This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2004.
Newly formed bands
A Dozen Furies A Hero A Fake Abigail Williams Adept After The Burial Age of Silence The Agonist (as The Tempest) Ahab Alestorm Alter Bridge Amaseffer Amesoeurs Architects Art of Dying Baptized In Blood Be'lakor Beneath the Massacre Beneath the Sky Big Business Binary Code Black Tide Black Mountain Blackthorn Blood Tsunami Bloodbound Bring Me the Horizon Catalepsy Celestiial Cellador Chrome Division Claim the Throne Coldseed Cor Scorpii Dark Empire Dead Congregation Devil Sold His Soul Enforcer Escape the Fate The Faceless Finsterforst Genghis Tron Gnaw Their Tongues Havok The Human Abstract Intronaut Kayser Lich King Massacration myGRAIN Royal Thunder Russian Circles Savage Circus Saving Abel Scale the Summit Scar Symmetry Skiltron Sons of Butcher Sturm und Drang To-Mera Torche Tribulation Triosphere Veil of Maya Vreid Warbringer Wolfmother
Reformed bands Extreme (for a few shows) Glyder Megadeth Mötley Crüe
Albums
3 Inches of Blood – Advance and Vanquish 36 Crazyfists – A Snow Capped Romance The Acacia Strain – 3750 Aerosmith – Honkin' on Bobo After Forever – Invisible Circles Age of Silence – Acceleration Alabama Thunderpussy – Fulton Hill All That Remains – This Darkened Heart Alter Bridge – One Day Remains Amon Amarth – Fate of Norns Angra – Temple of Shadows Annihilator – All for You Anvil – Back to Basics Atreyu – The Curse Ayreon – The Human Equation Behemoth – Demigod Beseech – Drama Black Label Society – Hangover Music Vol. VI Bon Jovi – 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong (box set) Breaking Benjamin – We Are Not Alone Bring Me the Horizon – This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spawn The Chariot – Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing, Nothing Is Dead, and Nothing Is Bleeding Chevelle – This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) Cradle of Filth – Nymphetamine Crossfade – Crossfade Damageplan – New Found Power Danzig – Circle of Snakes Dead Poetic - New Medicines Decapitated – The Negation Def Leppard – Best of Def Leppard (compilation) Deicide – Scars of the Crucifix Demon Hunter – Summer of Darkness The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine Dio – Master of the Moon Dokken – Hell to Pay Downset. – Universal DragonForce – Sonic Firestorm Dream Evil – The Book of Heavy Metal Dream Theater – Live at Budokan (live) Drowning Pool – Desensitized Edguy – Hellfire Club Electric Wizard – We Live Elis – Dark Clouds in a Perfect Sky Enslaved – Isa Exodus – Tempo of the Damned Fall of the Leafe – Volvere Fates Warning – FWX Fear Factory – Archetype Finntroll – Nattfödd God Forbid – Gone Forever Grip Inc. – Incorporated Gwar – War Party Haste the Day - Burning Bridges (Haste the Day album) Heaven Shall Burn – Antigone Helmet – Size Matters Helmet – Unsung: The Best of Helmet (1991–1997) (compilation) Hirax – The New Age of Terror Hypocrisy – The Arrival Iced Earth – The Glorious Burden In Flames – Soundtrack to Your Escape IRA (MX) - Gesta Heróica Isis – Panopticon Jag Panzer – Casting the Stones Killswitch Engage – The End of Heartache Kittie – Until the End Kill the Noize – Play with the Devil Kronos – Colossal Titan Strife Kutless – Sea of Faces Lamb of God – Ashes of the Wake Lordi – The Monsterican Dream Leaves' Eyes – Lovelorn Marilyn Manson – Lest We Forget: The Best Of (compilation) Marduk – Plague Angel Mastodon – Leviathan Mayhem – Chimera Megadeth – The System Has Failed Mercenary – 11 Dreams Meshuggah – I Metal Church – The Weight of the World Metalium – As One – Chapter Four Ministry – Houses of the Molé Misanthrope – Misanthro-Thérapie (15 Années d'Analyse) (compilation) Mnemic – The Audio Injected Soul Monster Magnet – Monolithic Baby! Motörhead – Inferno My Dying Bride – Songs of Darkness, Words of Light Necrophagist – Epitaph Neurosis – The Eye of Every Storm Nightwish – Once No-Big-Silence – Kuidas kuningas kuu peale kippus Oomph! – Wahrheit oder Pflicht Orange Goblin – Thieving from the House of God Otep – House of Secrets Papa Roach – Getting Away with Murder Pentagram – Show 'Em How Pig Destroyer – Painter of Dead Girls (compilation) Pig Destroyer – Terrifyer Power Quest – Neverworld Primal Fear – Devil's Ground Pro-Pain – Fistful of Hate Probot – Probot Rammstein – Reise, Reise Raunchy – Confusion Bay Rhapsody – Symphony of Enchanted Lands II – The Dark Secret Rotting Christ – Sanctus Diavolos Saxon – Lionheart Scars of Tomorrow – Rope Tied to the Trigger Scarve – Irradiant Scorpions – Unbreakable Senses Fail – Let It Enfold You Shadows Fall – The War Within Slipknot – Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) Sonata Arctica – Reckoning Night Soulfly – Prophecy Static-X – Beneath... Between... Beyond... (compilation) Stryper – 7 Weeks: Live in America, 2003 (live) Suffocation – Souls to Deny Terror – One with the Underdogs The Crest – Vain City Chronicles The Haunted – Revolver Therion – Lemuria Therion – Sirius B U.D.O. – Thunderball Underoath – They're Only Chasing Safety Unearth – The Oncoming Storm Vader – The Beast Van Halen – The Best of Both Worlds (compilation) Velvet Revolver – Contraband Vintersorg – The Focusing Blur Visions of Atlantis – Cast Away WarCry – Alea Jacta Est Winds – The Imaginary Direction of Time Wintersun – Wintersun Within Temptation – The Silent Force Xandria – Ravenheart
Bands disbanded Bathory Creed Damageplan Memento Nothingface (reformed in 2005) Prayer for Cleansing SugarComa Windir
Events Brian "Head" Welch announced his departure from Korn after converting to Christianity.Brian stated that he ended up walking away from a 23 million dollar recording contract which was a very difficult decision for him at the time. NewReleaseTuesday.com Interview with Brian Brian 'Head' Welch Leaves Korn, Citing Moral Objections To Band's Music . MTV.comBrian Welch Explains Why He Walked Away . cbn.com Bassist Tim Gaines announced his departure from Stryper after 10 complete years. He was replaced by Tracy Ferrie. Jason Jones was announced as Drowning Pool's new lead singer and joined them on the album Desensitized. Supergroup Velvet Revolver releases their debut album Contraband which debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and goes double platinum. After an eight-year hiatus, Extreme briefly returns for a short tour and a few concerts in Japan. Van Halen reunites with Sammy Hagar for a summer tour. Anal Cunt vocalist Seth Putnam slips into a coma after consuming a large amount of drugs. Aerosmith returns to a raw hard rock sound with their blues cover album Honkin' on Bobo Terry Balsamo leaves Cold and joins Evanescence as their new guitarist. Guitarist Lisa Marx joins Kittie as a session member, replacing Jeff Phillips. Maniac leaves Mayhem and is replaced by the band's former singer, Attila Csihar. Dave Mustaine reforms Megadeth with 3 session musicians, former and original Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland, bassist Jimmie Lee Sloas and drummer Vinnie Colaiuta to record The System Has Failed, then tour the album with full-time members Glen Drover on guitar, James MacDonough on bass and Shawn Drover on drums. Ex-Judas Priest drummer Dave Holland is sentenced to eight years in prison for attempted rape against a then 17-year-old boy.
Deaths 14 January – Terje "Valfar" Bakken, founder, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of Windir, died from hypothermia after being caught in a snow storm. He was 25. 3 June – Thomas Börje "Quorthon" Forsberg, founder, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of Bathory, died from heart failure at the age of 38. 17 August – Dennis "D-Roc" Miles, guitarist of Body Count, died from lymphoma complications at the age of 44. 20 October – Flowing Tears founding members, former drummer Cristian Zimmer and former guitarist Björn Lorson, died in a car accident. 8 December – "Dimebag" Darrell Lance Abbott, founding member and former guitarist of Pantera and guitarist of Damageplan, was killed on stage, along with three other people, while performing with Damageplan at a nightclub in Ohio. He was 38. 26 December – Mieszko Andrzej Talarczyk, vocalist and guitarist of Nasum, died in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake at the age of 30. His body was identified on 16 February 2005. Piero "Sanctis Ghoram" Gori, former Death SS vocalist, died from cancer.
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