1999 in heavy metal music

Newly formed bands

10 Years

Agents of Oblivion

A Perfect Circle

A Life Once Lost

Becoming the Archetype

Battlelore

Bloodbath

DragonForce (Then Dragonheart)

Dragonland

Avenged Sevenfold

Bleeding Through

Blaze

Divinity Destroyed

Dream Evil

Falconer

Five pointe o

Kalmah

Killswitch Engage

Lamb of God was formed from Burn the Priest

Mastodon

Metalium

Mors Principium Est

Protest the Hero

QueenAdreena (Then Queen Adreena)

Sabaton

Shadowkeep

Tomahawk

Trivium

Reformed bands

Destruction (Schmier's comeback)

Pungent Stench

Rollins Band

Skid Row

Lost Horizon (reformed as Highlander, name was changed soon after)

Albums

Aborted - The Purity of Perversion

Agalloch - Pale Folklore

Akercocke - Rape of the Bastard Nazarene

Alabama Thunderpussy - River City Revival

Alice Cooper - The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper

Alice in Chains - Nothing Safe: Best of the Box, Music Bank

American Head Charge - Trepanation

Amon Amarth - The Avenger (album)

Anathema - Judgement

Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges

Bal-Sagoth - The Power Cosmic

Behemoth - Satanica

Black Label Society - Sonic Brew

Bruce Dickinson - Scream for Me Brazil

Burn the Priest - Burn the Priest

Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst

Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder

Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence

Cradle of Filth - From the Cradle to Enslave

Dark Tranquility - Projector

Def Leppard - Euphoria

Destruction "The Butcher Strikes Back (demo)

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity

Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions

Edguy - Theater of Salvation

Darkthrone - Ravishing Grimness

Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

Dope - Felons and Revolutionaries

Emperor - IX Equilibrium

Evergrey - Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy

Finntroll - Midnattens Widunder

God Forbid - Reject the Sickness

Godflesh - Us and Them

Grip Inc. - "Solidify".

Handguns - Crimson Tide of Sea

Hank Williams III - Risin' Outlaw

Immolation - Failures for Gods

Immortal - At the Heart of Winter

In Flames - Colony

Katatonia - Tonight's Decision

Kittie - Spit

Korn - Issues

Kreator - Endorama

Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Alchemy

Lacuna Coil - In a Reverie

Limp Bizkit - Significant Other

Tony MacAlpine - Master Of Paradise

Machine Head - The Burning Red

Marduk - Panzer Division Marduk

Marilyn Manson - The Last Tour on Earth (live)

Mercyful Fate - 9

Megadeth - Risk

Metal Church - Masterpeace

Metallica - S&M

Metalium - Millennium Metal Chapter One

Moonspell - The Butterfly Effect

Mortification - Hammer of God

Mr. Bungle - California

Motörhead - Everything Louder Than Everyone Else (live)

Mushroomhead - M3

My Dying Bride - The Light at the End of the World

Napalm Death - Words from the Exit Wound

Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

Oomph! - Plastik

Opeth - Still Life

Overkill - "Necroshine".

Pig Destroyer - Pig Destroyer/Gnob (Split EP)

Pitchshifter - Un-UK EP

Primus - Antipop

Rage - Ghosts

Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles

Rammstein - Live Aus Berlin

Ratt - Ratt

Scorpions - Eye II Eye

Sevendust - Home

Slipknot - Slipknot

Sodom - Code Red

Solefald - Neonism

Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica

Staind - Dysfunction

Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip

Steve Vai - The Ultra Zone

Stratovarius - The Chosen Ones

Summoning - Stronghold

Testament - The Gathering

Therion - Crowning of Atlantis

Throwdown - Beyond Repair

Type O Negative - "World Coming Down"

uneXpect - Utopia

W.A.S.P. - Helldorado (album)

Zao - Liberate Te Ex Inferis

Disbandments

Death

Mercyful Fate- on hiatus

Events

Drummer Tommy Lee left Mötley Crüe

Ex-drummer of Megadeth Gar Samuelson dies at age 41 from liver failure.

Singer Blaze Bayley leaves Iron Maiden, while Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith re-join.

Kittie bassist Tanya Candler quits. She is later replaced by Talena Atfield

ICS Vortex joins Dimmu Borgir on bass/backing vocals. Drummer Nicholas Barker leaves Cradle Of Filth and joins as well.

Singer Naoki Hashimoto left Outrage.

Mudvayne signs with Epic Records.

Poison appear in an episode of Behind the Music.