This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year Heavy metal is a genre of music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s, having its roots in hard rock bands which, between 1969 and 1974,[1] mixed blues and rock music to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised by...

Newly formed bands

• Probot
• Apocalypse
• Massacration

Probot (portmanteau: probe + robot) is a musical project masterminded by Dave Grohl. ... Apocalypse is a progressive rock band from Brazil that plays symphonic rock with strong keyboard orientation. ... Massacration is a fake self-proclaimed greatest and most classic heavy metal band, the inspiration behind most heavy bands since 1985, whose members hairdos and posing influenced the whole heavy metal culture. The classical line-up consists of Detonator (a castratto vocalist, Bruno Sutter), Blond Hammet (lead guitar, Fausto Fanti...

Reformed Bands

• Prong
• Trouble

Prong was a heavy metal/thrash metal band, formed in 1985. ... Trouble is an American (proto) Doom Metal band noted for their slow (by 80s standards), heavy albums such as their 1984 debut Trouble (later Psalm 9) The Skull (1985) and others. ...

Albums

• 3 Inches of Blood - Battlecry Under A Winter Sun
• Agalloch - The Mantle
• Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
• Behemoth - Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)
• Black Label Society - 1919 Eternal
• Black Sabbath - Past Lives (album)
• Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
• Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed. Worm Infested (EP)
• Chevelle - Wonder What's Next
• Decapitated - Nihility
• Def Leppard - X
• Dio - Killing the Dragon
• Disturbed - Believe
• Down - Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow
• Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
• Five pointe o - Untitled
• Freak Kitchen - Move
• HammerFall - Crimson Thunder
• In Flames - Reroute to Remain
• Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
• Korn - Untouchables
• Lordi - Get Heavy
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Attack!!, Concerto Suite LIVE
• Manowar - Warriors of the World
• Mastodon - Remission
• Motörhead - Hammered
• Nightwish - Century Child
• Opeth - Deliverance
• Pig Destroyer - Benumb / Pig Destroyer (Split album)
• Protest The Hero - A Calculated Use of Sound
• Rhapsody of Fire - Power of the Dragonflame
• Rush - Vapor Trails
• Saxon - Heavy Metal Thunder
• Sonata Arctica - Songs of Silence
• System of a Down - Steal This Album!
• The 3rd and the Mortal - Memoirs
• Týr - How Far To Asgaard
• Týr - Ólavur Riddararós
• Vintersorg - Visions From The Spiral Generator
• Winds - Reflections of the I

