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Overview of the events of 2008 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 2008.
Bands formed [ ]
Reformed bands [ ]
At the Gates (for a few shows)
Carcass (for touring)
Einherjer (for touring)
Exhorder (for a few tours and some new material)
Forbidden (for a few shows)
Krokus
Living Sacrifice
Spineshank
Disbandments [ ]
Alabama Thunderpussy
Beneath the Sky
Byzantine
Celtic Frost
Dead to Fall
Demigod
The Duskfall
From Autumn To Ashes
Himsa
Knorkator
Ministry
Sieges Even
SikTh
Still Remains
The Red Death
The Agony Scene
Remove the Veil
Whispering Gallery
Events [ ]
Twiggy Ramirez rejoins Marilyn Manson in early January.
Mikael Åkerfeldt rejoins Bloodbath in late January.
Ola Frenning leaves Soilwork in February.
Chris Broderick joins Megadeth in February .
Timo Tolkki leaves Stratovarius after some internal troubles in March.
Thomas Gabriel Fischer leaves Celtic Frost in April.
Singer Lisa Middelhauve leaves Xandria in April.
On May 11, original Rush drummer John Rutsey died in his sleep from an apparent heart attack.
Blasphemer leaves Mayhem in May.
Mike Kimball leaves Dying Fetus in May.
On July 27, former White Spirit and Tank drummer Graeme Crallan died after a fall in a London street.
Wes Borland joins Marilyn Manson 's lineup in mid-August.
D.R.I. guitarist Spike Cassidy makes a full recovery from cancer.
Snot reforms with ex-Divine Heresy vocalist Tommy Vext.
Michael Nicklasson leaves Dark Tranquillity in August.
Jeff Singer leaves Paradise Lost in August.
Christian "Witchhunter" Dudek, ex-drummer of Sodom , dies of liver failure on September 7,.
Christian Älvestam leaves Scar Symmetry in September.
Peter Wichers rejoins Soilwork in September.
Tormentor rejoins Gorgoroth in September, as does Pest in December.
Denny Axelsson, vocalist of Blinded Colony , leaves the band.
Former Marilyn Manson bassist Gidget Gein dies of a heroin overdose.
Josh Freese plans to depart from Nine Inch Nails by the end of 2008.
John Kempainen leaves The Black Dahlia Murder in December.
Job For A Cowboy founding member and guitarist Ravi Bhadriraju leaves the band in late 2008.
Al Glassman leaves Despised Icon to join Job For A Cowboy .
Gaahl (ex-Gorgoroth ) reveals his homosexuality.
Albums released [ ]
January [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
2
In Mourning
Shrouded Divine
8
For the Fallen Dreams
Changes
11
Benedictum
Seasons of Tragedy
22
Byzantine
Oblivion Beckons
The Red Death
Godmakers
With Blood Comes Cleansing
Horror
25
Alestorm
Captain Morgan's Revenge
Avantasia
The Scarecrow
Ayreon
01011001
Brainstorm
Downburst
28
Bullet for My Valentine
Scream Aim Fire
Heaven Shall Burn
Iconoclast
29
Decrepit Birth
Diminishing Between Worlds
Protest the Hero
Fortress
February [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
4
Baptism
Grim Arts of Melancholy
Hate
Morphosis
Iron Maiden
Live After Death [1]
Sworn Enemy
Maniacal
5
Brain Drill
Apocalyptic Feasting
Salt the Wound
Carnal Repercussions
Warbringer
War Without End [2]
Winds of Plague
Decimate the Weak [3]
8
Behexen
My Soul for His Glory
12
Texas Hippie Coalition
Pride of Texas [4]
13
Norther
N [5]
15
Eluveitie
Slania [6]
18
Hellhammer
Demon Entrails [7]
To-Mera
Delusions [8]
19
Ascension of the Watchers
[9]
Dead to Fall
Are You Serious? [citation needed ]
Genghis Tron
Board Up the House [10]
Hate Eternal
Fury & Flames [11]
Sculptured
Embodiment: Collapsing Under the Weight of God [12]
Virgin Black
Requiem – Fortissimo
22
Exciter
Thrash Speed Burn [13]
Metalium
Incubus - Chapter Seven
Nortt
Galgenfrist
Steel Attack
Carpe DiEnd [14]
Stormwarrior
Heading Northe [15]
Rage
Carved in Stone [16]
Unheilig
Puppenspiel
25
Dark Fortress
Eidolon [17]
Dark Suns
Grave Human Genuine [18]
26
Death Angel
Killing Season
myGRAIN
29
Agalloch
The White
Draconian
Turning Season Within
March [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
2
Nine Inch Nails
Ghosts I–IV
3
Azaghal
Omega
4
Nasum
Doombringer
Our Last Night
The Ghosts Among Us
7
Boris
Smile
Meshuggah
obZen
9
Buckethead
From the Coop
10
Bloodbath
Unblessing the Purity
11
Zimmer's Hole
When You Were Shouting at the Devil...
