1999 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1999.

Newly formed bands

• 3 Inches of Blood
• 10 Years
• A Life Once Lost
• A Perfect Circle ^[1]
• Abaddon
• Aeon
• Amenra
• Anaal Nathrakh
• Andromeda
• The Angelic Process
• Arallu
• Arthemis
• The Autumn Offering
• Avantasia
• Avenged Sevenfold
• Becoming the Archetype
• Battlelore
• Blaze
• Beautiful Creatures
• Before the Dawn
• Beyond the Bridge
• Biomechanical
• Bleeding Through
• Blindead
• Blood Stain Child
• Bloodlined Calligraphy
• Breaking Benjamin
• Burning Point
• Burnt by the Sun
• Darkspace
• DragonForce (then DragonHeart)
• Dragonland
• Divinity Destroyed
• Dominia
• Dream Evil
• Dreamtale
• Earshot
• Enter Shikari
• Evile
• Falconer
• Five Pointe O
• For My Pain...
• Forgotten Tomb
• Grand Magus
• Halford
• Hour of Penance
• Kalmah
• Killswitch Engage
• The Kovenant
• Lamb of God (formed from Burn the Priest)
• Lifer (then Strangers with Candy)
• Lumsk
• Memorain
• Metalium
• Methods of Mayhem
• Metsatöll
• Mors Principium Est
• MullMuzzler
• Old Man Gloom
• Protest the Hero
• Psycroptic
• QueenAdreena (then Queen Adreena)
• Raintime
• The Red Chord
• Sargeist
• Sabaton
• Seether (as Saron Gas)
• Shade Empire
• Shadowkeep
• Sikth
• Silent Force
• Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
• Sunstorm
• Tomahawk
• Toxic Holocaust
• Trivium
• Ufomammut
• Voyager

Reformed bands

• Armored Saint
• Destruction (Schmier's comeback)
• Lost Horizon (reformed as Highlander, name was changed soon after)
• Pungent Stench
• Rollins Band
• Skid Row
• White Lion

