2005 in heavy metal music
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year
Newly formed bands
Reformed Bands
Albums
- Alice Cooper - Dirty Diamonds
- Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
- Black Label Society - Mafia, Kings of Damnation 98-04
- Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
- Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of Souls
- Candlemass - Candlemass
- Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?
- Chimaira - Chimaira
- Dark Tranquillity - Character
- Deep Purple - Rapture of the Deep
- Deftones - B-Sides & Rarities
- DevilDriver - The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
- Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst MMV
- Divinity Destroyed - Eden in Ashes
- Divinity Destroyed - The Plague
- Dream Theater - Octavarium
- Early Man - Closing In
- Freak Kitchen - Organic
- Fear Factory - Transgression
- Gizmachi - The Imbuing
- Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
- HammerFall - Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
- Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy
- Immolation - Harnessing Ruin
- Jacobs Dream - Drama of the Ages
- Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution
- Kamelot - The Black Halo
- Korn - See You on the Other Side
- Kreator - Enemy of God
- Lordi - The Monster Show
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Unleash the Fury
- Massacration - Gates of Metal Fried Chicken of Death
- Mötley Crüe - Red, White and Crüe
- Mournful Congregation - The Monad of Creation
- Mourning Beloveth - A Murderous Circus
- Mudvayne - Lost and Found
- Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
- Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
- Opeth - Ghost Reveries
- Priestess - Hello Master
- Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
- Protest the Hero - Kezia
- Rammstein - Rosenrot
- The Red Chord - Clients
- Runemagick - Envenom
- Slipknot - 9.0: Live
- Static-X - Start a War
- Strapping Young Lad - Alien
- Soilwork - Stabbing The Drama
- Solefald - Red For Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1
- Stryper - Reborn
- Sturmgeist - Meister Mephisto
- System of a Down - Mezmerize
- System of a Down - Hypnotize
- Sonata Arctica - The End of This Chapter
- Stratovarius - Stratovarius
- Trivium - Ascendancy
- Visions of Atlantis - Cast Away
Disbandments
- Exhumed (indefinite hiatus)
Events
- Static-X lead guitarist Tripp Eisen was arrested in February for "lewd conduct against children", and was fired from the band.
- Former Vader drummer Docent dies.
- Vocalist Tarja Turunen was fired from Nightwish.
- Grindcore makes it to the popular culture as Rotten Sound enters the Finnish Top40 list to position 22 and staying there for three weeks, which is higher than that years Popstars-show winnergroup ever made
- Jason Jones' departure from Drowning Pool was publicly announced on June 14, 2005, due to irreconcilable differences. On August 25 at the Ozzfest date in Dallas, Texas, Drowning Pool did a guest shot performance on the main stage debuting their new singer Ryan McCombs.
- Visions of Atlantis lead vocalist Nicole Bogner quits and is replaced by ex-Aesma Deava vocalist, Melissa Ferlaak