2004 in heavy metal music

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2004 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 2004.

Newly formed bands[]

Reformed bands[]

Albums[]

  • 3 Inches of Blood – Advance and Vanquish
  • 36 Crazyfists – A Snow Capped Romance
  • The Acacia Strain – 3750
  • Aerosmith – Honkin' on Bobo
  • After Forever – Invisible Circles
  • Age of Silence – Acceleration
  • Alabama Thunderpussy – Fulton Hill
  • All That Remains - This Darkened Heart
  • Alter Bridge – One Day Remains
  • Amon Amarth – Fate of Norns
  • Angra – Temple of Shadows
  • Atreyu - The Curse
  • Ayreon – The Human Equation
  • Behemoth – Demigod
  • Beseech – Drama
  • Black Label Society – Hangover Music Vol. VI
  • Bon Jovi – 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong (box set)
  • Breaking Benjamin – We Are Not Alone
  • Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spawn
  • The Chariot – Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing, Nothing Is Dead, and Nothing Is Bleeding
  • Chevelle – This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)
  • Cradle of Filth – Nymphetamine
  • Damageplan – New Found Power
  • Danzig – Circle of Snakes
  • Decapitated – The Negation
  • Def Leppard – Best of Def Leppard (compilation)
  • Deicide – Scars of the Crucifix
  • Demon Hunter – Summer of Darkness
  • The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine
  • Dio – Master of the Moon
  • Dokken – Hell to Pay
  • Downset. – Universal
  • DragonForce – Sonic Firestorm
  • Dream Evil – The Book of Heavy Metal
  • Dream Theater – Live at Budokan (live)
  • Drowning Pool – Desensitized
  • Edguy – Hellfire Club
  • Electric Wizard – We Live
  • Enslaved - Isa
  • Exodus – Tempo of the Damned
  • Fates Warning – FWX
  • Fear Factory – Archetype
  • Finntroll – Nattfödd
  • God Forbid – Gone Forever
  • Grip Inc. – Incorporated
  • Gwar – War Party
  • Heaven Shall Burn – Antigone
  • Hirax - The New Age of Terror
  • Hypocrisy – The Arrival
  • Iced Earth – The Glorious Burden
  • In Flames – Soundtrack to Your Escape
  • Isis – Panopticon
  • Jag Panzer – Casting the Stones
  • Killswitch Engage – The End of Heartache
  • Kittie – Until the End
  • Kill the Noize – Play with the Devil
  • Kronos – Colossal Titan Strife
  • Lamb of God – Ashes of the Wake
  • Lordi – The Monsterican Dream
  • Marilyn Manson – Lest We Forget: The Best Of (compilation)
  • Marduk - Plague Angel
  • Mastodon – Leviathan
  • Mayhem – Chimera
  • Megadeth – The System Has Failed
  • Mercenary – 11 Dreams
  • Meshuggah – I
  • Metal Church – The Weight of the World
  • Metalium – As One – Chapter Four
  • Ministry – Houses of the Molé
  • Misanthrope - Misanthro-Thérapie (15 Années d'Analyse) (compilation)
  • Mnemic – The Audio Injected Soul
  • Monster Magnet – Monolithic Baby!
  • Motörhead – Inferno
  • My Dying Bride – Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
  • Necrophagist – Epitaph
  • Neurosis – The Eye of Every Storm
  • Nightwish – Once
  • No-Big-Silence – Kuidas kuningas kuu peale kippus
  • Oomph! – Wahrheit oder Pflicht
  • Orange Goblin – Thieving from the House of God
  • Otep – House of Secrets
  • Papa Roach – Getting Away with Murder
  • Pentagram - Show 'Em How
  • Pig Destroyer – Painter of Dead Girls (compilation)
  • Pig Destroyer – Terrifyer
  • Power Quest – Neverworld
  • Primal Fear – Devil's Ground
  • Pro-Pain – Fistful of Hate
  • Probot – Probot
  • Rammstein – Reise, Reise
  • Raunchy – Confusion Bay
  • Rhapsody – Symphony of Enchanted Lands II – The Dark Secret
  • Rotting Christ - Sanctus Diavolos
  • Saxon – Lionheart
  • Senses Fail – Let It Enfold You
  • Scarve – Irradiant
  • Scorpions – Unbreakable
  • Shadows Fall – The War Within
  • Slipknot – Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
  • Sonata Arctica – Reckoning Night
  • Soulfly – Prophecy
  • Static-X – Beneath... Between... Beyond... (compilation)
  • Stryper – 7 Weeks: Live in America, 2003 (live)
  • Suffocation – Souls to Deny
  • Terror – One with the Underdogs
  • The Crest – Vain City Chronicles
  • The Haunted – Revolver
  • Therion - Lemuria
  • Therion - Sirius B
  • U.D.O. – Thunderball
  • Underoath – They're Only Chasing Safety
  • Unearth – The Oncoming Storm
  • Vader – The Beast
  • Van Halen – The Best of Both Worlds (compilation)
  • Velvet Revolver – Contraband
  • Vintersorg – The Focusing Blur
  • Visions of Atlantis – Cast Away
  • WarCry – Alea Jacta Est
  • Winds – The Imaginary Direction of Time
  • Wintersun – Wintersun
  • Within Temptation – The Silent Force
  • Xandria – Ravenheart

