2001 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2001.

Newly formed bands

• As I Lay Dying
• Audioslave
• Dragonlord
• Galneryus
• Masterplan
• Seraphim
• Sirenia

Re-formed bands

• Celtic Frost
• Down
• Rush

Albums

• Aerosmith - Just Push Play
• Alice Cooper - Dragontown
• Alice in Chains - Greatest Hits
• Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
• Black Label Society - Alcohol Fueled Brewtality
• Bolt Thrower - Honour - Valour - Pride
• Bruce Dickinson - The Best of Bruce Dickinson
• Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
• Chimaira - Pass Out of Existence
• The Cult - Beyond Good and Evil
• Decapitated - Winds of Creation
• Divinity Destroyed - Nocturnal Dawn
• Drowning Pool - Sinner
• Edguy - Mandrake
• Fear Factory - Digimortal
• Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
• Iced Earth - Horror Show
• Judas Priest - Demolition
• Kreator - Violent Revolution
• Machine Head - Supercharger
• Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
• Moonspell - Darkness and Hope
• Opeth - Blackwater Park
• Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
• Rammstein - Mutter
• Rhapsody of Fire - Rain of a Thousand Flames
• Savatage - Poets and Madmen
• Slayer - God Hates Us All
• Slipknot - Iowa
• Solefald - Pills Against The Ageless Ills
• Racer X - Superheroes
• Sonata Arctica - Silence
• Static-X - Machine
• Stratovarius - Intermission
• System of a Down - Toxicity

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.