2016 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2016.

Bands formed

• Invidia^[1]
• Prophets of Rage^[2]
• Sinsaenum^[3]
• Vimic^[4]

Bands disbanded

• Agalloch^[5]
• Bolt Thrower^[6]
• Crucified Barbara^[7]
• Eths^[8]
• Kylesa (hiatus)^[9]
• ReVamp^[10]
• Scar the Martyr^[4]
• Sockweb^[11]
• Twisted Sister^[12]
• Wodensthrone^[13]

Bands reformed

• Abandon All Ships^[14]
• Akercocke^[15]
• Battlelore (hiatus from 2011 to 2016)^[16]
• Demolition Hammer^[17][18]
• Destroy the Runner^[19]
• Evildead^[20]
• Nasty Savage^[21]
• Nitro^[22]
• The Obsessed^[23]
• Pestilence^[24]
• Power Quest^[25]
• Ratt^[26][27]
• Scissorfight^[28]

Events

• On April 28, 2015, Black Sabbath announced that they will embark on their final tour.^[29]
• 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.^[30]
• On January 14, Lacuna Coil announced that guitarist Marco Biazzi has left the band.^[31][32][33]
• On February 10, Skeletonwitch announced Adam Clemans as their new vocalist.^[34]
• 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.^[35] Lombardo will drum for Suicidal Tendencies again on their summer European tour.^[36]
• On March 19, Underoath played their first show since disbanding in 2013 at Self Help Festival in California.^[37]
• On March 31, Martin Henriksson announced that he has quit Dark Tranquillity due to loss of passion for playing music.^[38]
• On April 16 and April 23, Guns N' Roses reunited with their original guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan for this year's Coachella.^[39][40]
• 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.^[41]
• On May 5, Eluveitie announced that they parted ways with drummer Merlin Sutter, vocalist Anna Murphy and guitarist Ivo Henzi.^[42]
• On August 6 and 7, Heavy Montreal took place presented by Evenko, and headliners were Nightwish, Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch, Volbeat and Candlemass.^[43]

Deaths

• January 14 – Kevin Lawrence, guitarist of Rapidfire, died from multiple heart attacks at the age of 51.^[44]
• January 24 – Jimmy Bain, bassist of Rainbow and Dio, died from lung cancer at the age of 68.^[45][46]
• February 2 – Steve Childers, guitarist of Burning Inside, Black Witchery and Public Assassin, died in a car accident at the age of 49.^[47]
• February 21 – Piotr Grudziński, guitarist of Riverside, died from sudden cardiac arrest at the age of 40.^[48][49][50]
• March 3 – John Thomas, former guitarist of Budgie, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 63.^[51]
• March 3 – Oskar Karlsson, drummer of Gates of Ishtar, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 39.^[52]
• March 13 – Nik Green, keyboardist of Blue Murder, died from cancer.^[53]
• April 5 – John Byrd, former guitarist of King Conquer, died from substance abuse.^[54]
• April 18 – Aleah Liane Stanbridge, vocalist of Trees of Eternity, died from cancer.^[55]
• May 21 – Nick Menza, former drummer of Megadeth, died from heart failure at the age of 51.^[56]
• May 31 – Brandon Ferrell, former drummer of Municipal Waste, died from undisclosed reasons.^[57]
• June 9 – Adam Young, multi-instrumentalist of Sockweb, died after committing suicide by hanging himself at the age of 28.^[11][58]
• August 13 – Jerry Clyde Paradis, former drummer of The Gates of Slumber and Sourvein, died from undisclosed reasons.^[59]
• August 17 – James Woolley, former keyboardist of Nine Inch Nails, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 49.^[60]
• August 21 – Tom Searle, guitarist of Architects, died from cancer at the age of 28.^[61]
• August 25 – Norman Killeen, former drummer of Threat Signal, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 38.^[62]
• September 10 – Pecu Cinnari, drummer of Tarot, died from a long-term illness at the age of 50.^[63]
• September 11 – Leonard Haze, former drummer of Y&T, died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 61.^[64]
• September 27 – Mike Taylor, former vocalist of Quartz, died from undisclosed reasons.^[65]
• September 27 – Brodie Wheeler, former guitarist of King Conquer, died from substance abuse.^[66]

