Znana je track lista novega Morifade albuma Domi<>nation, ki izide 1. septembra pri Hammerheart Records: Parallels, A Silent Revolution, The Second Coming, Words I Never Speak, Clarity (Fragments of a Dream), Panopticon, The Rising, Erase, Memorys End, Lost Within A Shade. /M.P./

Queensryche so na prvem koncertu evropske turneje, ki je potekal 4.junija v Amsterdamu, prvič odigrali dve novi pesmi, Open in Desert Dance. Poleg teh so odigrali še naslednje pesmi: Screaming In Digital, I Remember Now, Anarchy-X, Revolution Calling, Speak, Spreading The Disease, The Mission (z Electric Requiem), The Needle Lies, Eyes Of A Stranger, Best I Can, Jet City Woman, Empire, Silent Lucidity, I Am I, Damaged, My Global Mind, Hit The Black, Save, Breakdown, Sacred Ground, Right Side Of My Mind, NM156. /M.P./

Watchtower kitarist Ron Jarzombek bo 10. decembra izdal solo album Solitarily Speaking Of Theoretical Confinement. Glede novega Watchtower albuma Mathematics pravi, da napreduje zelo, zelo počasi. /M.P./

Pri EMI Records bo januarja 2003 izšel še ena Queensryche kompilacija Classic Masters: Queensryche. Vse pesmi naj bi bile digitalno remastirane: Queen of the Reich, Warning, The Killing Words, Speak, I Don't Believe in Love, Anybody Listening?, Another Rainy Night, Silent Lucidity, I am I, Bridge, The Voice Inside, Sign of the Times. /M.P./

Nemški power metalci Symphorce, katerega člana sta tudi Brainstorm pevec Andy B. Franck in Freedom Call kitarist Cede Dupont, so končali s snemanjem svojega tretjega albuma phorcefulAhead, ki izide 18. Novembra pri Metal Blade. Track lista albuma je naslednja: Speak My Mind, Unbroken, Slow Down, Longing Home, Moving In Circles, Falling Through Again, Your Blood, my Soul, Rage of Violence, Touched And Infected, Nothin' Left. Limited edition verzija bo vsebovala tri bonus pesmi. /M.P./

25. marca bodo nemški heavy metalci Rebellion izdali svoj prvenec z naslovom Shakespeare's Macbeth - A Tragedy In Steel. Naj vas ponovno spomnimo, da je to band bivših Grave Digger članov Uwe Lulisa in Tomija Göttlicha. Na albumu bodo naslednji komadi: Introduction, Disdaining Fortune, The Prophecy, Husbandry In Heaven, The Dead Arise, Evil Speaks, Letters Of Blood, Revenge, Claws Of Madness, Demons Rising, Die With Harness On Your Black. /M.P./

Aprila bo izšla kompilacija z naslovom United – Singing To The World, ki bo posvečena žrtvam terorističnega napada na New York. Liege Lord kitarist Paul Nelson bo za kompilacijo prispeval priredbo Queensryche klasike Speak. Ostali sodelujoči na kompilacijo so: Tesla, Eric Zimnmerman and Friends (Mike Matijevic, Kelly Keeling, Carmine Appice, Mark Boals, Fiona), House Of Lords, Nightranger, Oliver/Dawson Saxon, King Kobra feat. CC Deville (Poison), Pat Travers Pamme, Steve Lukather (Toto), Robin McCauley (MSG), Paul Gilbert, Irene Cara, Vanilla Fudge, Bonnie Tyler in še mnogi drugi. /M.P./

Znana je track lista novega Soilwork albuma Natural Born Chaos, ki izide marca: Follow The Hollow, As We Speak, The Flameout, Natural Born Chaos, Mindfields, The Bringer, Black Star Deciever, Mercury Shadow (po vsej verjetnosti bonus komad na japonski verziji), No More Angels in Soilworker’s Song Of The Damned. /M.P./

S.O.D. bodo 25. septembra izdali DVD z naslovom Speak English Or Die, na katerem bodo posnetki z nekaga koncerta v Nemčiji, komentarji Scotta Iana ter Billy Milana in dogajanje v zakulisju. /M.P./