2003 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2003.
Contents |
[edit] Newly formed bands
[edit] Reformed bands
[edit] Albums
- Alice Cooper - The Eyes Of Alice Cooper
- Akercocke - Choronozon
- Apocalyptica - Reflections
- Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion
- Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen
- Black Label Society - The Blessed Hellride
- Bon Jovi - This Left Feels Right
- Cannibal Corpse - 15 Year Killing Spree
- Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
- Chimaira - The Impossibility of Reason
- Cog - Open Up
- Cradle of Filth - Damnation and a Day
- The Darkness - Permission to Land
- Deep Purple - Bananas
- Devildriver - DevilDriver
- Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
- Divinity Destroyed - Divinity Destroyed
- Divinity Destroyed - Eden in Ashes
- DragonForce - Valley of the Damned
- Dream Theater - Train of Thought
- Europe - Rock the Night: The Very Best of Europe (Compilation Album)
- Finntroll - Visor om Slutet'
- Gojira - The Link
- Gojira - Maciste All Inferno (EP)
- Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy
- Hortus Animae - Waltzing Mephisto
- Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
- Judas Priest - Livin' after Midnight
- Kiss - Kiss Symphony: Alive IV
- Korn - Take A Look In The Mirror
- Kreator - Live Kreation
- Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
- Limp Bizkit - Results May Vary
- Living Colour - Collideøscope
- Macabre - Murder Metal
- Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age of Grotesque
- Metallica - St. Anger
- Monstrosity – Rise to Power (September 23)[1]
- Moonspell - The Antidote
- Motörhead - Live at Brixton Academy
- No Big Silence - Unreleased
- Opeth - Damnation
- Pitchshifter - Bootlegged, Distorted, Remixed and Uploaded
- Skid Row - Thickskin
- Solefald - In Harmonia Universali
- Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild
- Static-X - Shadow Zone
- Strapping Young Lad - Strapping Young Lad
- Stratovarius - Elements, Pt. 1
- Stratovarius - Elements, Pt. 2
- Stryper - Seven
- Theocracy - Theocracy
- Tourniquet - Where Moth and Rust Destroy
- Trivium - Ember to Inferno
- Týr - Eric the Red
- uneXpect - WE, Invaders
- Virgin Black - Elegant... and Dying
[edit] Disbandments
[edit] Events
- Metallica hires new bassist Robert Trujillo (from Suicidal Tendencies and Ozzy Osbourne). They release the much criticized album St. Anger.
- MTV2 resurrected the old heavy metal/hard rock television program Headbangers' Ball.
- Iced Earth vocalist Matt Barlow leaves Iced Earth after the events of September 11.
- Christian metal band Stryper reforms with all original members.
- Visions of Atlantis lead vocalist Christian Stani quits, and is later replaced by Mario Plank. Keyboardist Chris Kamper quits and is replaced by Miro Holly
- Rob Halford reunites with Judas Priest replacing Tim "Ripper" Owens
- Aerosmith and KISS embark on a tour together
[edit] References
- ^ "Monstrosity Complete Work on 'Rise to Power'". Blabbermouth.net (Roadrunner Records). August 26, 2003. Archived from the original on 2009-06-17. http://www.webcitation.org/5hbsl4AgT. Retrieved on June 14, 2009.
| Preceded by: 2002 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 2003 |
Followed by: 2004 |
