2001 in heavy metal music

Overview of the events of 2001 in heavy metal musicTemplate:SHORTDESC:Overview of the events of 2001 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2001.

## Newly formed bands

* A Band Called Pain
* The Acacia Strain
* Acrassicauda
* The Agony Scene
* Ankla
* Årabrot
* ASG
* Audioslave
* Avatar
* Behold... The Arctopus
* Black Cobra
* The Black Dahlia Murder
* Black Majesty
* Black Stone Cherry
* Blackguard
* Bullet
* Bury Your Dead
* Callisto
* Circle II Circle
* Cloudscape
* Cobalt
* Decrepit Birth
* Dragonlord
* Equilibrium
* Galneryus
* Ghoul
* Hacride
* Hinder
* Ion Dissonance
* Jet
* Khanate
* Kylesa
* Leprous
* Masterplan
* Misery Index
* Municipal Waste
* Myrath
* Pelican
* Persefone
* Power Quest
* Protest the Hero
* Pyramaze
* Rebellion
* Redemption
* Riverside
* Textures
* Seraphim
* Serenity
* Silvertide
* Sirenia
* Stolen Babies
* Suicidal Angels
* Volbeat
* WarCry
* Wisdom
* Year of Desolation
* Year of No Light

## Re-formed bands

* Celtic Frost
* Death Angel
* Jane's Addiction
* Rush

## Albums

* 40 Below Summer - *Invitation to the Dance*
* Aborted - *Engineering the Dead*
* Aerosmith - *Just Push Play*
* After Forever - *Decipher*
* Akercocke - *The Goat of Mendes*
* Alice Cooper - *Dragontown*
* Alice in Chains - *Greatest Hits* (compilation)
* Alien Ant Farm - *Anthology*
* American Head Charge - *The War of Art*
* Amon Amarth - *The Crusher*
* Amorphis - *Am Universum*
* Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa
* Angra - *Rebirth*
* Anorexia Nervosa - *New Obscurantis Order*
* Arch Enemy - *Wages of Sin*
* Ark - *Burn the Sun*
* Arma Angelus - *Where Sleeplessness Is Rest from Nightmares*
* As I Lay Dying – *Beneath the Encasing of Ashes*
* Atreyu - *Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty* (EP)
* Avantasia - *The Metal Opera*
* Avenged Sevenfold - *Sounding the Seventh Trumpet*
* Biohazard – *Uncivilization*
* Black Label Society - *Alcohol Fueled Brewtality* (live)
* Bolt Thrower - *Honour – Valour – Pride*
* Bon Jovi - *One Wild Night Live 1985–2001* (live)
* Breach - *Kollapse*
* Bruce Dickinson - *The Best of Bruce Dickinson* (compilation)
* Cathedral - *Endtyme*
* Chimaira - *Pass Out of Existence*
* Creed - *Weathered*
* Converge - *Jane Doe*
* Cradle of Filth - *Bitter Suites to Succubi* (EP)
* Darkane - *Insanity (album)*
* Dark Funeral - *Diabolis Interium*
* Destruction - *The Antichrist*
* Devin Townsend - *Terria*
* Dimmu Borgir - *Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia*
* Divinity Destroyed - *Nocturnal Dawn*
* Dope - *Life*
* Drowning Pool - *Sinner*
* Edguy - *Mandrake*
* Emperor - *Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise*
* Ensiferum - *Ensiferum*
* Enslaved - *Monumension*
* Entombed – *Morning Star*
* Envy - *All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead*
* Evergrey - *In Search of Truth*
* Every Time I Die - *Last Night in Town*
* Fantômas - *The Director's Cut*
* Fear Factory - *Digimortal*
* Finntroll - *Jaktens Tid*
* Flaw - *Through the Eyes*
* Freedom Call - *Crystal Empire*
* From Zero - *One Nation Under*
* Gamma Ray - *No World Order*
