1999 in heavy metal music

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

Newly formed bands

* Bloodbath
* DragonForce (Then Dragonheart)
* Dragonland
* Avenged Sevenfold
* Bleeding Through
* Blaze
* Divinity Destroyed
* Dream Evil
* Falconer
* Five pointe o
* Kalmah
* Killswitch Engage
* Lamb of God was formed from Burn the Priest
* Mastodon
* Mors Principium Est
* Protest the Hero
* QueenAdreena (Then Queen Adreena)
* Sabaton

Reformed Bands

* The Cult
* Pungent Stench
* Skid Row
* Lost Horizon (reformed as Highlander, name was changed soon after)

Albums

* Agalloch - "Pale Folklore"
* Akercocke - "Rape of the Bastard Nazarene"
* Alice Cooper - "The Life & Crimes of Alice Cooper"
* Alice in Chains - "", "Music Bank"
* Arch Enemy - "Burning Bridges"
* American Head Charge - "Trepanation"
* Behemoth - "Satanica"
* Black Label Society - "Sonic Brew"
* Bruce Dickinson - "Scream For Me Brazil"
* Burn the Priest - "Burn the Priest"
* Cannibal Corpse - "Bloodthirst"
* Children of Bodom - "Hatebreeder"
* Control Denied - "The Fragile Art of Existence"
* Cradle of Filth - "From the Cradle to Enslave"
* Def Leppard - "Euphoria
* The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Calculating Infinity"
* Dimmu Borgir - "Spiritual Black Dimensions"
* Edguy - "Theater of Salvation"
* Dream Theater - ""
* Emperor - "IX Equilibrium"
* Finntroll - "Midnattens Widunder"
* God Forbid - "Reject the Sickness"
* Godflesh - "Us and Them"
* Immortal - "At the Heart of Winter"
* In Flames - "Colony"
* Kittie - "Spit"
* Kreator - "Endorama"
* Yngwie J. Malmsteen - "Alchemy"
* Lacuna Coil - "In a Reverie"
* Limp Bizkit - "Significant Other"
* Tony MacAlpine - "Master Of Paradise"
* Machine Head - "The Burning Red"
* Marilyn Manson - "The Last Tour on Earth" (live)
* Megadeth - "Risk"
* Metal Church - "Masterpeace"
* Metallica - "S&M"
* Moonspell - "The Butterfly Effect"
* Motörhead - "Everything Louder Than Everyone Else" (live)
* Nine Inch Nails - "The Fragile"
* Opeth - "Still Life"
* Pig Destroyer - "Pig Destroyer/Gnob (Split EP)"
* Pitchshifter - "Un-UK" EP
* Rammstein - "Live Aus Berlin"
* Rage Against the Machine - "The Battle of Los Angeles"
* Ratt - "Ratt
* Slipknot - " Slipknot"
* Solefald - "Neonism"
* Sonata Arctica - "Ecliptica"
* Static-X - "Wisconsin Death Trip"
* Steve Vai - "The Ultra Zone"
* Stratovarius - "The Chosen Ones"
* Testament - "The Gathering"
* uneXpect - "Utopia"
* Zao - "Liberate Te Ex Inferis"

Disbandments

* Death

Events

* Drummer Tommy Lee left Motley Crue
* Singer Blaze Bayley left Iron Maiden
* Singer Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith re-join Iron Maiden, creating the most popular line-up so far.
* 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.