1998 in heavy metal music

none February 2024 1998 1998 heavy metal music This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1998. Newly formed bands 10em 8 Foot Sativahttp://www.nzmusician.co.nz/index.php/ps_pagename/articledetail/pi_articleid/509 8 Foot Sativa: Switched on to Heavy metal Thorne Richard January 2005 ZMusician.com February 4, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20060427233412/http://www.nzmusician.co.nz/index.php/ps_pagename/articledetail/pi_articleid/509 27 April 2006" 40 Below Summer Aarni Abdullah All That Remains Antagonist Arma Angelus Ásmegin At Vance Atreyu Axenstar Azarath Baptism Benighted Betzefer Black Label Society Blood Red Throne Bloodbath Bullet for My Valentine (as Jeff Killed John) Calico System Cataract Chimaira Circle of Dead Children CKY Clandestine Blaze Cog Crucified Barbara Cult of Luna Dalriada Darkane Deathspell Omega Demons & Wizards Edenbridge Ephel Duath Every Time I Die Fair to Midland Fairyland Fantômas Firewind Freedom Call From Zero Full Scale (as Full Scale Deflection) Gordian Knot High on Fire Hopesfall Horse the Band Ill Niño Leviathan Lock Up Lunatica Maximum the Hormone The Meads of Asphodel Mnemic Noumena Odd Crew (as Kaskadiori) Peccatum Pressure 4-5 Ram-Zet Rebaelliun Ritual Carnage Rob Zombie Shape of Despair Skindred Stormwarrior Sunn O))) Susperia The Project MCMXCIX Thy Catafalque Twilightning Týr Underoath Unearth Unida Vision Divine Watain Weakling Winds Wormed Wyrd Zyklon Reformed bands Metal Church Albums 30em Agathodaimon – Blacken The Angel Alabama Thunderpussy – Rise Again Altar – Provoke Amon Amarth – Once Sent from the Golden Hall Arghoslent – Galloping Through The Battle Ruins Anathema – Alternative 4 Angelcorpse – Exterminate Angra – Fireworks Anthrax – Volume 8: The Threat Is Real Apocalyptica – Inquisition Symphony Arch Enemy – Stigmata Atreyu – Visions (EP) Ayreon – Into the Electric Castle Sebastian Bach – Bring em Bach Alive Backyard Babies – Total 13 Behemoth – Pandemonic Incantations Benediction – Grind Bastard Bestial Warlust – Satan's Fist Black Label Society – Sonic Brew Black Sabbath – Reunion (live) Blind Guardian – Nightfall in Middle-Earth Bolt Thrower – Mercenary Borknagar – The Archaic Course Botch – American Nervoso Bruce Dickinson – The Chemical Wedding Cannibal Corpse – Gallery of Suicide Jerry Cantrell – Boggy Depot Candlemass – Dactylis Glomerata Cathedral – Caravan Beyond Redemption Children of Bodom – Something Wild (Worldwide release) Clutch – The Elephant Riders Cold – Cold Converge – When Forever Comes Crashing Covenant – Nexus Polaris Cradle of Filth – Cruelty and the Beast Crowbar – Odd Fellows Rest Cryptopsy – Whisper Supremacy Dark Funeral – Vobiscum Satanas Dawn – Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) Death – The Sound of Perseverance Deep Purple – Abandon Destruction – The Least Successful Human Cannonball Devin Townsend – Christeen + 4 Demos (EP) Devin Townsend – Infinity Diecast – Undo the Wicked The Dillinger Escape Plan – Under the Running Board (EP) Dimmu Borgir – Godless Savage Garden (compilation) Dream Theater – Once in a LIVEtime (live) Dying Fetus – Killing on Adrenaline Earth Crisis – Breed the Killers Edguy – Vain Glory Opera Enslaved – Blodhemn Eldritch – El Niño Exhumed – Gore Metal Fall of the Leafe – Evanescent, Everfading Far – Water & Solutions Fear Factory – Obsolete Firehouse – Category 5 Freak Kitchen – Freak Kitchen The Gathering – How to Measure a Planet? Genitorturers – Sin City Godsmack – Godsmack Gorgoroth – Destroyer – or About How to Philosophize with the Hammer Gorguts – Obscura Grave Digger – Knights of the Cross HammerFall – Legacy of Kings The Haunted – The Haunted Helloween – Better Than Raw Iced Earth – Something Wicked This Way Comes Incantation – Diabolical Conquest Inquisition - Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult Iron Maiden – Virtual XI Jag Panzer – The Age of Mastery Kamelot – Siége Perilous Kataklysm – Victims of this Fallen World Katatonia – Discouraged Ones Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause King Diamond – Voodoo Kiss – Psycho Circus Korn – Follow the Leader Krabathor – Orthodox Krisiun – Apocalyptic Revelation L.A. Guns – Wasted Leprosy – Llora Chiapashttps://www.spirit-of-metal.com/es/album/Llora_Chiapas/67097 