2007 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2007.

Newly formed bands

* Skin
* Cavalera Conspiracy

Reformed bands

* Artillery
* At the Gates for a few shows
* Carcass for a few shows
* Ronnie James Dio rejoins Black Sabbath under the name Heaven and Hell (the name of the first Black Sabbath album featuring Dio) for a tour.
* Extreme
* Rage Against the Machine
* Spinal Tap with new single "Warmer than Hell!"
* X Japan
* Led Zeppelin For one show
* Sacred Reich For a few shows

Albums

* 3 Inches of Blood - "Fire Up the Blades"
* 8 Foot Sativa - "Poison of Ages"
* A Life Once Lost - "Iron Gag"
* A Perfect Murder - "War of Aggression"
* Abigor - "Fractal Possession"
* Aborted - ""
* Abscess - "Horrorhammer"
* The Absence - "Riders of the Plague"
* Aeon - "Rise to Dominate"
* After Forever - "After Forever"
* Agathocles - "Senseless Trip"
* Age of Nemesis - "Terra Incognita"
* Agent Steel - "Alienigma"
* Agnostic Front - "Warriors"
* The Agonist - "Once Only Imagined"
* Airbourne - "Runnin' Wild"
* Ajattara - "Kalmanto"
* Akercocke - "Antichrist"
* Akira Takasaki - "Black Brown"
* Al Atkins - "Demon Deceiver"
* Alabama Thunderpussy - "Open Fire"
* Alcest - "Souvenirs d'un autre monde"
* Alchemist - "Tripsis"
* All Out War - "Assassins In The House Of God"
* Altaria - "Divine Invitation" Compilation Album
* Amoral - "Reptile Ride"
* Amorphis - "Silent Waters"
* Anaal Nathrakh - "Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here"
* André Matos - "Time to Be Free"
* Angel Corpse - "Of Lucifer And Lightning"
* Angel Dust - "VII"
* Annihilator - "Metal"
* Anvil - "This is Thirteen"
* Apocalyptica - "Worlds Collide"
* Arch Enemy - "Rise of the Tyrant"
* Arghoslent - "Hornets of the Pogrom"
* Ari Koivunen - "Fuel for the Fire"
* Arkhon Infaustus - "Orthodoxyn"
* As I Lay Dying - "An Ocean Between Us"
* Astral Doors - "New Revelation"
* At Vance - "VII"
* At War With Self - "Acts of God"
* August Burns Red - "Messengers"
* Ava Inferi - "The Silhouette"
* Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
* Axel Rudi Pell - "Diamonds Unlocked"
* Axxis - "Doom Of Destiny"
* Balance of Power - New Studio Album
* Baroness - "The Red Album"
* Battlelore - "Evernight"
* Becoming the Archetype - "The Physics of Fire"
* Behemoth - "The Apostasy"
* Beneath the Massacre - "Mechanics of Dysfunction"
* Benediction - "Killing Music"
* The Berzerker - "Animosity"
* Between The Buried And Me - "Colors"
* The Black Dahlia Murder - "Nocturnal"
* Bloodsimple - "Red Harvest"
* Blue Cheer - "What Doesn't Kill You..."
* Born of Osiris - "The New Reign"
* Caliban - "The Awakening"
* Candlemass- "King Of The Grey Islands"
* Cannibal Corpse - "Vile Live"
* Cephalic Carnage - "Xenosapien"
* The Chariot - "The Fiancée"
* Chevelle - "Vena Sera"
* Chimaira - "Resurrection"
* Cirith Gorgor - "Cirith Gorgor"
* DÅÅTH - "The Hinderers"
* Dark Tranquillity - "Fiction"
* Darkest Hour - "Deliver Us"
* Darkthrone - "F.O.A.D."
* Daysend - "The Warning"
* Demiricous - "Two (Poverty)"
* Demon Hunter - "Storm the Gates of Hell"
* Destruction - "Thrash Anthems"
* Dethklok - "Dethalbum"
* Detonation - "Emission Phase"
* Devin Townsend - "Ziltoid the Omniscient"
* The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Ire Works"
* Dir en grey - "The Marrow of a Bone
* The Devil Wears Prada - "Plagues"
* DevilDriver - "The Last Kind Words "
* The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
* Dimmu Borgir - "In Sorte Diaboli"
* Disavowed - "Stagnated Existence"
* Divinefire - Farewell
* Divine Heresy - " Bleed The Fifth"
* Domine - "Ancient Spirit Rising"
* Down - "Down III"
* Dr. Sin - "Bravo"
* Dream Theater - "Systematic Chaos"
* Drowning Pool - "Full Circle"
* Drudkh - "Estrangement"
* Dublin Death Patrol - "DDP 4 Life "
* Dying Fetus - "War of Attrition "
* Elvenking - "The Scythe"
* The End - "Elementary "
* Ensiferum - "Victory Songs"
* Entombed - "Serpent Saints"
* Epica - "The Divine Conspiracy"
* Evile - "Enter the Grave"
* Exodus - "The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A"
* Eyefear - "A World Full of Grey"
* Fear My Thoughts - "Vulcanus"
* Finntroll - "Ur Jordens Djup"
* Five Finger Death Punch - "The Way of the Fist"
* Five Star Prison Cell - "Slaves of Virgo"
* Freedom Call - "Dimensions"
* From Autumn To Ashes - "Holding A Wolf By The Ears"
* Gamma Ray - "Land of the Free Part II"
