The new album from singer Rob Rock will be released under the moniker Rob Rock's Rage Of Creation and will be entitled Eyes Of Eternity. The release of the album produced by Roy Z is set for May 26th. Besides Rob and Roy Z (who played some guitar and bass parts), the songs have been recorded with Butch Carlson on drums, Rick Renstrom on guitar as well as Mistheria on keyboards and Ray Burke on bass. Besides them some top class guitar players can be heard on a twelve minute epic song.

Congratulations to Further Seems Forever!  Their new CD How To Start A Fire debuted at #1 on the Billboard Heatseakers chart!

The Blamed are heading in the studio in April to record their follow-up to Give Us Barabbas.  This new record will be out sometime in the fall. As lead singer Matt Switaj is no longer in the band, lots of changes are expected.

Dead Poetic has their video for August Winterman added to MTV2. They need your help in the form of requests and you can do that here.

The Juliana Theory saw their Love album debut on #71 on the Billboard Top 100 Album chart.

Extol has decided to change the title to their next album. Instead of Idiosyncratic Synergy, it will be called Synergy. The album will feature guest appearances from Maria Solheim, Samuel Durling of Mental Destruction and guitarist Tore Moren. Some of the song titles are: Metamorphosis, Psychopath, Blood Red Cover and Thrash Synergy.

DOT Music have several artists available to book for the spring/summer period of 2003. Rock band Kite costs approximately € 600 plus travel, lodging, food and production costs. Metal band Narnia is also available for booking. DOT Music also opened a website for Scandinavian music scene (Christian) called Musikguiden.

Friday February 14th 2003

The release date for the new Ken Tamplin album is delayed to April 22nd. Wake The Nations features guest appearances of Marty Friedman, Doug Aldridge, Kee Marcello, Jeff Scott Soto, Scott Van Zen, Reb Beach, Glen Sobel and many more.

Jamie Rowe formed a new band called London Calling. You can download material from their website. Jamie Rowe also signed a solo agreement with Vida Music to record a Spanish language CD.

Spiritfall added a new song from their EP to their MP3.com site. The track is called Without Words.

The Sound, one of the tracks on the new Further Seems Forever album, made it to #1 on the MP3.com download charts.

Speaking of MP3.com, Sorrowstorm saw their song Cursed Fires Of Gehenna climb the black metal charts. This song is part of a three song EP this band from Panama will release in the spring time. The CD is entitled Funeral Oath.

Blindside is doing well. Their latest record Silence was released in August last year and before the year was over, more than 100,000 units were sold. Tours with The Juliana Theory, Project 86, Hoobastank and Disturbed were added to their successes. The guys are currently on tour with Papa Roach.

The Dutch punk rock band Sacred Life will have a song on the Planet Heartbreak compilation. This disc will contain about 25 emo/pop/punk tunes from bands as Cassidy, Five Years Later, DNA, Jynx, NIRC and many others. Planet Heartbreak will be released in December 2003 through Stuck In A Day Records.

Bushbaby will release a new single called Tinsel Town. This will be packaged along with two B-sides including their previous single Skinny.

Friday February 7th 2003

Jacks Of All Trades is still working on a new album. In case you didn't know, their singer J-Blast left the band last year to finish his study and give more time to his family. There's no news as to his replacement.

Tim Gaines, bassist of Stryper, announced the title for the Stryper best of album. It will be called Seven. This disc will be in celebration of the band's 20th anniversary. At this point they are talking about the possibility of some touring this summer in support of the CD.

Here's an update from Bloodgood. The band released its first DVD December last year. Title is Rock Theatre and it features the previously released videos Alive In America and Shakin' The World. There are also ideas about releasing the Metal Missionaries demo on CD, possibly with other early Bloodgood material. If you think that should happen, you can give voice to your opinion here.

Extol has completed the recording of their next album, Idiosyncratic Synergy. The CD is expected to come out in late May through Century Media. According to the band Idiosyncratic Synergy is their most technical and best sounding album to date.

The Swedish death metal band Pantokrator has finished their debut album Blod. It will be released on the Bob Fest in March, through Rivel Records.

Deep Insight from Finland will be touring in Europe in May to support their next album. This disc will come out on May 2nd through Fullsteam Records. Their music has been described as emotional rock. Currently they are looking for people interested in setting up a show.

Torman Maxt are still in the studio recording their next CD which is a rock opera entitled The Problem Of Pain.

Facedown Records signed a new band: Symphony In Peril. This is the band fronted by Shawn Jonas who sang for Zao. Musically you can expect brutal, metallic hardcore. You can find two MP3's here. They will be appearing on the next Hot Topic sampler CD Facedown will be releasing. The album of Symphony In Peril will be out this fall.

Another band from Facedown Records, Falling Cycle, just recorded two new songs for an upcoming sampler CD.

Nodes Of Ranvier are in the studio recording their next album.

The Juliana Theory finally released their new record called Love. It features fourteen new songs including Do You Believe me, Congratulations and Jewel To Sparkle.

Disciple will be releasing their new CD on February 25th. This disc is called Back Again. The title track is also their first single and you can download this song from the band's MP3.com page. This is what guitarist Brad has to say about the new album: "For the first time since our album, What Was I Thinking, we have an album that we're proud of again. Not to take anything away from My Daddy, Sting and By God, but we didn't have the time to prepare nearly as much for those albums. When we prepared for What Was I Thinking we had two or three years to write the songs. Then we met Travis Wyrick (our producer) and he helped us mature with that album. Now with Back Again, it's the same thing. You can hear maturity in my guitar, Tim's drumming and Kevin's vocals and bass playing."

Threshold secretly gathered at Thin Ice Studios last month to record some acoustic songs. The results of the sessions will be released on a fan club album called Wireless - Acoustic Sessions in a couple of months. The selection of material spans the band's entire back-catalogue, including two previously unreleased songs written before Threshold signed their first recording contract. The album will also include video footage of the band in the studio.

On March 24th Tourniquet will release it's new album Where Moth And Rust Destroy. Here's what drummer Ted Kirkpatrick has to say about it: "In some ways it’d be really easy to just write a bunch of songs that sound like the last album; if they liked it the first time, why wouldn’t they like it again? We just can’t do that. We’ve never been a band that has been content to rehash our past work. We have always consciously tried to move ahead and cover new ground, musically and lyrically. In the process, we have created a body of work that showcases a lot of diversity. Fortunately, we have also developed a fan base that has come to expect nothing less from us."

The new album features guest appearance of Marty Friedman and Bruce Franklin who laid down all the lead guitar tracks.

Tourniquet will also release their first DVD this month. This DVD contains over 75 minutes from two concerts (Flevo Festival, August 17th 2001 & Live at the Kit Carson Amphitheater, Escondido, CA, June 29th 1991) plus the Ark Of Suffering video. The DVD is entitled Ocular Digital.

The Dutch rock band Beam has parted ways with record label NWR. The band is currently working on new plans including setting up their own label. Late February Beam hopes to enter the studio to record five new songs.

On February 10th Sally Forth Records will release the debut of The Lionheart Brothers called White Angel Black Apple.

Flįvio de Souza from the Metal Mission magazine sent the following news: The Brazilian band Trino is recording their new CD. It will be called Oposiēao. Expect the disc with eleven new tracks in April.