1998 in heavy metal music

Overview of the events of 1998 in heavy metal musicTemplate:SHORTDESC:Overview of the events of 1998 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1998.

## Newly Formed bands

* 8 Foot Sativa
* 40 Below Summer
* Aarni
* Abdullah
* All That Remains
* Antagonist
* Arma Angelus
* Ásmegin
* At Vance
* Atreyu
* Axenstar
* Azarath
* Baptism
* Benighted
* Betzefer
* Black Label Society
* Blood Red Throne
* Bloodbath
* Bullet for My Valentine (As Jeff Killed John)
* Calico System
* Cataract
* Chimaira
* Circle of Dead Children
* CKY
* Clandestine Blaze
* Cog
* Crucified Barbara
* Cult of Luna
* Dalriada
* Darkane
* Deathspell Omega
* Demons & Wizards
* Edenbridge
* Ephel Duath
* Every Time I Die
* Fair to Midland
* Fairyland
* Fantômas
* Firewind
* Freedom Call
* From Zero
* Full Scale (as Full Scale Deflection)
* Gordian Knot
* High on Fire
* Hopesfall
* Horse the Band
* Ill Niño
* Leviathan
* Lock Up
* Lunatica
* Maximum the Hormone
* The Meads of Asphodel
* Mnemic
* Noumena
* Odd Crew (As Kaskadiori)
* Peccatum
* Pressure 4-5
* Ram-Zet
* Rebaelliun
* Reveille
* Ritual Carnage
* Rob Zombie
* Shape of Despair
* Skindred
* Stormwarrior
* Sunn O)))
* Susperia
* The Project MCMXCIX
* Thy Catafalque
* Twilightning
* Týr
* Underoath
* Unearth
* Unida
* Vision Divine
* Watain
* Weakling
* Winds
* Wormed
* Wyrd
* Zyklon

