2016 in heavy metal music
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2016.
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Bands formed
Bands disbanded
Bands reformed
- Abandon All Ships[21]
- Akercocke[22]
- Battlelore (hiatus from 2011 to 2016)[23]
- Decadence[24]
- Demolition Hammer[25][26]
- Destroy the Runner[27]
- Evildead[28]
- Massacration[29]
- Massacre[30]
- Nasty Savage[31]
- Nitro[32]
- The Obsessed[33]
- Pestilence[34]
- Power Quest[35]
- Ratt[36][37]
- Scissorfight[38]
- The Union Underground[39]
Events
- On April 28, 2015, Black Sabbath announced that they will embark on their final tour.[40]
- 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.[41]
- On January 14, Lacuna Coil announced that guitarist Marco Biazzi has left the band.[42][43][44]
- On February 10, Skeletonwitch announced Adam Clemans as their new vocalist.[45]
- 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.[46] Lombardo will drum for Suicidal Tendencies again on their summer European tour.[47]
- On March 19, Underoath played their first show since disbanding in 2013 at Self Help Festival in California.[48]
- On March 31, Martin Henriksson announced that he has quit Dark Tranquillity due to loss of passion for playing music.[49]
- On April 16 and April 23, Guns N' Roses reunited with their original guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan for this year's Coachella.[50][51]
- 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.[52]
- On May 5, Eluveitie announced that they parted ways with drummer Merlin Sutter, vocalist Anna Murphy and guitarist Ivo Henzi.[53]
- On August 6 and 7, Heavy Montreal took place presented by Evenko, and headliners were Nightwish, Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch, Volbeat and Candlemass.[54]
Deaths
- January 14 – Kevin Lawrence, guitarist of Rapidfire, died from multiple heart attacks at the age of 51.[55]
- January 23 – Jimmy Bain, bassist of Rainbow and Dio, died from lung cancer at the age of 68.[56][57]
- February 21 – Piotr Grudziński, guitarist of Riverside, died from sudden cardiac arrest at the age of 40.[58][59][60]
- March 3 – John Thomas, former guitarist of Budgie, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 63.[61]
- March 3 – Oskar Karlsson, drummer of Gates of Ishtar, died from heart failure at the age of 39.[62]
- March 13 – Nik Green, keyboardist of Blue Murder, died from cancer.[63]
- April 5 – John Byrd, former guitarist of King Conquer, died from substance abuse.[64]
- April 18 – Aleah Liane Stanbridge, vocalist of Trees of Eternity, died from cancer.[65]
- May 21 – Nick Menza, former drummer of Megadeth, died from heart failure at the age of 51.[66]
- May 31 – Brandon Ferrell, former drummer of Municipal Waste, died from undisclosed reasons.[67]
- June 9 – Adam Young, multi-instrumentalist of Sockweb, died after committing suicide by hanging himself at the age of 28.[18][68]
- August 13 – Jerry Clyde Paradis, former drummer of The Gates of Slumber and Sourvein, died from undisclosed reasons.[69]
- August 17 – James Woolley, former keyboardist of Nine Inch Nails, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 49.[70]
- August 21 – Tom Searle, guitarist of Architects, died from cancer at the age of 28.[71]
- August 25 – Norman Killeen, former drummer of Threat Signal, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 38.[72]
- September 10 – Pecu Cinnari, drummer of Tarot, died from a long-term illness at the age of 50.[73]
- September 11 – Leonard Haze, former drummer of Y&T, died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 61.[74]
- September 27 – Mike Taylor, former vocalist of Quartz, died from undisclosed reasons.[75]
- September 27 – Brodie Wheeler, former guitarist of King Conquer, died from substance abuse.[76]
- December 5 – Adam Sagan, former drummer of Circle II Circle and Into Eternity, died from blood cancer at the age of 36.[77]
- December 23 – Mick Zane, guitarist of Malice, died from brain cancer.[78]
Albums released
January
Day | Artist | Album |
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7 | Autograph | Louder (EP)[79] |
