December 21, 1999
- Above all, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and all the best in the New Year !
- Thanks for your support since the opening of this website. You have been numerous to write us, so keep doing it. Send us your feedback, your suggestions, anything you want...

- Added 2 new videos: One of Lacuna Coil and an interview of The Gathering.
- Updated the links page with 5 new links.
- No news from the bands... but we are waiting for the new album of The Gathering coming in January !
- Oops... there is one... Nightwish has released a new version of the Oceanborn album. It's a limited version released on the occasion of the European Tour. It contains 3 additional songs: Nightquest, A Return To The Sea and Sleeping Sun.

November 21, 1999
- A mirror site has been created. It happens (too often) that the current server (metal.citeweb.net) is too busy or crashed... Here is the address of the new site: http://www.multimania.com/metalgirls. The content is, of course, identical to this one...
- Added a new rubric: the awards...
- Updated the Pictures Gallery with 2 new misc pictures.
- Added 2 new interviews of Anneke Van Giesbergen: Hard N' Heavy - April 1999 and Hard Force - January 1999. In french only.
- Updated the links page with 3 new links.
- If you want it, you can know be informed of the update of this site. To do so, enter your E-Mail in the corresponding area at the bottom of the main page.

November 08, 1999
- Updated the links page with 3 new links.
- Updated the discography and the lyrics of Nightwish (added the Sleeping Sun album).
- Updated the music clips page. Now you can download the clips (ZIP files). You still need a Real Player G2 player to watch them.
- The Gathering's live album has been completed and will see the light of day January 10th. Superheat, will feature both older and new tracks (see previous News for tracks list), which will surely make their old and new fans quite happy. 9 tracks were recorded in the "Paradiso" in Amerstand April 16th, two of them in the "013 Tilburg", February 28th. All of them got mixed and recorded by Jan Schuurman. The record will include a bonus video track for Eleanor. The band is already working on material for their next album and hope to release something new by mid-year (source: Century Media Online Newsletter).
-Lacuna Coil has experienced some bad luck on their very successful tour with Lacrimosa. The band had to cancel the last three gigs due to bassist Marco Coti Zelati suffering from a broken rib. Now they're back in Milan, Italy to work on their mini album which is scheduled for spring 2000 (source: . Century Media Online Newsletter).

October 23, 1999
- Minor visual enhancement on all pages.
- Updated the links page with 1 new link and deleted broken links (we have to clean things from time to time).
- Updated the page of The Others Girls of Metal.
- Updated the discography and the lyrics of Dreams Of Sanity.
- The pre-release of Sleeping Sun from Nightwish in Germany has been sold to 13.000 copies.
- The title of the next live cd of The Gathering is Superheat, and will be released on January 10th 2000. The tracklist is as follows: The Big Sleep, On Most Surfaces [ Inuït ], Probably Built In The Fifties, Liberty Bell, Marooned, Rescue Me, Strange Machines, Nighttime Birds, My Electricity, Sand & Mercury and one bonus CDrom track.
- Hall Of Sermon has released a compilation-CD featuring the finest Gothic Metal female vocalists. The album title is Ladies, Queen & Sluts and contains the following bands: Dreams of Sanity, Within Temptation, The Sins Of Thy Beloved, Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, The Gallery, Lacrimosa, Artrosis, The Breath Of Life, Sanguis Et Cinis, Genitorturers, Rockbitch, Sinergy and The Gathering. This CD is a very good choice if you want to discover new bands.

September 20, 1999
- No significant updates on the site recently. We don't have much time... work, you know... But we are working on new interviews and a few other things. So keep in touch for new stuff soon !
- The Gathering
   - They will release their live-album (no new title yet!) on Century Media in January 2000.
   - The B-sides CD is postponed until futher notice.
   - Right now the bandmembers are writing new songs for the upcoming studio album. The band will start recording the new studio-album in February 2000, and release it around June 2000.
   - In October, the band will play a few shows in The Netherlands again. And the band is also working on a new tour to promote the live-album. (source: The Gathering Newsletter)
- Dreams of Sanity will release a new album on Hall of Sermon in January 2000. They were on tour in Austria during september (too late...). Tell us what you though of it, if you have seen them !
- Nightwish will start their European tour at 12. November. Here is the the giglist.
- Lacuna Coil will be on tour (as special guests) with Lacrimosa from September 26 until October 12 (in Europe). Go there for the tour dates.

August 17, 1999
- Updated the links page with 8 new links.
- Updated the page of The Others Girls of Metal. Thanks to Robert and Daniel !
- Updated the Pictures Gallery with 3 new misc pictures.
- The release of the live album of The Gathering has been delayed.
- Nightwish will soon release a new single: Ballads of the Eclipse.

August 5, 1999
- Updated the lyrics page of Lacuna Coil first disk. Thanks to Me(n)tal Nekkie.
- Added 2 new interviews: Metallian - January/February 1999 (Lacuna Coil) and Metallian - August/September 1997 (The Gathering).
- Happy holidays to everybody...

July 6, 1999
- Updated the Pictures Gallery with pics from the Dynamo Open Air festival 1999. Thanks to Daniel STILLING for his great pics !
- Updated the page of The Others Girls of Metal (added a list of bands name).
- Updated the links page with 1 new link.

July 2, 1999
- Updated the Multimedia page with new MP3 links and added a page dedicated to music clips.
- Added a page dedicated to the old news (the links is at the bottom of this page). We only keep the last 5 news.
- Added a window opening at the start of the main page. This window shows you the last update of this website. You can deactivate this by checking the box at the bottom of the window (you can reactivate this later on the main page). This process use cookies... Tell us what you think of it !

June 30, 1999
- Added pages on the lyrics of the 2 albums of Dreams of Sanity.
- And soon, more MP3 links and live video links (Real Video)... You'll have to wait a little more !

June 22, 1999
- Updated the lyrics page of Lacuna Coil first disk. Thanks to Cradle of Tragedy band.

June 14, 1999
- Added two new small MP3 files on the Multimedia page.
- Updated the links page with 3 new links.

June 7, 1999
- Updated the links page with 5 new links.

May 23, 1999
- Added a page about the members of Nightwish and a page about the members of Lacuna Coil.

May 17, 1999
- Last news from The Gathering. In the next year, we can expect three new cd's from the band; a live cd, a compilation of 'B-sides and rare tracks' and a brand new album.
The live album, which will probably be a double cd, will be released september 1999 and carries the tentative title: Don't Move Club Shows to Crappy Hangars.
The B-sides are scheduled for january 2000, and will feature some new songs as well. Maybe they'll be released separately earlier as well on an EP.
And, if then it's still not enough, the band are already working on their next studio album, which should be ready by spring 2000.
What a program !
- Added pages on the discography and the lyrics of Nightwish.

May 16, 1999
- Added two new bands: Dreams of Sanity and Nightwish. There is not many thing actually (even nothing for Nightwish), but the foundations have been laid...

May 10, 1999
- Added a page about the members of The Gathering. Help us to complete this new scetion !

May 04, 1999
- The english version of this site is now available ! Everything have been translated, except for the interviews (and we won't translate them). We hope there is not too much mistake. If you see anything wrong, email us. Click on the french flag (on the left) to goes back to the french version. Have a nice tour !

April 26, 1999
- Her it is, the Guest Book is available, so enjoy it !
- Updated the discography of The Gathering, with the mini-LP Liberty Bell.
- Added the "Main" button on every pages (quite boring)...