2002 in heavy metal music

none June 20222002 2002 heavy metal music This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in 2002. Newly formed bands 3,14... Adrift All Ends All Shall Perish Alltheniko Angtoria Arkona Asesino Astral Doors Audrey Horne Augury Avian Bilocate Bloodsimple Brand New Sin Brides of Destruction Code Crazy Lixx Delain Despised Icon DevilDriver Drudkh Eluveitie Epica Exmortus Flyleaf Gama Bomb Giant Squid God Is an Astronaut Heidevolk In Solitude Iron Mask Kivimetsän Druidi Krux Lethian Dreams Murderdolls Midnattsol Minsk Misery Signals Nemesea Obscura OSI Psyopus Red The Saddest Landscape Sonic Syndicate Star One Sturmgeist Suicide Silence Symphony in Peril Teräsbetoni The Absence Theocracy Torture Killer Vektor Velvet Revolver Winds of Plague Violator Woods of Ypres Zonaria Reformed bands Down Osmi Putnik Prong Trouble Whitesnake Albums 30em 3 Inches of Blood – Battlecry Under a Winter Sun 36 Crazyfists – Bitterness the Star The Acacia Strain – ...And Life Is Very Long Agalloch – The Mantle All That Remains – Behind Silence and Solitude Amon Amarth – Versus the World Arghoslent – Incorrigible Bigotry Anvil – Still Going Strong Atreyu – Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses Avantasia – The Metal Opera Part II Bathory – Nordland I Behemoth – Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond) Beseech – Souls Highway Between the Buried and Me – Between the Buried and Me Black Label Society – 1919 Eternal Black Sabbath – Past Lives (live) Blind Guardian – A Night at the Opera Bloodbath – Resurrection Through Carnage Bolt Thrower – Honour – Valour – Pride Bon Jovi – Bounce BoySetsFire – Live for Today Boris – Heavy Rocks (2002 album) Breaking Benjamin – Saturate Cathedral – The VIIth Coming Cannibal Corpse – Gore Obsessed Chevelle – Wonder What's Next Coal Chamber – Dark Days Cog – Just Visiting Part One (EP) Cog – Just Visiting Part Two (EP) Crazy Town – Darkhorse Danzig – Danzig 777: I Luciferi Darkane – Expanding Senses Dark Tranquillity – Damage Done Decapitated – Nihility Demon Hunter – Demon Hunter Despised Icon – Consumed by Your Poison Def Leppard – X The Dillinger Escape Plan – Irony Is a Dead Scene (EP) Dio – Killing the Dragon Disturbed – Believe Down – Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow Dream Evil – Dragonslayer Dream Theater – Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence Electric Wizard – Let Us Prey Fall of the Leafe - Fermina Fear Factory – Concrete (originally recorded in 1991, but not released until 2002) Finch – What It Is to Burn Firewind – Between Heaven and Hell Fog (MX) - Mirando La Luzhttps://www.discogs.com/es/release/16893501-Fog-Mirando-la-Luz Full-length album 'Mirando la Luz' by heavy-metal band FOG from Toluca, State of Mexico 2002 Encyclopaedia Metallum via Discogs April 29, 2026 Freak Kitchen – Move HammerFall – Crimson Thunder Hardline – II Hatebreed – Perseverance Hate Eternal – King of All Kings Heaven Shall Burn – Whatever It May Take High on Fire – Surrounded by Thieves Immolation – Unholy Cult Immortal – Sons of Northern Darkness In Flames – Reroute to Remain Iron Savior – Condition Red Isis – Oceanic Kataklysm – Shadows & Dust Killswitch Engage – Alive or Just Breathing King Diamond – Abigail II: The Revenge Korn – Untouchables Krux – Krux Kylesa – Kylesa Lacuna Coil – Comalies Lordi – Get Heavy Lost Horizon – A Flame to the Ground Beneath Luca Turilli – Prophet of the Last Eclipse Manowar – Warriors of the World Mastodon – Remission Megadeth – Rude Awakening (live) Megadeth – Still Alive... and Well? (compilation) Mercenary – Everblack Meshuggah – Nothing Motörhead – Hammered Mudvayne – The End Of All Things To Come Nightwish – Century Child Nine Inch Nails – And All That Could Have Been (live) Nile – In Their Darkened Shrines Nonpoint - Development Norma Jean – Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child Opeth – Deliverance Orange Goblin – Coup de Grace Origin – Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas Otep – Sevas Tra Pagan's Mind – Celestial Entrance Pain – Nothing Remains the Same Papa Roach – Lovehatetragedy Pitchshifter – PSI Poison the Well – Tear from the Red Power Quest – Wings of Forever Primal Fear – Black Sun Pro-Pain – Shreds of Dignity Protest the Hero – A Calculated Use of Sound QueenAdreena – Drink Me Raunchy – Velvet Noise The Red Chord – Fused Together in Revolving Doors Rhapsody – Power of the Dragonflame