Albums expected / released

January

Day	Artist	Album
7	Autograph	Louder (EP)[67]
8	Cauldron	In Ruin[68]
	Exmortus	Ride Forth[69]
	Jeff Hughell	Trinidad Scorpion Hallucinations[70]
15	Aborted	Termination Redux (EP)[71]
	Axel Rudi Pell	Game of Sins[72]
	Rhapsody of Fire	Into the Legend[73]
	Witchcraft	Nucleus[74]
20	Black Sabbath	The End (EP)[75][76]
22	Abbath	Abbath[77]
	Borknagar	Winter Thrice[78]
	Megadeth	Dystopia[79]
	Rage	My Way (EP)[80]
	The Resistance	Coup de Grâce[81]
29	Amoral	In Sequence[82]
	Avantasia	Ghostlights[83]
	Black Tusk	Pillars of Ash[84]
	Bury Tomorrow	Earthbound[85]
	Conan	Revengeance[86]
	Dream Theater	The Astonishing[87]
	Exumer	The Raging Tides[88]
	Master	An Epiphany of Hate[89]
	Primal Fear	Rulebreaker[90][91]
	Prong	X (No Absolutes)[92]
	Serenity	Codex Atlanticus[93]

February

Day	Artist	Album
5	The Cult	Hidden City[94][95]
	Drowning Pool	Hellelujah[96]
	Fleshgod Apocalypse	King[97]
	Obscura	Akróasis[98]
	Textures	Phenotype[99]
12	Holy Grail	Times of Pride and Peril[100]
	Magrudergrind	II[101]
	Myrath	Legacy[102]
	Rotting Christ	Rituals[103]
	Urgehal	Aeons in Sodom[104]
19	Adept	Sleepless[105]
	After the Burial	Dig Deep[106]
	Cirith Gorgor	Visions of Exalted Lucifer[107]
	Delain	Lunar Prelude (EP)[108]
	Fleshgore	Denial of the Scriptures[109]
	Hypno5e	Shores of the Abstract Line[110]
	Karybdis	Samsara[111]
	Last in Line	Heavy Crown[112]
	Raubtier	Bärsärkagång[113]
26	Anthrax	For All Kings[114]
	Anvil	Anvil Is Anvil[115]
	Black Cobra	Imperium Simulacra[116]
	Deströyer 666	Wildfire[117]
	Entombed A.D.	Dead Dawn[118]
	Headspace	All That You Fear Is Gone[119]
	Omnium Gatherum	Grey Heavens[120]
	Redemption	The Art of Loss[121]
	Sinbreed	Master Creator[122]
	The Unguided	Lust and Loathing[123]
	Voivod	Post Society (EP)[124]
	Wisdom	Rise of the Wise[125]

March

Day	Artist	Album
4	Hacktivist	Outside the Box[126]
11	Criminal	Fear Itself[127]
	Killswitch Engage	Incarnate[128]
	Van Canto	Voices of Fire[129]
15	Pyrrhon	Running Out of Skin (EP)[130]
18	Blaze Bayley	Infinite Entanglement[131]
	Circus Maximus	Havoc[132]
	Convulse	Cycle of Revenge[133]
	Grailknights	Dead or Alive (EP)[134]
	Human Fortress	Thieves of the Night[135]
	Mob Rules	Tales from Beyond[136]
	Mystic Prophecy	War Brigade[137]
	Spiritual Beggars	Sunrise to Sundown[138]
25	American Head Charge	Tango Umbrella[139]
	Amon Amarth	Jomsviking[140]
	Artillery	Penalty by Perception[141]
	Asking Alexandria	The Black[142]
	Blood Ceremony	Lord of Misrule[143]
	Caliban	Gravity[144]
	Dayglo Abortions	Armageddon Survival Guide[145]
	Izegrim	The Ferryman's End[146]
	Lody Kong	Dreams and Visions[147]
	Metal Church	XI[148]
	Rotten Sound	Abuse to Suffer[149]
	Ragnarok	Psychopathology[150]
	Walls of Jericho	No One Can Save You from Yourself[151]

