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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2020.
Bands formed
Bands disbanded
- Abnormality
- Absu
- All Shall Perish
- Anathema (hiatus)
- Dream On, Dreamer
- Falconer
- Lynch Mob
- Morgoth
- Nachtmystium
- Obey the Brave
- SHVPES
- Slapshock
- Stone Sour (hiatus)
- Unlocking the Truth
- Van Halen
Bands reformed
- Affiance
- The Amenta
- Attack Attack!
- Dark the Suns
- Darkwoods My Betrothed
- Forced Entry
- Genghis Tron
- I, the Breather
- To/Die/For
- Trail of Tears
- Vektor
Deaths
- January 7 – Neil Peart, drummer of Rush, died from brain cancer at the age of 67.
- January 24 – Joe Payne, former bassist of Nile and Divine Heresy, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 35.
- January 24 – Sean Reinert, former drummer of Cynic and Death, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 48.
- January 26 – Santtu Lonka, former drummer of To/Die/For, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 41.
- January 27 – Reed Mullin, drummer of Corrosion of Conformity, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 53.
- January 31 – Josh Pappe, former bassist of D.R.I. and Gang Green, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 53.
- February 6 – Diego Farias, former guitarist of Volumes, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 27.
- February 24 – Justin Frear, former guitarist of Ultimatum, died from a heart attack at the age of 47.
- March 7 – Mikro Virdis former drummer of Trick or Treat, died from a car crash at the age of 38.
- March 16 – Jason Rainey, former guitarist of Sacred Reich, died from a heart attack at the age of 53.
- March 24 – Bill Rieflin, former drummer of Ministry, KMFDM, and Revolting Cocks, died from cancer at the age of 59.
- March 28 – Lou A. Kouvaris, former guitarist of Riot, died from COVID-19 at the age of 66.
- April 21 – Derek Jones, guitarist of Falling in Reverse, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 35.
- April 26 – McKenzie Bell, former guitarist of He Is Legend, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 35.
- April 28 – Bob Fouts, former drummer of the Gates of Slumber and Burn It Down, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 45.
- May 28 – Bob Kulick, former session guitarist of Kiss and W.A.S.P., died from heart disease at the age of 70.
- June 1 - Joey Image, former drummer of Misfits, died from liver cancer at the age of 63.
- June 9 – Paul Chapman, former guitarist of UFO and Waysted, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 66.
- June 16 – Yuji "You" Adachi, guitarist of Dead End, died from sepsis at the age of 56.
- July 16 – Jamie Oldaker, former drummer of Frehley's Comet, died from cancer at the age of 68.
- August 4 – Tony Costanza, former drummer of Machine Head and Crowbar, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 52.
- August 7 – Alan Peters, former bassist of Agnostic Front, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 55.
- August 9 – Martin Birch, producer and engineer for albums by Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 71.
- August 14 – Pete Way, former bassist of UFO, Michael Schenker Group, Fastway and Waysted, died from life-threatening injuries at the age of 69.
- August 18 – Jack Sherman, former guitarist of Red Hot Chili Peppers, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 64.
- August 20 – Frankie Banali, drummer of Quiet Riot and former drummer of W.A.S.P., died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 68.
- August 24 – Riley Gale, vocalist of Power Trip, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 34.
- August 25 – Enrique Maseda, vocalist of NJ Bloodline, died from undisclosed reasons.
- August 31 – Jay White, bassist of the Agony Scene, died from undisclosed reasons.
- September 5 – Greg Messick, guitarist of Intruder, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 55.
- September 19 – Lee Kerslake, former drummer of Ozzy Osbourne and Uriah Heep, died from prostate cancer at the age of 73.
- September 25 – Brent Young, former bassist of Trivium, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 37.
- September 26 – Mark Stone, former bassist of Van Halen, died from cancer.
- September 28 – Donny Hillier, vocalist of Trauma, died from undisclosed reasons.
- October 6 – Eddie Van Halen, guitarist of Van Halen, died from throat cancer at the age of 65.
- November 4 – Ken Hensley, former keyboardist of Uriah Heep, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 75.
- November 25 – Aaron Melzer, former vocalist of Secrets, died from undisclosed reasons.
- November 26 – Jamir Garcia, vocalist of Slapshock, died from committing suicide by hanging at the age of 42.
- December 9 – Sean Malone, bassist of Cynic, died from committing suicide at the age of 50.
- December 22 – Leslie West, vocalist and guitarist of Mountain, died from cardiac arrest at the age of 75.