8 | Cauldron | In Ruin[80] |
Exmortus | Ride Forth[81] | |
Jeff Hughell | Trinidad Scorpion Hallucinations[82] | |
15 | Aborted | Termination Redux (EP)[83] |
Axel Rudi Pell | Game of Sins[84] | |
Rhapsody of Fire | Into the Legend[85] | |
Witchcraft | Nucleus[86] | |
20 | Black Sabbath | The End (EP)[87][88] |
22 | Abbath | Abbath[89] |
Borknagar | Winter Thrice[90] | |
Megadeth | Dystopia[91] | |
Rage | My Way (EP)[92] | |
The Resistance | Coup de Grâce[93] | |
29 | Amoral | In Sequence[94] |
Avantasia | Ghostlights[95] | |
Black Tusk | Pillars of Ash[96] | |
Bury Tomorrow | Earthbound[97] | |
Conan | Revengeance[98] | |
Dream Theater | The Astonishing[99] | |
Exumer | The Raging Tides[100] | |
Master | An Epiphany of Hate[101] | |
Primal Fear | Rulebreaker[102][103] | |
Prong | X (No Absolutes)[104] | |
Serenity | Codex Atlanticus[105] |
February
Day | Artist | Album |
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5 | The Cult | Hidden City[106][107] |
Drowning Pool | Hellelujah[108] | |
Fleshgod Apocalypse | King[109] | |
Obscura | Akróasis[110] | |
Textures | Phenotype[111] | |
12 | Holy Grail | Times of Pride and Peril[112] |
Magrudergrind | II[113] | |
Myrath | Legacy[114] | |
Rotting Christ | Rituals[115] | |
Urgehal | Aeons in Sodom[116] | |
19 | Adept | Sleepless[117] |
After the Burial | Dig Deep[118] | |
Cirith Gorgor | Visions of Exalted Lucifer[119] | |
Delain | Lunar Prelude (EP)[120] | |
Hypno5e | Shores of the Abstract Line[121] | |
Karybdis | Samsara[122] | |
Last in Line | Heavy Crown[123] | |
Raubtier | Bärsärkagång[124] | |
26 | Anthrax | For All Kings[125] |
Anvil | Anvil Is Anvil[126] | |
Black Cobra | Imperium Simulacra[127] | |
Deströyer 666 | Wildfire[128] | |
Entombed A.D. | Dead Dawn[129] | |
Headspace | All That You Fear Is Gone[130] | |
Omnium Gatherum | Grey Heavens[131] | |
Redemption | The Art of Loss[132] | |
Sinbreed | Master Creator[133] | |
Sinbreed | Lust and Loathing[134] | |
Voivod | Post Society (EP)[135] | |
Wisdom | Rise of the Wise[136] |
March
Day | Artist | Album |
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4 | Hacktivist | Outside the Box[137] |
11 | Criminal | Fear Itself[138] |
Killswitch Engage | Incarnate[139] | |
Van Canto | Voices of Fire[140] | |
15 | Pyrrhon | Running Out of Skin (EP)[141] |
18 | Blaze Bayley | Infinite Entanglement[142] |
Circus Maximus | Havoc[143] | |
Convulse | Cycle of Revenge[144] | |
Human Fortress | Thieves of the Night[145] | |
Mob Rules | Tales from Beyond[146] | |
Mystic Prophecy | War Brigade[147] | |
Spiritual Beggars | Sunrise to Sundown[148] | |
The Word Alive | Dark Matter[149] | |
25 | American Head Charge | Tango Umbrella[150] |
Amon Amarth | Jomsviking[151] | |
Artillery | Penalty by Perception[152] | |
Asking Alexandria | The Black[153] | |
Blood Ceremony | Lord of Misrule[154] | |
Caliban | Gravity[155] | |
Dayglo Abortions | Armageddon Survival Guide[156] | |
Izegrim | The Ferryman's End[157] | |
Lody Kong | Dreams and Visions[158] | |
Metal Church | XI[159] | |
Rotten Sound | Abuse to Suffer[160] | |
Ragnarok | Psychopathology[161] | |
Walls of Jericho | No One Can Save You from Yourself[162] | |
April
May
Day | Artist | Album |
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6 | Vektor | Terminal Redux[196] |
10 | Femme Fatale | One More for the Road[197] |
13 | Avatar | Feathers & Flesh[198] |
Destruction | Under Attack[199] | |
DevilDriver | Trust No One[200] | |
Gorguts | Pleiades' Dust (EP)[201] | |
Grand Magus | Sword Songs[202] | |
Hatebreed | The Concrete Confessional[203] | |
Kvelertak | Nattesferd[204] | |
20 | Dead by Wednesday | The Darkest of Angels[205] |
Flotsam and Jetsam | Flotsam and Jetsam[206] | |
Iron Savior | Titancraft[207] | |
Katatonia | The Fall of Hearts[208] | |
Suidakra | Realms of Odoric[209] | |
Vardis | Red Eye[210] | |
24 | Binary Code | Moonsblood[211] |
27 | Architects | All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us[212] |
Behexen | The Poisonous Path[213] | |
Death Angel | The Evil Divide[214][215] | |
Illdisposed | Grey Sky Over Black Town[216] | |
