Engel so objavili video za skladbo Casket Closing. Video si lahko pogledate tukaj. /P.N./

Eluveitie, Negura Bunget in Casketgarden so novi potrjeni bandi za festival Kaltenbach Open Air. /P.G./

Na Švedskem so podelili nagrade Metal Awards. Nagrajenci v posameznih kategorijah so:
- Hard Rock - HARDCORE SUPERSTAR (Dreamin´ In A Casket)
- Death Metal - ARCH ENEMY (Rise Of The Tyrant)
- Heavy/Power Metal - SABATON (Metalizer)
- Glam/Sleaze - CRASHDIET (Unattractive Revolution)
- Punk/Hardcore - DIA PSALMA (Djupa Skogen)
- Metal - PAIN (Psalms Of Extinction)
- Alternative Metal - DARK TRANQUILLITY (Fiction)
- Newcomer - SONIC SYNDICATE
- Live Act - EUROPE
- Internantional Hard Rock - NIGHTWISH (Dark Passion Play)
- International Metal - MACHINE HEAD (The Blackening)
- International Live Act - W.A.S.P.
/P.G./

30. maja bo v Zagrebu Zagreb Metal Fest. Do sedaj potrjeni bandi so Amorphis, Sodom, Unleashed, Finntroll, Belphegor, Casketgarden in Usud. /M.P./

Tukaj si lahko pogledate nov The Bronx Casket Co. videospot z naslovom Little Dead Girl. /M.P./

Ameriški death metalci Vehemence so vokalista Seana Vandegrifta zamenjali z Adamom Codyjem (Glass Casket). /M.P./

Bronx Casket Company so posneli videospot za skladbo Little Dead Girl. /M.P./

The Bronx Casket Company bodo septembra izdali nov album, za katerega snemajo tudi videospot. Album je miksal Mike Romeo (Symnphony X). /M.P./

Chaosbreed bodo 26. aprila izdali prvenec Brutal. Track lista jenaslednja: Wretched Life, Casket Ride, Faces of Death, Moralized, Rotting Alive, Demon Skunk, Shitgrinder, Symptoms of the Flesh, F/C/D/C, An Evil Eye, Rotting Alive (Bonus Live-Clip), F/C/D/C (Bonus Live-Clip). /M.P./

Takšna je naslovnica Chaosbreed prvenca Brutal, ki izide aprila pri Century Media. Nov finski death metal band sestavljajo trenutni in bivši člani Amorphis, Moonsorrow, Mannhai, Sentenced in The Black League. Track lista albuma je: Wretched Life, Casket Ride, Faces Of Death, Moralized, Rotting Alive, Demon Skunk, Shitgrinder, Symptoms Of The Flesh, F/C/D/C, An Evil Eye. /M.P./

Floridski death metalci Monstrosity so končali z miksanjem novega albuma Rise To Power, ki izide 23. septembra pri Conquest Music Inc. Track lista je naslednja: The Exordium, Awaiting Armageddon, Wave Of Annihilation, The Fall Of Eden, Chemical Reaction, A Casket For The Soul, Rise To Power, Visions Of Violence, From Wrath To Ruin, Abysmal Gods, Shadow Of Obliteration. /M.P./

Ob 15. letnici obstoja ameriških death metalcev Cannibal Corpse bo založba Metal Blade 3. novembra izdala box set s tremi CDji in enim DVDjem naslovljen 15-Year Killing Spree. Track lista je naslednja: Disc One - Best of Volume 1 - Shredded Humans, Put them to Death, Born in a Casket, A Skull Full of Maggots, Gutted, Covered With Sores, Vomit the Soul, Hammer Smashed Face, Addicted to Vaginal Skin, The Cryptic Stench, Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead, Stripped, Raped and Strangled, The Pick-Axe Murders, The Bleeding, Zero the Hero;
Disc Two - Best of Volume 2 - Devoured by Vermin, Disfigured, Monolith, I Will Kill You, Sentenced to Burn, Gallery of Suicide, Dead Human Collection, The Spine Splitter, Pounded Into Dust, I Cum Blood- Live, Fucked With A Knife (live), Unleashing the Bloodthirsty (live), Meathook Sodomy (live), Savage Butchery, Pit of Zombies, Sanded Faceless, Systematic Elimination
Disc Three - Previously Unreleased Material - '89 Demo: A Skull Full of Maggots, The Undead Will Feast, Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains, Put Them to Death, Bloody Chunks; Created To Kill" Sessions: Unburied Horror, Mummified in Barbed Wire, Gallery of the Obscene, To Kill Myself, Bloodlands, Puncture Wound Massacre, Devoured by Vermin, "Gallery of Suicide" Demo: Chambers of Blood, Dismembered and Molested, Gallery of Suicide, Unite the Dead, Crushing the Despised, Headless, Cover Songs: Bethany Home (A Place to Die), Endless Pain, Behind Bars
Disc Four – DVD - 1st Live Cannibal Corpse Show 1989: Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains, The Undead Will Feast, Escape the Torment, Bloody Chunks, Enter at Your Own Risk, Put Them to Death, A Skull Full of Maggots, "Butchered at Birth" Studio Footage 1991 - Drum Sessions & Bass Guitar Overdub; CANNIBAL CORPSE Eats Moscow Alive 1993: Shredded Humans, The Cryptic Stench, Meathook Sodomy, Edible Autopsy, I Cum Blood, Gutted, Entrails Ripped From a Virgin's Cunt, Beyond the Cemetery, A Skull Full of Maggots, Live at The Palace in Hollywood, CA 2002 - From Skin to Liquid, Savage Butchery, Devoured by Vermin, Stripped, Raped and Strangled, Disposal of the Body, Pounded into Dust, Addicted to Vaginal Skin, Meathook Sodomy, Pit of Zombies, Hammer Smashed Face. /M.P./

Zaradi velikega zanimanja za nastop Iron Maiden je prvi dan letošnjega Summer Rocks 2003 Festivala prihodnjo sredo v Budimpešti prestavljen iz Petofi Hall Open Air, ki sprejme 6.000 ljudi, v Kisstadion, ki sprejme 15.000 glavo publiko. Poleg Iron Maiden prvi dan nastopajo še Stray, Wisdom in Demonlord. V četrtek nastopajo Anthrax, Nightwish, Children Of Bodom in Casketgarden. /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./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: DEATH: Live In L.A., AXXIS: Eyes Of Darkness, EVERGREY: In Search Of Truth, BURDEN OF GRIEF: On Darker Trails, BRONX CASKET CO.: Sweet Home Transylvania, DELIRIOUS: Designed By Violence, DRIVEN: Self Inflicted ter V.A.: Snakebites – A Tribute To Whitesnake.