- December 29 – Alexi Laiho, vocalist and guitarist of Children of Bodom and Bodom After Midnight, died from alcohol-induced degeneration of the liver at the age of 41.
Albums released
January
Day | Artist | Album |
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3 | Stabbing Westward | Dead & Gone (EP) |
10 | Apocalyptica | Cell-0 |
Haunt | Mind Freeze | |
Mystic Prophecy | Metal Division | |
Poppy | I Disagree | |
Rage | Wings of Rage | |
17 | Antagonist A.D. | Through Fire (EP) |
Bleed the Sky | This Way Lies Madness | |
British Lion | The Burning | |
Kaoteon | Kaoteon | |
Mark Morton | Ether (EP) | |
Odious Mortem | Synesthesia | |
Sons of Apollo | MMXX | |
20 | Impiety | Versus All Gods |
24 | Annihilator | Ballistic, Sadistic |
Breaking Benjamin | Aurora | |
Davey Suicide | Rock Ain't Dead | |
Dawn of Solace | Waves | |
Higher Power | 27 Miles Underwater | |
Jorn | Heavy Rock Radio II – Executing the Classics (covers album) | |
Kirk Windstein | Dream in Motion | |
Marko Hietala | Pyre of the Black Heart | |
Nero di Marte | Immoto | |
Novelists | Cèst La Vie | |
Pyogenesis | A Silent Soul Screams Loud | |
Temperance | Viridian | |
Thy Catafalque | Naiv | |
29 | Lovebites | Electric Pentagram |
31 | Amberian Dawn | Looking for You |
Clint Lowery | God Bless the Renegades | |
Gnaw | Barking Orders (EP) | |
Lordi | Killection | |
Lorna Shore | Immortal | |
Serenity | The Last Knight | |
Theory of a Deadman | Say Nothing |
February
March
April
Day | Artist | Album |
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2 | Necrodeath | Neraka (EP) |
3 | Ad Infinitum | Chapter I: Monarchy |
August Burns Red | Guardians | |
Blaze Bayley | Live in Czech (live album) | |
Bonfire | Fistful of Fire | |
Conception | State of Deception | |
Dynazty | The Dark Delight | |
Red | Declaration | |
Testament | Titans of Creation | |
WVRM | Colony Collapse | |
10 | Archgoat | Black Mass XXX (live album) |
Azusa | Loop of Yesterdays | |
Benighted | Obscene Repressed | |
Dream On, Dreamer | What If I Told You It Doesn't Get Better | |
Metal Church | From the Vault (compilation album) | |
Nightwish | Human. :II: Nature. | |
15 | Outrage | Run Riot |
17 | Aborted | La Grande Mascarade (EP) |
Abysmal Dawn | Phylogenesis | |
The Black Dahlia Murder | Verminous | |
Cadaver | D.G.A.F. (EP) | |
Khemmis | Doomed Heavy Metal (EP) | |
Myrath | Live in Carthage (live album) | |
Oranssi Pazuzu | Mestarin Kynsi | |
Turmion Kätilöt | Global Warning | |
22 | Matenrou Opera | Chronos (EP) |
24 | Axel Rudi Pell | Sign of the Times |
Cirith Ungol | Forever Black | |
Danzig | Danzig Sings Elvis (covers album) | |
Elder | Omens | |
Katatonia | City Burials | |
Mantric | False Negative | |
Trick or Treat | The Legend of the XII Saints | |
Trivium | What the Dead Men Say | |
Ulcerate | Stare into Death and Be Still | |
Warbringer | Weapons of Tomorrow |
May
Day | Artist | Album |
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1 | Havok | V |
Killswitch Engage | Atonement II: B-Sides for Charity (EP) | |
Orange Goblin | Rough & Ready, Live & Loud (live album) | |
Vader | Solitude in Madness | |
Witchcraft | Black Metal | |
8 | ...And Oceans | Cosmic World Mother |
Brant Bjork | Brant Bjork | |
Destruction | Born to Thrash – Live in Germany (live album) | |
Forgotten Tomb | Nihilistic Estrangement | |
Green Carnation | Leaves of Yesteryear | |
Mekong Delta | Tales of a Future Past | |
Naglfar | Cerecloth | |
Oathbreaker | Ease Me & 4 Interpretations (EP) | |
Secrets of the Moon | Black House | |
Winterfylleth | The Reckoning Dawn | |
15 | Abramelin | Never Enough Snuff |
AC×DC | Satan Is King | |
Asking Alexandria | Like a House on Fire | |
Binary Code | Memento Mori | |
Firewind | Firewind | |
Paradise Lost | Obsidian | |
Ravenscry | 100 | |
Tokyo Blade | Dark Revolution | |
