2004 in heavy metal music

• A Dozen Furies • A Hero A Fake • Abigail Williams • Adept • After The Burial • Age of Silence • The Agonist (as The Tempest) • Ahab • Alestorm • Alter Bridge • Amaseffer • Amesoeurs • Architects • Art of Dying • Baptized In Blood • Be'lakor • Beneath The Massacre • Beneath the Sky • Big Business • Binary Code • Black Tide • Black Mountain • Blackthorn • Blood Tsunami • Bloodbound • Bring Me the Horizon • Catalepsy • Celestiial • Cellador • Chrome Division • Claim the Throne • Coldseed • Cor Scorpii • Dark Empire • Dead Congregation • Devil Sold His Soul • Enforcer • Escape the Fate • The Faceless • Finsterforst • Genghis Tron • Gnaw Their Tongues • Havok • The Human Abstract • Intronaut • Kayser • Lich King • Massacration • myGRAIN • Royal Thunder • Russian Circles • Savage Circus • Saving Abel • Scale the Summit • Scar Symmetry • Skiltron • Sons of Butcher • Sturm und Drang • To-Mera • Torche • Tribulation • Triosphere • Veil of Maya • Vreid • Warbringer • Wolfmother ==Reformed bands==

• Extreme (for a few shows) • Glyder • Megadeth • Mötley Crüe ==Albums==

• 3 Inches of Blood – Advance and Vanquish • 36 Crazyfists – A Snow Capped Romance • The Acacia Strain – 3750 • Aerosmith – ''Honkin' on Bobo'' • After Forever – Invisible Circles • Age of Silence – Acceleration • Alabama Thunderpussy – Fulton Hill • All That Remains – This Darkened Heart • Alter Bridge – One Day Remains • Amon Amarth – Fate of Norns • Angra – Temple of Shadows • Annihilator – All for You • Anvil – Back to Basics • Atreyu – The Curse • Ayreon – The Human Equation • Behemoth – Demigod • Beseech – Drama • Black Label Society – Hangover Music Vol. VI • Bon Jovi – ''100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong'' (box set) • Breaking Benjamin – We Are Not Alone • Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spawn • The Chariot – Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing, Nothing Is Dead, and Nothing Is Bleeding • Chevelle – This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) • Cradle of Filth – Nymphetamine • Damageplan – New Found Power • Danzig – Circle of Snakes • Dead Poetic - New Medicines • Decapitated – The Negation • Def Leppard – Best of Def Leppard (compilation) • Deicide – Scars of the Crucifix • Demon Hunter – Summer of Darkness • The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine • Dio – Master of the Moon • Dokken – Hell to Pay • Downset. – Universal • DragonForce – Sonic Firestorm • Dream Evil – The Book of Heavy Metal • Dream Theater – Live at Budokan (live) • Drowning Pool – Desensitized • Edguy – Hellfire Club • Electric Wizard – We Live • Elis – Dark Clouds in a Perfect Sky • Enslaved – Isa • Exodus – Tempo of the Damned • Fall of the Leafe – Volvere • Fates Warning – FWX • Fear Factory – Archetype • Finntroll – Nattfödd • God Forbid – Gone Forever • Grip Inc. – Incorporated • Gwar – War Party • Haste the Day - Burning Bridges (Haste the Day album) • Heaven Shall Burn – Antigone • Helmet – Size Matters • Helmet – Unsung: The Best of Helmet (1991–1997) (compilation) • Hirax – The New Age of Terror • Hypocrisy – The Arrival • Iced Earth – The Glorious Burden • In Flames – Soundtrack to Your Escape • IRA (MX) - Gesta Heróica • Isis – Panopticon • Jag Panzer – Casting the Stones • Killswitch Engage – The End of Heartache • Kittie – Until the End • Kill the Noize – Play with the Devil • Kronos – Colossal Titan Strife • Lamb of God – Ashes of the Wake • Lordi – The Monsterican Dream • Leaves' Eyes – Lovelorn • Marilyn Manson – Lest We Forget: The Best Of (compilation) • Marduk – Plague Angel • Mastodon – Leviathan • Mayhem – Chimera • Megadeth – The System Has Failed • Mercenary – 11 Dreams • Meshuggah – I • Metal Church – The Weight of the World • Metalium – As One – Chapter Four • Ministry – Houses of the Molé • Misanthrope – ''Misanthro-Thérapie (15 Années d'Analyse)'' (compilation) • Mnemic – The Audio Injected Soul • Monster Magnet – Monolithic Baby! • Motörhead – Inferno • My Dying Bride – Songs of Darkness, Words of Light • Necrophagist – Epitaph • Neurosis – The Eye of Every Storm • Nightwish – Once • No-Big-Silence – Kuidas kuningas kuu peale kippus • Oomph! – Wahrheit oder Pflicht • Orange Goblin – Thieving from the House of God • Otep – House of Secrets • Papa Roach – Getting Away with Murder • Pentagram – ''Show 'Em How'' • Pig Destroyer – Painter of Dead Girls (compilation) • Pig Destroyer – Terrifyer • Power Quest – Neverworld • Primal Fear – ''Devil's Ground'' • Pro-Pain – Fistful of Hate • Probot – Probot • Rammstein – Reise, Reise • Raunchy – Confusion Bay • Rhapsody – Symphony of Enchanted Lands II – The Dark Secret • Rotting Christ – Sanctus Diavolos • Saxon – Lionheart • Senses Fail – Let It Enfold You • Scarve – Irradiant • Scorpions – Unbreakable • Shadows Fall – The War Within • Slipknot – Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) • Sonata Arctica – Reckoning Night • Soulfly – Prophecy • Static-X – Beneath... Between... Beyond... (compilation) • Stryper – 7 Weeks: Live in America, 2003 (live) • Suffocation – Souls to Deny • Terror – One with the Underdogs • The Crest – Vain City Chronicles • The Haunted – Revolver • Therion – Lemuria • Therion – Sirius B • U.D.O. – Thunderball • Underoath – ''They're Only Chasing Safety'' • Unearth – The Oncoming Storm • Vader – The Beast • Van Halen – The Best of Both Worlds (compilation) • Velvet Revolver – Contraband • Vintersorg – The Focusing Blur • Visions of Atlantis – Cast Away • WarCry – Alea Jacta Est • Winds – The Imaginary Direction of Time • Wintersun – Wintersun • Within Temptation – The Silent Force • Xandria – Ravenheart ==Bands disbanded==

