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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](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](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](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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