1998 in heavy metal music

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List of years in heavy metal music (table)

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1998.

Newly Formed bands[]

Reformed bands[]

  • Metal Church

Albums[]

  • Alabama Thunderpussy – Rise Again
  • Altar - Provoke
  • Amon Amarth - Once Sent from the Golden Hall
  • Anathema – Alternative 4
  • Angelcorpse - Exterminate
  • Angra – Fireworks
  • Anthrax – Volume 8: The Threat Is Real
  • Apocalyptica – Inquisition Symphony
  • Arch Enemy – Stigmata
  • Atreyu – Visions (EP)
  • Ayreon – Into the Electric Castle
  • Sebastian Bach –
  • Backyard Babies – Total 13
  • Behemoth - Pandemonic Incantations
  • Benediction - Grind Bastard
  • Bestial Warlust - Satan's Fist
  • Black Label Society – Sonic Brew
  • Black Sabbath – Reunion (live)
  • Blind Guardian – Nightfall in Middle-Earth
  • Bolt Thrower – Mercenary
  • Borknagar – The Archaic Course
  • Botch – American Nervoso
  • Bruce Dickinson – The Chemical Wedding
  • Cannibal Corpse – Gallery of Suicide
  • Jerry Cantrell –
  • Cathedral - Caravan Beyond Redemption
  • Catch 22 – Keasbey Nights
  • Children of Bodom – Something Wild (Worldwide release)
  • Clutch - The Elephant Riders
  • Converge – When Forever Comes Crashing
  • Cradle of Filth – Cruelty and the Beast
  • Crowbar – Odd Fellows Rest
  • Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy
  • Dark Funeral - Vobiscum Satanas
  • Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy)
  • Death – The Sound of Perseverance
  • Deep Purple – Abandon
  • Destruction – The Least Successful Human Cannonball
  • Devin Townsend – Christeen + 4 Demos (EP)
  • Devin Townsend – Infinity
  • The Dillinger Escape Plan – Under the Running Board (EP)
  • Dimmu Borgir – Godless Savage Garden (compilation)
  • Dream Theater – Once in a LIVEtime (live)
  • Dying Fetus - Killing on Adrenaline
  • Earth Crisis – Breed the Killers
  • Edguy – Vain Glory Opera
  • Enslaved - Blodhemn
  • Eldritch – El Niño
  • Exhumed - Gore Metal
  • Far – Water & Solutions
  • Fear Factory – Obsolete
  • Firehouse – Category 5
  • Freak Kitchen – Freak Kitchen
  • The Gathering – How to Measure a Planet?
  • Genitorturers - Sin City
  • Godsmack – Godsmack
  • Gorgoroth - Destroyer – or About How to Philosophize with the Hammer
  • Gorguts - Obscura
  • HammerFall – Legacy of Kings
  • Helloween – Better Than Raw
  • Iced Earth – Something Wicked This Way Comes
  • Incantation - Diabolical Conquest
  • Iron Maiden – Virtual XI
  • Jag Panzer – The Age of Mastery
  • Kamelot – Siége Perilous
  • Kataklysm - Victims of this Fallen World
  • Katatonia – Discouraged Ones
  • Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause
  • King Diamond – Voodoo
  • KISS – Psycho Circus'
  • Korn – Follow the Leader
  • Krabathor - Orthodox
  • Krisiun – Apocalyptic Revelation
  • L.A. Guns – Wasted
  • David Lee Roth – DLR Band
  • Madball – Look My Way
  • Malevolent Creation - The Fine Art of Murder
  • Yngwie Malmsteen – Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in Em, Opus 1
  • Yngwie Malmsteen – Double Live! (live)
  • Marduk – Nightwing
  • Mercenary – First Breath
  • Mercyful Fate - Dead Again
  • Meshuggah – Chaosphere
  • Metal Church – Live (live)
  • Metallica – Garage Inc. (compilation)
  • Mindrot - Soul
  • Marilyn Manson – Mechanical Animals
  • Monster Magnet – Powertrip
  • Moonspell – Sin/Pecado
  • Morbid Angel – Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
  • Mortician - Zombie Apocalypse (EP)
  • Mortification - Triumph of Mercy
  • Mötley Crüe – Greatest Hits (compilation)
  • Motörhead – Snake Bite Love
  • My Dying Bride – 34.788%... Complete
  • Napalm Death - Words from the Exit Wound
  • Nembrionic - Incomplete
  • Nightwish – Oceanborn
  • Night in Gales - Thunderbeast
  • Nile – Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
  • Nothingface – An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity
  • Old Man's Child – Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion
  • One Minute Silence – Available in All Colours
  • Oomph! – Unrein
  • Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse
  • Orange Goblin – Time Travelling Blues
  • Orgy – Candyass
  • Pig Destroyer – Explosions in Ward 6
  • Pitchshifter – www.pitchshifter.com
  • Pretty Boy Floyd –
  • Primal Fear – Primal Fear
  • Pro-Pain – Pro-Pain
  • Queens of the Stone Age – Queens of the Stone Age
  • Rage – XIII
  • Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come
  • Rhapsody – Symphony of Enchanted Lands
  • Rob Zombie – Hellbilly Deluxe
  • Rotting - Crushed
  • Rush – Different Stages (live)
  • Samael - Exodus (EP)
  • Savatage – The Wake of Magellan (in United States)
  • Sentenced – Frozen
  • Septicflesh - A Fallen Temple
  • Sepultura – Against
  • Sinister - Aggressive Measures
  • Skepticism - Lead and Aether
  • Skid Row – 40 Seasons: The Best of Skid Row (compilation)
  • Slayer – Diabolus in Musica
  • Soilent Green - A String of Lies (EP)
  • Soilent Green - Sewn Mouth Secrets
  • Soilwork - Steelbath Suicide
  • Soulburn - Feeding on Angels
  • Soulfly – Soulfly
  • Strapping Young Lad – No Sleep 'till Bedtime: Live in Australia (live)
  • Stratovarius – Visions of Europe (live)
  • Stratovarius – Destiny
  • Stuck Mojo – Rising
  • Dan Swanö - Moontower
  • Symphony X – Twilight in Olympus
  • System of a Down – System of a Down
  • Tankard – Disco Destroyer
  • The Sins of Thy Beloved – Lake of Sorrow
  • Theatre of Tragedy – Aégis
  • Therapy? – Semi-Detached
  • Therion - Vovin
  • Trail of Tears – Disclosure in Red
  • Tristania – Widow's Weeds
  • Turbonegro – Apocalypse Dudes
  • 2wo – Voyeurs
  • Union – Union
  • Ugly Kid Joe –
  • Unsane – Occupational Hazard
  • Vader – Kingdom (EP)
  • Van Halen – Van Halen III
  • Vintersorg – Hedniskhjärtad (EP)
  • Vintersorg – Till fjälls
  • Virgin Black – Trance (EP)
  • Virgin Steele – Invictus
  • Vision of Disorder – Imprint

Disbandments[]

Events[]

  • Aerosmith becomes the first rock band to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the single "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
  • Mustis joins Dimmu Borgir on keyboards.
  • Rob Halford of Judas Priest announces his homosexuality in an MTV interview.
  • Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, guitarist of the Japanese band X Japan, commits suicide at the age of 33.
  • Poison singer Bret Michaels directs and stars in the film A Letter from Death Row.
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