2000 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2000.

Newly formed bands

• 3 Inches of Blood
• Adagio
• Arsis
• As I Lay Dying
• Beto Vázquez Infinity
• Crashdiet
• Disarmonia Mundi
• Forever Slave
• Full Blown Chaos
• Kiuas
• Nachtmystium
• Otep
• Pagan's Mind
• Shaaman
• Swallow the Sun
• Thunderstone
• Ulcerate
• Visions of Atlantis
• Warmen
• Wolfmother

Reformed bands

• Living Colour

Albums

• AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip
• After Forever - Prison of Desire
• Alabama Thunderpussy - Constellation
• Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet
• Alice in Chains - Live
• A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
• Ayreon - Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer
• Ayreon - Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator
• Ayreon - Ayreonauts Only
• Behemoth - Thelema.6
• Black Label Society - Stronger Than Death
• Bloodbath - Breeding Death
• Cannibal Corpse - Live Cannibalism
• Chimaira- This Present Darkness EP
• Cradle of Filth - Midian
• Deftones - White Pony
• Deicide - Insineratehymn
• Deliverance - Assimilation
• Devin Townsend - Physicist
• Dio - Magica
• Disturbed - The Sickness
• Godflesh - Messiah EP
• Godsmack - Awake
• HammerFall - Renegade
• Helloween - The Dark Ride
• Immortal - Damned in Black
• In Flames - Clayman
• Iron Maiden - Brave New World
• Jag Panzer - Thane to the Throne
• Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
• Lamb of God - New American Gospel
• Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
• Macabre - Dahmer
• Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
• Melvins - The Crybaby
• Monster Magnet - God Says No
• Motörhead - We Are Motörhead
• Mötley Crüe - New Tattoo
• Mudvayne - L.D. 50
• Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
• Nightwish - Wishmaster
• Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
• Nothingface - Violence
• No Big Silence - Successful, Bitch & Beautiful
• Overkill - Bloodletting
• Pantera - Reinventing The Steel
• Paul Di'Anno - Nomad
• Pig Destroyer - 7" Picture Disc (EP)
• Pig Destroyer - Pig Destroyer/Isis (Split EP)
• Pitchshifter - Deviant
• Poison - Crack a Smile...and More!
• Poison - Power to the People
• QueenAdreena - Taxidermy
• Racer X - Technical Difficulties
• Rob Rock - Rage of Creation
• Rollins Band - Get Some -> Go Again
• Rhapsody of Fire - Dawn of Victory
• Scorpions - Moment of Glory
• Sabaton - Fist for Fight
• Saxon - Burrn! Presents: The Best of Saxon
• Sentenced - Crimson
• Shadows Fall - Of One Blood
• Soulfly - Primitive
• Static-X - The Death Trip Continues
• Stratovarius - Infinite, 14 Diamonds
• Symphony X - V-The New Mythology Suite
• Tad Morose - "Undead"
• Theatre of Tragedy - Musique
• The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld
• Vader - Litany
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - War to End All Wars

Disbandments

• Rage Against the Machine
• Sacred Reich

Events

• Al Pitrelli replaces Marty Friedman on guitar for Megadeth.
• Metallica releases a song "I Disappear" that was never released on any studio albums and appears on the Mission: Impossible II soundtrack. This song also started the famous Napster Controversy
• Angela Gossow replaces Johan Liiva on vocals for Arch Enemy.
• Mr. Bungle play their final concert.