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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2007.

Newly formed bands

• Skin
• Cavalera Conspiracy

Reformed bands

• Artillery
• At the Gates for a few shows
• Carcass for a few shows
• Ronnie James Dio rejoins Black Sabbath under the name Heaven and Hell (the name of the first Black Sabbath album featuring Dio) for a tour.
• Extreme
• Rage Against the Machine
• Spinal Tap with new single "Warmer than Hell!"
• X Japan
• Led Zeppelin For one show
• Sacred Reich For a few shows

Albums

• 3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up the Blades
• 8 Foot Sativa - Poison of Ages
• A Life Once Lost - Iron Gag
• A Perfect Murder - War of Aggression
• Abigor - Fractal Possession
• Aborted - Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture
• Abscess - Horrorhammer
• The Absence - Riders of the Plague
• Aeon - Rise to Dominate
• After Forever - After Forever
• Agathocles - Senseless Trip
• Age of Nemesis - Terra Incognita
• Agent Steel - Alienigma
• Agnostic Front - Warriors
• The Agonist - Once Only Imagined
• Airbourne - Runnin' Wild
• Ajattara - Kalmanto
• Akercocke - Antichrist
• Akira Takasaki - Black Brown
• Al Atkins - Demon Deceiver
• Alabama Thunderpussy - Open Fire
• Alcest - "Souvenirs d'un autre monde"
• Alchemist - Tripsis
• All Out War - Assassins In The House Of God
• Altaria - Divine Invitation Compilation Album
• Amoral - Reptile Ride
• Amorphis - Silent Waters
• Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here
• André Matos - Time to Be Free
• Angel Corpse - Of Lucifer And Lightning
• Angel Dust - VII
• Annihilator - Metal
• Anvil - This is Thirteen
• Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide
• Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
• Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom
• Ari Koivunen - Fuel for the Fire
• Arkhon Infaustus - Orthodoxyn
• As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
• Astral Doors - New Revelation
• At Vance - VII
• At War With Self - Acts of God
• August Burns Red - Messengers
• Ava Inferi - The Silhouette
• Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
• Axel Rudi Pell - Diamonds Unlocked
• Axxis - Doom Of Destiny
• Balance of Power - New Studio Album
• Baroness - The Red Album
• Battlelore - Evernight
• Becoming the Archetype - The Physics of Fire
• Behemoth - The Apostasy
• Beneath the Massacre - Mechanics of Dysfunction
• Benediction - Killing Music
• The Berzerker - Animosity
• Between The Buried And Me - Colors
• The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
• Bloodsimple - Red Harvest
• Blue Cheer - What Doesn't Kill You...
• Born of Osiris - "The New Reign"
• Caliban - The Awakening
• Candlemass- King Of The Grey Islands
• Cannibal Corpse - Vile Live
• Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
• The Chariot - The Fiancée
• Chevelle - Vena Sera
• Chimaira - Resurrection
• Cirith Gorgor - Cirith Gorgor
• DÅÅTH - The Hinderers
• Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
• Darkest Hour - Deliver Us
• Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.
• Daysend - The Warning
• Demiricous - Two (Poverty)
• Demon Hunter - Storm the Gates of Hell
• Destruction - Thrash Anthems
• Dethklok - Dethalbum
• Detonation - Emission Phase
• Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
• The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
• Dir en grey - The Marrow of a Bone
• The Devil Wears Prada - Plagues
• DevilDriver - The Last Kind Words
• The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
• Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
• Disavowed - Stagnated Existence
• Divinefire - Farewell
• Divine Heresy - Bleed The Fifth
• Domine - Ancient Spirit Rising
• Down - Down III
• Dr. Sin - Bravo
• Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
• Drowning Pool - Full Circle
• Drudkh - Estrangement
• Dublin Death Patrol - DDP 4 Life
• Dying Fetus - War of Attrition
• Elvenking - The Scythe
• The End - Elementary
• Ensiferum - Victory Songs
• Entombed - Serpent Saints
• Epica - The Divine Conspiracy
• Evile - Enter the Grave
• Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A
• Eyefear - A World Full of Grey
• Fear My Thoughts - Vulcanus
• Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup
• Five Finger Death Punch - The Way of the Fist
• Five Star Prison Cell - Slaves of Virgo
• Freedom Call - Dimensions
• From Autumn To Ashes - Holding A Wolf By The Ears
• Gamma Ray - Land of the Free Part II
• The Gathering - A Noise Severe
• Gorefest - "Rise to ruin"
• Grave Digger - Liberty or Death
• Graveland - Will Stronger Than Death
• Graveworm - Collateral Defect
• Carl Johan Grimmark - Grimmark
• HammerFall - Steel Meets Steel - Ten Years Of Glory
• Hanoi Rocks - Street Poetry
• Haste The Day - Pressure The Hinges
• Hatesphere - Serpent Smiles and Killer Eyes
• Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
• Hellyeah - Hellyeah
• High on Fire- Death Is This Communion
• Himsa - Summon In Thunder
• Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part 1) and Overture of the Wicked
• Immolation - Shadows In The Light
• Impious - Holy Murder Masquerade
• In This Moment - Beautiful Tragedy
• Inveracity - Extermination of Millions
• Ion Dissonance - Minus The Herd
• Job for a Cowboy - Genesis
• Kamelot - Ghost Opera
• King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul...Please
• Korn - "Untitled"
• Korpiklaani - Tervaskanto
• Kronos - The Hellenic Terror
• Lord Belial - Revelation
• Månegarm - Vargstenen
• Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me
• M.O.D.- Red, White & Screwed
• Machine Head - The Blackening
• Malevolent Creation - Doomsday X
• Mammatus - The Coast Explodes
• Manowar - Gods of War
• Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me
• Marduk - Rom 5:12
• Masterplan - MK II
• Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
• Megadeth - United Abominations, Warchest, and That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires (CD and DVD)
• Melechesh - Emissaries
• Mnemic - Passenger
• Monstrosity - Spiritual Apocalypse
• Moonsorrow - Viides Luku - Hävitetty
• Morgana Lefay - Aberrations Of The Mind
• Mors Principium Est - Liberation = Termination
• Mudvayne - Shades of Gray
• Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
• Naglfar - Harvest
• Neurosis - Given to the Rising
• Nightrage - A New Disease is Born
• Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
• Nile - Ithyphallic
• N.I.L. - N.I.L.
• Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
• Nocturnal Rites - The 8th Sin
• Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
• Novembre - The Blue
• Obituary - Xecutioner's Return
• Onslaught - Killing Peace
• Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes
• Overkill - Immortalis
• Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain
• Pain - Psalms of Extinction
• Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
• Parkway Drive - Horizons
• Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
• Planet X - Quantum
• Portal - Outre
• Power Quest - Master of Illusion
• Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
• Pro-Pain - Age of Tyranny
• Rainshadow - End Songs
• The Red Chord - Prey for Eyes
• Reverend Bizarre - III So Long Suckers
• Rob Rock - Garden of Chaos
• Root - Daemon Viam Invenient
• Rotting Christ - Theogonia
• Sabaton - Metalizer
• Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
• Sanctity - Road to Bloodshed
• Scarve - The Undercurrent
• Scorpions - Humanity Hour 1
• Sebastian Bach - Angel Down
• Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Souls
• Send More Paramedics - The Awakening
• Sevendust - Alpha
• Shadows Fall - Threads of Life
• Shining - Halmstad
• Six Feet Under - Commandment
• Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
• Sodom - The Final Sign of Evil
• Soilwork - Sworn to a Great Divide
• Sonata Arctica - Unia
• Sonic Syndicate- Only Inhuman
• Static-X - Cannibal
• Still Remains - The Serpent
• Sturm und Drang - Learning to Rock
• Suicide Silence - The Cleansing
• Sun Caged - Artemisia
• Swallow the Sun - Hope
• Sworn Enemy - Maniacal
• Sybreed - Antares
• Symphony X - Paradise Lost
• Taint - Secrets and Lies
• Tarja Turunen - My Winter Storm
• Tesla - Real to Reel
• Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
• Threshold - Dead Reckoning
• Through the Eyes of the Dead - Malice
• Thunderstone - Evolution 4.0
• Trouble - Simple Mind Condition
• Turisas - The Varangian Way
• Twilightning - Swinelords
• Type O Negative - Dead Again
• U.D.O. - Mastercutor
• Unsane - Visqueen
• Vanishing Point - The Fourth Season
• Venus Doom
• Vesania - Distractive Killusions
• Vintersorg - Solens Rötter
• Virgin Black - Requiem - Mezzo Forte
• Visions of Atlantis - Trinity
• Vital Remains - Icons of Evil
• Vomitory - Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize
• W.A.S.P. - Dominator
• Watain - Sworn to the Dark
• Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
• With Passion - What We See When We Close Our Eyes

