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List of albums released

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

Newly formed bands

Reformed bands

Sorted Albums

January

Day	Artist	Album
11	Chimaira	This Present Darkness (EP)
11	Kittie	Spit
17	Sentenced	Crimson
18	Cro-Mags	Revenge
25	Primer 55	Introduction to Mayhem
31	Macabre	Dahmer
31	Therion	Deggial

February

Day	Artist	Album
1	Skillet	Invincible
7	Gorgoroth	Incipit Satan
7	Melvins	The Crybaby
8	Bloodbath	Breeding Death (EP)
	Demons & Wizards	Demons & Wizards
	Soilwork	The Chainheart Machine
28	AC/DC	Stiff Upper Lip
28	Stratovarius	Infinite
29	Rollins Band	Get Some -> Go Again

March

Day	Artist	Album
6	Entombed	Uprising
7	Alabama Thunderpussy	Constellation
	Armored Saint	Revelation
	Disturbed	The Sickness
	High on Fire	The Art of Self Defense
13	Old Man's Child	Revelation 666 – The Curse of Damnation
14	Poison	Crack a Smile... and More!
20	Vader	Litany
21	Dio	Magica
21	Morgana Lefay	S.O.S
27	Immortal	Damned in Black
27	Pantera	Reinventing the Steel

April

Day	Artist	Album
17	Borknagar	Quintessence
17	Decapitated	Winds of Creation
18	Black Label Society	Stronger than Death
24	After Forever	Prison of Desire
25	Boysetsfire	After the Eulogy
25	Destruction	All Hell Breaks Loose

May

Day	Artist	Album
22	Blaze Bayley	Silicon Messiah
23	A Perfect Circle	Mer de Noms
29	Iron Maiden	Brave New World

June

Day	Artist	Album
6	Alice Cooper	Brutal Planet
8	Cave In	Jupiter
20	Ayreon	Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer
	Ayreon	Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator
	Deftones	White Pony
26	Devin Townsend	Physicist (album)
27	Deicide	Insineratehymn

July

Day	Artist	Album
7	Dark Tranquillity	Haven

September

Day	Artist	Album
12	At the Drive-In	Relationship of Command
12	Type O Negative	After Dark (live)
19	Cannibal Corpse	Live Cannibalism (live)
25	Electric Wizard	Dopethrone^[1]

October

Day	Artist	Album
2	Apocalyptica	Cult
3	Enslaved	Mardraum – Beyond the Within
10	Slash's Snakepit	Ain't Life Grand
17	100 Demons	In the Eyes of the Lord
30	Children of Bodom	Follow the Reaper
30	Cradle of Filth	Midian

November

Day	Artist	Album
27	Behemoth	Thelema.6

December

Day	Artist	Album
5	Alice in Chains	Live
12	Ayreon	Ayreonauts Only (compilation)

Unsorted Albums

Downset. – Check Your People
Edguy – The Savage Poetry (re-recording)
Fates Warning – Disconnected
Glassjaw – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
Godflesh – Messiah (EP)
Godsmack – Awake
Halford – Resurrection
HammerFall – Renegade
Heaven Shall Burn – Asunder
Helloween – The Dark Ride
The Hives – Veni Vidi Vicious
Immolation – Close to a World Below
Incantation – The Infernal Storm
In Flames – Clayman
Iron Maiden – Brave New World
Isis – Celestial
Jag Panzer – Thane to the Throne
Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage
King Diamond – House of God
King's X – Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous
Lamb of God – New American Gospel
Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
Madball – Hold It Down
Marilyn Manson – Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
Metalium – State of Triumph – Chapter Two
Misanthrope – Misanthrope Immortel
Misanthrope – Recueil d'Écueils: les Épaves et Autres Oeuvres Interdites (compilation)
Morbid Angel – Gateways to Annihilation
Monster Magnet – God Says No
Motörhead – We Are Motörhead
Mötley Crüe – New Tattoo
Mudvayne – L.D. 50
Nasum – Human 2.0
Nevermore – Dead Heart in a Dead World
Nightwish – Wishmaster
Nile – Black Seeds of Vengeance
Nothingface – Violence
No-Big-Silence – Successful, Bitch & Beautiful
One Minute Silence – Buy Now... Saved Later
Orange Goblin – The Big Black
Origin – Origin
Overkill – Bloodletting
Papa Roach – Infest
Paul Di'Anno – Nomad
Pig Destroyer – 7" Picture Disc (EP)
Pig Destroyer – Isis / Pig Destroyer (split EP)
Pitchshifter – Deviant
Poison – Power to the People
Pro-Pain – Round 6
QueenAdreena – Taxidermy
Racer X – Technical Difficulties (Europe and US versions)
Raised Fist – Ignoring the Guidelines
Rhapsody – Dawn of Victory
Rob Rock – Rage of Creation
Rotting Christ - Khronos
Saxon – Burrn! Presents: The Best of Saxon (compilation)
Scorpions – Moment of Glory (compilation)
Scarve – Translucence
Seven Witches – City of Lost Souls
Shadows Fall – Of One Blood
Shuvel – Set It Off
Sinergy – To Hell and Back
Ska-P – Planeta Eskoria
Soulfly – Primitive
Soulreaper - Written in Blood
Static-X – The Death Trip Continues (EP)
Stratovarius – 14 Diamonds (compilation)
Suicidal Tendencies – Free Your Soul and Save My Mind
Symphony X – V: The New Mythology Suite
Tad Morose – Undead
Theatre of Tragedy – Musique
The Chasm – Procession to the Infraworld
The Haunted – Made Me Do It
The Sins of Thy Beloved – Perpetual Desolation
Trail of Tears – Profoundemonium
Underoath – Cries of the Past
Virgin Steele – The House of Atreus Act II
Within Temptation – Mother Earth
Whispering Gallery – Like a Dream of Never-ending Beauty... Love Never Dies
Yngwie Malmsteen – War to End All Wars

Disbandments

Rage Against the Machine
Sacred Reich (Reformed 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 Mission: Impossible 2 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.

References

^ "Electric Wizard". Rise Above Records. Archived from the original on October 12, 2000. Retrieved April 2, 2022.

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