Triptykon | Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019) (live album) | |
Voodoo Gods | The Divinity of Blood | |
22 | Caligula's Horse | Rise Radiant |
Crossfaith | Species (EP) | |
Fairyland | Osyrhianta | |
Killitorous | The Afterparty | |
Old Man Gloom | Seminar VIII: Light of Meaning | |
Oz | Forced Commandments | |
Revenge | Strike.Smother.Dehumanize | |
Sinister | Deformation of the Holy Realm | |
Soulfly | Live Ritual NYC MMXIX (EP) | |
27 | Novelbright | Wonderland |
29 | Acârash | Descend to Purity |
Alestorm | Curse of the Crystal Coconut | |
Behemoth | A Forest (EP) | |
Bleed from Within | Fracture | |
Centinex | Death in Pieces | |
Def Leppard | London to Vegas (live album) | |
Grave Digger | Fields of Blood | |
Sorcerer | Lamenting of the Innocent | |
Xibalba | Años en Infierno |
June
Day | Artist | Album |
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5 | 16 | Dream Squasher |
The Ghost Inside | The Ghost Inside | |
11 | Power Trip | Live in Seattle – 05.28.2018 (live album) |
12 | Anonymus | La Bestia |
Behold... The Arctopus | Hapeleptic Overtrove | |
BPMD | American Made (covers album) | |
Clint Lowery | Grief & Distance (EP) | |
Lord | Chaos Raining (EP) | |
Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall | We Are the Night | |
Michael Angelo Batio | More Machine Than Man | |
17 | SiM | Thank God, There Are Hundreds of Ways to Kill Enemies |
18 | Protest the Hero | Palimpsest |
19 | Alarum | Circle's End |
Beyond the Black | Hørizøns | |
Cro-Mags | In the Beginning | |
Eisregen | Leblos | |
Lamb of God | Lamb of God | |
Make Them Suffer | How to Survive a Funeral | |
Mushroomhead | A Wonderful Life | |
Rise of the Northstar | Live in Paris (EP) | |
Spirit Adrift | Angel & Abyss Redux EP (EP) | |
The Sword | Chronology 2006–2018 (compilation album) | |
Conquest of Kingdoms (compilation album) | ||
Trapt | Shadow Work | |
Trash Talk | Squalor (EP) | |
22 | Al-Namrood | Wala'at |
25 | Thomas Giles | Feel Better (EP) |
26 | Ahab | Live Prey (live album) |
Carach Angren | Franckensteina Strataemontanus | |
Emmure | Hindsight | |
Falconer | From a Dying Ember | |
Ice Nine Kills | Undead & Unplugged: Live from the Overlook Hotel (EP) | |
Long Distance Calling | How Do We Want to Live? | |
Mantar | Grungetown Hooligans II (covers album) | |
Mike Lepond's Silent Assassins | Whore of Babylon | |
Paysage d'Hiver | Im Wald | |
Pyrrhon | Abscess Time | |
Wino | Forever Gone |
July
Day | Artist | Album |
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3 | Boris | NO |
Bury Tomorrow | Cannibal | |
Haunt | Flashback | |
Henry Derek Elis | All the Pretty Little Horses (EP) | |
Jesu | Never (EP) | |
Khemmis | More Songs About Death, Vol. 1 (EP) | |
Poltergeist | Feather of Truth | |
Powerwolf | Best of the Blessed (compilation album) | |
10 | Crown the Empire | 07102010 |
Ensiferum | Thalassic | |
Enuff Z'Nuff | Brainwashed Generation | |
Kiko Loureiro | Open Source | |
Static-X | Project: Regeneration Vol. 1 | |
Voivod | The End of Dormancy (EP) | |
17 | Dark Sarah | Grim |
U.D.O. | We Are One | |
24 | The Acacia Strain | Slow Decay |
Angband | IV | |
Defeated Sanity | The Sanguinary Impetus | |
Haken | Virus | |
Judicator | Let There Be Nothing | |
Primal Fear | Metal Commando | |
Valkyrie | Fear | |
31 | Alcatrazz | Born Innocent |
Anneke van Giersbergen | Let the Light In (live album) | |
Dee Snider | For the Love of Metal Live! (live album) | |
Disavowed | Revocation of the Fallen | |
Imperial Triumphant | Alphaville | |
Katalepsy | Terra Mortuus Est | |
Lionheart | The Reality of Miracles | |
Septicflesh | Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX (live album) | |
Upon a Burning Body | Built from War (EP) |
August
Day | Artist | Album |
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5 | Crystal Lake | The Voyages |
