev dovolj: CD 1 - BBC Archive, Disc 1: Friday Rock Show Session 1979: Iron Maiden, Running Free, Transylvania, Sanctuary; Reading Festival 1982: Wrathchild, Run To The Hills, Children Of The Damned, The Number of The Beast, 22 Acacia Avenue, Transylvania, The Prisoner, Hallowed Be Thy Name, Phantom Of The Opera, Iron Maiden; Disc 2: Reading Festival 1980: Prowler, Remember Tomorrow, Killers, Running Free, Transylvania, Iron Maiden; Monsters Of Rock Festival Donington 1988: Moonchild, Wrathchild, Infinite Dreams, The Trooper, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, The Number Of The Beast, Hallowed Be Thy Name, Iron Maiden. CD2 - Beast Over Hammersmith: Disc 1: Murders In The Rue Morgue, Wrathchild, Run To The Hills, Children Of The Damned, The Number of The Beast, Another Life, Killers, 22 Acacia Avenue, Total Eclipse; Disc 2: Transylvania, The Prisoner, Hallowed Be Thy Name, Phantom Of The Opera, Iron Maiden, Sanctuary, Drifter, Running Free, Prowler. CD3 - Best Of The B'sides: Disc 1: Burning Ambition, Drifter (live), Invasion, Remember Tomorrow (live), I've Got The Fire, Cross-Eyed Mary, Rainbow's Gold, King Of Twilight, Reach Out, That Girl, Juanita, The Sheriff Of Huddersfield, Black Bart Blues, Prowler '88, Charlotte The Harlot '88; Disc 2: All In Your Mind, Kill Me Ce Soir, I'm a Mover, Communication Breakdown, Nodding Donkey Blues, Space Station No.5, I Can't See My Feelings, Roll Over Vic Vella, Justice of The Peace, Judgement Day, My Generation, Doctor Doctor, Blood On The Worlds Hands (live), The Aftermath (live), Futureal (live), Wasted Years '99 (live). /M.P./

Italijan Daniele Liverani pripravlja prvi del rock opere Genius, pri kateri bo sodelovalo veliko znanih glasbenikov: Mark Boals (ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, RING OF FIRE) kot "Genius", Lana Lane kot "Doorkeeper", Daniel Gildenlow (PAIN OF SALVATION) kot "TwinSpirit n. 32", Chris Boltendahl (GRAVE DIGGER) kot "Stationmaster", Joe Vana (MECCA) kot "King McChaos Consultant", Steve Walsh (KANSAS) kot "Wild Tribe King", John Wetton (ASIA) kot "McChaos King", Oliver Hartmann (AT VANCE) kot "Wild Tribe Consultant" in Midnight (ex-CRIMSON GLORY) as "Maindream". Album izide 23. oktobra. /M.P./

18. marca bo pri Nuclear Blast izšla kompilacija Death Is Just The Beginning – Classics. Na njem bodo naslednji komadi: 1. Amorphis - Black Winter Day, 2. Amorphis - Against Widows, 3. Benediction - The Grotesque, 4. Benediction - Ashen Epitaph, 5. Benediction - Down On Whores, 6. Dismember - Casket Garden, 7. Dismember - Dreaming In Red, 8. Dismember – Skinfather, 9. Gorefest – Freedom, 10. Gorefest – Erase, 11. Gorefest – Fear, 12. Hypocrisy - Pleasure Of Molestation, 13. Hypocrisy - Inferior Devoties, 14. Hypocrisy - Roswell 47, 15. Kataklysm - The Awakener, 16. Meshuggah - Terminal Illusions, 17. Meshuggah – Transfixion, 18. Mortification - Scrolls Of The Megilloth, 19. Mortification - Noah Was A Knower, 21. Pungent Stench - Viva la muerte, 22. Sinister – Leviathan, 23. Therion - A Black Rose, 24. Therion - The Beauty In Black. /M.P./

Tracklista novega Lock Up albuma Hate Breeds Suffering, ki izide 21. januarja: Feeding The Opiate, Castrate The Wreckage, Violent Reprisa ,Detestation, Retrogression, Slaughterous Way, Dead Sea Scoll... ,Hate Breeds Suffering, Catharsis, The Jesus Virus, Broken World, Horns Of Venus, High Tide In A Sea Of Food, Cascade Leviathan, Fake Somebody, The Sixth Extinction. /M.P./

Nova verzija igrice Gran Turismo za Sony Playstation 2 vsebuje tudi naslednje komade: Turbo Lover – Judas Priest, Kickstart My Heart – Mötley Crue ter She Sells Sanctuary – The Cult. /M.P./

Bivši Great White kitarist Mark Kendall ima sedaj nov band Train Station. /M.P./

Po 24 letih igranja pri Great White je kitarist Mark Kendall zapustil band in že ustanovil novega, Train Station, katerega člani so še: Todd Griffin (vokal), Robert Itule (bobni) in Frank Scemeka (bass). /M.P./

Ozzy`s Black Skies je naslov prve Ozzyjeve igrice za Sonyjev Play Station 2. To je akcijsko pustolovska igrica v domišljijskem svetu, ki je prav Ozzyjeva zamisel. V igri je polno raznih bitij, med njimi tudi Pytts, ki naj bi poosebljal samega Ozzyja. Ozzy je zanjo posnel tudi komad Black Skies. /M.P./