Disbandments[]

  • Bathory
  • Damageplan
  • Nothingface (reformed in 2005)
  • Prayer for Cleansing
  • SugarComa
  • Windir

Events[]

  • Terje Bakken of Windir dies from hypothermia on his way to his grandparents, which resulted in Windir disbanding.[1]
  • Brian Welch leaves Korn after converting to Christianity.[2][3][4][5]
  • Damageplan and former Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell is murdered on stage while performing at a nightclub in Ohio on 8 December.[6][7][8]
  • Bassist Tim Gaines leaves Stryper after 10 complete years. He is replaced by Tracy Ferrie.
  • Body Count rhythm guitarist D-Roc dies from lymphoma at the age of 45.[9]
  • Jason Jones, originally a tattoo artist from Los Angeles, California, was publicly announced as Drowning Pool's new lead singer and joined them on the album Desensitized.
  • Supergroup Velvet Revolver releases their debut album Contraband which debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and goes double platinum.[10]
  • After an eight-year hiatus, Extreme briefly returns for a short tour and a few concerts in Japan.
  • Van Halen reunites with Sammy Hagar for a summer tour.
  • Anal Cunt vocalist Seth Putnam slips into a coma after consuming a large amount of drugs.
  • Aerosmith returns to a raw hard rock sound with their blues cover album Honkin' on Bobo
  • Terry Balsamo leaves Cold and joins Evanescence as their new guitarist.
  • Guitarist Lisa Marx joins Kittie as a session member, replacing Jeff Phillips.
  • Nasum guitarist/vocalist Mieszko Talarczyk dies as a result of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (although his body was not identified until 17 February the following year). Consequently, Nasum would later disband.
  • Maniac leaves Mayhem and is replaced by the band's former singer, Attila Csihar.
  • Ace Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg, founder of the Black/Viking metal band Bathory dies, at the age of 38.
  • Dave Mustaine reforms Megadeth with 3 session musicians, former and original Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland, bassist Jimmie Lee Sloas and drummer Vinnie Colaiuta to record The System Has Failed, then tour the album with full-time members Glen Drover on guitar, James MacDonough on bass and Shawn Drover on drums.
  • Ex-Judas Priest drummer Dave Holland is sentenced to eight years in prison for attempted rape against a then 17-year-old boy.
Preceded by
2003
 Heavy Metal Timeline
2004 		Succeeded by
2005

References[]

  1. ^ "Windir Frontman, Valfar, Found Dead At 25 - in Metal News ( Metal Underground.com )". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
  2. ^ Brian stated that he ended up walking away from a 23 million dollar recording contract which was a very difficult decision for him at the time. NewReleaseTuesday.com Interview with Brian Archived 30 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Brian 'Head' Welch Leaves Korn, Citing Moral Objections To Band's Music Archived 8 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine. mtv.com
  4. ^ Brian Welch Explains Why He Walked Away Archived 16 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine. cbn.com
  5. ^ "Audio Lounge – Live Radio Streaming, Internet Radio, Audio Downloads & Podcasting". Hope 103.2. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
  6. ^ "Former Friend: Gunman Obsessed With Pantera". Associated Press. 8 December 2004. Archived from the original on 22 August 2009. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
  7. ^ Ratliff, Ben (10 December 2004). "Darrell Abbott, 38, a Guitarist Featured in Heavy-Metal Bands, Dies". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
  8. ^ Chris Arnold; James Niggemeyer (2007). A Vulgar Display of Power: Courage and Carnage at the Alrosa Villa. MJS Music & Entertainment. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-9762917-7-0. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  9. ^ Devenish, Colin (19 August 2004). "Body Count Guitarist Dead". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 10 April 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
  10. ^ "Velvet Revolver Album Charts". Allmusic. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
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