April

Day	Artist	Album
1	Babymetal	Metal Resistance[152]
	Bossk	Audio Noir[153]
	Mike & the Melvins	Three Men and a Baby[154]
	Moonsorrow	Jumalten aika[155]
	Novembre	URSA[156]
	Thunderstone	Apocalypse Again[157]
8	Deftones	Gore[158]
	Filter	Crazy Eyes[159]
	Ihsahn	Arktis[160]
	Zakk Wylde	Book of Shadows II[161]
15	Ace Frehley	Origins, Vol. 1 (covers album)[162]
	Crematory	Monument[163]
	Lita Ford	Time Capsule[164]
	Otep	Generation Doom[165]
22	Aborted	Retrogore[166]
	Darkness Divided	Darkness Divided[167]
	Diamond Head	Diamond Head[168]
	Eths	Ankaa[169]
	The Foreshadowing	Seven Heads Ten Horns[170]
	Incite	Oppression[171]
	October Tide	Winged Waltz[172]
	Texas Hippie Coalition	Dark Side of Black[173]
	This Ending	Garden of Death[174]
25	Darkend	The Canticle of Shadows[175]
	Tigertailz	Blast[176]
26	Node	Cowards Empire[177]
29	Darkestrah	Turan[178]
	Discharge	End of Days[179]
	Fallujah	Dreamless[180]
	Nemesea	Uprise[181]
	Rob Zombie	The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser[182]
	Tremonti	Dust[183]

May

Day	Artist	Album
6	Vektor	Terminal Redux[184]
10	Femme Fatale	One More for the Road[185]
13	Avatar	Feathers & Flesh[186]
	Destruction	Under Attack[187]
	DevilDriver	Trust No One[188]
	Gorguts	Pleiades' Dust (EP)[189]
	Grand Magus	Sword Songs[190]
	Hatebreed	The Concrete Confessional[191]
	Kvelertak	Nattesferd[192]
20	Dead by Wednesday	The Darkest of Angels[193]
	Flotsam and Jetsam	Flotsam and Jetsam[194]
	Iron Savior	Titancraft[195]
	Katatonia	The Fall of Hearts[196]
	Lonewolf	The Heathen Dawn[197]
	Suidakra	Realms of Odoric[198]
	Vardis	Red Eye[199]
24	Binary Code	Moonsblood[200]
27	Architects	All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us[201]
	Behexen	The Poisonous Path[202]
	Death Angel	The Evil Divide[203][204]
	Illdisposed	Grey Sky Over Black Town[205]
	Katalepsy	Gravenous Hour[206]
	Lacuna Coil	Delirium[207]
	Motörhead	Clean Your Clock (live album)[208][209]
	Omen	Hammer Damage[210]
	Six Feet Under	Graveyard Classics IV: The Number of the Priest (covers album)[211]
	Suicidal Angels	Division of Blood[212]
	Withered	Grief Relic[213]

June

Day	Artist	Album
1	Yngwie Malmsteen	World on Fire[214]
3	Beartooth	Aggressive[215]
	Candlemass	Death Thy Lover (EP)[216]
	Dark Funeral	Where Shadows Forever Reign[217]
	Dark Suns	Everchild[218]
	Hellyeah	Unden!able[219]
	Paradox	Pangea[220]
	Poverty's No Crime	Spiral of Fear[221]
	Volbeat	Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie[222]
10	D.R.I.	But Wait...There's More! (EP)[223]
	Rage	The Devil Strikes Again[224]
	Scorpion Child	Acid Roulette[225]
	Sumac	What One Becomes[226]
17	Ayreon	The Theater Equation (live album)[227]
	Gojira	Magma[228]
	Hammercult	Legends Never Die (EP)[229]
	Nails	You Will Never Be One of Us[230]
	Unlocking the Truth	Chaos[231]
24	Be'lakor	Vessels[232]
	The Browning	Isolation[233]
	Highlord	Hic Sunt Leones[234]
	Internal Suffering	Cyclonic Void of Power[235]
	Kayo Dot	Plastic House on Base of Sky[236]
	Stuck Mojo	Here Come the Infidels[237]
	Whitechapel	Mark of the Blade[238]

July

Day	Artist	Album
1	Chelsea Grin	Self Inflicted[239]
	Fates Warning	Theories of Flight[240]
	Iskra	Ruins[241]
	Oracles	Miserycorde[242]
	Wolf Hoffmann	Headbangers Symphony[243]
2	Brain Drill	Boundless Obscenity[244]
8	Centinex	Doomsday Rituals[245]
	Chevelle	The North Corridor[246]
	Deadlock	Hybris[247]
	Nonpoint	The Poison Red[248]
	Trick or Treat	Rabbits' Hill, Pt. 2[249]
	Wolverine	Machina Viva[250]
15	16	Lifespan of a Moth[251]
	Raging Speedhorn	Lost Ritual[252]
22	Black Crown Initiate	Selves We Cannot Forgive[253]
	Despised Icon	Beast[254][255]
	Despite	Synergi[256]
	Hammers of Misfortune	Dead Revolution[257]
	Periphery	Periphery III: Select Difficulty[258]
	Revocation	Great Is Our Sin[259]
	Twisted Sister	Metal Meltdown (live album)[260]
	Witherscape	The Northern Sanctuary[261]
29	Ghoul	Dungeon Bastards[262]
	Ringworm	Snake Church[263]
	Sinsaenum	Echoes of the Tortured[3]

