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2007 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2007.

Newly formed bands

  • Acid Witch
  • Affiance
  • Animals as Leaders
  • Archspire
  • The Atlas Moth
  • Attack Attack!
  • Barren Earth
  • Benevolent
  • Black Anvil
  • Burn Halo
  • Cavalera Conspiracy
  • Chelsea Grin
  • Coldrain
  • The Contortionist
  • Cormorant
  • Cross Vein
  • Dust Bolt
  • Fallujah
  • Fleshgod Apocalypse
  • Haken
  • Hooded Menace
  • Imperial Circus Dead Decadence
  • Iwrestledabearonce
  • Krallice
  • Kraptor
  • Kvelertak
  • KYPCK
  • Monuments
  • Neurotech
  • The Night Flight Orchestra
  • Northern Kings
  • Oranssi Pazuzu
  • Panopticon
  • Santa Cruz
  • Savage Messiah
  • Skin
  • Striker
  • Unleash the Archers
  • Versailles
  • White Wizzard
  • Xerath

Reformed bands

  • Artillery
  • Carcass
  • Crashdïet
  • Emperor (for a few shows)
  • Extreme
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • Spinal Tap
  • X Japan
  • Sacred Reich

Disbandments

  • Arcturus
  • A Perfect Murder
  • The Devin Townsend Band
  • I Killed the Prom Queen
  • Reverend Bizarre
  • Strapping Young Lad
  • Send More Paramedics
  • Mendeed
  • Pungent Stench
  • With Passion
  • Quiet Riot (reformed in 2010)
  • Nodes of Ranvier
  • Fall of the Leafe

Events

  • Wayne Knupp, original vocalist for Devourment died on September 15.
  • Pat Mason of Arsonists Get All The Girls passes away on the morning of November 30, his 21st birthday.
  • Extreme reunite for the third time, announcing plans for a world tour next year, as well as a new studio album, which will be their first since 1995's Waiting for the Punchline.
  • Led Zeppelin get back together one more time for one concert in London.
  • In Sorte Diaboli (Dimmu Borgir) becomes the first extreme metal album ever to hit the No. 1 in a Record chart, achieving that position in Norway.
  • Andreas Sydow leaves Darkane, being replaced by Jens Broman.
  • Witold Kiełtyka, drummer for Decapitated, is killed in a car crash in October.
  • Vocalist, Damo and manager, Andy of The Red Shore, died in December.
  • Anette Olzon joins Nightwish as their new lead vocalist.
  • Peter Lindgren leaves Opeth.
  • Jani Liimatainen is fired from Sonata Arctica.
  • Jacob Bredahl leaves Hatesphere.
  • Mark St. John, guitarist of KISS in 1984, dies in April.
  • The song Final Six from Slayer won in the Best Metal Performance category at the 50th Grammy Awards.
  • Meiju Enho leaves Ensiferum.
  • Paul Raven, bassist for Ministry and former Killing Joke bassist, dies in October.
  • Kevin DuBrow, lead singer for Quiet Riot, dies in November.
  • Matt Barlow returns as lead singer of Iced Earth.
  • Ramallah disbands.
  • Matte Modin is fired from Dark Funeral, for disrupting their live performance schedule through deceit, according to the band. He is replaced by Nils Fjällström of Aeon, who is given the stage name "Dominator".
  • Gaahl and King ov Hell part ways from Gorgoroth founding member Infernus with the intention of using the band's name and assets themselves, igniting the Gorgoroth name dispute.
  • Soichiro Umemura, vocalist of Tokyo Yankees, died on December 11.

