This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2000.
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | Chimaira | This Present Darkness (EP) |
| Kittie | Spit | |
| 17 | Sentenced | Crimson |
| 18 | Cro-Mags | Revenge |
| 25 | Primer 55 | Introduction to Mayhem |
| 31 | Macabre | Dahmer |
| Therion | Deggial |
| Day | Artist | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skillet | Invincible | |
| 7 | Gorgoroth | Incipit Satan | |
| Melvins | The Crybaby | ||
| 8 | Bloodbath | Breeding Death (EP) | |
| Demons & Wizards | Demons & Wizards | ||
| Soilwork | The Chainheart Machine | ||
| 21 | Misanthrope | Recueil d'Écueils: les Épaves et Autres Oeuvres Interdites (compilation) | |
| 28 | AC/DC | Stiff Upper Lip | |
| Stratovarius | Infinite | ||
| 29 | Rollins Band | Get Some -> Go Again |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Entombed | Uprising |
| 7 | Alabama Thunderpussy | Constellation |
| Armored Saint | Revelation | |
| Disturbed | The Sickness | |
| High on Fire | The Art of Self Defense | |
| Soulreaper | Written in Blood | |
| 13 | Old Man's Child | Revelation 666 – The Curse of Damnation |
| 14 | Poison | Crack a Smile... and More! |
| 20 | Vader | Litany |
| 21 | Dio | Magica |
| Morgana Lefay | S.O.S | |
| 27 | Immortal | Damned in Black |
| Pantera | Reinventing the Steel | |
| Seven Witches | City of Lost Souls |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Isis | Celestial |
| 4 | Shadows Fall | Of One Blood |
| 8 | Heaven Shall Burn | Asunder |
| 10 | One Minute Silence | Buy Now... Saved Later |
| The Hives | Veni Vidi Vicious | |
| 17 | Borknagar | Quintessence |
| Decapitated | Winds of Creation | |
| QueenAdreena | Taxidermy | |
| 18 | Black Label Society | Stronger than Death |
| Nasum | Human 2.0 | |
| The Chasm | Procession to the Infraworld | |
| 24 | After Forever | Prison of Desire |
| 25 | Boysetsfire | After the Eulogy |
| Destruction | All Hell Breaks Loose | |
| Papa Roach | Infest | |
| Racer X | Technical Difficulties (Europe and US versions) | |
| Saxon | (compilation) |
| Day | Artist | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Nightwish | Wishmaster | |
| 9 | Glassjaw | Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | |
| Incantation | The Infernal Storm | ||
| Jag Panzer | Thane to the Throne | ||
| 13 | Trail of Tears | Profoundemonium | |
| 15 | Motörhead | We Are Motörhead | |
| 16 | Orange Goblin | The Big Black | |
| 22 | Blaze Bayley | Silicon Messiah | |
| Raised Fist | Ignoring the Guidelines | ||
| 23 | A Perfect Circle | Mer de Noms | |
| King's X | Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous | ||
| Pitchshifter | Deviant | ||
| 29 | Iron Maiden | Brave New World | |
| 30 | Ska-P | Planeta Eskoria |
| Day | Artist | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Alice Cooper | Brutal Planet | |
| 8 | Cave In | Jupiter | |
| 13 | Poison | Power to the People | |
| 20 | Ayreon | ||
| Ayreon | |||
| Deftones | White Pony | ||
| King Diamond | House of God | ||
| Madball | Hold It Down | ||
| The Sins of Thy Beloved | Perpetual Desolation | ||
| 21 | Stratovarius | 14 Diamonds (compilation) | |
| 25 | Edguy | The Savage Poetry (re-recording) | |
| 26 | Devin Townsend | Physicist (album) | |
| Metalium | State of Triumph – Chapter Two | ||
| 27 | Deicide | Insineratehymn | |
| 30 | The Haunted | Made Me Do It |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Halford | Resurrection |
| Scorpions | Moment of Glory (compilation) | |
| 17 | Pro-Pain | Round 6 |
