This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2000.
Newly formed bands
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5ive
Five (stylised as 5ive) are a British boy band from London consisting of members Sean Conlon, Ritchie Neville, and Scott Robinson. They were formed in 1997 by the same team that managed the Spice Girls before they launched their career. The gro ...
Adagio
Adagio (Italian for 'slowly', ) may refer to:
Music
* Adagio, a Tempo#Basic tempo markings, tempo marking, indicating that music is to be played slowly, or a composition intended to be played in this manner
* Adagio (band), a French progressive m ...
Angelus Apatrida
Angelus Apatrida is a Spanish thrash metal band formed in Albacete in 2000.
History Early years (2000–2003)
Angelus Apatrida was formed as a heavy/power metal band. Two demos were recorded in this period: ''Lost in the Realms of Orchinodae ...
Antigama
Antigama is a Polish grindcore band. The band formed in 2000. Antigama has released eight albums, four EPs, and several split records.
Biography
Antigama formed in Warsaw, Poland in 2000 by guitarist Sebastian Rokicki and drummer Krzysztof Ben ...
Beto Vázquez Infinity
Beto Vazquez Infinity is an Argentine heavy metal project from Buenos Aires led by Alberto 'Beto' Vazquez. Formed in 2000, the outfit has released seven studio albums and a live DVD. Vazquez uses a large number guests on his records, while he o ...
Beyond the Embrace
Beyond The Embrace was an American melodic death metal band. They formed in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 2000. The band has released two albums to date, '' Against the Elements'' in 2002 and '' Insect Song'' in 2004. They were signed to Metal B ...
Cannae
Cannae (now Canne della Battaglia, ) is an ancient village of the Apulia region of south east Italy. It is a ''frazione'' (civil parish) of the ''comune'' (municipality) of Barletta. Cannae was formerly a bishopric, and is presently (2022) a Lati ...
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Car Bomb
A car bomb, bus bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile or other vehicles.
Car bombs can be roughly divided ...
The Darkness
Darkness is the absence of light.
Darkness or The Darkness may also refer to:
Film and television
* ''Dark'' (TV series), a 2017 German-language TV series produced by Netflix
* Darknss, a character from the film ''Legend'' (1985)
* ''Darkne ...
Demon Hunter
Demon Hunter is an American Christian metal band from Seattle, Washington, started in 2000 by brothers Don Clark and Ryan Clark. Although the brothers created the band together, only Ryan remains, since Don left the band to take care of his ...
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Disarmonia Mundi
Disarmonia Mundi is a melodic death metal band from Avigliana, Italy, that started out as a progressive death metal band. The project is the brainchild of the producer and multi-instrumentalist Ettore Rigotti and is mainly known for featuring ...
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Forever Slave
Forever Slave was a Spanish gothic metal band, founded by Servalath (Sergio) and vocalist Lady Angellyca in 2000.
They recorded two demos, "Hate" and "Schwarzer Engel", in 2000 and 2001 respectively, returning with another demo in 2004, "Resur ...
Full Blown Chaos
Full Blown Chaos is a metalcore band from Floral Park, Queens, New York. According to the band, their whole direction "is to keep a wide range of music, not to necessarily pigeonhole ourselves into metal or hardcore". They are well respected in ...
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Hammers of Misfortune
Hammers of Misfortune is an American heavy metal band from San Francisco, California. The band's style has varied from album to album, at times incorporating different elements of folk metal, doom metal, NWOBHM, black metal, 1970s rock, and th ...
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Hatesphere
Hatesphere is a Danish thrash metal band from Aarhus, formed in 2000 by guitarist Peter "Pepe" Hansen. As of 2016, the band consists of vocalist Esben "Esse" Elnegaard Kjaer Hansen, guitarists Peter "Pepe" Lyse Hansen, and Kasper Kirkegaard, ba ...
Indukti
Indukti is a progressive metal band from Poland, founded in 1999. Their debut album, '' S.U.S.A.R.'', featured Mariusz Duda of the Polish band Riverside on vocals.
Indukti's performances of concerts and festivals include NEARfest 2007 and Baja P ...
Mar de Grises
Mar de Grises was a Chilean Death-doom, death/doom metal band created in 2000. "Mar de Grises" could be translated into English as "Sea of Grief," or equivalently, as grey is the Spanish color of sorrows as blue is in English, "Sea of Greys".
H ...
Mgła
Mgła (; en, "Fog") is a Polish black metal band from Kraków, formed in 2000. The duo consists of vocalist, guitarist and bassist M. (Mikołaj Żentara) and drummer Darkside (Maciej Kowalski).