* The Gathering - "A Noise Severe"
* Gorefest - "Rise to ruin"
* Grave Digger - "Liberty or Death"
* Graveland - "Will Stronger Than Death"
* Graveworm - "Collateral Defect"
* Carl Johan Grimmark - "Grimmark"
* HammerFall - "Steel Meets Steel - Ten Years Of Glory"
* Hanoi Rocks - "Street Poetry"
* Haste The Day - "Pressure The Hinges"
* Hatesphere - "Serpent Smiles and Killer Eyes"
* Helloween - "Gambling With The Devil"
* Hellyeah - "Hellyeah"
* High on Fire- "Death Is This Communion"
* Himsa - "Summon In Thunder"
* Iced Earth - "Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part 1)" and "Overture of the Wicked"
* Immolation - "Shadows In The Light"
* Impious - "Holy Murder Masquerade"
* In This Moment - "Beautiful Tragedy"
* Inveracity - "Extermination of Millions"
* Ion Dissonance - "Minus The Herd"
* Job for a Cowboy - "Genesis"
* Kamelot - "Ghost Opera"
* King Diamond - "Give Me Your Soul...Please"
* Korn - "Untitled"
* Korpiklaani - "Tervaskanto"
* Kronos - "The Hellenic Terror"
* Lord Belial - "Revelation"
* Månegarm - "Vargstenen"
* Marilyn Manson - "Eat Me, Drink Me"
* M.O.D.- "Red, White & Screwed"
* Machine Head - "The Blackening"
* Malevolent Creation - "Doomsday X"
* Mammatus - "The Coast Explodes"
* Manowar - "Gods of War"
* Marilyn Manson - "Eat Me, Drink Me"
* Marduk - ""
* Masterplan - "MK II"
* Mayhem - "Ordo Ad Chao"
* Megadeth - "United Abominations", "Warchest", and "" (CD and DVD)
* Melechesh - "Emissaries"
* Mnemic - "Passenger"
* Monstrosity - "Spiritual Apocalypse"
* Moonsorrow - "Viides Luku - Hävitetty"
* Morgana Lefay - "Aberrations Of The Mind"
* Mors Principium Est - "Liberation = Termination"
* Mudvayne - "Shades of Gray"
* Municipal Waste - "The Art of Partying"
* Naglfar - "Harvest"
* Neurosis - "Given to the Rising"
* Nightrage - "A New Disease is Born"
* Nightwish - "Dark Passion Play"
* Nile - "Ithyphallic"
* N.I.L. - "N.I.L."
* Nine Inch Nails - "Year Zero"
* Nocturnal Rites - "The 8th Sin"
* Novembers Doom - "The Novella Reservoir"
* Novembre - "The Blue"
* Obituary - "Xecutioner's Return"
* Onslaught - "Killing Peace"
* Opeth - "The Roundhouse Tapes"
* Overkill - "Immortalis"
* Ozzy Osbourne - "Black Rain"
* Pain - "Psalms of Extinction"
* Pain of Salvation - "Scarsick"
* Parkway Drive - "Horizons"
* Pig Destroyer - "Phantom Limb"
* Planet X - "Quantum"
* Portal - "Outre"
* Power Quest - "Master of Illusion"
* Primordial - "To the Nameless Dead"
* Pro-Pain - "Age of Tyranny"
* Rainshadow - "End Songs"
* The Red Chord - "Prey for Eyes"
* Reverend Bizarre - "III So Long Suckers"
* Rob Rock - "Garden of Chaos"
* Root - "Daemon Viam Invenient"
* Rotting Christ - "Theogonia"
* Sabaton - "Metalizer"
* Saxon - "The Inner Sanctum"
* Sanctity - "Road to Bloodshed"
* Scarve - "The Undercurrent"
* Scorpions - "Humanity Hour 1
* Sebastian Bach - "Angel Down
* Secret Chiefs 3 - "Book of Souls"
* Send More Paramedics - "The Awakening"
* Sevendust - "Alpha"
* Shadows Fall - "Threads of Life"
* Shining - "Halmstad
* Six Feet Under - "Commandment"
* Sigh - "Hangman's Hymn"
* Sodom - "The Final Sign of Evil"
* Soilwork - "Sworn to a Great Divide"
* Sonata Arctica - "Unia"
* Sonic Syndicate- "Only Inhuman"
* Static-X - "Cannibal"
* Still Remains - "The Serpent"
* Sturm und Drang - "Learning to Rock"
* Suicide Silence - "The Cleansing"
* Sun Caged - "Artemisia"
* Swallow the Sun - "Hope"
* Sworn Enemy - "Maniacal"
* Sybreed - "Antares"
* Symphony X - "Paradise Lost"
* Taint - "Secrets and Lies"
* Tarja Turunen - "My Winter Storm"
* Tesla - "Real to Reel"
* Therion - "Gothic Kabbalah"
* Threshold - "Dead Reckoning"
* Through the Eyes of the Dead - "Malice"
* Thunderstone - "Evolution 4.0"
* Trouble - "Simple Mind Condition"
* Turisas - "The Varangian Way"
* Twilightning - "Swinelords"
* Type O Negative - "Dead Again"
* U.D.O. - "Mastercutor"
* Unsane - "Visqueen"
* Vanishing Point - "The Fourth Season"
* Venus Doom
* Vesania - "Distractive Killusions"
* Vintersorg - "Solens Rötter"
* Virgin Black - "Requiem - Mezzo Forte"
* Visions of Atlantis - "Trinity"
* Vital Remains - "Icons of Evil"
* Vomitory - "Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize"
* W.A.S.P. - "Dominator"
* Watain - "Sworn to the Dark"
* Within Temptation - "The Heart of Everything
* With Passion - "What We See When We Close Our Eyes"Midnight Reign-Never Look Back

