2004 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2004.

Newly formed bands

• Age Of Silence
• Celestiial
• Chrome Division
• Demonoid
• Sturm und Drang
• Savage Circus
• Scar Symmetry
• Threat Signal
• Wintersun
• Catherine

Reformed Bands

• Megadeth

Albums

• 3 Inches of Blood - Advance and Vanquish
• Aerosmith - Honkin' On Bobo
• After Forever - Invisible Circles
• Age Of Silence - Acceleration
• Angra - Temple of Shadows
• Atreyu - The Curse
• Ayreon - The Human Equation
• Behemoth - Demigod
• Beseech - Drama
• Black Label Society - Hangover Music Vol. VI
• Bon Jovi - 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong
• Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn
• Chevelle - This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)
• Cradle of Filth - Nymphetamine
• Damageplan - New Found Power
• Decapitated - The Negation
• Def Leppard - Best of Def Leppard
• Demon Hunter - Summer of Darkness
• The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
• Dio - Master of the Moon
• Dokken - Hell To Pay
• DragonForce - Sonic Firestorm
• Drowning Pool - Desensitized
• Edguy - Hellfire Club
• Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
• Fear Factory - Archetype
• Finntroll - Nattfödd
• Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden
• In Flames - Soundtrack to Your Escape
• Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache
• Kittie - Until the End
• Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
• Lordi - The Monsterican Dream
• Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
• Mastodon - Leviathan
• Megadeth - The System Has Failed
• Mercenary - 11 Dreams
• Metal Church - The Weight of the World
• Monster Magnet - Monolithic Baby!
• Motörhead - Inferno
• Necrophagist - Epitaph
• Nightwish - Once
• No Big Silence - Kuidas kuningas kuu peale kippus
• Otep - House of Secrets
• Pig Destroyer - Painter Of Dead Girls (Tracks from Gnob and Benumb split), Terrifyer
• Probot - Probot
• Rammstein - Reise, Reise
• Rhapsody of Fire - Symphony of Enchanted Lands II: The Dark Secret
• Rush - Feedback
• Saxon - Lionheart
• Scarve - Irradiant
• Shadows Fall - The War Within
• Slipknot - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
• Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night
• Static-X - Beneath, Between, Beyond
• Stryper - 7 Weeks: Live in America, 2003
• The Crest - Vain City Chronicles
• U.D.O. - Thunderball
• Van Halen - The Best of Both Worlds
• Velvet Revolver - Contraband
• Vintersorg - The Focusing Blur
• Winds - The Imaginary Direction of Time
• Wintersun - Wintersun

Disbandments

Brian Welch leaves Korn after converting to Christianity.

Events

• Damageplan and former Pantera lead guitarist Dimebag Darrell is murdered on December 8 by Nathan Gale while performing a concert in Ohio.
• Bassist Tim Gaines leaves Stryper after 10 complete years. He is replaced by Tracy Ferrie.
• Jason Jones, originally a tattoo artist from Los Angeles, California, was publicly announced as Drowning Pool's new lead singer and joined them on the album Desensitized.
• Supergroup Velvet Revolver releases their debut album Contraband which debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 and goes double platinum.
• Van Halen reunites with Sammy Hagar for a summer tour.
• Aerosmith returns to a raw hard rock sound with their blues cover album Honkin' on Bobo
• Terry Balsamo leaves Cold and joins Evanescence as their new guitarist
• Guitarist Lisa Marx joins Kittie as a session member, replacing Jeff Phillips
• Nasum guitarist/vocalist Mieszko Talarczyk dies as a result of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (although his body was not identified until February 17th the following year). Consequently, Nasum would later disband.

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