2007 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2007.

Reformed Bands

• Ronnie James Dio rejoins Black Sabbath under the name Heaven and Hell (The name of the first Black Sabbath album featuring the vocalist; for a tour. After this Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Geezer Butler will record a new Black Sabbath album.

• Rage Against the Machine

Albums

• Abscess - Horrorhammer
• AC/DC- New Studio Album
• All Out War - Assassins In The House Of God
• Amorphis - Silent Waters
• Anthrax - New Studio Album
• Arch Enemy - New Studio Album
• As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
• August Burns Red - Messengers
• Balance of Power - New Studio Album
• Battlelore - Evernight
• Behemoth - The Apostasy
• Beneath the Massacre - Mechanics of Dysfunction
• Black Sabbath - New Studio Album
• Cannibal Corpse - Vile Live
• Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
• The Chariot - The Fiancée
• Chimaira - Resurrection
• Cirith Gorgor - Cirith Gorgor
• DÅÅTH - The Hinderers
• Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
• Destruction - Thrash Anthems
• Dethklok - Dethalbum
• The Dillinger Escape Plan - New Studio Album
• Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
• Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
• DevilDriver - The Last Kind Words
• Dying Fetus - War of Attrition
• The End - Elementary
• Ensiferum - Victory Songs
• Entombed - Serpent Saints
• Exodus - New Studio Album
• Fear Factory - New Studio Album
• Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup
• Freedom Call - Dimensions
• From Autumn To Ashes - Holding A Wolf By The Ears
• Gamma Ray - Land of the Free Part II
• Grave Digger - Liberty or Death
• Graveland- Will Stronger Than Death
• Graveworm - Collateral Defect
• Haggard - Tales of Ithiria
• Haste The Day - Pressure The Hinges
• Hatesphere - Serpent Smiles and Killer Eyes
• Helloween - New Studio Album
• Hellyeah- Hellyeah (album)
• Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part 1)
• Immolation - Shadows In The Light
• Impious - Holy Murder Masquerade
• In This Moment - Beautiful Tragedy
• Job for a Cowboy - Genesis
• Judas Priest - Nostradamus
• Kamelot - Ghost Opera
• Kittie - Funeral for Yesterday
• Korpiklaani - Tervaskanto
• Kronos - The Hellenic Terror
• Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
• Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight
• Lord Belial - Revelation
• Machine Head - The Blackening
• Manilla Road - New Studio Album
• Manowar - Gods of War
• Masterplan - MK II
• Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
• Megadeth - United Abominations
• Metallica - Untitled 9th studio album
• Mnemic - Passenger
• Monstrosity - Spiritual Apocalypse
• Morbid Angel - New Studio Album
• Moonsorrow - Viides Luku - Hävitetty
• Morgana Lefay - Aberrations Of The Mind
• Mors Principium Est - Liberation = Termination
• Mötley Crüe - Untitled 9th studio album
• Mudvayne - New Studio Album
• Naglfar - Harvest
• Neurosis - Given to the Rising
• Nightwish - New studio album
• Nile - Ithyphallic (album)
• Nocturnal Rites - The 8th Sin
• Nothingface - New Studio Album
• Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
• Obituary - New Studio Album
• Opeth - New Studio Album
• Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain
• Onslaught - Killing Peace
• Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
• Planet X - Quantum
• Power Quest - Master of Illusion
• Pro-Pain - Age of Tyranny
• Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
• Sanctity - Road to Bloodshed
• Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Souls
• Sevendust - Alpha
• Shadows Fall - Threads of Life
• Shining - Halmstad
• Six Feet Under - Commandment
• Soilwork - New Studio Album
• Soulfly - New Studio Album
• Sonata Arctica - Unia
• Sonic Syndicate- Only Inhuman
• Static-X - Cannibal
• Still Remains - The Serpent (album)
• Sun Caged - Artemisia
• Swallow the Sun - Hope
• Symphony X - Paradise Lost
• Taarma- Remnants of a Tormenting Black Shadow
• Testament - New Studio Album
• Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
• Threshold - Dead Reckoning
• Thunderstone - Evolution 4.0
• Timeless Miracle - New Studio Album
• Trouble - Simple Mind Condition
• Turisas - The Varangian Way
• Twilightning - Swinelords
• Type O Negative - Dead Again
• Unsane - Visqueen
• Vintersorg - Solens Rötter
• Virgin Black - Requiem - Pianissimo, Requiem - Mezzo Forte and Requiem - Fortissimo
• Vital Remains - Icons Of Evil
• Vomitory - Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize
• W.A.S.P. - Dominator
• Watain - Sworn to the Dark
• Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything

Disbandments

• Arcturus
• The Devin Townsend Band
• I Killed the Prom Queen
• Strapping Young Lad

Events

• In Sorte Diaboli (Dimmu Borgir) becomes the first extreme metal album ever to hit the n.1 in a Record chart, achieving that position in Norway.
• Evanescence guitarist John LeCompt is fired, drummer Rocky Gray quits. Guitaritst Troy McLawhorn and drummer Will Hunt join shortly afterward
• Anette Olzon joins Nightwish as their new lead vocalist