Midnight Reign-Never Look Back

Disbandments

• Arcturus
• A Perfect Murder
• The Devin Townsend Band
• I Killed the Prom Queen
• Reverend Bizarre
• Strapping Young Lad
• Send More Paramedics
• Mendeed
• Pungent Stench
• With Passion
• Nodes of Ranvier

Midnight Reign- Never Look Back

released in 2007

Events

• Extreme reunite for the third time, announcing plans for a world tour next year, as well as a new studio album, which will be their first since 1995's Waiting for the Punchline.
• Led Zeppelin get back together one more time for one concert in London.
• In Sorte Diaboli (Dimmu Borgir) becomes the first extreme metal album ever to hit the #1 in a Record chart, achieving that position in Norway.
• Andreas Sydow leaves Darkane, being replaced by Jens Broman.
• Witold Kiełtyka, drummer for Decapitated, is killed in a car crash in October.
• Vocalist, Damo and manager, Andy of The Red Shore, died in December.
• Anette Olzon joins Nightwish as their new lead vocalist.
• Peter Lindgren leaves Opeth.
• Jani Liimatainen is fired from Sonata Arctica.
• Jacob Bredahl leaves Hatesphere.
• Mark St. John, guitarist of KISS in 1984, dies in April.
• Meiju Enho leaves Ensiferum.
• Paul Raven, bassist for Ministry and former Killing Joke bassist, dies in October.
• Kevin DuBrow, lead singer for Quiet Riot, dies in November.
• Matt Barlow returns as lead singer of Iced Earth.
• Ramallah disbands.
• Gorgoroth splits into two sides. One is headed by Infernus and the other by King and Gaahl.

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