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2008 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2008.
Disbandments
Alabama Thunderpussy
Beneath the Sky
Byzantine
Celtic Frost
Dead to Fall
Demigod
The Duskfall
Flactorophia (sole member died)
From Autumn to Ashes
Himsa
Knorkator
Ministry
Sieges Even
Sikth
Still Remains
The Red Death
The Agony Scene
Remove the Veil
Vomitorial Corpulence
Events
Twiggy Ramirez rejoins Marilyn Manson in early January.
Mikael Åkerfeldt rejoins Bloodbath in late January.
Ola Frenning leaves Soilwork in February.
Chris Broderick joins Megadeth in February.
Timo Tolkki leaves Stratovarius after some internal troubles in March.
Thomas Gabriel Fischer leaves Celtic Frost in April.
Singer Lisa Middelhauve leaves Xandria in April.
On April 19, during a gothic rock and culture celebration, the Factory nightclub fire in Quito kills 19 and injures at least 24.
On May 11, 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 27, 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 "Witchhunter" Dudek, ex-drummer of Sodom, dies of liver failure on September 7.
Christian Älvestam leaves Scar Symmetry in September.
Peter Wichers rejoins Soilwork in September.
Tormentor rejoins Gorgoroth in September, as does Pest in December.
Denny Axelsson, vocalist of Blinded Colony, leaves the band.
Former Marilyn Manson bassist Gidget Gein dies of a heroin overdose.
Josh Freese plans to depart from Nine Inch Nails by the end of 2008.
John Kempainen leaves The Black Dahlia Murder in December.
Job For A Cowboy founding member and guitarist Ravi Bhadriraju leaves the band in late 2008.
Al Glassman leaves Despised Icon to join Job For A Cowboy.
Gaahl (ex-Gorgoroth) reveals his homosexuality.
Albums released
January
Day Artist Album 2 In Mourning Shrouded Divine 8 For the Fallen Dreams Changes 11 Benedictum Seasons of Tragedy 22 Byzantine Oblivion Beckons The Red Death Godmakers With Blood Comes Cleansing Horror 25 Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge Avantasia The Scarecrow Ayreon 01011001 Brainstorm Downburst 28 Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast 29 Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds Protest the Hero Fortress
February
Day Artist Album 4 Baptism Grim Arts of Melancholy Hate Morphosis Iron Maiden Live After Death Sworn Enemy Maniacal 5 Brain Drill Apocalyptic Feasting Salt the Wound Carnal Repercussions Warbringer War Without End Winds of Plague Decimate the Weak 8 Behexen My Soul for His Glory 12 Texas Hippie Coalition Pride of Texas 13 Norther N 15 Eluveitie Slania 18 Hellhammer Demon Entrails To-Mera Delusions 19 Ascension of the Watchers Numinosum Dead to Fall Are You Serious? Genghis Tron Board Up the House Hate Eternal Fury & Flames Sculptured Embodiment: Collapsing Under the Weight of God Virgin Black Requiem – Fortissimo 22 Exciter Thrash Speed Burn Metalium Incubus - Chapter Seven Nortt Galgenfrist Steel Attack Carpe DiEnd Stormwarrior Heading Northe Rage Carved in Stone Unheilig Puppenspiel 25 Dark Fortress Eidolon Dark Suns Grave Human Genuine 26 Death Angel Killing Season MyChildren MyBride Unbreakable myGRAIN Signs of Existence 29 Agalloch The White Draconian Turning Season Within
March
Day Artist Album 2 Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I–IV 3 Azaghal Omega 4 Nasum Doombringer Our Last Night The Ghosts Among Us 7 Boris Smile Meshuggah obZen 8 Scarlet Sins Scarlet Sins 9 Buckethead From the Coop 10 Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity 11 Zimmer's Hole When You Were Shouting at the Devil... 12 Shade Empire Zero Nexus 18 Black Tide Light from Above Bury Your Dead Bury Your Dead 19 The Black Mages The Black Mages III: Darkness and Starlight Hypocrisy Catch 22 (V2.0.08) (Re-release)20 Cataract Cataract 21 Firewind The Premonition Jon Oliva's Pain Global Warning Korpiklaani Korven Kuningas 24 Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted 25 Mercenary Architect of Lies 28 Illdisposed The Prestige Kamelot Ghost Opera: The Second Coming 29 Dream Theater Greatest Hit (...and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs) 31 Strapping Young Lad 1994–2006 Chaos Years
April
Day Artist Album 1 Dismember Dismember Origin Antithesis Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow Septic Flesh Communion The Sword Gods of the Earth Theory of a Deadman Scars & Souvenirs 4 In Flames A Sense of Purpose 7 Children of Bodom Blooddrunk 8 P.O.D. When Angels & Serpents Dance 14 Mirrorthrone Gangrene 15 Arsis We Are the Nightmare Belphegor Bondage Goat Zombie Destroy the Runner I, Lucifer Embrace the End Ley Lines Thine Eyes Bleed Thine Eyes Bleed 18 Tiamat Amanethes 21 Grave Dominion VIII 22 Dominici O3: A Trilogy, Part Three Story of the Year The Black Swan Whitesnake Good to be Bad Long Suffering, Rehumanize, Corpse Under Construction, Eternal Mystery 4-Way Noise Explosion 23 Kalmah For the Revolution 25 Def Leppard Songs from the Sparkle Lounge Warrel Dane Praises to the War Machine 28 Deicide Till Death Do Us Part My Dying Bride An Ode to Woe 29 Sea of Treachery At Daggers Drawn Testament The Formation of Damnation 30 Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky
May
Day Artist Album 5 Nine Inch Nails The Slip Scott Kelly The Wake Textures Silhouettes 6 Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward Revocation Empire of the Obscene Russian Circles Station 13 Abysmal Dawn Programmed To Consume Aletheian Dying Vine Emmure The Respect Issue Mourning Beloveth A Disease for the Ages 14 Diablo Icaros 16 Moonspell Night Eternal 23 Cryptopsy The Unspoken King Kataklysm Prevail 26 Ihsahn angL Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure 30 Communic Payment of Existence Hollenthon Opus Magnum Opeth Watershed Pyramaze Immortal Sabaton The Art of War
June
Day Artist Album 2 Bloodbath The Wacken Carnage Disturbed Indestructible Satyricon My Skin Is Cold 9 Gama Bomb Citizen Brain 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 Aborted Strychnine.213 Beneath the Sky The Day the Music Died Carnifex The Diseased and the Poisoned 27 Equilibrium Sagas 29 Khold Hundre År Gammal 30 Raunchy Wasteland Discotheque
July
Day Artist Album 1 Lamb of God Walk with Me in Hell 7 Blaze Bayley The Man Who Would Not Die Stone Gods Silver Spoons & Broken Bones 8 Cannibal Corpse Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years Whitechapel This Is Exile 14 Daylight Dies Lost to the Living 18 Chrome Division Booze, Broads and Beelzebub Fear My Thoughts Isolation 21 Krisiun Southern Storm 22 Misery Signals Controller Neuraxis The Thin Line Between Nine Inch Nails The Slip War of Ages Arise and Conquer 27 Chelsea Grin Chelsea Grin (EP)29 Soulfly Conquer Dr. Acula Below Me
August
Day Artist Album 5 Norma Jean The Anti Mother 12 Extreme Saudades de Rock 19 The Acacia Strain Continent The Human Abstract Midheaven Machinae Supremacy Overworld The Showdown Back Breaker Staind The Illusion of Progress 20 DragonForce Ultra Beatdown Slipknot All Hope Is Gone 22 Oomph! Monster 25 Into Eternity The Incurable Tragedy 26 Motörhead Motörizer 29 Angband Rising from Apadana Destruction D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N. Haggard Tales of Ithiria 25 Acid Drinkers Verses of Steel
September
Day Artist Album 1 The Berzerker The Reawakening Volbeat Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood Welicoruss WinterMoon Symphony 2 Blessed by a Broken Heart Pedal to the Metal 5 All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers Iced Earth The Crucible of Man 9 Brian "Head" Welch Save Me From Myself 12 Metallica Death Magnetic 16 All That Remains Overcome Andromeda The Immunity Zone Avenged Sevenfold Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough Intronaut Prehistoricisms Obituary Left to Die 17 Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God Swallow the Sun Plague of Butterflies The Haunted Versus 19 Evergrey Torn Falchion Chronicles of the Dead Sonic Syndicate Love and Other Disasters 22 Omnium Gatherum The Redshift 23 Metal Church This Present Wasteland 24 Battlelore The Last Alliance 26 Holy Moses Agony of Death Psycroptic Ob(Servant) 29 Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season Enslaved Vertebrae Dagoba Face The Colossus 30 Bleeding Through Declaration Dream Theater Chaos in Motion 2007–2008 In This Moment The Dream Jeff Loomis Zero Order Phase Megadeth Anthology: Set the World Afire Suspyre When Time Fades... Trivium Shogun
October
Day Artist Album 6 Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery 7 tesla Forever More 13 Gojira The Way of All Flesh 14 Haste the Day Dreamer Unearth The March Winterfylleth The Ghost of Heritage Yngwie Malmsteen Perpetual Flame 17 Zonaria The Cancer Empire 20 The Amenta n0n Darkthrone Dark Thrones and Black Flags 21 Disciple Southern Hospitality See You Next Tuesday Intervals 22 Thyrfing Hels vite AC/DC Black Ice 23 Lordi Deadache 24 Darkane Demonic Art Catamenia VIII - The Time Unchained Sylosis Conclusion of an Age 25 Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder 28 Beneath the Massacre Dystopia Exodus Let There Be Blood
November
Day Artist Album 3 Satyricon The Age of Nero Turisas A Finnish Summer With Turisas 10 The Red Shore Unconsecrated 11 Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly Behemoth Ezkaton Dance Club Massacre Circle of Death Dir En Grey Uroboros The Faceless Planetary Duality Light This City Stormchaser Six Feet Under Death Rituals Sympathy Anagogic Tyranny Pig Destroyer Natasha (EP) 14 Edguy Tinnitus Sanctus Elvenking Two Tragedy Poets (...and a Caravan of Weird Figures) Hortus Animae Funeral Nation / 10 Years Of Hortus Animae 17 Cynic Traced in Air 18 Mononc' Serge & Anonymus Musique Barbare Mudvayne The New Game 24 Arch Enemy Tyrants of the Rising Sun 25 Becoming the Archetype Dichotomy
December
Day Artist Album 18 Tankard Thirst
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