The band has released four albums and began per ...
Otep
Otep is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2000. They have released two EPs, eight studio albums, and one live album. They are currently signed with Napalm Records. The band has sold over 500,000 albums world ...
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Pagan's Mind
Pagan's Mind is a progressive metal band from Skien, Norway. They have released five studio albums, and the current line-up only features original members.
Biography
Founded in 2000 from the band Silverspoon by Nils K. Rue, Thorstein Aaby, and St ...
Peste Noire
Peste Noire are a French black metal band from La Chaise-Dieu, France. The band was formed by "La sale Famine de Valfunde" (Ludovic Faure), also known simply as "Famine", in 2000. Their music uses standard black metal elements mixed with traditi ...
Planet X
Following the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846, there was considerable speculation that another planet might exist beyond its orbit. The search began in the mid-19th century and continued at the start of the 20th with Percival Lowell's ...
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Poisonblack
Poisonblack was a Finnish gothic metal band led by singer and guitarist Ville Laihiala.
History
In 2003, the band's first album, ''Escapexstacy'', was on the Finnish national charts for three weeks, peaking at No. 21. They opened for Iro ...
Steel Panther
Steel Panther is an American comedic glam metal band from Los Angeles, California. They are known for their profane and humorous lyrics as well as their exaggerated onstage pastiche of the stereotypical glam metal lifestyle.
History
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Swallow the Sun
Swallow the Sun is a Finnish death-doom band founded in 2000 by Juha Raivio. Their death-doom style emphasizes melody and atmosphere, and occasionally steps into gothic and black metal territory. They have released eight full-length albums, one ...
Ulcerate
Ulcerate is a New Zealand-based extreme metal band formed by guitarist Michael Hoggard and drummer Jamie Saint Merat in 2000. The band have released six studio albums to date. The band have been featured in numerous articles as one of New Zea ...
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Ãœnloco
Ãœnloco is an American nu metal band formed in Austin, Texas.
History
Ünloco was formed in 2000 by frontman vocalist Joey Dueñas, with Pete Navarrete on drums, Victor Escareño on bass, and Brian Arthur on guitar. That same year, the band relea ...
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The Vision Bleak
The Vision Bleak is a German gothic metal duo comprising Ulf Theodor Schwadorf (famous for his work with Empyrium and Noekk) and Allen B. Konstanz. The group's lyrics are noted for their horror themes and heavily allude to works of classic writ ...
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Visions of Atlantis
Visions of Atlantis is an Austrian metal band from Styria, founded in 2000. Inspiration came both from successful symphonic metal band Nightwish and from the myth of Atlantis.
History
''Eternal Endless Infinity'' and lineup changes ( ...
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Warmen
Warmen is a Finnish heavy metal band assembled by keyboardist Janne "Warman" Wirman. Wirman has played with Children of Bodom from 1997 until their disbandment in 2019, and in 2000 created a musical project focused on instrumental work, which ...
Britny Fox
Britny Fox is an American glam metal band from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area, initially active from 1985 to 1992 then subsequently reforming from 2000 to 2003, again in 2006 to 2008 and final time reforming in 2015 to 2016. They are best k ...
Edguy
Edguy is a heavy metal band formed in Fulda, Germany in 1992.
History Demos, AFM years (1992–2003)
Edguy was founded in 1992 by 14-year-old students Tobias Sammet, Jens Ludwig, Dominik Storch and Dirk Sauer. The name "Edguy" was an affecti ...
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The Savage Poetry
''The Savage Poetry'', released in 2000, is a re-recording of the album ''Savage Poetry'', originally launched in 1995 as a demo by German power metal band Edguy. This version is also seen and referred to as their fourth official studio album. Th ...
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Fates Warning
Fates Warning is an American progressive metal band, formed in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1982 by vocalist John Arch, guitarists Jim Matheos and Victor Arduini, bassist Joe DiBiase, and drummer Steve Zimmerman. There have been numerous lineup ...
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
''Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence'' is the debut album of American Rock music, rock band Glassjaw, released on May 9, 2000 by Roadrunner Records. It was produced by Ross Robinson. Since its release, the album has received positiv ...
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Godflesh
Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham. The group formed in 1982 under the title Fall of Because but did not release any complete music until 1988 when Justin Broadrick (guitar, vocals and programming) and G. C. Gree ...
Awake
Wakefulness is a daily recurring brain state and state of consciousness in which an individual is conscious and engages in coherent cognitive and behavioral responses to the external world.
