# 2007 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2007.

## Newly formed bands

* Acid Witch
* Affiance
* Animals as Leaders
* Archspire
* The Atlas Moth
* Attack Attack!
* Barren Earth
* Benevolent
* Black Anvil
* Burn Halo
* Cavalera Conspiracy
* Chelsea Grin
* Coldrain
* The Contortionist
* Cormorant
* Cross Vein
* Fallujah
* Fleshgod Apocalypse
* Haken
* Hooded Menace
* Imperial Circus Dead Decadence
* Iwrestledabearonce
* Krallice
* Kvelertak
* KYPCK
* Monuments
* The Night Flight Orchestra
* Northern Kings
* Oranssi Pazuzu
* Panopticon
* Santa Cruz
* Savage Messiah
* Skin
* Striker
* Unleash the Archers
* Versailles
* White Wizzard
* Xerath

## Reformed bands

* Artillery
* Carcass
* Crashdïet
* Emperor (for a few shows)
* Extreme
* Rage Against the Machine
* Spinal Tap
* X Japan
* Sacred Reich

## Disbandments

* Arcturus
* A Perfect Murder
* The Devin Townsend Band
* I Killed the Prom Queen
* Reverend Bizarre
* Strapping Young Lad
* Send More Paramedics
* Mendeed
* Pungent Stench
* With Passion
* Quiet Riot (reformed in 2010)
* Nodes of Ranvier
* Fall of the Leafe

## Events

* Wayne Knupp, original vocalist for Devourment died on September 15.
* Pat Mason of Arsonists Get All The Girls passes away on the morning of November 30, his 21st birthday.
* Extreme reunite for the third time, announcing plans for a world tour next year, as well as a new studio album, which will be their first since 1995's Waiting for the Punchline.
* Led Zeppelin get back together one more time for one concert in London.
* In Sorte Diaboli (Dimmu Borgir) becomes the first extreme metal album ever to hit the No. 1 in a Record chart, achieving that position in Norway.
* Andreas Sydow leaves Darkane, being replaced by Jens Broman.
* Witold Kiełtyka, drummer for Decapitated, is killed in a car crash in October.
* Vocalist, Damo and manager, Andy of The Red Shore, died in December.
* Anette Olzon joins Nightwish as their new lead vocalist.
* Peter Lindgren leaves Opeth.
* Jani Liimatainen is fired from Sonata Arctica.
* Jacob Bredahl leaves Hatesphere.
* Mark St. John, guitarist of KISS in 1984, dies in April.
* The song Final Six from Slayer won in the Best Metal Performance category at the 50th Grammy Awards.
* Meiju Enho leaves Ensiferum.
* Paul Raven, bassist for Ministry and former Killing Joke bassist, dies in October.
* Kevin DuBrow, lead singer for Quiet Riot, dies in November.
* Matt Barlow returns as lead singer of Iced Earth.
* Ramallah disbands.
* Matte Modin is fired from Dark Funeral, for disrupting their live performance schedule through deceit, according to the band. He is replaced by Nils Fjällström of Aeon, who is given the stage name "Dominator".
* Gaahl and King ov Hell part ways from Gorgoroth founding member Infernus with the intention of using the band's name and assets themselves, igniting the Gorgoroth name dispute.
* Soichiro Umemura, vocalist of Tokyo Yankees, died on December 11.

## Albums released
### January

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 5 | Legion of the Damned | Sons of the Jackal |
| 10 | Moonsorrow | Viides Luku - Hävitetty |
| 12 | Grave Digger | Liberty Or Death |
| 12 | Therion | Gothic Kabbalah |
| 15 | Al Atkins | Demon Deceiver |
| 16 | Age of Nemesis | Terra Incognita |
| 19 | Mnemic | Passenger |
| 22 | Destruction | Thrash Anthems |
| 22 | Pain of Salvation | Scarsick |
| 22 | Rotting Christ | Theogonia |
| 23 | Fear My Thoughts | Vulcanus |
| 26 | Metalium | Nothing to Undo – Chapter Six |

### February

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 6 | Car Bomb | Centralia |
| 6 | The End | Elementary |
| 6 | Impious | Holy Murder Masquerade |
| 7 | Dir En Grey | The Marrow of a Bone |
| 7 | Swallow the Sun | Hope |
| 12 | The Berzerker | Animosity |
| 12 | Domine | Ancient Spirit Rising |
| 19 | Mendeed | The Dead Live by Love |
| 19 | Watain | Sworn to the Dark |
| 20 | Aborted | Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture |
| 20 | Beneath the Massacre | Mechanics of Dysfunction |
| 20 | Novembers Doom | The Novella Reservoir |
| 23 | Masterplan | MK II |
| 23 | Naglfar | Harvest |
| 23 | Sirenia | Nine Destinies and a Downfall |
| 26 | Charlie Dominici | O3: A Trilogy, Part Two |
| 26 | Cirith Gorgor | Cirith Gorgor |
| 26 | Manowar | Gods Of War |