August

Day	Artist	Album
5	Bloody Hammers	Lovely Sort of Death[264]
	Carnifex	Slow Death[265]
	Islander	Power Under Control[266]
	Jackyl	Rowyco[267]
	Skillet	Unleashed[268]
	Tarja	The Shadow Self[269]
12	The Amity Affliction	This Could Be Heartbreak[270]
	Equilibrium	Armageddon[271]
	Lacrimas Profundere	Hope Is Here[272]
19	Blood Incantation	Starspawn[273]
	Gemini Syndrome	Memento Mori[274]
	Myrkur	Mausoleum (live album)[275]
	Sabaton	The Last Stand[276]
	Skeletonwitch	The Apothic Gloom (EP)[277]
20	Throes of Dawn	Our Voices Shall Remain[278]
26	Ablaze My Sorrow	Black[279]
	Any Given Day	Everlasting[280]
	Delain	Moonbathers[281]
	DGM	The Passage[282]
	Helstar	Vampiro[283]
	Inquisition	Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith[284]
	Michael Sweet	One Sided War[285]
	Prophets of Rage	The Party's Over (EP)[286]
	Running Wild	Rapid Foray[287]
	Sodom	Decision Day[288]
	Solution .45	Nightmares in the Waking State: Part II[289]
	Twelve Foot Ninja	Outlier[290]
	Vicious Rumors	Concussion Protocol[291]

September

Day	Artist	Album
2	A Day to Remember	Bad Vibrations[292]
Art of Dying	Nevermore (EP)[293]
Goblin Cock	Necronomidonkeykongimicon[294]
9	Belenos	Kornôg[295]
	Black Funeral	Ankou and the Death Fire[296]
	Devin Townsend Project	Transcendence[297]
	Evergrey	The Storm Within[298]
	KMFDM	Rocks – Milestones Reloaded[299]
	Norma Jean	Polar Similar[300]
	Of Mice & Men	Cold World[301]
	Pain	Coming Home[302]
	Power Quest	Face the Raven (EP)[303]
	Rev Theory	The Revelation[304]
16	Ancient	Back to the Land of the Dead[305]
	Brujeria	Pocho Aztlan[306]
	Finsterforst	#YØLØ (EP)[307]
	Ghost	Popestar (EP)[308]
	Heaven Shall Burn	Wanderer[309]
	In the Woods...	Pure[310]
	Iron Fire	Among the Dead[311]
	King 810	La Petite Mort or a Conversation with God[312]
	Lordi	Monstereophonic (Theaterror vs. Demonarchy)[313]
	Narnia	Narnia[314]
	Temperance	The Earth Embraces Us All[315]
	Thy Catafalque	Meta[316]
23	Allegaeon	Proponent for Sentience[317]
	Almah	E.V.O[318]
	Charred Walls of the Damned	Creatures Watching Over the Dead[319]
	Dysrhythmia	The Veil of Control[320]
	Every Time I Die	Low Teens[321]
	Grim Reaper	Walking in the Shadows[322]
	Insomnium	Winter's Gate[323]
	Iron Mask	Diabolica[324]
	Monte Pittman	Inverted Grasp of Balance[325]
	Neurosis	Fires Within Fires[326]
	Operation: Mindcrime	Resurrection[327]
	Saint Vitus	Live Vol. 2 (live album)[328]
	Trap Them	Crown Feral[329]
30	The Agonist	Five[330]
	Alcest	Kodama[331]
	Asphyx	Incoming Death[332]
	Epica	The Holographic Principle[333]
	Negură Bunget	ZI[334]
	Oathbreaker	Rheia[335]
	Opeth	Sorceress[336]
	Seven Kingdoms	In the Walls (EP)[337]
	Skálmöld	Vögguvísur Yggdrasils[338]
	Skiltron	Legacy of Blood[339]
	Suicidal Tendencies	World Gone Mad[340]
	Truckfighters	V[341]
	Winterfylleth	The Dark Hereafter[342]

