This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2005.
Ava Inferi
Bourbon Crow
Beyond Fear
Carnifex
Cronian
Disarm
Ihsahn
In This Moment
Five Finger Death Punch
Stream of Passion
Alice in Chains
Anthrax
Devourment
Emperor
Nothingface
Terrorizer
Disbanded bands
Symphony in Peril
Aborted - The Archaic Abattoir
Alice Cooper – Dirty Diamonds
After Forever – Remagine
Akercocke – Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
Arch Enemy – Doomsday Machine
As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security
Avenged Sevenfold – City of Evil
Beseech – Sunless Days
Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma
Black Label Society – Mafia, Kings of Damnation 98-04
Bolt Thrower – Those Once Loyal
Bon Jovi – Have a Nice Day
Bruce Dickinson – Tyranny of Souls
Bullet for My Valentine – The Poison
Candlemass – Candlemass
Children of Bodom – Are You Dead Yet?
Chimaira – Chimaira
Clutch – Robot Hive/Exodus
Cog – The New Normal
Crashdiet – Rest in Sleaze
Cryptopsy – Once Was Not
Dark Tranquillity – Character
Deep Purple – Rapture of the Deep
Def Leppard – Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection
Deftones – B-Sides & Rarities
Destruction - Inventor of Evil
DevilDriver – The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
Devourment – Butcher the Weak
Dimmu Borgir – Stormblåst MMV
Disturbed – Ten Thousand Fists
Divinity Destroyed – Eden in Ashes
Divinity Destroyed – The Plague
Dream Theater – Octavarium
Early Man – Closing In
Exodus – Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Freak Kitchen – Organic
Fear Factory – Transgression
Forever Slave – Alice's Inferno
Gizmachi – The Imbuing
God Forbid – IV: Constitution of Treason
Gojira – From Mars to Sirius
Gorefest - La Muerte
Handguns – Stand Your Ground
HammerFall – Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
Hate Eternal - I, Monarch
Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy
High on Fire – Blessed Black Wings
Hortus Animae – The Blow Of Furious Winds
Hypocrisy - Virus
Immolation – Harnessing Ruin
Into The Moat – The Design
Jacobs Dream – Drama of the Ages
Job for a Cowboy – Doom
Judas Priest – Angel of Retribution
Kamelot – The Black Halo
Korn - See You on the Other Side
Kreator – Enemy of God
Life of Agony – Broken Valley
Limp Bizkit – The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1)
Lordi – The Monster Show
Yngwie J. Malmsteen – Unleash the Fury
Massacration – Gates of Metal Fried Chicken of Death
Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree
Metalium – Demons of Insanity - Chapter Five
Mötley Crüe – Red, White & Crüe
Mournful Congregation – The Monad of Creation
Mourning Beloveth – A Murderous Circus
Mudvayne – Lost and Found
Napalm Death - The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code
Nevermore – This Godless Endeavor
Nile – Annihilation of the Wicked
Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth
Obituary - Frozen in Time
Origin - Echoes of Decimation
Opeth – Ghost Reveries
Overkill - "ReliXIV".
Parkway Drive – Killing with a Smile
Power Quest - Magic Never Dies
Priestess – Hello Master
Primordial – The Gathering Wilderness
Protest the Hero – Kezia
QueenAdreena – The Butcher and the Butterfly
Queens of the Stone Age – Lullabies to Paralyze
RAM – Forced Entry
Rammstein – Rosenrot
The Red Chord – Clients
Roadrunner United – The All-Star Sessions
Runemagick – Envenom
Sabaton – Primo Victoria
Scar Symmetry - Symmetric in Design
Sentenced – The Funeral Album
Slechtvalk – At the Dawn of War
Soilwork – Stabbing the Drama
Solefald – Red For Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1
Soulfly - Dark Ages
Static-X – Start a War
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Stratovarius – Stratovarius
Stream of Passion - Embrace the Storm
Stryper – Reborn
Sturmgeist – Meister Mephisto
System of a Down – Mezmerize
System of a Down – Hypnotize
Sonata Arctica – The End of This Chapter
Through the Eyes of the Dead - Bloodlust
Throwdown - Vendetta
Trivium – Ascendancy
Visions of Atlantis – Cast Away (album)
WarCry – ¿Dónde Está La Luz?
Winds of Plague - A Cold Day in Hell
Winter Solstice - The Fall of Rome
Disbandments
Exhumed (indefinite hiatus)
Sentenced
Korn guitarist Brian "Head" Welch leaves the band.
Soilwork guitarist Peter Wichers leaves the band in late December after playing in the band for ten years to concentrate on record producing.
Static-X lead guitarist Tripp Eisen was arrested in February for "lewd conduct against children", and was fired from the band.
Former Vader drummer Docent dies.
Vocalist Tarja Turunen was fired from Nightwish.
Jason Jones' departure from Drowning Pool was publicly announced on June 14, 2005, due to irreconcilable differences. On August 25 at the Ozzfest date in Dallas, Texas, Drowning Pool did a guest shot performance on the main stage debuting their new singer Ryan McCombs.
Visions of Atlantis lead vocalist Nicole Bogner quits and is replaced by ex-Aesma Daeva vocalist, Melissa Ferlaak. Guitarist Werner Fielder quits and is replaced by Wolfgang Koch.
Kittie bassist Jennifer Arroyo quits and is replaced by Trish Doan. Session guitarist Lisa Marx quits and is replaced by Tara McLeod
Hellhammer becomes Dimmu Borgir's new drummer.
Former Metal Church singer David Wayne dies at age 47.
Denis "Piggy" D'Amour of Voivod dies.
American Head Charge guitarist Bryan Ottoson dies at 27.
Motörhead picked up their first Grammy in the awards of 2005 in the Best Metal Performance category for their cover of Metallica's "Whiplash" on Metallic Attack: The Ultimate Tribute
Sentenced members announce their break-up and the release of their very last album The Funeral Album. On October 1, they play and record their final show Buried Alive (released on 2006) on their hometown Oulu, Finland.
Dave Mustaine, frontman of Megadeth puts together music festival Gigantour for the first time.
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