### March

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Buckethead | Pepper's Ghost |
| 3 | Arghoslent | Hornets of the Pogrom |
| 5 | Onslaught | Killing Peace |
| 5 | Saxon | The Inner Sanctum |
| 6 | Alabama Thunderpussy | Open Fire |
| 6 | Chimaira | Resurrection |
| 6 | Emmure | Goodbye to the Gallows |
| 6 | Dying Fetus | War of Attrition |
| 6 | Megadeth | That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires (CD/DVD) (released on CD September 4, 2007) |
| 6 | Sevendust | Alpha |
| 9 | Within Temptation | The Heart of Everything |
| 12 | Nightrage | A New Disease Is Born |
| 13 | Battlelore | Evernight |
| 13 | Type O Negative | Dead Again |
| 13 | Unsane | Visqueen |
| 14 | Naildown | Dreamcrusher |
| 14 | Thunderstone | Evolution 4.0 |
| 16 | Sabaton | Metalizer |
| 19 | Morgana Lefay | Aberrations of the Mind |
| 20 | Dååth | The Hinderers |
| 20 | Haste the Day | Pressure the Hinges |
| 20 | In This Moment | Beautiful Tragedy |
| 23 | Sun Caged | Artemisia |
| 24 | Five Star Prison Cell | Slaves of Virgo |
| 24 | The Gathering | A Noise Severe |
| 25 | Graveland | Will Stronger Than Death |
| 27 | Machine Head | The Blackening |
| 27 | Mors Principium Est | Liberation = Termination |
| 28 | Finntroll | Ur Jordens Djup |
| 28 | Threshold | Dead Reckoning |
| 30 | Attila | Fallacy |

### April

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Abscess | Horrorhammer |
| 1 | Kronos | The Hellenic Terror |
| 2 | Pro-Pain | Age Of Tyranny – The Tenth Crusade |
| 2 | Scarve | The Undercurrent |
| 2 | Susperia | Cut from Stone |
| 3 | All Out War | Assassins In The House Of God |
| 3 | The Chariot | The Fiancée |
| 3 | Chevelle | Vena Sera |
| 3 | Omnium Gatherum | Stuck Here on Snakes Way |
| 3 | Shadows Fall | Threads of Life |
| 3 | Static-X | Cannibal |
| 3 | Virgin Black | Requiem - Mezzo Forte |
| 3 | Vital Remains | Icons of Evil |
| 5 | Monstrosity | Spiritual Apocalypse |
| 8 | Legion | Мифы древности (Myths of Antiquity) |
| 10 | Andromeda | Playing Off The Board (DVD) |
| 10 | From Autumn to Ashes | Holding a Wolf by the Ears |
| 10 | Hellyeah | Hellyeah |
| 13 | Dublin Death Patrol | DDP 4 Life |
| 16 | Annihilator | Metal |
| 16 | Mayhem | Ordo Ad Chao |
| 16 | Pain | Psalms of Extinction |
| 16 | Shining | Halmstad |
| 16 | W.A.S.P. | Dominator |
| 17 | Dark Tranquillity | Fiction |
| 17 | Nine Inch Nails | Year Zero |
| 17 | Six Feet Under | Commandment |
| 20 | Ensiferum | Victory Songs |
| 20 | Freedom Call | Dimensions |
| 20 | Vomitory | Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize |
| 23 | After Forever | After Forever |
| 23 | Root | Daemon Viam Invenient |
| 24 | At War With Self | Acts of God |
| 24 | Dimmu Borgir | In Sorte Diaboli |
| 24 | Deliverance | As Above - So Below |
| 24 | Mammatus | The Coast Explodes |
| 24 | Marduk | ROM 5:12 |
| 24 | Sanctity | Road to Bloodshed |
| 24 | Walknut | Graveforests and Their Shadows |
| 26 | Angel Corpse | Of Lucifer and Lightning |
| 27 | Inveracity | Extermination of Millions |
| 27 | Vintersorg | Solens rötter |
| 30 | Detonation | Emission Phase |

