2000 in heavy metal music

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

Newly formed bands

• 5ive
• A Perfect Murder
• Adagio
• Adema
• Alcest
• Alove for Enemies
• Angelus Apatrida
• Animosity
• The Answer
• Antigama
• Apostasy
• Arsis
• As I Lay Dying
• Beto Vázquez Infinity
• Between the Buried and Me
• Beyond the Embrace
• Blinded Colony (as Stigmata)
• Bucovina
• Byzantine
• Cannae
• Car Bomb
• Circus Maximus
• Crashdïet
• The Darkness
• Deadsoul Tribe
• Deathstars
• Debauchery
• Demon Hunter
• Desperados
• Disarmonia Mundi
• Forever Slave
• From Autumn to Ashes
• Full Blown Chaos
• Hammers of Misfortune
• Hatesphere
• Hurt
• Indukti
• Kiuas
• Last Tribe
• Machinae Supremacy
• Majesty
• Mar de Grises
• Mastodon
• Mgła
• Mirrorthrone
• Mystic Prophecy
• Nachtmystium
• Nightrage
• The Ocean
• Ondskapt
• Otep
• Pagan's Mind
• Pantheist
• Peste Noire
• Place of Skulls
• Planet X
• Poisonblack
• Shaaman
• Seventh Wonder
• Steel Panther
• Swallow the Sun
• Sylosis
• Thunderstone
• Ulcerate
• Ünloco
• The Vision Bleak
• Visions of Atlantis
• Warmen
• Winter Solstice
• Witchcraft

Reformed bands

• Britny Fox
• Living Colour

Albums

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March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Albums with unknown release dates

Singles (WIP)

January

February

April

June

August

September

October

November

Singles with unknown release dates

Disbandments

• Brougham
• Osvajači (reformed in 2005)
• Rage Against the Machine
• Sacred Reich (reformed in 2006)

Events

• Al Pitrelli replaces Marty Friedman on guitar for Megadeth.
• 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.
• Mr. Bungle play their final concert.

Deaths

• September 21 – Peter "Wildfire" Wittke, founding member and guitarist of Iron Angel, died from injuries sustained in a car crash.

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