2000 in heavy metal music

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

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Newly formed bands

• 5ive
• A Perfect Murder
• Adagio
• Adema
• Alcest
• Alove for Enemies
• Angelus Apatrida
• Animosity
• The Answer
• Antigama
• Apostasy
• Arsis
• As I Lay Dying
• Beto Vázquez Infinity
• Between the Buried and Me
• Beyond the Embrace
• Bucovina
• Byzantine
• Cannae
• Car Bomb
• Circus Maximus
• Crashdïet
• The Darkness
• Deadsoul Tribe
• Deathstars
• Debauchery
• Demon Hunter
• Disarmonia Mundi
• Forever Slave
• From Autumn to Ashes
• Full Blown Chaos
• Hammers of Misfortune
• Hatesphere
• Hurt
• Indukti
• Kiuas
• Machinae Supremacy
• Majesty
• Mar de Grises
• Mastodon
• Mgła
• Mirrorthrone
• Mystic Prophecy
• Nachtmystium
• Nightrage
• The Ocean
• Ondskapt
• Otep
• Pagan's Mind
• Pantheist
• Peste Noire
• Place of Skulls
• Planet X
• Poisonblack
• Shaaman
• Seventh Wonder
• Steel Panther
• Swallow the Sun
• Sylosis
• Thunderstone
• Ulcerate
• Ünloco
• The Vision Bleak
• Visions of Atlantis
• Warmen
• Witchcraft

Reformed bands

• Britny Fox
• Living Colour

Sorted Albums

January

Day	Artist	Album
11	Chimaira	This Present Darkness (EP)
	Kittie	Spit
17	Sentenced	Crimson
18	Cro-Mags	Revenge
25	Primer 55	Introduction to Mayhem
31	Macabre	Dahmer
	Therion	Deggial

February

Day	Artist	Album
1	Skillet	Invincible
7	Gorgoroth	Incipit Satan
	Melvins	The Crybaby
8	Bloodbath	Breeding Death (EP)
	Demons & Wizards	Demons & Wizards
	Soilwork	The Chainheart Machine
28	AC/DC	Stiff Upper Lip
	Stratovarius	Infinite
29	Rollins Band	Get Some -> Go Again

March

Day	Artist	Album
6	Entombed	Uprising
7	Alabama Thunderpussy	Constellation
	Armored Saint	Revelation
	Disturbed	The Sickness
	High on Fire	The Art of Self Defense
13	Old Man's Child	Revelation 666 – The Curse of Damnation
14	Poison	Crack a Smile... and More!
20	Vader	Litany
21	Dio	Magica
	Morgana Lefay	S.O.S
27	Immortal	Damned in Black
	Pantera	Reinventing the Steel

April

Day	Artist	Album
17	Borknagar	Quintessence
	Decapitated	Winds of Creation
18	Black Label Society	Stronger than Death
24	After Forever	Prison of Desire
25	Boysetsfire	After the Eulogy
	Destruction	All Hell Breaks Loose

May

Day	Artist	Album
22	Blaze Bayley	Silicon Messiah
23	A Perfect Circle	Mer de Noms
29	Iron Maiden	Brave New World

June

Day	Artist	Album
6	Alice Cooper	Brutal Planet
8	Cave In	Jupiter
20	Ayreon	Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer
	Ayreon	Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator
	Deftones	White Pony
26	Devin Townsend	Physicist (album)
27	Deicide	Insineratehymn

July

Day	Artist	Album
7	Dark Tranquillity	Haven

September

Day	Artist	Album
12	At the Drive-In	Relationship of Command
	Type O Negative	After Dark (live)
19	Cannibal Corpse	Live Cannibalism (live)
25	Electric Wizard	Dopethrone

October

Day	Artist	Album
2	Apocalyptica	Cult
3	Enslaved	Mardraum – Beyond the Within
10	Slash's Snakepit	Ain't Life Grand
17	100 Demons	In the Eyes of the Lord
30	Children of Bodom	Follow the Reaper
	Cradle of Filth	Midian

