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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2001.
Newly formed bands
- A Band Called Pain
 - The Acacia Strain
 - Acrassicauda
 - The Agony Scene
 - Ankla
 - Årabrot
 - ASG
 - Audioslave
 - Avatar
 - Beardfish
 - Behold... The Arctopus
 - Black Cobra
 - The Black Dahlia Murder
 - Black Majesty
 - Black Stone Cherry
 - Blackguard
 - Bullet
 - Bury Your Dead
 - Callisto
 - Circle II Circle
 - Cloudscape
 - Cobalt
 - Decrepit Birth
 - Dragonlord
 - Equilibrium
 - Galneryus
 - Ghoul
 - Hacride
 - Hinder
 - Ion Dissonance
 - Jet
 - Khanate
 - Kylesa
 - Leprous
 - Masterplan
 - Misery Index
 - Municipal Waste
 - Myrath
 - Pelican
 - Persefone
 - Power Quest
 - Protest the Hero
 - Pyramaze
 - Rebellion
 - Redemption
 - Riverside
 - Textures
 - Seraphim
 - Serenity
 - Silvertide
 - Sirenia
 - Stolen Babies
 - Suicidal Angels
 - Volbeat
 - WarCry
 - Wisdom
 - Year of Desolation
 - Year of No Light
 
Re-formed bands
Albums
- 40 Below Summer - Invitation to the Dance
 - Aborted - Engineering the Dead
 - Aerosmith - Just Push Play
 - After Forever - Decipher
 - Akercocke - The Goat of Mendes
 - Alice Cooper - Dragontown
 - Alice in Chains - Greatest Hits (compilation)
 - Alien Ant Farm - Anthology
 - American Head Charge - The War of Art
 - Amon Amarth - The Crusher
 - Amorphis - Am Universum
 - Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa
 - Angra - Rebirth
 - Anorexia Nervosa - New Obscurantis Order
 - Anvil – Plenty of Power
 - Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
 - Ark - Burn the Sun
 - Arma Angelus - Where Sleeplessness Is Rest from Nightmares
 - As I Lay Dying – Beneath the Encasing of Ashes
 - Atreyu - Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty (EP)
 - Avantasia - The Metal Opera
 - Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
 - Biohazard – Uncivilization
 - Black Label Society - Alcohol Fueled Brewtality (live)
 - Bolt Thrower - Honour – Valour – Pride
 - Bon Jovi - One Wild Night Live 1985–2001 (live)
 - Breach - Kollapse
 - Bruce Dickinson - The Best of Bruce Dickinson (compilation)
 - Cathedral - Endtyme
 - Chimaira - Pass Out of Existence
 - Creed - Weathered
 - Converge - Jane Doe
 - Cradle of Filth - Bitter Suites to Succubi (EP)
 - Darkane - Insanity (album)
 - Dark Funeral - Diabolis Interium
 - Destruction - The Antichrist
 - Devin Townsend - Terria
 - Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
 - Divinity Destroyed - Nocturnal Dawn
 - Dope - Life
 - Drowning Pool - Sinner
 - Edguy - Mandrake
 - Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
 - Ensiferum - Ensiferum
 - Enslaved - Monumension
 - Entombed – Morning Star
 - Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
 - Evergrey - In Search of Truth
 - Every Time I Die - Last Night in Town
 - Fantômas - The Director's Cut
 - Fear Factory - Digimortal
 - Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
 - Flaw - Through the Eyes
 - Freedom Call - Crystal Empire
 - From Zero - One Nation Under
 - Gamma Ray - No World Order
 - God Forbid - Determination
 - Godflesh - Hymns
 - Godflesh - In All Languages[1] (compilation)
 - Gojira - Terra Incognita
 - Graveworm – Scourge of Malice
 - Gwar – Violence Has Arrived
 - Iced Earth - Horror Show
 - Ill Nino - Revolution Revolución
 - In Extremo - Sünder ohne Zügel
 - Integrity – Closure
 - Jag Panzer – Mechanized Warfare
 - Judas Priest - Demolition
 - Kamelot - Karma
 - King's X - Manic Moonlight
 - Kittie - Oracle
 - Kreator - Violent Revolution
 - Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories
 - Lifer - Lifer
 - Tony MacAlpine - Chromaticity
 - Machine Head - Supercharger
 - Marduk - La Grande Danse Macabre
 - Mass Hysteria - De cercle en cercle
 - Mastodon - Lifesblood (EP)
 - Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
 - Moonsorrow - Voimasta ja kunniasta
 - Moonspell - Darkness and Hope
 - Mushroomhead - XX (compilation)
 - My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
 - Nickelback - Silver Side Up
 - No One - No One
 - Occult – Rage to Revenge
 - Oomph! - Ego
 - Opeth - Blackwater Park
 - Ozzy Osbourne - Down to Earth
 - Pentagram - Sub-Basement
 - Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
 - Place of Skulls - Nailed
 - P.O.D. - Satellite
 - Powerman 5000 - Anyone for Doomsday?
 - Primer 55 - (the) New Release
 - Racer X - Superheroes
 - Rage - Welcome to the Other Side
 - Rammstein - Mutter
 - Reveille - Bleed the Sky
 - Reverend - A Gathering of Demons (EP)
 - Rhapsody - Rain of a Thousand Flames
 - Rollins Band - Nice
 - Royal Hunt - The Mission (Royal Hunt album)
 - Saliva - Every Six Seconds
 - Savatage - Poets and Madmen
 - Sepultura - Nation
 - Sevendust - Animosity
 - Silencer - Death – Pierce Me
 - Skillet – Alien Youth
 - Skrape - New Killer America
 - Slayer - God Hates Us All
 - Slipknot - Iowa
 - Sodom – M-16
 - SOiL - Scars
 - Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
 - Solefald - Pills Against the Ageless Ills
 - Sonata Arctica - Silence
 - Static-X - Machine
 - Stratovarius - Intermission (compilation)
 - Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
 - Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
 - System of a Down - Toxicity
 - Theatre of Tragedy - Closure: Live (live)
 - Therion - Secret of the Runes
 - Throwdown - You Don't Have to Be Blood to Be Family
 - Thursday - Full Collapse
 - Tomahawk - Tomahawk
 - Tool - Lateralus
 - Tristania - World of Glass
 - Unearth - The Stings of Conscience
 - Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic
 - Vision of Disorder – From Bliss to Devastation
 - Warrant - Under the Influence
 
Disbandments
Events
- Death guitarist Chuck Schuldiner dies at 34 on December 13 of brain cancer.
 - Metallica bassist Jason Newsted (who joined after Cliff Burton's death) officially left the band and joined Voivod.
 - Former Body Count bassist Mooseman is killed in a drive-by shooting on February 21.
 - Nightwish bassist Sami Vänskä is fired.
 - Cradle of Filth sign with Epic Records, becoming the first ever black metal band on a major label.
 - Kittie guitarist Fallon Bowman quits.
 - Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland leaves the band.
 
References
- ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Godflesh - In All Languages". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
 
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