2001: The Year In Metal     Other Features Cult of Luna Voivod: Part 2 Voivod: Part 1 Rapture Dillinger Escape Plan Nuclear Assault Agoraphobic Nosebleed The Year In Metal God Forbid Symphony X Impaled God Dethroned Dead to Fall Agalloch Isis Kreator Shadows Fall Megaforce Records Vehemence Dream Evil Into Eternity Slayer Nocturnal Rites Without Face Teen Cthulhu Mastodon Kittie Engine Angra Tapping The Vein Misery Index High On Fire Manowar December Wolves Primal Fear The Crown Decapitated Therion Metal Meltdown IV Metal/Hardcore Fest 2002 Testament Arch Enemy Blind Guardian Down Green Carnation Century Media Records Entombed Evergrey Judas Priest Borknagar My Dying Bride The Year In Metal NY Steel King's X Metal Blade Records Neurosis Biohazard Wayne Mortiis Crematory Angel Dust Maudlin of the Well Cadaver Inc. Onward Megadeth Devin Townsend Em Sinfonia Thrash of the Titans Steel Prophet Dust To Dust Krisiun Meshuggah Absu Puya Candiria Relapse Records Katatonia Six Feet Under Vio-Lence Tesla Evoken Metal/Hardcore Fest 2001 W.A.S.P. Metal Meltdown III Lacuna Coil Pain of Salvation Gorguts Opeth Soilwork Celtic Frost God Dethroned Nonpoint Morbid Angel Nile Ayreon Children Of Bodom Annihilator Jeff Wagner Immolation Novembers Doom Cradle Of Filth Yngwie Malmsteen Lamb Of God Metal Boards Dying Fetus The Haunted Hammerfall COC Enslaved Garden of Shadows Doro Zakk Wylde Halford Milwaukee Metalfest Dark Tranquillity Sentenced Destruction King Diamond Savatage Immortal Shadows Fall Deceased Dan Swano March Metal Meltdown Metal/Hardcore Fest 2000 Armored Saint Anthrax Slipknot Vital Remains Sebastian Bach In Flames Kovenant Sevendust Mercyful Fate Dimmu Borgir Milwaukee Metalfest Soilent Green Testament Crisis S.O.D. Metal/Hardcore Festival Skinlab Iced Earth Amorphis Hypocrisy Overkill Grip Inc. Nevermore Flotsam and Jetsam TOP NEWS Jason Newsted leaves Metallica Jason Netherton leaves Dying Fetus Sanctuary Records Group acquires Noise Records Testament announces that Alex Skolnik will reunite with Testament to re-record old classics KEY RELEASES 1/08 - Iron Savior - The Dark Assault 1/08 - Evoken - Quietus 1/15 - Primal Fear - Nuclear Fire 1/16 - Electric Wizard - Dopethrone 1/22 - Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper 1/23 - Annihilator - Carnival Diablos 1/23 - Abscess - Tormented 1/23 - Onward - Evermoving 1/23 - Earth Crisis - Last Of The Sane 1/23 - Skyclad - Folkemon 1/29 - Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories 1/30 - Deceased - Up The Tombstones 1/30 - Malevolent Creation - Eternal 1/30 - Warhorse - As Heaven Turns To Ash. . . HOT FEATURE JEFF WAGNER of Metal Maniacs http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewwagner.html TOP NEWS Peter Criss leaves Kiss Phil Anselmo (Pantera) and Killjoy (Necrophagia) join forces to form the Baphomet / Housecore label Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Papa Roach, Linkin Park and Disturbed are confirmed as mainstage headliners for Ozzfest 2001 Megadeth announces that they will be featured on VH1's 'Behind the Music' The Deftones, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica and Creed win grammies -nominees Iron Maiden, Pantera and Slipknot do not Fear Factory's 'Obsolete' goes gold in the U.S. McFarlane Toys announces that they will make Metallica action figures KEY RELEASES 2/05 - Zyklon - World Ov Worms 2/05 - God Dethroned - Ravenous 2/06 - Nightwish - Wishmaster 2/06 - King Diamond - 20 Years Ago: A Night Of Rehearsal 2/19 - Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait 2/19 - My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans 2/19 - Cathedral - Endtyme 2/20 - And Oceans - Allotropic / Metamorphic Genesis Of Dimorphism 2/27 - Diecast - Day Of Reckoning HOT FEATURE MORBID ANGEL http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewmorbid.html TOP NEWS Chuck Billy is diagnosed with cancer Zak Stevens and Al Pitrelli are replaced by Damond Jiniya and Jack Frost in Savatage Arch Enemy announces that its new vocalist will be a woman named Angela Gossgow Pantera announces it will headline a multi-band summer festival featuring Slayer and Static X Original Sabbat members announce that they will reunite to perform as Return To The Sabbat Black Sabbath announces it will record a new studio album with Rick Rubin; plans are later scrapped Kai Hansen leaves Iron Savior Stuck Mojo goes into haitus Unleashed reforms Liz Ciavarella replaces Jeff Wagner as co-editor at Metal Maniacs Chief Spires leaves Nile Incantation's Mike Saez is stabbed in the arm while breaking up a fight Living Colour reunites for a string of live dates Candlelight Records opens a North American office KEY RELEASES 3/06 - Catastrophic - The Cleansing 3/06 - Destiny's End - Transition 3/06 - Gorguts - From Wisdom To Hate 3/06 - Darkane - Insanity 3/12 - Extreme Noise Terror - Being And Nothing 3/12 - Marduk - La Grande Danse Macabre 3/12 - Skyfire - Timeless Departure 3/13 - Roachpowder - Atomic Church 3/13 - Opeth - Blackwater Park 3/13 - Clutch - Pure Rock Fury 3/20 - Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia 3/20 - Sepultura - Nation 3/20 - Skinless - Foreshadowing Our Demise 3/20 - Threshold - Hypothetical HOT FEATURE CELTIC FROST http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewfrost.html TOP NEWS Joey Ramone dies at 49 Reed Mullin leaves C.O.C. Steve Tucker leaves Morbid Angel Martin Walkyier announces he will leave Skyclad guitarist Sparky Voyles and drummer Kevin Talley leave Dying Fetus drummer David Germain leaves Shadows Fall lead screamer Dimitri Minakakis leaves the Dillinger Escape Plan Crematory announces that they will be calling it quits David Wayne reforms Reverend Helstar announces that they will reunite for Germany's Bang Your Head Festival Jani Lehtosaari and Alexi Laiho are replaced by Teemu Raimoranta on lead guitar and Mikael Arnkil on bass in Impaled Nazarene Century Media acquires the rights to past and future releases from Swedish labels Black Sun Records and War Music Dynamo Open Air 2001 is cancelled due to fear of the spread of Hoof and Mouth Disease Opeth and Amorphis headline Metal Meltdown III in New Jersey Cannibal Corpse and Dimmu Borgir headline New England Metal and Hardcore Festival in Massachusetts Exhumed headlines Ohio Death Fest KEY RELEASES 4/03 - Amorphis - Am Universum 4/03 - Savatage - Poets & Madman 4/03 - W.A.S.P. - Unholy Terror 4/17 - Circle Of Dead Children - The Genocide Machine 4/17 - God Forbid - Determination 4/23 - Absu - Tara 4/24 - Fear Factory - Digimortal 4/24 - The Reign Of Terror - Sacred Ground 4/30 - Kamelot - Karma 4/30 - Hades - DamNation HOT FEATURE W.A.S.P. http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewwasp.html TOP NEWS Hammerheart America announces auction to benefit Death vocalist/guitarist Chuck Shuldiner, who is battling a brain tumor Relapse Records opens a retail outlet in Philadelphia Dream Theater's 'Metropolis 2000: Scenes From New York' home video enters the Billboard charts at # 5 bassist / vocalist Eric Forrest leaves Voivod Earth Crisis breaks up Agent Steel changes its name to Order of the Illuminati guitarist Leo Curley leaves Biohazard bassist Steve DiGiorgio is ousted from Iced Earth