2005 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2005.

Newly formed bands

• 5 Star Grave
• A Plea for Purging
• Abnormality
• Acrania
• Agrimonia
• AM Conspiracy
• Anew Revolution
• Antagonist A.D.
• Arise and Ruin
• Arsonists Get All the Girls
• As Hell Retreats
• Attila
• Ava Inferi
• Battle Beast
• Benedictum
• Beyond Creation
• Beyond Fear
• Birds of Prey
• Black Tusk
• Bleed from Within
• Bloodred Hourglass
• Blotted Science
• Bonded by Blood
• Borealis
• Brain Drill
• The Browning
• The Burial
• Carnifex
• Century
• Child Bite
• Dark the Suns
• Dawn of Solace
• Death Breath
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Divine Heresy
• Five Finger Death Punch
• The Foreshadowing
• Ghost Brigade
• Hatchet
• Ihsahn
• Impending Doom
• In This Moment
• Ithilien
• Kauan
• Keldian
• Lazarus A.D.
• Lifelover
• Light Bringer
• Motionless in White
• Periphery
• Powerglove
• Red Fang
• Silent Civilian
• Stream of Passion
• Svartsot
• Swashbuckle
• Ten Tonne Dozer
• Thou
• Varg
• Vildhjarta
• We Came as Romans
• Wednesday 13
• Wodensthrone

Reformed bands

• Alice in Chains
• Anthrax
• Devourment
• Emperor
• Nothingface
• Terrorizer

Disbanded bands

• Child's Play
• Exhumed (indefinite hiatus)
• Gorguts
• Sentenced
• Symphony in Peril
• The 3rd and the Mortal

Events

• Korn guitarist Brian "Head" Welch leaves the band.
• Soilwork guitarist Peter Wichers leaves the band in late December after playing in the band for ten years to concentrate on record producing.
• Static-X lead guitarist Tripp Eisen was arrested in February for "lewd conduct against children", and was fired from the band.
• Vocalist Tarja Turunen was fired from Nightwish.
• Jason Jones' departure from Drowning Pool was publicly announced on June 14, 2005, due to irreconcilable differences. On August 25 at the Ozzfest date in Dallas, Texas, Drowning Pool did a guest shot performance on the main stage debuting their new singer Ryan McCombs.
• Visions of Atlantis lead vocalist Nicole Bogner quits and is replaced by ex-Aesma Daeva vocalist, Melissa Ferlaak. Guitarist Werner Fielder quits and is replaced by Wolfgang Koch.
• Kittie bassist Jennifer Arroyo quits and is replaced by Trish Doan. Session guitarist Lisa Marx quits and is replaced by Tara McLeod
• Hellhammer becomes Dimmu Borgir's new drummer.
• American Head Charge guitarist Bryan Ottoson dies at 27.
• Motörhead picked up their first Grammy in the awards of 2005 in the Best Metal Performance category for their cover of Metallica's "Whiplash" on Metallic Attack: The Ultimate Tribute
• Sentenced members announce their break-up and the release of their last album The Funeral Album. On October 1, they play and record their final show Buried Alive (released on 2006) on their hometown Oulu, Finland.
• Dave Mustaine, frontman of Megadeth puts together music festival Gigantour for the first time.

Deaths

• May 10 – David Wayne, former vocalist of Metal Church, died from health complications following injuries sustained in a car accident at the age of 47.
• May 22 – Mike "Yaz" Jastremski, former bassist of Heathen, died from a heart attack at the age of 42.
• August 18 – Krzysztof "Docent" Raczkowski, formed drummer of Vader, died from heart failure at the age of 34.
• August 26 – Denis "Piggy" D'Amour, founder and guitarist of Voivod, died from colon cancer complications at the age of 45.
• Mika Ervaskari, original Stratovarius keyboardist, died by suicide.

Albums released

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October

November

December

See also

• 2005 in Swiss music

References