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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2007.
Contents |
Newly formed bands
Reformed bands
- Artillery
- At the Gates for a few shows
- Carcass for a few shows
- Ronnie James Dio rejoins Black Sabbath under the name Heaven and Hell (the name of the first Black Sabbath album featuring Dio) for a tour.
- Extreme
- Rage Against the Machine
- Spinal Tap with new single "Warmer than Hell!"
- X Japan
- Led Zeppelin For one show
- Sacred Reich For a few shows
Albums
- 3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up the Blades
- 8 Foot Sativa - Poison of Ages
- A Life Once Lost - Iron Gag
- A Perfect Murder - War of Aggression
- Abigor - Fractal Possession
- Aborted - Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture
- Abscess - Horrorhammer
- The Absence - Riders of the Plague
- Aeon - Rise to Dominate
- After Forever - After Forever
- Agathocles - Senseless Trip
- Age of Nemesis - Terra Incognita
- Agent Steel - Alienigma
- Agnostic Front - Warriors
- The Agonist - Once Only Imagined
- Airbourne - Runnin' Wild
- Ajattara - Kalmanto
- Akercocke - Antichrist
- Akira Takasaki - Black Brown
- Al Atkins - Demon Deceiver
- Alabama Thunderpussy - Open Fire
- Alcest - "Souvenirs d'un autre monde"
- Alchemist - Tripsis
- All Out War - Assassins In The House Of God
- Altaria - Divine Invitation Compilation Album
- Amoral - Reptile Ride
- Amorphis - Silent Waters
- Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here
- André Matos - Time to Be Free
- Angel Corpse - Of Lucifer And Lightning
- Angel Dust - VII
- Annihilator - Metal
- Anvil - This is Thirteen
- Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide
- Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
- Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom
- Ari Koivunen - Fuel for the Fire
- Arkhon Infaustus - Orthodoxyn
- As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
- Astral Doors - New Revelation
- At Vance - VII
- At War With Self - Acts of God
- August Burns Red - Messengers
- Ava Inferi - The Silhouette
- Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
- Axel Rudi Pell - Diamonds Unlocked
- Axxis - Doom Of Destiny
- Balance of Power - New Studio Album
- Baroness - The Red Album
- Battlelore - Evernight
- Becoming the Archetype - The Physics of Fire
- Behemoth - The Apostasy
- Beneath the Massacre - Mechanics of Dysfunction
- Benediction - Killing Music
- The Berzerker - Animosity
- Between The Buried And Me - Colors
- The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
- Bloodsimple - Red Harvest
- Blue Cheer - What Doesn't Kill You...
- Born of Osiris - "The New Reign"
- Caliban - The Awakening
- Candlemass- King Of The Grey Islands
- Cannibal Corpse - Vile Live
- Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
- The Chariot - The Fiancée
- Chevelle - Vena Sera
- Chimaira - Resurrection
- Cirith Gorgor - Cirith Gorgor
- DÅÅTH - The Hinderers
- Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
- Darkest Hour - Deliver Us
- Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.
- Daysend - The Warning
- Demiricous - Two (Poverty)
- Demon Hunter - Storm the Gates of Hell
- Destruction - Thrash Anthems
- Dethklok - Dethalbum
- Detonation - Emission Phase
- Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
- The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
- Dir en grey - The Marrow of a Bone
- The Devil Wears Prada - Plagues
- DevilDriver - The Last Kind Words
- The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
- Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
- Disavowed - Stagnated Existence
- Divinefire - Farewell
- Divine Heresy - Bleed The Fifth
- Domine - Ancient Spirit Rising
- Down - Down III
- Dr. Sin - Bravo
- Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
- Drowning Pool - Full Circle
- Drudkh - Estrangement
- Dublin Death Patrol - DDP 4 Life
- Dying Fetus - War of Attrition
- Elvenking - The Scythe
- The End - Elementary
- Ensiferum - Victory Songs
- Entombed - Serpent Saints
- Epica - The Divine Conspiracy
- Evile - Enter the Grave
- Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A
- Eyefear - A World Full of Grey
- Fear My Thoughts - Vulcanus
- Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup
- Five Finger Death Punch - The Way of the Fist
- Five Star Prison Cell - Slaves of Virgo
- Freedom Call - Dimensions
- From Autumn To Ashes - Holding A Wolf By The Ears
- Gamma Ray - Land of the Free Part II
- The Gathering - A Noise Severe
- Gorefest - "Rise to ruin"
- Grave Digger - Liberty or Death
- Graveland - Will Stronger Than Death
- Graveworm - Collateral Defect
- Carl Johan Grimmark - Grimmark
- HammerFall - Steel Meets Steel - Ten Years Of Glory
- Hanoi Rocks - Street Poetry
- Haste The Day - Pressure The Hinges
- Hatesphere - Serpent Smiles and Killer Eyes
- Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
- Hellyeah - Hellyeah
- High on Fire- Death Is This Communion
- Himsa - Summon In Thunder
- Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part 1) and Overture of the Wicked
- Immolation - Shadows In The Light
- Impious - Holy Murder Masquerade
- In This Moment - Beautiful Tragedy
- Inveracity - Extermination of Millions
- Ion Dissonance - Minus The Herd
- Job for a Cowboy - Genesis
- Kamelot - Ghost Opera
- King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul...Please
- Korn - "Untitled"
- Korpiklaani - Tervaskanto
- Kronos - The Hellenic Terror
- Lord Belial - Revelation
- Månegarm - Vargstenen
- Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me
- M.O.D.- Red, White & Screwed
- Machine Head - The Blackening
- Malevolent Creation - Doomsday X
- Mammatus - The Coast Explodes
- Manowar - Gods of War
- Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me
- Marduk - Rom 5:12
- Masterplan - MK II
- Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
- Megadeth - United Abominations, Warchest, and That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires (CD and DVD)
- Melechesh - Emissaries
- Mnemic - Passenger
- Monstrosity - Spiritual Apocalypse
- Moonsorrow - Viides Luku - Hävitetty
- Morgana Lefay - Aberrations Of The Mind
- Mors Principium Est - Liberation = Termination
- Mudvayne - Shades of Gray
- Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
- Naglfar - Harvest
- Neurosis - Given to the Rising
- Nightrage - A New Disease is Born
- Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
- Nile - Ithyphallic
- N.I.L. - N.I.L.
- Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
- Nocturnal Rites - The 8th Sin
- Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
- Novembre - The Blue
- Obituary - Xecutioner's Return
- Onslaught - Killing Peace
- Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes
- Overkill - Immortalis
- Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain
- Pain - Psalms of Extinction
- Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
- Parkway Drive - Horizons
- Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
- Planet X - Quantum
- Portal - Outre
- Power Quest - Master of Illusion
- Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
- Pro-Pain - Age of Tyranny
- Rainshadow - End Songs
- The Red Chord - Prey for Eyes
- Reverend Bizarre - III So Long Suckers
- Rob Rock - Garden of Chaos
- Root - Daemon Viam Invenient
- Rotting Christ - Theogonia
- Sabaton - Metalizer
- Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
- Sanctity - Road to Bloodshed
- Scarve - The Undercurrent
- Scorpions - Humanity Hour 1
- Sebastian Bach - Angel Down
- Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Souls
- Send More Paramedics - The Awakening
- Sevendust - Alpha
- Shadows Fall - Threads of Life
- Shining - Halmstad
- Six Feet Under - Commandment
- Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
- Sodom - The Final Sign of Evil
- Soilwork - Sworn to a Great Divide
- Sonata Arctica - Unia
- Sonic Syndicate- Only Inhuman
- Static-X - Cannibal
- Still Remains - The Serpent
- Sturm und Drang - Learning to Rock
- Suicide Silence - The Cleansing
- Sun Caged - Artemisia
- Swallow the Sun - Hope
- Sworn Enemy - Maniacal
- Sybreed - Antares
- Symphony X - Paradise Lost
- Taint - Secrets and Lies
- Tarja Turunen - My Winter Storm
- Tesla - Real to Reel
- Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
- Threshold - Dead Reckoning
- Through the Eyes of the Dead - Malice
- Thunderstone - Evolution 4.0
- Trouble - Simple Mind Condition
- Turisas - The Varangian Way
- Twilightning - Swinelords
- Type O Negative - Dead Again
- U.D.O. - Mastercutor
- Unsane - Visqueen
- Vanishing Point - The Fourth Season
- Venus Doom
- Vesania - Distractive Killusions
- Vintersorg - Solens Rötter
- Virgin Black - Requiem - Mezzo Forte
- Visions of Atlantis - Trinity
- Vital Remains - Icons of Evil
- Vomitory - Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize
- W.A.S.P. - Dominator
- Watain - Sworn to the Dark
- Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
- With Passion - What We See When We Close Our Eyes
Midnight Reign-Never Look Back
Disbandments
- Arcturus
- A Perfect Murder
- The Devin Townsend Band
- I Killed the Prom Queen
- Reverend Bizarre
- Strapping Young Lad
- Send More Paramedics
- Mendeed
- Pungent Stench
- With Passion
- Nodes of Ranvier
Midnight Reign- Never Look Back
released in 2007
Events
- Extreme reunite for the third time, announcing plans for a world tour next year, as well as a new studio album, which will be their first since 1995's Waiting for the Punchline.
- Led Zeppelin get back together one more time for one concert in London.
- In Sorte Diaboli (Dimmu Borgir) becomes the first extreme metal album ever to hit the #1 in a Record chart, achieving that position in Norway.
- Andreas Sydow leaves Darkane, being replaced by Jens Broman.
- Witold Kiełtyka, drummer for Decapitated, is killed in a car crash in October.
- Vocalist, Damo and manager, Andy of The Red Shore, died in December.
- Anette Olzon joins Nightwish as their new lead vocalist.
- Peter Lindgren leaves Opeth.
- Jani Liimatainen is fired from Sonata Arctica.
- Jacob Bredahl leaves Hatesphere.
- Mark St. John, guitarist of KISS in 1984, dies in April.
- Meiju Enho leaves Ensiferum.
- Paul Raven, bassist for Ministry and former Killing Joke bassist, dies in October.
- Kevin DuBrow, lead singer for Quiet Riot, dies in November.
- Matt Barlow returns as lead singer of Iced Earth.
- Ramallah disbands.
- Gorgoroth splits into two sides. One is headed by Infernus and the other by King and Gaahl.
References
| Preceded by: 2006 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 2007 |
Followed by: 2008 |
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