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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1998.
Newly Formed bands
- 8 Foot Sativa
- 40 Below Summer
- Arma Angelus
- Atreyu
- Betzefer
- Bullet for My Valentine (As Jeff Killed John)
- Chimaira
- Cog
- Crucified Barbara
- Freedom Call
- From Zero
- Odd Crew (As Kaskadiori)
- Peccatum
- Pressure 4-5
- Ram-Zet
- Rebaelliun
- Reveille
- Rob Zombie
- Skindred
- The Project Hate MCMXCIX
- Týr
- Underoath
- Unearth
- Winds
Reformed bands
Albums
- Alabama Thunderpussy – Rise Again
- Altar - Provoke
- Amon Amarth - Once Sent from the Golden Hall
- Anathema – Alternative 4
- Angelcorpse - Exterminate
- Angra – Fireworks
- Apocalyptica – Inquisition Symphony
- Arch Enemy – Stigmata
- Atreyu – Visions (EP)
- Ayreon – Into the Electric Castle
- Behemoth - Pandemonic Incantations
- Benediction - Grind Bastard
- Bestial Warlust - Satan's Fist
- Black Label Society – Sonic Brew
- Blind Guardian – Nightfall in Middle-Earth
- Bolt Thrower – Mercenary
- Borknagar – The Archaic Course
- Botch – American Nervoso
- Bruce Dickinson – The Chemical Wedding
- Cannibal Corpse – Gallery of Suicide
- Cathedral - Caravan Beyond Redemption
- Catch 22 – Keasbey Nights
- Children of Bodom – Something Wild (Worldwide release)
- Converge – When Forever Comes Crashing
- Cradle of Filth – Cruelty and the Beast
- Crowbar – Odd Fellows Rest
- Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy
- Dark Funeral - Vobiscum Satanas
- Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy)
- Death – The Sound of Perseverance
- Deep Purple – Abandon
- Destruction – The Least Successful Human Cannonball
- Devin Townsend – Christeen + 4 Demos (EP)
- Devin Townsend – Infinity
- The Dillinger Escape Plan – Under the Running Board (EP)
- Dimmu Borgir – Godless Savage Garden (compilation)
- Dream Theater – Once in a LIVEtime (live)
- Dying Fetus - Killing on Adrenaline
- Earth Crisis – Breed the Killers
- Edguy – Vain Glory Opera
- Enslaved - Blodhemn
- Eldritch – El Niño
- Exhumed - Gore Metal
- Far – Water & Solutions
- Fear Factory – Obsolete
- Freak Kitchen – Freak Kitchen
- The Gathering – How to Measure a Planet?
- Genitorturers - Sin City
- Godsmack – Godsmack
- Gorgoroth - Destroyer – or About How to Philosophize with the Hammer
- Gorguts - Obscura
- HammerFall – Legacy of Kings
- Helloween – Better Than Raw
- Iced Earth – Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Incantation - Diabolical Conquest
- Iron Maiden – Virtual XI
- Jag Panzer – The Age of Mastery
- Kamelot – Siége Perilous
- Kataklysm - Victims of this Fallen World
- Katatonia – Discouraged Ones
- Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause
- KISS – Psycho Circus
- Korn – Follow the Leader
- Krabathor - Orthodox
- Krisiun – Apocalyptic Revelation
- Madball – Look My Way
- Malevolent Creation - The Fine Art of Murder
- Yngwie Malmsteen – Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in Em, Opus 1
- Yngwie Malmsteen – Double Live! (live)
- Marduk – Nightwing
- Mercenary – First Breath
- Meshuggah – Chaosphere
- Metal Church – Live (live)
- Metallica – Garage Inc. (compilation)
- Mindrot - Soul
- Marilyn Manson – Mechanical Animals
- Monster Magnet – Powertrip
- Moonspell – Sin/Pecado
- Morbid Angel – Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
- Mortician - Zombie Apocalypse (EP)
- Mortification - Triumph of Mercy
- Mötley Crüe – Greatest Hits (compilation)
- Motörhead – Snake Bite Love
- My Dying Bride – 34.788%... Complete
- Napalm Death - Words from the Exit Wound
- Nembrionic - Incomplete
- Nightwish – Oceanborn
- Night in Gales - Thunderbeast
- Nile – Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
- Nothingface – An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity
- Old Man's Child – Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion
- One Minute Silence – Available in All Colours
- Oomph! – Unrein
- Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse
- Orgy – Candyass
- Pig Destroyer – Explosions in Ward 6
- Pitchshifter – www.pitchshifter.com
- Primal Fear – Primal Fear
- Pro-Pain – Pro-Pain
- Queens of the Stone Age – Queens of the Stone Age
- Rage – XIII
- Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come
- Rhapsody – Symphony of Enchanted Lands
- Rob Zombie – Hellbilly Deluxe
- Rotting - Crushed
- Rush – Different Stages (live)
- Samael - Exodus (EP)
- Savatage – The Wake of Magellan (in United States)
- Sentenced – Frozen
- Septicflesh - A Fallen Temple
- Sepultura – Against
- Sinister - Aggressive Measures
- Skepticism - Lead and Aether
- Skid Row – 40 Seasons: The Best of Skid Row (compilation)
- Slayer – Diabolus in Musica
- Soilent Green - A String of Lies (EP)
- Soilent Green - Sewn Mouth Secrets
- Soilwork - Steelbath Suicide
- Soulburn - Feeding on Angels
- Soulfly – Soulfly
- Strapping Young Lad – No Sleep 'till Bedtime: Live in Australia (live)
- Stratovarius – Visions of Europe (live)
- Stratovarius – Destiny
- Stuck Mojo – Rising
- Dan Swanö - Moontower
- Symphony X – Twilight in Olympus
- System of a Down – System of a Down
- Tankard – Disco Destroyer
- The Sins of Thy Beloved – Lake of Sorrow
- Theatre of Tragedy – Aégis
- Therapy? – Semi-Detached
- Therion - Vovin
- Trail of Tears – Disclosure in Red
- Tristania – Widow's Weeds
- Turbonegro – Apocalypse Dudes
- 2wo – Voyeurs
- Unsane – Occupational Hazard
- Vader – Kingdom (EP)
- Van Halen – Van Halen III
- Vintersorg – Hedniskhjärtad (EP)
- Vintersorg – Till fjälls
- Virgin Black – Trance (EP)
- Virgin Steele – Invictus
- Vision of Disorder – Imprint
Disbandments
- 24-7 Spyz
- Destruction (reformed in 1999)
- Faith No More (reformed in 2009)
- Helmet (reformed in 2004)
- Snot (reformed in 2008)
- Vulcain
Events
- Aerosmith becomes the first rock band to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the single "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
- Mustis joins Dimmu Borgir on keyboards.
- Rob Halford of Judas Priest announces his homosexuality in an MTV interview.
- Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, guitarist of the Japanese heavy metal band X Japan, dies at an age of 33 years on May 2, 1998.
- Poison singer Bret Michaels directs and stars in the film A Letter from Death Row.