# 2005 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2005.

## Newly formed bands

* 5 Star Grave
* A Plea for Purging
* Abnormality
* Acrania
* Agrimonia
* AM Conspiracy
* Anew Revolution
* Antagonist A.D.
* Arise and Ruin
* Arsonists Get All the Girls
* As Hell Retreats
* Attila
* Ava Inferi
* Battle Beast
* Benedictum
* Beyond Creation
* Beyond Fear
* Birds of Prey
* Black Tusk
* Bleed from Within
* Blotted Science
* Bonded by Blood
* Borealis
* Brain Drill
* The Browning
* The Burial
* Carnifex
* Century
* Child Bite
* Dark the Suns
* Dawn of Solace
* Death Breath
* The Devil Wears Prada
* Divine Heresy
* Five Finger Death Punch
* The Foreshadowing
* Ghost Brigade
* Ihsahn
* Impending Doom
* In This Moment
* Ithilien
* Kauan
* Keldian
* Lazarus A.D.
* Lifelover
* Light Bringer
* Motionless in White
* Periphery
* Powerglove
* Red Fang
* Silent Civilian
* Stream of Passion
* Svartsot
* Swashbuckle
* Thou
* Varg
* Vildhjarta
* We Came as Romans
* Wednesday 13
* Wodensthrone

## Reformed bands

* Alice in Chains
* Anthrax
* Devourment
* Emperor
* Nothingface
* Terrorizer

## Disbanded bands

* Child's Play
* Exhumed (indefinite hiatus)
* Gorguts
* Sentenced
* Symphony in Peril
* The 3rd and the Mortal

## Events

* 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.
* 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.
* 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 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.

## Deaths

* May 10 – David Wayne, former vocalist of Metal Church, died from health complications following injuries sustained in a car accident at the age of 47.
* May 22 – Mike "Yaz" Jastremski, former bassist of Heathen, died from a heart attack at the age of 42.
* August 18 – Krzysztof "Docent" Raczkowski, formed drummer of Vader, died from heart failure at the age of 34.
* August 26 – Denis "Piggy" D'Amour, founder and guitarist of Voivod, died from colon cancer complications at the age of 45.
* Mika Ervaskari, original Stratovarius keyboardist, died by suicide.

## Albums released
### January

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 10 | Kreator | Enemy of God |
| 24 | Dark Tranquillity | Character |
| 24 | Sturmgeist | Meister Mephisto |
| 31 | Runemagick | Envenom |
| 31 | Masterplan | Aeronautics |

### February

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | High on Fire | Blessed Black Wings |
| 1 | Mötley Crüe | Red, White & Crüe (Compilation) |
| 1 | WarCry | ¿Dónde Está La Luz? |
| 5 | Immolation | Harnessing Ruin |
| 7 | Primordial | The Gathering Wilderness |
| 7 | Scar Symmetry | Symmetric in Design |
| 17 | Lordi | The Monster Show |
| 21 | Communic | Conspiracy in Mind |
| 28 | Soilwork | Stabbing the Drama |

### March

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Judas Priest | Angel of Retribution |
| 4 | HammerFall | Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken |
| 8 | Black Label Society | Mafia |
| 8 | Into the Moat | The Design |
| 15 | Cephalic Carnage | Anomalies |
| 15 | Kamelot | The Black Halo |
| 15 | Origin | Echoes of Decimation |
| 15 | Trivium | Ascendancy |
| 16 | Mournful Congregation | The Monad of Creation |
| 21 | Queens of the Stone Age | Lullabies to Paralyze |
| 22 | Overkill | ReliXIV |
| 22 | Strapping Young Lad | Alien |
| 22 | Kylesa | To Walk a Middle Course |
| 23 | Galneryus | Advance to the Fall |
| 29 | Mourning Beloveth | A Murderous Circus |
| 29 | Theory of a Deadman | Gasoline |

### April

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 5 | Despised Icon | The Healing Process |
| 5 | Graveworm | (N)utopia |
| 12 | Cog | The New Normal |
| 12 | Mudvayne | Lost and Found |
| 17 | Aborted | The Archaic Abattoir |
| 21 | Epica | Consign to Oblivion |
| 25 | Metalium | Demons of Insanity – Chapter Five |
| 25 | Napalm Death | The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code |

### May

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | Limp Bizkit | The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) (EP) |
| 3 | Candlemass | Candlemass |
| 3 | Jacobs Dream | Drama of the Ages |
| 3 | Nine Inch Nails | With Teeth |
| 16 | Meshuggah | Catch Thirtythree |
| 17 | Def Leppard | Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection |
| 17 | The Red Chord | Clients |
| 17 | System of a Down | Mezmerize |
| 20 | Crashdïet | Rest in Sleaze |
| 21 | Freedom Call | The Circle of Life |
| 23 | Bruce Dickinson | Tyranny of Souls |
| 23 | Nile | Annihilation of the Wicked |
| 23 | Queenadreena | The Butcher and the Butterfly |
| 30 | Life of Agony | Broken Valley |
| 31 | Sentenced | The Funeral Album |

