2001 in heavy metal music explained

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2001.

Newly formed bands

Re-formed bands

Celtic Frost
Death Angel
Jane's Addiction
Rush

Albums

40 Below Summer - Invitation to the Dance
Aborted - Engineering the Dead
Aerosmith - Just Push Play
After Forever - Decipher
Akercocke - The Goat of Mendes
Alice Cooper - Dragontown
Alice in Chains - Greatest Hits (compilation)
Alien Ant Farm - Anthology
American Head Charge - The War of Art
Amon Amarth - The Crusher
Amorphis - Am Universum
Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa
Angra - Rebirth
Anorexia Nervosa - New Obscurantis Order
Anvil – Plenty of Power
Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
Ark - Burn the Sun
Arma Angelus - Where Sleeplessness Is Rest from Nightmares
As I Lay Dying – Beneath the Encasing of Ashes
Atreyu - Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty (EP)
Avantasia - The Metal Opera
Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Biohazard – Uncivilization
Black Label Society - Alcohol Fueled Brewtality (live)
Bolt Thrower - Honour – Valour – Pride
Bon Jovi - One Wild Night Live 1985 - 2001 (live)
Breach - Kollapse
Bruce Dickinson - The Best of Bruce Dickinson (compilation)
Cathedral - Endtyme
Chimaira - Pass Out of Existence
Creed - Weathered
Converge - Jane Doe
Cradle of Filth - Bitter Suites to Succubi (EP)
Darkane - Insanity (album)
Dark Funeral - Diabolis Interium
Destruction - The Antichrist
Devin Townsend - Terria
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Divinity Destroyed - Nocturnal Dawn
Dope - Life
Drowning Pool - Sinner
Edguy - Mandrake
Emperor -
Ensiferum - Ensiferum
Enslaved - Monumension
Entombed – Morning Star
Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
Evergrey - In Search of Truth
Every Time I Die - Last Night in Town
Fantômas - The Director's Cut
Fear Factory - Digimortal
Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
Flaw - Through the Eyes
Freedom Call - Crystal Empire
From Zero - One Nation Under
Gamma Ray - No World Order
God Forbid - Determination
Godflesh - Hymns
Godflesh - In All Languages^[1] (compilation)
Gojira - Terra Incognita
Graveworm – Scourge of Malice
Gwar – Violence Has Arrived
Iced Earth - Horror Show
Ill Nino - Revolution Revolución
In Extremo - Sünder ohne Zügel
Integrity – Closure
Jag Panzer – Mechanized Warfare
Judas Priest - Demolition
Kamelot - Karma
King's X - Manic Moonlight
Kittie - Oracle
Kreator - Violent Revolution
Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories
Lifer - Lifer
Tony MacAlpine - Chromaticity
Machine Head - Supercharger
Marduk - La Grande Danse Macabre
Mass Hysteria - De cercle en cercle
Mastodon - Lifesblood (EP)
Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
Moonsorrow - Voimasta ja kunniasta
Moonspell - Darkness and Hope
Mushroomhead - XX (compilation)
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
Nickelback - Silver Side Up
No One - No One
Occult – Rage to Revenge
Oomph! - Ego
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Ozzy Osbourne - Down to Earth
Pentagram - Sub-Basement
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
Place of Skulls - Nailed
P.O.D. - Satellite
Powerman 5000 - Anyone for Doomsday?
Primer 55 - (the) New Release
Racer X - Superheroes
Rage - Welcome to the Other Side
Rammstein - Mutter
Reveille - Bleed the Sky
Reverend - A Gathering of Demons (EP)
Rhapsody - Rain of a Thousand Flames
Rollins Band - Nice
Royal Hunt - The Mission (Royal Hunt album)
Saliva - Every Six Seconds
Savatage - Poets and Madmen
Sepultura - Nation
Sevendust - Animosity
Silencer - Death – Pierce Me
Skillet – Alien Youth
Skrape - New Killer America
Slayer - God Hates Us All
Slipknot - Iowa
Sodom – M-16
SOiL - Scars
Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
Solefald - Pills Against the Ageless Ills
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Static-X - Machine
Stratovarius - Intermission (compilation)
Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
System of a Down - Toxicity
Theatre of Tragedy - (live)
Therion - Secret of the Runes
Throwdown - You Don't Have to Be Blood to Be Family
Thursday - Full Collapse
Tomahawk - Tomahawk
Tool - Lateralus
Tristania - World of Glass
Unearth - The Stings of Conscience
Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic
Vision of Disorder – From Bliss to Devastation
Warrant - Under the Influence

Disbandments

Events

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.

Deaths

December 13 – Charles Michael "Chuck" Schuldiner, founder, guitarist, vocalist, primary songwriter, and producer of Death and Control Denied, and former guitarist of Voodoocult, died from pneumonia and complications from pontine glioma at the age of 34.^[2]

Notes and References

Web site: [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r541386|pure_url=yes}} Godflesh - ''In All Languages'']. Rivadavia, Eduardo. Allmusic. 2008-06-20.
Web site: 2010-10-07 . Death Frontman Chuck Schuldiner Dies - Music, Celebrity, Artist News MTV . https://web.archive.org/web/20101007140714/https://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1451543/20011218/death.jhtml . dead . 2010-10-07 . 2024-04-19 .