This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2013.

Bands disbanded

Ava Inferi Ava Inferi was a musical group formed in Almada, Portugal, by Norwegian guitarist and songwriter Rune Eriksen (a.k.a. Blasphemer, Mayhem). Their debut album, '' Burdens'', was released in January 2006. In the spring of 2007, vocalist Carmen Sim ...

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Kiuas Kiuas are a Finnish heavy metal band from Espoo, Finland. Their music includes influences from power metal, folk metal and different styles of extreme metal. Influences from progressive metal can also be heard in some songs. History Before th ...

* The Chariot * Forbidden * Gaza *

God Forbid God Forbid is an American heavy metal band formed in East Brunswick, New Jersey in 1996. History Early career (1999-2004) Building up a following in the late 1990s by touring with bands such as GWAR, Nile, Cradle of Filth and Candiria, God Fo ...

* Inhale Exhale *

Nachtmystium Nachtmystium was an American psychedelic black metal band formed by Blake Judd, formerly known as Azentrius, and Pat McCormick. The band's name is derived from the German word '' Nacht'' meaning "night", and the made-up term ''mystium'' which re ...

Power Quest Power Quest are an English power metal band from Southampton. The line-up consists of keyboardist Steve Williams, drummer Rich Smith, vocalist Ashley Edison, guitarists Glyn Williams and George "The Kid" Karafotis, and bassist Bradley Ediso ...

* Static-X * Vomitory *

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Bands reformed

* Dark Angel * Falconer *

Gardenian Gardenian was a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg. It formed in 1996 and disbanded in 2004. They reunited in 2012 before disbanding once again in 2016. Background Gardenian was formed in April 1996 by drummer Thim Blom and vocal ...

Luna Mortis Luna Mortis, formerly The Ottoman Empire, was an American heavy metal band based in Madison, Wisconsin. The band was formed in late 2001 in Monroe, Wisconsin as The Ottoman Empire. In 2006, the band self-released their debut studio album, '' Wa ...

Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...

Mutiny Within Mutiny Within is an American heavy metal band from Edison, New Jersey. The band was formed in 2002 by bassist Andrew Jacobs. Background Formation, Signing to Roadrunner and debut album (2009–2010) They would go through a number of lineup ...

Sonic Syndicate Sonic Syndicate is a Swedish metalcore band from Falkenberg. They were formerly influenced by Swedish melodic death metal bands such as In Flames and Soilwork and American metalcore bands like Killswitch Engage and All That Remains. The band w ...

* SugarComa (one-off reunion) * Toxik

Events

Paul Di'Anno Paul Andrews (born 17 May 1958), better known by his stage name Paul Di'Anno, is a British/Brazilian heavy metal singer who was the lead vocalist for Iron Maiden from 1978 to 1981. In his post-Maiden career, Di'Anno has issued numerous albu ...

(ex-

Iron Maiden Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. While fluid in the early years of the band, the lineup for most of the band's history has consisted of Harri ...

) retired after his 2012 tour. *

HammerFall HammerFall is a Swedish power metal band from Gothenburg. The band was formed in 1993 by ex- Ceremonial Oath guitarist Oscar Dronjak. History Early days (1993–1996) HammerFall was formed when rhythm guitarist Oscar Dronjak quit Ceremo ...

went on hiatus this year and did not release their next album until 2014. * Lars Ulrich confirmed that Metallica's

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festival will be held again this year. *

Ceremonial Oath Ceremonial Oath is a Swedish death metal band who formed in 1989 under the name "Desecrator", changed their name to Ceremonial Oath in 1991 and disbanded in 1996. During their short career they released three demos, one EP and two albums. Their ...

, who split up in 1995, and

, who split up in 2004 and had not played a show in 12 years, both reunited for this year's edition of The Gothenburg Sound festival, which took place from January 4–5 at Trädgår'n in Gothenburg, Sweden. *

Metal Church Metal Church is an American heavy metal band. They originally formed in San Francisco, California in 1980 and then relocated to Aberdeen, Washington the following year and briefly using the name Shrapnel. Led by guitarist and songwriter Kurdt ...