Third full-length album 'Llora Chiapas' by death-metal band LEPROSY from México City 1998 April 29, 2026 Madball – Look My Way Malevolent Creation – The Fine Art of Murder Yngwie Malmsteen – Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in Em, Opus 1 Yngwie Malmsteen – Double Live! (live) Marduk – Nightwing Mercenary – First Breath Mercyful Fate – Dead Again Meshuggah – Chaosphere Metal Church – Live (live) Metallica – Garage Inc. (compilation) Mindrot – Soul Marilyn Manson – Mechanical Animals Monster Magnet – Powertrip Moonspell – Sin/Pecado Morbid Angel – Formulas Fatal to the Flesh Mortician – Zombie Apocalypse (EP) Mortification – Triumph of Mercy Mötley Crüe – Greatest Hits (compilation) Motörhead – Snake Bite Love My Dying Bride – 34.788%... Complete Napalm Death – Words from the Exit Wound Nembrionic – Incomplete Nightwish – Oceanborn Night in Gales – Thunderbeast Nile – Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka Nothingface – An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity Old Man's Child – Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion One Minute Silence – Available in All Colours Oomph! – Unrein Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse Orange Goblin – Time Travelling Blues Orgy – Candyass Pig Destroyer – Explosions in Ward 6 Pitchshifter – www.pitchshifter.com Pretty Boy Floyd – A Tale of Sex, Designer Drugs and The Death of Rock N Roll Primal Fear – Primal Fear Pro-Pain – Pro-Pain Queens of the Stone Age – Queens of the Stone Age Rage – XIII RAMP - Evolution, Devolution, Revolution Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come Rhapsody – Symphony of Enchanted Lands Ritual Carnage – The Highest Law Rob Zombie – Hellbilly Deluxe David Lee Roth – DLR Band Rotting – Crushed Running Wild – The Rivalry Rush – Different Stages (live) Samael – Exodus (EP) Savatage – The Wake of Magellan (in United States) Sentenced – Frozen Septicflesh – A Fallen Temple Sepultura – Against Sinister – Aggressive Measures Skepticism – Lead and Aether Skid Row – 40 Seasons: The Best of Skid Row (compilation) Slayer – Diabolus in Musica Soilent Green – A String of Lies (EP) Soilent Green – Sewn Mouth Secrets Solitude Aeturnus - Adagio Soilwork – Steelbath Suicide Soulburn – Feeding on Angels Soulfly – Soulfly Strapping Young Lad – No Sleep 'till Bedtime: Live in Australia (live) Stratovarius – Visions of Europe (live) Stratovarius – Destiny Stuck Mojo – Rising Dan Swanö – Moontower Symphony X – Twilight in Olympus System of a Down – System of a Down Tankard – Disco Destroyer The Sins of Thy Beloved – Lake of Sorrow Theatre of Tragedy – Aégis Therapy? – Semi-Detached Therion – Vovin Trail of Tears – Disclosure in Red Tristania – Widow's Weeds Turbonegro – Apocalypse Dudes 2wo – Voyeurs Umbra et Imago – Machina Mundi Union – Union Ugly Kid Joe – The Very Best-As Ugly As It Gets Unsane – Occupational Hazard Vader – Kingdom (EP) Van Halen – Van Halen III Vintersorg – Hedniskhjärtad (EP) Vintersorg – Till fjälls Virgin Black – Trance (EP) Virgin Steele – Invictus Vision of Disorder – Imprint Vomitorial Corpulence - Skin Stripper Zao (American band) – Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest Disbandments 24-7 Spyz (reformed in 2003) Count Raven (reformed in 2003) Destruction (reformed in 1999) Faith No More (reformed in 2009) Handsome Helmet (reformed in 2004)1998-11-12 Helmet Calls It Quits As Hamilton Goes Solo https://www.mtv.com/news/1430004/helmet-calls-it-quits-as-hamilton-goes-solo/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201022230843/http://www.mtv.com/news/1430004/helmet-calls-it-quits-as-hamilton-goes-solo/ dead October 22, 2020 MTV 2022-05-07 Snot (reformed in 2008) Vulcain Events Aerosmith becomes the first rock band to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the single "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" Mustis joins Dimmu Borgir on keyboards. Rob Halford of Judas Priest announces his homosexuality in an MTV interview. Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, guitarist of the Japanese band X Japan, commits suicide at the age of 33. Poison singer Bret Michaels directs and stars in the film A Letter from Death Row. Heavy Metal Timeline 1997 1999 1998 References Category:1990s in heavy metal music Metal