12
Shade Empire
Zero Nexus
18
Black Tide
Light from Above
Bury Your Dead
Bury Your Dead
19
The Black Mages
The Black Mages III: Darkness and Starlight
Hypocrisy
Catch 22 (V2.0.08) (Re-release)
20
Cataract
Cataract
21
Firewind
The Premonition
Jon Oliva's Pain
Global Warning
Korpiklaani
Korven Kuningas
24
Cavalera Conspiracy
Inflikted
25
Mercenary
Architect of Lies
28
Illdisposed
The Prestige
Kamelot
Ghost Opera: The Second Coming
29
Dream Theater
Greatest Hit (...and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)
31
Strapping Young Lad
1994–2006 Chaos Years
April [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
1
Dismember
Dismember [19]
Origin
Antithesis
Sevendust
Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow
Septic Flesh
Communion
The Sword
Gods of the Earth
Theory of a Deadman
Scars & Souvenirs
4
In Flames
A Sense of Purpose
9
Children of Bodom
Blooddrunk
14
Mirrorthrone
Gangrene
15
Arsis
We Are the Nightmare
Belphegor
Bondage Goat Zombie
Destroy the Runner
I, Lucifer
Embrace the End
Ley Lines
Thine Eyes Bleed
Thine Eyes Bleed
18
Tiamat
Amanethes
21
Grave
Dominion VIII
22
Dominici
O3: A Trilogy, Part Three
Whitesnake
Good to be Bad
23
Kalmah
For the Revolution
25
Def Leppard
Songs from the Sparkle Lounge
Warrel Dane
Praises to the War Machine
28
Deicide
Till Death Do Us Part
My Dying Bride
An Ode to Woe
29
Sea of Treachery
At Daggers Drawn
Testament
The Formation of Damnation
30
Moonsorrow
Tulimyrsky
May [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
5
Nine Inch Nails
The Slip
Scott Kelly
The Wake
Textures
Silhouettes [20]
6
Kayo Dot
Blue Lambency Downward
Revocation
Empire of the Obscene
Russian Circles
Station
13
Abysmal Dawn
Programmed To Consume
Aletheian
Dying Vine
Emmure
The Respect Issue
14
Diablo
Icaros
16
Moonspell
Night Eternal
23
Cryptopsy
The Unspoken King [21]
Kataklysm
Prevail
26
Ihsahn
angL
Shai Hulud
Misanthropy Pure
30
Communic
Payment of Existence
Hollenthon
Opus Magnum
Opeth
Watershed [22]
Pyramaze
Immortal
Sabaton
The Art of War
June [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
2
Bloodbath
The Wacken Carnage
Disturbed
Indestructible
Satyricon
My Skin Is Cold
9
Children of Bodom
Gama Bomb
Citizen Brain
Khold
Hundre År Gammal
Unleashed
Hammer Battalion
Venom
Hell
10
Inhale Exhale
I Swear...
