1999 in heavy metal music

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

Newly formed bands

• Becoming the Archetype
• Bloodbath
• DragonForce (Then Dragonheart)
• Avenged Sevenfold
• Bleeding Through
• Blaze
• Divinity Destroyed
• Dream Evil
• Falconer
• Five pointe o
• Kalmah
• Killswitch Engage
• Lamb of God was formed from Burn the Priest
• Mastodon
• Mors Principium Est
• Protest the Hero
• QueenAdreena (Then Queen Adreena)
• Sabaton

Reformed Bands

• The Cult
• Pungent Stench
• Skid Row
• Lost Horizon (reformed as Highlander, name was changed soon after)

Albums

• Agalloch - Pale Folklore
• Akercocke - Rape of the Bastard Nazarene
• Alice Cooper - The Life & Crimes of Alice Cooper
• Alice in Chains - Nothing Safe: Best of the Box, Music Bank
• Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
• American Head Charge - Trepanation
• Behemoth - Satanica
• Black Label Society - Sonic Brew
• Bruce Dickinson - Scream for Me Brazil
• Burn the Priest - Burn the Priest
• Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
• Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
• Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence
• Cradle of Filth - From the Cradle to Enslave
• Def Leppard - Euphoria
• The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
• Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
• Edguy - Theater of Salvation
• Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
• Emperor - IX Equilibrium
• Finntroll - Midnattens Widunder
• God Forbid - Reject the Sickness
• Godflesh - Us and Them
• Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
• In Flames - Colony
• Kittie - Spit
• Kreator - Endorama
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Alchemy
• Lacuna Coil - In a Reverie
• Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
• Tony MacAlpine - Master Of Paradise
• Machine Head - The Burning Red
• Marilyn Manson - The Last Tour on Earth (live)
• Megadeth - Risk
• Metal Church - Masterpeace
• Metallica - S&M
• Moonspell - The Butterfly Effect
• Motörhead - Everything Louder Than Everyone Else (live)
• My Dying Bride - The Light at the End of the World
• Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
• Opeth - Still Life
• Pig Destroyer - Pig Destroyer/Gnob (Split EP)
• Pitchshifter - Un-UK EP
• Rammstein - Live Aus Berlin
• Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
• Ratt - Ratt
• Slipknot - Slipknot
• Solefald - Neonism
• Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
• Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
• Steve Vai - The Ultra Zone
• Stratovarius - The Chosen Ones
• Testament - The Gathering
• uneXpect - Utopia
• Zao - Liberate Te Ex Inferis

Disbandments

• Death

Events

• Drummer Tommy Lee left Mötley Crüe
• Singer Blaze Bayley left Iron Maiden
• Singer Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith re-join Iron Maiden, creating the most popular line-up so far.
• 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.