This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2024.
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Bands disbanded
Bands reformed
Events
- On January 5, Grave announced the departure of long-time members bassist Tobias Cristiansson and guitarist Mika Lagrén, putting the band's 2024 live activities on hold.[11]
- On January 13, 3 Inches of Blood performed their first show in nine years at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver.[12]
- On January 16, Mercyful Fate announced the band was parting ways with bassist Joey Vera.[13] He was replaced by Becky Baldwin, who had previously filled in for Vera during the band's 2022 tour.[14]
- In January, Issues embarked on a six-show farewell tour after a three-year hiatus without vocalist Tyler Carter, who was fired from the band for multiple accusations of grooming and sexual misconduct.[3][15]
- On February 1, Lynch Mob began what was announced as a year-and-a-half long farewell tour, titled The Final Ride, in Warrendale, Pennsylvania.[16]
- On February 5, founding member Phil Demmel announced his departure from Vio-lence.[17]
- On February 5, after years of rumors and speculation since Slayer's split, Kerry King unveiled details about his solo project.[18]
- On February 11, Kingdom Come announced they were parting ways with frontman Keith St. John and replacing him with Ezekiel "Zeke" Kaplan. The band also revealed that Matt Muckle would be replacing original drummer James Kottak, who had died the month before.[19]
- On March 1, Sepultura began what was announced as a year-and-a-half long farewell tour in celebration of their 40th anniversary, titled "Celebrating Life Through Death", at the Arena Hall in Belo Horizonte.[20][21] Three days before the tour started, it was announced that longtime drummer Eloy Casagrande had abruptly quit the band as early as February 6, being replaced by Suicidal Tendencies' Greyson Nekrutman.[22]
- On March 27, Skid Row announced the band was parting ways with vocalist Erik Grönwall, due to his health issues. Lzzy Hale of Halestorm will fill in for him for several upcoming shows.[23]
- On April 2, Misery Signals announced the band will break-up after a final tour, titled "The Blood Is Forever, Love Is Forever Farewell Tour", which will feature the band's current and former vocalists.[4]
- On April 21, Ozzy Osbourne was officially announced among the 2024 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[24]
- On June 8, Power Trip are scheduled to play their first show since original frontman Riley Gale's death in 2020 at the No Values Festival in Pomona, California, with Seth Gilmore taking over on vocals.[25]
- In July, Chimaira are scheduled to perform at the 2024 Inkcarceration Fest, their first festival concert in 14 years.[26][27]
- On July 20, the Klash of the Ruhrpott festival is scheduled to take place at Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, which would unite Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and Tankard, known as "the Big Teutonic Four", for the first time on one stage.[28]
- On September 22, Slayer are scheduled to play their first show at Riot Fest since disbanding in 2019, and their second show five days later at Louder Than Life.[10]
- Nightwish announced that they will go on a touring hiatus following the release of their upcoming tenth studio album this year.[29]
- Cirith Ungol will retire from performing live at the end of this year.[30]
- Ozzy Osbourne is scheduled to perform two farewell shows in Birmingham this summer.[31][32]
Deaths
- January 4 – Jan Němec, engineer and producer of numerous metal bands including Celtic Frost, Grave Digger, Helloween, and Running Wild, died from lung disease.[33]
- January 9 – James Kottak, former drummer of Scorpions, Kingdom Come, and Warrant, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 61.[34]
- January 17 – Martin Lacroix, former vocalist of Cryptopsy, died from undisclosed reasons.[35]
- February 2 – Craig Simmons, former drummer of Famous Last Words, died from undisclosed reasons.[36]
- February 16 – Greg "Fritz" Hinz, drummer of Helix, died from cancer at the age of 68.[37]
- February 20 – Vitalij Kuprij, keyboardist of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Artension, and Ring of Fire, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 49.[38]
