1999 in heavy metal music

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

Newly formed bands

• 3 Inches of Blood
• 10 Years
• A Life Once Lost
• A Perfect Circle
• Abaddon
• Aeon
• Amenra
• Anaal Nathrakh
• Andromeda
• The Angelic Process
• Arallu
• Arthemis
• The Autumn Offering
• Avantasia
• Avenged Sevenfold
• Becoming the Archetype
• Battlelore
• Blaze
• Beautiful Creatures
• Before the Dawn
• Beyond the Bridge
• Biomechanical
• Bleeding Through
• Blindead
• Blood Stain Child
• Bloodlined Calligraphy
• Breaking Benjamin
• Burning Point
• Burnt by the Sun
• Darkspace
• DragonForce (then DragonHeart)
• Dragonland
• Divinity Destroyed
• Dominia
• Dream Evil
• Dreamtale
• Earshot
• Enter Shikari
• Evile
• Falconer
• Five Pointe O
• For My Pain...
• Forgotten Tomb
• Grand Magus
• Halford
• Hour of Penance
• Kalmah
• Killswitch Engage
• The Kovenant
• Lamb of God (formed from Burn the Priest)
• Lifer (then Strangers with Candy)
• Lumsk
• Memorain
• Metalium
• Methods of Mayhem
• Metsatöll
• Mors Principium Est
• MullMuzzler
• Old Man Gloom
• Protest the Hero
• Psycroptic
• QueenAdreena (then Queen Adreena)
• Raintime
• The Red Chord
• Sargeist
• Sabaton
• Seether (as Saron Gas)
• Shade Empire
• Shadowkeep
• Sikth
• Silent Force
• Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
• Sunstorm
• Tomahawk
• Toxic Holocaust
• Trivium
• Ufomammut
• Voyager

Reformed bands

• Armored Saint
• Destruction (Schmier's comeback)
• Lost Horizon (reformed as Highlander, name was changed soon after)
• Pungent Stench
• Rollins Band
• Skid Row
• White Lion

