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

• Invidia[1]
• Lovebites[2][3]
• Nothing Left[4]
• Prophets of Rage[5]
• Sinsaenum[6]
• Vimic[7]
• VUUR[8]

Bands disbanded

• Agalloch[9]
• Bolt Thrower[10]
• Crucified Barbara[11]
• Eths[12]
• For Today[13]
• I, the Breather[14]
• Kylesa (hiatus)[15]
• Lionheart[16]
• ReVamp[17]
• Scar the Martyr[7]
• Sockweb[18]
• Twisted Sister[19]
• Wodensthrone[20]

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
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
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
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

Day	Artist	Album
1	Babymetal	Metal Resistance[163]
	Bossk	Audio Noir[164]
	Mike & the Melvins	Three Men and a Baby[165]
	Moonsorrow	Jumalten aika[166]
	Novembre	URSA[167]
	Thunderstone	Apocalypse Again[168]
8	Deftones	Gore[169]
	Filter	Crazy Eyes[170]
	Ihsahn	Arktis[171]
	Zakk Wylde	Book of Shadows II[172]
15	Ace Frehley	Origins, Vol. 1 (covers album)[173]
	Crematory	Monument[174]
	Lita Ford	Time Capsule[175]
	Otep	Generation Doom[176]
22	Aborted	Retrogore[177]
	Darkness Divided	Darkness Divided[178]
	Diamond Head	Diamond Head[179]
	Eths	Ankaa[180]
	The Foreshadowing	Seven Heads Ten Horns[181]
	Incite	Oppression[182]
	October Tide	Winged Waltz[183]
	Texas Hippie Coalition	Dark Side of Black[184]
	This Ending	Garden of Death[185]
25	Darkend	The Canticle of Shadows[186]
	Tigertailz	Blast[187]
26	Node	Cowards Empire[188]
29	Darkestrah	Turan[189]
	Discharge	End of Days[190]
	Fallujah	Dreamless[191]
	Haken	Affinity[192]
	Nemesea	Uprise[193]
	Rob Zombie	The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser[194]
	Tremonti	Dust[195]

May

Day	Artist	Album
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
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
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
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

Day	Artist	Album
2	A Day to Remember	Bad Vibrations[304]
	Art of Dying	Nevermore (EP)[305]
	Goblin Cock	Necronomidonkeykongimicon[306]
9	Belenos	Kornôg[307]
	Black Funeral	Ankou and the Death Fire[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
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
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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