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
[edit]- 5ive
- A Perfect Murder
- Adagio
- Adema
- Alcest
- Alove for Enemies
- Angelus Apatrida
- Animosity
- The Answer
- Antigama
- Apostasy
- Arsis
- As I Lay Dying
- Beto Vázquez Infinity
- Between the Buried and Me
- Beyond the Embrace
- Blinded Colony (as Stigmata)
- Bucovina
- Byzantine
- Cannae
- Car Bomb
- Circus Maximus
- Crashdïet
- The Darkness
- Deadsoul Tribe
- Deathstars
- Debauchery
- Demon Hunter
- Desperados
- Disarmonia Mundi
- Forever Slave
- From Autumn to Ashes
- Full Blown Chaos
- Hammers of Misfortune
- Hatesphere
- Hurt
- Indukti
- Kiuas
- Machinae Supremacy
- Majesty
- Mar de Grises
- Mastodon
- Mgła
- Mirrorthrone
- Mystic Prophecy
- Nachtmystium
- Nightrage
- The Ocean
- Ondskapt
- Otep
- Pagan's Mind
- Pantheist
- Peste Noire
- Place of Skulls
- Planet X
- Poisonblack
- Shaaman
- Seventh Wonder
- Steel Panther
- Swallow the Sun
- Sylosis
- Thunderstone
- Ulcerate
- Ünloco
- The Vision Bleak
- Visions of Atlantis
- Warmen
- Witchcraft
Reformed bands
[edit]Albums
[edit]January
[edit]Day | Artist | Album |
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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
[edit]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
[edit]Day | Artist | Album |
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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
[edit]Day | Artist | Album |
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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
[edit]Day | Artist | Album |
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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
[edit]July
[edit]Day | Artist | Album |
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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
[edit]Day | Artist | Album |
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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
[edit]October
[edit]November
[edit]Day | Artist | Album |
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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
[edit]Day | Artist | Album |
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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
[edit]Month | Artist | Album |
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Unknown | No-Big-Silence | Successful, Bitch & Beautiful |
Pig Destroyer | 7" Picture Disc (EP) | |
Static-X | The Death Trip Continues (EP) |
Singles (WIP)
[edit]January
[edit]Day | Artist | Single |
---|---|---|
11 | Kittie | Brackish |
21 | AC/DC | Stiff Upper Lip |
February
[edit]Day | Artist | Single |
---|---|---|
11 | AC/DC | Safe in New York City |
April
[edit]Day | Artist | Single |
---|---|---|
29 | Disturbed | Stupify |
June
[edit]Day | Artist | Single |
---|---|---|
2 | Metallica | I Disappear |
5 | Kittie | Charlotte |
August
[edit]Day | Artist | Single |
---|---|---|
29 | Linkin Park | One Step Closer |
September
[edit]Day | Artist | Single |
---|---|---|
18 | Melvins | Spit It Out |
October
[edit]Day | Artist | Single |
---|---|---|
29 | Disturbed | Down with the Sickness |
November
[edit]Day | Artist | Single |
---|---|---|
29 | Disturbed | Voices |
Singles with unknown release dates
[edit]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
[edit]- Rage Against the Machine
- Sacred Reich (Reformed 2006)
Events
[edit]- Al Pitrelli replaces Marty Friedman on guitar for Megadeth.
- Metallica releases a song "I Disappear" that was never released on any studio albums and appears on the Mission: Impossible 2 soundtrack. This song also started the famous Napster Controversy.
- Angela Gossow replaces Johan Liiva on vocals for Arch Enemy.
- Mr. Bungle play their final concert.
Deaths
[edit]- September 21 – Peter "Wildfire" Wittke, founding member and guitarist of Iron Angel, died from injuries sustained in a car crash.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Electric Wizard". Rise Above Records. Archived from the original on October 12, 2000. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
- ^ "The BNR Metal Pages - Iron Angel". www.bnrmetal.com. Retrieved 2024-04-19.