This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2016.
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Bands formed
Bands disbanded
- Agalloch[12]
- Bolt Thrower[13]
- Crucified Barbara[14]
- Eths[15]
- For Today[16]
- I, the Breather[17]
- Kylesa (hiatus)[18]
- Lionheart[19]
- ReVamp[20]
- Scar the Martyr[10]
- Sockweb[21]
- Twisted Sister[22]
- Wodensthrone[23]
Bands reformed
- Abandon All Ships[24]
- Akercocke[25]
- Battlelore (hiatus from 2011 to 2016)[26]
- Decadence[27]
- Demolition Hammer[28][29]
- Destroy the Runner[30]
- Evildead[31]
- Massacration[32]
- Massacre[33]
- Nasty Savage[34]
- Nitro[35]
- The Obsessed[36]
- Pestilence[37]
- Power Quest[38]
- Ratt[39][40]
- Scissorfight[41]
- The Union Underground[42]
Events
- On April 28, 2015, Black Sabbath announced that they will embark on their final tour.[43]
- On July 5, 2015, Blackmore's Night and former Deep Purple and Rainbow guitarist Ritchie Blackmore announced that he will briefly return to rock music by performing a few shows in June.[44]
- On January 14, Lacuna Coil announced that guitarist Marco Biazzi has left the band.[45][46][47]
- On February 10, Skeletonwitch announced Adam Clemans as their new vocalist.[48]
- On February 20, Suicidal Tendencies announced Dave Lombardo (formerly of Slayer) as the drummer for their U.S. tour with Megadeth, which took place in February and March.[49] Lombardo will drum for Suicidal Tendencies again on their summer European tour.[50]
- On March 19, Underoath played their first show since disbanding in 2013 at Self Help Festival in California.[51]
- On March 31, Martin Henriksson announced that he has quit Dark Tranquillity due to loss of passion for playing music.[52]
- On April 16 and April 23, Guns N' Roses reunited with their original guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan for this year's Coachella.[53][54]
- On April 16, Overkill played a special show in Oberhausen where they played the Feel the Fire and Horrorscope albums in their entirety. The show was professionally filmed and recorded for an upcoming DVD.[55]
- On May 5, Eluveitie announced that they parted ways with drummer Merlin Sutter, vocalist Anna Murphy and guitarist Ivo Henzi.[56]
- On August 6 and 7, Heavy Montreal took place presented by Evenko, and headliners were Nightwish, Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch, Volbeat and Candlemass.[57]
Deaths
- January 14 – Kevin Lawrence, guitarist of Rapidfire, died from multiple heart attacks at the age of 51.[58]
- January 23 – Jimmy Bain, bassist of Rainbow and Dio, died from lung cancer at the age of 68.[59][60]
- February 21 – Piotr Grudziński, guitarist of Riverside, died from sudden cardiac arrest at the age of 40.[61][62][63]
- March 3 – John Thomas, former guitarist of Budgie, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 63.[64]
- March 3 – Oskar Karlsson, drummer of Gates of Ishtar, died from heart failure at the age of 39.[65]
- March 13 – Nik Green, keyboardist of Blue Murder, died from cancer.[66]
- April 5 – John Byrd, former guitarist of King Conquer, died from substance abuse.[67]
- April 18 – Aleah Liane Stanbridge, vocalist of Trees of Eternity, died from cancer.[68]
- May 21 – Nick Menza, former drummer of Megadeth, died from heart failure at the age of 51.[69]
