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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2005.
| Day | Artist | Album |
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| 10 | Kreator | Enemy of God |
| 24 | Dark Tranquillity | Character |
| Sturmgeist | Meister Mephisto | |
| 31 | Runemagick | Envenom |
| 31 | Masterplan | Aeronautics |
| Day | Artist | Album |
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| 1 | Judas Priest | Angel of Retribution |
| 4 | HammerFall | Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken |
| 8 | Black Label Society | Mafia |
| Into the Moat | The Design | |
| 15 | Cephalic Carnage | Anomalies |
| Kamelot | The Black Halo | |
| Origin | Echoes of Decimation | |
| Trivium | Ascendancy | |
| 16 | Mournful Congregation | The Monad of Creation |
| 21 | Queens of the Stone Age | Lullabies to Paralyze |
| 22 | Overkill | ReliXIV |
| Strapping Young Lad | Alien | |
| Kylesa | To Walk a Middle Course | |
| 23 | Galneryus | Advance to the Fall |
| 29 | Mourning Beloveth | A Murderous Circus |
| Theory of a Deadman | Gasoline | |
| Day | Artist | Album |
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| 5 | Beseech | Sunless Days |
| Hypocrisy | Virus | |
| Stratovarius | Stratovarius | |
| 6 | Ion Dissonance | Solace |
| 8 | After Forever | Remagine |
| 12 | Hortus Animae | The Blow Of Furious Winds |
| Parkway Drive | Killing with a Smile | |
| 14 | Children of Bodom | Are You Dead Yet? |
| 20 | Bon Jovi | Have a Nice Day |
| Disturbed | Ten Thousand Fists | |
| God Forbid | IV: Constitution of Treason | |
| 22 | Gamma Ray | Majestic |
| 27 | Gojira | From Mars to Sirius |
| Day | Artist | Album |
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| 1 | Deep Purple | Rapture of the Deep |
| 7 | Power Quest | Magic Never Dies |
| 8 | August Burns Red | Thrill Seeker |
| Elfonía | This Sonic Landscape | |
| 11 | Bolt Thrower | Those Once Loyal |
| Devourment | Butcher the Weak | |
| Dimmu Borgir | Stormblåst MMV | |
| 19 | Darkspace | Dark Space II |
| 22 | System of a Down | Hypnotize |
| 28 | Sacrificium | Escaping the Stupor |
| 29 | The Darkness | One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back |
| Day | Artist | Album |
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| 6 | Job for a Cowboy | Doom |
| Korn | See You on the Other Side | |
| 16 | Faith | Sorg |
| 20 | Whispering Gallery | Shades of Sorrow |
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