Albums released

January

DayArtistAlbum
5Legion of the Damned*Sons of the Jackal*
10Moonsorrow*Viides Luku - Hävitetty*
12Grave Digger*Liberty Or Death*
Therion*Gothic Kabbalah*
15Al Atkins*Demon Deceiver*
16Age of Nemesis*Terra Incognita*
19Mnemic*Passenger*
22Destruction*Thrash Anthems*
Pain of Salvation*Scarsick*
Rotting Christ*Theogonia*
23Fear My Thoughts*Vulcanus*
26MetaliumNothing to Undo – Chapter Six

February

DayArtistAlbum
6Car Bomb*Centralia*
The End*Elementary*
Impious*Holy Murder Masquerade*
7Dir En Grey*The Marrow of a Bone*
Swallow the Sun*Hope*
12The Berzerker*Animosity*
Domine*Ancient Spirit Rising*
19Mendeed*The Dead Live by Love*
Watain*Sworn to the Dark*
20Aborted*Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture*
Beneath the Massacre*Mechanics of Dysfunction*
Novembers Doom*The Novella Reservoir*
23Masterplan*MK II*
Naglfar*Harvest*
Sirenia*Nine Destinies and a Downfall*
26Charlie Dominici*O3: A Trilogy, Part Two*
Cirith Gorgor*Cirith Gorgor*
Manowar*Gods Of War*

March

DayArtistAlbum
1Buckethead*Pepper's Ghost*
3Arghoslent*Hornets of the Pogrom*
5Onslaught*Killing Peace*
Saxon*The Inner Sanctum*
6Alabama Thunderpussy*Open Fire*
Chimaira*Resurrection*
Emmure*Goodbye to the Gallows*
Dying Fetus*War of Attrition*
Megadeth*That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires* (CD/DVD) (released on CD September 4, 2007)
Sevendust*Alpha*
9Within Temptation*The Heart of Everything*
12Nightrage*A New Disease Is Born*
13Battlelore*Evernight*
Type O Negative*Dead Again*
Unsane*Visqueen*
14Naildown*Dreamcrusher*
Thunderstone*Evolution 4.0*
16Sabaton*Metalizer*
19Morgana Lefay*Aberrations of the Mind*
20Dååth*The Hinderers*
Haste the Day*Pressure the Hinges*
In This Moment*Beautiful Tragedy*
23Sun Caged*Artemisia*
24Five Star Prison Cell*Slaves of Virgo*
The Gathering*A Noise Severe*
25Graveland*Will Stronger Than Death*
27Machine Head*The Blackening*
Mors Principium Est*Liberation = Termination*
28Finntroll*Ur Jordens Djup*
Threshold*Dead Reckoning*
30Attila*Fallacy*

April

DayArtistAlbum
1Abscess*Horrorhammer*
Kronos*The Hellenic Terror*
2Pro-Pain*Age of Tyranny – The Tenth Crusade*
Scarve*The Undercurrent*
Susperia*Cut from Stone*
3All Out War*Assassins In The House Of God*
The Chariot*The Fiancée*
Chevelle*Vena Sera*
Omnium Gatherum*Stuck Here on Snakes Way*
Shadows Fall*Threads of Life*
Static-X*Cannibal*
Virgin Black*Requiem - Mezzo Forte*
Vital Remains*Icons of Evil*
5Monstrosity*Spiritual Apocalypse*
8Legion*Мифы древности (Myths of Antiquity)*
10Andromeda*Playing Off The Board* (DVD)
From Autumn to Ashes*Holding a Wolf by the Ears*
Hellyeah*Hellyeah*
13Dublin Death Patrol*DDP 4 Life*
16Annihilator*Metal*
Mayhem*Ordo Ad Chao*
Pain*Psalms of Extinction*
Shining*Halmstad*
W.A.S.P.*Dominator*
17Dark Tranquillity*Fiction*
Nine Inch Nails*Year Zero*
Six Feet Under*Commandment*
20Ensiferum*Victory Songs*
Freedom Call*Dimensions*
Vomitory*Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize*
23After Forever*After Forever*
Root*Daemon Viam Invenient*
24At War With Self*Acts of God*
Dimmu Borgir*In Sorte Diaboli*
Deliverance*As Above - So Below*
Mammatus*The Coast Explodes*
Marduk*ROM 5:12*
Sanctity*Road to Bloodshed*
Walknut*Graveforests and Their Shadows*
26Angel Corpse*Of Lucifer and Lightning*
27Inveracity*Extermination of Millions*
Vintersorg*Solens rötter*
30Detonation*Emission Phase*