Megadeth's 'The World Needs a Hero' debuts at # 16 on the Billboard charts Tool's 'Lateralus' debuts at # 1 on the Billboard charts guitarist Sami Yli-Sirniö replaces Tommy Vetterli in Kreator Pungent Stench anounces that they are working on a new album KEY RELEASES 5/01 - Susperia - Predominance 5/01 - Candiria - 300 Percent Density 5/02 - Sceptic - Pathetic Being 5/07 - Arkhon Infaustus - Hell Injection 5/08 - Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down 5/08 - Mushroomhead - X X 5/08 - Emperor - Emperial Live Ceremony 5/08 - Circle Of Dead Children - The Genocide Machine 5/08 - Adagio - Sanctus Syngis 5/08 - Amon Amarth - The Crusher 5/08 - Falconer 5/15 - Megadeth - The World Needs A Hero 5/15 - Bal Sagoth - Atlantis Ascendant 5/15 - Steel Prophet - Book Of The Dead 5/15 - Tool - Lateralus 5/22 - Flotsam and Jetsam - My God 5/22 - Staind - Break The Cycle 5/29 - Cadaver Inc. - Discipline 5/29 - Spirit Caravan - Elusive Truth HOT FEATURE EVOKEN http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewevoken.html TOP NEWS Cradle of Filth sign to Sony Music Sparky Voyles and Kevin Talley formerly of Dying Fetus join M.O.D. Staind's 'Break the Cycle' debuts at # 1 on the Billboard charts Static-X's 'Machine' debuts at # 11 on the Billboard charts King Fowley announces he will be stepping down from the drum riser to concentrate on full-time vocals for Deceased Chris Holmes leaves W.A.S.P. Utraspank breaks up Mike DiSalvo announces he will leave Cryptopsy Island/Def Jam Records acquires Columbia's 50% stake in American Recordings guitarist Ritchie Wilkinson replaces Bernd Aufermann in Angel Dust Candleight Records secures the rights to release material from Nocturnal Art Productions Hatebreed drummer Rigg Ross is let go Hades, Exciter and Deceased headline Classic Metal Fest in Michigan KEY RELEASES 6/12 - Averse Sefira - Battle's Clarion 6/12 - Angel Dust - Border Of Reality 6/12 - Impious - Terror Succeeds 6/12 - Deride - Scars Of Time 6/12 - Lost Horizon - Awakening The World 6/12 - Puya - Union 6/19 - Dry Kill Logic - The Darker Side Of Nonsense 6/19 - Hatebreed - Satisfaction 6/19 - Alas - Absolute Purity 6/25 - Nightwish - Over The Hills And Far Away 6/25 - To/Die/For - Epilogue 6/25 - Iced Earth - Horror Show 6/26 - Krisiun - Black Force Domain HOT FEATURE SIX FEET UNDER http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewsfu.html TOP NEWS Sepultura split with Roadrunner bassist Robin Graves leaves Cradle Of Filth bassist David Pybus leaves Anathema and joins Cradle Of Filth on tour Puya's 'Union' debuts at # 10 on Billboard's "Latin 50" chart James Hetfield enters rehab Ozzy is accepted into Hollywood's "Walk of Fame" Judas Priest issue a statement distancing themselves from 'Rock Star' Baphomet / Housecore enlists Relapse Records to handle marketing and distribution bassist Gustaf Hielm leaves Meshuggah Trouble rumored to be working on material for a new album KEY RELEASES 7/02 - Amen - We Have Come For Your Parents 7/03 - Cradle Of Filth - Bitter Suites To Succubi 7/10 - Jacobs Dream - Theater of War 7/10 - Avantasia - The Metal Opera 7/10 - Fantômas - The Directors Cut 7/16 - Judas Priest - Demolition 7/17 - Dragonlord - Rapture 7/21 - Maudlin of the Well - Bath 7/21 - Maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map 7/23 - Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape 7/24 - Armored Saint - Nod To The Old School 7/24 - Entwine - Gone 7/24 - Crematory - Remind 7/24 - Dust To Dust 7/24 - Psychotogen - Perverse and Unnatural Practices 7/24 - Deceased - Behind The Mourner's Veil HOT FEATURE MESHUGGAH