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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1999.
Contents |
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
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)
- 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
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.
| Preceded by: 1998 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 1999 |
Followed by: 2000 |