- May 31 – Brandon Ferrell, former drummer of Municipal Waste, died from undisclosed reasons.[70]
- June 9 – Adam Young, multi-instrumentalist of Sockweb, died after committing suicide by hanging himself at the age of 28.[21][71]
- August 13 – Jerry Clyde Paradis, former drummer of The Gates of Slumber and Sourvein, died from undisclosed reasons.[72]
- August 17 – James Woolley, former keyboardist of Nine Inch Nails, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 49.[73]
- August 21 – Tom Searle, guitarist of Architects, died from cancer at the age of 28.[74]
- August 25 – Norman Killeen, former drummer of Threat Signal, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 38.[75]
- September 10 – Pecu Cinnari, drummer of Tarot, died from a long-term illness at the age of 50.[76]
- September 11 – Leonard Haze, former drummer of Y&T, died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 61.[77]
- September 27 – Mike Taylor, former vocalist of Quartz, died from undisclosed reasons.[78]
- September 27 – Brodie Wheeler, former guitarist of King Conquer, died from substance abuse.[79]
- December 5 – Adam Sagan, former drummer of Circle II Circle and Into Eternity, died from blood cancer at the age of 36.[80]
- December 23 – Mick Zane, guitarist of Malice, died from brain cancer.[81]
Albums released
January
Day | Artist | Album |
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7 | Autograph | Louder (EP)[82] |
8 | Cauldron | In Ruin[83] |
Exmortus | Ride Forth[84] | |
Jeff Hughell | Trinidad Scorpion Hallucinations[85] | |
15 | Aborted | Termination Redux (EP)[86] |
Axel Rudi Pell | Game of Sins[87] | |
Rhapsody of Fire | Into the Legend[88] | |
Witchcraft | Nucleus[89] | |
20 | Black Sabbath | The End (EP)[90][91] |
22 | Abbath | Abbath[92] |
Borknagar | Winter Thrice[93] | |
Megadeth | Dystopia[94] | |
Rage | My Way (EP)[95] | |
The Resistance | Coup de Grâce[96] | |
29 | Amoral | In Sequence[97] |
Avantasia | Ghostlights[98] | |
Black Tusk | Pillars of Ash[99] | |
Bury Tomorrow | Earthbound[100] | |
Conan | Revengeance[101] | |
Dream Theater | The Astonishing[102] | |
Exumer | The Raging Tides[103] | |
Master | An Epiphany of Hate[104] | |
Primal Fear | Rulebreaker[105][106] | |
Prong | X (No Absolutes)[107] | |
Serenity | Codex Atlanticus[108] |
February
Day | Artist | Album |
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5 | The Cult | Hidden City[109][110] |
Drowning Pool | Hellelujah[111] | |
Fleshgod Apocalypse | King[112] | |
Obscura | Akróasis[113] | |
Textures | Phenotype[114] | |
12 | Holy Grail | Times of Pride and Peril[115] |
Magrudergrind | II[116] | |
Rotting Christ | Rituals[117] | |
Urgehal | Aeons in Sodom[118] | |
19 | Adept | Sleepless[119] |
After the Burial | Dig Deep[120] | |
Cirith Gorgor | Visions of Exalted Lucifer[121] | |
Delain | Lunar Prelude (EP)[122] | |
Hypno5e | Shores of the Abstract Line[123] | |
Karybdis | Samsara[124] | |
Last in Line | Heavy Crown[125] | |
Myrath | Legacy[126] | |
Raubtier | Bärsärkagång[127] | |
26 | Anthrax | For All Kings[128] |
Anvil | Anvil Is Anvil[129] | |
Black Cobra | Imperium Simulacra[130] | |
Deströyer 666 | Wildfire[131] | |
Entombed A.D. | Dead Dawn[132] | |
Headspace | All That You Fear Is Gone[133] | |
Omnium Gatherum | Grey Heavens[134] | |