http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewmesh.html TOP NEWS Erik A.K. leaves Flotsam and Jetsam but may participate in future recordings Roland Grapow and Uli Kusch leave Helloween Island / Def Jam purchase close to 50% of Roadrunner along with the option to buy out the label completely in the future Megadeth announce that the fans will get to select the setlist for each date of its U.S. tour Fallon Bowman leaves Kittie Killer Dwarfs reform Necropolis Records quells rumors that it has gone out of business bassist Val lum leaves Pist.On Man's Ruin Records closes its doors 27,500 metalheads attend the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany - Saxon and Motorhead headline Anthrax, S.O.D., Legacy, Heathen, Vio-Lence, Forbidden Evil, Death Angel, Exodus, Flotsam and Jetsam and Sadus play Chuck Billy's Thrash of the Titans benefit in San Francisco Slayer and Pantera headline Beast Feast in Japan Neurosis headlines Beyond the Pale in San Francisco Zyklon, Primal Fear and Soilwork headline Milwaukee Metalfest XIV Biohazard, Misfits and Overkill headline WSOU tribute in New Jersey Helstar, Jacob's Dream and Manilla Road headline Powermad Festival in Maryland KEY RELEASES 8/07 - Wayne - Metal Church 8/07 - Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets 8/07 - Six Feet Under - True Carnage 8/07 - Rebaelliun - Annihilation 8/07 - Jag Panzer - Mechanized Warfare 8/07 - Krisiun - Ageless Venomous 8/16 - Devin Townsend - Terria 8/21 - Diabolical Masquerade - Death's Design 8/21 - Kalmah - Swamplord 8/27 - The Project Hate - When We Are Done, Your Flesh Will Be Ours 8/27 - Destruction - The Antichrist 8/28 - Deed Of Flesh - Trading Pieces 8/28 - Slipknot - Iowa HOT FEATURE KRISIUN http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewkrisiun.html TOP NEWS James Murphy (Death, Testament, Disincarnate, etc.) is diagnosed with a brain tumor Snake rejoins Voivod - Jason Newstead is confirmed to be playing bass on the next record Mark Cross leaves Metalium to join Helloween Judas Priest postpones U.S. tour in wake of terrorist attack Cradle of Filth turns down opportunity to open for Ozzy to work on new record After 15 years of metal, WSOU announces format change for 2002 Anders Bjsrler leaves The Haunted Dillinger Escape Plan announce that Mike Patton will contribute vocals to forthcoming EP Jacques Belanger leaves Exciter Dream Theater release 'Live Scenes From New York' album with burning Twin Towers on cover on September 11 System of a Down's 'Toxicity' debuts at # 1 on the Billboard chart Slayer's 'God Hate Us All' debuts at #28 on the Billboard chart KEY RELEASES 9/03 - Entombed - Morning Star 9/03 - Kataklysm - Epic (The Poetry of War) 9/04 - System of a Down - Toxicity 9/04 - Converge - Jane Doe 9/10 - Gamma Ray - No World Order 9/11 - Akercocke - The Goat of Mendes 9/11 - Dream Theater - Live Scenes From New York 9/11 - The Thought Industry - Short Wave On A Cold Day 9/11 - Biohazard - Uncivilization 9/11 - Slayer - God Hates Us All 9/18 - Soilent Green - A Deleted Symphony For The Beaten Down 9/18 - Finntroll - Jakens Tid 9/24 - Saxon - Killing Ground 9/24 - Therion - Secret Of The Ruins 9/25 - Kreator - Violent Revolution 9/25 - King's X - Manic Moonlight HOT FEATURE DEVIN TOWNSEND http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewdevin.html TOP NEWS a Dying Fetus reunion takes place when guitarist Sparky Voyles (g) joins former bandmates Kevin Talley (d) and Jason Netherton (b/v) in Misery Index McFarlane Toys announces that it will unleash an Eddie action figure based on the Iron Maiden mascot Maniac declares that he is leaving