• Bathory • Creed • Damageplan • Memento • Nothingface (reformed in 2005) • Prayer for Cleansing • SugarComa • Windir ==Events==

• Brian "Head" Welch announced his departure from Korn after converting to Christianity. • Bassist Tim Gaines announced his departure from Stryper after 10 complete years. He was replaced by Tracy Ferrie. • Jason Jones was announced as Drowning Pool's new lead singer and joined them on the album Desensitized. • Supergroup Velvet Revolver releases their debut album Contraband which debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and goes double platinum. • After an eight-year hiatus, Extreme briefly returns for a short tour and a few concerts in Japan. • Van Halen reunites with Sammy Hagar for a summer tour. • Anal Cunt vocalist Seth Putnam slips into a coma after consuming a large amount of drugs. • Aerosmith returns to a raw hard rock sound with their blues cover album ''Honkin' on Bobo'' • Terry Balsamo leaves Cold and joins Evanescence as their new guitarist. • Guitarist Lisa Marx joins Kittie as a session member, replacing Jeff Phillips. • Maniac leaves Mayhem and is replaced by the band's former singer, Attila Csihar. • Dave Mustaine reforms Megadeth with 3 session musicians, former and original Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland, bassist Jimmie Lee Sloas and drummer Vinnie Colaiuta to record The System Has Failed, then tour the album with full-time members Glen Drover on guitar, James MacDonough on bass and Shawn Drover on drums. • Ex-Judas Priest drummer Dave Holland is sentenced to eight years in prison for attempted rape against a then 17-year-old boy. ==Deaths==

• 14 January – Terje "Valfar" Bakken, founder, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of Windir, died from hypothermia after being caught in a snow storm. He was 25. • 3 June – Thomas Börje "Quorthon" Forsberg, founder, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of Bathory, died from heart failure at the age of 38. • 17 August – Dennis "D-Roc" Miles, guitarist of Body Count, died from lymphoma complications at the age of 44. • 20 October – Flowing Tears founding members, former drummer Cristian Zimmer and former guitarist Björn Lorson, died in a car accident. • 8 December – "Dimebag" Darrell Lance Abbott, founding member and former guitarist of Pantera and guitarist of Damageplan, was killed on stage, along with three other people, while performing with Damageplan at a nightclub in Ohio. He was 38. • 26 December – Mieszko Andrzej Talarczyk, vocalist and guitarist of Nasum, died in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake at the age of 30. His body was identified on 16 February 2005. • Piero "Sanctis Ghoram" Gori, former Death SS vocalist, died from cancer. ==References==