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Overview of the events of 2007 in heavy metal music
List of years in heavy metal music
(table )
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2007.
Newly formed bands [ ]
Reformed bands [ ]
Artillery
Carcass
Crashdïet
Emperor (for a few shows)
Extreme
Rage Against the Machine
Spinal Tap
X Japan
Sacred Reich
Disbandments [ ]
Events [ ]
Wayne Knupp, original vocalist for Devourment died on September 15 .
Pat Mason of Arsonists Get All The Girls passes away on the morning of November 30, his 21st birthday.
Extreme reunite for the third time, announcing plans for a world tour next year, as well as a new studio album, which will be their first since 1995's Waiting for the Punchline .
Led Zeppelin get back together one more time for one concert in London.
In Sorte Diaboli (Dimmu Borgir ) becomes the first extreme metal album ever to hit the No. 1 in a Record chart , achieving that position in Norway.
Andreas Sydow leaves Darkane , being replaced by Jens Broman.
Witold Kiełtyka , drummer for Decapitated , is killed in a car crash in October.
Vocalist, Damo and manager, Andy of The Red Shore , died in December.
Anette Olzon joins Nightwish as their new lead vocalist.
Peter Lindgren leaves Opeth .
Jani Liimatainen is fired from Sonata Arctica .
Jacob Bredahl leaves Hatesphere .
Mark St. John , guitarist of KISS in 1984, dies in April.
The song Final Six from Slayer won in the Best Metal Performance category at the 50th Grammy Awards .
Meiju Enho leaves Ensiferum .
Paul Raven , bassist for Ministry and former Killing Joke bassist, dies in October.
Kevin DuBrow , lead singer for Quiet Riot , dies in November.
Matt Barlow returns as lead singer of Iced Earth .
Ramallah disbands.
Matte Modin is fired from Dark Funeral , for disrupting their live performance schedule through deceit, according to the band. He is replaced by Nils Fjällström of Aeon , who is given the stage name "Dominator".
Gaahl and King ov Hell part ways from Gorgoroth founding member Infernus with the intention of using the band's name and assets themselves, igniting the Gorgoroth name dispute .
Soichiro Umemura, vocalist of Tokyo Yankees , died on December 11 .
Albums released [ ]
January [ ]
February [ ]
March [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
1
Buckethead
Pepper's Ghost
3
Arghoslent
Hornets of the Pogrom
5
Onslaught
Killing Peace
Saxon
The Inner Sanctum
6
Alabama Thunderpussy
Open Fire
Chimaira
Resurrection
Emmure
Goodbye to the Gallows
Dying Fetus
War of Attrition
Megadeth
That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires (CD/DVD) (released on CD September 4, 2007)
Sevendust
Alpha
9
Within Temptation
The Heart of Everything
12
Nightrage
A New Disease Is Born
13
Battlelore
Evernight
Type O Negative
Dead Again
Unsane
Visqueen
14
Naildown
Dreamcrusher
Thunderstone
Evolution 4.0
16
Sabaton
Metalizer
19
Morgana Lefay
Aberrations of the Mind
20
Dååth
The Hinderers
Haste the Day
Pressure the Hinges
In This Moment
Beautiful Tragedy
23
Sun Caged
Artemisia
24
Five Star Prison Cell
Slaves of Virgo
The Gathering
A Noise Severe
25
Graveland
Will Stronger Than Death
26
Machine Head
The Blackening
27
Mors Principium Est
Liberation = Termination
28
Finntroll
Ur Jordens Djup
Threshold
Dead Reckoning
30
Attila
Fallacy
April [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
1
Abscess
Horrorhammer
Kronos
The Hellenic Terror
2
Pro-Pain
Age Of Tyranny: The Tenth Crusade
Scarve
The Undercurrent
Susperia
Cut from Stone
3
All Out War
Assassins In The House Of God
The Chariot
The Fiancée
Chevelle
Vena Sera
Omnium Gatherum
Stuck Here on Snakes Way
Shadows Fall
Threads of Life
Static-X
Cannibal
Virgin Black
Requiem - Mezzo Forte
Vital Remains
Icons of Evil
5
Monstrosity
Spiritual Apocalypse
10
Andromeda
Playing Off The Board (DVD)
From Autumn to Ashes
Holding a Wolf by the Ears
Hellyeah
Hellyeah
13
Dublin Death Patrol
DDP 4 Life
16
Annihilator
Metal
Mayhem
Ordo Ad Chao
Pain
Psalms of Extinction
Shining
Halmstad
W.A.S.P.