Mayhem, he later changes his mind bassist Sami Vänskä has been replaced by Marco Hietala (Tarot, Sinergy) in Nightwish drummer drummer Bob Beaulac leaves Skinless Ozzy's 'Down To Earth' debuts at #4 on the Billboard charts KEY RELEASES 10/02 - Scar Culture - Inscribe 10/02 - Ebony Tears - Evil As Hell 10/02 - Machine Head - Supercharger 10/06 - Witchery - Symphony For The Devil 10/08 - Bathory - Destroyer Of Worlds 10/08 - Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise 10/09 - Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit 10/09 - Alice Cooper - Dragontown 10/16 - Ozzy Osbourne - Down To Earth 10/16 - Alchemist - Organasm 10/22 - Borknagar - Empiricism 10/22 - Carnal Forge - Please. . . Die! 10/23 - Deicide - In Torment In Hell 10/23 - Scissorfight - Mantrapping For Sport And Profit 10/23 - Godflesh - Hymns 10/23 - Sodom - M-16 10/23 - Testament - First Strike Still Deadly 10/29 - Death - Live In Eindhoven 10/29 - Anorexia Nervosa - New Obscurantis Order 10/29 - My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours 10/30 - Khanate 10/30 - Solefald - Pills Against The Ageless Ills HOT FEATURE CREMATORY http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewcrematory.html TOP NEWS bassist / vocalist Steve Tucker leaves Morbid Angel drummer Marc Reign replaces Sven Vormann in Destruction Paul Fig leaves Amen and is replaced by Rich Jones (The Black Halos) Kashshaptu joins Absu In Flames are tapped to support Slipknot on the second leg of Slipknot's U.S. tour - the tour is later canceled with hopes to make up the dates in Spring 2002 Sven Karlsson leaves Evergrey Hammerfall go gold in Sweeden for 'Renegade' sales of over 40,000 Anthrax change web site name to anthraxtheband.com in the wake of U.S. anthrax scare Leon Del Muerte leaves Impaled Brant Bjork leaves Fu Manchu Ozzy Osbourne's 'Down to Earth' is certified gold in the U.S. Angra's 'Rebirth' is certified gold in Brazil Symphony X and Evergrey headline ProgPower fest in Atlanta KEY RELEASES 11/05 - Agathodaimon - Chapter III 11/05 - Sinister - Hate / Bastard Saints 11/06 - Gwar - Violence Has Arrived 11/06 - Apocalyptica - Cult 11/13 - Kittie - Oracle 11/13 - Angra - Rebirth 11/13 - Impaled Nazarene - Absence Of War Doesn't Mean Peace 11/13 - Sevendust - Animosity 11/19 - Enslaved - Monumension 11/19 - Mork Gryning - Maelstrom Chaos 11/20 - Sleepless - Winds Blow Higher 11/26 - Monstrosity - Enslaving The Masses 11/27 - Bolt Thrower - Honour - Valour - Pride HOT FEATURE BIOHAZARD http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewbio.html TOP NEWS Chuck Schuldiner loses his battle with cancer Down works on their long-awaited sophomore effort Coalesce reunites Diecast's "Singled Out" is incorporated for use in 'Ultimate Fighting Championship' video game for Playstation 2 Crisis change name to Skullsick Nation bassist Alessandro Lotta has been replaced by Patrice Guers in Rhapsody Noise US returns to its parent company, Sanctuary Records Group, after completing a three-year marketing and distribution agreement with Century Media KEY RELEASES 12/04 - Penance - Alpha & Omega 12/11 - Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence 12/17 - Slave To The System 12/19 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Concerto Suite Live w/ Japan Philharmonic HOT FEATURE BRIAN SLAGEL of Metal Blade Records http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewmetalblade.html CREDITS Compiled by: Eric [ eric@metalupdate.com ] & Brant [ editor@metalupdate.com ] Webmaster: WAR [ war@metalupdate.com ] back to top

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