Rotting Christ – Genesis Rush – Vapor Trails Sacrificium – Cold Black Piece of Flesh Satyricon – Volcano Saxon – Heavy Metal Thunder Scarve – Luminiferous Sentenced – The Cold White Light Seven Witches – Xiled to Infinity and One Shadows Fall – The Art of Balance Sinergy – Suicide by My Side Slechtvalk – The War That Plagues the Lands Soilwork – Natural Born Chaos Sonata Arctica – Songs of Silence – Live in Tokyo (live) Soulfly – 3 Spectre Dragon – Under Hell's Command Star One – Space Metal Stone Sour – Stone Sour SugarComa – Becoming Something Else Symphony X – The Odyssey System of a Down – Steal This Album! Theory of a Deadman – Theory of a Deadman Threshold – Critical Mass Trapt – Trapt Týr – How Far to Asgaard Underoath – The Changing of Times Vader – Revelations Vanden Plas – Beyond Daylight Vintersorg – Visions from the Spiral Generator Visions of Atlantis – Eternal Endless Infinity WarCry – WarCry WarCry – El Sello de los Tiempos Winds – Reflections of the I Without Face - Astronomicon Whispering Gallery – Lost as One Bands disbanded Alice in Chains Breach Fear Factory Godflesh Lifer Megadeth Events Dave Mustaine disbanded Megadeth after suffering a severe arm injury which left him unable to play. Ex-Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Dave Lombardo rejoined Slayer. Guitarist Jeff Phillips joined Kittie as a session member, replacing Fallon Bowman. Bassist Talena Atfield left and was replaced by Jennifer Arroyo. Deaths February 2 – Pavel Nicholas "Paul" Baloff, vocalist of Exodus, was taken off life support after suffering a stroke and falling into a coma. He died at the age of 41.Paul Baloff Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More https://www.allmusic.com/artist/paul-baloff-mn0001629825 2024-04-19 AllMusic en March 26 – Randolpho Francisco "Randy" Castillo, drummer of Mötley Crüe and former drummer of Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford, died from squamous cell carcinoma complications at the age of 51.Ozzy Osbourne Drummer Randy Castillo Dies https://www.mtv.com/news/2fa906/ozzy-osbourne-drummer-randy-castillo-dies https://web.archive.org/web/20230417220913/https://www.mtv.com/news/2fa906/ozzy-osbourne-drummer-randy-castillo-dies dead April 17, 2023 2024-04-19 MTV en April 5 – Layne Thomas Staley, founding member and original vocalist of Alice in Chains, died from a speedball overdose at the age of 34. His partially decomposed body was found on April 19.2022-08-22 The tragic final days of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/final-days-alice-in-chains-layne-staley/ 2024-04-19 faroutmagazine.co.uk en-US June 6 – Robbinson Lantz "Robbin" Crosby, former guitarist of Ratt, died from a heroin overdose, worsened by AIDS-related complications, at the age of 42.Newman Thomas 2023-06-07 The Story Behind the Tragic Death of Robbin Crosby https://chaospin.com/the-story-behind-the-tragic-death-of-robbin-crosby/ 2024-04-19 Chaospin en-US June 27 – John Alec "The Ox" Entwistle, founding member and bassist of The Who, died from a cocaine-induced heart attack at the age of 57.2002-12-11 Cocaine stopped Entwistle's heart https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2565557.stm 2024-04-19 en-GB August 9 – Paul Samson, founder, guitarist, vocalist, and producer of Samson, died from cancer at the age of 49.The Dead Rock Stars Club 2002 July to December http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2002b.html 2024-04-19 thedeadrockstarsclub.com August 14 – David Wayne "Dave" Williams, vocalist of Drowning Pool, died from heart failure, caused by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, at the age of 30. He was found dead in the band's tour bus.Blabbermouth 2002-09-26 UPDATE: DROWNING POOL Frontman Died From Heart Disease https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/update-drowning-pool-frontman-died-from-heart-disease/ 2024-04-19 BLABBERMOUTH.NET en October 17 – Steve MacDonald, drummer of Gorguts, died by suicide at the age of 31.BraveWords GORGUTS Drummer Found Dead! https://bravewords.com/news/gorguts-drummer-found-dead 2024-04-19 bravewords.com 25 October 2002 en Altemir Souza, former guitarist of Krisiun, died from injuries sustained in a motorbike accident. Yuji “Terry” Izumisawa, former guitarist of X Japan, died from injuries sustained in a car accident. Heavy Metal Timeline 2001 2003 2002 References Category:2000s in heavy metal music Metal