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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1999.
Newly formed bands
- 3 Inches of Blood
- 10 Years
- A Life Once Lost
- A Perfect Circle
- Abaddon
- Aeon
- Amenra
- Anaal Nathrakh
- Andromeda
- Arallu
- Arthemis
- The Autumn Offering
- Avantasia
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Becoming the Archetype
- Battlelore
- Blaze
- Beautiful Creatures
- Before the Dawn
- Beyond the Bridge
- Biomechanical
- Bleeding Through
- Blindead
- Blood Stain Child
- Bloodlined Calligraphy
- Breaking Benjamin
- Burning Point
- Burnt by the Sun
- Darkspace
- DragonForce (then DragonHeart)
- Dragonland
- Divinity Destroyed
- Dominia
- Dream Evil
- Dreamtale
- Earshot
- Enter Shikari
- Evile
- Falconer
- Five Pointe O
- For My Pain...
- Forgotten Tomb
- Grand Magus
- Halford
- Hour of Penance
- Kalmah
- Killswitch Engage
- The Kovenant
- Lamb of God (formed from Burn the Priest)
- Lifer (then Strangers with Candy)
- Lumsk
- Mastodon
- Metalium
- Methods of Mayhem
- Metsatöll
- Mors Principium Est
- MullMuzzler
- Old Man Gloom
- Protest the Hero
- Psycroptic
- QueenAdreena (then Queen Adreena)
- Raintime
- The Red Chord
- Sargeist
- Sabaton
- Seether (as Saron Gas)
- Shade Empire
- Shadowkeep
- Sikth
- Silent Force
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
- Sunstorm
- Tomahawk
- Toxic Holocaust
- Trivium
- Ufomammut
- Voyager
Reformed bands
- Armored Saint
- Destruction (Schmier's comeback)
- Lost Horizon (reformed as Highlander, name was changed soon after)
- Pungent Stench
- Rollins Band
- Skid Row
- White Lion
Albums
- Aborted - The Purity of Perversion
- Agalloch - Pale Folklore
- Akercocke - Rape of the Bastard Nazarene
- Alabama Thunderpussy - River City Revival
- Alice Cooper - The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper (box set)
- Alice in Chains - Nothing Safe: Best of the Box (compilation)
- Alice in Chains - Music Bank (box set)
- American Head Charge - Trepanation
- Amon Amarth - The Avenger
- Amorphis - Tuonela (album)
- Anathema - Judgement
- Angelcorpse - The Inexorable
- Anvil – Speed of Sound
- Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
- Atari Teenage Riot - 60 Second Wipe Out
- Backyard Babies - Total 13
- Bal-Sagoth - The Power Cosmic
- Bang Tango - Greatest Tricks
- Bang Tango - Untied & Live
- Behemoth - Satanica
- Biohazard - New World Disorder
- Black Label Society - Sonic Brew
- Botch – We Are the Romans
- Broken Teeth - Broken Teeth
- Bruce Dickinson - Scream for Me Brazil (live)
- Buckcherry - Buckcherry (album)
- Burn the Priest - Burn the Priest
- Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst (album)
- Chevelle - Point #1
- Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
- Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
- Cinderella - Live at the Key Club
- Coal Chamber - Chamber Music
- Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence
- Cradle of Filth - From the Cradle to Enslave (EP)
- Crazy Town - The Gift of Game
- The Crown - Hell is Here
- Dangerous Toys - Vitamins and Crash Helmets Tour – Greatest Hits Live
- Danzig – Danzig 6:66: Satan's Child
- Darkthrone - Ravishing Grimness
- Dark Tranquility - Projector
- Def Leppard - Euphoria
- Destruction - The Butcher Strikes Back (demo)
- DGeneration - Through The Darkness
- The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
- Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
- Dope - Felons and Revolutionaries
- Drain STH - Freaks of Nature
- Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
- Edguy - Theater of Salvation
- Emperor - IX Equilibrium
- Evergrey - Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy
- Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Vilda Mánnu
- Filter - Title of Record
- Finntroll - Midnattens Widunder
- Gamma Ray - Power Plant
- Godflesh - Us and Them
- God Forbid - Reject the Sickness
- Gilby Clarke - 99 Live
- Graveworm - As the Angels Reach the Beauty
- Grip Inc. - Solidify
- Gwar – We Kill Everything
- H.I.M. - Razorblade Romance
- Hate Eternal - Conquering the Throne
- Hypocrisy - Hypocrisy
- Immolation - Failures for Gods
- Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
- In Flames - Colony