Dominator
17
Dark Tranquillity
Fiction
Nine Inch Nails
Year Zero
Six Feet Under
Commandment
20
Ensiferum
Victory Songs
Freedom Call
Dimensions
Vomitory
Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize
23
After Forever
After Forever
Root
Daemon Viam Invenient
24
At War With Self
Acts of God
Dimmu Borgir
In Sorte Diaboli
Deliverance
As Above - So Below
Mammatus
The Coast Explodes
Marduk
ROM 5:12
Sanctity
Road to Bloodshed
Walknut
Graveforests and Their Shadows
26
Angel Corpse
Of Lucifer and Lightning
27
Inveracity
Extermination of Millions
Vintersorg
Solens rötter
30
Detonation
Emission Phase
May [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
7
Twilightning
Swinelords
8
Becoming the Archetype
The Physics of Fire
Immolation
Shadows In The Light
Lord Belial
Revelation: The 7th Seal
Neurosis
Given to the Rising
With Passion
What We See When We Shut Our Eyes
Woe of Tyrants
Behold the Lion
12
Trouble
Simple Mind Condition
14
Hatesphere
Serpent Smiles And Killer Eyes
15
Job for a Cowboy
Genesis
Megadeth
United Abominations
Secret Chiefs 3
Path of Most Resistance
16
Nocturnal Rites
The 8th Sin
18
Planet X
Quantum
U.D.O.
Mastercutor
21
8 Foot Sativa
Poison of Ages
Cannibal Corpse
Vile
22
Daysend
The Warning
Despised Icon
The Ills of Modern Man
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Rain
Sonic Syndicate
Only Inhuman
23
Sigh
Hangman's Hymn
25
Altaria
Divine Invitation
Caliban
The Awakening
Månegarm
Vargstenen
Sonata Arctica
Unia
Visions of Atlantis
Trinity
28
3 Inches of Blood
Fire Up the Blades
Akercocke
Antichrist
Turisas
The Varangian Way
29
Cephalic Carnage
Xenosapien
30
Ari Koivunen
Fuel For The Fire
Sturm Und Drang
Learning to Rock
31
Buckethead
Acoustic Shards
June [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
4
Dream Theater
Systematic Chaos
Iced Earth
Overture of the Wicked
Man Must Die
The Human Condition
5
Devin Townsend
Ziltoid the Omniscient
Graveworm
Collateral Defect
Ion Dissonance
Minus the Herd
Kamelot
Ghost Opera
Marilyn Manson
Eat Me, Drink Me
Tesla
Real To Reel
11
Municipal Waste
The Art of Partying
12
A Perfect Murder
War of Aggression
Anterior
This Age of Silence
Pig Destroyer
Phantom Limb
17
Abigor
Fractal Possession
19
August Burns Red
Messengers
22
Candlemass
King of the Grey Islands
23
Airbourne
Runnin' Wild
25
Entombed
Serpent Saints
Architects
Ruin
26
King Diamond
Give Me Your Soul...Please
Korpiklaani
Tervaskanto
Symphony X
Paradise Lost
29
At Vance
VII
July [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
2
Behemoth
The Apostasy
3
Velvet Revolver
Libertad
10
Darkest Hour
Deliver Us
11
Galexia
Galexia
12
Carnifex
Dead in My Arms
17
Eyefear
A World Full of Grey
Malevolent Creation
Doomsday X
Nile
Ithyphallic
18
Blood Stain Child
Mozaiq
24
Evergreen Terrace
Wolfbiker
The Red Chord
Prey for Eyes
27
Korn
Untitled
31
DevilDriver
The Last Kind Words
Five Finger Death Punch
The Way of the Fist
Whitechapel
The Somatic Defilement
August [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
3
Gorefest
Rise to Ruin
7
Reverend Bizarre
III: So Long Suckers
The Absence
Riders of the Plague
Drowning Pool
Full Circle
Still Remains
The Serpent
Throwdown
Venom & Tears
8
Alcest
Souvenirs d'un autre monde
9
Agathocles
Senseless Trip
14
Arsonists Get All The Girls
The Game of Life
Bring Me the Horizon
Count Your Blessings
15
Amoral
Reptile Ride
20
The Agonist
Once Only Imagined
Malefice
Entities
21
Arsonists Get All The Girls
The Game of Life
As I Lay Dying
An Ocean Between Us
Blue Cheer
What Doesn't Kill You...
