2001 in heavy metal music

Newly formed bands

The Acacia Strain

A Band Called Pain

The Black Dahlia Murder

Black Majesty

Blackguard

Dragonlord

Equilibrium

Galneryus

Masterplan

Municipal Waste

Power Quest

Textures

Seraphim

Sirenia

WarCry

Re-formed bands

Celtic Frost

Jane's Addiction

Rush

Albums

Aborted - Engineering the Dead

Aerosmith - Just Push Play

After Forever - Decipher

Akercocke - The Goat of Mendes

Alice Cooper - Dragontown

Alice in Chains - Greatest Hits

Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin

Atreyu - Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty (EP)

American Head Charge - The War of Art

Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet

Black Label Society - Alcohol Fueled Brewtality

Bolt Thrower - Honour - Valour - Pride

Bon Jovi - One Wild Night Live 1985–2001

Bruce Dickinson - The Best of Bruce Dickinson

Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

Chimaira - Pass Out of Existence

Cradle of Filth - Bitter Suites to Succubi

Devin Townsend - Terria

Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

Divinity Destroyed - Nocturnal Dawn

Drowning Pool - Sinner

Edguy - Mandrake

Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise

Fear Factory - Digimortal

Finntroll - Jaktens Tid

God Forbid - Determination

Godflesh - Hymns

Godflesh - In All Languages

Gojira - Terra Incognita

Handguns - End Of An Era

Iced Earth - Horror Show

Judas Priest - Demolition

Kittie - Oracle

Kreator - Violent Revolution

Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories

Tony MacAlpine - Chromaticity

Machine Head - Supercharger

Mastodon - Lifesblood

Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero

Moonspell - Darkness and Hope

Mushroomhead- XX

My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours

Oomph! - Ego

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Ozzy Osbourne - Down to Earth

Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard

Racer X - Superheroes

Rage - Welcome to the Other Side

Rammstein - Mutter

Reverend - A Gathering of Demons

Rollins Band - Nice

Rhapsody of Fire - Rain of a Thousand Flames

Savatage - Poets and Madmen

Scorpions - Acoustica (Scorpions album)

Slayer - God Hates Us All

Solefald - Pills Against The Ageless Ills

SOiL - Scars

Sonata Arctica - Silence

Skrape - New Killer America

Slipknot - Iowa

Static-X - Machine

Stratovarius - Intermission

Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame

System of a Down - Toxicity

Theatre of Tragedy - Closure: Live

Throwdown - You Don't Have to Be Blood to Be Family

The Crest - Letters From Fire

Tool - Lateralus

Tomahawk - Tomahawk

Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic

Disbandments

Emperor

Death

Events

Death guitarist Chuck Schuldiner dies at 34 on December 13 of brain cancer.

Metallica bassist Jason Newsted (who joined after Cliff Burton's death) officially left the band and joined Voivod.

Former Body Count bassist Mooseman is killed in a drive-by shooting on February 21.

Nightwish bassist Sami Vänskä is fired.

Cradle of Filth sign with Epic Records, becoming the first ever black metal band on a major label.

Kittie guitarist Fallon Bowman quits.

Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland leaves the band.