| 22 | Mudvayne | L.D. 50 |
| 28 | Rotting Christ | Khronos |
| 29 | Paul Di'Anno | Nomad |
| Shuvel | Set It Off |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Nile | Black Seeds of Vengeance |
| Nothingface | Violence | |
| 12 | At the Drive-In | Relationship of Command |
| Type O Negative | After Dark (live) | |
| 15 | Suicidal Tendencies | Free Your Soul and Save My Mind |
| 19 | Cannibal Corpse | Live Cannibalism (live) |
| 25 | Electric Wizard | Dopethrone[1] |
| 26 | Lamb of God | New American Gospel |
| Soulfly | Primitive |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Apocalyptica | Cult |
| Theatre of Tragedy | Musique | |
| 3 | Enslaved | Mardraum – Beyond the Within |
| 9 | HammerFall | Renegade |
| 10 | Slash's Snakepit | |
| Symphony X | V: The New Mythology Suite | |
| 16 | Virgin Steele | The House of Atreus Act II |
| 17 | 100 Demons | In the Eyes of the Lord |
| Downset. | Check Your People | |
| Limp Bizkit | Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | |
| Morbid Angel | Gateways to Annihilation | |
| Nevermore | Dead Heart in a Dead World | |
| 18 | Tad Morose | Undead |
| 24 | Linkin Park | Hybrid Theory |
| Misanthrope | Misanthrope Immortel | |
| Overkill | Bloodletting | |
| 30 | Children of Bodom | Follow the Reaper |
| Cradle of Filth | Midian | |
| Helloween | The Dark Ride | |
| Rhapsody | Dawn of Victory | |
| 31 | Godsmack | Awake |
| Pain of Salvation | The Perfect Element, Part I |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Immolation | Close to a World Below |
| Yngwie Malmsteen | War to End All Wars | |
| 11 | Marilyn Manson | Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) |
| Whispering Gallery | Like a Dream of Never-ending Beauty... Love Never Dies | |
| 12 | Monster Magnet | God Says No |
| 27 | Behemoth | Thelema.6 |
| Rob Rock | Rage of Creation (Non-Japanese releases) |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Alice in Chains | Live |
| Godflesh | Messiah (EP) | |
| Rage Against the Machine | Renegades | |
| 6 | Takenori Shimoyama | Acoustic ~ Always Live On |
| 9 | Fading Starlight | Lost |
| 11 | Crystal Eyes | In Silence They March |
| 12 | Abdullah | Abdullah |
| Ayreon | Ayreonauts Only (compilation) | |
| Melt-Banana | Teeny Shiny | |
| 14 | Walls of Jericho | The Bound Feed the Gagged |
| 15 | Boris | Flood |
| 17 | Gargoyle | Future Drug |
| 21 | Svartsyn | ...His Majesty |
| 24 | Onmyo-Za | 百鬼繚乱 |
| Within Temptation | Mother Earth |
| Month | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | No-Big-Silence | Successful, Bitch & Beautiful |
| Pig Destroyer | 7" Picture Disc (EP) | |
| Static-X | The Death Trip Continues (EP) |
| Day | Artist | Single | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Kittie | Brackish | |
| 21 | AC/DC | Stiff Upper Lip |
| Day | Artist | Single | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Metallica | I Disappear | |
| 5 | Kittie | Charlotte |
| Month | Artist | Single |
|---|---|---|
| January | Poison | Shut Up, Make Love |
| February | Poison | Be the One |
| Unknown | Primer 55 | Appetite for Destruction |
| Loose | ||
| Set It Off | ||
| Rollins Band | Get Some Go Again | |
| Illumination | ||
| Skillet | Best Kept Secret | |
| Come On to the Future | ||
| Invincible | ||
| Rest | ||
| Shout to the Lord | ||
| The One | ||
| You Take My Rights Away | ||
| You're Powerful | ||
| Your Name Is Holy | ||
| Stratovarius | A Million Light Years Away / Celestial Dream | |
| Hunting High and Low / Millennium |