### May

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 7 | Twilightning | Swinelords |
| 8 | Becoming the Archetype | The Physics of Fire |
| 8 | Immolation | Shadows In The Light |
| 8 | Lord Belial | Revelation: The 7th Seal |
| 8 | Neurosis | Given to the Rising |
| 8 | With Passion | What We See When We Shut Our Eyes |
| 8 | Woe of Tyrants | Behold the Lion |
| 12 | Trouble | Simple Mind Condition |
| 14 | Hatesphere | Serpent Smiles And Killer Eyes |
| 15 | Job for a Cowboy | Genesis |
| 15 | Megadeth | United Abominations |
| 15 | Secret Chiefs 3 | Path of Most Resistance |
| 16 | Nocturnal Rites | The 8th Sin |
| 18 | Planet X | Quantum |
| 18 | U.D.O. | Mastercutor |
| 21 | 8 Foot Sativa | Poison of Ages |
| 22 | Daysend | The Warning |
| 22 | Despised Icon | The Ills of Modern Man |
| 22 | Ozzy Osbourne | Black Rain |
| 22 | Sonic Syndicate | Only Inhuman |
| 23 | Sigh | Hangman's Hymn |
| 25 | Altaria | Divine Invitation |
| 25 | Caliban | The Awakening |
| 25 | Månegarm | Vargstenen |
| 25 | Sonata Arctica | Unia |
| 25 | Visions of Atlantis | Trinity |
| 28 | 3 Inches of Blood | Fire Up the Blades |
| 28 | Akercocke | Antichrist |
| 28 | Turisas | The Varangian Way |
| 29 | Cephalic Carnage | Xenosapien |
| 30 | Ari Koivunen | Fuel For The Fire |
| 30 | Sturm Und Drang | Learning to Rock |
| 31 | Buckethead | Acoustic Shards |

### June

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 4 | Dream Theater | Systematic Chaos |
| 4 | Iced Earth | Overture of the Wicked |
| 4 | Man Must Die | The Human Condition |
| 5 | Devin Townsend | Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| 5 | Graveworm | Collateral Defect |
| 5 | Ion Dissonance | Minus the Herd |
| 5 | Kamelot | Ghost Opera |
| 5 | Marilyn Manson | Eat Me, Drink Me |
| 5 | Tesla | Real To Reel |
| 12 | A Perfect Murder | War of Aggression |
| 12 | Anterior | This Age of Silence |
| 12 | Municipal Waste | The Art of Partying |
| 12 | Pig Destroyer | Phantom Limb |
| 17 | Abigor | Fractal Possession |
| 19 | August Burns Red | Messengers |
| 22 | Candlemass | King of the Grey Islands |
| 23 | Airbourne | Runnin' Wild |
| 25 | Entombed | Serpent Saints |
| 25 | Architects | Ruin |
| 26 | King Diamond | Give Me Your Soul...Please |
| 26 | Korpiklaani | Tervaskanto |
| 26 | Symphony X | Paradise Lost |
| 29 | At Vance | VII |

### July

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | Behemoth | The Apostasy |
| 3 | Velvet Revolver | Libertad |
| 10 | Darkest Hour | Deliver Us |
| 11 | Galexia | Galexia |
| 12 | Carnifex | Dead in My Arms |
| 17 | Eyefear | A World Full of Grey |
| 17 | Malevolent Creation | Doomsday X |
| 17 | Nile | Ithyphallic |
| 18 | Blood Stain Child | Mozaiq |
| 24 | Evergreen Terrace | Wolfbiker |
| 24 | The Red Chord | Prey for Eyes |
| 27 | Korn | Untitled |
| 31 | DevilDriver | The Last Kind Words |
| 31 | Five Finger Death Punch | The Way of the Fist |
| 31 | Whitechapel | The Somatic Defilement |

### August

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 3 | Gorefest | Rise to Ruin |
| 7 | Reverend Bizarre | III: So Long Suckers |
| 7 | The Absence | Riders of the Plague |
| 7 | Drowning Pool | Full Circle |
| 7 | Still Remains | The Serpent |
| 7 | Throwdown | Venom & Tears |
| 8 | Alcest | Souvenirs d'un autre monde |
| 9 | Agathocles | Senseless Trip |
| 12 | Anvil | This Is Thirteen |
| 14 | Arsonists Get All The Girls | The Game of Life |
| 14 | Bring Me the Horizon | Count Your Blessings |
| 15 | Amoral | Reptile Ride |
| 20 | The Agonist | Once Only Imagined |
| 20 | Malefice | Entities |
| 21 | Arsonists Get All The Girls | The Game of Life |
| 21 | As I Lay Dying | An Ocean Between Us |
| 21 | Blue Cheer | What Doesn't Kill You... |
| 21 | The Devil Wears Prada | Plagues |
| 21 | Through the Eyes of the Dead | Malice |
| 22 | Andre Matos | Time to Be Free |
| 22 | Dimension Zero | He Who Shall Not Bleed |
| 22 | Epica | The Divine Conspiracy |
| 22 | Rob Rock | Garden of Chaos |
| 24 | Backslash | Trip of Pain |
| 25 | Benediction | Killing Music |
| 25 | Divine Heresy | Bleed The Fifth |
| 27 | Evile | Enter the Grave |
| 28 | Obituary | Xecutioner's Return |
| 28 | Scorpions | Humanity: Hour I |
| 29 | Amorphis | Silent Waters |
| 31 | Agent Steel | Alienigma |
| 31 | Drudkh | Estrangement |