## Albums

* Alabama Thunderpussy – *Rise Again*
* Altar - *Provoke*
* Amon Amarth - *Once Sent from the Golden Hall*
* Anathema – *Alternative 4*
* Angelcorpse - *Exterminate*
* Angra – *Fireworks*
* Anthrax – *Volume 8: The Threat Is Real*
* Apocalyptica – *Inquisition Symphony*
* Arch Enemy – *Stigmata*
* Atreyu – *Visions* (EP)
* Ayreon – *Into the Electric Castle*
* Sebastian Bach – *Bring em Bach Alive*
* Backyard Babies – *Total 13*
* Behemoth - *Pandemonic Incantations*
* Benediction - *Grind Bastard*
* Bestial Warlust - *Satan's Fist*
* Black Label Society – *Sonic Brew*
* Black Sabbath – *Reunion* (live)
* Blind Guardian – *Nightfall in Middle-Earth*
* Bolt Thrower – *Mercenary*
* Borknagar – *The Archaic Course*
* Botch – *American Nervoso*
* Bruce Dickinson – *The Chemical Wedding*
* Cannibal Corpse – *Gallery of Suicide*
* Jerry Cantrell – *Boogy Depot*
* Cathedral - *Caravan Beyond Redemption*
* Catch 22 – *Keasbey Nights*
* Children of Bodom – *Something Wild* (Worldwide release)
* Clutch - *The Elephant Riders*
* Converge – *When Forever Comes Crashing*
* Cradle of Filth – *Cruelty and the Beast*
* Crowbar – *Odd Fellows Rest*
* Cryptopsy - *Whisper Supremacy*
* Dark Funeral - *Vobiscum Satanas*
* Dawn - *Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy)*
* Death – *The Sound of Perseverance*
* Deep Purple – *Abandon*
* Destruction – *The Least Successful Human Cannonball*
* Devin Townsend – *Christeen + 4 Demos* (EP)
* Devin Townsend – *Infinity*
* The Dillinger Escape Plan – *Under the Running Board* (EP)
* Dimmu Borgir – *Godless Savage Garden* (compilation)
* Dream Theater – *Once in a LIVEtime* (live)
* Dying Fetus - *Killing on Adrenaline*
* Earth Crisis – *Breed the Killers*
* Edguy – *Vain Glory Opera*
* Enslaved - *Blodhemn*
* Eldritch – *El Niño*
* Exhumed - *Gore Metal*
* Far – *Water & Solutions*
* Fear Factory – *Obsolete*
* Firehouse – *Category 5*
* Freak Kitchen – *Freak Kitchen*
* The Gathering – *How to Measure a Planet?*
* Genitorturers - *Sin City*
* Godsmack – *Godsmack*
* Gorgoroth - *Destroyer – or About How to Philosophize with the Hammer*
* Gorguts - *Obscura*
* HammerFall – *Legacy of Kings*
* Helloween – *Better Than Raw*
* Iced Earth – *Something Wicked This Way Comes*
* Incantation - *Diabolical Conquest*
* Iron Maiden – *Virtual XI*
* Jag Panzer – *The Age of Mastery*
* Kamelot – *Siége Perilous*
* Kataklysm - *Victims of this Fallen World*
* Katatonia – *Discouraged Ones*
* Kid Rock – *Devil Without a Cause*
* King Diamond – *Voodoo*
* KISS – *Psycho Circus'*
* Korn – *Follow the Leader*
* Krabathor - *Orthodox*
* Krisiun – *Apocalyptic Revelation*
* L.A. Guns – *Wasted*
* David Lee Roth – *DLR Band*
* Madball – *Look My Way*
* Malevolent Creation - *The Fine Art of Murder*
* Yngwie Malmsteen – *Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in Em, Opus 1*
* Yngwie Malmsteen – *Double Live!* (live)
* Marduk – *Nightwing*
* Mercenary – *First Breath*
* Mercyful Fate - *Dead Again*
* Meshuggah – *Chaosphere*
* Metal Church – *Live* (live)
* Metallica – *Garage Inc.* (compilation)
* Mindrot - *Soul*
* Marilyn Manson – *Mechanical Animals*
* Monster Magnet – *Powertrip*
* Moonspell – *Sin/Pecado*
* Morbid Angel – *Formulas Fatal to the Flesh*
* Mortician - *Zombie Apocalypse* (EP)
* Mortification - *Triumph of Mercy*
* Mötley Crüe – *Greatest Hits* (compilation)
* Motörhead – *Snake Bite Love*
* My Dying Bride – *34.788%... Complete*
* Napalm Death - *Words from the Exit Wound*
* Nembrionic - *Incomplete*
* Nightwish – *Oceanborn*
* Night in Gales - *Thunderbeast*
* Nile – *Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka*
* Nothingface – *An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity*
* Old Man's Child – *Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion*
* One Minute Silence – *Available in All Colours*
* Oomph! – *Unrein*
* Opeth – *My Arms, Your Hearse*
* Orange Goblin – *Time Travelling Blues*
* Orgy – *Candyass*
* Pig Destroyer – *Explosions in Ward 6*
* Pitchshifter – *www.pitchshifter.com*
* Pretty Boy Floyd – *A Tale of Sex, Designer Drugs and The Death of Rock N Roll*
* Primal Fear – *Primal Fear*
* Pro-Pain – *Pro-Pain*
* Queens of the Stone Age – *Queens of the Stone Age*
* Rage – *XIII*
* Refused – *The Shape of Punk to Come*
* Rhapsody – *Symphony of Enchanted Lands*
* Rob Zombie – *Hellbilly Deluxe*
* Rotting - *Crushed*
* Rush – *Different Stages* (live)
* Samael - *Exodus* (EP)
* Savatage – *The Wake of Magellan* (in United States)
* Sentenced – *Frozen*
* Septicflesh - *A Fallen Temple*
* Sepultura – *Against*
* Sinister - *Aggressive Measures*
* Skepticism - *Lead and Aether*
* Skid Row – *40 Seasons: The Best of Skid Row* (compilation)
* Slayer – *Diabolus in Musica*
* Soilent Green - *A String of Lies* (EP)
* Soilent Green - *Sewn Mouth Secrets*
* Soilwork - *Steelbath Suicide*
* Soulburn - *Feeding on Angels*
* Soulfly – *Soulfly*
* Strapping Young Lad – *No Sleep 'till Bedtime: Live in Australia* (live)
* Stratovarius – *Visions of Europe* (live)
* Stratovarius – *Destiny*
* Stuck Mojo – *Rising*
* Dan Swanö - *Moontower*
* Symphony X – *Twilight in Olympus*
* System of a Down – *System of a Down*
* Tankard – *Disco Destroyer*
* The Sins of Thy Beloved – *Lake of Sorrow*
* Theatre of Tragedy – *Aégis*
* Therapy? – *Semi-Detached*
* Therion - *Vovin*
* Trail of Tears – *Disclosure in Red*
* Tristania – *Widow's Weeds*
* Turbonegro – *Apocalypse Dudes*
* 2wo – *Voyeurs*
* Union – *Union*
* Ugly Kid Joe – *The Very Best-As Ugly As It Gets*
* Unsane – *Occupational Hazard*
* Vader – *Kingdom* (EP)
* Van Halen – *Van Halen III*
* Vintersorg – *Hedniskhjärtad* (EP)
* Vintersorg – *Till fjälls*
* Virgin Black – *Trance* (EP)
* Virgin Steele – *Invictus*
* Vision of Disorder – *Imprint*

## Disbandments

* 24-7 Spyz
* Destruction (reformed in 1999)
* Faith No More (reformed in 2009)
* Handsome
* Helmet (reformed in 2004)
* Snot (reformed in 2008)
* Vulcain

## Events

* Aerosmith becomes the first rock band to debut at #1 on the *Billboard* Hot 100 with the single "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
* Mustis joins Dimmu Borgir on keyboards.
* Rob Halford of Judas Priest announces his homosexuality in an MTV interview.
* Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, guitarist of the Japanese band X Japan, commits suicide at the age of 33.
* Poison singer Bret Michaels directs and stars in the film *A Letter from Death Row*.