Redemption | The Art of Loss[135] | |
Sinbreed | Master Creator[136] | |
The Unguided | Lust and Loathing[137] | |
Voivod | Post Society (EP)[138] | |
Wisdom | Rise of the Wise[139] |
March
Day | Artist | Album |
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4 | Hacktivist | Outside the Box[140] |
11 | Criminal | Fear Itself[141] |
Killswitch Engage | Incarnate[142] | |
Van Canto | Voices of Fire[143] | |
15 | Pyrrhon | Running Out of Skin (EP)[144] |
18 | Blaze Bayley | Infinite Entanglement[145] |
Circus Maximus | Havoc[146] | |
Convulse | Cycle of Revenge[147] | |
Human Fortress | Thieves of the Night[148] | |
Mob Rules | Tales from Beyond[149] | |
Mystic Prophecy | War Brigade[150] | |
Spiritual Beggars | Sunrise to Sundown[151] | |
The Word Alive | Dark Matter[152] | |
25 | American Head Charge | Tango Umbrella[153] |
Amon Amarth | Jomsviking[154] | |
Artillery | Penalty by Perception[155] | |
Asking Alexandria | The Black[156] | |
Blood Ceremony | Lord of Misrule[157] | |
Caliban | Gravity[158] | |
Dayglo Abortions | Armageddon Survival Guide[159] | |
Izegrim | The Ferryman's End[160] | |
Lody Kong | Dreams and Visions[161] | |
Metal Church | XI[162] | |
Rotten Sound | Abuse to Suffer[163] | |
Ragnarok | Psychopathology[164] | |
Walls of Jericho | No One Can Save You from Yourself[165] |
April
Day | Artist | Album |
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1 | Babymetal | Metal Resistance[166] |
Bossk | Audio Noir[167] | |
Mike & the Melvins | Three Men and a Baby[168] | |
Moonsorrow | Jumalten aika[169] | |
Novembre | URSA[170] | |
Thunderstone | Apocalypse Again[171] | |
8 | Deftones | Gore[172] |
Filter | Crazy Eyes[173] | |
Ihsahn | Arktis[174] | |
Zakk Wylde | Book of Shadows II[175] | |
15 | Ace Frehley | Origins, Vol. 1 (covers album)[176] |
Crematory | Monument[177] | |
Lita Ford | Time Capsule[178] | |
Otep | Generation Doom[179] | |
22 | Aborted | Retrogore[180] |
Darkness Divided | Darkness Divided[181] | |
Diamond Head | Diamond Head[182] | |
Eths | Ankaa[183] | |
The Foreshadowing | Seven Heads Ten Horns[184] | |
Incite | Oppression[185] | |
October Tide | Winged Waltz[186] | |
Texas Hippie Coalition | Dark Side of Black[187] | |
This Ending | Garden of Death[188] | |
25 | Darkend | The Canticle of Shadows[189] |
Tigertailz | Blast[190] | |
26 | Node | Cowards Empire[191] |
29 | Darkestrah | Turan[192] |
Discharge | End of Days[193] | |
Fallujah | Dreamless[194] | |
Haken | Affinity[195] | |
Nemesea | Uprise[196] | |
Rob Zombie | The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser[197] | |
Tremonti | Dust[198] |
May
Day | Artist | Album |
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6 | Vektor | Terminal Redux[199] |
10 | Femme Fatale | One More for the Road[200] |
13 | Avatar | Feathers & Flesh[201] |
Destruction | Under Attack[202] | |
DevilDriver | Trust No One[203] | |
Gorguts | Pleiades' Dust (EP)[204] | |
Grand Magus | Sword Songs[205] | |
Hatebreed | The Concrete Confessional[206] | |
Kvelertak | Nattesferd[207] | |
20 | Dead by Wednesday | The Darkest of Angels[208] |
Flotsam and Jetsam | Flotsam and Jetsam[209] | |
Iron Savior | Titancraft[210] | |
Katatonia | The Fall of Hearts[211] | |
Suidakra | Realms of Odoric[212] | |
Vardis | Red Eye[213] | |