Albums

• Aborted – The Purity of Perversion
• Agalloch – Pale Folklore
• Akercocke – Rape of the Bastard Nazarene
• Alabama Thunderpussy – River City Revival
• Alice Cooper – The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper (box set)
• Alice in Chains – ' (compilation)
• Alice in Chains – Music Bank (box set)
• Alien Ant Farm – Greatest Hits
• Anal Cunt - It Just Gets Worse
• American Head Charge – Trepanation
• Amon Amarth – The Avenger
• Amorphis – Tuonela (album)
• Anathema – Judgement
• Angelcorpse – The Inexorable
• Annihilator - Criteria for a Black Widow
• Anvil – Speed of Sound
• Arch Enemy – Burning Bridges
• Atari Teenage Riot – 60 Second Wipe Out
• Backyard Babies – Total 13
• Bal-Sagoth – The Power Cosmic
• Bang Tango – Greatest Tricks
• Bang Tango – Untied & Live
• Behemoth – Satanica
• Biohazard – New World Disorder
• Black Label Society – Sonic Brew
• Botch – We Are the Romans
• Broken Teeth – Broken Teeth
• Bruce Dickinson – Scream for Me Brazil (live)
• Buckcherry – Buckcherry (album)
• Burn the Priest – Burn the Priest
• Burzum – Hliðskjálf (album)
• Cannibal Corpse – Bloodthirst (album)
• Chevelle – Point #1
• Children of Bodom – Hatebreeder
• Chris Cornell – Euphoria Morning
• Cinderella – Live at the Key Club
• Coal Chamber – Chamber Music
• Control Denied – The Fragile Art of Existence
• Cradle of Filth – From the Cradle to Enslave (EP)
• Crazy Town – The Gift of Game
• The Crown – Hell is Here
• Dangerous Toys – Vitamins and Crash Helmets Tour – Greatest Hits Live
• Danzig – Danzig 6:66: Satan's Child
• Darkthrone – Ravishing Grimness
• Dark Tranquility – Projector
• Def Leppard – Euphoria
• Destruction – The Butcher Strikes Back (demo)
• Devourment - Molesting The Decapitated
• DGeneration – Through The Darkness
• The Dillinger Escape Plan – Calculating Infinity
• Dimmu Borgir – Spiritual Black Dimensions
• Dog Fashion Disco – The Embryo's in Bloom
• Dope – Felons and Revolutionaries
• Drain STH – Freaks of Nature
• Dream Theater – '
• Edguy – Theater of Salvation
• Emperor – IX Equilibrium
• Evergrey – Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy
• Eternal Tears of Sorrow – Vilda Mánnu
• Fall of the Leafe – August Wernicke
• Filter – Title of Record
• Finntroll – Midnattens Widunder
• Gamma Ray – Power Plant
• Godflesh – Us and Them
• God Forbid – Reject the Sickness
• Gilby Clarke – 99 Live
• Graveworm – As the Angels Reach the Beauty
• Grip Inc. – Solidify
• Gwar – We Kill Everything
• H.I.M. – Razorblade Romance
• Hate Eternal – Conquering the Throne
• Hypocrisy – Hypocrisy
• Immolation – Failures for Gods
• Immortal – At the Heart of Winter
• Incubus – Make Yourself
• In Flames – Colony
• Integrity – Integrity 2000
• Jetboy – Lost & Found
• Kamelot – The Fourth Legacy
• Katatonia – Tonight's Decision
• Keep of Kalessin – '
• Konkhra – Come Down Cold
• Korn – Issues
• Kreator – Endorama
• Lacrimosa – Elodia
• Lacuna Coil – In a Reverie
• L.A. Guns – Greatest Hits and Black Beauties
• L.A. Guns – Shrinking Violet
• Lefay – Symphony of the Damned, Re-symphonised (re-recording)
• Lefay – The Seventh Seal
• Limp Bizkit – Significant Other
• Lock Up – Pleasures Pave Sewers
• Love/Hate – Let's Eat
• Tony MacAlpine – Master of Paradise
• Machine Head – The Burning Red
• Yngwie Malmsteen – Alchemy
• Marduk – Panzer Division Marduk
• Marilyn Manson – The Last Tour on Earth (live)
• Mass Hysteria – Contraddiction
• Mercyful Fate – 9
• Megadeth – Risk
• Metal Church – Masterpeace
• Metallica – S&M (live)
• Metalium – Millennium Metal – Chapter One
• Ministry – Dark Side of the Spoon
• Mr. Bungle – California
• Moonspell – The Butterfly Effect
• Morgion – Solinari
• Mortician – Chainsaw Dismemberment
• Mortification – Hammer of God
• Mötley Crüe – Supersonic and Demonic Relics
• Motörhead – Everything Louder Than Everyone Else (live)
• Mushroomhead – M3
• My Dying Bride – The Light at the End of the World
• Napalm Death – Words from the Exit Wound
• Necrophobic – The Third Antichrist
• Neurosis – Times of Grace
• New American Shame – New American Shame
• Nevermore – Dreaming Neon Black
• Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile
• Novembers Doom – Of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers
• Occult – Of Flesh and Blood
• Oomph! – Plastik
• Opeth – Still Life
• Orchid – Chaos Is Me
• Overkill – Necroshine
• Pain – Rebirth
• Pessimist – Blood for the Gods
• Pentagram – Review Your Choices
• Pig Destroyer – Pig Destroyer / Gnob (split EP)
• Pitchshifter – Un-United Kingdom (EP)
• P.O.D. – The Fundamental Elements of Southtown
• Poison the Well – The Opposite of December
• Powerman 5000 – Tonight the Stars Revolt!
• Pretty Boy Floyd – Porn Stars (album)
• Primal Fear – Jaws of Death
• Primus – Antipop
• Pro-Pain – Act of God
• Queensrÿche – Q2K
• Quiet Riot – Alive and Well
• Rage – Ghosts
• Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles
• Rammstein – Live Aus Berlin (live)
• Ratt – Ratt
• Reveille – Laced
• Rotting Christ – Sleep of the Angels
• Samael – Eternal
• Satyricon – Rebel Extravaganza
• Scorpions – Eye II Eye
• Sebastian Bach – Bring 'Em Bach Alive!
• Septicflesh – Revolution DNA
• Serial Joe – Face Down
• Sevendust – Home
• Shootyz Groove – High Definition
• Sinergy – Beware the Heavens
• Six Feet Under – Maximum Violence
• Skinlab – '
• Slaughter – Back to Reality
• Slipknot – Slipknot
• Sodom – Code Red
• Solefald – Neonism
• Sonata Arctica – Ecliptica
• Staind – Dysfunction
• Static-X – Wisconsin Death Trip
• Steve Vai – The Ultra Zone
• Stone Temple Pilots – No. 4
• Stratovarius – The Chosen Ones (compilation)
• Suicidal Tendencies – Freedumb
• Summoning – Stronghold
• Testament – The Gathering
• The Black Halos – The Black Halos
• Therapy? – Suicide Pact – You First
• Therion – Crowning of Atlantis
• Throwdown – Beyond Repair
• Tristania – Beyond the Veil
• Type O Negative – World Coming Down
• Underoath – Act of Depression
• uneXpect – Utopia
• Vintersorg – Ödemarkens son
• Virgin Steele – The House of Atreus Act I
• Vision of Disorder – For the Bleeders
• Warrant – Greatest & Latest
• W.A.S.P. – Helldorado
• White Skull – Tales From The North
• Will Haven – WHVN
• Windir - Arntor
• Zao – Liberate Te Ex Inferis

Disbandments

• Death
• Far (reformed in 2008)
• Fatal Opera
• Mercyful Fate- on hiatus

Events

• Drummer Tommy Lee leaves Mötley Crüe.
• Ex-drummer of Megadeth Gar Samuelson dies at age 41 from liver failure.
• Singer Blaze Bayley leaves Iron Maiden, while Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith re-join.
• 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.
• Singer Naoki Hashimoto left Outrage.
• Mudvayne signs with Epic Records.
• Poison appear in an episode of Behind the Music.

References