2001 in heavy metal music
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2001.
Newly formed bands
- The Acacia Strain
- A Band Called Pain
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- Black Majesty
- Blackguard
- Dragonlord
- Equilibrium
- Galneryus
- Masterplan
- Municipal Waste
- Power Quest
- Textures
- Seraphim
- Sirenia
- WarCry
Re-formed bands
Albums
- Aborted - Engineering the Dead
- Aerosmith - Just Push Play
- After Forever - Decipher
- Akercocke - The Goat of Mendes
- Alice Cooper - Dragontown
- Alice in Chains - Greatest Hits
- Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
- Atreyu - Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty (EP)
- American Head Charge - The War of Art
- Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
- Black Label Society - Alcohol Fueled Brewtality
- Bolt Thrower - Honour - Valour - Pride
- Bon Jovi - One Wild Night Live 1985–2001
- Bruce Dickinson - The Best of Bruce Dickinson
- Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
- Chimaira - Pass Out of Existence
- Cradle of Filth - Bitter Suites to Succubi
- Devin Townsend - Terria
- Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
- Divinity Destroyed - Nocturnal Dawn
- Drowning Pool - Sinner
- Edguy - Mandrake
- Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
- Fear Factory - Digimortal
- Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
- God Forbid - Determination
- Godflesh - Hymns
- Godflesh - In All Languages[1]
- Gojira - Terra Incognita
- Handguns - End Of An Era
- Iced Earth - Horror Show
- Judas Priest - Demolition
- Kittie - Oracle
- Kreator - Violent Revolution
- Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories
- Tony MacAlpine - Chromaticity
- Machine Head - Supercharger
- Mastodon - Lifesblood
- Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
- Moonspell - Darkness and Hope
- Mushroomhead- XX
- My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
- Oomph! - Ego
- Opeth - Blackwater Park
- Ozzy Osbourne - Down to Earth
- Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
- Racer X - Superheroes
- Rage - Welcome to the Other Side
- Rammstein - Mutter
- Reverend - A Gathering of Demons
- Rollins Band - Nice
- Rhapsody of Fire - Rain of a Thousand Flames
- Savatage - Poets and Madmen
- Scorpions - Acoustica (Scorpions album)
- Slayer - God Hates Us All
- Solefald - Pills Against The Ageless Ills
- SOiL - Scars
- Sonata Arctica - Silence
- Skrape - New Killer America
- Slipknot - Iowa
- Static-X - Machine
- Stratovarius - Intermission
- System of a Down - Toxicity
- Theatre of Tragedy - Closure: Live
- Throwdown - You Don't Have to Be Blood to Be Family
- The Crest - Letters From Fire
- Tool - Lateralus
- Tomahawk - Tomahawk
- Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic
Disbandments
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
- ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Godflesh - In All Languages". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
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