24 | Binary Code | Moonsblood[214] |
27 | Architects | All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us[215] |
Behexen | The Poisonous Path[216] | |
Death Angel | The Evil Divide[217][218] | |
Illdisposed | Grey Sky Over Black Town[219] | |
Katalepsy | Gravenous Hour[220] | |
Lacuna Coil | Delirium[221] | |
Motörhead | Clean Your Clock (live album)[222][223] | |
Omen | Hammer Damage[224] | |
Six Feet Under | Graveyard Classics IV: The Number of the Priest (covers album)[225] | |
Suicidal Angels | Division of Blood[226] | |
Withered | Grief Relic[227] |
June
Day | Artist | Album |
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1 | Yngwie Malmsteen | World on Fire[228] |
3 | Beartooth | Aggressive[229] |
Candlemass | Death Thy Lover (EP)[230] | |
Dark Funeral | Where Shadows Forever Reign[231] | |
Dark Suns | Everchild[232] | |
Hellyeah | Unden!able[233] | |
Paradox | Pangea[234] | |
Poverty's No Crime | Spiral of Fear[235] | |
Volbeat | Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie[236] | |
10 | D.R.I. | But Wait... There's More! (EP)[237] |
Rage | The Devil Strikes Again[238] | |
Scorpion Child | Acid Roulette[239] | |
Sumac | What One Becomes[240] | |
17 | Ayreon | The Theater Equation (live album)[241] |
Gojira | Magma[242] | |
Hammercult | Legends Never Die (EP)[243] | |
Nails | You Will Never Be One of Us[244] | |
Unlocking the Truth | Chaos[245] | |
24 | Be'lakor | Vessels[246] |
The Browning | Isolation[247] | |
Highlord | Hic Sunt Leones[248] | |
Kayo Dot | Plastic House on Base of Sky[249] | |
Stuck Mojo | Here Come the Infidels[250] | |
Whitechapel | Mark of the Blade[251] |
July
Day | Artist | Album |
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1 | Chelsea Grin | Self Inflicted[252] |
Fates Warning | Theories of Flight[253] | |
Oracles | Miserycorde[254] | |
Wolf Hoffmann | Headbangers Symphony[255] | |
2 | Brain Drill | Boundless Obscenity[256] |
8 | Centinex | Doomsday Rituals[257] |
Chevelle | The North Corridor[258] | |
Deadlock | Hybris[259] | |
Nonpoint | The Poison Red[260] | |
Trick or Treat | Rabbits' Hill, Pt. 2[261] | |
Wolverine | Machina Viva[262] | |
15 | 16 | Lifespan of a Moth[263] |
Raging Speedhorn | Lost Ritual[264] | |
22 | Black Crown Initiate | Selves We Cannot Forgive[265] |
Despised Icon | Beast[266][267] | |
Despite | Synergi[268] | |
Hammers of Misfortune | Dead Revolution[269] | |
Periphery | Periphery III: Select Difficulty[270] | |
Revocation | Great Is Our Sin[271] | |
Twisted Sister | Metal Meltdown (live album)[272] | |
Witherscape | The Northern Sanctuary[273] | |
29 | Ghoul | Dungeon Bastards[274] |
Infant Annihilator | The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch[275] | |
Ringworm | Snake Church[276] | |
Sinsaenum | Echoes of the Tortured[9] |
August
Day | Artist | Album |
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5 | Bloody Hammers | Lovely Sort of Death[277] |
Carnifex | Slow Death[278] | |
Islander | Power Under Control[279] | |
Jackyl | Rowyco[280] | |
Skillet | Unleashed[281] | |
Tarja | The Shadow Self[282] | |
12 | The Amity Affliction | This Could Be Heartbreak[283] |
Equilibrium | Armageddon[284] | |
Lacrimas Profundere | Hope Is Here[285] | |
19 | Blood Incantation | Starspawn[286] |
Gemini Syndrome | Memento Mori[287] | |
