2001 in heavy metal music
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2001.
Newly formed bands
Re-formed bands
Albums
- Aerosmith - Just Push Play
- Alice Cooper - Dragontown
- Alice in Chains - Greatest Hits
- Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
- Black Label Society - Alcohol Fueled Brewtality
- Bolt Thrower - Honour - Valour - Pride
- Bruce Dickinson - The Best of Bruce Dickinson
- Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
- Chimaira - Pass Out of Existence
- The Cult - Beyond Good and Evil
- Decapitated - Winds of Creation
- Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
- Divinity Destroyed - Nocturnal Dawn
- Drowning Pool - Sinner
- Edguy - Mandrake
- Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
- Fear Factory - Digimortal
- Godflesh - Hymns
- Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
- Iced Earth - Horror Show
- Judas Priest - Demolition
- Kreator - Violent Revolution
- Machine Head - Supercharger
- Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
- Moonspell - Darkness and Hope
- Opeth - Blackwater Park
- Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
- Rammstein - Mutter
- Rhapsody of Fire - Rain of a Thousand Flames
- Savatage - Poets and Madmen
- Slayer - God Hates Us All
- Slipknot - Iowa
- Solefald - Pills Against The Ageless Ills
- Racer X - Superheroes
- Sonata Arctica - Silence
- Static-X - Machine
- Stratovarius - Intermission
- System of a Down - Toxicity
Disbandments
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.
- Nightwish bassist Sami Vanska is fired
- Evanescence keyboardist David Hodges quits
- [[Kittie] guitarist Fallon Bowman quits