, who split up twice (in 1994 and 2009), reunited for a second time at this year's 70000 Tons of Metal in January. * Lamb of God singer

Randy Blythe Randy is a given name, popular in the United States and Canada. It is primarily a masculine name. It was originally derived from the names Randall, Randolf, Randolph, as well as Bertrand and Andrew, and may be a short form (hypocorism) of them ...

stood trial on February 4 on charges of manslaughter in the death of a fan at a concert in Prague, Czech Republic in 2010. He was acquitted on 5 March 2013 of all charges against him. Drummer Chris Adler said in an interview "Not only were we not able to generate any income, but we ended up having to pay more than half a million dollars in legal fees," the drummer said. "It bankrupted the entire band, no money left for any kind of payroll or anything." * Rush was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, at the Nokia Theater in

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, on April 18. * Liege Lord, who split up in 1989, reunited at the Keep It True XVI festival, which took place from April 19–20 at Tauberfrankenhalle in

Lauda-Königshofen Lauda-Königshofen is a town in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Tauber, 7 km southeast of Tauberbischofsheim, and 30 km southwest of Würzburg. Most of the roughly 300 houses in the ...

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. They were the headliner of the festival. * Cannibal Corpse celebrated the 25th anniversary of their formation. * Anthrax announced the departure of guitarist

Rob Caggiano Robert Caggiano (born November 7, 1976) is an American guitarist and record producer. Since 2013, Caggiano has been the lead guitarist of the rock band Volbeat. He had formerly been guitarist of thrash metal band Anthrax and nu metal band Boile ...

. * Volbeat announced that "former Anthrax and

The Damned Things The Damned Things is an American rock supergroup consisting of Fall Out Boy's Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley, Anthrax's Scott Ian, Every Time I Die's Keith Buckley, and Alkaline Trio's Dan Andriano. The band's name is inspired by the lyrics in Ra ...

guitarist

has officially joined Volbeat." Caggiano served as producer on "''Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies''" alongside long-time production partner Jacob Hansen, who produced and mixed the band's prior four albums. *

Danny Carey Daniel Edwin Carey (born May 10, 1961) is an American musician and songwriter. He is the drummer for the American rock band Tool. He has also contributed to albums by artists such as Zaum, Green Jellö, Pigface, Skinny Puppy, Adrian Belew, Ca ...

(

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) admitted that he was the band member that had the motorcycle accident, "I cracked four ribs, broke three of them on a motorcycle the other day, so I am kinda laid up at this point. It's making it really painful to play. It's not an easy thing to do," he said. * On 18 February 2013, bassist

Daniel Antonsson Daniel Antonsson is a musician and songwriter from Gothenburg, Sweden, formerly playing guitar in Dimension Zero. He is also the former bassist for Dark Tranquillity, playing on the album '' We Are the Void'', and former guitarist for Soilwork, re ...

quit Dark Tranquillity on good terms. Daniel wanted to focus on his own musical projects, play guitar rather than be the bassist in the band, and not wanting to commit to heavy touring of the band's 10th studio album and being a recording engineer/producer in his studio ''Gothenburg Rock Studios''. * Slayer drummer

Dave Lombardo David Lombardo (born February 16, 1965) is a Cuban-American drummer, best known as a co-founding member of American thrash metal band Slayer. He is currently playing drums with Testament, Fantômas, Suicidal Tendencies, Dead Cross, Mr. Bungl ...

was not able to attend the Australian tour due to misgivings over contract negotiations.

Jon Dette Jon Dette (born April 19, 1970) is an American heavy metal drummer best known for his time in Slayer and Testament. Over the years, he has also been chosen to fill-in with Anthrax, Heathen, and Iced Earth. Dette also played with Evildead a ...

