2008 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2008.

Reformed bands

* At the Gates (for a few shows)
* Carcass (for touring)
* Exhorder
* Forbidden (for a few shows)
* Flower Travellin' Band
* Immortal
* Krokus
* Living Sacrifice
* Snot
* Spineshank

Disbandments

* Beneath the Sky
* Byzantine
* Celtic Frost
* Dead to Fall
* The Duskfall
* From Autumn to Ashes
* Himsa
* Knorkator
* Light This City
* Ministry
* Sieges Even
* SikTh
* Since the Flood
* Still Remains
* The Red Death

Events

* Twiggy Ramirez rejoins Marilyn Manson in early January.
* Mikael Åkerfeldt rejoins Bloodbath in late January.
* Ola Frenning leaves Soilwork in February.
* Hellhammer joins Gorgoroth as drummer.
* Chris Broderick joins Megadeth in February.
* Timo Tolkki leaves Stratovarius after some internal troubles in March.
* Clint Lowery rejoins Sevendust in March.
* Thomas Gabriel Fischer leaves Celtic Frost in April.
* Singer Lisa Middelhauve leaves Xandria in April.
* On May 11th, 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 27th, 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 Älvestam leaves Scar Symmetry in September.
* Peter Wichers rejoins Soilwork in September.
* Jonny Santos rejoins and reforms Spineshank
* Denny Axelsson, vocalist of Blinded Colony, leaves the band.
* Josh Freese plans to depart from Nine Inch Nails by the end of 2008.

Albums released

January

April

July

October

Upcoming albums

November

December

* Deathstars - "Deathglam"
* Disarmonia Mundi - "The Isolation Game"
* Eluveitie - "Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion"

Unknown

* Amoral - TBA
* Anata - TBA
* As Blood Runs Black - TBA
* Brown Brigade - "Guyanese Democracy"
* Cannibal Corpse - TBA
* Carcariass - TBA
* Confessor - TBA
* DÅÅTH - "The Concealers"
* D.R.I. - TBA
* Dope - "No Regrets"
* Dragonlord - TBA
* Eluveitie - "Evocation II - Visions"
* Hibria - TBA
* Marilyn Manson - TBA
* Mastodon - TBA
* Nevermore - TBA
* Primus - TBA
* Ram-Zet - TBA
* Sepultura - A-Lex
* Slayer - TBA
* Sympathy - "Anagogic Tyranny"
* Unexpect - TBA
* Verbal Abuse - TBA
* Wicked Wisdom - "Wrath of the Wicked"
* Witchplague - TBA
* Zyklon - TBA

References

External links

* [http://heavymetal.about.com/ About.com: Heavy Metal]