7 | Avatar | Hunter Gatherer |
Batushka | Раскол/Raskol (EP) | |
Black Crown Initiate | Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape | |
Blue Öyster Cult | 45th Anniversary – Live in London (live album) | |
Deep Purple | Whoosh! | |
In Hearts Wake | Kaliyuga | |
Krallice | Mass Cathexis | |
Lord of the Lost | Swan Songs III | |
Messiah | Fatal Grotesque Symbols – Darken Universe (EP) | |
Misery Signals | Ultraviolet | |
Onslaught | Generation Antichrist | |
Steve Von Till | No Wilderness Deep Enough | |
14 | Halestorm | Reimagined (EP) |
Ingested | Where Only Gods May Tread | |
Kamelot | I Am the Empire – Live from the 013 (live album) | |
Primitive Man | Immersion | |
21 | Buried Alive | Death Will Find You (EP) |
Hed PE | Class of 2020 | |
Incantation | Sect of Vile Divinities | |
Mad Max | Stormchild Rising | |
The Obsessed | Live at Big Dipper (live album) | |
Unleash the Archers | Abyss | |
Vicious Rumors | Celebration Decay | |
28 | Dokken | The Lost Songs: 1978–1981 (compilation album) |
John Petrucci | Terminal Velocity | |
Metallica | S&M2 (live album) | |
Pain of Salvation | Panther | |
Pig Destroyer | The Octagonal Stairway (EP) | |
Powerman 5000 | The Noble Rot | |
Seether | Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum | |
Shattered Sun | Bled for You | |
Ulver | Flowers of Evil | |
Venom | Sons of Satan (compilation album) | |
Venomous Concept | Politics Versus the Erection |
September
Day | Artist | Album |
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4 | Cloudkicker | Solitude |
Code Orange | Under the Skin (live album) | |
Oceans of Slumber | Oceans of Slumber | |
Stryper | Even the Devil Believes | |
11 | Epica | The Quantum Enigma B-Sides (compilation album) |
Ihsahn | Pharos (EP) | |
Marilyn Manson | We Are Chaos | |
Mastodon | Medium Rarities (compilation album) | |
Messiah | Fracmont | |
Uniform | Shame | |
18 | Ace Frehley | Origins Vol. 2 (covers album) |
Derek Sherinian | The Phoenix | |
Finntroll | Vredesvävd | |
Fit for a King | The Path | |
Heathen | Empire of the Blind | |
Napalm Death | Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism | |
Raven | Metal City | |
StillWell | Supernatural Miracle | |
23 | Ewigkeit | 23 (EP) |
25 | Alpha Wolf | A Quiet Place to Die |
Ayreon | Transitus | |
Cristian Machado | Hollywood Y Sycamore | |
Deftones | Ohms | |
Kat | The Last Convoy | |
Kataklysm | Unconquered | |
Obsidian Kingdom | Meat Machine | |
The Ocean | Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic | |
Svalbard | When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
October
Day | Artist | Album |
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1 | Greg Puciato | Child Soldier: Creator of God |
2 | Amaranthe | Manifest |
Anaal Nathrakh | Endarkenment | |
Corey Taylor | CMFT | |
DevilDriver | Dealing with Demons I | |
Enslaved | Utgard | |
Gotthard | Steve Lee – The Eyes of a Tiger: In Memory of Our Unforgotten Friend | |
Iron Angel | Emerald Eyes | |
Nachtblut | Vanitas | |
Silentium | Motiva | |
Six Feet Under | Nightmares of the Decomposed | |
Sumac | May You Be Held | |
9 | Blue Öyster Cult | The Symbol Remains |
Death Angel | Under Pressure (EP) | |
Five Finger Death Punch | A Decade of Destruction, Volume 2 (compilation album) | |
King Parrot | Holed Up in the Lair (EP) | |
Necrophobic | Dawn of the Damned | |
The Unguided | Father Shadow | |
Venom Prison | Primeval | |
Wolves at the Gate | Dawn (EP) | |
16 | Benediction | Scriptures |
Skálmöld | 10 Year Anniversary – Live in Reykjavík (live album) | |
Sons of Otis | Isolation | |
Spirit Adrift | Enlightened in Eternity | |
Tommy Lee | Andro | |
21 | Marty Friedman | Tokyo Jukebox 3 |
Mors Principium Est | Seven | |
23 | Armored Saint | Punching the Sky |
Earth Groans | Waste (EP) | |