* God Forbid - *Determination*
* Godflesh - *Hymns*
* Godflesh - *In All Languages* (compilation)
* Gojira - *Terra Incognita*
* Graveworm – *Scourge of Malice*
* Gwar – *Violence Has Arrived*
* Iced Earth - *Horror Show*
* Ill Nino - *Revolution Revolución*
* Integrity – *Closure*
* Jag Panzer – *Mechanized Warfare*
* Judas Priest - *Demolition*
* Kamelot - *Karma*
* King's X - *Manic Moonlight*
* Kittie - *Oracle*
* Kreator - *Violent Revolution*
* Lacuna Coil - *Unleashed Memories*
* Lifer - *Lifer*
* Tony MacAlpine - *Chromaticity*
* Machine Head - *Supercharger*
* Marduk - *La Grande Danse Macabre*
* Mass Hysteria - *De cercle en cercle*
* Mastodon - *Lifesblood* (EP)
* Megadeth - *The World Needs a Hero*
* Moonsorrow - *Voimasta ja kunniasta*
* Moonspell - *Darkness and Hope*
* Mushroomhead - *XX* (compilation)
* My Dying Bride - *The Dreadful Hours*
* Nickelback - *Silver Side Up*
* No One - *No One*
* Occult – *Rage to Revenge*
* Oomph! - *Ego*
* Opeth - *Blackwater Park*
* Ozzy Osbourne - *Down to Earth*
* Pentagram - *Sub-Basement*
* Pig Destroyer - *Prowler in the Yard*
* Place of Skulls - *Nailed*
* P.O.D. - *Satellite*
* Primer 55 - *(the) New Release*
* Racer X - *Superheroes*
* Rage - *Welcome to the Other Side*
* Rammstein - *Mutter*
* Reveille - *Bleed the Sky*
* Reverend - *A Gathering of Demons* (EP)
* Rhapsody - *Rain of a Thousand Flames*
* Rollins Band - *Nice*
* Royal Hunt - *The Mission (Royal Hunt album)*
* Savatage - *Poets and Madmen*
* Sepultura - *Nation*
* Sevendust - *Animosity*
* Silencer - *Death – Pierce Me*
* Skillet – *Alien Youth*
* Skrape - *New Killer America*
* Slayer - *God Hates Us All*
* Slipknot - *Iowa*
* Sodom – *M-16*
* SOiL - *Scars*
* Soilwork - *A Predator's Portrait*
* Solefald - *Pills Against the Ageless Ills*
* Sonata Arctica - *Silence*
* Static-X - *Machine*
* Stratovarius - *Intermission* (compilation)
* Sum 41 - *All Killer No Filler*
* Summoning - *Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame*
* System of a Down - *Toxicity*
* Theatre of Tragedy - *Closure: Live* (live)
* Therion - *Secret of the Runes*
* Throwdown - *You Don't Have to Be Blood to Be Family*
* Thursday - *Full Collapse*
* Tomahawk - *Tomahawk*
* Tool - *Lateralus*
* Tristania - *World of Glass*
* Unearth - *The Stings of Conscience*
* Virgin Black - *Sombre Romantic*
* Vision of Disorder – *From Bliss to Devastation*
* Warrant - *Under the Influence*

## Disbandments

* 20 Dead Flower Children
* Emperor
* Death

## Events

* Death guitarist Chuck Schuldiner dies at 34 on December 13 of brain cancer.
* Metallica bassist Jason Newsted (who joined after Cliff Burton's death) officially left the band and joined Voivod.
* Former Body Count bassist Mooseman is killed in a drive-by shooting on February 21.
* Nightwish bassist Sami Vänskä is fired.
* Cradle of Filth sign with Epic Records, becoming the first ever black metal band on a major label.
* Kittie guitarist Fallon Bowman quits.
* Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland leaves the band.

## References

1. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Godflesh - *In All Languages*". *Allmusic*. Retrieved 2008-06-20.