1999 in heavy metal music
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1999.
Newly formed bands
- 10 Years
- Agents of Oblivion
- A Perfect Circle
- A Life Once Lost
- Becoming the Archetype
- Battlelore
- Bloodbath
- DragonForce (Then Dragonheart)
- Dragonland
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Bleeding Through
- Blaze
- Divinity Destroyed
- Dream Evil
- Falconer
- Five pointe o
- Kalmah
- Killswitch Engage
- Lamb of God was formed from Burn the Priest
- Mastodon
- Metalium
- Mors Principium Est
- Protest the Hero
- QueenAdreena (Then Queen Adreena)
- Sabaton
- Shadowkeep
- Tomahawk
- Trivium
Reformed bands
- Destruction (Schmier's comeback)
- Pungent Stench
- Rollins Band
- Skid Row
- Lost Horizon (reformed as Highlander, name was changed soon after)
Albums
- Aborted - The Purity of Perversion
- Agalloch - Pale Folklore
- Akercocke - Rape of the Bastard Nazarene
- Alabama Thunderpussy - River City Revival
- Alice Cooper - The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper
- Alice in Chains - Nothing Safe: Best of the Box, Music Bank
- American Head Charge - Trepanation
- Amon Amarth - The Avenger (album)
- Anathema - Judgement
- Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
- Bal-Sagoth - The Power Cosmic
- Behemoth - Satanica
- Black Label Society - Sonic Brew
- Bruce Dickinson - Scream for Me Brazil
- Burn the Priest - Burn the Priest
- Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
- Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
- Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence
- Cradle of Filth - From the Cradle to Enslave
- Dark Tranquility - Projector
- Def Leppard - Euphoria
- Destruction "The Butcher Strikes Back (demo)
- The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
- Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
- Edguy - Theater of Salvation
- Darkthrone - Ravishing Grimness
- Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
- Dope - Felons and Revolutionaries
- Emperor - IX Equilibrium
- Evergrey - Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy
- Finntroll - Midnattens Widunder
- God Forbid - Reject the Sickness
- Godflesh - Us and Them
- Grip Inc. - "Solidify".
- Handguns - Crimson Tide of Sea
- Hank Williams III - Risin' Outlaw
- Immolation - Failures for Gods
- Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
- In Flames - Colony
- Katatonia - Tonight's Decision
- Kittie - Spit
- Korn - Issues
- Kreator - Endorama
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Alchemy
- Lacuna Coil - In a Reverie
- Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
- Tony MacAlpine - Master Of Paradise
- Machine Head - The Burning Red
- Marduk - Panzer Division Marduk
- Marilyn Manson - The Last Tour on Earth (live)
- Mercyful Fate - 9
- Megadeth - Risk
- Metal Church - Masterpeace
- Metallica - S&M
- Metalium - Millennium Metal Chapter One
- Moonspell - The Butterfly Effect
- Mortification - Hammer of God
- Mr. Bungle - California
- Motörhead - Everything Louder Than Everyone Else (live)
- Mushroomhead - M3
- My Dying Bride - The Light at the End of the World
- Napalm Death - Words from the Exit Wound
- Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
- Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
- Oomph! - Plastik
- Opeth - Still Life
- Overkill - "Necroshine".
- Pig Destroyer - Pig Destroyer/Gnob (Split EP)
- Pitchshifter - Un-UK EP
- Primus - Antipop
- Rage - Ghosts
- Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
- Rammstein - Live Aus Berlin
- Ratt - Ratt
- Scorpions - Eye II Eye
- Sevendust - Home
- Slipknot - Slipknot
- Sodom - Code Red
- Solefald - Neonism
- Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
- Staind - Dysfunction
- Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
- Steve Vai - The Ultra Zone
- Stratovarius - The Chosen Ones
- Testament - The Gathering
- Therion - Crowning of Atlantis
- Throwdown - Beyond Repair
- Type O Negative - "World Coming Down"
- uneXpect - Utopia
- W.A.S.P. - Helldorado (album)
- Zao - Liberate Te Ex Inferis
Disbandments
- Death
- Mercyful Fate- on hiatus
Events
- Drummer Tommy Lee left Mötley Crüe
- Ex-drummer of Megadeth Gar Samuelson dies at age 41 from liver failure.
- Singer Blaze Bayley leaves Iron Maiden, while Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith re-join.
- Kittie bassist Tanya Candler quits. She is later replaced by Talena Atfield
- ICS Vortex joins Dimmu Borgir on bass/backing vocals. Drummer Nicholas Barker leaves Cradle Of Filth and joins as well.
- Singer Naoki Hashimoto left Outrage.
- Mudvayne signs with Epic Records.
- Poison appear in an episode of Behind the Music.
| Preceded by 1998 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 1999 |
Succeeded by 2000 |
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