May

DayArtistAlbum
7Twilightning*Swinelords*
8Becoming the Archetype*The Physics of Fire*
Immolation*Shadows In The Light*
Lord Belial*Revelation: The 7th Seal*
Neurosis*Given to the Rising*
With Passion*What We See When We Shut Our Eyes*
Woe of Tyrants*Behold the Lion*
12Trouble*Simple Mind Condition*
14Hatesphere*Serpent Smiles And Killer Eyes*
15Job for a Cowboy*Genesis*
Megadeth*United Abominations*
Secret Chiefs 3*Path of Most Resistance*
16Nocturnal Rites*The 8th Sin*
18Planet X*Quantum*
U.D.O.*Mastercutor*
21[8 Foot Sativa](8-foot-sativa)*Poison of Ages*
22Daysend*The Warning*
Despised Icon*The Ills of Modern Man*
Ozzy Osbourne*Black Rain*
Sonic Syndicate*Only Inhuman*
23Sigh*Hangman's Hymn*
25Altaria*Divine Invitation*
Caliban*The Awakening*
Månegarm*Vargstenen*
Sonata Arctica*Unia*
Visions of Atlantis*Trinity*
28[3 Inches of Blood](3-inches-of-blood)*Fire Up the Blades*
Akercocke*Antichrist*
Turisas*The Varangian Way*
29Cephalic Carnage*Xenosapien*
30Ari Koivunen*Fuel For The Fire*
Sturm Und Drang*Learning to Rock*
31Buckethead*Acoustic Shards*

June

DayArtistAlbum
4Dream Theater*Systematic Chaos*
Iced Earth*Overture of the Wicked*
Man Must Die*The Human Condition*
5Devin Townsend*Ziltoid the Omniscient*
Graveworm*Collateral Defect*
Ion Dissonance*Minus the Herd*
Kamelot*Ghost Opera*
Marilyn Manson*Eat Me, Drink Me*
Tesla*Real To Reel*
12A Perfect Murder*War of Aggression*
Anterior*This Age of Silence*
Municipal Waste*The Art of Partying*
Pig Destroyer*Phantom Limb*
17Abigor*Fractal Possession*
19August Burns Red*Messengers*
22Candlemass*King of the Grey Islands*
23Airbourne*Runnin' Wild*
25Entombed*Serpent Saints*
Architects*Ruin*
26King Diamond*Give Me Your Soul...Please*
Korpiklaani*Tervaskanto*
Symphony X*Paradise Lost*
29At Vance*VII*

July

DayArtistAlbum
2Behemoth*The Apostasy*
3Velvet Revolver*Libertad*
10Darkest Hour*Deliver Us*
11Galexia*Galexia*
12Carnifex*Dead in My Arms*
17Eyefear*A World Full of Grey*
Malevolent Creation*Doomsday X*
Nile*Ithyphallic*
18Blood Stain Child*Mozaiq*
24Evergreen Terrace*Wolfbiker*
The Red Chord*Prey for Eyes*
27Korn*Untitled*
31DevilDriver*The Last Kind Words*
Five Finger Death Punch*The Way of the Fist*
Whitechapel*The Somatic Defilement*

August

DayArtistAlbum
3Gorefest*Rise to Ruin*
7Reverend Bizarre*III: So Long Suckers*
The Absence*Riders of the Plague*
Drowning Pool*Full Circle*
Still Remains*The Serpent*
Throwdown*Venom & Tears*
Fuel*Angels & Devils*
AM Conspiracy*Out of the Shallow End*
8Alcest*Souvenirs d'un autre monde*
9Agathocles*Senseless Trip*
12Anvil*This Is Thirteen*
14Arsonists Get All The Girls*The Game of Life*
Bring Me the Horizon*Count Your Blessings*
15Amoral*Reptile Ride*
20The Agonist*Once Only Imagined*
Malefice*Entities*
21Arsonists Get All The Girls*The Game of Life*
As I Lay Dying*An Ocean Between Us*
Blue Cheer*What Doesn't Kill You...*
The Devil Wears Prada*Plagues*
Through the Eyes of the Dead*Malice*
22Andre Matos*Time to Be Free*
Dimension Zero*He Who Shall Not Bleed*
Epica*The Divine Conspiracy*
Rob Rock*Garden of Chaos*
23Flactorophia, Demonic Dismemberment, Eternal Mystery, Vomitous Discharge, Engravor, Vomitorial Corpulence*[6-Way Sin Decomposition](6-way-sin-decomposition)*
24Backslash*Trip of Pain*
25Benediction*Killing Music*
Divine Heresy*Bleed The Fifth*
27Evile*Enter the Grave*
28Obituary*Xecutioner's Return*
Scorpions*Humanity: Hour I*
29Amorphis*Silent Waters*
31Agent Steel*Alienigma*
Drudkh*Estrangement*

