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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2000.
Newly formed bands
- 3 Inches of Blood
- Adagio
- Adema
- Arsis
- As I Lay Dying
- Beto Vázquez Infinity
- Crashdiet
- Disarmonia Mundi
- Forever Slave
- Full Blown Chaos
- Kiuas
- Mastodon
- Nachtmystium
- Otep
- Pagan's Mind
- Shaaman
- Swallow the Sun
- Thunderstone
- Ulcerate
- Ünloco
- Visions of Atlantis
- Warmen
- Wolfmother
Reformed bands
Albums
- AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip
- After Forever - Prison of Desire
- Alabama Thunderpussy - Constellation
- Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet
- Alice in Chains - Live
- A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
- Ayreon - Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer
- Ayreon - Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator
- Ayreon - Ayreonauts Only (compilation)
- Behemoth - Thelema.6
- Black Label Society - Stronger Than Death
- Bloodbath - Breeding Death (EP)
- Cannibal Corpse - Live Cannibalism (live)
- Chimaira- This Present Darkness (EP)
- Cradle of Filth - Midian
- Cro-Mags - Revenge
- Deftones - White Pony
- Deicide - Insineratehymn
- Deliverance - Assimilation
- Devin Townsend - Physicist
- Dio - Magica
- Disturbed - The Sickness
- Fates Warning - Disconnected
- Godflesh - Messiah (EP)
- Godsmack - Awake
- HammerFall - Renegade
- Helloween - The Dark Ride
- Immortal - Damned in Black
- In Flames - Clayman
- Iron Maiden - Brave New World
- Isis - Celestial
- Jag Panzer - Thane to the Throne
- Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
- King's X - Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous
- Kittie - Spit
- Lamb of God - New American Gospel
- Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
- Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
- Macabre - Dahmer
- Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
- Melvins - The Crybaby
- Metalium - State of Triumph Chapter Two
- Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation
- Monster Magnet - God Says No
- Motörhead - We Are Motörhead
- Mötley Crüe - New Tattoo
- Mudvayne - L.D. 50
- Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
- Nightwish - Wishmaster
- Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
- Nothingface - Violence
- No-Big-Silence - Successful, Bitch & Beautiful
- Overkill - Bloodletting
- Pantera - Reinventing the Steel
- Papa Roach - Infest
- Paul Di'Anno - Nomad
- Pig Destroyer - 7" Picture Disc (EP)
- Pig Destroyer - Isis / Pig Destroyer (split EP)
- Pitchshifter - Deviant
- Poison - Crack a Smile...and More!
- Poison - Power to the People
- Primer 55 - Introduction to Mayhem
- QueenAdreena - Taxidermy
- Racer X - Technical Difficulties
- Rob Rock - Rage of Creation
- Rollins Band - Get Some -> Go Again
- Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory
- Scorpions - Moment of Glory (compilation)
- Saxon - Burrn! Presents: The Best of Saxon (compilation)
- Sentenced - Crimson
- Shadows Fall - Of One Blood
- Shuvel - Set It Off
- Soulfly - Primitive
- Static-X - The Death Trip Continues (EP)
- Stratovarius - Infinite
- Stratovarius - 14 Diamonds (compilation)
- Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
- Tad Morose - Undead
- Theatre of Tragedy - Musique
- The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld
- Vader - Litany
- Yngwie Malmsteen - War to End All Wars
Disbandments
Events
- Al Pitrelli replaces Marty Friedman on guitar for Megadeth.
- Metallica releases a song "I Disappear" that was never released on any studio albums and appears on the Mission: Impossible 2 soundtrack. This song also started the famous Napster Controversy.
- Angela Gossow replaces Johan Liiva on vocals for Arch Enemy.
- Mr. Bungle play their final concert.