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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2008.

Mikael Åkerfeldt rejoins Bloodbath in late January.
Ola Frenning leaves Soilwork in February.
Hellhammer rejoins with Dimmu Borgir and officially joins Gorgoroth as drummer.
Chris Broderick joins Megadeth in February.
Morbid Angel singer Dave Vincent announced that Morbid Angel will not have their upcoming studio album for 2008.
Guitarist Daron Malakian, who is now concentrating with his new project Scars on Broadway, announced that System of a Down has no plans to reunite for the foreseeable future.

Day	Artist	Album	Notes
11	Benedictum	Seasons of Tragedy	March 4, 2008
22	Byzantine	Oblivion Beckons
22	The Red Death	Godmakers
23	Ayreon	01011001	January 23, 2008 January 25, 2008 January 28, 2008 January 29, 2008
25	Alestorm	Captain Morgan's Revenge
	Avantasia	The Scarecrow
	Brainstorm	Downburst
28	Bullet for My Valentine	Scream Aim Fire	January 29, 2008
28	Heaven Shall Burn	Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance)	February 5, 2008

Day	Artist	Album	Notes
4	Iron Maiden	Live After Death	DVD re-release
13	Norther	N	February 13, 2008 February 22-29, 2008
15	Eluveitie	Slania
18	Dismember	Dismember
19	Ascension of the Watchers	Numinosum
	Hate Eternal	Fury and Flames
	Sculptured	Embodiment: Collapsing Under the Weight of God
22	Exciter	Thrash Speed Burn
	Nortt	Galgenfrist
	Rage	Carved in Stone
	Steel Attack	Carpe DiEnd
	Unheilig	Puppenspiel
25	Dark Fortress	Eidolon
26	Death Angel	Killing Season
29	Agalloch	The White	EP
29	Draconian	Turning Season Within
??	Baptism	Grim Arts of Melancholy

Day	Artist	Album	Notes
4	Nasum	Doombringer
7	Meshuggah	obZen
10	Bloodbath	Unblessing the Purity
11	Ill Niño	Enigma	March 11, 2008 April 7, 2008
18	Black Tide	Light from Above
18	Bury Your Dead	Bury Your Dead
21	Firewind	The Premonition	March 21, 2008 March 25, 2008 April 7, 2008
	Jon Oliva's Pain	Global Warning	March 21, 2008 April 30, 2008
	Korpiklaani	Korven Kuningas
24	Cavalera Conspiracy	Inflikted
25	Mercenary	Architect of Lies

Preceded by 2007	Heavy Metal Timeline 2008	Succeeded by 2009

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 * [[Forbidden (band)|Forbidden]] (for a few shows)
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 == Disbandments ==