Myrkur | Mausoleum (live album)[288] | |
Sabaton | The Last Stand[289] | |
Skeletonwitch | The Apothic Gloom (EP)[290] | |
20 | Throes of Dawn | Our Voices Shall Remain[291] |
26 | Ablaze My Sorrow | Black[292] |
Any Given Day | Everlasting[293] | |
Delain | Moonbathers[294] | |
DGM | The Passage[295] | |
Helstar | Vampiro[296] | |
Inquisition | Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith[297] | |
Michael Sweet | One Sided War[298] | |
Prophets of Rage | The Party's Over (EP)[299] | |
Running Wild | Rapid Foray[300] | |
Sodom | Decision Day[301] | |
Solution .45 | Nightmares in the Waking State: Part II[302] | |
Twelve Foot Ninja | Outlier[303] | |
Vicious Rumors | Concussion Protocol[304] |
September
Day | Artist | Album |
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2 | A Day to Remember | Bad Vibrations[305] |
Art of Dying | Nevermore (EP)[306] | |
Goblin Cock | Necronomidonkeykongimicon[307] | |
9 | Belenos | Kornôg[308] |
Devin Townsend Project | Transcendence[309] | |
Evergrey | The Storm Within[310] | |
KMFDM | Rocks – Milestones Reloaded[311] | |
Norma Jean | Polar Similar[312] | |
Of Mice & Men | Cold World[313] | |
Pain | Coming Home[314] | |
Power Quest | Face the Raven (EP)[315] | |
Rev Theory | The Revelation[316] | |
16 | Ancient | Back to the Land of the Dead[317] |
Brujeria | Pocho Aztlan[318] | |
Finsterforst | #Yølø (EP)[319] | |
Ghost | Popestar (EP)[320] | |
Heaven Shall Burn | Wanderer[321] | |
In the Woods... | Pure[322] | |
Iron Fire | Among the Dead[323] | |
King 810 | La Petite Mort or a Conversation with God[324] | |
Lordi | Monstereophonic (Theaterror vs. Demonarchy)[325] | |
Narnia | Narnia[326] | |
Temperance | The Earth Embraces Us All[327] | |
Thy Catafalque | Meta[328] | |
23 | Allegaeon | Proponent for Sentience[329] |
Almah | E.V.O[330] | |
Charred Walls of the Damned | Creatures Watching Over the Dead[331] | |
Dysrhythmia | The Veil of Control[332] | |
Every Time I Die | Low Teens[333] | |
Grim Reaper | Walking in the Shadows[334] | |
Insomnium | Winter's Gate[335] | |
Iron Mask | Diabolica[336] | |
Monte Pittman | Inverted Grasp of Balance[337] | |
Neurosis | Fires Within Fires[338] | |
Operation: Mindcrime | Resurrection[339] | |
Saint Vitus | Live Vol. 2 (live album)[340] | |
Trap Them | Crown Feral[341] | |
30 | The Agonist | Five[342] |
Alcest | Kodama[343] | |
Asphyx | Incoming Death[344] | |
Epica | The Holographic Principle[345] | |
Negură Bunget | ZI[346] | |
Oathbreaker | Rheia[347] | |
Opeth | Sorceress[348] | |
Seven Kingdoms | In the Walls (EP)[349] | |
Skálmöld | Vögguvísur Yggdrasils[350] | |
Skiltron | Legacy of Blood[351] | |
Suicidal Tendencies | World Gone Mad[352] | |
Truckfighters | V[353] | |
Winterfylleth | The Dark Hereafter[354] |
October
Day | Artist | Album |
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7 | Alter Bridge | The Last Hero[355] |
Alter Bridge | While They Were Sleeping[356] | |
The Devil Wears Prada | Transit Blues[357] | |
Fit for a King | Deathgrip[358] | |
Kyng | Breathe in the Water[359] | |
Leaves' Eyes | Fires in the North (EP)[360] | |
Meshuggah | The Violent Sleep of Reason[361] | |
Mouth of the Architect | Path of Eight[362] | |
Slaves on Dope | Horse[363] | |
Sonata Arctica | The Ninth Hour[364] | |
Watchtower | Concepts of Math: Book One (EP)[365] | |
