This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2000.
Newly formed bands
5ive
A Perfect Murder
Adagio
Adema
Alcest
Alove for Enemies
Angelus Apatrida
Animosity
The Answer
Antigama
Apostasy
Arsis
As I Lay Dying
Beto Vázquez Infinity
Between the Buried and Me
Beyond the Embrace
Bucovina
Byzantine
Cannae
Car Bomb
Circus Maximus
Crashdïet
The Darkness
Deadsoul Tribe
Deathstars
Debauchery
Demon Hunter
Disarmonia Mundi
Forever Slave
From Autumn to Ashes
Full Blown Chaos
Hammers of Misfortune
Hatesphere
Hurt
Indukti
Kiuas
Machinae Supremacy
Majesty
Mar de Grises
Mastodon
Mgła
Mirrorthrone
Mystic Prophecy
Nachtmystium
Nightrage
The Ocean
Ondskapt
Otep
Pagan's Mind
Pantheist
Peste Noire
Place of Skulls
Planet X
Poisonblack
Shaaman
Seventh Wonder
Steel Panther
Swallow the Sun
Sylosis
Thunderstone
Ulcerate
Ünloco
The Vision Bleak
Visions of Atlantis
Warmen
Witchcraft
Reformed bands
Britny Fox
Living Colour
Sorted Albums
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
September
October
November
December
Unsorted Albums
Downset. – Check Your People
Edguy – The Savage Poetry (re-recording) Fates Warning – Disconnected Glassjaw – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence Godflesh – Messiah (EP) Godsmack – Awake Halford – Resurrection HammerFall – Renegade Heaven Shall Burn – Asunder Helloween – The Dark Ride The Hives – Veni Vidi Vicious Immolation – Close to a World Below Incantation – The Infernal Storm In Flames – Clayman Iron Maiden – Brave New World Isis – Celestial Jag Panzer – Thane to the Throne Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage King Diamond – House of God King's X – Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous Lamb of God – New American Gospel Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory Madball – Hold It Down Marilyn Manson – Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) Metalium – State of Triumph – Chapter Two Misanthrope – Misanthrope Immortel Misanthrope – Recueil d'Écueils: les Épaves et Autres Oeuvres Interdites (compilation) Morbid Angel – Gateways to Annihilation Monster Magnet – God Says No Motörhead – We Are Motörhead Mötley Crüe – New Tattoo Mudvayne – L.D. 50 Nasum – Human 2.0 Nevermore – Dead Heart in a Dead World Nightwish – Wishmaster Nile – Black Seeds of Vengeance Nothingface – Violence No-Big-Silence – Successful, Bitch & Beautiful One Minute Silence – Buy Now... Saved Later Orange Goblin – The Big Black Origin – Origin Overkill – Bloodletting Papa Roach – Infest Paul Di'Anno – Nomad Pig Destroyer – 7" Picture Disc (EP) Pig Destroyer – Isis / Pig Destroyer (split EP) Pitchshifter – Deviant Poison – Power to the People Pro-Pain – Round 6 QueenAdreena – Taxidermy Racer X – Technical Difficulties (Europe and US versions) Raised Fist – Ignoring the Guidelines Rhapsody – Dawn of Victory Rob Rock – Rage of Creation Rotting Christ - Khronos Saxon – Burrn! Presents: The Best of Saxon (compilation) Scorpions – Moment of Glory (compilation) Scarve – Translucence Seven Witches – City of Lost Souls Shadows Fall – Of One Blood Shuvel – Set It Off Sinergy – To Hell and Back Ska-P – Planeta Eskoria Soulfly – Primitive Soulreaper - Written in Blood Static-X – The Death Trip Continues (EP) Stratovarius – 14 Diamonds (compilation) Suicidal Tendencies – Free Your Soul and Save My Mind Symphony X – V: The New Mythology Suite Tad Morose – Undead Theatre of Tragedy – Musique The Chasm – Procession to the Infraworld The Haunted – Made Me Do It The Sins of Thy Beloved – Perpetual Desolation Trail of Tears – Profoundemonium Underoath – Cries of the Past Virgin Steele – The House of Atreus Act II Within Temptation – Mother Earth Whispering Gallery – Like a Dream of Never-ending Beauty... Love Never Dies Yngwie Malmsteen – War to End All Wars
Disbandments
Rage Against the Machine
Sacred Reich (Reformed 2006)