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* [[Drowning Pool]] singer [[Dave Williams (musician)|Dave Williams]] dies on Wednesday [[August 14]], 2002. He was found inside his tour bus, dead from [[cardiomyopathy]]. |
* [[Drowning Pool]] singer [[Dave Williams (musician)|Dave Williams]] dies on Wednesday [[August 14]], 2002. He was found inside his tour bus, dead from [[cardiomyopathy]]. |
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* [[Dave Lombardo]] rejoins [[Slayer]]. |
* [[Dave Lombardo]] rejoins [[Slayer]]. |
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* [[Tarot]] bassist [[Marco Hietala]] leaves [[Sinergy]] and joins [[Nightwish]] as their new bassist |
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Revision as of 23:17, 26 May 2007
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year
Newly formed bands
Reformed Bands
Albums
- 3 Inches of Blood - Battlecry Under A Winter Sun
- Agalloch - The Mantle
- Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
- Behemoth - Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)
- Black Label Society - 1919 Eternal
- Black Sabbath - Past Lives (album)
- Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
- Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed. Worm Infested (EP)
- Chevelle - Wonder What's Next
- Decapitated - Nihility
- Def Leppard - X
- Dio - Killing the Dragon
- Disturbed - Believe
- Down - Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow
- Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
- Five pointe o - Untitled
- Freak Kitchen - Move
- HammerFall - Crimson Thunder
- Hardline - "II (Hardline album)"
- Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
- In Flames - Reroute to Remain
- Kataklysm - Shadows And Dust
- Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
- Korn - Untouchables
- Lordi - Get Heavy
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Attack!!, Concerto Suite LIVE
- Manowar - Warriors of the World
- Mastodon - Remission
- Motörhead - Hammered
- Nightwish - Century Child
- Opeth - Deliverance
- Pig Destroyer - Benumb / Pig Destroyer (Split album)
- Pitchshifter - PSI
- Protest The Hero - A Calculated Use of Sound
- Rhapsody of Fire - Power of the Dragonflame
- Rush - Vapor Trails
- Saxon - Heavy Metal Thunder
- Sonata Arctica - Songs of Silence
- Symphony X -The Odyssey
- System of a Down - Steal This Album!
- The 3rd and the Mortal - Memoirs
- Týr - How Far To Asgaard
- Týr - Ólavur Riddararós
- Vintersorg - Visions From The Spiral Generator
- Visions of Atlantis - Eternal Endless Infinity
- Winds - Reflections of the I
Disbandments
Events
- Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley dies on April 19 from an overdose of heroin.
- Drowning Pool singer Dave Williams dies on Wednesday August 14, 2002. He was found inside his tour bus, dead from cardiomyopathy.
- Dave Lombardo rejoins Slayer.
- Tarot bassist Marco Hietala leaves Sinergy and joins Nightwish as their new bassist