1999 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1999.

Newly formed bands

* 3 Inches of Blood
* 10 Years
* A Life Once Lost
* A Perfect Circle
* Abaddon
* Aeon
* Amenra
* Anaal Nathrakh
* Andromeda
* The Angelic Process
* Arallu
* Arthemis
* The Autumn Offering
* Avantasia
* Avenged Sevenfold
* Becoming the Archetype
* Battlelore
* Blaze
* Beautiful Creatures
* Before the Dawn
* Beyond the Bridge
* Biomechanical
* Bleeding Through
* Blindead
* Blood Stain Child
* Bloodlined Calligraphy
* Breaking Benjamin
* Burning Point
* Burnt by the Sun
* Darkspace
* DragonForce (then DragonHeart)
* Dragonland
* Divinity Destroyed
* Dominia
* Dream Evil
* Dreamtale
* Earshot
* Enter Shikari
* Evile
* Falconer
* Five Pointe O
* For My Pain...
* Forgotten Tomb
* Grand Magus
* Halford
* Hour of Penance
* Kalmah
* Killswitch Engage
* The Kovenant
* Lamb of God (formed from Burn the Priest)
* Lifer (then Strangers with Candy)
* Lumsk
* Metalium
* Methods of Mayhem
* Metsatöll
* Mors Principium Est
* MullMuzzler
* Old Man Gloom
* Protest the Hero
* Psycroptic
* QueenAdreena (then Queen Adreena)
* Raintime
* The Red Chord
* Sargeist
* Sabaton
* Seether (as Saron Gas)
* Shade Empire
* Shadowkeep
* Sikth
* Silent Force
* Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
* Sunstorm
* Tomahawk
* Toxic Holocaust
* Trivium
* Ufomammut
* Voyager

Reformed bands

* Armored Saint
* Destruction (Schmier's comeback)
* Lost Horizon (reformed as Highlander, name was changed soon after)
* Pungent Stench
* Rollins Band
* Skid Row
* White Lion

