2000 in heavy metal music

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
 * Blinded Colony (as Stigmata)
 * Bucovina
 * Byzantine
 * Cannae
 * Car Bomb
 * Circus Maximus
 * Crashdïet
 * The Darkness
 * Deadsoul Tribe
 * Deathstars
 * Debauchery
 * Demon Hunter
 * Desperados
 * 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

Disbandments

 * Rage Against the Machine
 * Sacred Reich (Reformed 2006)

Events

 * Al Pitrelli replaces Marty Friedman on guitar for Megadeth.
 * Metallica releases a song "I Disappear" that was never released on any studio albums and appears on the Mission: Impossible 2 soundtrack. This song also started the famous Napster Controversy.
 * Angela Gossow replaces Johan Liiva on vocals for Arch Enemy.
 * Mr. Bungle play their final concert.

Deaths

 * September 21 – Peter "Wildfire" Wittke, founding member and guitarist of Iron Angel, died from injuries sustained in a car crash.