- March 10 – Blake Harrison, bassist of Hatebeak and former sampler of Pig Destroyer, died from heart failure at the age of 48.[39][40]
- March 10 – T. M. Stevens, former bassist for Steve Vai, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 72.[41]
- April 2 – Jerry Abbott, father of Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul and producer of Pantera's first four studio albums, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 80.[42]
- April 5 – C. J. Snare, vocalist of FireHouse, died from cardiac arrest at the age of 64.[43][44]
- April 19 – Eddie Sutton, vocalist of Leeway, died from cancer at the age of 59.[45]
Albums expected
January
Day | Artist | Album |
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5 | Panzerchrist | All Witches Shall Burn (EP)[46] |
8 | Trollfest | 20 Years in the Wrong Lane (compilation album)[47] |
12 | Asking Alexandria | Dark Void (EP)[48] |
Emil Bulls | Love Will Fix It[49] | |
Exit Eden | Femmes Fatales[50] | |
Greg Puciato | FC5N (EP)[51] | |
Infant Island | Obsidian Wreath[52] | |
The Plot in You | Vol. 1 (EP)[53] | |
Project 86 | OMNI, Pt. 2[54] | |
Russell / Guns | Medusa[55] | |
Ryujin | Ryujin[56] | |
Scanner | The Cosmic Race[57] | |
16 | Ribspreader | Reap Humanity[58] |
17 | Nemophila | Evolve[59] |
19 | Master | Saints Dispelled[60] |
The Rods | Rattle the Cage[61] | |
Saxon | Hell, Fire and Damnation[62] | |
22 | Riley's L.A. Guns | The Dark Horse[63] |
26 | Any Given Day | Limitless[64] |
Blood Red Throne | Nonagon[65] | |
Caligula's Horse | Charcoal Grace[66] | |
Dead by April | The Affliction[67] | |
Inquisition | Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence[68] | |
Kill the Thrill | Autophagie[69] | |
Lucifer | Lucifer V[70] | |
Madder Mortem | Old Eyes, New Heart[71] | |
Mägo de Oz | Alicia en el Metalverso[72] | |
Manticora | Mycelium[73] | |
Static-X | Project: Regeneration Vol. 2[74] | |
Whitechapel | Live in the Valley (live album)[75] |
February
March
April
May
Day | Artist | Album |
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3 | Dååth | The Deceivers[205] |
Gothminister | Pandemonium II: The Battle of the Underworlds[206] | |
Keith Wallen | Infinity Now[207] | |
The Plot in You | Vol. 2 (EP)[53] | |
P.O.D. | Veritas[208] | |
10 | Anette Olzon | Rapture[209] |
Freedom Call | Silver Romance[210] | |
Incubus | Morning View XXIII[211] | |
Kill II This | Variant[212] | |
Knocked Loose | You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To[213] | |
Like Moths to Flames | The Cycles of Trying to Cope[214] | |
Necrophagia | Moribundis Grim[215] | |
Onslaught | Skullcrusher (compilation album)[216] | |
Powerman 5000 | Abandon Ship[217] | |
Riot V | Mean Streets[218] | |
Sebastian Bach | Child Within the Man[219] | |
Six Feet Under | Killing for Revenge[220] | |
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats | Nell' Ora Blu[221] | |
Unleash the Archers | Phantoma[222] | |
Warlord | Free Spirit Soar[223] | |
17 | Ayreon | 01011001: Live Beneath the Waves (live album)[224] |
Babylon A.D. | Rome Wasn't Built in a Day[225] | |
Combichrist | CMBCRST[226] | |
Demon | Invincible[227] | |
Gatecreeper | Dark Superstition[228] | |
Hell:on | Shaman[229] | |
Intervals | Memory Palace[230] | |
Jamey Jasta | ...And Jasta for All[231] | |
Jinjer | Live in Los Angeles (live album)[232] | |
Kerry King | From Hell I Rise[233] | |
Marty Friedman | Drama[234] | |
Nocturnus AD | Unicursal[235] | |
Pain | I Am[236] | |
Pallbearer | Mind Burns Alive[237] | |
Pathology | Unholy Descent[238] | |
Slash | Orgy of the Damned[239] | |
Ufomammut | Hidden[240] | |
24 | Clint Lowery | Don't Say It (EP)[241] |
Evildead | Toxic Grace[242] | |
Puya | Potencial[243] | |
Red Handed Denial | A Journey Through Virtual Dystopia[244] | |
Rotting Christ | Pro Xristoy[245] | |
Trail of Tears | Winds of Disdain (EP)[246] | |
31 | Bad Omens | Concrete Jungle [The OST] (remix album)[247] |
Black Sabbath | Anno Domini 1989–1995 (box set)[248] | |
Candlemass | Tritonus Nights (live album)[249] | |
Cloven Hoof | Heathen Cross[250] | |
Exodus | British Disaster: The Battle of '89 (Live at the Astoria) (live album)[251] | |
Nightrage | Remains of a Dead World[252] | |
Rhapsody of Fire | Challenge the Wind[253] | |
Thou | Umbilical[254] | |
Trapt | The Fall[255] |
