# 2000 in heavy metal music

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

## 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
* Blinded Colony (as Stigmata)
* Bucovina
* Byzantine
* Cannae
* Car Bomb
* Circus Maximus
* Crashdïet
* The Darkness
* Deadsoul Tribe
* Deathstars
* Debauchery
* Demon Hunter
* Desperados
* 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

## Albums
### January

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

### February

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Skillet | Invincible |
| 7 | Gorgoroth | Incipit Satan |
| 7 | Melvins | The Crybaby |
| 8 | Bloodbath | Breeding Death (EP) |
| 8 | Demons & Wizards | Demons & Wizards |
| 8 | Soilwork | The Chainheart Machine |
| 21 | Misanthrope | Recueil d'Écueils: les Épaves et Autres Oeuvres Interdites (compilation) |
| 28 | AC/DC | Stiff Upper Lip |
| 28 | Stratovarius | Infinite |
| 29 | Rollins Band | Get Some -> Go Again |

### March

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

### April

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 3 | Isis | Celestial |
| 4 | Shadows Fall | Of One Blood |
| 8 | Heaven Shall Burn | Asunder |
| 10 | One Minute Silence | Buy Now... Saved Later |
| 10 | The Hives | Veni Vidi Vicious |
| 17 | Borknagar | Quintessence |
| 17 | Decapitated | Winds of Creation |
| 17 | QueenAdreena | Taxidermy |
| 18 | Black Label Society | Stronger than Death |
| 18 | Nasum | Human 2.0 |
| 18 | The Chasm | Procession to the Infraworld |
| 24 | After Forever | Prison of Desire |
| 25 | Boysetsfire | After the Eulogy |
| 25 | Destruction | All Hell Breaks Loose |
| 25 | Papa Roach | Infest |
| 25 | Racer X | Technical Difficulties (Europe and US versions) |
| 25 | Saxon | Burrn! Presents: The Best of Saxon (compilation) |

### May

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 8 | Nightwish | Wishmaster |
| 9 | Glassjaw | Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| 9 | Incantation | The Infernal Storm |
| 9 | Jag Panzer | Thane to the Throne |
| 13 | Trail of Tears | Profoundemonium |
| 15 | Motörhead | We Are Motörhead |
| 16 | Orange Goblin | The Big Black |
| 22 | Blaze Bayley | Silicon Messiah |
| 22 | Raised Fist | Ignoring the Guidelines |
| 23 | A Perfect Circle | Mer de Noms |
| 23 | King's X | Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous |
| 23 | Pitchshifter | Deviant |
| 29 | Iron Maiden | Brave New World |
| 30 | Ska-P | Planeta Eskoria |

### June

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 6 | Alice Cooper | Brutal Planet |
| 8 | Cave In | Jupiter |
| 13 | Poison | Power to the People |
| 20 | Ayreon | Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer |
| 20 | Ayreon | Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator |
| 20 | Deftones | White Pony |
| 20 | King Diamond | House of God |
| 20 | Madball | Hold It Down |
| 20 | The Sins of Thy Beloved | Perpetual Desolation |
| 21 | Stratovarius | 14 Diamonds (compilation) |
| 25 | Edguy | The Savage Poetry (re-recording) |
| 26 | Devin Townsend | Physicist (album) |
| 26 | Metalium | State of Triumph – Chapter Two |
| 27 | Deicide | Insineratehymn |
| 30 | The Haunted | Made Me Do It |

### July

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 3 | In Flames | Clayman |
| 4 | Killswitch Engage | Killswitch Engage |
| 4 | Pig Destroyer | Isis / Pig Destroyer (split EP) |
| 4 | Underoath | Cries of the Past |
| 7 | Dark Tranquillity | Haven |
| 11 | Mötley Crüe | New Tattoo |
| 11 | Origin | Origin |
| 25 | Fates Warning | Disconnected |
| 25 | Sinergy | To Hell and Back |
| 26 | Rob Rock | Rage of Creation |

### August

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 8 | Halford | Resurrection |
| 8 | Scorpions | Moment of Glory (compilation) |
| 17 | Pro-Pain | Round 6 |
| 22 | Mudvayne | L.D. 50 |
| 28 | Rotting Christ | Khronos |
| 29 | Paul Di'Anno | Nomad |
| 29 | Shuvel | Set It Off |

### September

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 5 | Nile | Black Seeds of Vengeance |
| 5 | Nothingface | Violence |
| 12 | At the Drive-In | Relationship of Command |
| 12 | Type O Negative | After Dark (live) |
| 15 | Suicidal Tendencies | Free Your Soul and Save My Mind |
| 19 | Cannibal Corpse | Live Cannibalism (live) |
| 25 | Electric Wizard | Dopethrone |
| 26 | Lamb of God | New American Gospel |
| 26 | Soulfly | Primitive |

