2007 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2007.

Newly formed bands

• Acid Witch
• Affiance
• Animals as Leaders
• Archspire
• The Atlas Moth
• Attack Attack!
• Barren Earth
• Benevolent
• Black Anvil
• Burn Halo
• Cavalera Conspiracy
• Chelsea Grin
• Coldrain
• The Contortionist
• Cormorant
• Cross Vein
• Dust Bolt
• Fallujah
• Fleshgod Apocalypse
• Haken
• Hooded Menace
• Imperial Circus Dead Decadence
• Iwrestledabearonce
• Krallice
• Kraptor
• Kvelertak
• KYPCK
• Monuments
• Neurotech
• The Night Flight Orchestra
• Northern Kings
• Oranssi Pazuzu
• Panopticon
• Santa Cruz
• Savage Messiah
• Skin
• Striker
• Unleash the Archers
• Versailles
• White Wizzard
• Xerath

Reformed bands

• Artillery
• Carcass
• Crashdïet
• Emperor (for a few shows)
• Extreme
• Rage Against the Machine
• Spinal Tap
• X Japan
• Sacred Reich

Disbandments

• Arcturus
• A Perfect Murder
• The Devin Townsend Band
• I Killed the Prom Queen
• Reverend Bizarre
• Strapping Young Lad
• Send More Paramedics
• Mendeed
• Pungent Stench
• With Passion
• Quiet Riot (reformed in 2010)
• Nodes of Ranvier
• Fall of the Leafe

Events

• Wayne Knupp, original vocalist for Devourment died on September 15.
• Pat Mason of Arsonists Get All The Girls passes away on the morning of November 30, his 21st birthday.
• Extreme reunite for the third time, announcing plans for a world tour next year, as well as a new studio album, which will be their first since 1995's Waiting for the Punchline .
• Led Zeppelin get back together one more time for one concert in London.
• In Sorte Diaboli (Dimmu Borgir) becomes the first extreme metal album ever to hit the No. 1 in a Record chart, achieving that position in Norway.
• Andreas Sydow leaves Darkane, being replaced by Jens Broman.
• Witold Kiełtyka, drummer for Decapitated, is killed in a car crash in October.
• Vocalist, Damo and manager, Andy of The Red Shore, died in December.
• Anette Olzon joins Nightwish as their new lead vocalist.
• Peter Lindgren leaves Opeth.
• Jani Liimatainen is fired from Sonata Arctica.
• Jacob Bredahl leaves Hatesphere.
• Mark St. John, guitarist of KISS in 1984, dies in April.
• The song Final Six from Slayer won in the Best Metal Performance category at the 50th Grammy Awards.
• Meiju Enho leaves Ensiferum.
• Paul Raven, bassist for Ministry and former Killing Joke bassist, dies in October.
• Kevin DuBrow, lead singer for Quiet Riot, dies in November.
• Matt Barlow returns as lead singer of Iced Earth.
• Ramallah disbands.
• Matte Modin is fired from Dark Funeral, for disrupting their live performance schedule through deceit, according to the band. He is replaced by Nils Fjällström of Aeon, who is given the stage name "Dominator".
• Gaahl and King ov Hell part ways from Gorgoroth founding member Infernus with the intention of using the band's name and assets themselves, igniting the Gorgoroth name dispute.
• Soichiro Umemura, vocalist of Tokyo Yankees, died on December 11.

Albums released

January

Day	Artist	Album
5	Legion of the Damned	Sons of the Jackal
10	Moonsorrow	Viides Luku - Hävitetty
12	Grave Digger	Liberty Or Death
	Therion	Gothic Kabbalah
15	Al Atkins	Demon Deceiver
16	Age of Nemesis	Terra Incognita
19	Mnemic	Passenger
22	Destruction	Thrash Anthems
	Pain of Salvation	Scarsick
	Rotting Christ	Theogonia
23	Fear My Thoughts	Vulcanus
26	Metalium	Nothing to Undo – Chapter Six