June
Day | Artist | Album |
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7 | Apocalyptica | Plays Metallica Vol. 2 (covers album)[256] |
Bon Jovi | Forever[257] | |
Evergrey | Theories of Emptiness[258] | |
Nightmare | Encrypted[259] | |
The Omnific | The Law of Augmenting Returns[260] | |
Richard Henshall | Mu Vol. 1 (EP)[261] | |
Severe Torture | Torn from the Jaws of Death[262] | |
Umbra Vitae | Light of Death[263] | |
14 | Axel Rudi Pell | Risen Symbol[264] |
Julie Christmas | Ridiculous and Full of Blood[265] | |
Malignancy | ...Discontinued[266] | |
Ulcerate | Cutting the Throat of God[267] | |
21 | Alcest | Les Chants de L'Aurore[268] |
Black Veil Brides | Bleeders (EP)[269] | |
Dezperadoz | Moonshiner[270] | |
Earthtone9 | In Resonance Nexus[271] | |
Seven Spires | A Fortress Called Home[272] | |
Sumac | The Healer[273] | |
Wage War | Stigma[274] | |
24 | X-Cops | XCAB (EP)[275] |
26 | Crossfaith | AЯK[276] |
28 | Anvil | One and Only[277] |
Crystal Viper | The Silver Key[278] | |
The Eternal | Skinwalker[279] | |
Illdisposed | In Chambers of Sonic Disgust[280] | |
Limbonic Art | Opus Daemoniacal[281] | |
Nothing More | Carnal[282] | |
Sear Bliss | Heavenly Down[283] |
July
Day | Artist | Album |
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5 | Kissin' Dynamite | Back with a Bang![284] |
Kryptos | Decimator[285] | |
Orden Ogan | The Order of Fear[286] | |
Visions of Atlantis | Pirates II – Armada[287] | |
12 | In Hearts Wake | Incarnation[288] |
19 | Deep Purple | =1[289] |
Orange Goblin | Science, Not Fiction[290] | |
26 | Powerwolf | Wake Up the Wicked[291] |
August
Day | Artist | Album |
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9 | HammerFall | Avenge the Fallen[292] |
16 | Dark Tranquillity | Endtime Signals[293] |
Left to Suffer | Leap of Death[294] | |
23 | Zeal & Ardor | Greif[295] |
30 | Wintersun | Time II[296] |
Time Package (compilation album)[297] |
October
Day | Artist | Album |
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4 | Nasty Savage | Jeopardy Room[298] |
Artists with material in production
- Abigail Williams[299]
- Act of Denial[300]
- All That Remains[301]
- Annihilator[302]
- Anthrax[303]
- Apocalyptica[304]
- As I Lay Dying[305]
- The Black Dahlia Murder[306]
- Bleed the Sky[307]
- Bleeding Through[308]
- Boy Hits Car – Waves of Sound Across Oceans of Time[309]
- Bring Me the Horizon – Post Human: NeX Gen[310]
- BulletBoys – Jesus Fireworks and Porn[311]
- Charlotte Wessels[312]
- Chevelle[313]
- Corrosion of Conformity[314]
- Cradle of Filth[315]
- Dark Angel[316]
- Dead Brain Cells[317]
- Death Angel[318]
- Defeated Sanity[319]
- Deftones[320]
- Deliverance – Twelve[321]
- Dio (compilation album)[322]
- Down[323]
- Dragony[324]
- Dream Theater[325]
- Europe[326]
- Excel[327]
- Exciter[328]
- Exodus[329]
- Fear Factory[330]
- Flotsam and Jetsam – I Am the Weapon[331]
- For My Pain...[332]
- Forgotten Tomb[333]
- Gojira[334]
- Gorguts[335]
- The Halo Effect[336]
- Hatchet – Leave No Soul (EP)[337]
- Hatebreed[338]
- Havok[339]
- Heathen[340]
- Hirax – Faster Than Death[341]
- Infectious Grooves[342]
- Islander – Grammy Nominated[343]
- Jordan Rudess[344]
- Killswitch Engage[345]
- King Diamond – The Institute[346]
- Kittie – Fire[347]
- Koldbrann[348]
- Korn[349]
- L.A. Guns[350]
- Lacuna Coil[351]
- Leprous – Melodies of Atonement[352]
- Lillian Axe[353]
- Limp Bizkit[354]
- Lita Ford[355]
- Michael Wilton[356]
- Morbid Angel[357]
- Mötley Crüe[358]
- Nails[359]
- Nightwish[360]
- Nile[361]
- Obliveon[362]
- Oceans of Slumber[363]
- Onslaught[364]
- Oranssi Pazuzu[365]
- Orgy[366]
- Ozzy Osbourne[367]
- Paradise Lost[368]
- Paradox – Mysterium[369]
- Paul Di'Anno's Warhorse[370]
- Pestilence – Portals[371]
- Primus[372]
- Rob Zombie[373]
- Sacred Reich[374]
- Sacrifice[375]
- Sadist[376]
- Satyricon[377]
- Savatage – Curtain Call[378]
- Sepultura (live album)[379]
- Slaughter to Prevail[380]
- Slipknot – Look Outside Your Window[381]
- Sodom[382]
- Sólstafir[383]
- Spiritbox[384]
- Suicidal Tendencies[342]
- Suidakra[385]
- Testament[386]
- Tungsten – The Grand Inferno[387]
- Vintersorg[388]
- W.A.S.P.[389]
- War Babies (compilation album)[390]
- Warbringer[391]
- Whiplash – Old School American Way[392]
- Y&T[393]
References
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