The Devil Wears Prada
Plagues
Through the Eyes of the Dead
Malice
22
Andre Matos
Time to Be Free
Dimension Zero
He Who Shall Not Bleed
Epica
The Divine Conspiracy
Rob Rock
Garden of Chaos
24
Backslash
Trip of Pain
25
Benediction
Killing Music
Divine Heresy
Bleed The Fifth
27
Evile
Enter the Grave
28
Obituary
Xecutioner's Return
Scorpions
Humanity: Hour I
29
Amorphis
Silent Waters
31
Agent Steel
Alienigma
Drudkh
Estrangement
September [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
3
Alchemist
Tripsis
Vanishing Point
The Fourth Season
4
Aeon
Rise to Dominate
Baroness
The Red Album
Chiodos
Bone Palace Ballet
Every Time I Die
The Big Dirty
Impending Doom
Nailed. Dead. Risen.
Zonaria
Infamy and the Breed
5
Ajattara
Kalmanto
Disavowed
Stagnated Existence
7
Epica
The Divine Conspiracy
10
High on Fire
Death Is This Communion
11
Iced Earth
Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked Part 1
14
Apocalyptica
Worlds Collide
Elvenking
The Scythe
HIM
Venus Doom
18
A Life Once Lost
Iron Gag
Between the Buried and Me
Colors
The Black Dahlia Murder
Nocturnal
Blotted Science
The Machinations of Dementia
Brown Brigade
Into the Mouth of Badd(d)ness
Himsa
Summon in Thunder
Ministry
The Last Sucker
Suicide Silence
The Cleansing
War from a Harlots Mouth
Transmetropolitan
24
Arch Enemy
Rise of the Tyrant
Darkthrone
F.O.A.D.
Down
Down III: Over the Under
25
Carl Johan Grimmark
Grimmark
Dethklok
The Dethalbum
The Bled
Silent Treatment
Wolves in the Throne Room
Two Hunters
26
Akira Takasaki
Black Brown
Nightwish
Dark Passion Play
28
Sodom
The Final Sign of Evil
October [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
1
Axel Rudi Pell
Diamonds Unlocked
2
Animosity
Animal
Skeletonwitch
Beyond The Permafrost
6
Behold... The Arctopus
Skullgrid
Parkway Drive
Horizons
9
Astral Doors
New Revelation
I Declare War
Amidst the Bloodshed
Megadeth
Warchest
Overkill
Immortalis
Puddle of Mudd
Famous
15
Ava Inferi
The Silhouette
Taint
Secrets & Lies
16
Born of Osiris
The New Reign
Demiricous
Two (Poverty)
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza
Danza II: Electric Boogaloo
19
Soilwork
Sworn to a Great Divide
23
Exodus
The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A
HammerFall
Steel Meets Steel - Ten Years of Glory
Helloween
Gambling with the Devil
Oh, Sleeper
When I Am God
29
Anaal Nathrakh
Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here
30
Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold
Bloodsimple
Red Harvest
Buckethead
Cyborg Slunks
Buckethead
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot
Melechesh
Emissaries
The Autumn Offering
Fear Will Cast No Shadow
November [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
5
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Ire Works
Novembre
The Blue
Opeth
The Roundhouse Tapes
6
Agnostic Front
Warriors
Demon Hunter
Storm the Gates of Hell
16
Axxis
Doom of Destiny
Gamma Ray
Land of the Free II
Primordial
To the Nameless Dead
19
Tarja Turunen
My Winter Storm
20
Sebastian Bach
Angel Down
Vesania
Distractive Killusions
Electric Wizard
Witchcult Today
21
The Ocean
Precambrian
December [ ]
References [ ]
Preceded by
Heavy Metal Timeline 2007
Succeeded by
Timeline of heavy metal and hard rock music
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