2005 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2005.

Newly formed bands

• Beyond Fear
• Cronian
• Disarm
• Ihsahn
• In This Moment
• Five Finger Death Punch

Reformed Bands

• Among the Living line up Anthrax
• Devourment
• Emperor
• Terrorizer

Albums

• Alice Cooper - Dirty Diamonds
• After Forever - Remagine
• Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
• Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
• As I Lay Dying -Shadows Are Security
• Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
• Beseech - Sunless Days
• Black Label Society - Mafia, Kings of Damnation 98-04
• Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
• Bon Jovi - Have a Nice Day
• Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of Souls
• Bullet for My Valentine - The Poison
• Candlemass - Candlemass
• Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?
• Chimaira - Chimaira
• Cog - The New Normal
• Crashdiet - Rest in Sleaze
• Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
• Dark Tranquillity - Character
• Deep Purple - Rapture of the Deep
• Def Leppard - Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection
• Deftones - B-Sides & Rarities
• DevilDriver - The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
• Devourment - Butcher the Weak
• Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst MMV
• Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
• Divinity Destroyed - Eden in Ashes
• Divinity Destroyed - The Plague
• Dream Theater - Octavarium
• Early Man - Closing In
• Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine
• Freak Kitchen - Organic
• Fear Factory - Transgression
• Forever Slave - Alice's Inferno
• Gizmachi - The Imbuing
• God Forbid - IV: Constitution of Treason
• Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
• HammerFall - Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
• Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy
• High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings
• Hortus Animae - The Blow Of Furious Winds
• Immolation - Harnessing Ruin
• Jacobs Dream - Drama of the Ages
• Job for a Cowboy - Doom
• Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution
• Kamelot - The Black Halo
• Kreator - Enemy of God
• Limp Bizkit - The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1)
• Lordi - The Monster Show
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Unleash the Fury
• Massacration - Gates of Metal Fried Chicken of Death
• Mötley Crüe - Red, White and Crüe
• Mournful Congregation - The Monad of Creation
• Mourning Beloveth - A Murderous Circus
• Mudvayne - Lost and Found
• Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
• Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
• Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
• Opeth - Ghost Reveries
• Parkway Drive - Killing with a Smile
• Priestess - Hello Master
• Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
• Protest the Hero - Kezia
• QueenAdreena - The Butcher and the Butterfly
• Rammstein - Rosenrot
• The Red Chord - Clients
• Roadrunner United - The All-Star Sessions
• Runemagick - Envenom
• Slechtvalk - At the Dawn of War
• Static-X - Start a War
• Strapping Young Lad - Alien
• Sabaton - Primo Victoria
• Sentenced - The Funeral Album
• Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama
• Solefald - Red For Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1
• Stryper - Reborn
• Sturmgeist - Meister Mephisto
• System of a Down - Mezmerize
• System of a Down - Hypnotize
• Sonata Arctica - The End of This Chapter
• Stratovarius - Stratovarius
• Trivium - Ascendancy
• Visions of Atlantis - Cast Away
• WarCry - ¿Dónde Está La Luz?

Disbandments

• Exhumed (indefinite hiatus)
• Sentenced

Events

• Korn guitarist Brian "Head" Welch leaves the band.
• Soilwork guitarist Peter Wichers leaves the band in late December after playing in the band for ten years to concentrate on record producing.
• Static-X lead guitarist Tripp Eisen was arrested in February for "lewd conduct against children", and was fired from the band.
• Former Vader drummer Docent dies.
• Vocalist Tarja Turunen was fired from Nightwish.
• Jason Jones' departure from Drowning Pool was publicly announced on June 14, 2005, due to irreconcilable differences. On August 25 at the Ozzfest date in Dallas, Texas, Drowning Pool did a guest shot performance on the main stage debuting their new singer Ryan McCombs.
• Visions of Atlantis lead vocalist Nicole Bogner quits and is replaced by ex-Aesma Daeva vocalist, Melissa Ferlaak. Guitarist Werner Fielder quits and is replaced by Wolfgang Koch.
• Kittie bassist Jennifer Arroyo quits and is replaced by Trish Doan. Session guitarist Lisa Marx quits and is replaced by Tara McLeod
• Hellhammer becomes Dimmu Borgir's new drummer.
• Former Metal Church singer David Wayne dies.
• Denis "Piggy" D'Amour of Voivod dies.
• American Head Charge guitarist Bryan Ottoson dies at 27.
• Sentenced members announce their break-up and the release of their very last album The Funeral Album. On October 1, they play and record their final show Buried Alive (released on 2006) on their hometown Oulu, Finland.