- Integrity – Integrity 2000
- Jetboy - Lost & Found
- Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy
- Katatonia - Tonight's Decision
- Konkhra - Come Down Cold
- Korn - Issues
- Kreator - Endorama
- Lacrimosa - Elodia
- Lacuna Coil - In a Reverie
- L.A. Guns - Greatest Hits and Black Beauties
- L.A. Guns - Shrinking Violet
- Lefay - Symphony of the Damned, Re-symphonised (re-recording)
- Lefay - The Seventh Seal
- Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
- Lock Up - Pleasures Pave Sewers
- Love/Hate - Let's Eat
- Tony MacAlpine - Master of Paradise
- Machine Head - The Burning Red
- Yngwie Malmsteen - Alchemy
- Marduk - Panzer Division Marduk
- Marilyn Manson - The Last Tour on Earth (live)
- Mass Hysteria - Contraddiction
- Mercyful Fate - 9
- Megadeth - Risk
- Metal Church - Masterpeace
- Metallica - S&M (live)
- Metalium - Millennium Metal – Chapter One
- Ministry - Dark Side of the Spoon
- Mr. Bungle - California
- Moonspell - The Butterfly Effect
- Morgion - Solinari
- Mortician - Chainsaw Dismemberment
- Mortification - Hammer of God
- Mötley Crüe - Supersonic and Demonic Relics
- Motörhead - Everything Louder Than Everyone Else (live)
- Mushroomhead - M3
- My Dying Bride - The Light at the End of the World
- Napalm Death - Words from the Exit Wound
- Necrophobic - The Third Antichrist
- Neurosis - Times of Grace
- New American Shame - New American Shame
- Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
- Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
- Novembers Doom - Of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers
- Occult – Of Flesh and Blood
- Oomph! - Plastik
- Opeth - Still Life
- Orchid - Chaos Is Me
- Overkill - Necroshine
- Pain - Rebirth
- Pessimist - Blood for the Gods
- Pentagram - Review Your Choices
- Pig Destroyer - Pig Destroyer / Gnob (split EP)
- Pitchshifter - Un-United Kingdom (EP)
- P.O.D. - The Fundamental Elements of Southtown
- Poison the Well - The Opposite of December
- Powerman 5000 - Tonight the Stars Revolt!
- Pretty Boy Floyd - Porn Stars (album)
- Primal Fear - Jaws Of Death
- Primus - Antipop
- Pro-Pain – Act of God
- Queensryche - Q2K
- Quiet Riot - Alive and Well
- Rage - Ghosts
- Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
- Rammstein - Live Aus Berlin (live)
- Ratt - Ratt
- Reveille - Laced
- Rotting Christ - Sleep of the Angels
- Samael - Eternal
- Satyricon - Rebel Extravaganza
- Scorpions - Eye II Eye
- Sebastian Bach - Bring 'Em Bach Alive!
- Septicflesh - Revolution DNA
- Sevendust - Home
- Sinergy - Beware the Heavens
- Six Feet Under - Maximum Violence
- Skinlab - Disembody: The New Flesh
- Slaughter - Back to Reality
- Slipknot - Slipknot
- Sodom - Code Red
- Solefald - Neonism
- Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
- Staind - Dysfunction
- Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
- Steve Vai - The Ultra Zone
- Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4
- Stratovarius - The Chosen Ones (compilation)
- Suicidal Tendencies – Freedumb
- Summoning - Stronghold
- Testament - The Gathering
- The Black Halos - The Black Halos
- Therapy? - Suicide Pact – You First
- Therion - Crowning of Atlantis
- Throwdown - Beyond Repair
- Tristania - Beyond the Veil
- Type O Negative - World Coming Down
- Underoath – Act of Depression
- uneXpect - Utopia
- Vintersorg - Ödemarkens son
- Virgin Steele - The House of Atreus Act I
- Vision of Disorder – For the Bleeders
- Warrant - Greatest & Latest
- W.A.S.P. - Helldorado
- White Skull - Tales From The North
- Will Haven - WHVN
- Zao - Liberate Te Ex Inferis
Disbandments
- Death
- Far (reformed in 2008)
- Mercyful Fate- on hiatus
Events
- Drummer Tommy Lee leaves Mötley Crüe.
- Ex-drummer of Megadeth Gar Samuelson dies at age 41 from liver failure.
- Singer Blaze Bayley leaves Iron Maiden, while Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith re-join.
- Kittie bassist Tanya Candler quits. She is later replaced by Talena Atfield.
- ICS Vortex joins Dimmu Borgir on bass/backing vocals. Drummer Nicholas Barker leaves Cradle of Filth and joins as well.
- Singer Naoki Hashimoto left Outrage.
- Mudvayne signs with Epic Records.
- Poison appear in an episode of Behind the Music.