1. Newly formed bands

2. Reformed bands

3. Albums

4. Disbandments

5. Events

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2000.

Newly formed bands

• 3 Inches of Blood
• Adagio
• Adema
• Arsis
• As I Lay Dying
• Beto Vázquez Infinity
• Crashdiet
• Disarmonia Mundi
• Forever Slave
• Full Blown Chaos
• Kiuas
• Mastodon
• Nachtmystium
• Otep
• Pagan's Mind
• Shaaman
• Swallow the Sun
• Thunderstone
• Ulcerate
• Ünloco
• Visions of Atlantis
• Warmen
• Wolfmother

Reformed bands

• Britny Fox
• Living Colour

Albums

• AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip
• After Forever - Prison of Desire
• Alabama Thunderpussy - Constellation
• Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet
• Alice in Chains - Live (live)
• A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
• Ayreon - The Dream Sequencer
• Ayreon - Flight of the Migrator
• Ayreon - Ayreonauts Only (compilation)
• Behemoth - Thelema.6
• Black Label Society - Stronger Than Death
• Blaze Bayley - Silicon Messiah
• Bloodbath - Breeding Death (EP)
• Borknagar - Quintessence
• Cannibal Corpse - Live Cannibalism (live)
• Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
• Chimaira- This Present Darkness (EP)
• Cradle of Filth - Midian
• Cro-Mags - Revenge
• Dark Tranquillity - Haven
• Deftones - White Pony
• Deicide - Insineratehymn
• Deliverance - Assimilation
• Demons & Wizards - Demons and Wizards
• Devin Townsend - Physicist
• Dio - Magica
• Disturbed - The Sickness
• Edguy - The Savage Poetry (re-recording)
• Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
• Fates Warning - Disconnected
• Godflesh - Messiah (EP)
• Godsmack - Awake
• HammerFall - Renegade
• Helloween - The Dark Ride
• Immortal - Damned in Black
• In Flames - Clayman
• Iron Maiden - Brave New World
• Isis - Celestial
• Jag Panzer - Thane to the Throne
• Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy
• Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
• King Diamond - House of God
• King's X - Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous
• Kittie - Spit
• Lamb of God - New American Gospel
• Lefay - S.O.S.
• Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
• Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
• Macabre - Dahmer
• Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
• Melvins - The Crybaby
• Metalium - State of Triumph Chapter Two
• Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation
• Monster Magnet - God Says No
• Motörhead - We Are Motörhead
• Mötley Crüe - New Tattoo
• Mudvayne - L.D. 50
• Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
• Nightwish - Wishmaster
• Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
• Nothingface - Violence
• No-Big-Silence - Successful, Bitch & Beautiful
• Old Man's Child - Revelation 666 – The Curse of Damnation
• Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
• Overkill - Bloodletting
• Pantera - Reinventing the Steel
• Papa Roach - Infest
• Paul Di'Anno - Nomad
• Pig Destroyer - 7" Picture Disc (EP)
• Pig Destroyer - Isis / Pig Destroyer (split EP)
• Pitchshifter - Deviant
• Poison - Crack a Smile...and More!
• Poison - Power to the People
• Primer 55 - Introduction to Mayhem
• QueenAdreena - Taxidermy
• Racer X - Technical Difficulties
• Rob Rock - Rage of Creation
• Rollins Band - Get Some -> Go Again
• Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory
• Scorpions - Moment of Glory (compilation)
• Saxon - The Best of Saxon (compilation)
• Sentenced - Crimson
• Seven Witches - City of Lost Souls
• Shadows Fall - Of One Blood
• Shuvel - Set It Off
• Sinergy - To Hell and Back
• Soulfly - Primitive
• Static-X - The Death Trip Continues (EP)
• Stratovarius - Infinite
• Stratovarius - 14 Diamonds (compilation)
• Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
• Tad Morose - Undead
• Theatre of Tragedy - Musique
• The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld
• The Sins of Thy Beloved - Perpetual Desolation
• Trail of Tears - Profoundemonium
• Vader - Litany
• Virgin Steele - The House of Atreus Act II
• Yngwie Malmsteen - War to End All Wars

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 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.

• The United States Army Field Band
• The United States Association of Reptile Keepers
• The United States Congress
• The United States Geological Survey
• The United States home front during World War II
• The United States House of Representatives
• The United States in the 19th century
• The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
• The United States Marine Corps on film
• The United States Men's Olympic hockey team
• The United States National Park Service
• The United States National Student Association
• The United States Newspaper Program
• The United States of America (disambiguation)
• The United States of America vs. Ernst von Weizsäcker, et al.
• The United States of America vs. Wilhelm List
• The United States of America vs. Wilhelm List, et al.
• The United States of Europe, A Eurotopia?
• The United States Pharmacopeial Convention
• The United States Strategic Bombing Survey
• The United States Study Centre
• The United States v. Adam Randenbush
• The United States v. Gooding
• The United States v. Holmes
• The United States v. James Paul