2005 in heavy metal music

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

Contents

Newly formed bands

Reformed bands

Disbanded bands

Events

Deaths

Albums released

January

DayArtistAlbum
10 Kreator Enemy of God
24 Dark Tranquillity Character
Sturmgeist Meister Mephisto
31 Runemagick Envenom
31 Masterplan Aeronautics

February

DayArtistAlbum
1 High on Fire Blessed Black Wings
Mötley Crüe Red, White & Crüe (Compilation)
WarCry ¿Dónde Está La Luz?
5 Immolation Harnessing Ruin
7 Primordial The Gathering Wilderness
Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design
17 Lordi The Monster Show
21 Communic Conspiracy in Mind
28 Soilwork Stabbing the Drama

March

DayArtistAlbum
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
29Mourning BelovethA Murderous Circus
Theory of a Deadman Gasoline

April

DayArtistAlbum
5 Despised Icon The Healing Process
Graveworm (N)utopia
12 Cog The New Normal
Mudvayne Lost and Found
17 Aborted The Archaic Abattoir
21 Epica Consign to Oblivion
25 Metalium Demons of Insanity – Chapter Five
Napalm Death The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code

May

DayArtistAlbum
2 Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) (EP)
3 Candlemass Candlemass
Jacobs Dream Drama of the Ages
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
16 Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree
17 Def Leppard Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection
The Red Chord Clients
System of a Down Mezmerize
20 Crashdïet Rest in Sleaze
21 Freedom Call The Circle of Life
23 Bruce Dickinson Tyranny of Souls
Nile Annihilation of the Wicked
Queenadreena The Butcher and the Butterfly
30 Life of Agony Broken Valley
31 Sentenced The Funeral Album

June

DayArtistAlbum
7 Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil
Dream Theater Octavarium
10 Stick to Your Guns For What It's Worth
14 As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security
Static-X Start a War
19 Winds of Plague A Cold Day in Hell
21 Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus
27 Hate Eternal I, Monarch
28 DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
Throwdown Vendetta

July

DayArtistAlbum
4 Alice Cooper Dirty Diamonds
12 The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma
Obituary Frozen in Time
26 Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine
Dope American Apathy
Yngwie Malmsteen Unleash the Fury
Nevermore This Godless Endeavor
Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well

August

DayArtistAlbum
9 Chimaira Chimaira
16 Stryper Reborn
22 Destruction Inventor of Evil
Fear Factory Transgression
23 The Bled Found in the Flood
Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon
24 Sonata Arctica The End of This Chapter (Compilation)
29 Opeth Ghost Reveries
30 From Autumn to Ashes Abandon Your Friends
Gorefest La Muerte
Protest the Hero Kezia

September

DayArtistAlbum
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

October

DayArtistAlbum
3 Bullet for My Valentine The Poison (UK Release)
4 Black Label Society Kings of Damnation 98–04
Deftones B-Sides & Rarities
Exodus Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Shinedown Us and Them
Soulfly Dark Ages
10 Massacration Gates of Metal Fried Chicken of Death
11 Early Man Closing In
Roadrunner United Roadrunner United
Sevendust Next
Story of the Year In the Wake of Determination
15 Primal Fear Seven Seals
18 Cryptopsy Once Was Not
Fireball Ministry Their Rock Is Not Our Rock
Priestess Hello Master
Solefald An Icelandic Odyssey
24 Stream of Passion Embrace the Storm
25 Demon Hunter The Triptych
Through the Eyes of the Dead Bloodlust
28 Rammstein Rosenrot
31 Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy
Riverside Second Life Syndrome

November

DayArtistAlbum
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

December

DayArtistAlbum
6 Job for a Cowboy Doom
Korn See You on the Other Side
16 Faith Sorg
20Whispering GalleryShades of Sorrow

See also

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