2000 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2000.

Newly formed bands

Reformed bands

Albums

January

Day Artist Album
11 Chimaira This Present Darkness (EP)
Kittie Spit
17 Sentenced Crimson
18 Cro-Mags Revenge
25 Primer 55 Introduction to Mayhem
31 Macabre Dahmer
Therion Deggial

February

Day Artist Album
1 Skillet Invincible
7 Gorgoroth Incipit Satan
Melvins The Crybaby
8 Bloodbath Breeding Death (EP)
Demons & Wizards Demons & Wizards
Soilwork The Chainheart Machine
21 Misanthrope Recueil d'Écueils: les Épaves et Autres Oeuvres Interdites (compilation)
28 AC/DC Stiff Upper Lip
Stratovarius Infinite
29 Rollins Band Get Some -> Go Again

March

Day Artist Album
6 Entombed Uprising
7 Alabama Thunderpussy Constellation
Armored Saint Revelation
Disturbed The Sickness
High on Fire The Art of Self Defense
Soulreaper Written in Blood
13 Old Man's Child Revelation 666 – The Curse of Damnation
14 Poison Crack a Smile... and More!
20 Vader Litany
21 Dio Magica
Morgana Lefay S.O.S
27 Immortal Damned in Black
Pantera Reinventing the Steel
Seven Witches City of Lost Souls

April

Day Artist Album
3 Isis Celestial
4 Shadows Fall Of One Blood
8 Heaven Shall Burn Asunder
10 One Minute Silence Buy Now... Saved Later
The Hives Veni Vidi Vicious
17 Borknagar Quintessence
Decapitated Winds of Creation
QueenAdreena Taxidermy
18 Black Label Society Stronger than Death
Nasum Human 2.0
The Chasm Procession to the Infraworld
24 After Forever Prison of Desire
25 Boysetsfire After the Eulogy
Destruction All Hell Breaks Loose
Papa Roach Infest
Racer X Technical Difficulties (Europe and US versions)
Saxon Burrn! Presents: The Best of Saxon (compilation)

May

Day Artist Album
8 Nightwish Wishmaster
9 Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
Incantation The Infernal Storm
Jag Panzer Thane to the Throne
13 Trail of Tears Profoundemonium
15 Motörhead We Are Motörhead
16 Orange Goblin The Big Black
22 Blaze Bayley Silicon Messiah
Raised Fist Ignoring the Guidelines
23 A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms
King's X Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous
Pitchshifter Deviant
29 Iron Maiden Brave New World
30 Ska-P Planeta Eskoria

June

Day Artist Album
6 Alice Cooper Brutal Planet
8 Cave In Jupiter
13 Poison Power to the People
20 Ayreon Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer
Ayreon Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator
Deftones White Pony
King Diamond House of God
Madball Hold It Down
The Sins of Thy Beloved Perpetual Desolation
21 Stratovarius 14 Diamonds (compilation)
25 Edguy The Savage Poetry (re-recording)
26 Devin Townsend Physicist (album)
Metalium State of Triumph – Chapter Two
27 Deicide Insineratehymn
30 The Haunted Made Me Do It

July

Day Artist Album
3 In Flames Clayman
4 Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage
Pig Destroyer Isis / Pig Destroyer (split EP)
Underoath Cries of the Past
7 Dark Tranquillity Haven
11 Mötley Crüe New Tattoo
Origin Origin
25 Fates Warning Disconnected
Sinergy To Hell and Back
26 Rob Rock Rage of Creation

August

Day Artist Album
8 Halford Resurrection
Scorpions Moment of Glory (compilation)
17 Pro-Pain Round 6
22 Mudvayne L.D. 50
28 Rotting Christ Khronos
29 Paul Di'Anno Nomad
Shuvel Set It Off

September

Day Artist Album
5 Nile Black Seeds of Vengeance
Nothingface Violence
12 At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
Type O Negative After Dark (live)
15 Suicidal Tendencies Free Your Soul and Save My Mind
19 Cannibal Corpse Live Cannibalism (live)
25 Electric Wizard Dopethrone[1]
26 Lamb of God New American Gospel
Soulfly Primitive

October

Day Artist Album
2 Apocalyptica Cult
Theatre of Tragedy Musique
3 Dying Fetus Destroy the Opposition
Enslaved Mardraum – Beyond the Within
9 HammerFall Renegade
10 Slash's Snakepit Ain't Life Grand
Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite
16 Virgin Steele The House of Atreus Act II
17 100 Demons In the Eyes of the Lord
Downset. Check Your People
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Morbid Angel Gateways to Annihilation
Nevermore Dead Heart in a Dead World
18 Tad Morose Undead
24 Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Misanthrope Misanthrope Immortel
Overkill Bloodletting
30 Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper
Cradle of Filth Midian
Helloween The Dark Ride
Rhapsody Dawn of Victory
31 Godsmack Awake
Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part I

November

Day Artist Album
7 Immolation Close to a World Below
Yngwie Malmsteen War to End All Wars
11 Marilyn Manson Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
Whispering Gallery Like a Dream of Never-ending Beauty... Love Never Dies
12 Monster Magnet God Says No
27 Behemoth Thelema.6
Rob Rock Rage of Creation (Non-Japanese releases)

December

Day Artist Album
5 Alice in Chains Live
Godflesh Messiah (EP)
Rage Against the Machine Renegades
6 Takenori Shimoyama Acoustic ~ Always Live On
9 Fading Starlight Lost
11 Crystal Eyes In Silence They March
12 Abdullah Abdullah
Ayreon Ayreonauts Only (compilation)
Melt-Banana Teeny Shiny
14 Walls of Jericho The Bound Feed the Gagged
15 Boris Flood
17 Gargoyle Future Drug
21 Svartsyn ...His Majesty
24 Onmyo-Za 百鬼繚乱
Within Temptation Mother Earth

Albums with unknown release dates

Month Artist Album
Unknown No-Big-Silence Successful, Bitch & Beautiful
Pig Destroyer 7" Picture Disc (EP)
Static-X The Death Trip Continues (EP)
Weakling Dead as Dreams

Singles (WIP)

January

Day Artist Single
11 Kittie Brackish
21 AC/DC Stiff Upper Lip

February

Day Artist Single
11 AC/DC Safe in New York City

April

Day Artist Single
29 Disturbed Stupify

June

Day Artist Single
2 Metallica I Disappear
5 Kittie Charlotte

August

Day Artist Single
29 Linkin Park One Step Closer

September

Day Artist Single
18 Melvins Spit It Out

October

Day Artist Single
29 Disturbed Down with the Sickness

November

Day Artist Single
29 Disturbed Voices

Singles with unknown release dates

Month Artist Single
January Poison Shut Up, Make Love
February Poison Be the One
Unknown Primer 55 Appetite for Destruction
Loose
Set It Off
Rollins Band Get Some Go Again
Illumination
Skillet Best Kept Secret
Come On to the Future
Invincible
Rest
Shout to the Lord
The One
You Take My Rights Away
You're Powerful
Your Name Is Holy
Stratovarius A Million Light Years Away / Celestial Dream
Hunting High and Low / Millennium

Disbandments

Events

Deaths

  • September 21 – Peter "Wildfire" Wittke, founding member and guitarist of Iron Angel, died from injuries sustained in a car crash.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Electric Wizard". Rise Above Records. Archived from the original on October 12, 2000. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  2. ^ "The BNR Metal Pages - Iron Angel". www.bnrmetal.com. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
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