Katalepsy | Gravenous Hour[217] | |
Lacuna Coil | Delirium[218] | |
Motörhead | Clean Your Clock (live album)[219][220] | |
Omen | Hammer Damage[221] | |
Six Feet Under | Graveyard Classics IV: The Number of the Priest (covers album)[222] | |
Suicidal Angels | Division of Blood[223] | |
Withered | Grief Relic[224] | |
June
Day | Artist | Album |
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1 | Yngwie Malmsteen | World on Fire[225] |
3 | Beartooth | Aggressive[226] |
Candlemass | Death Thy Lover (EP)[227] | |
Dark Funeral | Where Shadows Forever Reign[228] | |
Dark Suns | Everchild[229] | |
Hellyeah | Unden!able[230] | |
Paradox | Pangea[231] | |
Poverty's No Crime | Spiral of Fear[232] | |
Volbeat | Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie[233] | |
10 | D.R.I. | But Wait...There's More! (EP)[234] |
Rage | The Devil Strikes Again[235] | |
Scorpion Child | Acid Roulette[236] | |
Sumac | What One Becomes[237] | |
17 | Ayreon | The Theater Equation (live album)[238] |
Gojira | Magma[239] | |
Hammercult | Legends Never Die (EP)[240] | |
Nails | You Will Never Be One of Us[241] | |
Unlocking the Truth | Chaos[242] | |
24 | Be'lakor | Vessels[243] |
The Browning | Isolation[244] | |
Highlord | Hic Sunt Leones[245] | |
Internal Suffering | Cyclonic Void of Power[246] | |
Kayo Dot | Plastic House on Base of Sky[247] | |
Stuck Mojo | Here Come the Infidels[248] | |
Whitechapel | Mark of the Blade[249] |
July
Day | Artist | Album |
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1 | Chelsea Grin | Self Inflicted[250] |
Fates Warning | Theories of Flight[251] | |
Iskra | Ruins[252] | |
Oracles | Miserycorde[253] | |
Wolf Hoffmann | Headbangers Symphony[254] | |
2 | Brain Drill | Boundless Obscenity[255] |
8 | Centinex | Doomsday Rituals[256] |
Chevelle | The North Corridor[257] | |
Deadlock | Hybris[258] | |
Nonpoint | The Poison Red[259] | |
Trick or Treat | Rabbits' Hill, Pt. 2[260] | |
Wolverine | Machina Viva[261] | |
15 | 16 | Lifespan of a Moth[262] |
Raging Speedhorn | Lost Ritual[263] | |
22 | Black Crown Initiate | Selves We Cannot Forgive[264] |
Despised Icon | Beast[265][266] | |
Despite | Synergi[267] | |
Hammers of Misfortune | Dead Revolution[268] | |
Periphery | Periphery III: Select Difficulty[269] | |
Revocation | Great Is Our Sin[270] | |
Twisted Sister | Metal Meltdown (live album)[271] | |
Witherscape | The Northern Sanctuary[272] | |
29 | Ghoul | Dungeon Bastards[273] |
Infant Annihilator | The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch[274] | |
Ringworm | Snake Church[275] | |
Sinsaenum | Echoes of the Tortured[6] | |
August
Day | Artist | Album |
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5 | Bloody Hammers | Lovely Sort of Death[276] |
Carnifex | Slow Death[277] | |
Islander | Power Under Control[278] | |
Jackyl | Rowyco[279] | |
Skillet | Unleashed[280] | |
Tarja | The Shadow Self[281] | |
12 | The Amity Affliction | This Could Be Heartbreak[282] |
Equilibrium | Armageddon[283] | |
Lacrimas Profundere | Hope Is Here[284] | |
19 | Blood Incantation | Starspawn[285] |
Gemini Syndrome | Memento Mori[286] | |
Myrkur | Mausoleum (live album)[287] | |
Sabaton | The Last Stand[288] | |
Skeletonwitch | The Apothic Gloom (EP)[289] | |
20 | Throes of Dawn | Our Voices Shall Remain[290] |
26 | Ablaze My Sorrow | Black[291] |
Any Given Day | Everlasting[292] | |
Delain | Moonbathers[293] | |
DGM | The Passage[294] | |
Helstar | Vampiro[295] | |
Inquisition | Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith[296] | |
Michael Sweet | One Sided War[297] | |
Prophets of Rage | The Party's Over (EP)[298] | |
Running Wild | Rapid Foray[299] | |
Sodom | Decision Day[300] | |
Solution .45 | Nightmares in the Waking State: Part II[301] | |
Twelve Foot Ninja | Outlier[302] | |
Vicious Rumors | Concussion Protocol[303] | |
September
October
November
December
Day | Artist | Album |
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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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Heavy Metal Timeline 2016 |
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