2001 in heavy metal music

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

Newly formed bands

* As I Lay Dying
* Audioslave
* A Band Called Pain
* The Black Dahlia Murder
* Black Majesty
* Dragonlord
* Galneryus
* Masterplan
* Textures
* Seraphim
* Sirenia
* WarCry

Re-formed bands

* Celtic Frost
* Down
* Rush

Albums

* Aerosmith - "Just Push Play"
* After Forever - "Decipher"
* Akercocke - "The Goat of Mendes"
* Alice Cooper - "Dragontown"
* Alice in Chains - "Greatest Hits"
* Arch Enemy - "Wages of Sin"
* Atreyu - "Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty (EP)"
* American Head Charge - "The War of Art"
* Avenged Sevenfold - "Sounding the Seventh Trumpet"
* Black Label Society - "Alcohol Fueled Brewtality"
* Bolt Thrower - "Honour - Valour - Pride"
* Bon Jovi - "One Wild Night Live 1985-2001"
* Bruce Dickinson - "The Best of Bruce Dickinson"
* Children of Bodom - "Follow The Reaper"
* Chimaira - "Pass Out of Existence"
* Cradle of Filth - "Bitter Suites to Succubi"
* Decapitated - "Winds of Creation"
* Dimmu Borgir - "Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia"
* Divinity Destroyed - "Nocturnal Dawn"
* Drowning Pool - "Sinner"
* Edguy - "Mandrake"
* Emperor - ""
* Fear Factory - "Digimortal"
* God Forbid - "Determination"
* Godflesh - "Hymns"
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* Gojira - "Terra Incognita"
* Finntroll - "Jaktens Tid"
* Iced Earth - "Horror Show"
* Judas Priest - "Demolition"
* Kittie - "Oracle"
* Kreator - "Violent Revolution"
* Lacuna Coil - "Unleashed Memories"
* Tony MacAlpine - "Chromaticity"
* Machine Head - "Supercharger"
* Mastodon - Lifesblood
* Megadeth - "The World Needs a Hero"
* Moonspell - "Darkness and Hope"
* Mushroomhead- "XX"
* Opeth - "Blackwater Park"
* Pig Destroyer - "Prowler in the Yard"
* Rammstein - "Mutter"
* Rhapsody of Fire - "Rain of a Thousand Flames"
* Savatage - "Poets and Madmen"
* Slayer - "God Hates Us All"
* Solefald - "Pills Against The Ageless Ills"
* Racer X - Superheroes
* Sonata Arctica - "Silence"
* Slipknot - "Iowa"
* Static-X - "Machine"
* Stratovarius - "Intermission"
* System of a Down - "Toxicity"
* Theatre of Tragedy - ""
* The Crest - "Letters From Fire"
* Tool - "Lateralus"
* Vanilla Ice - "Bi-Polar"
* Virgin Black - "Sombre Romantic"

Disbandments

* Emperor

Events

* Death guitarist Chuck Schuldiner dies at 34 on December 13 of brain cancer.
* 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 Vanska is fired.
* Kittie guitarist Fallon Bowman quits.
* Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland leaves the band.

References