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2000 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2000.

Contents

Newly formed bands

  • 3 Inches of Blood
  • Adagio
  • Arsis
  • As I Lay Dying
  • Beto Vázquez Infinity
  • Crashdiet
  • Disarmonia Mundi
  • Forever Slave
  • Full Blown Chaos
  • Kiuas
  • Nachtmystium
  • Otep
  • Pagan's Mind
  • Shaaman
  • Swallow the Sun
  • Thunderstone
  • Ulcerate
  • Visions of Atlantis
  • Warmen
  • Wolfmother

    • Reformed bands

  • Living Colour

    • Albums

  • AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip
  • After Forever - Prison of Desire
  • Alabama Thunderpussy - Constellation
  • Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet
  • Alice in Chains - Live
  • A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
  • Ayreon - Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer
  • Ayreon - Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator
  • Ayreon - Ayreonauts Only
  • Behemoth - Thelema.6
  • Black Label Society - Stronger Than Death
  • Bloodbath - Breeding Death
  • Cannibal Corpse - Live Cannibalism
  • Chimaira- This Present Darkness EP
  • Cradle of Filth - Midian
  • Deftones - White Pony
  • Deicide - Insineratehymn
  • Deliverance - Assimilation
  • Devin Townsend - Physicist
  • Dio - Magica
  • Disturbed - The Sickness
  • Godflesh - Messiah EP
  • Godsmack - Awake
  • HammerFall - Renegade
  • Helloween - The Dark Ride
  • Immortal - Damned in Black
  • In Flames - Clayman
  • Iron Maiden - Brave New World
  • Jag Panzer - Thane to the Throne
  • Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
  • Lamb of God - New American Gospel
  • Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
  • Macabre - Dahmer
  • Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
  • Melvins - The Crybaby
  • Metalium - State of Triumph Chapter Two
  • Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation
  • Monster Magnet - God Says No
  • Motörhead - We Are Motörhead
  • Mötley Crüe - New Tattoo
  • Mudvayne - L.D. 50
  • Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
  • Nightwish - Wishmaster
  • Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
  • Nothingface - Violence
  • No Big Silence - Successful, Bitch & Beautiful
  • Overkill - Bloodletting
  • Pantera - Reinventing The Steel
  • Paul Di'Anno - Nomad
  • Pig Destroyer - 7" Picture Disc (EP)
  • Pig Destroyer - Pig Destroyer/Isis (Split EP)
  • Pitchshifter - Deviant
  • Poison - Crack a Smile...and More!
  • Poison - Power to the People
  • QueenAdreena - Taxidermy
  • Racer X - Technical Difficulties
  • Rob Rock - Rage of Creation
  • Rollins Band - Get Some -> Go Again
  • Rhapsody of Fire - Dawn of Victory
  • Scorpions - Moment of Glory
  • Sabaton - Fist for Fight
  • Saxon - Burrn! Presents: The Best of Saxon
  • Sentenced - Crimson
  • Shadows Fall - Of One Blood
  • Soulfly - Primitive
  • Static-X - The Death Trip Continues
  • Stratovarius - Infinite, 14 Diamonds
  • Symphony X - V-The New Mythology Suite
  • Tad Morose - "Undead"
  • Theatre of Tragedy - Musique
  • The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld
  • Vader - Litany
  • Yngwie J. Malmsteen - War to End All Wars

    • Disbandments

  • Rage Against the Machine
  • Sacred Reich

    • Events

  • Al Pitrelli replaces Marty Friedman on guitar for Megadeth.
  • Metallica releases a song "I Disappear" that was never released on any studio albums and appears on the Mission: Impossible II soundtrack. This song also started the famous Napster Controversy
  • Angela Gossow replaces Johan Liiva on vocals for Arch Enemy.
  • Mr. Bungle play their final concert.

    • References

    2000 in heavy metal music Wikipedia
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