Metal News
- Dimebag Darrell claims Pantara's future is uncertain.
- Ozzfest Main Stage hosts Ozzy, Disturbed, Marylin Manson, Chevelle, KoRn, and The Datsuns (July 20-30.)
- Ozzfest Second Stage hosts Cradle Of Filth, Voivod, Unloco, Nothingface, Memento, Grade 8, Hot Wire, and more.
- Linkin Park, Godsmack, Marylin Manson, and Staind top Billboard Top 200.
- Sevendust hit studio to follow up "Animosity."
-Limp Bizkit/Linkin Park/Metallica/ Mudvayne/Deftones tour Summer Santiramiun Tour.
- Limp Bizkit delay new album till September 8.
- A Perfect Circle almost done new album,
- KoRn to premiere new songs on Ozz-Fest, release 10 song album after tour.
- New Dave Grohl side project Probot to relase album.
- P.O.D.'s Marcos Curiel leaves band.
- System Of A Down bassist directes new Taproot video "Mine."
- Adema doing a rock album to get away from metal. Songs will still have hard and hevy edge.
- KoRn win best Metal Preformance at Grammys beating Rob Zombie [Never Gonna Stop (Remix)], Stone Sour [Get Inside], Slipknot [My Plague], and P.O.D. [Portrait] with Here To Stay.
- Foo Fighter's "All My Life" beats P.O.D. [Youth Of The Nation], System Of A Down [Aerials], Godsmack [I Stand Alone], and Queens Of The Stone Age [No One Knows] in Best Hard Rock Preformance at Grammys.
- Metallica fill James Newstead hole with ex-Ozzy bassist.
-Jason Newstead joins Ozzy line up with Zakk Wylde, and joins Voivod.
	- Late Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley's final interview in book.
- Incubus. TRUSTcompany, Chevelle in studio.
- Rob Zombie plans to record again, and direct more movies.
- Audioslave, Incubus, Queens Of The Stone Age, Janes Addiction, and Jurrasic 5 choosen for Lollapalooza return.
- Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society to relase DVD "Boozed, Bruised, and Broken."
- New Metallica, Six Feet Under albums to include DVD's.
- Cold, The Deftones sell high on Billboard.