2008 in heavy metal music
Appearance
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2008.
Reformed bands
- At the Gates (for a few shows)
- Carcass (for touring)
- Forbidden (for a few shows)
- Immortal
- Flower Travellin' Band
- Krokus
- Living Sacrifice
- Exhorder
- Snot
Disbandments
- Byzantine
- Celtic Frost
- Dead to Fall
- The Duskfall
- From Autumn to Ashes
- Himsa
- Knorkator
- Ministry
- Sieges Even
- SikTh
- Still Remains
- Beneath the Sky
- The Red Death
Events
- Twiggy Ramirez rejoins Marilyn Manson in early January.
- Mikael Åkerfeldt rejoins Bloodbath in late January.
- Ola Frenning leaves Soilwork in February.
- Hellhammer joins Gorgoroth as drummer.
- Chris Broderick joins Megadeth in February.
- Timo Tolkki leaves Stratovarius after some internal troubles in March.
- Clint Lowery rejoins Sevendust in March.
- Thomas Gabriel Fischer leaves Celtic Frost in April.
- Singer Lisa Middelhauve leaves Xandria in April.
- On May 11th, original Rush drummer John Rutsey died in his sleep from an apparent heart attack.
- Blasphemer leaves Mayhem in May.
- Mike Kimball leaves Dying Fetus in May.
- On July 27th, Former White Spirit and Tank Drummer Graeme Crallan died after a fall in a London street.
- Wes Borland joins Marilyn Manson's lineup in mid-August.
- D.R.I. guitarist Spike Cassidy makes a full recovery from cancer.
- Snot reforms with ex-Divine Heresy vocalist Tommy Vext.
- Michael Nicklasson leaves Dark Tranquillity in August.
- Jeff Singer leaves Paradise Lost in August.
- Christian Älvestam leaves Scar Symmetry in September.
- Peter Wichers rejoins Soilwork in September.
Albums released
January
Day | Artist | Album |
---|---|---|
2 | In Mourning | Shrouded Divine |
11 | Benedictum | Seasons of Tragedy |
22 | Byzantine | Oblivion Beckons |
The Red Death | Godmakers | |
25 | Avantasia | The Scarecrow |
Brainstorm | Downburst | |
Alestorm | Captain Morgan's Revenge | |
Ayreon | 01011001 | |
28 | Bullet for My Valentine | Scream Aim Fire |
Heaven Shall Burn | Iconoclast | |
29 | Protest the Hero | Fortress |
February
Day | Artist | Album |
---|---|---|
4 | Iron Maiden | Live After Death[1] |
Baptism | Grim Arts of Melancholy[citation needed] | |
Sworn Enemy | Maniacal[citation needed] | |
5 | Warbringer | War Without End[2] |
Brain Drill | Apocalyptic Feasting[citation needed] | |
8 | Behexen | My Soul for His Glory[citation needed] |
13 | Norther | N[3] |
15 | Eluveitie | Slania[4] |
18 | Hellhammer | Demon Entrails[5] |
To-Mera | Delusions[6] | |
19 | Ascension of the Watchers | Numinosum[7] |
Genghis Tron | Board Up the House[8] | |
Hate Eternal | Fury & Flames[9] | |
Sculptured | Embodiment: Collapsing Under the Weight of God[10] | |
Virgin Black | Requiem – Fortissimo | |
Dead to Fall | Are You Serious?[citation needed] | |
22 | Exciter | Thrash Speed Burn[11] |
Nortt | Galgenfrist[citation needed] | |
Stormwarrior | Heading Northe[12] | |
Rage | Carved in Stone[13] | |
Steel Attack | Carpe DiEnd[14] | |
Unheilig | Puppenspiel[citation needed] | |
25 | Dark Fortress | Eidolon[15] |
26 | Death Angel | Killing Season |
29 | Agalloch | The White |
Draconian | Turning Season Within | |
Misery's Omen | Hope Dies |
March
April
May
Day | Artist | Album |
---|---|---|
5 | Scott Kelly | The Wake |
Textures | Silhouettes[17] | |
6 | Kayo Dot | Blue Lambency Downward |
13 | Abysmal Dawn | Programmed to Consume |
Emmure | The Respect Issue | |
Mourning Beloveth | A Disease for the Ages | |
Aletheian | Dying Vine | |
16 | Moonspell | Night Eternal |
23 | Cryptopsy | The Unspoken King[18] |
Incantation | Blasphemous Cremation | |
Kataklysm | Prevail | |
Paradise Lost | The Anatomy of Melancholy[19] | |
26 | Ihsahn | angL |
Shai Hulud | Misanthropy Pure | |
30 | Communic | Payment of Existence |
Opeth | Watershed[20] | |
Pyramaze | Immortal | |
Sabaton | The Art of War |
June
Day | Artist | Album |
---|---|---|
2 | Bloodbath | The Wacken Carnage |
Disturbed | Indestructible | |
Satyricon | My Skin Is Cold | |
9 | Children of Bodom | Hellhounds on My Trail |
Khold | Hundre År Gammal | |
Unleashed | Hammer Battalion | |
Venom | Hell | |
10 | Inhale Exhale | I Swear... |
Nachtmystium | Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1 | |
11 | Ari Koivunen | Becoming |
13 | Grand Magus | Iron Will |
Judas Priest | Nostradamus | |
16 | Cult of Luna | Eternal Kingdom |
Exit Ten | Remember the Day | |
17 | Mötley Crüe | Saints of Los Angeles |
20 | Scar Symmetry | Holographic Universe |
24 | Carnifex | The Diseased and the Poisoned |
27 | Resurrection | Mistaken for Dead |
July
August
September
Day | Artist | Album |
---|---|---|
1 | The Berzerker | The Reawakening |
Volbeat | Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood | |
5 | Iced Earth | The Crucible of Man |
All Shall Perish | Awaken the Dreamers | |
12 | Metallica | Death Magnetic |
16 | All That Remains | Overcome |
Andromeda | The Immunity Zone | |
