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[]
- 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
- Bucovina
- Byzantine
- Cannae
- Car Bomb
- Circus Maximus
- Crashdïet
- The Darkness
- Deadsoul Tribe
- Deathstars
- Debauchery
- Demon Hunter
- 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
- Winter Solstice
- Witchcraft
Reformed bands[]
Sorted 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
April[]
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | Borknagar | Quintessence |
| Decapitated | Winds of Creation | |
| 18 | Black Label Society | Stronger than Death |
| 24 | After Forever | Prison of Desire |
| 25 | Boysetsfire | After the Eulogy |
| Destruction | All Hell Breaks Loose |
May[]
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | Blaze Bayley | Silicon Messiah |
| 23 | A Perfect Circle | Mer de Noms |
June[]
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Alice Cooper | Brutal Planet |
| 8 | Cave In | Jupiter |
| 20 | Ayreon | Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer |
| Ayreon | Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator | |
| Deftones | White Pony | |
| 27 | Deicide | Insineratehymn |
July[]
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Dark Tranquillity | Haven |
September[]
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | At the Drive-In | Relationship of Command |
| Type O Negative | After Dark (live) | |
| 19 | Cannibal Corpse | Live Cannibalism (live) |
October[]
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Apocalyptica | Cult |
| 10 | Slash's Snakepit | Ain't Life Grand |
| 30 | Children of Bodom | Follow the Reaper |
| Cradle of Filth | Midian |
November[]
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | Behemoth | Thelema.6 |
December[]
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Alice in Chains | Live |
| 12 | Ayreon | Ayreonauts Only (compilation) |
Unsorted Albums[]
- Devin Townsend – Physicist
- Downset. – Check Your People
- Edguy – The Savage Poetry (re-recording)
- Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
- Enslaved - Mardraum – Beyond the Within
- Fates Warning – Disconnected
- Glassjaw – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
- Godflesh – Messiah (EP)
- Godsmack – Awake
- Halford – Resurrection
- HammerFall – Renegade
- Heaven Shall Burn – Asunder
- Helloween – The Dark Ride
- The Hives – Veni Vidi Vicious
- Immolation – Close to a World Below
- Incantation – The Infernal Storm
- In Flames – Clayman
- Iron Maiden – Brave New World
- Isis – Celestial
- Jag Panzer – Thane to the Throne
- Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage
- King Diamond – House of God
- King's X – Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous
- Lamb of God – New American Gospel
- Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
- Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
- Madball – Hold It Down
- Marilyn Manson – Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
- Metalium – State of Triumph – Chapter Two
- Misanthrope – Misanthrope Immortel
- Misanthrope – (compilation)
- Morbid Angel – Gateways to Annihilation
- Monster Magnet – God Says No
- Motörhead – We Are Motörhead
- Mötley Crüe – New Tattoo
- Mudvayne – L.D. 50
- Nasum – Human 2.0
- Nevermore – Dead Heart in a Dead World
- Nightwish – Wishmaster
- Nile – Black Seeds of Vengeance
- Nothingface – Violence
- No-Big-Silence – Successful, Bitch & Beautiful
- One Minute Silence – Buy Now... Saved Later
- Orange Goblin – The Big Black
- Origin – Origin
- Overkill – Bloodletting
- Papa Roach – Infest
- Paul Di'Anno – Nomad
- Pig Destroyer – 7" Picture Disc (EP)
- Pig Destroyer – Isis / Pig Destroyer (split EP)
- Pitchshifter – Deviant
- Poison – Power to the People
- Pro-Pain – Round 6
- QueenAdreena – Taxidermy
- Racer X – Technical Difficulties (Europe and US versions)
- Raised Fist –
- Rhapsody – Dawn of Victory
- Rob Rock – Rage of Creation
- Rotting Christ - Khronos
- Saxon – Burrn! Presents: The Best of Saxon (compilation)
- Scorpions – Moment of Glory (compilation)
- Scarve – Translucence
- Seven Witches – City of Lost Souls
- Shadows Fall – Of One Blood
- Shuvel –
- Sinergy – To Hell and Back
- Ska-P – Planeta Eskoria
- Soulfly – Primitive
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- Static-X – The Death Trip Continues (EP)
- Stratovarius – 14 Diamonds (compilation)
- Suicidal Tendencies – Free Your Soul and Save My Mind
- Symphony X – V: The New Mythology Suite
- Tad Morose – Undead
- Theatre of Tragedy – Musique
- The Chasm –
- The Haunted – Made Me Do It
- The Sins of Thy Beloved – Perpetual Desolation
- Trail of Tears – Profoundemonium
- Underoath – Cries of the Past
- Virgin Steele – The House of Atreus Act II
- Within Temptation – Mother Earth
- Whispering Gallery – Like a Dream of Never-ending Beauty... Love Never Dies
- Yngwie Malmsteen – War to End All Wars
Disbandments[]
- Rage Against the Machine
- Sacred Reich (Reformed 2006)
Events[]
- 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.
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