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2002 in heavy metal music
This is a timeline documenting the events of
heavy metal
in 2002.
Contents
1
Newly formed bands
2
Reformed Bands
3
Albums
4
Disbandments
5
Events
Newly formed bands
DevilDriver
Eluveitie
Massacration
Probot
Sturmgeist
Symphony in Peril
Theocracy
Teräsbetoni
Viperine
Iron Mask
All Shall Perish
Suicide Silence
Reformed Bands
Down
Prong
Trouble
Albums
3 Inches of Blood
-
Battlecry Under a Winter Sun
The Acacia Strain
-
...And Life Is Very Long
Agalloch
-
The Mantle
Atreyu
-
Suicide Notes And Butterfly Kisses
Behemoth
-
Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)
Beseech
-
Souls Highway
Black Label Society
-
1919 Eternal
Black Sabbath
-
Past Lives
Blind Guardian
-
A Night at the Opera
Bloodbath
-
Resurrection Through Carnage
Bon Jovi
-
Bounce
Cannibal Corpse
-
Gore Obsessed
Cog
-
Just Visiting Part One
Cog
-
Just Visiting Part Two
Def Leppard
-
X
Dio
-
Killing the Dragon
Dream Theater
-
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Fear Factory
-
Concrete
(originally recorded in 1991, but not released until 2002)
Freak Kitchen
-
Move
HammerFall
-
Crimson Thunder
Hardline
-
II
Immortal
-
Sons of Northern Darkness
In Flames
-
Reroute to Remain
Kataklysm
-
Shadows & Dust
Killswitch Engage
-
Alive or Just Breathing
Lacuna Coil
-
Comalies
Lordi
-
Get Heavy
Korn
-
Untouchables
Manowar
-
Warriors of the World
Mastodon
-
Remission
Megadeth
-
Rude Awakening
(live)
Megadeth
-
Still Alive... and Well?
Mercenary
-
Everblack
Motörhead
-
Hammered
Nightwish
-
Century Child
Nine Inch Nails
-
And All That Could Have Been
(live)
Opeth
-
Deliverance
Otep
-
Sevas Tra
Pitchshifter
-
PSI
Protest The Hero
-
A Calculated Use of Sound
QueenAdreena
-
Drink Me
Raunchy
-
Velvet Noise
Rhapsody of Fire
-
Power of the Dragonflame
Rush
-
Vapor Trails
Saxon
-
Heavy Metal Thunder
Sentenced
-
The Cold White Light
Shadows Fall
-
The Art of Balance
Slechtvalk
-
The War That Plagues the Lands
Soilwork
-
Natural Born Chaos
Sonata Arctica
-
Songs of Silence
Soulfly
-
3
Stone Sour
-
Stone Sour
Symphony X
-
The Odyssey
System of a Down
-
Steal This Album!
Týr
-
How Far To Asgaard
Týr
-
Ólavur Riddararós
Vintersorg
-
Visions From The Spiral Generator
Visions of Atlantis
-
Eternal Endless Infinity
WarCry
-
WarCry
,
El Sello De Los Tiempos
Winds
-
Reflections of the I
Disbandments
Alice in Chains
Fear Factory
Godflesh
Megadeth
Events
Alice in Chains
singer
Layne Staley
is found dead from an overdose of heroin.
Megadeth
frontman
Dave Mustaine
disbands the band after serverely injuring his arm leaving him unable to play.
Ex-
Iron Maiden
drummer
Clive Burr
is diagnosed with
multiple sclerosis
.
Drowning Pool
singer
Dave Williams
dies on Wednesday August 14, 2002. He was found inside his tour bus, dead of
cardiomyopathy
.
Dave Lombardo
rejoins
Slayer
.
Tarot
bassist
Marco Hietala
leaves
Sinergy
and joins
Nightwish
as their new bassist.
Guitarist
Jeff Phillips
joins
Kittie
as a session member, replacing
Fallon Bowman
. Bassist
Talena Atfield
quits and is replaced by
Jennifer Arroyo
.
Mötley Crüe
drummer
Randy Castillo
dies of cancer.
Preceded by:
2001
Heavy Metal Timeline
2002
Followed by:
2003