1999 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1999.

Newly formed bands

• 10 Years
• Agents of Oblivion
• A Perfect Circle
• A Life Once Lost
• Becoming the Archetype
• Battlelore
• Bloodbath
• DragonForce (Then Dragonheart)
• Dragonland
• Avenged Sevenfold
• Bleeding Through
• Blaze
• Divinity Destroyed
• Dream Evil
• Falconer
• Five pointe o
• Kalmah
• Killswitch Engage
• Lamb of God was formed from Burn the Priest
• Lifer (Then Strangers with Candy)
• Mastodon
• Metalium
• Mors Principium Est
• Protest the Hero
• QueenAdreena (Then Queen Adreena)
• Sabaton
• Shadowkeep
• Tomahawk
• Trivium

Reformed bands

• Armored Saint
• Destruction (Schmier's comeback)
• Lost Horizon (reformed as Highlander, name was changed soon after)
• Pungent Stench
• Rollins Band
• Skid Row
• White Lion

Albums

• Aborted - The Purity of Perversion
• Agalloch - Pale Folklore
• Akercocke - Rape of the Bastard Nazarene
• Alabama Thunderpussy - River City Revival
• Alice Cooper - The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper
• Alice in Chains - Nothing Safe: Best of the Box, Music Bank
• American Head Charge - Trepanation
• Amon Amarth - The Avenger
• Anathema - Judgement
• Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
• Bal-Sagoth - The Power Cosmic
• Behemoth - Satanica
• Biohazard - New World Disorder
• Black Label Society - Sonic Brew
• Bruce Dickinson - Scream for Me Brazil
• Burn the Priest - Burn the Priest
• Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
• Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
• Coal Chamber - Chamber Music
• Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence
• Cradle of Filth - From the Cradle to Enslave
• Darkthrone - Ravishing Grimness
• Dark Tranquility - Projector
• Def Leppard - Euphoria
• Destruction - The Butcher Strikes Back (demo)
• The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
• Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
• Dope - Felons and Revolutionaries
• Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
• Edguy - Theater of Salvation
• Emperor - IX Equilibrium
• Evergrey - Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy
• Finntroll - Midnattens Widunder
• Godflesh - Us and Them
• God Forbid - Reject the Sickness
• Grip Inc. - Solidify
• Handguns - Crimson Tide of Sea
• Immolation - Failures for Gods
• Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
• In Flames - Colony
• Katatonia - Tonight's Decision
• Korn - Issues
• Kreator - Endorama
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Alchemy
• Lacrimosa - Elodia
• Lacuna Coil - In a Reverie
• Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
• Tony MacAlpine - Master Of Paradise
• Machine Head - The Burning Red
• Marduk - Panzer Division Marduk
• Marilyn Manson - The Last Tour on Earth (live)
• Mercyful Fate - 9
• Megadeth - Risk
• Metal Church - Masterpeace
• Metallica - S&M
• Metalium - Millennium Metal Chapter One
• Ministry - Dark Side of the Spoon
• Mr. Bungle - California
• Moonspell - The Butterfly Effect
• Mortification - Hammer of God
• Motörhead - Everything Louder Than Everyone Else (live)
• Mushroomhead - M3
• My Dying Bride - The Light at the End of the World
• Napalm Death - Words from the Exit Wound
• Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
• Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
• Oomph! - Plastik
• Opeth - Still Life
• Overkill - Necroshine
• Pig Destroyer - Pig Destroyer/Gnob (Split EP)
• Pitchshifter - Un-UK EP
• P.O.D. - The Fundamental Elements of Southtown
• Primus - Antipop
• Rage - Ghosts
• Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
• Rammstein - Live Aus Berlin
• Ratt - Ratt
• Reveille - Laced
• Satyricon - Rebel Extravaganza
• Scorpions - Eye II Eye
• Sevendust - Home
• Skinlab - Disembody: The New Flesh
• Slipknot - Slipknot
• Sodom - Code Red
• Solefald - Neonism
• Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
• Staind - Dysfunction
• Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
• Steve Vai - The Ultra Zone
• Stratovarius - The Chosen Ones
• Summoning - Stronghold
• Testament - The Gathering
• Therapy? - Suicide Pact – You First
• Therion - Crowning of Atlantis
• Throwdown - Beyond Repair
• Tristania - Beyond the Veil
• Type O Negative - World Coming Down
• uneXpect - Utopia
• W.A.S.P. - Helldorado
• Zao - Liberate Te Ex Inferis

Disbandments

• Death
• Mercyful Fate- on hiatus

Events

• Drummer Tommy Lee left Mötley Crüe
• Ex-drummer of Megadeth Gar Samuelson dies at age 41 from liver failure.
• Singer Blaze Bayley leaves Iron Maiden, while Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith re-join.
• Kittie bassist Tanya Candler quits. She is later replaced by Talena Atfield
• ICS Vortex joins Dimmu Borgir on bass/backing vocals. Drummer Nicholas Barker leaves Cradle Of Filth and joins as well.
• Singer Naoki Hashimoto left Outrage.
• Mudvayne signs with Epic Records.
• Poison appear in an episode of Behind the Music.