### September

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 3 | Alchemist | Tripsis |
| 3 | Vanishing Point | The Fourth Season |
| 4 | Aeon | Rise to Dominate |
| 4 | Baroness | The Red Album |
| 4 | Chiodos | Bone Palace Ballet |
| 4 | Every Time I Die | The Big Dirty |
| 4 | Impending Doom | Nailed. Dead. Risen. |
| 4 | Zonaria | Infamy and the Breed |
| 5 | Ajattara | Kalmanto |
| 5 | Disavowed | Stagnated Existence |
| 7 | Epica | The Divine Conspiracy |
| 10 | High on Fire | Death Is This Communion |
| 11 | Iced Earth | Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked Part 1 |
| 14 | Apocalyptica | Worlds Collide |
| 14 | Elvenking | The Scythe |
| 14 | HIM | Venus Doom |
| 18 | A Life Once Lost | Iron Gag |
| 18 | Between the Buried and Me | Colors |
| 18 | The Black Dahlia Murder | Nocturnal |
| 18 | Blotted Science | The Machinations of Dementia |
| 18 | Brown Brigade | Into the Mouth of Badd(d)ness |
| 18 | Himsa | Summon in Thunder |
| 18 | Ministry | The Last Sucker |
| 18 | Suicide Silence | The Cleansing |
| 18 | War from a Harlots Mouth | Transmetropolitan |
| 24 | Arch Enemy | Rise of the Tyrant |
| 24 | Darkthrone | F.O.A.D. |
| 24 | Down | Down III: Over the Under |
| 25 | Bring Me the Horizon | This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For |
| 25 | Carl Johan Grimmark | Grimmark |
| 25 | Dethklok | The Dethalbum |
| 25 | The Bled | Silent Treatment |
| 25 | Wolves in the Throne Room | Two Hunters |
| 26 | Akira Takasaki | Black Brown |
| 26 | Nightwish | Dark Passion Play |
| 28 | Sodom | The Final Sign of Evil |

### October

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Axel Rudi Pell | Diamonds Unlocked |
| 2 | Animosity | Animal |
| 2 | Born of Osiris | The New Reign |
| 2 | Skeletonwitch | Beyond The Permafrost |
| 6 | Parkway Drive | Horizons |
| 9 | Astral Doors | New Revelation |
| 9 | I Declare War | Amidst the Bloodshed |
| 9 | Megadeth | Warchest |
| 9 | Overkill | Immortalis |
| 9 | Puddle of Mudd | Famous |
| 15 | Ava Inferi | The Silhouette |
| 15 | Taint | Secrets & Lies |
| 16 | Behold... The Arctopus | Skullgrid |
| 16 | Demiricous | Two (Poverty) |
| 16 | The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza | Danza II: Electric Boogaloo |
| 19 | Soilwork | Sworn to a Great Divide |
| 23 | Exodus | The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A |
| 23 | HammerFall | Steel Meets Steel - Ten Years of Glory |
| 23 | Helloween | Gambling with the Devil |
| 23 | Oh, Sleeper | When I Am God |
| 29 | Anaal Nathrakh | Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here |
| 30 | Avenged Sevenfold | Avenged Sevenfold |
| 30 | Bloodsimple | Red Harvest |
| 30 | Buckethead | Cyborg Slunks |
| 30 | Buckethead | Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot |
| 30 | Melechesh | Emissaries |
| 30 | The Autumn Offering | Fear Will Cast No Shadow |

### November

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 5 | The Dillinger Escape Plan | Ire Works |
| 5 | Novembre | The Blue |
| 5 | Opeth | The Roundhouse Tapes |
| 6 | Agnostic Front | Warriors |
| 6 | Demon Hunter | Storm the Gates of Hell |
| 16 | Axxis | Doom of Destiny |
| 16 | Gamma Ray | Land of the Free II |
| 16 | Primordial | To the Nameless Dead |
| 19 | Tarja Turunen | My Winter Storm |
| 20 | Sebastian Bach | Angel Down |
| 20 | Vesania | Distractive Killusions |
| 20 | Electric Wizard | Witchcult Today |
| 21 | The Ocean | Precambrian |

### December

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 7 | Blood of Kingu | De Occulta Philosophia |