February

Day	Artist	Album
6	Car Bomb	Centralia
	The End	Elementary
	Impious	Holy Murder Masquerade
7	Dir En Grey	The Marrow of a Bone
	Swallow the Sun	Hope
12	The Berzerker	Animosity
	Domine	Ancient Spirit Rising
19	Mendeed	The Dead Live by Love
	Watain	Sworn to the Dark
20	Aborted	Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture
	Beneath the Massacre	Mechanics of Dysfunction
	Novembers Doom	The Novella Reservoir
23	Masterplan	MK II
	Naglfar	Harvest
	Sirenia	Nine Destinies and a Downfall
26	Charlie Dominici	O3: A Trilogy, Part Two
	Cirith Gorgor	Cirith Gorgor
	Manowar	Gods Of War

March

Day	Artist	Album
1	Buckethead	Pepper's Ghost
3	Arghoslent	Hornets of the Pogrom
5	Onslaught	Killing Peace
	Saxon	The Inner Sanctum
6	Alabama Thunderpussy	Open Fire
	Chimaira	Resurrection
	Emmure	Goodbye to the Gallows
	Dying Fetus	War of Attrition
	Megadeth	That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires (CD/DVD) (released on CD September 4, 2007)
	Sevendust	Alpha
9	Within Temptation	The Heart of Everything
12	Nightrage	A New Disease Is Born
13	Battlelore	Evernight
	Type O Negative	Dead Again
	Unsane	Visqueen
14	Naildown	Dreamcrusher
	Thunderstone	Evolution 4.0
16	Sabaton	Metalizer
19	Morgana Lefay	Aberrations of the Mind
20	Dååth	The Hinderers
	Haste the Day	Pressure the Hinges
	In This Moment	Beautiful Tragedy
23	Sun Caged	Artemisia
24	Five Star Prison Cell	Slaves of Virgo
	The Gathering	A Noise Severe
25	Graveland	Will Stronger Than Death
27	Machine Head	The Blackening
	Mors Principium Est	Liberation = Termination
28	Finntroll	Ur Jordens Djup
	Threshold	Dead Reckoning
30	Attila	Fallacy

April

Day	Artist	Album
1	Abscess	Horrorhammer
	Kronos	The Hellenic Terror
2	Pro-Pain	Age of Tyranny – The Tenth Crusade
	Scarve	The Undercurrent
	Susperia	Cut from Stone
3	All Out War	Assassins In The House Of God
	The Chariot	The Fiancée
	Chevelle	Vena Sera
	Omnium Gatherum	Stuck Here on Snakes Way
	Shadows Fall	Threads of Life
	Static-X	Cannibal
	Virgin Black	Requiem - Mezzo Forte
	Vital Remains	Icons of Evil
5	Monstrosity	Spiritual Apocalypse
8	Legion	Мифы древности (Myths of Antiquity)
10	Andromeda	Playing Off The Board (DVD)
	From Autumn to Ashes	Holding a Wolf by the Ears
	Hellyeah	Hellyeah
13	Dublin Death Patrol	DDP 4 Life
16	Annihilator	Metal
	Mayhem	Ordo Ad Chao
	Pain	Psalms of Extinction
	Shining	Halmstad
	W.A.S.P.	Dominator
17	Dark Tranquillity	Fiction
	Nine Inch Nails	Year Zero
	Six Feet Under	Commandment
20	Ensiferum	Victory Songs
	Freedom Call	Dimensions
	Vomitory	Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize
23	After Forever	After Forever
	Root	Daemon Viam Invenient
24	At War With Self	Acts of God
	Dimmu Borgir	In Sorte Diaboli
	Deliverance	As Above - So Below
	Mammatus	The Coast Explodes
	Marduk	ROM 5:12
	Sanctity	Road to Bloodshed
	Walknut	Graveforests and Their Shadows
26	Angel Corpse	Of Lucifer and Lightning
27	Inveracity	Extermination of Millions
	Vintersorg	Solens rötter
30	Detonation	Emission Phase

