2007 in heavy metal music

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

Newly formed bands

Skin

Reformed bands

Artillery
At the Gates for a few shows
Carcass
Ronnie James Dio rejoins Black Sabbath under the name Heaven and Hell (the name of the first Black Sabbath album featuring Dio) for a tour.
Rage Against the Machine
Spinal Tap with new single "Warmer than Hell!"
X Japan
Led Zeppelin For two shows
Sacred Reich For a few shows

Albums

3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up the Blades
8 Foot Sativa - Poison of Ages
A Life Once Lost - Iron Gag
A Perfect Murder - War of Aggression
Abigor - Fractal Possession
Aborted - Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture
Abscess - Horrorhammer
The Absence - Riders of the Plague
Aeon - Rise to Dominate
After Forever - After Forever
Agathocles - Senseless Trip
Age of Nemesis - Terra Incognita
Agent Steel - Alienigma
Agnostic Front - Warriors
Airbourne - Runnin' Wild
Ajattara - Kalmanto
Akercocke - Antichrist
Akira Takasaki - Black Brown
Al Atkins - Demon Deceiver
Alabama Thunderpussy - Open Fire
Alchemist - Tripsis
All Out War - Assassins In The House Of God
Altaria - Divine Invitation (2007)
Amoral - Reptile Ride
Amorphis - Silent Waters
Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here
Angel Corpse - Of Lucifer And Lightning
Angel Dust - VII
Annihilator - Metal
Anvil - This is Thirteen
Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide
Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom
Ari Koivunen - Fuel for the Fire
Arkhon Infaustus - Orthodoxyn
As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
Astral Doors - New Revelation
At Vance - VII
At War With Self - Acts of God
Atreyu - The Best of... and Lead Sails Paper Anchor
August Burns Red - Messengers
Ava Inferi - The Silhouette
Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
Axel Rudi Pell - Diamonds Unlocked
Axxis - Doom Of Destiny
Balance of Power - New Studio Album
Battlelore - Evernight
Becoming the Archetype - The Physics of Fire
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Beneath the Massacre - Mechanics of Dysfunction
Benediction - Killing Music
The Berzerker - Animosity
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
Bloodsimple - Red Harvest
Caliban - The Awakening
Candlemass- King Of The Grey Islands
Cannibal Corpse - Vile Live
Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
The Chariot - The Fiancée
Chevelle - Vena Sera
Chimaira - Resurrection
Cirith Gorgor - Cirith Gorgor
DÅÅTH - The Hinderers
Dark Empire - Humanity Dethroned
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Darkest Hour - Deliver Us
Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.
Daysend - The Warning
Demiricous - Two (Poverty)
Demon Hunter - Storm the Gates of Hell
Destruction - Thrash Anthems
Dethklok - Dethalbum
Detonation - Emission Phase
The Devil Wears Prada - Plagues
DevilDriver - The Last Kind Words
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
Disavowed - Stagnated Existence
Divinefire - Farewell
Divine Heresy - Bleed The Fifth
Domine - Ancient Spirit Rising
Down - Down III
Dr. Sin - Bravo
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Drowning Pool - Full Circle
Drudkh - Estrangement
Dublin Death Patrol - DDP 4 Life
Dying Fetus - War of Attrition
Elvenking - The Scythe
The End - Elementary
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Entombed - Serpent Saints
Epica - The Divine Conspiracy
Evile - Enter the Grave
Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A
Eyefear - A World Full of Grey
Fear My Thoughts - Vulcanus
Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup
Five Finger Death Punch - The Way of the Fist
Five Star Prison Cell - Slaves of Virgo
Freedom Call - Dimensions
From Autumn To Ashes - Holding A Wolf By The Ears
Gamma Ray - Land of the Free Part II
The Gathering - A Noise Severe
Gorefest - "Rise to ruin"
Grave Digger - Liberty or Death
Graveland - Will Stronger Than Death
Graveworm - Collateral Defect
Carl Johan Grimmark - Grimmark
Haggard - Tales of Ithiria
HammerFall - Steel Meets Steel - Ten Years Of Glory
Hanoi Rocks - Street Poetry
Haste The Day - Pressure The Hinges
Hatesphere - Serpent Smiles and Killer Eyes
Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
Hellyeah- Hellyeah (album)
