1999 in heavy metal music explained

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1999.

Newly formed bands

Reformed bands

Armored Saint
Destruction (Schmier's comeback)
Lost Horizon (reformed as Highlander, name was changed soon after)
Pungent Stench
Rollins Band
Skid Row
White Lion

Albums

Aborted – The Purity of Perversion
Agalloch – Pale Folklore
Akercocke – Rape of the Bastard Nazarene
Alabama Thunderpussy – River City Revival
Alice Cooper – The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper (box set)
Alice in Chains – (compilation)
Alice in Chains – Music Bank (box set)
Anal Cunt - It Just Gets Worse
American Head Charge – Trepanation
Amon Amarth – The Avenger
Amorphis – Tuonela (album)
Anathema – Judgement
Angelcorpse – The Inexorable
Anvil – Speed of Sound
Arch Enemy – Burning Bridges
Atari Teenage Riot – 60 Second Wipe Out
Backyard Babies – Total 13
Bal-Sagoth – The Power Cosmic
Bang Tango – Greatest Tricks
Bang Tango – Untied & Live
Behemoth – Satanica
Biohazard – New World Disorder
Black Label Society – Sonic Brew
Botch – We Are the Romans
Broken Teeth – Broken Teeth
Bruce Dickinson – Scream for Me Brazil (live)
Buckcherry – Buckcherry (album)
Burn the Priest – Burn the Priest
Cannibal Corpse – Bloodthirst (album)
Chevelle – Point #1
Children of Bodom – Hatebreeder
Chris Cornell – Euphoria Morning
Cinderella – Live at the Key Club
Coal Chamber – Chamber Music
Control Denied – The Fragile Art of Existence
Cradle of Filth – From the Cradle to Enslave (EP)
Crazy Town – The Gift of Game
The Crown – Hell is Here
Dangerous Toys – Vitamins and Crash Helmets Tour – Greatest Hits Live
Danzig – Danzig 6:66: Satan's Child
Darkthrone – Ravishing Grimness
Dark Tranquility – Projector
Def Leppard – Euphoria
Destruction – The Butcher Strikes Back (demo)
Devourment - Molesting The Decapitated
DGeneration – Through The Darkness
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Calculating Infinity
Dimmu Borgir – Spiritual Black Dimensions
Dope – Felons and Revolutionaries
Drain STH – Freaks of Nature
Dream Theater –
Edguy – Theater of Salvation
Emperor – IX Equilibrium
Evergrey – Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy
Eternal Tears of Sorrow – Vilda Mánnu
Fall of the Leafe – August Wernicke
Filter – Title of Record
Finntroll – Midnattens Widunder
Gamma Ray – Power Plant
Godflesh – Us and Them
God Forbid – Reject the Sickness
Gilby Clarke – 99 Live
Graveworm – As the Angels Reach the Beauty
Grip Inc. – Solidify
Gwar – We Kill Everything
H.I.M. – Razorblade Romance
Hate Eternal – Conquering the Throne
Hypocrisy – Hypocrisy
Immolation – Failures for Gods
Immortal – At the Heart of Winter
Incubus – Make Yourself
In Flames – Colony
Integrity – Integrity 2000
Jetboy – Lost & Found
Kamelot – The Fourth Legacy
Katatonia – Tonight's Decision
Konkhra – Come Down Cold
Korn – Issues
Kreator – Endorama
Lacrimosa – Elodia
Lacuna Coil – In a Reverie
L.A. Guns – Greatest Hits and Black Beauties
L.A. Guns – Shrinking Violet
Lefay – Symphony of the Damned, Re-symphonised (re-recording)
Lefay – The Seventh Seal
Limp Bizkit – Significant Other
Lock Up – Pleasures Pave Sewers
Love/Hate – Let's Eat
Tony MacAlpine – Master of Paradise
Machine Head – The Burning Red
Yngwie Malmsteen – Alchemy
Marduk – Panzer Division Marduk
Marilyn Manson – The Last Tour on Earth (live)
Mass Hysteria – Contraddiction