(ex- Evildead, ex- Testament) had replaced Dave for the remainder of the tour. On May 30, Slayer announced that

has been officially replaced by

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, ex- Testament). * Bison B.C. were dropped by

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, but the band still remains optimistic about the future. *

Symphony X Symphony X is an American progressive metal band from Middletown, New Jersey. Founded in 1994, the band consists of guitarist Michael Romeo, keyboardist Michael Pinnella, drummer Jason Rullo, lead vocalist Russell Allen and bassist Micha ...

drummer

Jason Rullo Jason Rullo (born July 17, 1972) is an American drummer, who is one of the founding members of progressive metal band Symphony X. In 2003, he was featured in a readers' poll for ''Modern Drummer'' magazine, where he achieved two awards: secon ...

suffered heart failure, but recovered with cardiac rehab. * Korn announced that a new album featuring

Brian "Head" Welch Brian Philip Welch (born June 19, 1970), also known by his stage name Head, is an American musician. He is one of the guitarists and founding member of the nu metal band Korn and his solo project Love and Death, where he also provides vocals. ...

who officially rejoined the band after 8 years of absence. *

Tim Lambesis Timothy Peter Lambesis (born November 21, 1980) is an American musician and producer, best known as the founding member and lead vocalist of American metalcore band As I Lay Dying. He also had a solo/side thrash metal project in tribute to ac ...

, vocalists for

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and Austrian Death Machine, was arrested after police said he tried to hire an undercover detective to kill his estranged wife. Tim has pleaded not guilty, and was released on bail for 2 million on May 31, 2013. * Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater) leaves Adrenaline Mob due to "scheduling conflicts". * Protest the Hero drummer and original member ''Moe Carlson'' left the band after 12 years. Moe stated, "just to let you know, I'm going back to school, [I don't] have any intentions of touring ever again."

Deaths

* January 16 – Claudio Leo, former guitarist of Lacuna Coil, died from cancer at the age of 40. * March 12 – Clive Burr, former drummer of

, Trust (French band), Trust and Samson (band), Samson, died from multiple sclerosis complications at the age of 56. * April 5 – Sławomir Kusterka (a.k.a. Mortifer), bassist of Hate (band), Hate, died from Arrhythmia, cardiac dysrhythmia in his sleep at the age of 27. * April 13 – Chi Cheng (musician), Chi Cheng, bassist of Deftones died from complications following the 2008 car crash he was involved in at the age of 42. * May 2 – Jeff Hanneman, guitarist of Slayer, died from liver failure after being hospitalized for some days at the age of 49. * May 18 – Phil Buerstatte, former drummer of White Zombie (band), White Zombie, died from MRSA infection at the age of 46. * May 21 – Trevor Bolder, bassist of Uriah Heep (band), Uriah Heep and Wishbone Ash, died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 62. * June 2 – MickDeth, Mick Morris, bassist of Eighteen Visions and live bassist of Bleeding Through, died due to a pre-existing heart condition at the age of 35. * August 10 – Phil Baheux, drummer of Channel Zero (band), Channel Zero died from a heart problems at the age of 45. * August 24 – Joey LaCaze, drummer of Eyehategod, died from a respiratory failure at the age of 42.

Films

* Metallica released their 3D movie on August 9, 2013. The movie is entitled ''Metallica: Through the Never'' and was developed by Picturehouse (company), Picturehouse. * Dream Theater released their movie on November 4, 2013. The movie is entitled ''Dream Theater: Live at Luna Park'' and was developed by Eagle Rock Entertainment (company), Eagle Rock Entertainment.

Albums expected / released

January

February

March

April

May

*''Onyx (Pop Evil album), Onyx''; Pop Evil, May 14, 2013

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

References

External links

About.com: Heavy Metal

Blabbermouth.net

Metalstorm.net

Metalunderground.com

Ultimate-Guitar.com

TheGauntlet.com
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