2002 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year
Contents |
[edit] Newly formed bands
[edit] Reformed Bands
[edit] Albums
- 3 Inches of Blood - Battlecry Under A Winter Sun
- Agalloch - The Mantle
- Atreyu - Suicide Notes And Butterfly Kisses
- Behemoth - Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)
- Beseech - Souls Highway
- Black Label Society - 1919 Eternal
- Black Sabbath - Past Lives (album)
- Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
- Bon Jovi - Bounce
- Def Leppard - X
- Freak Kitchen - Move
- HammerFall - Crimson Thunder
- Hardline - "II (Hardline album)"
- Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
- In Flames - Reroute to Remain
- Kataklysm - Shadows And Dust
- Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
- Lacuna Coil - Comalies
- Lordi - Get Heavy
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Attack!!, Concerto Suite LIVE
- Manowar - Warriors of the World
- Mastodon - Remission
- Mercenary - Everblack
- Motörhead - Hammered
- Nightwish - Century Child
- Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been (live)
- Opeth - Deliverance
- Otep - Sevas Tra
- Pig Destroyer - Benumb / Pig Destroyer (Split album)
- Pitchshifter - PSI
- Protest The Hero - A Calculated Use of Sound
- Rhapsody of Fire - Power of the Dragonflame
- Rush - Vapor Trails
- Saxon - Heavy Metal Thunder
- Shadows Fall - The Art of Balance
- Sonata Arctica - Songs of Silence
- Stone Sour - Stone Sour
- Symphony X -The Odyssey
- Theatre of Tragedy - Assembly
- The 3rd and the Mortal - Memoirs
- Týr - How Far To Asgaard
- Týr - Ólavur Riddararós
- Vintersorg - Visions From The Spiral Generator
- Visions of Atlantis - Eternal Endless Infinity
- Winds - Reflections of the I
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[edit] Disbandments
[edit] Events
- Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley dies on April 19 from an overdose of heroin.
- Drowning Pool singer Dave Williams dies on Wednesday August 14, 2002. He was found inside his tour bus, dead from cardiomyopathy.
- Dave Lombardo rejoins Slayer.
- Tarot bassist Marco Hietala leaves Sinergy and joins Nightwish as their new bassist
- Guitarist Jeff Phillips joins Kittie as a session member, replacing Fallon Bowman Bassist Talena Atfield quits and is replaced by Jennifer Arroyo
- On april 26 drummer Randy Castillo passed away from a cancer.
| Preceded by: 2001 | Heavy Metal Timeline 2002 | Followed by: 2003 |
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