14 | Anciients | Voice of the Void[366] |
Darkthrone | Arctic Thunder[367][368] | |
The Dillinger Escape Plan | Dissociation[369] | |
Hardline | Human Nature[370] | |
Heaven Below | Good Morning Apocalypse[371] | |
Hobbs' Angel of Death | Heaven Bled[372] | |
Red Fang | Only Ghosts[373] | |
Sacred Steel | Heavy Metal Sacrifice[374] | |
Secret Sphere | One Night in Tokyo (live album)[375] | |
Sonic Syndicate | Confessions[376] | |
Theatres des Vampires | Candyland[377] | |
Wormrot | Voices[378] | |
21 | Amaranthe | Maximalism[379] |
Bon Jovi | This House Is Not for Sale[380] | |
Destrage | A Means to No End[381] | |
I Declare War | Songs for the Sick[382] | |
Korn | The Serenity of Suffering[383] | |
Thrown into Exile | Safe Inside[384] | |
Tygers of Pan Tang | Tygers of Pan Tang[385] | |
Wovenwar | Honor Is Dead[386] | |
25 | Wardrum | Awakening[387] |
28 | Anaal Nathrakh | The Whole of the Law[388] |
Avenged Sevenfold | The Stage[389] | |
Car Bomb | Meta[390] | |
Crowbar | The Serpent Only Lies[391] | |
Deranged | Struck by a Murderous Siege[392] | |
Dope | Blood Money, Part 1[393] | |
Helmet | Dead to the World[394] | |
Krypts | Remnants of Expansion[395] | |
Madder Mortem | Red in Tooth and Claw[396] | |
Memphis May Fire | This Light I Hold[397] | |
Painted in Exile | The Ordeal[398] | |
Serpentine Dominion | Serpentine Dominion[399] | |
Testament | Brotherhood of the Snake[400] | |
Theocracy | Ghost Ship[401] | |
Ulcerate | Shrines of Paralysis [402] | |
Upon a Burning Body | Straight from the Barrio[403] | |
Whores | Gold[404] |
November
Day | Artist | Album |
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4 | Civil War | The Last Full Measure[405] |
Dark Tranquillity | Atoma[406] | |
HammerFall | Built to Last[407] | |
Pretty Maids | Kingmaker[408] | |
Sick of It All | When the Smoke Clears (EP)[409] | |
Starkill | Shadow Sleep[410] | |
Vader | The Empire[411] | |
8 | Deathspell Omega | The Synarchy of Molten Bones (EP)[412] |
11 | Animals as Leaders | The Madness of Many[413] |
In Flames | Battles[414] | |
Sirenia | Dim Days of Dolor[415] | |
Superjoint | Caught Up in the Gears of Application[416] | |
Trees of Eternity | Hour of the Nightingale[417] | |
14 | Furia | Księżyc Milczy Luty[418] |
18 | De La Tierra | II[419] |
Devilment | II – The Mephisto Waltzes[420] | |
Diabulus in Musica | Dirge for the Archons[421] | |
Freedom Call | Master of Light[422] | |
Herman Frank | The Devil Rides Out[423] | |
Ion Dissonance | Cast the First Stone[424] | |
Lamb of God | The Duke (EP)[425] | |
Metallica | Hardwired... to Self-Destruct[426] | |
Protest the Hero | Pacific Myth (EP)[427] | |
Soulburn | Earthless Pagan Spirit[428] | |
21 | Paul Wardingham | Spiritual Machines[429] |
25 | Nightmare | Dead Sun[430] |
Witchery | In His Infernal Majesty's Service[431] |
December
Day | Artist | Album |
---|---|---|
2 | Enuff Z'Nuff | Clowns Lounge[432] |
9 | Babymetal | Live at Wembley (live album)[433] |
Destroy the Runner | Void (EP)[434] | |
Those Who Fear | State of Mind[435] | |
Zao | The Well-Intentioned Virus[436] | |
16 | Machinae Supremacy | Into the Night World[437] |
17 | Rudra | Enemy of Duality[438] |
23 | Nine Inch Nails | Not the Actual Events (EP)[439] |
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