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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.

Contents

1 Reformed bands 2 Disbandments 3 Events 4 Albums released
4.1 January 4.2 February 4.3 March 4.4 April 4.5 May 4.6 June 4.7 July 4.8 August 4.9 September 4.10 October
5 Upcoming albums
5.1 November 5.2 December 5.3 Unknown
6 References 7 External links

[edit] Reformed bands

Carcass
Carcass
At the Gates (for a few shows) Carcass (for touring) Exhorder Forbidden (for a few shows) Flower Travellin' Band Immortal Krokus Living Sacrifice Snot Spineshank

[edit] Disbandments

Celtic Frost live at Tuska Open Air Metal Festival 2006
Celtic Frost live at Tuska Open Air Metal Festival 2006
Beneath the Sky Byzantine Celtic Frost Dead to Fall The Duskfall From Autumn to Ashes Himsa Knorkator Light This City Ministry Sieges Even SikTh Since The Flood Still Remains The Red Death

[edit] Events

Mikael Ã…kerfeldt
Mikael Ã…kerfeldt
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. Jonny Santos rejoins and reforms Spineshank

[edit] Albums released

[edit] January

Day Artist Album
2 In Mourning Shrouded Divine
11 Benedictum Seasons of Tragedy
22 Byzantine Oblivion Beckons
25 Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge
Avantasia The Scarecrow
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Brainstorm Downburst
28 Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire
Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast
29 Protest the Hero Fortress

[edit] February

Day Artist Album
4 Baptism Grim Arts of Melancholy[citation needed]
Iron Maiden Live After Death[1]
Sworn Enemy Maniacal[citation needed]
5 Brain Drill Apocalyptic Feasting[citation needed]
Warbringer War Without End[2]
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]
Dead to Fall Are You Serious?[citation needed]
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
22 Exciter Thrash Speed Burn[11]
Nortt Galgenfrist[citation needed]
Steel Attack Carpe DiEnd[12]
Stormwarrior Heading Northe[13]
Rage Carved in Stone[14]
Unheilig Puppenspiel[citation needed]
25 Dark Fortress Eidolon[15]
26 Death Angel Killing Season
Mygrain Signs Of Existence
29 Agalloch The White
Draconian Turning Season Within
Misery's Omen Hope Dies

[edit] March

Day Artist Album
4 Nasum Doombringer
Our Last Night The Ghosts Among Us
7 Boris Smile
Ill Niño Enigma
Meshuggah obZen
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
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
Pharoah Be Gone
28 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

[edit] April

Day Artist Album
1 Dismember Dismember[16]
Joe Satriani Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock
Origin Antithesis
Septic Flesh Communion
Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow
The Sword Gods of the Earth
4 In Flames A Sense of Purpose
9 Children of Bodom Blooddrunk
12 Cog Sharing Space
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
21 Grave Dominion VIII
22 Charlie Dominici O3: A Trilogy, Part Three
Whitesnake Good to be Bad
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 Testament The Formation of Damnation
30 Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky

[edit] May

Day Artist Album
5 Scott Kelly The Wake
Textures Silhouettes[17]
6 Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward
13 Abysmal Dawn Programmed To Consume
Aletheian Dying Vine
Emmure The Respect Issue
Mourning Beloveth A Disease for the Ages
16 Moonspell Night Eternal
23 Cryptopsy The Unspoken King[18]
Incantation Blasphemous Cremation
Kataklysm Prevail
26 Ihsahn angL
Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure
30 Communic Payment of Existence
Opeth Watershed[19]
Pyramaze Immortal
Sabaton The Art of War

[edit] 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 Ã…r 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

[edit] July

Day Artist Album
1 Lamb of God Walk with Me in Hell
7 Blaze Bayley The Man Who Would Not Die
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 After The Burial Rareform
Misery Signals Controller
Neuraxis The Thin Line Between
War of Ages Arise and Conquer
29 Scars on Broadway Scars on Broadway
Soulfly Conquer
Walls of Jericho The American Dream

[edit] August

Day Artist Album
5 Norma Jean The Anti Mother
12 Extreme Saudades de Rock
19 The Acacia Strain Continent
The Human Abstract Midheaven
20 DragonForce Ultra Beatdown
Slipknot All Hope Is Gone
25 Into Eternity The Incurable Tragedy
26 Motörhead Motörizer
29 Destruction D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.
Haggard Tales of Ithiria