High on Fire- Death Is This Communion
Himsa - Summon In Thunder
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part 1) and Overture of the Wicked
Ill Niño - Enigma
Immolation - Shadows In The Light
Impious - Holy Murder Masquerade
In This Moment - Beautiful Tragedy
Inveracity - Extermination of Millions
Job for a Cowboy - Genesis
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul...Please
Korpiklaani - Tervaskanto
Kronos - The Hellenic Terror
Lord Belial - Revelation
Månegarm - Vargstenen
Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me
M.O.D.- Red, White & Screwed
Machine Head - The Blackening
Malevolent Creation - Doomsday X
Mammatus - The Coast Explodes
Manowar - Gods of War
Marduk - Rom 5:12
Masterplan - MK II
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Megadeth - United Abominations, Warchest, and That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires (CD and DVD)
Melechesh - Emissaries
Mnemic - Passenger
Monstrosity - Spiritual Apocalypse
Moonsorrow - Viides Luku - Hävitetty
Morgana Lefay - Aberrations Of The Mind
Mors Principium Est - Liberation = Termination
Mudvayne - Shades of Gray
Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
Naglfar - Harvest
Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Nightrage - A New Disease is Born
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Nile - Ithyphallic
N.I.L. - N.I.L.
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Nocturnal Rites - The 8th Sin
Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
Novembre - The Blue
Obituary - Xecutioner's Return
Onslaught - Killing Peace
Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes
Overkill - Immortalis
Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain
Pain - Psalms of Extinction
Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
Parkway Drive - Horizons
Planet X - Quantum
Portal - Outre
Power Quest - Master of Illusion
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
Pro-Pain - Age of Tyranny
Rainshadow - End Songs
The Red Chord - Prey for Eyes
Reverend Bizarre - III So Long Suckers
Rob Rock - Garden of Chaos
Root - Daemon Viam Invenient
Rotting Christ - Theogonia
Sabaton - Metalizer
Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
Sanctity - Road to Bloodshed
Scarve - The Undercurrent
Scorpions - Humanity Hour 1
Sebastian Bach - Angel Down
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Souls
Send More Paramedics - The Awakening
Sevendust - Alpha
Shadows Fall - Threads of Life
Shining - Halmstad
Six Feet Under - Commandment
Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
Sodom - The Final Sign of Evil
Soilwork - Sworn to a Great Divide
Sonata Arctica - Unia
Sonic Syndicate- Only Inhuman
Static-X - Cannibal
Still Remains - The Serpent
Sturm und Drang - Learning to Rock
Suicide Silence - The Cleansing
Sun Caged - Artemisia
Swallow the Sun - Hope
Sybreed - Antares
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Tarja Turunen - My Winter Storm
Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Through the Eyes of the Dead - Malice
Thunderstone - Evolution 4.0
Trouble - Simple Mind Condition
Turisas - The Varangian Way
Twilightning - Swinelords
Type O Negative - Dead Again
U.D.O. - Mastercutor
Unsane - Visqueen
Vanishing Point - The Fourth Season
Vintersorg - Solens Rötter
Virgin Black - Requiem - Pianissimo, Requiem - Mezzo Forte and Requiem - Fortissimo
Visions of Atlantis - Trinity
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
With Passion - What We See When We Close Our Eyes

Disbandments

Events

Behind The Suit and Tie heavy metal recording industry documentary begins filming.
Led Zeppelin get back together one more time for two concerts in London.
In Sorte Diaboli (Dimmu Borgir) becomes the first extreme metal album ever to hit the #1 in a Record chart, achieving that position in Norway.
Witold Kiełtyka, drummer for Decapitated, is killed in a car crash in October.
Anette Olzon joins Nightwish as their new lead vocalist.
Peter Lindgren leaves Opeth.
Jani Liimatainen is fired from Sonata Arctica.
Jacob Bredahl leaves Hatesphere.
Mark St. John, guitarist of KISS in 1984, dies in April.
Meiju Enho leaves Ensiferum.
Kevin DuBrow of Quiet Riot dies.
Matt Barlow returns as lead singer of Iced Earth.

References

Preceded by 2006	Heavy Metal Timeline 2007	Succeeded by 2008