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1998 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1998.

Contents

Newly Formed bands

  • 8 Foot Sativa
  • 40 Below Summer
  • Atreyu
  • Betzefer
  • Breaking Benjamin
  • Bullet For My Valentine (As Jeff Killed John)
  • Chimaira
  • Cog
  • Crucified Barbara
  • Freedom Call
  • Odd Crew (As Kaskadiori)
  • Peccatum
  • Ram-Zet
  • Rebaelliun
  • Rob Zombie
  • The Project Hate MCMXCIX
  • Týr
  • Underoath
  • Unearth
  • Winds
  • Disbanded bands

  • 24-7 Spyz
  • Vulcain
  • Albums

  • Alabama Thunderpussy - Rise Again
  • Anathema - Alternative 4
  • Apocalyptica - Inquisition Symphony
  • Arch Enemy - Stigmata
  • Atreyu - Visions (EP)
  • Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
  • Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
  • Bolt Thrower - Mercenary
  • Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
  • Cannibal Corpse - Gallery of Suicide
  • Children of Bodom – Something Wild
  • Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast
  • Death - The Sound of Perseverance
  • Deep Purple - Abandon
  • Destruction - The Least Successful Human Cannonball
  • Devin Townsend - Christeen +4 Demos
  • Devin Townsend - Infinity
  • The Dillinger Escape Plan - Under the Running Board
  • Dimmu Borgir - Godless Savage Garden
  • Dream Theater - Once in a LIVEtime (live)
  • Edguy - Vain Glory Opera
  • Eldritch - El Niño
  • EverEve - Stormbirds
  • Fear Factory - Obsolete
  • Freak Kitchen - Freak Kitchen
  • Godsmack - Godsmack
  • HammerFall - Legacy of Kings
  • Helloween - Better Than Raw
  • Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
  • Iron Maiden - Virtual XI
  • Kamelot - Siége Perilous
  • Katatonia - Discouraged Ones
  • KISS - Psycho Circus
  • Korn - Follow the Leader
  • Krisiun - Apocalyptic Revelation
  • Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in Em, Opus 1, Double Live!
  • Mercenary - First Breath
  • Metal Church - Live
  • Metallica - Garage Inc.
  • Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
  • Monster Magnet - Powertrip
  • Moonspell - Sin/Pecado
  • Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
  • Mötley Crüe - Greatest Hits
  • Motörhead - Snake Bite Love
  • My Dying Bride - 34.788%... Complete
  • Nightwish - Oceanborn
  • Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
  • Nothingface - An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity
  • Oomph! - Unrein
  • Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
  • Pig Destroyer - Explosions In Ward 6
  • Pitchshifter - www.pitchshifter.com
  • Primal Fear - Primal Fear
  • Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
  • Rage - XIII
  • Rhapsody of Fire - Symphony of Enchanted Lands
  • Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
  • Rush - Different Stages
  • Savatage - The Wake of Magellan
  • Sentenced - Frozen
  • Sepultura - Against
  • Skid Row - Forty Seasons: The best...
  • Slayer - Diabolus In Musica
  • Strapping Young Lad - No Sleep 'till Bedtime - Live in Australia
  • Stratovarius - Visions of Europe (live)
  • Stratovarius - Destiny
  • Symphony X - Twilight in Olympus
  • System of a Down - System of a Down
  • Tankard - Disco Destroyer
  • Theatre of Tragedy - Aégis
  • Vader - "Kingdom EP"
  • Van Halen - Van Halen III
  • Virgin Black - Trance EP
  • Virgin Steele - Invictus
  • Disbandments

  • 24-7 Spyz
  • Destruction (reformed in 1999)
  • Faith No More (reformed in 2009)
  • Events

  • Aerosmith becomes the first rock band to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the single "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
  • Mustis joins Dimmu Borgir on keyboards.
  • Rob Halford of Judas Priest announces his homosexuality in an MTV interview.
  • Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, guitarist of the Japanese heavy metal band X Japan, dies at an age of 33 years on May 2, 1998.
  • Poison singer Bret Michaels directs and stars in the film A Letter from Death Row.
  • References

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