2000 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2000.

Newly formed bands

* 3 Inches of Blood
* Adagio
* Arsis
* Beto Vázquez Infinity
* Crashdiet
* Disarmonia Mundi
* Drowning Pool
* Forever Slave
* Killswitch Engage
* Kiuas
* Otep
* Pagan's Mind
* Shaaman
* Silent Force
* Swallow the Sun
* Thunderstone
* Trivium
* Visions of Atlantis
* Warmen
* Wolfmother

Reformed bands

* Living Colour

Albums

* AC/DC - "Stiff Upper Lip"
* After Forever - "Prison of Desire"
* Alice Cooper - "Brutal Planet"
* Alice in Chains - "Live"
* Ayreon - ""
* Ayreon - ""
* Ayreon - "Ayreonauts Only"
* Behemoth - "Thelema.6"
* Beseech - "Black Emotions"
* Black Label Society - "Stronger Than Death"
* Bon Jovi - "Crush"
* Cannibal Corpse - "Live Cannibalism"
* Chimaira- this present darkness EP
* Cradle of Filth - "Midian"
* Deftones - "White Pony"
* Paul Di'Anno - "Nomad"
* Dio - "Magica"
* Disturbed - "The Sickness"
* Divinity Destroyed - "Nocturnal Dawn"
* Evanescence - "Origin"
* Godflesh - "Messiah EP"
* Godsmack - "Awake"
* Freak Kitchen - "Dead Soul Men"
* HammerFall - "Renegade"
* Helloween - "The Dark Ride"
* Immortal - "Damned in Black"
* In Flames - "Clayman"
* Infectious Grooves - "Mas Borracho"
* Iron Maiden - "Brave New World"
* Killswitch Engage - "Killswitch Engage"
* Lamb of God - "New American Gospel"
* Limp Bizkit - "Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water"
* Macabre - "Dahmer"
* Yngwie J. Malmsteen - "War to End All Wars"
* Marilyn Manson - "Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)"
* Monster Magnet - "God Says No"
* Motörhead - "We Are Motörhead"
* Mötley Crüe - "New Tattoo"
* Mudvayne - "L.D. 50"
* Nevermore - "Dead Heart in a Dead World"
* Nightwish - "Wishmaster"
* No Big Silence - "Successful, Bitch & Beautiful"
* Pantera - "Reinventing The Steel"
* Pig Destroyer - "7" Picture Disc (EP)"
* Pig Destroyer - "Pig Destroyer/Isis (Split EP)"
* Pitchshifter - "Deviant"
* Poison - "Crack a Smile...and More!"
* QueenAdreena - "Taxidermy"
* Racer X - "Technical Difficulties"
* Rage Against the Machine - "Renegades"
* Rob Rock - "Rage of Creation"
* Rhapsody of Fire - "Dawn of Victory"
* Sabaton - "Fist for Fight"
* Saxon - "Burrn! Presents Best of Saxon"
* Shadows Fall - "Of One Blood"
* Static-X - "The Death Trip Continues"
* Stratovarius - "Infinite", "14 Diamonds"
* Theatre of Tragedy - "Musique"

Disbandments

* Primus
* Rage Against the Machine
* Wolfgang

Events

* CC DeVille rejoins Poison
* Metallica releases a song "I Disappear" that was never released on any studio albums and appears on the "" soundtrack. This song also started the famous Napster Controversy
* Angela Gossow replaces Johan Liiva on vocals for Arch Enemy.