Being awake is the opposite of being asleep, in which ...
Renegade
Renegade or The Renegade may refer to:
Aircraft
*Lake Renegade, an American amphibious aircraft design
*Murphy Renegade, a Canadian ultralight biplane design
*Southern Aeronautical Renegade, an American racing aircraft design
Games
*'' Comman ...
Immolation
Immolation may refer to:
*Death by burning
*Self-immolation, the act of burning oneself
*Immolation (band), a death metal band from Yonkers, New York
*''The Immolation'', a 1977 novel by Goh Poh Seng
*''Dance Dance Immolation'', an interactive per ...
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Close to a World Below
''Close to a World Below'' is the fourth album by Immolation. It was released via Metal Blade Records in 2000.
Reception
Critical reception
Since its release, ''Close to a World Below'' has received universal acclaim. Todd Nief of AllMusi ...
In Flames
In Flames is a Swedish heavy metal band, formed by guitarist Jesper Strömblad in Gothenburg in 1990. Alongside At the Gates and Dark Tranquillity, In Flames pioneered the genres known as Swedish death metal and melodic death metal.
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Clayman
''Clayman'' is the fifth studio album by Swedish heavy metal band In Flames, released via Nuclear Blast on 3 July 2000. It has a dark theme, with most of the lyrics dealing with depression and internal struggles. ''Clayman'' is the final In Fl ...
Jag Panzer
Jag Panzer is an American power metal band from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
History
Jag Panzer came together in late 1981, being inspired by the onslaught of the new wave of British heavy metal. The original line-up consisted of Harry Conkl ...
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Thane to the Throne
Jag Panzer is an American power metal band from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
History
Jag Panzer came together in late 1981, being inspired by the onslaught of the new wave of British heavy metal. The original line-up consisted of Harry Conkl ...
House of God
''The House of God'' is a satirical novel by Samuel Shem (a pseudonym used by psychiatrist Stephen Bergman), published in 1978. The novel follows a group of medical interns at a fictionalized version of Beth Israel Hospital over the course o ...
Lamb of God
Lamb of God ( el, Ἀμνὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ, Amnòs toû Theoû; la, Agnus Dei, ) is a title for Jesus that appears in the Gospel of John. It appears at John 1:29, where John the Baptist sees Jesus and exclaims, "Behold the Lamb of God wh ...
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New American Gospel
''New American Gospel'' is the second studio album by American Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Lamb of God (band), Lamb of God, as well as their first album under that name (they were originally known as Burn the Priest). It was released in 2 ...
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Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit is an American rap rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. Its lineup consists of lead vocalist Fred Durst, drummer John Otto, guitarist Wes Borland, turntablist DJ Lethal and bassist Sam Rivers. The band's music is marked by D ...
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Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
''Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water'' is the third studio album by American nu metal band Limp Bizkit, released on October 17, 2000, by Flip and Interscope Records.
Title
The first part of the title is a slang term for the hum ...
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Linkin Park
Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. The band's current lineup comprises vocalist/rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda, lead guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave Farrell, DJ/turntablist Joe Hahn and drummer ...
Marilyn Manson
Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969), known professionally as Marilyn Manson, is an American rock musician. He came to prominence as the lead singer of the band which shares his name, of which he remains the only constant member since it ...
Metalium
Metalium was a power metal band from Hamburg, Germany, founded in 1999 and disbanded in 2011. Their style of music was that of the traditional power metal sound which was pioneered by bands such as Helloween and Blind Guardian.
History
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State of Triumph – Chapter Two
''State of Triumph – Chapter Two'' is second album recorded by the German power metal band Metalium. It was released in 2000, following their first release, '' Millennium Metal - Chapter One'' and continues the story which began in the first alb ...
Misanthrope Immortel
''Misanthrope Immortel'' is the sixth studio album by the French avant-garde progressive death metal band Misanthrope
Misanthropy is the general hatred, dislike, distrust or contempt of the human species, human behavior or human nature. A mis ...
Gateways to Annihilation
''Gateways to Annihilation'' is the sixth studio album by the death metal band Morbid Angel.
This album saw a change in musical style as the speed-laden intensity of the previous album ''Formulas Fatal to the Flesh'' was abandoned for a slower, ...
God Says No
''God Says No'' is the fifth studio album by American rock band Monster Magnet. It was released in 2000 in the UK and 2001 in the US. It was a commercial failure compared to their previous album, ''Powertrip''. It was their last release recorded ...
We Are Motörhead
''We Are Motörhead'' is the fifteenth studio album by British rock band Motörhead. It was released on 15 May 2000 via Steamhammer, their fifth with the label, equalling their Bronze Records total of full length original album releases.
