2001 in heavy metal music

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

Newly formed bands

• 3 Inches of Blood
• 8 Foot Sativa
• The Acacia Strain
• A Band Called Pain
• Apostasy
• Arsis
• Atreyu
• Avatar
• Battlelore
• Betzefer
• The Black Dahlia Murder
• Black Majesty
• Blackguard
• Bloodbath
• Breaking Benjamin
• Bullet for My Valentine (as Jeff Killed John)
• Cog
• Crashdiet
• Crucified Barbara
• Draconian
• DragonForce
• Dragonlord
• Dream Evil
• Equilibrium
• Evanescence
• Full Blown Chaos
• Galneryus
• Hibria
• Kiuas
• Lordi
• Masterplan
• Mastodon
• Motograter
• Mors Principium Est
• Municipal Waste
• Nachtmystium
• Otep
• Power Quest
• Protest the Hero
• Textures
• Sabaton
• Sacrificium
• Seraphim
• Sirenia
• Spawn of Possession
• Swallow the Sun
• Theory of a Deadman
• Trivium
• Turisas
• Ulcerate
• Visions of Atlantis
• WarCry
• Wolfmother
• Xasthur
• Year of Desolation

Re-formed bands

• Celtic Frost
• Death Angel
• Jane's Addiction
• Rush

Albums

• 40 Below Summer - Invitation to the Dance
• Aborted - Engineering the Dead
• Aerosmith - Just Push Play
• After Forever - Decipher
• Akercocke - The Goat of Mendes
• Alice Cooper - Dragontown
• Alice in Chains - Greatest Hits (compilation)
• Alien Ant Farm - Anthology
• American Head Charge - The War of Art
• Amon Amarth - The Crusher
• Angra - Rebirth
• Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
• Ark - Burn the Sun
• Atreyu - Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty (EP)
• Avantasia - The Metal Opera
• Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
• Biohazard – Uncivilization
• Black Label Society - Alcohol Fueled Brewtality (live)
• Bolt Thrower - Honour – Valour – Pride
• Bon Jovi - One Wild Night Live 1985–2001 (live)
• Breach - Kollapse
• Bruce Dickinson - The Best of Bruce Dickinson (compilation)
• Chimaira - Pass Out of Existence
• Converge - Jane Doe
• Cradle of Filth - Bitter Suites to Succubi (EP)
• Devin Townsend - Terria
• Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
• Divinity Destroyed - Nocturnal Dawn
• Drowning Pool - Sinner
• Edguy - Mandrake
• Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
• Ensiferum - Ensiferum
• Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
• Evergrey - In Search of Truth
• Every Time I Die - Last Night in Town
• Fantômas - The Director's Cut
• Fear Factory - Digimortal
• Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
• Flaw - Through the Eyes
• Freedom Call - Crystal Empire
• From Zero - One Nation Under
• Gamma Ray - No World Order
• God Forbid - Determination
• Godflesh - Hymns
• Godflesh - In All Languages (compilation)
• Gojira - Terra Incognita
• Graveworm – Scourge of Malice
• Iced Earth - Horror Show
• Ill Nino - Revolution Revolución
• Judas Priest - Demolition
• Kamelot - Karma
• King's X - Manic Moonlight
• Kittie - Oracle
• Kreator - Violent Revolution
• Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories
• Lifer - Lifer
• Tony MacAlpine - Chromaticity
• Machine Head - Supercharger
• Mass Hysteria - De cercle en cercle
• Mastodon - Lifesblood (EP)
• Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
• Moonspell - Darkness and Hope
• Mushroomhead - XX (compilation)
• My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
• Nickelback - Silver Side Up
• No One - No One
• Occult – Rage to Revenge
• Oomph! - Ego
• Opeth - Blackwater Park
• Ozzy Osbourne - Down to Earth
• Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
• P.O.D. - Satellite
• Primer 55 - (the) New Release
• Racer X - Superheroes
• Rage - Welcome to the Other Side
• Rammstein - Mutter
• Reveille - Bleed the Sky
• Reverend - A Gathering of Demons (EP)
• Rollins Band - Nice
• Rhapsody - Rain of a Thousand Flames
• Savatage - Poets and Madmen
• Sevendust - Animosity
• Silencer - Death – Pierce Me
• Skillet – Alien Youth
• Skrape - New Killer America
• Slayer - God Hates Us All
• Slipknot - Iowa
• SOiL - Scars
• Solefald - Pills Against the Ageless Ills
• Sonata Arctica - Silence
• Static-X - Machine
• Stratovarius - Intermission (compilation)
• Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
• Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
• System of a Down - Toxicity
• Theatre of Tragedy - Closure: Live (live)
• Therion - Secret of the Runes
• Throwdown - You Don't Have to Be Blood to Be Family
• Thursday - Full Collapse
• Tomahawk - Tomahawk
• Tool - Lateralus
• Unearth - The Stings of Conscience
• Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic

Disbandments

• Emperor
• Death

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.
• Former Body Count bassist Mooseman is killed in a drive-by shooting on February 21.
• Nightwish bassist Sami Vänskä is fired.
• Cradle of Filth sign with Epic Records, becoming the first ever black metal band on a major label.
• Kittie guitarist Fallon Bowman quits.
• Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland leaves the band.