This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2003. Heavy metal (sometimes referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Newly formed bands

• Communic
• DevilDriver
• Epica
• Korpiklaani
• Sturmgeist

Communic is a Norwegian progressive metal band formed in 2003. ... DevilDriver is a death metal-influenced groove metal band from Los Angeles, California. ... Not to be confused with Epica (album). ... Korpiklaani (Forest Clan in Finnish) is a folk metal band from Finland. ... // Biography Beginnings In 2003, Cornelius Jakhelln began working on a new band. ...

Re-formed bands

• Fear Factory
• Judas Priest
• Primus
• Stryper

Fear Factory is a Los Angeles, California based metal band. ... Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band formed in 1970 in Birmingham. ... Primus is a Grammy-nominated American rock band formed in California in the mid-1980s. ... Stryper is a Christian metal band from Orange County, California, USA. Formed in 1983, they are pioneers in the mainstream popularization of Christian rock music. ...

Albums

• Alice Cooper - The Eyes Of Alice Cooper
• Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion
• Avenged Sevenfold - waking the fallen
• Black Label Society - The Blessed Hellride
• The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed
• Cannibal Corpse - 15 Year Killing Spree
• Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
• Chimaira - The Impossibilty of Reason
• Cradle of Filth - Damnation and a Day
• The Darkness - Permission to Land
• Deep Purple - Bananas
• Devildriver- DevilDriver (album)
• Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
• Divinity Destroyed - Divinity Destroyed
• Divinity Destroyed - Eden in Ashes
• DragonForce - Valley of the Damned
• Dream Theater - Train of Thought
• Finntroll - Visor om Slutet
• Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy
• Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
• Judas Priest - Livin' after Midnight
• Kiss - Symphony: Alive IV
• Kreator - Live Kreation
• Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
• Macabre - Murder Metal
• Metallica - St. Anger
• Moonspell - The Antidote
• Motörhead - Live At Brixton Academy The Complete Concert (live)
• Opeth - Damnation
• Pitchshifter - Bootlegged, Distorted, Remixed and Uploaded
• Skid Row - Thickskin
• Solefald - In Harmonia Universali
• Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild
• Static-X - Shadow Zone
• Strapping Young Lad - Strapping Young Lad
• Stratovarius - Elements, pt.1, Elements, pt.2
• Stryper - Seven
• Theocracy - Theocracy
• Tourniquet - Where Moth and Rust Destroy
• Trivium - Ember to Inferno
• Týr - Eric the Red
• uneXpect - We, Invaders

Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), is a rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans four decades. ... The Eyes of Alice Cooper is an album by Alice Cooper released in 2003. ... Arch Enemy is a Swedish melodic death metal band, formed in 1995 by ex Carcass guitarist Michael Amott. ... Anthems Of Rebellion Anthems of Rebellion is the Fifth studio album by the Swedish Melodic death metal band Arch Enemy. ... Avenged Sevenfold, also known as A7X, is a hard rock band from Huntington Beach, California, United States. ... It has been suggested that Radiant Eclipse be merged into this article or section. ... Black Label Society is a heavy metal band formed by Zakk Wylde, with 9 albums released to date. ... The Blessed Hellride is a heavy metal album by the band Black Label Society. ... The Black Dahlia Murder is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Waterford, Michigan (30 minutes north of Detroit), and is a leader in the Detroit Metal Music Scene. ... Unhallowed is an album by the melodic death metal band The Black Dahlia Murder. ... Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band founded in 1988. ... Track Listing Disc One - Best of Volume 1 Shredded Humans Put Them to Death Born In a Casket A Skull Full of Maggots Gutted Covered With Sores Vomit The Soul Hammer Smashed Face Addicted to Vaginal Skin The Cryptic Stench Staring Through The Eyes of The Dead Stripped, Raped and... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... I love Kelly Bob!!=]* Hate Crew Deathroll is the Finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodoms fourth album, which was released under the Century Media label. ... Chimaira is a metalcore band from Cleveland, Ohio. ... Cradle of Filth is a heavy metal band formed in Suffolk, England in 1991. ... Damnation and a Day: From Genesis To Nemesis is the fifth album by Cradle of Filth. ... For the video game, see The Darkness (video game). ... Permission to Land is the debut album of The Darkness. ... This article is about the rock band. ... Bananas is the 17th studio album by the British band Deep Purple,[1] released on 2003-10-07. ... DevilDriver is a death metal-influenced groove metal band from Los Angeles, California. ... DevilDriver is the first album by metal band DevilDriver, the new band of former Coal Chamber singer Dez Fafara. ... Dimmu Borgir (pronounced Dee-moo bore-gear) is a symphonic black metal band from Norway. ... Death Cult Armageddon is the sixth album release from symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir. ... Divinity Destroyed is a heavy metal band based in central New Jersey. ... Divinity Destroyed is a heavy metal band based in central New Jersey. ... Divinity Destroyed is a heavy metal band based in central New Jersey. ... The second album from, the by now, Heavy metal band Divinity Destroyed. ... DragonForce are a British power metal band formed in London, England in 1999. ... Valley of the Damned is DragonForces debut album, released in 2003. ... Dream Theater is a progressive metal band formed by three students at the Berklee College of Music in 1985. ... Released on November 11, 2003, Train of Thought is an album by the progressive metal band Dream Theater. ... Finntroll is a folk metal band from Finland. ... Visor om Slutet (English: Songs of the end) is an all-acoustic folk metal album by the Finnish band Finntroll. ... Helloween is a German power/speed metal band founded in the early 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. ... Rabbit Dont Come Easy is the tenth album by the German power metal/heavy metal band Helloween. ... Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from east London. ... Dance of Death is Iron Maidens 13th studio album, released first in Japan on September 2 and rest of the world on September 8, 2003. ... Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band formed in 1970 in Birmingham. ... Livin after midnight is a song by the heavy metal band Judas Priest, which is found on their British Steel album, realised in 1980. ... Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973. ... Kreator is a popular thrash metal band from Essen, Germany. ... Live Kreation is a two-disc live album by thrash metal band Kreator. ... Lamb of God is a Grammy-nominated five-piece metal band from Richmond, Virginia, formerly known as Burn the Priest. ... As the Palaces Burn is Lamb of Gods second album, released under Prosthetic in 2003, three years after their previous release, New American Gospel. ... Macabre are a death metal band from the USA. They were formed in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois, and ever since have never had a line-up change. ... Murder Metal is an album by Macabre (band) released in 2003. ... Metallica is a Grammy Award-winning American heavy metal/thrash metal band formed in 1981[1] and has become one of the most commercially successful musical acts of recent decades. ... St. ... Moonspell is a Portuguese Gothic Metal band, formed in 1992 and released their first EP Under the Moonspell in 1994, a year before of the release of their first album Wolfheart. ... The Antidote is Moonspells seventh full-lenght album, released in 2003. ... Motörhead are a Grammy Award-winning British heavy metal band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy (real name Ian Kilmister), who has remained the sole constant member. ... Opeth is a Progressive death metal band from Sweden. ... Damnation is Opeths seventh album, released in April 2003, following the bands previous album Deliverance the year before. ... A Pitch shifter is an effect that changes the pitch of an audio signal in real time. ... Bootlegged, Distorted, Remixed and Uploaded is the final album by Pitchshifter. ... Skid Row is an American heavy metal band which became the hair metal prototypes of the late 1980s metal scene and were reasonably successful until they were eclipsed by the Seattle grunge bands in 1991. ... Thickskin is a 2000 album by Skid Row. ... Solefald is a Norwegian avant garde metal/black metal band that was formed by members Lars Are Lazare Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Lars singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Cornelius singing and playing guitar and bass. ... In Harmonia Universali is the fourth full-length album by Norwegian avantgarde metal band Solefald, and their last under the Century Media label. ... Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1996. ... Winterhearts Guild is Sonata Arcticas fourth album released in 2003 through Spinefarm Records. ... Static-X is an American industrial metal band. ... Shadow Zone - Album Art Shadow Zone is the third album of the band Static-X, released on 7th October 2003. ... Strapping Young Lad was an influential progressive extreme metal band from Canada, started by Devin Townsend in 1994. ... Strapping Young Lad is the eponymous third album by Canadian heavy metal band Strapping Young Lad. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Stryper is a Christian metal band from Orange County, California, USA. Formed in 1983, they are pioneers in the mainstream popularization of Christian rock music. ... Theocracy is a Christian Progressive Power Metal band founded in 2002 by Matt Smith of Athens, Georgia. ... Theocracy is the self-titled debut album by the Christian Progressive Power Metal band Theocracy. ... Tourniquet; from front: Ted Kirkpatrick, Aaron Guerra, Luke Easter Tourniquet is an American Christian metal band, named after the medical device called a tourniquet, based out of California. ... Where Moth and Rust Destroy is an album by Tourniquet. ... Trivium is a metal band from Orlando, Florida. ... Ember to Inferno is the first album from Floridian metalcore/thrash metal band Trivium. ... Týr is a band that hails from the Faroe Islands. ... Eric the Red is the second full-length album by the Faroese Folk / Viking Metal band Týr. ... uneXpect is an avant-garde extreme metal band from Montreal, Canada with a unique amalgamation of completely different styles of music, including black, death, core, progressive and melodic heavy metal; European classical, operatic, medieval, gypsy music, electro, ambient, psychotic, noise, circus music and jazz. ...

Disbandments

• Coal Chamber
• Five pointe o
• Limbonic Art
• Pantera
• Immortal
• Pitchshifter

Coal Chamber was a nu metal band from Los Angeles, CA, USA formed in 1994. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Limbonic Art is a black metal band from Sandefjord, Norway. ... Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas, that formed in 1981. ... Immortal is a black metal band from Bergen, Norway. ... A Pitch shifter is an effect that changes the pitch of an audio signal in real time. ...

Events

• Metallica hires new bassist Robert Trujillo (from Suicidal Tendencies and Ozzy Osbourne).
• MTV2 resurrected the old Heavy Metal, Rock television program Headbangers' Ball.
• Iced Earth vocalist Matt Barlow leaves Iced Earth after the events of September 11th.
• 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