2007 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2007.
Contents |
[edit] Newly formed bands
[edit] Reformed bands
- Artillery
- At the Gates for a few shows
- Carcass for a few shows
- Ronnie James Dio rejoins Black Sabbath under the name Heaven and Hell (the name of the first Black Sabbath album featuring Dio) for a tour.
- Extreme
- Rage Against the Machine
- Spinal Tap with new single "Warmer than Hell!"
- X Japan
- Led Zeppelin For one show
- Sacred Reich For a few shows
[edit] Disbandments
- Arcturus
- A Perfect Murder
- The Devin Townsend Band
- I Killed the Prom Queen
- Reverend Bizarre
- Strapping Young Lad
- Send More Paramedics
- Mendeed
- Pungent Stench
- With Passion
- Nodes of Ranvier
[edit] Events
- Pat Mason of Arsonists Get All The Girls passes away on the morning of 30 November, his 21st birthday.
- Extreme reunite for the third time, announcing plans for a world tour next year, as well as a new studio album, which will be their first since 1995's Waiting for the Punchline.
- Led Zeppelin get back together one more time for one concert in London.
- In Sorte Diaboli (Dimmu Borgir) becomes the first extreme metal album ever to hit the #1 in a Record chart, achieving that position in Norway.
- Andreas Sydow leaves Darkane, being replaced by Jens Broman.
- Witold Kiełtyka, drummer for Decapitated, is killed in a car crash in October.
- Vocalist, Damo and manager, Andy of The Red Shore, died in December.
- Anette Olzon joins Nightwish as their new lead vocalist.
- Peter Lindgren leaves Opeth.
- Jani Liimatainen is fired from Sonata Arctica.
- Jacob Bredahl leaves Hatesphere.
- Mark St. John, guitarist of KISS in 1984, dies in April.
- Meiju Enho leaves Ensiferum.
- Paul Raven, bassist for Ministry and former Killing Joke bassist, dies in October.
- Kevin DuBrow, lead singer for Quiet Riot, dies in November.
- Matt Barlow returns as lead singer of Iced Earth.
- Ramallah disbands.
- Matte Modin is fired from Dark Funeral, for disrupting their live performance schedule through deceit, according to the band. He is replaced by Nils Fjällström of Aeon, who is given the stage name "Dominator".
- Gorgoroth splits into two sides. One is headed by Infernus and the other by King and Gaahl.
[edit] Albums released
[edit] January
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Moonsorrow | Viides Luku - Hävitetty |
| 12 | Grave Digger | Liberty Or Death |
| Therion | Gothic Kabbalah | |
| 15 | Al Atkins | Demon Deceiver |
| 16 | Age of Nemesis | Terra Incognita |
| 19 | Mnemic | Passenger |
| 22 | Destruction | Thrash Anthems |
| Pain of Salvation | Scarsick | |
| Rotting Christ | Theogonia | |
| 23 | Fear My Thoughts | Vulcanus |
[edit] February
[edit] March
[edit] April
[edit] May
[edit] June
[edit] July
[edit] August
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Gorefest | Rise to Ruin |
| 6 | Reverend Bizarre | III: So Long Suckers |
| 7 | The Absence | Riders of the Plague |
| Drowning Pool | Full Circle | |
| Still Remains | The Serpent | |
| 8 | Alcest | Souvenirs d'un autre monde |
| 9 | Agathocles | Senseless Trip |
| 15 | Amoral | Reptile Ride |
| 20 | The Agonist | Once Only Imagined |
| 21 | As I Lay Dying | An Ocean Between Us |
| Blue Cheer | What Doesn't Kill You... | |
| The Devil Wears Prada | Plagues | |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead | Malice | |
| 22 | Andre Matos | Time to Be Free |
| Epica | The Divine Conspiracy | |
| Rob Rock | Garden of Chaos | |
| 25 | Benediction | Killing Music |
| Divine Heresy | Bleed The Fifth | |
| 27 | Evile | Enter the Grave |
| 28 | Obituary | Xecutioner's Return |
| Scorpions | Humanity: Hour I | |
| 29 | Amorphis | Silent Waters |
| 31 | Agent Steel | Alienigma |
| Drudkh | Estrangement |
[edit] September
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Alchemist | Tripsis |
| Vanishing Point | The Fourth Season | |
| 4 | Aeon | Rise to Dominate |
| Baroness | The Red Album | |
| Every Time I Die | The Big Dirty | |
| 5 | Ajattara | Kalmanto |
| Disavowed | Stagnated Existence | |
| 10 | High on Fire | Death Is This Communion |
| 11 | Iced Earth | Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked Part 1 |
| 14 | Apocalyptica | Worlds Collide |
| Elvenking | The Scythe | |
| HIM | Venus Doom | |
| 18 | A Life Once Lost | Iron Gag |
| Between the Buried and Me | Colors | |
| The Black Dahlia Murder | Nocturnal | |
| Brown Brigade | Into the Mouth of Badd(d)ness | |
| Himsa | Summon in Thunder | |
| Suicide Silence | The Cleansing | |
| 24 | Arch Enemy | Rise of the Tyrant |
| Darkthrone | F.O.A.D. | |
| Down | Down III: Over the Under | |
| 25 | Carl Johan Grimmark | Grimmark |
| Dethklok | The Dethalbum | |
| The Bled | Silent Treatment | |
| 26 | Akira Takasaki | Black Brown |
| Nightwish | Dark Passion Play | |
| 28 | Sodom | The Final Sign of Evil |
[edit] October
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Axel Rudi Pell | Diamonds Unlocked |
| Sybreed | Antares | |
| 2 | Animosity | Animal |
| Born of Osiris | The New Reign | |
| 6 | Parkway Drive | Horizons |
| 9 | Astral Doors | New Revelation |
| Megadeth | Warchest | |
| Overkill | Immortalis | |
| 15 | Ava Inferi | The Silhouette |
| Taint | Secrets & Lies | |
| 16 | Demiricous | Two (Poverty) |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza | Danza II: Electric Boogaloo | |
| 19 | Soilwork | Sworn to a Great Divide |
| 23 | Exodus | The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A |
| HammerFall | Steel Meets Steel - Ten Years of Glory | |
| Helloween | Gambling with the Devil | |
| 29 | Anaal Nathrakh | Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here |
| 30 | Avenged Sevenfold | Avenged Sevenfold |
| Bloodsimple | Red Harvest | |
| Buckethead | Cyborg Slunks | |
| Buckethead | Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot | |
| Melechesh | Emissaries | |
| The Autumn Offering | Fear Will Cast No Shadow |
[edit] November
[edit] References
| Preceded by: 2006 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 2007 |
Followed by: 2008 |











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