### June

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 7 | Avenged Sevenfold | City of Evil |
| 7 | Dream Theater | Octavarium |
| 10 | Stick to Your Guns | For What It's Worth |
| 14 | As I Lay Dying | Shadows Are Security |
| 14 | Static-X | Start a War |
| 19 | Winds of Plague | A Cold Day in Hell |
| 21 | Clutch | Robot Hive/Exodus |
| 27 | Hate Eternal | I, Monarch |
| 28 | DevilDriver | The Fury of Our Maker's Hand |
| 28 | Throwdown | Vendetta |

### July

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 4 | Alice Cooper | Dirty Diamonds |
| 12 | The Black Dahlia Murder | Miasma |
| 12 | Obituary | Frozen in Time |
| 26 | Arch Enemy | Doomsday Machine |
| 26 | Dope | American Apathy |
| 26 | Yngwie Malmsteen | Unleash the Fury |
| 26 | Nevermore | This Godless Endeavor |
| 26 | Chiodos | All's Well That Ends Well |

### August

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 9 | Chimaira | Chimaira |
| 16 | Stryper | Reborn |
| 22 | Destruction | Inventor of Evil |
| 22 | Fear Factory | Transgression |
| 23 | The Bled | Found in the Flood |
| 23 | Every Time I Die | Gutter Phenomenon |
| 24 | Sonata Arctica | The End of This Chapter (Compilation) |
| 29 | Opeth | Ghost Reveries |
| 30 | From Autumn to Ashes | Abandon Your Friends |
| 30 | Gorefest | La Muerte |
| 30 | Protest the Hero | Kezia |

### September

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 5 | Beseech | Sunless Days |
| 5 | Hypocrisy | Virus |
| 5 | Stratovarius | Stratovarius |
| 6 | Ion Dissonance | Solace |
| 8 | After Forever | Remagine |
| 12 | Hortus Animae | The Blow of Furious Winds |
| 12 | Parkway Drive | Killing with a Smile |
| 14 | Children of Bodom | Are You Dead Yet? |
| 20 | Bon Jovi | Have a Nice Day |
| 20 | Disturbed | Ten Thousand Fists |
| 20 | God Forbid | IV: Constitution of Treason |
| 22 | Gamma Ray | Majestic |
| 27 | Gojira | From Mars to Sirius |

### October

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 3 | Bullet for My Valentine | The Poison (UK Release) |
| 4 | Black Label Society | Kings of Damnation 98–04 |
| 4 | Deftones | B-Sides & Rarities |
| 4 | Exodus | Shovel Headed Kill Machine |
| 4 | Shinedown | Us and Them |
| 4 | Soulfly | Dark Ages |
| 10 | Massacration | Gates of Metal Fried Chicken of Death |
| 11 | Early Man | Closing In |
| 11 | Roadrunner United | Roadrunner United |
| 11 | Sevendust | Next |
| 11 | Story of the Year | In the Wake of Determination |
| 15 | Primal Fear | Seven Seals |
| 18 | Cryptopsy | Once Was Not |
| 18 | Fireball Ministry | Their Rock Is Not Our Rock |
| 18 | Priestess | Hello Master |
| 18 | Solefald | An Icelandic Odyssey |
| 24 | Stream of Passion | Embrace the Storm |
| 25 | Demon Hunter | The Triptych |
| 25 | Through the Eyes of the Dead | Bloodlust |
| 28 | Rammstein | Rosenrot |
| 31 | Helloween | Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy |
| 31 | Riverside | Second Life Syndrome |

### November

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Deep Purple | Rapture of the Deep |
| 7 | Power Quest | Magic Never Dies |
| 8 | August Burns Red | Thrill Seeker |
| 8 | Elfonía | This Sonic Landscape |
| 11 | Bolt Thrower | Those Once Loyal |
| 11 | Devourment | Butcher the Weak |
| 11 | Dimmu Borgir | Stormblåst MMV |
| 19 | Darkspace | Dark Space II |
| 22 | System of a Down | Hypnotize |
| 28 | Sacrificium | Escaping the Stupor |
| 29 | The Darkness | One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back |

### December

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 6 | Job for a Cowboy | Doom |
| 6 | Korn | See You on the Other Side |
| 16 | Faith | Sorg |
| 20 | Whispering Gallery | Shades of Sorrow |