May

Day	Artist	Album
7	Twilightning	Swinelords
8	Becoming the Archetype	The Physics of Fire
	Immolation	Shadows In The Light
	Lord Belial	Revelation: The 7th Seal
	Neurosis	Given to the Rising
	With Passion	What We See When We Shut Our Eyes
	Woe of Tyrants	Behold the Lion
12	Trouble	Simple Mind Condition
14	Hatesphere	Serpent Smiles And Killer Eyes
15	Job for a Cowboy	Genesis
	Megadeth	United Abominations
	Secret Chiefs 3	Path of Most Resistance
16	Nocturnal Rites	The 8th Sin
18	Planet X	Quantum
	U.D.O.	Mastercutor
21	8 Foot Sativa	Poison of Ages
22	Daysend	The Warning
	Despised Icon	The Ills of Modern Man
	Ozzy Osbourne	Black Rain
	Sonic Syndicate	Only Inhuman
23	Sigh	Hangman's Hymn
25	Altaria	Divine Invitation
	Caliban	The Awakening
	Månegarm	Vargstenen
	Sonata Arctica	Unia
	Visions of Atlantis	Trinity
28	3 Inches of Blood	Fire Up the Blades
	Akercocke	Antichrist
	Turisas	The Varangian Way
29	Cephalic Carnage	Xenosapien
30	Ari Koivunen	Fuel For The Fire
	Sturm Und Drang	Learning to Rock
31	Buckethead	Acoustic Shards

June

Day	Artist	Album
4	Dream Theater	Systematic Chaos
	Iced Earth	Overture of the Wicked
	Man Must Die	The Human Condition
5	Devin Townsend	Ziltoid the Omniscient
	Graveworm	Collateral Defect
	Ion Dissonance	Minus the Herd
	Kamelot	Ghost Opera
	Marilyn Manson	Eat Me, Drink Me
	Tesla	Real To Reel
12	A Perfect Murder	War of Aggression
	Anterior	This Age of Silence
	Municipal Waste	The Art of Partying
	Pig Destroyer	Phantom Limb
17	Abigor	Fractal Possession
19	August Burns Red	Messengers
22	Candlemass	King of the Grey Islands
23	Airbourne	Runnin' Wild
25	Entombed	Serpent Saints
	Architects	Ruin
26	King Diamond	Give Me Your Soul...Please
	Korpiklaani	Tervaskanto
	Symphony X	Paradise Lost
29	At Vance	VII

July

Day	Artist	Album
2	Behemoth	The Apostasy
3	Velvet Revolver	Libertad
10	Darkest Hour	Deliver Us
11	Galexia	Galexia
12	Carnifex	Dead in My Arms
17	Eyefear	A World Full of Grey
	Malevolent Creation	Doomsday X
	Nile	Ithyphallic
18	Blood Stain Child	Mozaiq
24	Evergreen Terrace	Wolfbiker
	The Red Chord	Prey for Eyes
27	Korn	Untitled
31	DevilDriver	The Last Kind Words
	Five Finger Death Punch	The Way of the Fist
	Whitechapel	The Somatic Defilement

August

Day	Artist	Album
3	Gorefest	Rise to Ruin
7	Reverend Bizarre	III: So Long Suckers
	The Absence	Riders of the Plague
	Drowning Pool	Full Circle
	Still Remains	The Serpent
	Throwdown	Venom & Tears
	Fuel	Angels & Devils
	AM Conspiracy	Out of the Shallow End
8	Alcest	Souvenirs d'un autre monde
9	Agathocles	Senseless Trip
12	Anvil	This Is Thirteen
14	Arsonists Get All The Girls	The Game of Life
	Bring Me the Horizon	Count Your Blessings
15	Amoral	Reptile Ride
20	The Agonist	Once Only Imagined
	Malefice	Entities
21	Arsonists Get All The Girls	The Game of Life
	As I Lay Dying	An Ocean Between Us
	Blue Cheer	What Doesn't Kill You...
	The Devil Wears Prada	Plagues
	Through the Eyes of the Dead	Malice
22	Andre Matos	Time to Be Free
	Dimension Zero	He Who Shall Not Bleed
	Epica	The Divine Conspiracy
	Rob Rock	Garden of Chaos
24	Backslash	Trip of Pain
25	Benediction	Killing Music
	Divine Heresy	Bleed The Fifth
27	Evile	Enter the Grave
28	Obituary	Xecutioner's Return
	Scorpions	Humanity: Hour I
29	Amorphis	Silent Waters
31	Agent Steel	Alienigma
	Drudkh	Estrangement

