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2001 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2001.

Newly formed bands

• As I Lay Dying
• Audioslave
• A Band Called Pain
• The Black Dahlia Murder
• Black Majesty
• Dragonlord
• Galneryus
• Masterplan
• Textures
• Seraphim
• Sirenia
• WarCry

Re-formed bands

• Celtic Frost
• Down
• Rush

Albums

• Aerosmith - Just Push Play
• After Forever - Decipher
• Akercocke - The Goat of Mendes
• Alice Cooper - Dragontown
• Alice in Chains - Greatest Hits
• Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
• Atreyu - Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty (EP)
• American Head Charge - The War of Art
• Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
• Black Label Society - Alcohol Fueled Brewtality
• Bolt Thrower - Honour - Valour - Pride
• Bon Jovi - One Wild Night Live 1985-2001
• Bruce Dickinson - The Best of Bruce Dickinson
• Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
• Chimaira - Pass Out of Existence
• Cradle of Filth - Bitter Suites to Succubi
• Decapitated - Winds of Creation
• Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
• Divinity Destroyed - Nocturnal Dawn
• Drowning Pool - Sinner
• Edguy - Mandrake
• Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
• Fear Factory - Digimortal
• God Forbid - Determination
• Godflesh - Hymns
• Gojira - Terra Incognita
• Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
• Iced Earth - Horror Show
• Judas Priest - Demolition
• Kittie - Oracle
• Kreator - Violent Revolution
• Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories
• Tony MacAlpine - Chromaticity
• Machine Head - Supercharger
• Mastodon - Lifesblood
• Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
• Moonspell - Darkness and Hope
• Mushroomhead- XX
• Opeth - Blackwater Park
• Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
• Rammstein - Mutter
• Rhapsody of Fire - Rain of a Thousand Flames
• Savatage - Poets and Madmen
• Slayer - God Hates Us All
• Solefald - Pills Against The Ageless Ills
• Racer X - Superheroes
• Sonata Arctica - Silence
• Slipknot - Iowa
• Static-X - Machine
• Stratovarius - Intermission
• System of a Down - Toxicity
• Theatre of Tragedy - Closure: Live
• The Crest - Letters From Fire
• Tool - Lateralus
• Vanilla Ice - Bi-Polar

Disbandments

• Emperor

Events

• Death guitarist Chuck Schuldiner dies at 34 on December 13 of brain cancer.
• Metallica bassist Jason Newsted (who joined after Cliff Burton's death) officially left the band and joined Voivod.
• Former Body Count bassist Mooseman is killed in a drive-by shooting on February 21.
• Nightwish bassist Sami Vanska is fired.
• Kittie guitarist Fallon Bowman quits.