Mercyful Fate – 9
Megadeth – Risk
Metal Church – Masterpeace
Metallica – S&M (live)
Metalium – Millennium Metal – Chapter One
Ministry – Dark Side of the Spoon
Mr. Bungle – California
Moonspell – The Butterfly Effect
Morgion – Solinari
Mortician – Chainsaw Dismemberment
Mortification – Hammer of God
Mötley Crüe – Supersonic and Demonic Relics
Motörhead – Everything Louder Than Everyone Else (live)
Mushroomhead – M3
My Dying Bride – The Light at the End of the World
Napalm Death – Words from the Exit Wound
Necrophobic – The Third Antichrist
Neurosis – Times of Grace
New American Shame – New American Shame
Nevermore – Dreaming Neon Black
Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile
Novembers Doom – Of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers
Occult – Of Flesh and Blood
Oomph! – Plastik
Opeth – Still Life
Orchid – Chaos Is Me
Overkill – Necroshine
Pain – Rebirth
Pessimist – Blood for the Gods
Pentagram – Review Your Choices
Pig Destroyer – Pig Destroyer / Gnob (split EP)
Pitchshifter – Un-United Kingdom (EP)
P.O.D. – The Fundamental Elements of Southtown
Poison the Well – The Opposite of December
Powerman 5000 – Tonight the Stars Revolt!
Pretty Boy Floyd – Porn Stars (album)
Primal Fear – Jaws of Death
Primus – Antipop
Pro-Pain – Act of God
Queensrÿche – Q2K
Quiet Riot – Alive and Well
Rage – Ghosts
Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles
Rammstein – Live Aus Berlin (live)
Ratt – Ratt
Reveille – Laced
Rotting Christ – Sleep of the Angels
Samael – Eternal
Satyricon – Rebel Extravaganza
Scorpions – Eye II Eye
Sebastian Bach – Bring 'Em Bach Alive!
Septicflesh – Revolution DNA
Serial Joe – Face Down
Sevendust – Home
Sinergy – Beware the Heavens
Six Feet Under – Maximum Violence
Skinlab –
Slaughter – Back to Reality
Slipknot – Slipknot
Sodom – Code Red
Solefald – Neonism
Sonata Arctica – Ecliptica
Staind – Dysfunction
Static-X – Wisconsin Death Trip
Steve Vai – The Ultra Zone
Stone Temple Pilots – No. 4
Stratovarius – The Chosen Ones (compilation)
Suicidal Tendencies – Freedumb
Summoning – Stronghold
Testament – The Gathering
The Black Halos – The Black Halos
Therapy? – Suicide Pact – You First
Therion – Crowning of Atlantis
Throwdown – Beyond Repair
Tristania – Beyond the Veil
Type O Negative – World Coming Down
Underoath – Act of Depression
uneXpect – Utopia
Vintersorg – Ödemarkens son
Virgin Steele – The House of Atreus Act I
Vision of Disorder – For the Bleeders
Warrant – Greatest & Latest
W.A.S.P. – Helldorado
White Skull – Tales From The North
Will Haven – WHVN
Zao – Liberate Te Ex Inferis

Disbandments

Death
Far (reformed in 2008)
Mercyful Fate- on hiatus

Events

Drummer Tommy Lee leaves Mötley Crüe.
Ex-drummer of Megadeth Gar Samuelson dies at age 41 from liver failure.
Singer Blaze Bayley leaves Iron Maiden, while Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith re-join.
Kittie bassist Tanya Candler quits. She is later replaced by Talena Atfield.
ICS Vortex joins Dimmu Borgir on bass/backing vocals. Drummer Nicholas Barker leaves Cradle of Filth and joins as well.
Singer Naoki Hashimoto left Outrage.
Mudvayne signs with Epic Records.
Poison appear in an episode of Behind the Music.

Notes and References

Web site: A Perfect Circle Has 'Every Intention' of Releasing New Music in 2017. Billboard.com. January 17, 2017. October 13, 2017.