September

Day	Artist	Album
3	Alchemist	Tripsis
	Vanishing Point	The Fourth Season
4	Aeon	Rise to Dominate
	Baroness	The Red Album
	Chiodos	Bone Palace Ballet
	Every Time I Die	The Big Dirty
	Impending Doom	Nailed. Dead. Risen.
	Zonaria	Infamy and the Breed
5	Ajattara	Kalmanto
	Disavowed	Stagnated Existence
7	Epica	The Divine Conspiracy
10	High on Fire	Death Is This Communion
11	Iced Earth	Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked Part 1
14	Apocalyptica	Worlds Collide
	Elvenking	The Scythe
	HIM	Venus Doom
18	A Life Once Lost	Iron Gag
	Between the Buried and Me	Colors
	The Black Dahlia Murder	Nocturnal
	Blotted Science	The Machinations of Dementia
	Brown Brigade	Into the Mouth of Badd(d)ness
	Himsa	Summon in Thunder
	Ministry	The Last Sucker
	Suicide Silence	The Cleansing
	War from a Harlots Mouth	Transmetropolitan
24	Arch Enemy	Rise of the Tyrant
	Darkthrone	F.O.A.D.
	Down	Down III: Over the Under
25	Bring Me the Horizon	This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For
	Carl Johan Grimmark	Grimmark
	Dethklok	The Dethalbum
	The Bled	Silent Treatment
	Wolves in the Throne Room	Two Hunters
26	Akira Takasaki	Black Brown
	Nightwish	Dark Passion Play
28	Sodom	The Final Sign of Evil

October

Day	Artist	Album
1	Axel Rudi Pell	Diamonds Unlocked
2	Animosity	Animal
	Born of Osiris	The New Reign
	Skeletonwitch	Beyond The Permafrost
5	Alter Bridge	Blackbird
6	Parkway Drive	Horizons
9	Astral Doors	New Revelation
	I Declare War	Amidst the Bloodshed
	Megadeth	Warchest
	Overkill	Immortalis
	Puddle of Mudd	Famous
15	Ava Inferi	The Silhouette
	Taint	Secrets & Lies
16	Behold... The Arctopus	Skullgrid
	Demiricous	Two (Poverty)
	The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza	Danza II: Electric Boogaloo
19	Soilwork	Sworn to a Great Divide
23	Exodus	The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A
	HammerFall	Steel Meets Steel - Ten Years of Glory
	Helloween	Gambling with the Devil
	Oh, Sleeper	When I Am God
29	Anaal Nathrakh	Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here
30	Avenged Sevenfold	Avenged Sevenfold
	Bloodsimple	Red Harvest
	Buckethead	Cyborg Slunks
	Buckethead	Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot
	Melechesh	Emissaries
	The Autumn Offering	Fear Will Cast No Shadow

November

Day	Artist	Album
5	The Dillinger Escape Plan	Ire Works
	Novembre	The Blue
	Opeth	The Roundhouse Tapes
6	Agnostic Front	Warriors
	Demon Hunter	Storm the Gates of Hell
16	Axxis	Doom of Destiny
	Gamma Ray	Land of the Free II
	Primordial	To the Nameless Dead
19	Tarja Turunen	My Winter Storm
20	Sebastian Bach	Angel Down
	Vesania	Distractive Killusions
	Electric Wizard	Witchcult Today
21	The Ocean	Precambrian

December

Day	Artist	Album
7	Blood of Kingu	De Occulta Philosophia

References

Preceded by 2006

Heavy Metal Timeline 2007

Succeeded by 2008