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2004 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2004.

Contents

Newly formed bands

  • Abigail Williams
  • Age of Silence
  • The Agonist (as The Tempest)
  • Alter Bridge
  • Catherine
  • Celestiial
  • Chrome Division
  • Demonoid
  • Genghis Tron
  • Job for a Cowboy
  • Legion of the Damned
  • myGrain
  • Savage Circus
  • Scale the Summit
  • Scar Symmetry
  • Sturm und Drang
  • Threat Signal
  • Vreid
  • Wintersun

    • Reformed bands

  • Extreme (for a few shows)
  • Glyder
  • Megadeth
  • Mötley Crüe

    • Albums

  • 3 Inches of Blood – Advance and Vanquish
  • The Acacia Strain – 3750
  • Aerosmith – Honkin' On Bobo
  • After Forever – Invisible Circles
  • Age of Silence – Acceleration
  • Alabama Thunderpussy – Fulton Hill
  • Alter Bridge – One Day Remains
  • Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns
  • Angra – Temple of Shadows
  • Ayreon – The Human Equation
  • Behemoth – Demigod
  • Beseech – Drama
  • Black Label Society – Hangover Music Vol. VI
  • Bon Jovi – 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong
  • Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spawn
  • Chevelle – This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)
  • Cradle of Filth – Nymphetamine
  • Damageplan – New Found Power
  • Decapitated – The Negation
  • Def Leppard – Best of Def Leppard
  • Demon Hunter – Summer of Darkness
  • The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine
  • Dio – Master of the Moon
  • Dokken – Hell to Pay
  • DragonForce – Sonic Firestorm
  • Dream Theater – Live at Budokan
  • Drowning Pool – Desensitized
  • Edguy – Hellfire Club
  • El Tito Mc- La Raza v3
  • Europe – Start from the Dark
  • Exodus – Tempo of the Damned
  • Fear Factory – Archetype
  • Finntroll – Nattfödd
  • God Forbid – Gone Forever. * Grip Inc. - Incorporated. * Iced Earth – The Glorious Burden
  • In Flames – Soundtrack to Your Escape
  • Isis - Panopticon
  • Killswitch Engage – The End of Heartache
  • Kittie – Until the End
  • Kill The Noize – "Play With The Devil"
  • Lamb of God – Ashes of the Wake
  • Lordi – The Monsterican Dream
  • Marilyn Manson – Lest We Forget: The Best of
  • Mastodon – Leviathan
  • Mayhem – Chimera
  • Megadeth – The System Has Failed
  • Mercenary – 11 Dreams
  • Metal Church – The Weight of the World
  • Metalium – As One - Chapter Four
  • Monster Magnet – Monolithic Baby!
  • Motörhead – Inferno
  • My Dying Bride – Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
  • Necrophagist – Epitaph
  • Nightwish – Once
  • No Big Silence – Kuidas kuningas kuu peale kippus
  • Oomph! – Wahrheit oder Pflicht
  • Otep – House of Secrets
  • Pig Destroyer – Painter of Dead Girls
  • Pig Destroyer – Terrifyer
  • Power Quest - Neverworld
  • Probot – Probot
  • Rammstein – Reise, Reise
  • Raunchy – Confusion Bay
  • Rhapsody of Fire – Symphony of Enchanted Lands II: The Dark Secret
  • Rush – Feedback
  • Saxon – Lionheart
  • Scarve – Irradiant
  • Scorpions - Unbreakable (Scorpions album)
  • Shadows Fall – The War Within
  • Slipknot – Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
  • Sonata Arctica – Reckoning Night
  • Static-X – Beneath, Between, Beyond
  • Stryper – 7 Weeks: Live in America, 2003
  • The Crest – Vain City Chronicles
  • U.D.O. – Thunderball
  • Van Halen – The Best of Both Worlds
  • Velvet Revolver – Contraband
  • Vintersorg – The Focusing Blur
  • WarCry – Alea Jacta Est
  • Winds – The Imaginary Direction of Time
  • Wintersun – Wintersun

    • Disbandments

  • Bathory
  • Damageplan
  • Nothingface (reformed in 2005)
  • Windir

    • Events

  • Terje Bakken of Windir dies from hypothermia on his way to his grandparents which resulted in Windir disbanding.
  • Brian Welch leaves Korn after converting to Christianity.
  • Damageplan and former Pantera lead guitarist Dimebag Darrell is murdered on 8 December by Nathan Gale while performing a concert in Ohio.
  • Bassist Tim Gaines leaves Stryper after 10 complete years. He is replaced by Tracy Ferrie.
  • Body Count rhythm guitarist D-Roc dies from lymphoma at the age of 45.
  • Jason Jones, originally a tattoo artist from Los Angeles, California, was publicly announced as Drowning Pool's new lead singer and joined them on the album Desensitized.
  • Supergroup Velvet Revolver releases their debut album Contraband which debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and goes double platinum.
  • After an eight-year hiatus, Extreme briefly returns for a short tour and a few concerts in Japan.
  • Van Halen reunites with Sammy Hagar for a summer tour.
  • Anal Cunt vocalist Seth Putnam slips into a coma after consuming a large amount of drugs.
  • Aerosmith returns to a raw hard rock sound with their blues cover album Honkin' on Bobo
  • Terry Balsamo leaves Cold and joins Evanescence as their new guitarist
  • Guitarist Lisa Marx joins Kittie as a session member, replacing Jeff Phillips
  • Nasum guitarist/vocalist Mieszko Talarczyk dies as a result of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (although his body was not identified until 17 February the following year). Consequently, Nasum would later disband.
  • Maniac leaves Mayhem and is replaced by the band's former singer, Attila Csihar.
  • After more than 10 years of long break, Europe release the new album titled Start from the Dark with their classic line up consist of Joey Tempest-Vocals, John Norum-Guitars, Mic Michaeli-Keyboards, John Levén-Bass, Ian Haugland-Drums. Guitarist Kee Marcello is back to his old band – Easy Action.
  • Ace Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg, founder of the Black/Viking metal band Bathory dies, at the age of 38.
  • Dave Mustaine reforms Megadeth with 3 session musicians, former and original Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland, bassist Jimmie Lee Sloas and drummer Vinnie Colaiuta to record The System Has Failed, then tour the album with full-time members Glen Drover on guitar, James MacDonough on bass and Shawn Drover on drums.
  • Ex-Judas Priest drummer Dave Holland is sentenced to eight years in prison for attempted rape against a then 17-year-old boy.

    • References

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