2004 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2004.
Contents |
[edit] Newly formed bands
- Age Of Silence
- The Agonist (as The Tempest)
- Celestiial
- Chrome Division
- Demonoid
- Genghis Tron
- Job for a Cowboy
- Sturm und Drang
- Savage Circus
- Scar Symmetry
- Threat Signal
- Wintersun
- Catherine
[edit] Reformed Bands
- Extreme (for a few shows)
- Megadeth
- Mötley Crüe
[edit] Albums
- 3 Inches of Blood - Advance and Vanquish
- Aerosmith - Honkin' On Bobo
- After Forever - Invisible Circles
- Age Of Silence - Acceleration
- Angra - Temple of Shadows
- Ayreon - The Human Equation
- Behemoth - Demigod
- Beseech - Drama
- Black Label Society - Hangover Music Vol. VI
- Blind Stare - Symphony of Delusions
- Bon Jovi - 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong
- Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn
- Chevelle - This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)
- Cradle of Filth - Nymphetamine
- Damageplan - New Found Power
- Decapitated - The Negation
- Def Leppard - Best of Def Leppard
- Demon Hunter - Summer of Darkness
- The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
- Dio - Master of the Moon
- Dokken - Hell To Pay
- DragonForce - Sonic Firestorm
- Drowning Pool - Desensitized
- Edguy - Hellfire Club
- Europe - Start from the Dark
- Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
- Fear Factory - Archetype
- Finntroll - Nattfödd
- God Forbid - Gone Forever
- Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden
- In Flames - Soundtrack to Your Escape
- Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache
- Kittie - Until the End
- Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
- Lordi - The Monsterican Dream
- Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
- Marilyn Manson - Lest We Forget: The Best of
- Mastodon - Leviathan
- Mayhem - Chimera
- Megadeth - The System Has Failed
- Mercenary - 11 Dreams
- Metal Church - The Weight of the World
- Monster Magnet - Monolithic Baby!
- Motörhead - Inferno
- My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
- Necrophagist - Epitaph
- Nightwish - Once
- No Big Silence - Kuidas kuningas kuu peale kippus
- Otep - House of Secrets
- Pig Destroyer - Painter of Dead Girls
- Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
- Probot - Probot
- Rammstein - Reise, Reise
- Raunchy - Confusion Bay
- Rhapsody of Fire - Symphony of Enchanted Lands II: The Dark Secret
- Rush - Feedback
- Saxon - Lionheart
- Scarve - Irradiant
- Shadows Fall - The War Within
- Slipknot - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
- Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night
- Static-X - Beneath, Between, Beyond
- Stryper - 7 Weeks: Live in America, 2003
- Sybreed - Slave Design
- The Crest - Vain City Chronicles
- U.D.O. - Thunderball
- Van Halen - The Best of Both Worlds
- Velvet Revolver - Contraband
- Vintersorg - The Focusing Blur
- WarCry - Alea Jacta Est
- Winds - The Imaginary Direction of Time
- Wintersun - Wintersun
[edit] Disbandments
Brian Welch leaves Korn after converting to Christianity.
[edit] Events
- Damageplan and former Pantera lead guitarist Dimebag Darrell is murdered on December 8 by Nathan Gale while performing a concert in Ohio.
- Bassist Tim Gaines leaves Stryper after 10 complete years. He is replaced by Tracy Ferrie.
- Body Count rhythm guitarist D-Roc dies from lymphoma at the age of 45.
- Jason Jones, originally a tattoo artist from Los Angeles, California, was publicly announced as Drowning Pool's new lead singer and joined them on the album Desensitized.
- Supergroup Velvet Revolver releases their debut album Contraband which debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 and goes double platinum.
- After an eight year hiatus, Extreme briefly returns for a short tour and a few concerts in Japan.
- Van Halen reunites with Sammy Hagar for a summer tour.
- Aerosmith returns to a raw hard rock sound with their blues cover album Honkin' on Bobo
- Terry Balsamo leaves Cold and joins Evanescence as their new guitarist
- Guitarist Lisa Marx joins Kittie as a session member, replacing Jeff Phillips
- Nasum guitarist/vocalist Mieszko Talarczyk dies as a result of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (although his body was not identified until February 17 the following year). Consequently, Nasum would later disband.
- Maniac leaves Mayhem and is replaced by the band's former singer, Attila Csihar.
- After more than 10 years of long break, Europe release the new album titled Start from the Dark with their classic line up consist of Joey Tempest-Vocals, John Norum-Guitars, Mic Michaeli-Keyboards, John Levén-Bass, Ian Haugland-Drums. Guitarist Kee Marcello is back to his old band - Easy Action.
- Ace Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg, founder of the Black/Viking metal band Bathory dies, at the age of 38.
| Preceded by: 2003 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 2004 |
Followed by: 2005 |