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Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1981. The group was founded by bassist Nikki Sixx, drummer Tommy Lee, lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil. Mötley Crüe has sold over 100 million albums ...
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New Tattoo
''New Tattoo'' is the eighth studio album by the American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, released in 2000. Artistically, ''New Tattoo'' shows the band returning to the earlier musical style that gave them commercial success in the 1980s and ...
Dead Heart in a Dead World
''Dead Heart in a Dead World'' is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Nevermore, released in October 2000. In a style comparable to a darker, heavier Queensrÿche, its songs range topics such as criticism of drug possession penalt ...
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Nightwish
Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee. The band was formed in 1996 by lead songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former lead singer Tarja Turunen. The band soon picked up drummer Jukka Neva ...
Black Seeds of Vengeance
''Black Seeds of Vengeance'' is the second album by American technical death metal band Nile, released on September 5, 2000, through Relapse Records. It was the first album in Nile's discography to mark a more complex musical direction, as well as ...
The Big Black
''The Big Black'' is the third full-length album by British stoner metal band Orange Goblin, released in 2000 on Rise Above Records.Origin – '' Origin''
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Overkill
Overkill may refer to:
* Overkill (term), the use of excessive force or action to achieve a goal
* Surplus killing, when a predator kills more prey than it can eat
* Overexploitation, depletion of a natural resource through overharvesting
** Ove ...
Papa Roach
Papa Roach is an American rock band from Vacaville, California, formed in 1993. The original lineup consisted of lead vocalist Jacoby Shaddix, guitarist Jerry Horton, drummer Dave Buckner, bassist Will James, and trombonist Ben Luther.
After ...
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Infest
Infest may refer to:
*Infest, wild animal overpopulation, much in the same way that cockroaches do
* ''Infest'' (album), a 2000 hard rock album by Papa Roach
*Infest (band), American hardcore band
*Infest (festival), an alternative electronic mu ...
Isis / Pig Destroyer
''Isis / Pig Destroyer'' is a split EP by the bands Pig Destroyer and Isis, released in 2000. The EP, which features the two bands playing cover songs, was released on 7" vinyl.
Isis' interpretation of "Streetcleaner" was previously released on ...
Poison
Poison is a chemical substance that has a detrimental effect to life. The term is used in a wide range of scientific fields and industries, where it is often specifically defined. It may also be applied colloquially or figuratively, with a broa ...
Raised Fist
The raised fist, or the clenched fist, is a long-standing image of mixed meaning, often a symbol of political solidarity. It is also a common symbol of communism, socialism, and other revolutionary social movements. It can also represent a salute ...
Rhapsody
Rhapsody may refer to:
* A work of epic poetry, or part of one, that is suitable for recitation at one time
** Rhapsode, a classical Greek professional performer of epic poetry
Computer software
* Rhapsody (online music service), an online m ...
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Dawn of Victory
''Dawn of Victory'' is the third studio album by Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody, released in 2000. Like the previous albums, it centers on the story of Algalord and The Emerald Sword Saga. It was produced and engineered by Sascha Pae ...
Khronos Khronos may refer to:
* ''Khronos'' (Maktub album)
* ''Khronos'' (Rotting Christ album)
*'' Khronos (game)'', a board game
*Khronos Group, an open standards consortium
*Chronos, the personification of time in Greek mythology.
See also
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Saxon
The Saxons ( la, Saxones, german: Sachsen, ang, Seaxan, osx, Sahson, nds, Sassen, nl, Saksen) were a group of Germanic
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peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
Moment of Glory
''Moment of Glory'' is an album by German hard rock band Scorpions. It was recorded in collaboration with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and released in 2000. The album features re-arranged songs from the Scorpions repertoire, as well as cla ...
Shuvel
Shuvel was an American rap metal band originally from Wichita, Kansas. The band released their major label debut album in 2000 through Interscope Records.
History
Original members Jeff Hollinger (vocals), Isaac Ayala (vocals) and Kyle Hollinger ...
Static-X
Static-X is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1994. The line-up has fluctuated over the years, but was long-held constant with band founder, frontman, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Wayne Static until his ...
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The Death Trip Continues
''The Death Trip Continues...'' is the first extended play, EP by American industrial metal band Static-X, released in 2000. It is a follow-up to their debut album, ''Wisconsin Death Trip (album), Wisconsin Death Trip''. This EP was a promo CD ...