November

Day	Artist	Album
27	Behemoth	Thelema.6

December

Day	Artist	Album
5	Alice in Chains	Live
12	Ayreon	Ayreonauts Only (compilation)

Unsorted Albums

• Downset. – Check Your People
• Edguy – The Savage Poetry (re-recording)
• Fates Warning – Disconnected
• Glassjaw – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
• Godflesh – Messiah (EP)
• Godsmack – Awake
• Halford – Resurrection
• HammerFall – Renegade
• Heaven Shall Burn – Asunder
• Helloween – The Dark Ride
• The Hives – Veni Vidi Vicious
• Immolation – Close to a World Below
• Incantation – The Infernal Storm
• In Flames – Clayman
• Iron Maiden – Brave New World
• Isis – Celestial
• Jag Panzer – Thane to the Throne
• Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage
• King Diamond – House of God
• King's X – Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous
• Lamb of God – New American Gospel
• Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
• Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
• Madball – Hold It Down
• Marilyn Manson – Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
• Metalium – State of Triumph – Chapter Two
• Misanthrope – Misanthrope Immortel
• Misanthrope – Recueil d'Écueils: les Épaves et Autres Oeuvres Interdites (compilation)
• Morbid Angel – Gateways to Annihilation
• Monster Magnet – God Says No
• Motörhead – We Are Motörhead
• Mötley Crüe – New Tattoo
• Mudvayne – L.D. 50
• Nasum – Human 2.0
• Nevermore – Dead Heart in a Dead World
• Nightwish – Wishmaster
• Nile – Black Seeds of Vengeance
• Nothingface – Violence
• No-Big-Silence – Successful, Bitch & Beautiful
• One Minute Silence – Buy Now... Saved Later
• Orange Goblin – The Big Black
• Origin – Origin
• Overkill – Bloodletting
• Papa Roach – Infest
• Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I
• Paul Di'Anno – Nomad
• Pig Destroyer – 7" Picture Disc (EP)
• Pig Destroyer – Isis / Pig Destroyer (split EP)
• Pitchshifter – Deviant
• Poison – Power to the People
• Pro-Pain – Round 6
• QueenAdreena – Taxidermy
• Racer X – Technical Difficulties (Europe and US versions)
• Raised Fist – Ignoring the Guidelines
• Rhapsody – Dawn of Victory
• Rob Rock – Rage of Creation
• Rotting Christ - Khronos
• Saxon – Burrn! Presents: The Best of Saxon (compilation)
• Scorpions – Moment of Glory (compilation)
• Scarve – Translucence
• Seven Witches – City of Lost Souls
• Shadows Fall – Of One Blood
• Shuvel – Set It Off
• Sinergy – To Hell and Back
• Ska-P – Planeta Eskoria
• Soulfly – Primitive
• Soulreaper - Written in Blood
• Static-X – The Death Trip Continues (EP)
• Stratovarius – 14 Diamonds (compilation)
• Suicidal Tendencies – Free Your Soul and Save My Mind
• Symphony X – V: The New Mythology Suite
• Tad Morose – Undead
• Theatre of Tragedy – Musique
• The Chasm – Procession to the Infraworld
• The Haunted – Made Me Do It
• The Sins of Thy Beloved – Perpetual Desolation
• Trail of Tears – Profoundemonium
• Underoath – Cries of the Past
• Virgin Steele – The House of Atreus Act II
• Within Temptation – Mother Earth
• Whispering Gallery – Like a Dream of Never-ending Beauty... Love Never Dies
• Yngwie Malmsteen – War to End All Wars

Disbandments

• Rage Against the Machine
• Sacred Reich (Reformed 2006)

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 2 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.

Deaths

• September 21 – Peter "Wildfire" Wittke, founding member and guitarist of Iron Angel, died from injuries sustained in a car crash.