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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2008.
Bands formed
- A Sound of Thunder
- A Storm of Light
- Aeon Zen
- Allegaeon
- Amaranthe
- Arkaea
- Austrian Death Machine
- Betraying the Martyrs
- Bölzer
- Bombus
- Cain's Offering
- Chickenfoot
- Christian Mistress
- City of Fire
- Code Orange
- Ex Deo
- From Fall to Spring
- God Seed
- Hamferð
- Holy Grail
- King of Asgard
- Krypts
- Lustre
- Pallbearer
- Power Trip
- Revolution Renaissance
- Solution .45
- Tears of Tragedy
- The Empire Shall Fall
- Triptykon
- Uneven Structure
Reformed bands
- At the Gates (for a few shows)
- Carcass (for touring)
- Einherjer (for touring)
- Exhorder (for a few tours and some new material)
- Forbidden (for a few shows)
- Krokus
- Living Sacrifice
- Spineshank
Disbandments
- Alabama Thunderpussy
- Beneath the Sky
- Byzantine
- Celtic Frost
- Dead to Fall
- Demigod
- The Duskfall
- From Autumn to Ashes
- Himsa
- Knorkator
- Ministry
- Sieges Even
- Sikth
- Still Remains
- The Red Death
- The Agony Scene
- Remove the Veil
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 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 |
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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
March
Day | Artist | Album |
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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 |
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1 | Dismember | Dismember[19] |
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 | |
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 |
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5 | Nine Inch Nails | The Slip |
Scott Kelly | The Wake | |
Textures | Silhouettes[20] | |
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[21] |
Kataklysm | Prevail | |
26 | Ihsahn | angL |
Shai Hulud | Misanthropy Pure | |
30 | Communic | Payment of Existence |
Hollenthon | Opus Magnum | |
Opeth | Watershed[22] | |
Pyramaze | Immortal | |
Sabaton | The Art of War |
June
Day | Artist | Album |
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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 |
Carnifex | The Diseased and the Poisoned | |
27 | Equilibrium | Sagas |
29 | Khold | Hundre År Gammal |
30 | Raunchy | Wasteland Discotheque |
July
Day | Artist | Album |
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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 |
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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
October
Day | Artist | Album |
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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 |
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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[23] | |
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 |
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18 | Tankard | Thirst |
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External links
- About.com: Heavy Metal Archived May 31, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
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