2003 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2003.

## Newly formed bands

* A Day to Remember
* The Abominable Iron Sloth
* Abysmal Dawn
* Adler's Appetite
* Aina
* Airbourne
* Anagnorisis
* Anubis Gate
* As Blood Runs Black
* As They Sleep
* At All Cost
* August Burns Red
* Baroness
* Battlecross
* Blessed by a Broken Heart
* Bloody Panda
* Born of Osiris
* Carach Angren
* The Chariot
* Communic
* Conducting from the Grave
* Dååth
* Damageplan
* Darkwater
* Demonoid
* Diablo Swing Orchestra
* Eisbrecher
* Emmure
* Furia
* Head Control System
* Hypno5e
* In Vain
* Jesu
* Job for a Cowboy
* Jon Oliva's Pain
* Kayo Dot
* Kroda
* Leaves' Eyes
* Les Discrets
* Lyriel
* Myrkgrav
* Nadja
* Ne Obliviscaris
* Neaera
* Om
* Parkway Drive
* Powerwolf
* Rosetta
* The Ruins of Beverast
* Skeletonwitch
* The Sword
* Sybreed
* Tesseract
* Threat Signal
* Through the Eyes of the Dead
* Thulcandra
* Trollfest
* Turmion Kätilöt
* Wintersun
* Wolfchant
* Wolves in the Throne Room

## Reformed bands

* 24-7 Spyz
* Child's Play
* Fear Factory
* Judas Priest
* Killing Joke
* MC5
* Primus
* Stryper
* Twisted Sister

