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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1998.
Newly formed bands
- 8 Foot Sativa
 - 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
 - Reveille
 - 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
Albums
- 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
 - Catch 22 – Keasbey Nights
 - Children of Bodom – Something Wild (Worldwide release)
 - Clutch – The Elephant Riders
 - 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
 - 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
 - Flesh Parade - Kill Whitey
 - 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
 - Helloween – Better Than Raw
 - Iced Earth – Something Wicked This Way Comes
 - Incantation – Diabolical Conquest
 - 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
 - David Lee Roth – DLR Band
 - Leprosy – Llora Chiapas
 - 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
 - Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come
 - Rhapsody – Symphony of Enchanted Lands
 - Rob Zombie – Hellbilly Deluxe
 - 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
 - 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
 
Disbandments
- 24-7 Spyz
 - Destruction (reformed in 1999)
 - Faith No More (reformed in 2009)
 - Handsome
 - Helmet (reformed in 2004)
 - 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.
 
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