Disbandments

* Arcturus
* A Perfect Murder
* The Devin Townsend Band
* I Killed the Prom Queen
* Reverend Bizarre
* Strapping Young Lad
* Send More Paramedics
* Mendeed
* Pungent Stench
* With Passion
* Nodes of Ranvier

Midnight Reign- Never Look Back

released in 2007

Events

* Extreme reunite for the third time, announcing plans for a world tour next year, as well as a new studio album, which will be their first since 1995's "Waiting for the Punchline".
* Led Zeppelin get back together one more time for one concert in London.
* In Sorte Diaboli (Dimmu Borgir) becomes the first extreme metal album ever to hit the #1 in a Record chart, achieving that position in Norway.
* Andreas Sydow leaves Darkane, being replaced by Jens Broman.
* Witold Kiełtyka, drummer for Decapitated, is killed in a car crash in October.
* Vocalist, Damo and manager, Andy of The Red Shore, died in December.
* Anette Olzon joins Nightwish as their new lead vocalist.
* Peter Lindgren leaves Opeth.
* Jani Liimatainen is fired from Sonata Arctica.
* Jacob Bredahl leaves Hatesphere.
* Mark St. John, guitarist of KISS in 1984, dies in April.
* Meiju Enho leaves Ensiferum.
* Paul Raven, bassist for Ministry and former Killing Joke bassist, dies in October.
* Kevin DuBrow, lead singer for Quiet Riot, dies in November.
* Matt Barlow returns as lead singer of Iced Earth.
* Ramallah disbands.
* Gorgoroth splits into two sides. One is headed by Infernus and the other by King and Gaahl.

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