2008 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2008.
Bands formed
- A Sound of Thunder
- A Storm of Light
- Aeon Zen
- Allegaeon
- Amaranthe
- Arkaea
- Austrian Death Machine
- Betraying the Martyrs
- Bölzer
- Bombus
- Cain's Offering
- Chickenfoot
- Christian Mistress
- City of Fire
- Clown Core
- Code Orange
- Ex Deo
- From Fall to Spring
- God Seed
- Hamferð
- Heldmaschine
- Holy Grail
- Imagine Dragons
- King of Asgard
- Krypts
- Lustre
- Pallbearer
- Power Trip
- Revolution Renaissance
- Solution .45
- The Empire Shall Fall
- Triptykon
- Uneven Structure
Reformed bands
- At the Gates (for a few shows)
- Carcass (for touring)
- Einherjer (for touring)
- Exhorder (for a few tours and some new material)
- Forbidden (for a few shows)
- Krokus
- Living Sacrifice
- Spineshank
Disbandments
Events
- Twiggy Ramirez rejoins Marilyn Manson in early January.
- Mikael Åkerfeldt rejoins Bloodbath in late January.
- Ola Frenning leaves Soilwork in February.
- Chris Broderick joins Megadeth in February.
- Timo Tolkki leaves Stratovarius after some internal troubles in March.
- Thomas Gabriel Fischer leaves Celtic Frost in April.
- Singer Lisa Middelhauve leaves Xandria in April.
- On April 19, during a gothic rock and culture celebration, the Factory nightclub fire in Quito kills 19 and injures at least 24.
- On May 11, original Rush drummer John Rutsey died in his sleep from an apparent heart attack.
- Blasphemer leaves Mayhem in May.
- Mike Kimball leaves Dying Fetus in May.
- On July 27, former White Spirit and Tank drummer Graeme Crallan died after a fall in a London street.
- Wes Borland joins Marilyn Manson's lineup in mid-August.
- D.R.I. guitarist Spike Cassidy makes a full recovery from cancer.
- Snot reforms with ex-Divine Heresy vocalist Tommy Vext.
- Michael Nicklasson leaves Dark Tranquillity in August.
- Jeff Singer leaves Paradise Lost in August.
- Christian "Witchhunter" Dudek, ex-drummer of Sodom, dies of liver failure on September 7.
- Christian Älvestam leaves Scar Symmetry in September.
- Peter Wichers rejoins Soilwork in September.
- Tormentor rejoins Gorgoroth in September, as does Pest in December.
- Denny Axelsson, vocalist of Blinded Colony, leaves the band.
- Former Marilyn Manson bassist Gidget Gein dies of a heroin overdose.
- Josh Freese plans to depart from Nine Inch Nails by the end of 2008.
- John Kempainen leaves The Black Dahlia Murder in December.
- Job For A Cowboy founding member and guitarist Ravi Bhadriraju leaves the band in late 2008.
- Al Glassman leaves Despised Icon to join Job For A Cowboy.
- Gaahl (ex-Gorgoroth) reveals his homosexuality.
Albums released
January
February
March
April
May
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Nine Inch Nails | The Slip |
| Scott Kelly | The Wake | |
| Textures | Silhouettes[21] | |
| 6 | Kayo Dot | Blue Lambency Downward |
| Revocation | Empire of the Obscene | |
| Russian Circles | Station | |
| 13 | Abysmal Dawn | Programmed To Consume |
| Aletheian | Dying Vine | |
| Emmure | The Respect Issue | |
| Mourning Beloveth | A Disease for the Ages | |
| 14 | Diablo | Icaros |
| 16 | Moonspell | Night Eternal |
| 23 | Cryptopsy | The Unspoken King[22] |
| Kataklysm | Prevail | |
| 26 | Ihsahn | angL |
| Shai Hulud | Misanthropy Pure | |
| 30 | Communic | Payment of Existence |
| Hollenthon | Opus Magnum | |
| Opeth | Watershed[23] | |
| Pyramaze | Immortal | |
| Sabaton | The Art of War |
June
July
August
September
October
November
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Satyricon | The Age of Nero |
| Turisas | A Finnish Summer With Turisas | |
| 10 | The Red Shore | Unconsecrated |
| 11 | Attack Attack! | Someday Came Suddenly |
| Behemoth | Ezkaton | |
| Dance Club Massacre | Circle of Death | |
| Dir En Grey | Uroboros | |
| The Faceless | Planetary Duality | |
| Light This City | Stormchaser | |
| Six Feet Under | Death Rituals | |
| Sympathy | Anagogic Tyranny | |
| Pig Destroyer | Natasha (EP) | |
| 14 | Edguy | Tinnitus Sanctus |
| Elvenking | Two Tragedy Poets (...and a Caravan of Weird Figures) | |
| Hortus Animae | Funeral Nation / 10 Years Of Hortus Animae[25] | |
| 17 | Cynic | Traced in Air |
| 18 | Mononc' Serge & Anonymus | Musique Barbare |
| Mudvayne | The New Game | |
| 24 | Arch Enemy | Tyrants of the Rising Sun |
| 25 | Becoming the Archetype | Dichotomy |