[edit] September

Day Artist Album
1 The Berzerker The Reawakening
Volbeat Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood
5 All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers
Iced Earth The Crucible of Man
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
Swallow the Sun Plague of Butterflies
The Haunted Versus
19 Evergrey Torn
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 Antagonist Exist
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

[edit] October

Day Artist Album
3 Rise Against Appeal to Reason
6 Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery
7 Tesla Forever More
13 Gojira The Way of All Flesh
Unearth The March
14 Early Man Beware The Circling Fin EP
Haste the Day Dreamer
(the)Plasmarifle While You Were Sleeping, The World Forever Changed In An Instant
Saosin The Grey EP
Yngwie Malmsteen Perpetual Flame
21 Escape the Fate This War Is Ours
24 Darkane Demonic Art
Catamenia VIII - The Time Unchained
25 Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder
27 Cynic Traced in Air
28 Beneath the Massacre Dystopia
Exodus Let There Be Blood
Hatebreed For the Lions

[edit] Upcoming albums

[edit] November

Day Artist Album
3 Satyricon The Age of Nero
10 The Red Shore Unconsecrated
11 Behemoth Ezkaton
Light This City Stormchaser
Six Feet Under Death Rituals
15 Comeback Kid Through The Noise
18 Mudvayne The New Game
25 Becoming the Archetype Dichotomy

[edit] December

Deathstars - Deathglam Disarmonia Mundi - The Isolation Game Eluveitie - Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion

[edit] Unknown

Amoral - TBA Anata - TBA As Blood Runs Black - TBA Brown Brigade - Guyanese Democracy Cannibal Corpse - TBA Carcariass - TBA Confessor - TBA DÃ…Ã…TH - The Concealers D.R.I. - TBA Dope - No Regrets Dragonlord - TBA Eluveitie - Evocation II - Visions Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy Hibria - TBA Marilyn Manson - TBA Mastodon - TBA Nevermore - TBA Primus - TBA Ram-Zet - TBA Sepultura - A-Lex Slayer - TBA Sympathy - Anagogic Tyranny Unexpect - TBA Verbal Abuse - TBA Wicked Wisdom - Wrath of the Wicked Witchplague - TBA Zyklon - TBA

[edit] References

^ "Iron Maiden: Live After Death DVD details announced". Blabbermouth.net (2007-11-08). Retrieved on 2008-06-02. ^ "Warbringer: New song posted online". Blabbermouth.net (2007-12-14). Retrieved on 2008-06-02. ^ "Norther: New album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net (2007-12-19). Retrieved on 2008-06-02. ^ "Eluveitie: New album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net (2007-12-23). Retrieved on 2008-06-02. ^ "Hellhammer: Demon Entrails details revealed". Blabbermouth.net (2008-01-08). Retrieved on 2008-06-02. ^ "Keyboardist Hugo Sheppard explains decision to leave To-Mera". Blabbermouth.net (2007-12-07). Retrieved on 2008-06-03. ^ "Fear Factory singer's Ascension of the Watchers: Debut album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net (2007-12-11). Retrieved on 2008-06-03. ^ "Genghis Tron: Another preview track posted online". Blabbermouth.net (2007-12-08). Retrieved on 2008-06-03. ^ "Hate Eternal: New album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net (2007-12-04). Retrieved on 2008-06-03. ^ "Sculptured: New album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net (2007-11-05). Retrieved on 2008-06-03. ^ "Exciter: Thrash Speed Burn pushed back to february". Blabbermouth.net (2007-11-22). Retrieved on 2008-06-03. ^ "Steel Attack: New album title announced". Blabbermouth.net (2008-01-17). Retrieved on 2008-06-03. ^ "Stormwarrior: New album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net (2008-01-12). Retrieved on 2008-06-03. ^ "Rage: Carved in Stone release date announced". Blabbermouth.net (2007-11-29). Retrieved on 2008-06-03. ^ "Dark Fortress to release Eidolon in february". Blabbermouth.net (2007-12-21). Retrieved on 2008-06-03. ^ "Dismember: New album artwork unveiled". Blabbermouth.net (2008-01-28). Retrieved on 2008-06-02. ^ "Textures: New album delayed". Blabbermouth.net (2008-04-16). Retrieved on 2008-06-03. ^ "Cryptopsy: The Unspoken King track listing revealed". Blabbermouth.net (2008-04-17). Retrieved on 2008-06-19. ^ "Opeth, Watershed". www.opeth.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-12.

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