2003 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2003.

Newly formed bands

Reformed bands

Albums

Aborted – Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done
Alien Ant Farm – truANT
Alice Cooper – The Eyes of Alice Cooper
Akercocke – Choronozon
Anaal Nathrakh – When Fire Rains Down from the Sky, Mankind Will Reap as It Has Sown (EP)
Anthrax – We've Come for You All
Apocalyptica – Reflections
Arch Enemy – Anthems of Rebellion
As I Lay Dying – Frail Words Collapse
Avenged Sevenfold – Waking the Fallen
Between the Buried and Me – The Silent Circus
The Black Dahlia Murder – Unhallowed
Black Label Society – The Blessed Hellride
Bon Jovi – This Left Feels Right
Cannibal Corpse – 15 Year Killing Spree (box set)
Children of Bodom – Hate Crew Deathroll
Chimaira – The Impossibility of Reason
Cog – "Open Up" (maxi single)
Cradle of Filth – Damnation and a Day
The Darkness – Permission to Land
Deep Purple – Bananas
Deftones – Deftones
DevilDriver – DevilDriver
The Devin Townsend Band – Accelerated Evolution
Dimension Zero – This Is Hell
Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armageddon
Divinity Destroyed – Divinity Destroyed (EP)
Divinity Destroyed – Eden in Ashes
DragonForce – Valley of the Damned
Dream Theater – Train of Thought
Enslaved – Below the Lights
Europe – Rock the Night: The Very Best of Europe (compilation)
Evanescence – Fallen
Evergrey – Recreation Day
Finntroll – Visor om slutet (EP)
Godhead – Evolver
Godsmack – Faceless
Gojira – The Link
Gojira – Maciste All'Inferno (EP)
Hatebreed – The Rise of Brutality
Helloween – Rabbit Don't Come Easy
Hortus Animae – Waltzing Mephisto
Incubus – Live at Lollapalooza 2003 (live)
Iron Maiden – Dance of Death
Jane's Addiction – Strays
Katatonia – Viva Emptiness
King Diamond – The Puppet Master
Kiss – Kiss Symphony: Alive IV (live)
Korn – Take a Look in the Mirror
Kreator – Live Kreation (live)
Lamb of God – As the Palaces Burn
Lanfear – The Art Effect
Limp Bizkit – Results May Vary
Linkin Park – Meteora
Living Colour – Collideøscope
Lost Horizon – A Flame to the Ground Beneath
Macabre – Murder Metal
Masterplan – Masterplan
Marilyn Manson – The Golden Age of Grotesque
Machine Head – Through the Ashes of Empires
Metallica – St. Anger
Monstrosity – Rise to Power
Moonspell – The Antidote
Motörhead – Live at Brixton Academy (live)
Macabre – Murder Metal
Nevermore – Enemies of Reality
Nightrage – Sweet Vengeance
Norther – Mirror of Madness
Nothingface – Skeletons
No-Big-Silence – Unreleased
Overkill – Killbox 13
Opeth – Damnation
Pitchshifter – Bootlegged, Distorted, Remixed and Uploaded (compilation)
P.O.D. – Payable on Death
Psycroptic – The Scepter of the Ancients
Queensrÿche – Tribe
Rage – Soundchaser
Royal Hunt – Eyewitness
Rush – Rush in Rio (live)
Six Feet Under – Bringer of Blood
Skid Row – Thickskin
Sepultura – Roorback
Sevendust – Seasons
Solefald – In Harmonia Universali
Sonata Arctica – Winterheart's Guild
Static-X – Shadow Zone
Strapping Young Lad – Strapping Young Lad
Stratovarius – Elements, Pt. 1
Stratovarius – Elements, Pt. 2
Stryper – 7: The Best of Stryper (compilation)
Theocracy – Theocracy
Throwdown – Haymaker
Tourniquet – Where Moth and Rust Destroy
Trivium – Ember to Inferno
Týr – Eric the Red
uneXpect – _wE, Invaders (EP)
Virgin Black – Elegant... and Dying

Disbandments

Events

Metallica hires new bassist Robert Trujillo (from Suicidal Tendencies and Ozzy Osbourne). They release the much criticized album St. Anger.
MTV2 resurrected the old heavy metal/hard rock television program Headbangers' Ball.
Iced Earth vocalist Matt Barlow leaves Iced Earth after the events of September 11.
Christian metal band Stryper reforms with all original members.
Visions of Atlantis lead vocalist Christian Stani quits, and is later replaced by Mario Plank. Keyboardist Chris Kamper quits and is replaced by Miro Holly.
Rob Halford reunites with Judas Priest replacing Tim "Ripper" Owens
Aerosmith and KISS embark on a tour together

References

Preceded by 2002	Heavy Metal Timeline 2003	Succeeded by 2004

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