Albums

• Aborted – The Purity of Perversion
• Agalloch – Pale Folklore
• Akercocke – Rape of the Bastard Nazarene
• Alabama Thunderpussy – River City Revival
• Alice Cooper – The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper (box set)
• Alice in Chains – Nothing Safe: Best of the Box (compilation)
• Alice in Chains – Music Bank (box set)
• Alien Ant Farm – Greatest Hits
• Anal Cunt - It Just Gets Worse
• American Head Charge – Trepanation
• Amon Amarth – The Avenger
• Amorphis – Tuonela (album)
• Anathema – Judgement
• Angelcorpse – The Inexorable
• Annihilator - Criteria for a Black Widow
• Anvil – Speed of Sound
• Arch Enemy – Burning Bridges
• Atari Teenage Riot – 60 Second Wipe Out
• Backyard Babies – Total 13
• Bal-Sagoth – The Power Cosmic
• Bang Tango – Greatest Tricks
• Bang Tango – Untied & Live
• Behemoth – Satanica
• Biohazard – New World Disorder
• Black Label Society – Sonic Brew
• Botch – We Are the Romans
• Broken Teeth – Broken Teeth
• Bruce Dickinson – Scream for Me Brazil (live)
• Buckcherry – Buckcherry (album)
• Burn the Priest – Burn the Priest
• Burzum – Hliðskjálf (album)
• Cannibal Corpse – Bloodthirst (album)
• Chevelle – Point #1
• Children of Bodom – Hatebreeder
• Chris Cornell – Euphoria Morning
• Cinderella – Live at the Key Club
• Coal Chamber – Chamber Music
• Control Denied – The Fragile Art of Existence
• Cradle of Filth – From the Cradle to Enslave (EP)
• Crazy Town – The Gift of Game
• The Crown – Hell is Here
• Dangerous Toys – Vitamins and Crash Helmets Tour – Greatest Hits Live
• Danzig – Danzig 6:66: Satan's Child
• Darkthrone – Ravishing Grimness
• Dark Tranquility – Projector
• Def Leppard – Euphoria
• Destruction – The Butcher Strikes Back (demo)
• Devourment - Molesting The Decapitated
• DGeneration – Through The Darkness
• The Dillinger Escape Plan – Calculating Infinity
• Dimmu Borgir – Spiritual Black Dimensions
• Dog Fashion Disco – The Embryo's in Bloom
• Dope – Felons and Revolutionaries
• Drain STH – Freaks of Nature
• Dream Theater – Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
• Edguy – Theater of Salvation
• Emperor – IX Equilibrium
• Evergrey – Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy
• Eternal Tears of Sorrow – Vilda Mánnu
• Fall of the Leafe – August Wernicke
• Filter – Title of Record
• Finntroll – Midnattens Widunder
• Gamma Ray – Power Plant
• Godflesh – Us and Them
• God Forbid – Reject the Sickness
• Gilby Clarke – 99 Live
• Graveworm – As the Angels Reach the Beauty
• Grip Inc. – Solidify
• Gwar – We Kill Everything
• H.I.M. – Razorblade Romance
• Hate Eternal – Conquering the Throne
• Hypocrisy – Hypocrisy
• Immolation – Failures for Gods
• Immortal – At the Heart of Winter
• Incubus – Make Yourself
• In Flames – Colony
• Integrity – Integrity 2000
• Jetboy – Lost & Found
• Kamelot – The Fourth Legacy
• Katatonia – Tonight's Decision
• Keep of Kalessin – Agnen: A Journey Through the Dark
• Konkhra – Come Down Cold
• Korn – Issues
• Kreator – Endorama
• Lacrimosa – Elodia
• Lacuna Coil – In a Reverie
• L.A. Guns – Greatest Hits and Black Beauties
• L.A. Guns – Shrinking Violet
• Lefay – Symphony of the Damned, Re-symphonised (re-recording)
• Lefay – The Seventh Seal
• Limp Bizkit – Significant Other
• Lock Up – Pleasures Pave Sewers
• Love/Hate – Let's Eat
• Tony MacAlpine – Master of Paradise
• Machine Head – The Burning Red
• Yngwie Malmsteen – Alchemy
• Marduk – Panzer Division Marduk
• Marilyn Manson – The Last Tour on Earth (live)
• Mass Hysteria – Contraddiction
• Mercyful Fate – 9
• Megadeth – Risk
• Metal Church – Masterpeace
• Metallica – S&M (live)
• Metalium – Millennium Metal – Chapter One
• Ministry – Dark Side of the Spoon
• Mr. Bungle – California
• Moonspell – The Butterfly Effect
• Morgion – Solinari
• Mortician – Chainsaw Dismemberment
• Mortification – Hammer of God
• Mötley Crüe – Supersonic and Demonic Relics
• Motörhead – Everything Louder Than Everyone Else (live)
• Mushroomhead – M3
• My Dying Bride – The Light at the End of the World
• Napalm Death – Words from the Exit Wound
• Necrophobic – The Third Antichrist
• Neurosis – Times of Grace
• New American Shame – New American Shame
• Nevermore – Dreaming Neon Black
• Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile
• Novembers Doom – Of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers
• Occult – Of Flesh and Blood
• Oomph! – Plastik
• Opeth – Still Life
• Orchid – Chaos Is Me
• Overkill – Necroshine
• Pain – Rebirth
• Pessimist – Blood for the Gods
• Pentagram – Review Your Choices
• Pig Destroyer – Pig Destroyer / Gnob (split EP)
• Pitchshifter – Un-United Kingdom (EP)
• P.O.D. – The Fundamental Elements of Southtown
• Poison the Well – The Opposite of December
• Powerman 5000 – Tonight the Stars Revolt!
• Pretty Boy Floyd – Porn Stars (album)
• Primal Fear – Jaws of Death
• Primus – Antipop
• Pro-Pain – Act of God
• Queensrÿche – Q2K
• Quiet Riot – Alive and Well
• Rage – Ghosts
• Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles
• Rammstein – Live Aus Berlin (live)
• Ratt – Ratt
• Reveille – Laced
• Rotting Christ – Sleep of the Angels
• Samael – Eternal
• Satyricon – Rebel Extravaganza
• Scorpions – Eye II Eye
• Sebastian Bach – Bring 'Em Bach Alive!
• Septicflesh – Revolution DNA
• Serial Joe – Face Down
• Sevendust – Home
• Shootyz Groove – High Definition
• Sinergy – Beware the Heavens
• Six Feet Under – Maximum Violence
• Skinlab – Disembody: The New Flesh
• Slaughter – Back to Reality
• Slipknot – Slipknot
• Sodom – Code Red
• Solefald – Neonism
• Sonata Arctica – Ecliptica
• Staind – Dysfunction
• Static-X – Wisconsin Death Trip
• Steve Vai – The Ultra Zone
• Stone Temple Pilots – No. 4
• Stratovarius – The Chosen Ones (compilation)
• Suicidal Tendencies – Freedumb
• Summoning – Stronghold
• Testament – The Gathering
• The Black Halos – The Black Halos
• Therapy? – Suicide Pact – You First
• Therion – Crowning of Atlantis
• Throwdown – Beyond Repair
• Tristania – Beyond the Veil
• Type O Negative – World Coming Down
• Underoath – Act of Depression
• uneXpect – Utopia
• Vintersorg – Ödemarkens son
• Virgin Steele – The House of Atreus Act I
• Vision of Disorder – For the Bleeders
• Warrant – Greatest & Latest
• W.A.S.P. – Helldorado
• White Skull – Tales From The North
• Will Haven – WHVN
• Windir - Arntor
• Zao – Liberate Te Ex Inferis

Disbandments

• Death
• Far (reformed in 2008)
• Mercyful Fate- on hiatus

Events

• Drummer Tommy Lee leaves Mötley Crüe.
• Ex-drummer of Megadeth Gar Samuelson dies at age 41 from liver failure.
• Singer Blaze Bayley leaves Iron Maiden, while Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith re-join.
• 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.
• Singer Naoki Hashimoto left Outrage.
• Mudvayne signs with Epic Records.
• Poison appear in an episode of Behind the Music .

Preceded by 1998

Heavy Metal Timeline 1999

Succeeded by 2000

References

1. "A Perfect Circle Has 'Every Intention' of Releasing New Music in 2017". Billboard.com. January 17, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2017.