Albums

* Aborted – '' The Purity of Perversion''
* Agalloch – ''Pale Folklore''
* Akercocke – '' Rape of the Bastard Nazarene''
* Alabama Thunderpussy – ''River City Revival''
* Alice Cooper – ''The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper'' (box set)
* Alice in Chains – '' Nothing Safe: Best of the Box'' (compilation)
* Alice in Chains – '' Music Bank'' (box set)
* Anal Cunt - '' It Just Gets Worse''
* American Head Charge – '' Trepanation''
* Amon Amarth – '' The Avenger''
* Amorphis – ''Tuonela (album)''
* Anathema – '' Judgement''
* Angelcorpse – ''The Inexorable''
* Anvil – ''Speed of Sound''
* Arch Enemy – '' Burning Bridges''
* Atari Teenage Riot – ''60 Second Wipe Out''
* Backyard Babies – '' Total 13''
* Bal-Sagoth – ''The Power Cosmic''
* Bang Tango – '' Greatest Tricks''
* Bang Tango – ''Untied & Live''
* Behemoth – '' Satanica''
* Biohazard – '' New World Disorder''
* Black Label Society – ''Sonic Brew''
* Botch – ''We Are the Romans''
* Broken Teeth – ''Broken Teeth''
* Bruce Dickinson – ''Scream for Me Brazil'' (live)
* Buckcherry – '' Buckcherry (album)''
* Burn the Priest – ''Burn the Priest''
* Cannibal Corpse – '' Bloodthirst (album)''
* Chevelle – '' Point #1''
* Children of Bodom – ''Hatebreeder''
* Chris Cornell – '' Euphoria Morning''
* Cinderella – '' Live at the Key Club''
* Coal Chamber – ''Chamber Music''
* Control Denied – ''The Fragile Art of Existence''
* Cradle of Filth – ''From the Cradle to Enslave'' (EP)
* Crazy Town – ''The Gift of Game''
* The Crown – '' Hell is Here''
* Dangerous Toys – '' Vitamins and Crash Helmets Tour – Greatest Hits Live''
* Danzig – '' Danzig 6:66: Satan's Child''
* Darkthrone – ''Ravishing Grimness''
* Dark Tranquility – '' Projector''
* Def Leppard – ''Euphoria''
* Destruction – ''The Butcher Strikes Back'' (demo)
* Devourment - '' Molesting The Decapitated''
* DGeneration – ''Through The Darkness''
* The Dillinger Escape Plan – '' Calculating Infinity''
* Dimmu Borgir – ''Spiritual Black Dimensions''
* Dope – ''Felons and Revolutionaries''
* Drain STH – '' Freaks of Nature''
* Dream Theater – '' Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory''
* Edguy – ''Theater of Salvation''
* Emperor – '' IX Equilibrium''
* Evergrey – ''Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy''
* Eternal Tears of Sorrow – '' Vilda Mánnu''
* Fall of the Leafe – ''August Wernicke''
* Filter – '' Title of Record''
* Finntroll – ''Midnattens Widunder''
* Gamma Ray – '' Power Plant''
* Godflesh – ''Us and Them''
* God Forbid – '' Reject the Sickness''
* Gilby Clarke – '' 99 Live''
* Graveworm – ''As the Angels Reach the Beauty''
* Grip Inc. – '' Solidify''
* Gwar – ''We Kill Everything''
* H.I.M. – '' Razorblade Romance''
* Hate Eternal – ''Conquering the Throne''
* Hypocrisy – ''Hypocrisy''
* Immolation – '' Failures for Gods''
* Immortal – ''At the Heart of Winter''
* In Flames – '' Colony''
* Integrity – ''Integrity 2000''
* Jetboy – ''Lost & Found''
* Kamelot – '' The Fourth Legacy''
* Katatonia – ''Tonight's Decision''
* Konkhra – ''Come Down Cold''
* Korn – '' Issues''
* Kreator – '' Endorama''
* Lacrimosa – ''Elodia''
* Lacuna Coil – ''In a Reverie''
* L.A. Guns – ''Greatest Hits and Black Beauties''
* L.A. Guns – '' Shrinking Violet''
* Lefay – ''Symphony of the Damned, Re-symphonised'' (re-recording)
* Lefay – '' The Seventh Seal''
* Limp Bizkit – '' Significant Other''
* Lock Up – ''Pleasures Pave Sewers''
* Love/Hate – ''Let's Eat''
* Tony MacAlpine – '' Master of Paradise''
* Machine Head – ''The Burning Red''
* Yngwie Malmsteen – '' Alchemy''
* Marduk – ''Panzer Division Marduk''
* Marilyn Manson – '' The Last Tour on Earth'' (live)
* Mass Hysteria – '' Contraddiction''
* Mercyful Fate – '' 9''
* Megadeth – '' Risk''
* Metal Church – ''Masterpeace''
* Metallica – '' S&M'' (live)
* Metalium – ''Millennium Metal – Chapter One''
* Ministry – ''Dark Side of the Spoon''
* Mr. Bungle – '' California''
* Moonspell – '' The Butterfly Effect''
* Morgion – '' Solinari''
* Mortician – ''Chainsaw Dismemberment''
* Mortification – '' Hammer of God''
* Mötley Crüe – ''Supersonic and Demonic Relics''
* Motörhead – ''Everything Louder Than Everyone Else'' (live)
* Mushroomhead – '' M3''
* My Dying Bride – '' The Light at the End of the World''
* Napalm Death – ''Words from the Exit Wound''
* Necrophobic – ''The Third Antichrist''
* Neurosis – ''Times of Grace''
* New American Shame – ''New American Shame''
* Nevermore – ''Dreaming Neon Black''
* Nine Inch Nails – ''The Fragile''
* Novembers Doom – '' Of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers''
* Occult – ''Of Flesh and Blood''
* Oomph! – '' Plastik''
* Opeth – ''Still Life''
* Orchid – ''Chaos Is Me''
* Overkill – '' Necroshine''
* Pain – '' Rebirth''
* Pessimist – ''Blood for the Gods''
* Pentagram – ''Review Your Choices''
* Pig Destroyer – ''Pig Destroyer / Gnob'' (split EP)
* Pitchshifter – '' Un-United Kingdom'' (EP)
* P.O.D. – '' The Fundamental Elements of Southtown''
* Poison the Well – '' The Opposite of December''
* Powerman 5000 – '' Tonight the Stars Revolt!''
* Pretty Boy Floyd – ''Porn Stars (album)''
* Primal Fear – ''Jaws of Death''
* Primus – ''Antipop''
* Pro-Pain – ''Act of God''
* Queensrÿche – '' Q2K''
* Quiet Riot – ''Alive and Well''
* Rage – ''Ghosts''
* Rage Against the Machine – ''The Battle of Los Angeles''
* Rammstein – '' Live Aus Berlin'' (live)
* Ratt – '' Ratt''
* Reveille – '' Laced''
* Rotting Christ – ''Sleep of the Angels''
* Samael – ''Eternal''
* Satyricon – ''Rebel Extravaganza''
* Scorpions – '' Eye II Eye''
* Sebastian Bach – ''Bring 'Em Bach Alive!''
* Septicflesh – ''Revolution DNA''
* Sevendust – ''Home''
* Sinergy – '' Beware the Heavens''
* Six Feet Under – ''Maximum Violence''
* Skinlab – '' Disembody: The New Flesh''
* Slaughter – '' Back to Reality''
* Slipknot – '' Slipknot''
* Sodom – '' Code Red''
* Solefald – ''Neonism''
* Sonata Arctica – '' Ecliptica''
* Staind – ''Dysfunction''
* Static-X – ''Wisconsin Death Trip''
* Steve Vai – '' The Ultra Zone''
* Stone Temple Pilots – '' No. 4''
* Stratovarius – '' The Chosen Ones'' (compilation)
* Suicidal Tendencies – ''Freedumb''
* Summoning – '' Stronghold''
* Testament – '' The Gathering''
* The Black Halos – ''The Black Halos''
* Therapy? – ''Suicide Pact – You First''
* Therion – '' Crowning of Atlantis''
* Throwdown – ''Beyond Repair''
* Tristania – '' Beyond the Veil''
* Type O Negative – ''World Coming Down''
* Underoath – '' Act of Depression''
* uneXpect – '' Utopia''
* Vintersorg – ''Ödemarkens son''
* Virgin Steele – ''The House of Atreus Act I''
* Vision of Disorder – ''For the Bleeders''
* Warrant – '' Greatest & Latest''
* W.A.S.P. – '' Helldorado''
* White Skull – '' Tales From The North''
* Will Haven – '' WHVN''
* Zao – ''Liberate Te Ex Inferis''

Disbandments

* Death
* Far (reformed in 2008)
* Mercyful Fate- on hiatus

Events

* Drummer Tommy Lee leaves Mötley Crüe.
* Ex-drummer of Megadeth Gar Samuelson dies at age 41 from liver failure.
* Singer Blaze Bayley leaves Iron Maiden, while Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith re-join.
* Kittie bassist Tanya Candler quits. She is later replaced by Talena Atfield.
* ICS Vortex joins Dimmu Borgir on bass/backing vocals. Drummer Nicholas Barker leaves Cradle of Filth and joins as well.
* Singer Naoki Hashimoto left Outrage.
* Mudvayne signs with Epic Records.
* Poison appear in an episode of '' Behind the Music''.

References

{{Timeline of heavy metal and hard rock music

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