Avenged Sevenfold | Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough | |
Obituary | Left to Die | |
17 | Amon Amarth | Twilight of the Thunder God |
The Haunted | Versus | |
Swallow the Sun | Plague of Butterflies | |
19 | Evergrey | Torn |
Sonic Syndicate | Love and Other Disasters | |
22 | Omnium Gatherum | The Redshift |
23 | Dream Theater | Chaos in Motion 2007–2008 |
24 | Battlelore | The Last Alliance |
26 | Holy Moses | Agony of Death |
29 | Bring Me the Horizon | Suicide Season |
Enslaved | Vertebrae | |
30 | Bleeding Through | Declaration |
In This Moment | The Dream | |
Jeff Loomis | Zero Order Phase | |
Megadeth | Anthology: Set the World Afire | |
Suspyre | When Time Fades... | |
Trivium | Shogun |
Upcoming albums
October
Day | Artist | Album |
---|---|---|
5 | Bloodbath | The Fathomless Mastery |
7 | Tesla | Forever More |
13 | Gojira | The Way of All Flesh |
14 | Haste the Day | Dreamer |
Psycroptic | Ob(Servant) | |
Unearth | The March | |
Saosin | The Grey | |
Yngwie Malmsteen | Perpetual Flame | |
21 | AC/DC | Black Ice |
24 | Darkane | Demonic Art |
27 | Cynic | Traced in Air |
28 | Beneath the Massacre | Dystopia |
Cradle of Filth | Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder | |
Hatebreed | For the Lions |
November
- Becoming the Archetype - Dichotomy
- Mudvayne - The New Game
- Satyricon - The Age of Nero
- Sepultura - A-Lex
- The Faceless - Planetary Duality
- The Red Shore - Unconsecrated
December
Unknown
- Agalloch – TBA
- Anata - TBA
- As Blood Runs Black - TBA
- Brown Brigade - Guyanese Democracy
- Catamenia - VIII
- Cannibal Corpse - TBA
- Carcariass - TBA
- Cattle Decapitation - TBA
- CKY - TBA
- Comeback Kid - Through The Noise
- Confessor - TBA
- DÅÅTH - The Concealers
- Deftones - Eros
- D.R.I. - TBA
- Disarmonia Mundi - The Isolation Game
- Dragonlord - TBA
- Early Man - TBA
- God Forbid - TBA
- Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
- Hibria - TBA
- Living Colour - TBA
- Marilyn Manson - TBA
- Mastodon - TBA
- Morbid Angel - TBA
- Nevermore - TBA
- Primus - TBA
- Ram-Zet - TBA
- Six Feet Under - Death Rituals
- Slayer - TBA
- Static-X – TBA
- Suspyre – When Time Fades...
- Sympathy - Anagogic Tyranny
- Tarot – TBA
- Unexpect - TBA
- Verbal Abuse - TBA
- Wicked Wisdom - Wrath of the Wicked
- Witchplague - TBA
- Zyklon - TBA
References
- ^ "Iron Maiden: Live After Death DVD details announced". Blabbermouth.net. 2007-11-08. Retrieved 2008-06-02.
- ^ "Warbringer: New song posted online". Blabbermouth.net. 2007-12-14. Retrieved 2008-06-02.
- ^ "Norther: New album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net. 2007-12-19. Retrieved 2008-06-02.
- ^ "Eluveitie: New album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net. 2007-12-23. Retrieved 2008-06-02.
- ^ "Hellhammer: Demon Entrails details revealed". Blabbermouth.net. 2008-01-08. Retrieved 2008-06-02.
- ^ "Keyboardist Hugo Sheppard explains decision to leave To-Mera". Blabbermouth.net. 2007-12-07. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- ^ "Fear Factory singer's Ascension of the Watchers: Debut album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net. 2007-12-11. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- ^ "Genghis Tron: Another preview track posted online". Blabbermouth.net. 2007-12-08. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- ^ "Hate Eternal: New album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net. 2007-12-04. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- ^ "Sculptured: New album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net. 2007-11-05. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- ^ "Exciter: Thrash Speed Burn pushed back to february". Blabbermouth.net. 2007-11-22. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- ^ "Stormwarrior: New album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net. 2008-01-12. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- ^ "Rage: Carved in Stone release date announced". Blabbermouth.net. 2007-11-29. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- ^ "Steel Attack: New album title announced". Blabbermouth.net. 2008-01-17. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- ^ "Dark Fortress to release Eidolon in february". Blabbermouth.net. 2007-12-21. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- ^ "Dismember: New album artwork unveiled". Blabbermouth.net. 2008-01-28. Retrieved 2008-06-02.
- ^ "Textures: New album delayed". Blabbermouth.net. 2008-04-16. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- ^ "Cryptopsy: The Unspoken King track listing revealed". Blabbermouth.net. 2008-04-17. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
- ^ "Paradise Lost: The Anatomy of Melancholy DVD details revealed". Blabbermouth.net. 2008-04-11. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
- ^ "Opeth, Watershed". www.opeth.com. Retrieved 2008-06-12.
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