This article is about 3 Inches of Blood, the Canadian music group. ... Agalloch is an American atmospheric folk metal and experimental band formed in 1996 in Portland, Oregon. ... The Mantle is an album by American metal band Agalloch. ... Avenged Sevenfold, sometimes abbreviated to A7X, is a heavy metal/hard rock, and formerly metalcore, band from Huntington Beach, California. ... Sounding the Seventh Trumpet is Avenged Sevenfolds first full-length album. ... Behemoth is an influential Polish blackened death metal band. ... Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond) is an album released in 2002 by Polish heavy metal band Behemoth. ... Black Label Society is a heavy metal/Southern Metal band formed by Zakk Wylde, with 8 albums released to date. ... 1919 Eternal is a heavy metal album by the band Black Label Society. ... Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham. ... Past Lives is an album released in 2002 by Black Sabbath. ... A Blind Guardian ticket for the live performance in Belgrade, Serbia. ... A Night at the Opera is a 2002 by the German metal band Blind Guardian. ... It has been suggested that Cannibal Corpse discography be merged into this article or section. ... Gore Obsessed is the eighth album by Cannibal Corpse released in 2002 through Metal Blade Records. ... Worm Infested is an EP by Cannibal Corpse. ... For information about the car of this name, see Chevrolet Chevelle. ... Wonder Whats Next is the second album released by Chevelle in 2002. ... Cover of album The Negation Decapitated are a critically and popularly acclaimed death metal band from Poland; their style places them towards the more extreme and technical side of that genre. ... Nihility is the second album by the Polish death metal band Decapitated. ... Def Leppard are a hard rock/heavy metal band from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, who formed in 1977 at the time of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. ... X is an album by British hard rock band Def Leppard, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music). ... Dio is a heavy metal band led by vocalist Ronnie James Dio, who formed it in October 1983 after leaving Black Sabbath. ... Killing the Dragon is Dios ninth studio album. ... Disturbed is a band from Chicago, Illinois. ... Believe is Disturbeds second LP. Recorded in spring 2002 and released on September 17, 2002. ... Down is an American southern heavy metal supergroup formed in 1991. ... Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow is the second album by Down. ... Dream Theater is a progressive metal band formed by three students at the Berklee College of Music in 1985. ... Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (often abbreviated to SDOIT or 6DOIT) is the sixth full-length studio album by progressive metal band Dream Theater. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The word untitled refers to something that, as the name would suggest, has no title. ... Freak Kitchen is a heavy metal/hard rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1992. ... MOVE is an organization formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972 by John Africa (Vincent Leaphart) and Donald Glassey. ... Joacim Cans HammerFall is a Swedish power metal band assembled in 1993. ... Crimson Thunder is the fourth studio release by Swedish metal band HammerFall. ... In Flames is a Swedish melodic death metal band from the city of Gothenburg. ... Reroute to Remain is the sixth studio album by In Flames. ... Killswitch Engage, sometimes known simply as Killswitch (or KsE), is a metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, USA. The bands current lineup includes Howard Jones as vocalist, Adam Dutkiewicz and Joel Stroetzel on guitars, Mike DAntonio on bass, and Justin Foley on drums. ... Alive or Just Breathing was a music album released on May 21, 2002 by American metalcore band Killswitch Engage through Roadrunner Records. ... Korn (sometimes typeset as KoЯn to fit their logo) is a Grammy Award-winning band from Bakersfield, California. ... Untouchables is the fifth album by nu-metal band KoЯn. ... Lordi is a hard rock/heavy metal band from Finland, and winners of the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, formed in 1996 by Tomi Putaansuu (known as Mr. ... Get Heavy is a 2003 album by Lordi. ... Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (born Lars Johann Yngve Lannerbäck, June 30, 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, composer and bandleader. ... Attack!! is Yngwie Malmsteens first album with new singer Doogie White, released in 2002. ... Manowar is an American heavy metal band from Auburn, New York, which formed in 1980. ... Warriors Of The World was released in 2002 by Manowar. ... Mastodon is a heavy metal band from Atlanta, Georgia. ... Remission is the state of absence of disease activity in patients with known chronic illness. ... Motorhead redirects here. ... [edit] Hammered [edit] Breaks, Bass and beats. ... Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band formed in 1996 in the town of Kitee. ... Century Child is the fourth album by Nightwish, released in 2002 by Spinefarm Records. ... Opeth is a progressive death metal band from Sweden. ... Deliverance is Opeths sixth studio album, following the bands highly successful 2001 album, Blackwater Park. ... Pig Destroyer is an extreme metal band from Virginia, United States. ... Formed in 1999 under the name Happy Go Lucky, Protest the Hero (abbreviated as PTH or simply Protest) is a Canadian post-hardcore/metal band with punk influences (see genre section) from Whitby, Ontario . ... A Calculated Use of Sound is an EP released by post hardcore, metal band Protest The Hero in 2002. ... Rhapsody of Fire is an Italian symphonic power metal/epic metal band, formerly known as Thundercross and - more recently - Rhapsody. ... Power of the Dragonflame is an album released by Rhapsody in 2002 and is the last chapter in the Emerald Sword Saga. // Tracklisting In Tenebris Knightrider of Doom Power of the Dragonflame The March of the Swordmaster When Demons Awake Agony Is My Name Lamento Eroico Steelgods of the Last... Rush is a Canadian rock band comprising bassist, keyboardist, and vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. ... Vapor Trails is the seventeenth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush released in 2002 (see 2002 in music). ... Saxon are a British heavy metal band, formed in 1976 in Barnsley, Yorkshire. ... Heavy Metal Thunder is the greatest hits album by heavy metal band Saxon released in 2002 (see 2001 in music). ... Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1996. ... Alternate cover art for Asian releases Songs of Silence is a live album by Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica. ... System of a Down (also referred to as S.O.A.D. or System) is a four-piece alternative metal band, formed in 1995 in Los Angeles, California. ... Steal This Album! is an album by System of a Down. ... The 3rd and the Mortal (alternative spelling The Third and the Mortal) is a norwegian experimental heavy metal-band. ... Týr is a band that hails from the Faroe Islands. ... How Far to Asgaard is the first full-length album by the Faroese folk / viking metal band Týr. ... Týr is a band that hails from the Faroe Islands. ... Ólavur Riddararós is a single by the Faroese folk / viking metal band Týr. ... Vintersorg is a Swedish progressive, folk/viking, black metal-influenced band formed in 1994 under the name Vargatron (Wolfthrone in English). ... Visions From The Spiral Generator is the fourth full-length album by Swedish progressive/folk metal band Vintersorg. ... Winds is a Norwegian band whose style is close to progressive metal, largely influenced by classic music, with Andy Winters piano work often the central focus. ... Reflections of the I is the first full-length album by Norwegian progressive metal band Winds (band). ...

Disbandments

• The Cult
• Fear Factory
• Megadeth

The Cult are an English rock band. ... Fear Factory is an American death/industrial metal band that has toured with Black Sabbath, Pantera, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Dream Theater and Rammstein; performed at three Ozzfests and the inaugural Gigantour; and had singles in the Mainstream Rock Top 40 and albums in the Billboard top 40, 100 and... Megadeth is an American heavy metal band led by founder, frontman, and songwriter Dave Mustaine. ...

Events

• Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley dies on April 5 from an overdose of heroin.
• Drowning Pool singer Dave Williams dies on Wednesday August 14, 2002. He was found inside his tour bus, dead from cardiomyopathy.