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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2005.
Contents |
Newly formed bands
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
- Immolation - Harnessing Ruin
- Jacobs Dream - Drama of the Ages
- 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
- 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)
Events
- 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.
| Preceded by: 2004 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 2005 |
Followed by: 2006 |