### October

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | Apocalyptica | Cult |
| 2 | Theatre of Tragedy | Musique |
| 3 | Dying Fetus | Destroy the Opposition |
| 3 | Enslaved | Mardraum – Beyond the Within |
| 9 | HammerFall | Renegade |
| 10 | Slash's Snakepit | Ain't Life Grand |
| 10 | Symphony X | V: The New Mythology Suite |
| 16 | Virgin Steele | The House of Atreus Act II |
| 17 | 100 Demons | In the Eyes of the Lord |
| 17 | Downset. | Check Your People |
| 17 | Limp Bizkit | Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water |
| 17 | Morbid Angel | Gateways to Annihilation |
| 17 | Nevermore | Dead Heart in a Dead World |
| 18 | Tad Morose | Undead |
| 24 | Linkin Park | Hybrid Theory |
| 24 | Misanthrope | Misanthrope Immortel |
| 24 | Overkill | Bloodletting |
| 30 | Children of Bodom | Follow the Reaper |
| 30 | Cradle of Filth | Midian |
| 30 | Helloween | The Dark Ride |
| 30 | Rhapsody | Dawn of Victory |
| 31 | Godsmack | Awake |
| 31 | Pain of Salvation | The Perfect Element, Part I |

### November

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 7 | Immolation | Close to a World Below |
| 7 | Yngwie Malmsteen | War to End All Wars |
| 11 | Marilyn Manson | Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) |
| 11 | Whispering Gallery | Like a Dream of Never-ending Beauty... Love Never Dies |
| 12 | Monster Magnet | God Says No |
| 27 | Behemoth | Thelema.6 |
| 27 | Rob Rock | Rage of Creation (Non-Japanese releases) |

### December

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 5 | Alice in Chains | Live |
| 5 | Godflesh | Messiah (EP) |
| 5 | Rage Against the Machine | Renegades |
| 6 | Takenori Shimoyama | Acoustic ~ Always Live On |
| 9 | Fading Starlight | Lost |
| 11 | Crystal Eyes | In Silence They March |
| 12 | Abdullah | Abdullah |
| 12 | Ayreon | Ayreonauts Only (compilation) |
| 12 | Melt-Banana | Teeny Shiny |
| 14 | Walls of Jericho | The Bound Feed the Gagged |
| 15 | Boris | Flood |
| 17 | Gargoyle | Future Drug |
| 21 | Svartsyn | ...His Majesty |
| 24 | Onmyo-Za | 百鬼繚乱 |
| 24 | Within Temptation | Mother Earth |

### Albums with unknown release dates

| Month | Artist | Album |
| Unknown | No-Big-Silence | Successful, Bitch & Beautiful |
| Unknown | Pig Destroyer | 7" Picture Disc (EP) |
| Unknown | Static-X | The Death Trip Continues (EP) |
| Unknown | Weakling | Dead as Dreams |

## Singles (WIP)
### January

| Day | Artist | Single |
| 11 | Kittie | Brackish |
| 21 | AC/DC | Stiff Upper Lip |

### February

| Day | Artist | Single |
| 11 | AC/DC | Safe in New York City |

### April

| Day | Artist | Single |
| 29 | Disturbed | Stupify |

### June

| Day | Artist | Single |
| 2 | Metallica | I Disappear |
| 5 | Kittie | Charlotte |

### August

| Day | Artist | Single |
| 29 | Linkin Park | One Step Closer |

### September

| Day | Artist | Single |
| 18 | Melvins | Spit It Out |

### October

| Day | Artist | Single |
| 29 | Disturbed | Down with the Sickness |

### November

| Day | Artist | Single |
| 29 | Disturbed | Voices |

### Singles with unknown release dates

| Month | Artist | Single |
| January | Poison | Shut Up, Make Love |
| February | Poison | Be the One |
| Unknown | Primer 55 | Appetite for Destruction |
| Unknown | Primer 55 | Loose |
| Unknown | Primer 55 | Set It Off |
| Unknown | Rollins Band | Get Some Go Again |
| Unknown | Rollins Band | Illumination |
| Unknown | Skillet | Best Kept Secret |
| Unknown | Skillet | Come On to the Future |
| Unknown | Skillet | Invincible |
| Unknown | Skillet | Rest |
| Unknown | Skillet | Shout to the Lord |
| Unknown | Skillet | The One |
| Unknown | Skillet | You Take My Rights Away |
| Unknown | Skillet | You're Powerful |
| Unknown | Skillet | Your Name Is Holy |
| Unknown | Stratovarius | A Million Light Years Away / Celestial Dream |
| Unknown | Stratovarius | Hunting High and Low / Millennium |

## Disbandments

* Brougham
* 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.