Nachtmystium
Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1
11
Ari Koivunen
Becoming
13
Grand Magus
Iron Will
Judas Priest
Nostradamus
16
Cult of Luna
Eternal Kingdom
Exit Ten
Remember the Day
17
Mötley Crüe
Saints of Los Angeles
20
Scar Symmetry
Holographic Universe
24
Aborted
Strychnine.213
Carnifex
The Diseased and the Poisoned
27
Equilibrium
Sagas
30
Raunchy
Wasteland Discotheque
July [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
1
Lamb of God
Walk with Me in Hell
7
Blaze Bayley
The Man Who Would Not Die
Stone Gods
Silver Spoons & Broken Bones
8
Cannibal Corpse
Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years
Whitechapel
This Is Exile
14
Daylight Dies
Lost to the Living
18
Chrome Division
Booze, Broads and Beelzebub
Fear My Thoughts
Isolation
21
Krisiun
Southern Storm
22
Misery Signals
Controller
Neuraxis
The Thin Line Between
Nine Inch Nails
The Slip
War of Ages
Arise and Conquer
27
Chelsea Grin
Chelsea Grin (EP)
29
Soulfly
Conquer
Dr. Acula
Below Me
August [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
5
Norma Jean
The Anti Mother
12
Extreme
Saudades de Rock
Blessed By a Broken Heart
Pedal to the Metal
19
The Acacia Strain
Continent
The Human Abstract
Midheaven
Machinae Supremacy
Overworld
The Showdown
Back Breaker
Staind
The Illusion of Progress
20
DragonForce
Ultra Beatdown
Slipknot
All Hope Is Gone
22
Oomph!
Monster
25
Into Eternity
The Incurable Tragedy
26
Motörhead
Motörizer
29
Angband
Rising from Apadana
Destruction
D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.
Haggard
Tales of Ithiria
25
Acid Drinkers
Verses of Steel
September [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
1
The Berzerker
The Reawakening
Volbeat
Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood
Welicoruss
5
All Shall Perish
Awaken the Dreamers
Iced Earth
The Crucible of Man
9
Brian "Head" Welch
Save Me From Myself
12
Metallica
Death Magnetic
16
All That Remains
Overcome
Andromeda
The Immunity Zone
Avenged Sevenfold
Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough
Intronaut
Prehistoricisms
Obituary
Left to Die
17
Amon Amarth
Twilight of the Thunder God
Swallow the Sun
Plague of Butterflies
The Haunted
Versus
19
Evergrey
Torn
Falchion
Chronicles of the Dead
Sonic Syndicate
Love and Other Disasters
22
Omnium Gatherum
The Redshift
23
Metal Church
This Present Wasteland
24
Battlelore
The Last Alliance
26
Holy Moses
Agony of Death
Psycroptic
Ob(Servant)
29
Bring Me the Horizon
Suicide Season
Enslaved
Vertebrae
Dagoba
Face The Colossus
30
Bleeding Through
Declaration
Dream Theater
Chaos in Motion 2007–2008
In This Moment
The Dream
Jeff Loomis
Zero Order Phase
Megadeth
Anthology: Set the World Afire
Suspyre
When Time Fades...
Trivium
Shogun
October [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
6
Bloodbath
The Fathomless Mastery
7
Tesla
Forever More
13
Gojira
The Way of All Flesh
14
Haste the Day
Dreamer
See You Next Tuesday
Intervals
Unearth
The March
Yngwie Malmsteen
Perpetual Flame
17
Zonaria
The Cancer Empire
20
The Amenta
n0n
Darkthrone
Dark Thrones and Black Flags
21
Disciple
Southern Hospitality
22
Thyrfing
Hels vite
AC/DC
Black Ice
23
Lordi
Deadache
24
Darkane
Demonic Art
Catamenia
VIII - The Time Unchained
Sylosis
Conclusion of an Age
25
Cradle of Filth
Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder
28
Beneath the Massacre
Dystopia
Exodus
Let There Be Blood
November [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
3
Satyricon
The Age of Nero
Turisas
A Finnish Summer With Turisas
10
The Red Shore
Unconsecrated
11
Attack Attack!
Someday Came Suddenly
Behemoth
Ezkaton
Dance Club Massacre
Circle of Death
Dir en Grey
Uroboros
The Faceless
Planetary Duality
Light This City
Stormchaser
Six Feet Under
Death Rituals
Sympathy
Anagogic Tyranny
Pig Destroyer
Natasha (EP)
14
Edguy
Tinnitus Sanctus
Elvenking
Two Tragedy Poets (...and a Caravan of Weird Figures)
Hortus Animae
Funeral Nation / 10 Years Of Hortus Animae [23]
17
Cynic
Traced in Air
18
Mononc' Serge & Anonymus
Musique Barbare
Mudvayne
The New Game
24
Arch Enemy
Tyrants of the Rising Sun
25
Becoming the Archetype
Dichotomy
December [ ]
Day
Artist
Album
18
Tankard
Thirst
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