Pretty Maids so objavili track listo novega albuma Wake Up to the Real World, ki izide novembra pri Frontiers Records, s katerimi so pred kratkim podpisali podogbo za več albumov: Wake up to the real world, All in the Name of Love, I Am the End, As Guilty as You, Why Die for a Lie, Such a Rush, Where True Beauty Lies, Brave Young New Breed Terminal Violence, Perfect Strangers, Another Shot of Your Love. /M.P./

Pretty Maids trenutno pripravljajo nov studijski album, ki bo prvi z novim bobnarjem Allanom Tschicajo (ex- Royal Hunt, Kingdom Come). Še neimenovani izdelek bo izšel kasneje letos pri Frontiers Records. /M.P./

Quiet Riot in L.A. Guns so odpovedali sodelovanje na Bang Your Head festivalu. Namesto njih bodo nastopili Pretty Maids in Anvil. /M.P./

Pretty Maids so začeli pripravljati material za nov studijski album. Posneli naj bi ga spomladi, izid pa je napovedan za jesen. Zatem se bo band odpravil na evropsko turnejo. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: HELLOWEEN: Rabbit Don’t Come Easy, SINISTER: Savage Or Grace, PRETTY MAIDS: Alive At Least in BATTLELORE: Sword’s Song.

Na festivalu Earthshaker Fest, ki bo potekal od 25. Do 26. julija v Hirschadu (blizu Bamberga) v Nemčiji, bodo nastopili: Testament, Pretty Maids, Annihilator, Primal Fear, Justice, Freedom Call, Evidence One, Powergod, End Of Green. /A.J./

Znana je track lista koncertnega albuma Alive At Last danskih veteranov Pretty Maids: Sin Decade, Destination Paradise, Tortured Spirit, Wouldn't Miss You, Nightmare In The Neighbourhood, Natural High, Virtual Brutality, Queen Of Dreams, Cold Killer, Playing God, Snakes In Eden, Shelly The Maid, Live Until It Hurts, Future World, Red, Hot And Heavy. Album so snemali marca 2001 v Tokyu in Osaki ter aprila 2002 v Hamburgu in Bochumu. Izid je napovedan za 12. maj. /M.P./

Marca/aprila bodo koncertni album izdali Danci Pretty Maids. V pripravi je tudi izdaja DVDja, ki pa je napovedana za kasneje. /M.P./

20.januarja bodo pri Nuclear Blast izdali nov tribute album, tokrat v čast Thin Lizzy. Pod naslovom Emerald – A Tribute To The Wild One se “skrivajo” naslednje priredbe: SKYCLAD – Emerald, JOHN NORUM - Wild One, PRIMAL FEAR - Out in the Fields, ANTHRAX - Cowboy Song, SIX FEET UNDER – Jailbreak, SINNER - The Sun Goes Down, RUNNING WILD – Genocide, PRETTY MAIDS - Please Don't Leave Me, PEGAZUS – Warriors, GODGORY - This Is The One, MORDRED - Johnny The Fox, GARDENIAN - Gotta Give It Up, STEEL PROPHET – Massacre, THERION – Southbound in CHINCHILLA - The Boys Are Back In Town. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšli naslednji albumi: SARCASM: Igra Narave, IRON MAIDEN: Rock In Rio, U.D.O.: Man And Machine, DOWN: Down II, SOILWORK: Natural Born Chaos, GRAVE DIGGER: Tunes Of Wacken, ONWARD: Reawaken, PRETTY MAIDS: Planet Panic, ZAKK WYLDE'S BLACK LABEL SOCIETY: 1919 Eternal, VOMITORY: Blood Rapture, STYGMA IV: The Human Twilight, BLUDGEON: Crucify The Priest, REBELLION: A Tragedy In Steel - Shakespeare's Macbeth, DEAD SOUL TRIBE: Dead Soul Tribe, KAIPA: Notes From The Past, DIABOLICAL: A Thousand Deaths, RAM-ZET: Escape, GILBY CLARKE: Swag in CADAVERIA: The Shadows Madame.

25. marca bo izpel novi Pretty Maids album z naslovom Planet Panic. Na njem bo tudio priredba od Sammy Hagarja One Way To Rock. 8. Aprila začnejo z evropsko turnejo. /M.P./

Heathen in Candlemass (reunion koncert) sta novo potrjena banda za Wacken Open Air 2002. Naj vas spomnimo na vse do sedaj potrjene: Blind Guardian, Blaze, Children Of Bodom, Edguy, Kreator, Destruction, Doro, U.D.O., Hypocrisy, In Extremo, Falconer, Onkel Tom, Pretty Maids, Pungent Stench, Raven, Vicious Rumors, Wizard, Macabre, Hollenthon, Amon Amarth, Wolf, J.B.O., Dimple Minds, Green Carnation in Necrophobic. /M.P./

Novi potrjeni bandi za Wacken Open Air 2002 so Blaze, Children Of Bodom, Doro, Hypocrisy, Onkel Tom, Pretty Maids, Wolf in Green Carnation. /M.P./

Ta teden so izšle naslednje nove plošče: OVERKILL: Bloodletting, THE HAUNTED: Made Me Do It, MOLLY HATCHET: Kingdom Of XII, SONATA ARCTICA: Successor (EP), PRETTY MAIDS: Carpe Diem, SIX FEET UNDER: Graveyard Classics, SKYCLAD: Folkimon, TAD MOROSE: Undead, THE 69 EYES: Blessed Be, CARNAL FORGE: Firedemon, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY: Americas Volume Dealer, DIVINE EMPIRE: Dammed To Inherit, EYEHATEGOD: Confederacy Of Ruined Lives, GRIFFIN: Wasteland Serenades ter singel IRON MAIDEN: Out Of The Silent Planet