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2008 in heavy metal music

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2008 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2008.

Contents

Bands formed

  • Uneven Structure

    • Reformed bands

  • At the Gates (for a few shows)
  • Carcass (for touring)
  • Einherjer (for touring)
  • Exhorder (for a few tours and some new material)
  • Forbidden (for a few shows)
  • Krokus
  • Living Sacrifice
  • Spineshank

    • Disbandments

  • Alabama Thunderpussy
  • Beneath the Sky
  • Byzantine
  • Celtic Frost
  • Dead to Fall
  • Demigod
  • The Duskfall
  • From Autumn To Ashes
  • Himsa
  • Knorkator
  • Ministry
  • My Bitter End
  • Sieges Even
  • SikTh
  • Still Remains
  • The Red Death
  • The Agony Scene
  • Remove the Veil

    • Events

  • Twiggy Ramirez rejoins Marilyn Manson in early January.
  • Mikael Åkerfeldt rejoins Bloodbath in late January.
  • Ola Frenning leaves Soilwork in February.
  • Chris Broderick joins Megadeth in February.
  • Timo Tolkki leaves Stratovarius after some internal troubles in March.
  • Thomas Gabriel Fischer leaves Celtic Frost in April.
  • Singer Lisa Middelhauve leaves Xandria in April.
  • On May 11, original Rush drummer John Rutsey died in his sleep from an apparent heart attack.
  • Blasphemer leaves Mayhem in May.
  • Mike Kimball leaves Dying Fetus in May.
  • On July 27, former White Spirit and Tank drummer Graeme Crallan died after a fall in a London street.
  • Wes Borland joins Marilyn Manson's lineup in mid-August.
  • D.R.I. guitarist Spike Cassidy makes a full recovery from cancer.
  • Snot reforms with ex-Divine Heresy vocalist Tommy Vext.
  • Michael Nicklasson leaves Dark Tranquillity in August.
  • Jeff Singer leaves Paradise Lost in August.
  • Christian "Witchhunter" Dudek, ex-drummer of Sodom, dies of liver failure on September 7,.
  • Christian Älvestam leaves Scar Symmetry in September.
  • Peter Wichers rejoins Soilwork in September.
  • Tormentor rejoins Gorgoroth in September, as does Pest in December.
  • Denny Axelsson, vocalist of Blinded Colony, leaves the band.
  • Former Marilyn Manson bassist Gidget Gein dies of a heroin overdose.
  • Josh Freese plans to depart from Nine Inch Nails by the end of 2008.
  • John Kempainen leaves The Black Dahlia Murder in December.
  • Job For A Cowboy founding member and guitarist Ravi Bhadriraju leaves the band in late 2008.
  • Al Glassman leaves Despised Icon to join Job For A Cowboy.
  • Gaahl (ex-Gorgoroth) reveals his homosexuality.

    • Albums released

    All releases are studio albums unless otherwise noted.

    References

    2008 in heavy metal music Wikipedia
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