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2001 in heavy metal music
This is a timeline documenting the events of
heavy metal
in the year 2001.
Contents
1
Newly formed bands
2
Re-formed bands
3
Albums
4
Disbandments
5
Events
6
References
Newly formed bands
The Acacia Strain
A Band Called Pain
The Black Dahlia Murder
Black Majesty
Blackguard
Dragonlord
Equilibrium
Galneryus
Masterplan
Municipal Waste
Textures
Seraphim
Sirenia
WarCry
Re-formed bands
Celtic Frost
Rush
Albums
Aborted
-
Engineering the Dead
Aerosmith
-
Just Push Play
After Forever
-
Decipher
Akercocke
-
The Goat of Mendes
Alice Cooper
-
Dragontown
Alice in Chains
-
Greatest Hits
Arch Enemy
-
Wages of Sin
Atreyu
-
Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty (EP)
American Head Charge
-
The War of Art
Avenged Sevenfold
-
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Black Label Society
-
Alcohol Fueled Brewtality
Bolt Thrower
-
Honour - Valour - Pride
Bon Jovi
-
One Wild Night Live 1985–2001
Bruce Dickinson
-
The Best of Bruce Dickinson
Children of Bodom
-
Follow The Reaper
Chimaira
-
Pass Out of Existence
Cradle of Filth
-
Bitter Suites to Succubi
Decapitated
-
Winds of Creation
Dimmu Borgir
-
Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Divinity Destroyed
-
Nocturnal Dawn
Drowning Pool
-
Sinner
Edguy
-
Mandrake
Emperor
-
Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
Fear Factory
-
Digimortal
God Forbid
-
Determination
Godflesh
-
Hymns
Godflesh -
In All Languages
[
1
]
Gojira
-
Terra Incognita
Finntroll
-
Jaktens Tid
Iced Earth
-
Horror Show
Judas Priest
-
Demolition
Kittie
-
Oracle
Kreator
-
Violent Revolution
Lacuna Coil
-
Unleashed Memories
Tony MacAlpine
-
Chromaticity
Machine Head
-
Supercharger
Mastodon
-
Lifesblood
Megadeth
-
The World Needs a Hero
Moonspell
-
Darkness and Hope
Mushroomhead
-
XX
My Dying Bride
-
The Dreadful Hours
Oomph!
-
Ego
Opeth
-
Blackwater Park
Pig Destroyer
-
Prowler in the Yard
Racer X
-
Superheroes
Rammstein
-
Mutter
Reverend
-
A Gathering of Demons
Rhapsody of Fire
-
Rain of a Thousand Flames
Savatage
-
Poets and Madmen
Slayer
-
God Hates Us All
Solefald
-
Pills Against The Ageless Ills
SOiL
-
Scars
Sonata Arctica
-
Silence
Skrape
-
New Killer America
Slipknot
-
Iowa
Static-X
-
Machine
Stratovarius
-
Intermission
System of a Down
-
Toxicity
Theatre of Tragedy
-
Closure: Live
Throwdown
-
You Don't Have to Be Blood to Be Family
The Crest
-
Letters From Fire
Tool
-
Lateralus
Virgin Black
-
Sombre Romantic
Disbandments
Emperor
Death
Events
Death
guitarist
Chuck Schuldiner
dies at 34 on December 13 of
brain cancer
.
Metallica
bassist
Jason Newsted
(who joined after
Cliff Burton
's death) officially left the band and joined
Voivod
.
Former
Body Count
bassist Mooseman is killed in a drive-by shooting on February 21.
Nightwish
bassist
Sami Vänskä
is fired.
Kittie
guitarist
Fallon Bowman
quits.
Limp Bizkit
guitarist
Wes Borland
leaves the band.
References
^
Rivadavia, Eduardo.
"Godflesh -
In All Languages
"
.
Allmusic
.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/r541386
. Retrieved 2008-06-20
.
Preceded by:
2000
Heavy Metal Timeline
2001
Followed by:
2002