Fever 333 | Wrong Generation (EP) | |
HammerFall | Live! Against the World (live album) | |
Leaves' Eyes | The Last Viking | |
Pallbearer | Forgotten Days | |
Raging Speedhorn | Hard to Kill | |
Rusty Eye | Dissecting Shadows | |
Saul | Rise as Equals | |
Sevendust | Blood & Stone | |
Zeal & Ardor | Wake of a Nation (EP) | |
24 | Infectious Grooves | Take U on a Ride (EP) |
30 | Autopsy | Live in Chicago (live album) |
Black Stone Cherry | The Human Condition | |
Botanist | Photosynthesis | |
Bring Me the Horizon | Post Human: Survival Horror (EP) | |
Carcass | Despicable (EP) | |
Convulse | Deathstar | |
Draconian | Under a Godless Veil | |
Evildead | United $tate$ of Anarchy | |
I Prevail | Post Traumatic (live album) | |
Ice Nine Kills | I Heard They KILL Live!! (live album) | |
Like Moths to Flames | No Eternity in Gold | |
Mr. Bungle | The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo | |
Stabbing Westward | Hallowed Hymns (EP) | |
Tom Morello | Comandante (EP) | |
Visions of Atlantis | A Symphonic Journey to Remember (live album) | |
Wytch Hazel | III: Pentecost |
November
Day | Artist | Album |
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6 | Black Tusk | Years in Black (compilation album) |
Celebrity Sex Scandal | The Fundamental | |
Fates Warning | Long Day Good Night | |
Jeff Scott Soto | Wide Awake (In My Dreamland) | |
Lionheart | Live at Summer Breeze (live album) | |
Lords of Black | Alchemy of Souls – Part I | |
Loudblast | Manifesto | |
Sólstafir | Endless Twilight of Codependent Love | |
7 | Jucifer | نظم |
12 | Mina Caputo | The Mones |
13 | Intervals | Circadian |
Jesu | Terminus | |
Katatonia | Dead Air (live album) | |
King 810 | AK Concerto No. 47, 11th Movement in G Major | |
L.A. Guns | Renegades | |
Macabre | Carnival of Killers | |
Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons | We're the Bastards | |
Pyramaze | Epitaph | |
Soulburn | Noa's D'ark | |
20 | Communic | Hiding from the World |
Contrarian | Only Time Will Tell | |
Dark Tranquillity | Moment | |
Ellefson | No Cover (covers album) | |
Fuck the Facts | Pleine Noirceur | |
Inquisition | Black Mass for a Mass Grave | |
Iron Maiden | Nights of the Dead, Legacy of the Beast: Live in Mexico City (live album) | |
Jinjer | Alive in Melbourne (live album) | |
Killer Be Killed | Reluctant Hero | |
Liturgy | Origin of the Alimonies | |
My Dying Bride | Macabre Cabaret (EP) | |
Nader Sadek | The Serapeum (EP) | |
Thrown into Exile | Illusion of Control | |
Tombs | Under Sullen Skies | |
27 | Azarath | Saint Desecration |
Cadaver | Edder & Bile | |
Defiance | Checkmate: The Demo Collection (compilation album) | |
Dream Theater | Distant Memories – Live in London (live album) | |
Hatebreed | Weight of the False Self | |
Horse the Band | Your Fault (EP) | |
Morgan Rose | Controlled Chaos (EP) | |
Psycroptic | The Watcher of All (EP) | |
Sodom | Genesis XIX | |
Within the Ruins | Black Heart |
December
Day | Artist | Album |
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4 | Deafheaven | 10 Years Gone (live album) |
Gama Bomb | Sea Savage | |
Hollywood Undead | New Empire, Vol. 2 | |
Iron Mask | Master of Masters | |
Iron Savior | Skycrest | |
Persuader | Necromancy | |
Soilwork | A Whisp of the Atlantic (EP) | |
9 | Wes Borland | The Astral Hand |
11 | Chris Cornell | No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol. 1 (covers album) |
Cro-Mags | 2020 (EP) | |
Deeds of Flesh | Nucleus | |
16 | Nocturnal Bloodlust | The Wasteland (EP) |
18 | A Sound of Thunder | Parallel Eternity |
Ashes of Ares | Throne of Iniquity (EP) | |
Grayceon | Mothers Weavers Vultures | |
24 | Batushka | Black Liturgy (live album) |
Papa Roach | 20/20 (EP) | |
25 | Hate Forest | Hour of the Centaur |
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