2001 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2001.

Newly formed bands

• The Acacia Strain
• A Band Called Pain
• The Black Dahlia Murder
• Black Majesty
• Blackguard
• Dragonlord
• Equilibrium
• Galneryus
• Masterplan
• Municipal Waste
• Power Quest
• Textures
• Seraphim
• Sirenia
• WarCry

Re-formed bands

• Celtic Frost
• Jane's Addiction
• Rush

Albums

• Aborted - Engineering the Dead
• Aerosmith - Just Push Play
• After Forever - Decipher
• Akercocke - The Goat of Mendes
• Alice Cooper - Dragontown
• Alice in Chains - Greatest Hits
• Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
• Atreyu - Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty (EP)
• American Head Charge - The War of Art
• Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
• Black Label Society - Alcohol Fueled Brewtality
• Bolt Thrower - Honour - Valour - Pride
• Bon Jovi - One Wild Night Live 1985–2001
• Bruce Dickinson - The Best of Bruce Dickinson
• Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
• Chimaira - Pass Out of Existence
• Cradle of Filth - Bitter Suites to Succubi
• Decapitated - Winds of Creation
• Devin Townsend - Terria
• Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
• Divinity Destroyed - Nocturnal Dawn
• Drowning Pool - Sinner
• Edguy - Mandrake
• Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
• Fear Factory - Digimortal
• Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
• God Forbid - Determination
• Godflesh - Hymns
• Godflesh - In All Languages
• Gojira - Terra Incognita
• Handguns - End Of An Era
• Iced Earth - Horror Show
• Judas Priest - Demolition
• Kittie - Oracle
• Kreator - Violent Revolution
• Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories
• Tony MacAlpine - Chromaticity
• Machine Head - Supercharger
• Mastodon - Lifesblood
• Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
• Moonspell - Darkness and Hope
• Mushroomhead- XX
• My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
• Oomph! - Ego
• Opeth - Blackwater Park
• Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
• Racer X - Superheroes
• Rage - Welcome to the Other Side
• Rammstein - Mutter
• Reverend - A Gathering of Demons
• Rhapsody of Fire - Rain of a Thousand Flames
• Savatage - Poets and Madmen
• Scorpions - Acoustica (Scorpions album)
• Slayer - God Hates Us All
• Solefald - Pills Against The Ageless Ills
• SOiL - Scars
• Sonata Arctica - Silence
• Skrape - New Killer America
• Slipknot - Iowa
• Static-X - Machine
• Stratovarius - Intermission
• System of a Down - Toxicity
• Theatre of Tragedy - Closure: Live
• Throwdown - You Don't Have to Be Blood to Be Family
• The Crest - Letters From Fire
• Tool - Lateralus
• Tomahawk - Tomahawk
• Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic

Disbandments

• Emperor
• Death

Events

• Death guitarist Chuck Schuldiner dies at 34 on December 13 of brain cancer.
• Metallica bassist Jason Newsted (who joined after Cliff Burton's death) officially left the band and joined Voivod.
• Former Body Count bassist Mooseman is killed in a drive-by shooting on February 21.
• Nightwish bassist Sami Vänskä is fired.
• Cradle of Filth sign with Epic Records, becoming the first ever black metal band on a major label.
• Kittie guitarist Fallon Bowman quits.
• Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland leaves the band.

References

Preceded by 2000

Heavy Metal Timeline 2001

Succeeded by 2002