2020 in heavy metal music

List of years in heavy metal music (table)

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2020.

Bands formed

Bands disbanded

Bands reformed

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
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

Day Artist Album
7 Delain Apocalypse & Chill
God Dethroned Illuminati
Loathe I Let It In and It Took Everything
Napalm Death Logic Ravaged by Brute Force (EP)
Sepultura Quadra
Stone Temple Pilots Perdida
Sylosis Cycle of Suffering
14 Anvil Legal at Last
Diabulus in Musica Euphonic Entropy
Hollywood Undead New Empire, Vol. 1
Ihsahn Telemark (EP)
Kreator London Apocalypticon – Live at the Roundhouse (DVD)
Kvelertak Splid
Necrowretch The Ones from Hell
Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void
Suicide Silence Become the Hunter
20 Reflections Willow
21 The Amity Affliction Everyone Loves You... Once You Leave Them
Biff Byford School of Hard Knocks
Demons & Wizards III
H.E.A.T H.E.A.T II
Lost Society No Absolution
Mondo Generator Fuck It
On Thorns I Lay Threnos
Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man
Polaris The Death of Me
The Word Alive Monomania
28 Beneath the Massacre Fearmonger
Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World
Five Finger Death Punch F8
Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions
John Dolmayan These Grey Men (covers album)
Neaera Neaera
Nils Patrik Johansson The Great Conspiracy
Shakra Mad World
Today Is the Day No Good to Anyone
Tombs Monarchy of Shadows (EP)

March

Day Artist Album
6 Allen/Olzon Worlds Apart
Body Count Carnivore
Crematory Unbroken
Harem Scarem Change the World
My Dying Bride The Ghost of Orion
Ross the Boss Born of Fire
Semblant Obscura
Trauma Ominous Black
12 Ded Mannequin Eyes (EP)
13 Burzum Thulêan Mysteries
Code Orange Underneath
Conny Bloom Game! Set! Bloom!
Gotthard #13
Haggard Cat Common Sense Holiday
Invent Animate Greyview
Stitched Up Heart Darkness
Vulcano Eye in Hell
Wolf Feeding the Machine
18 Lynch Ultima
20 Heaven Shall Burn Of Truth and Sacrifice
Lucifer Lucifer III
Myrkur Folkesange
Thanatos Violent Death Rituals
VV Gothica Fennica, Vol. 1 (EP)
23 Old Man Gloom Seminar IX: Darkness of Being
26 Nine Inch Nails Ghosts V: Together
Ghosts VI: Locusts
27 Ayreon Electric Castle Live and Other Tales (live album)
Candlemass The Pendulum (EP)
Deranged Deeds of Ruthless Violence
Disbelief The Ground Collapses
Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion
In This Moment Mother
Mamaleek Come & See
Parkway Drive Viva the Underdogs (live album)

April

Day Artist Album
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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