September

DayArtistAlbum
3Alchemist*Tripsis*
Vanishing Point*The Fourth Season*
4Aeon*Rise to Dominate*
Baroness*The Red Album*
Chiodos*Bone Palace Ballet*
Every Time I Die*The Big Dirty*
Impending Doom*Nailed. Dead. Risen.*
Zonaria*Infamy and the Breed*
5Ajattara*Kalmanto*
Disavowed*Stagnated Existence*
7Epica*The Divine Conspiracy*
10High on Fire*Death Is This Communion*
11Iced Earth*Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked Part 1*
14Apocalyptica*Worlds Collide*
Elvenking*The Scythe*
HIM*Venus Doom*
18A Life Once Lost*Iron Gag*
Between the Buried and Me*Colors*
The Black Dahlia Murder*Nocturnal*
Blotted Science*The Machinations of Dementia*
Brown Brigade*Into the Mouth of Badd(d)ness*
Himsa*Summon in Thunder*
Ministry*The Last Sucker*
Suicide Silence*The Cleansing*
War from a Harlots Mouth*Transmetropolitan*
24Arch Enemy*Rise of the Tyrant*
Darkthrone*F.O.A.D.*
Down*Down III: Over the Under*
25Bring Me the Horizon*This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For*
Carl Johan Grimmark*Grimmark*
Dethklok*The Dethalbum*
The Bled*Silent Treatment*
Wolves in the Throne Room*Two Hunters*
26Akira Takasaki*Black Brown*
Nightwish*Dark Passion Play*
28Sodom*The Final Sign of Evil*

October

DayArtistAlbum
1Axel Rudi Pell*Diamonds Unlocked*
2Animosity*Animal*
Born of Osiris*The New Reign*
Skeletonwitch*Beyond The Permafrost*
5Alter BridgeBlackbird
6Parkway Drive*Horizons*
9Astral Doors*New Revelation*
I Declare War*Amidst the Bloodshed*
Megadeth*Warchest*
Overkill*Immortalis*
Puddle of Mudd*Famous*
15Ava Inferi*The Silhouette*
Taint*Secrets & Lies*
16Behold... The Arctopus*Skullgrid*
Demiricous*Two (Poverty)*
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza*Danza II: Electric Boogaloo*
19Soilwork*Sworn to a Great Divide*
23Exodus*The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A*
HammerFall*Steel Meets Steel - Ten Years of Glory*
Helloween*Gambling with the Devil*
Oh, Sleeper*When I Am God*
29Anaal Nathrakh*Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here*
30Avenged Sevenfold*Avenged Sevenfold*
Bloodsimple*Red Harvest*
Buckethead*Cyborg Slunks*
Buckethead*Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot*
Melechesh*Emissaries*
The Autumn Offering*Fear Will Cast No Shadow*

November

DayArtistAlbum
5The Dillinger Escape Plan*Ire Works*
Novembre*The Blue*
Opeth*The Roundhouse Tapes*
6Agnostic Front*Warriors*
Demon Hunter*Storm the Gates of Hell*
16Axxis*Doom of Destiny*
Gamma Ray*Land of the Free II*
Primordial*To the Nameless Dead*
19Tarja Turunen*My Winter Storm*
20Sebastian Bach*Angel Down*
Vesania*Distractive Killusions*
Electric Wizard*Witchcult Today*
21The Ocean*Precambrian*

December

DayArtistAlbum
7Blood of Kingu*De Occulta Philosophia*

References

References

  1. Christe, Ian. (July 6, 2022). "Max & Iggor Cavalera Interview: On Sepultura, Soulfly & More". [[Tidal (service).
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