## Albums

* Aborted – *Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done*
* Akercocke – *Choronozon*
* Alien Ant Farm – *truANT*
* Alice Cooper – *The Eyes of Alice Cooper*
* All Shall Perish – *Hate, Malice, Revenge*
* Anaal Nathrakh – *When Fire Rains Down from the Sky, Mankind Will Reap as It Has Sown* (EP)
* Anthrax – *We've Come for You All*
* Apocalyptica – *Reflections*
* Arch Enemy – *Anthems of Rebellion*
* As I Lay Dying – *Frail Words Collapse*
* Avenged Sevenfold – *Waking the Fallen*
* Bathory - *Nordland II*
* Between the Buried and Me – *The Silent Circus*
* Biohazard – *Kill or Be Killed*
* The Black Dahlia Murder – *Unhallowed*
* Black Label Society – *The Blessed Hellride*
* Bon Jovi – *This Left Feels Right* (Compilation)
* Cannibal Corpse – *15 Year Killing Spree* (Box set)
* Children of Bodom – *Hate Crew Deathroll*
* Chimaira – *The Impossibility of Reason*
* Circle II Circle – *Watching in Silence*
* Concept – *Reason and Truth*
* Cog – "Open Up" (maxi single)
* Cradle of Filth – *Damnation and a Day*
* The Darkness – *Permission to Land*
* Deathstars – *Synthetic Generation*
* Decrepit Birth – *...And Time Begins*
* Deep Purple – *Bananas*
* Default – *Elocation*
* Deftones – *Deftones*
* Destruction - *Metal Discharge*
* DevilDriver – *DevilDriver*
* The Devin Townsend Band – *Accelerated Evolution*
* Dimension Zero – *This Is Hell*
* Dimmu Borgir – *Death Cult Armageddon*
* Divinity Destroyed – *Divinity Destroyed* (EP)
* Divinity Destroyed – *Eden in Ashes*
* DragonForce – *Valley of the Damned*
* Dream Evil – *Evilized*
* Dream Theater – *Train of Thought*
* Enslaved – *Below the Lights*
* Entombed – *Inferno*
* Epica – *The Phantom Agony*
* Evanescence – *Fallen*
* Evergrey – *Recreation Day*
* Every Time I Die - *Hot Damn!*
* Faith – *Salvation Lies Within*
* Finntroll – *Visor om slutet* (EP)
* Fireball Ministry – *The Second Great Awakening*
* Firewind – *Burning Earth*
* From Autumn to Ashes – *The Fiction We Live*
* Galneryus – *The Flag of Punishment*
* Godhead – *Evolver*
* Godsmack – *Faceless*
* Gojira – *The Link*
* Gojira – *Maciste All'Inferno* (EP)
* Gorgoroth - *Twilight of the Idols*
* Graveworm – *Engraved in Black*
* Hatebreed – *The Rise of Brutality*
* Helloween – *Rabbit Don't Come Easy*
* Hortus Animae – *Waltzing Mephisto*
* Ill Nino - *Confession*
* Incubus – *Live at Lollapalooza 2003* (Live)
* Integrity – *To Die For*
* Iron Maiden – *Dance of Death*
* Ion Dissonance – *Breathing Is Irrelevant*
* Jane's Addiction – *Strays*
* Johnny Lokke – *Wrecking Ball*
* Kamelot – *Epica*
* Katatonia – *Viva Emptiness*
* Kayo Dot – *Choirs of the Eye*
* King Diamond – *The Puppet Master*
* Kiss – *Kiss Symphony: Alive IV* (Live)
* Korn – *Take a Look in the Mirror*
* Kreator – *Live Kreation* (Live)
* Krisiun – *Works of Carnage*
* Lamb of God – *As the Palaces Burn*
* Lanfear – *The Art Effect*
* Limp Bizkit – *Results May Vary*
* Linkin Park – *Meteora*
* Living Colour – *Collideøscope*
* Lost Horizon – *A Flame to the Ground Beneath*
* Macabre – *Murder Metal*
* Marduk - *World Funeral*
* Masterplan – *Masterplan*
* Marilyn Manson – *The Golden Age of Grotesque*
* Machine Head – *Through the Ashes of Empires*
* Metallica – *St. Anger*
* Ministry – *Animositisomina*
* Misanthrope - *Sadistic Sex Daemon*
* Mnemic – *Mechanical Spin Phenomena*
* Monstrosity – *Rise to Power*
* Moonspell – *The Antidote*
* Morbid Angel – *Heretic*
* Motörhead – *Live at Brixton Academy* (Live)
* Mushroomhead - *XIII*
* Neil Turbin – *Threatcon Delta*
* Nevermore – *Enemies of Reality*
* Nightrage – *Sweet Vengeance*
* Norther – *Mirror of Madness*
* Nothingface – *Skeletons*
* No-Big-Silence – *Unreleased*
* Occult – *Elegy for the Weak*
* Old Man's Child – *In Defiance of Existence*
* One Minute Silence – *One Lie Fits All*
* Overkill – *Killbox 13*
* Opeth – *Damnation*
* Pitchshifter – *Bootlegged, Distorted, Remixed and Uploaded* (Compilation)
* Place of Skulls – *With Vision*
* P.O.D. – *Payable on Death*
* Poison the Well - *You Come Before You*
* Psycroptic – *The Scepter of the Ancients*
* Queensrÿche – *Tribe*
* Rage – *Soundchaser*
* Royal Hunt – *Eyewitness*
* Rush – *Rush in Rio* (live)
* Seven Witches – *Passage to the Other Side*
* Six Feet Under – *Bringer of Blood*
* Skid Row – *Thickskin*
* Skillet – *Collide*
* Sepultura – *Roorback*
* Sevendust – *Seasons*
* Slayer – *Soundtrack to the Apocalypse* (Box set)
* Soilwork – *Figure Number Five*
* Solefald – *In Harmonia Universali*
* Sonata Arctica – *Winterheart's Guild*
* Spawn of Possession – *Cabinet*
* Static-X – *Shadow Zone*
* Strapping Young Lad – *Strapping Young Lad*
* Stratovarius – *Elements, Pt. 1*
* Stratovarius – *Elements, Pt. 2*
* Stryper – *7: The Best of Stryper* (compilation)
* Theocracy – *Theocracy*
* Throwdown – *Haymaker*
* Three Days Grace - *Three Days Grace*
* Tourniquet – *Where Moth and Rust Destroy*
* Trivium – *Ember to Inferno*
* Type O Negative – *Life Is Killing Me*
* Týr – *Eric the Red*
* uneXpect – *\_wE, Invaders* (EP)
* Virgin Black – *Elegant... and Dying*
* Xandria – *Kill the Sun*

## Disbandments

* Coal Chamber
* Five Pointe O
* Limbonic Art
* Immortal
* Pitchshifter
* Pantera
* Reveille
* Rollins Band (reformed in 2006)

## Events

* Metallica hires new bassist Robert Trujillo (from Suicidal Tendencies and Ozzy Osbourne). They release the much criticized album *St. Anger*.
* MTV2 resurrected the old heavy metal/hard rock television program *Headbangers' Ball*.
* Iced Earth vocalist Matt Barlow leaves Iced Earth after the events of September 11.
* Christian metal band Stryper reforms with all original members.
* Visions of Atlantis lead vocalist Christian Stani quits, and is later replaced by Mario Plank. Keyboardist Chris Kamper quits and is replaced by Miro Holly.
* Rob Halford reunites with Judas Priest replacing Tim "Ripper" Owens.
* Aerosmith and KISS embark on a tour together.
* *Toontown Field Trip: Rock and Roll Party*, starring the voice talent of Russi Taylor as Minnie Mouse, Nikita Hopkins as Roo, and Kelly Nigh as Tickety Tock, is released on home video and features Poler Toyer & School Bus performing "Give It Your Best Shot" in New Orleans towards the end of the movie.

## References

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