2003 in heavy metal music

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2003 in music
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List of years in heavy metal music (table)

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2003.

Newly formed bands[]

Reformed bands[]

Albums[]

  • Aborted – Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done
  • Akercocke – Choronozon
  • Alien Ant Farm – truANT
  • Alice Cooper – The Eyes of Alice Cooper
  • All Shall Perish – Hate, Malice, Revenge
  • Anaal Nathrakh – When Fire Rains Down from the Sky, Mankind Will Reap as It Has Sown (EP)
  • Anthrax – We've Come for You All
  • Apocalyptica – Reflections
  • Arch Enemy – Anthems of Rebellion
  • As I Lay Dying – Frail Words Collapse
  • Avenged Sevenfold – Waking the Fallen
  • Bathory - Nordland II
  • Between the Buried and Me – The Silent Circus
  • Biohazard – Kill or Be Killed
  • The Black Dahlia Murder – Unhallowed
  • Black Label Society – The Blessed Hellride
  • Bon Jovi – This Left Feels Right (Compilation)
  • Cannibal Corpse – 15 Year Killing Spree (Box set)
  • Children of Bodom – Hate Crew Deathroll
  • Chimaira – The Impossibility of Reason
  • Circle II Circle – Watching in Silence
  • Concept – Reason and Truth
  • Cog – "Open Up" (maxi single)
  • Cradle of Filth – Damnation and a Day
  • The Darkness – Permission to Land
  • Deathstars – Synthetic Generation
  • Decrepit Birth – ...And Time Begins
  • Deep Purple – Bananas
  • Default – Elocation
  • Deftones – Deftones
  • Destruction - Metal Discharge
  • DevilDriver – DevilDriver
  • The Devin Townsend Band – Accelerated Evolution
  • Dimension Zero – This Is Hell
  • Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armageddon
  • Divinity Destroyed – Divinity Destroyed (EP)
  • Divinity Destroyed – Eden in Ashes
  • DragonForce – Valley of the Damned
  • Dream Evil – Evilized
  • Dream Theater – Train of Thought
  • Enslaved – Below the Lights
  • Entombed – Inferno
  • Epica – The Phantom Agony
  • Evanescence – Fallen
  • Evergrey – Recreation Day
  • Every Time I Die - Hot Damn!
  • Faith – Salvation Lies Within
  • Finntroll – Visor om slutet (EP)
  • Firewind – Burning Earth
  • From Autumn to Ashes – The Fiction We Live
  • Galneryus – The Flag of Punishment
  • Godhead – Evolver
  • Godsmack – Faceless
  • Gojira – The Link
  • Gojira – Maciste All'Inferno (EP)
  • Gorgoroth - Twilight of the Idols
  • Graveworm – Engraved in Black
  • Hatebreed – The Rise of Brutality
  • Helloween – Rabbit Don't Come Easy
  • Hortus Animae – Waltzing Mephisto
  • Ill Nino - Confession
  • Incubus – Live at Lollapalooza 2003 (Live)
  • Integrity – To Die For
  • Iron Maiden – Dance of Death
  • Ion Dissonance – Breathing Is Irrelevant
  • Jane's Addiction – Strays
  • Johnny Lokke – Wrecking Ball
  • Kamelot – Epica
  • Katatonia – Viva Emptiness
  • Kayo Dot – Choirs of the Eye
  • King Diamond – The Puppet Master
  • Kiss – Kiss Symphony: Alive IV (Live)
  • Korn – Take a Look in the Mirror
  • Kreator – Live Kreation (Live)
  • Krisiun – Works of Carnage
  • Lamb of God – As the Palaces Burn
  • Lanfear – The Art Effect
  • Limp Bizkit – Results May Vary
  • Linkin Park – Meteora
  • Living Colour – Collideøscope
  • Lost Horizon – A Flame to the Ground Beneath
  • Macabre – Murder Metal
  • Marduk - World Funeral
  • Masterplan – Masterplan
  • Marilyn Manson – The Golden Age of Grotesque
  • Machine Head – Through the Ashes of Empires
  • Metallica – St. Anger
  • Ministry – Animositisomina
  • Misanthrope - Sadistic Sex Daemon
  • Mnemic – Mechanical Spin Phenomena
  • Monstrosity – Rise to Power
  • Moonspell – The Antidote
  • Morbid Angel – Heretic
  • Motörhead – Live at Brixton Academy (Live)
  • Mushroomhead - XIII
  • Neil Turbin – Threatcon Delta
  • Nevermore – Enemies of Reality
  • Nightrage – Sweet Vengeance
  • Norther – Mirror of Madness
  • Nothingface – Skeletons
  • No-Big-Silence – Unreleased
  • Occult – Elegy for the Weak
  • Old Man's Child – In Defiance of Existence
  • One Minute Silence – One Lie Fits All
  • Overkill – Killbox 13
  • Opeth – Damnation
  • Pitchshifter – Bootlegged, Distorted, Remixed and Uploaded (Compilation)
  • Place of Skulls – With Vision
  • P.O.D. – Payable on Death
  • Poison the Well - You Come Before You
  • Psycroptic – The Scepter of the Ancients
  • Queensrÿche – Tribe
  • Rage – Soundchaser
  • Royal Hunt – Eyewitness
  • Rush – Rush in Rio (live)
  • Seven Witches – Passage to the Other Side
  • Six Feet Under – Bringer of Blood
  • Skid Row – Thickskin
  • Skillet – Collide
  • Sepultura – Roorback
  • Sevendust – Seasons
  • Slayer – Soundtrack to the Apocalypse (Box set)
  • Soilwork – Figure Number Five
  • Solefald – In Harmonia Universali
  • Sonata Arctica – Winterheart's Guild
  • Spawn of Possession – Cabinet
  • Static-X – Shadow Zone
  • Strapping Young Lad – Strapping Young Lad
  • Stratovarius – Elements, Pt. 1
  • Stratovarius – Elements, Pt. 2
  • Stryper – 7: The Best of Stryper (compilation)
  • Theocracy – Theocracy
  • Throwdown – Haymaker
  • Three Days Grace - Three Days Grace
  • Tourniquet – Where Moth and Rust Destroy
  • Trivium – Ember to Inferno
  • Type O Negative – Life Is Killing Me
  • Týr – Eric the Red
  • uneXpect – _wE, Invaders (EP)
  • Virgin Black – Elegant... and Dying
  • Xandria – Kill the Sun

Disbandments[]

Events[]

  • Metallica hires new bassist Robert Trujillo (from Suicidal Tendencies and Ozzy Osbourne). They release the much criticized album St. Anger.
  • MTV2 resurrected the old heavy metal/hard rock television program Headbangers' Ball.
  • Iced Earth vocalist Matt Barlow leaves Iced Earth after the events of September 11.
  • Christian metal band Stryper reforms with all original members.
  • Visions of Atlantis lead vocalist quits, and is later replaced by . Keyboardist quits and is replaced by Miro Holly.
  • Rob Halford reunites with Judas Priest replacing Tim "Ripper" Owens.
  • Aerosmith and KISS embark on a tour together.
  • Toontown Field Trip: Rock and Roll Party, starring the voice talent of Russi Taylor as Minnie Mouse, Nikita Hopkins as Roo, and Kelly Nigh as Tickety Tock, is released on home video and features Poler Toyer & School Bus performing "Give It Your Best Shot" in New Orleans towards the end of the movie.

References[]

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