Free Your Soul and Save My Mind
''Free Your Soul...and Save My Mind'' is the tenth studio album by crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies, released in 2000.
A music video was made for "Pop Songs". It was the band's first official video in six years, since "Love Vs. Lonelines ...
Tad Morose
Tad Morose is a Swedish power metal band. Formed in Bollnäs in 1991, they are led by guitarist Christer "Krunt" Andersson. Their style has been described as "a power/classic heavy metal hybrid with slight progressive tendencies".
History
Tad ...
Musique
Musique is the French word for music.
Musique may also refer to:
Music
*Musique (disco band), a 1970s studio band produced by Patrick Adams
*Musique, a British dance act consisting of Moussa Clarke and Nick Hanson best known for their 2001 song ...
The Haunted
Haunted or The Haunted may refer to:
Books
* ''Haunted'' (Armstrong novel), by Kelley Armstrong, 2005
* ''Haunted'' (Cabot novel), by Meg Cabot, 2004
* ''Haunted'' (Palahniuk novel), by Chuck Palahniuk, 2005
* ''Haunted'' (Angel novel), a 200 ...
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Made Me Do It
''Made Me Do It'' (also known as ''The Haunted Made Me Do It'') is the second studio album by Swedish metal band The Haunted, released on 30 June 2000. It was re-released in 2001 with the live album ''Live Rounds in Tokyo'' as a bonus CD.
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The Sins of Thy Beloved
The Sins of Thy Beloved was a death-doom/ gothic metal band from Bryne, Norway, founded in 1996.
Biography
The band was formed in November 1996 by Glenn Morten Nordbø, Arild Christensen, and Stig Johansen. The band was initially called ''Pu ...
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Perpetual Desolation
''Perpetual Desolation'' is the second and final studio album by the Norwegian gothic metal band The Sins of Thy Beloved. It was recorded and mixed at Sound Suite Studio during September/October 1999 and released in 2000 through Napalm Records.
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Profoundemonium
''Profoundemonium'' is the second studio album by the band Trail of Tears. The cover art was designed by Travis Smith. It is the last album to feature female soprano Helena Iren Michaelsen, who left the band the year this album was made.
Tra ...
The House of Atreus Act II
''The House of Atreus Act II'', released in 2000, is the tenth studio album by the American Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Virgin Steele. It was released as a Double album, double CD album. This album is the second and final part of a rock op ...
Mother Earth
Mother Earth may refer to:
*The Earth goddess in any of the world's mythologies
*Mother goddess
*Mother Nature, a common personification of the Earth and its biosphere as the giver and sustainer of life
Written media and literature
*Mother Earth ...
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* Whispering Gallery – ''Like a Dream of Never-ending Beauty... Love Never Dies''
* Yngwie Malmsteen – ''
War to End All Wars
"The war to end war" (also "The war to end all wars"; originally from the 1914 book '' The War That Will End War'' by H. G. Wells) is a term for the First World War of 1914–1918. Originally an idealistic slogan, it is now mainly used sardonica ...
Sacred Reich
Sacred Reich is an American thrash metal band based in Phoenix, Arizona, that was formed in 1985. The band split in 2000, but reunited in 2006. Sacred Reich has been credited, along with Testament, Destruction, Death Angel and Dark Angel, for ...
(Reformed 2006)
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Al Pitrelli
Al Pitrelli is an American guitarist, best known for his work with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Megadeth, Alice Cooper, Joe Lynn Turner, Asia and Savatage.
Career
Early career (1982–1995)
Pitrelli attended the Berklee College of Music ...
Megadeth
Megadeth is an American thrash metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1983 by vocalist/guitarist Dave Mustaine. Known for their technically complex guitar work and musicianship, Megadeth is one of the "big four" of American thrash metal along wit ...
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Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career. The band's fast tempos, instrume ...
releases a song " I Disappear" that was never released on any studio albums and appears on the '' Mission: Impossible 2'' soundtrack. This song also started the famous
Napster
Napster was a peer-to-peer file sharing application. It originally launched on June 1, 1999, with an emphasis on digital audio file distribution. Audio songs shared on the service were typically encoded in the MP3 format. It was founded by Shawn ...
Johan Liiva
Johan Patrik Mattias Liiva (born 18 November 1970) is a Swedish extreme metal vocalist, most widely recognized as the founding vocalist of melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, as well as a former member of Carnage, Furbowl and NonExist. He is ...
Mr. Bungle
Mr. Bungle is an American experimental rock band formed in Eureka, California in 1985. Having gone through many incarnations throughout their career, the band is best known for music created during their most experimental era. During this time, ...