October

Day	Artist	Album
7	Alter Bridge	The Last Hero[343]
	Candiria	While They Were Sleeping[344]
	The Devil Wears Prada	Transit Blues[345]
	Kyng	Breathe in the Water[346]
	Leaves' Eyes	Fires in the North (EP)[347]
	Meshuggah	The Violent Sleep of Reason[348]
	Mouth of the Architect	Path of Eight[349]
	Slaves on Dope	Horse[350]
	Sonata Arctica	The Ninth Hour[351]
	Watchtower	Concepts of Math: Book One (EP)[352]
14	Anciients	Voice of the Void[353]
	Darkthrone	Arctic Thunder[354][355]
	The Dillinger Escape Plan	Dissociation[356]
	Hardline	Human Nature[357]
	Heaven Below	Good Morning Apocalypse[358]
	Hobbs' Angel of Death	Heaven Bled[359]
	Red Fang	Only Ghosts[360]
	Sacred Steel	Heavy Metal Sacrifice[361]
	Secret Sphere	One Night in Tokyo (live album)[362]
	Sonic Syndicate	Confessions[363]
	Theatres des Vampires	Candyland[364]
	Wormrot	Voices[365]
21	Amaranthe	Maximalism[366]
	Bon Jovi	This House Is Not for Sale[367]
	Destrage	A Means to No End[368]
	I Declare War	Songs For The Sick[369]
	Korn	The Serenity of Suffering[370]
	Thrown into Exile	Safe Inside[371]
	Tygers of Pan Tang	Tygers of Pan Tang[372]
	Wovenwar	Honor Is Dead[373]
25	Wardrum	Awakening[374]
28	Anaal Nathrakh	The Whole of the Law[375]
	Avenged Sevenfold	The Stage[376]
	Car Bomb	Meta[377]
	Crowbar	The Serpent Only Lies[378]
	Deranged	Struck by a Murderous Siege[379]
	Dope	Blood Money, Part 1[380]
	Helmet	Dead to the World[381]
	Krypts	Remnants of Expansion[382]
	Madder Mortem	Red in Tooth and Claw[383]
	Memphis May Fire	This Light I Hold[384]
	Painted in Exile	The Ordeal[385]
	Serpentine Dominion	Serpentine Dominion[386]
	Testament	Brotherhood of the Snake[387]
	Theocracy	Ghost Ship[388]
	Ulcerate	Shrines of Paralysis [389]
	Upon a Burning Body	Straight from the Barrio[390]
	Whores	Gold[391]

November

Day	Artist	Album
4	Civil War	The Last Full Measure[392]
	Dark Tranquillity	Atoma[393]
	HammerFall	Built to Last[394]
	Pretty Maids	Kingmaker[395]
	Sick of It All	When the Smoke Clears (EP)[396]
	Starkill	Shadow Sleep[397]
	Vader	The Empire[398]
8	Deathspell Omega	The Synarchy of Molten Bones (EP)[399]
11	Animals as Leaders	The Madness of Many[400]
	In Flames	Battles[401]
	Sirenia	Dim Days of Dolor[402]
	Superjoint	Caught Up in the Gears of Application[403]
	Trees of Eternity	Hour of the Nightingale[404]
14	Furia	Księżyc Milczy Luty[405]
18	De La Tierra	II[406]
	Devilment	II – The Mephisto Waltzes[407]
	Diabulus in Musica	Dirge for the Archons[408]
	Freedom Call	Master of Light[409]
	Herman Frank	The Devil Rides Out[410]
	Ion Dissonance	Cast the First Stone[411]
	Lamb of God	The Duke (EP)[412]
	Metallica	Hardwired... to Self-Destruct[413]
	Protest the Hero	Pacific Myth (EP)[414]
	Soulburn	Earthless Pagan Spirit[415]
21	Paul Wardingham	Spiritual Machines[416]
25	Nightmare	Dead Sun[417]
	Witchery	In His Infernal Majesty's Service[418]

December

Day	Artist	Album
2	Enuff Z'Nuff	Clowns Lounge[419]
9	Babymetal	Live at Wembley (live album)[420]
	Destroy the Runner	Void (EP)[421]
	Zao	The Well-Intentioned Virus[422]
17	Rudra	Enemy of Duality[423]

Artists with material in production

• Absu – Apsu^[424]
• Adler^[425]
• Aerosmith^[426]
• Akercocke – Renaissance in Extremis^[15]
• Algy Ward's Tank – Sturmpanzer^[427]
• Alice Cooper^[428]
• Sebastian Bach^[429]
• Danzig^[430]
• Dark Angel^[431]
• Dead Horse^[432]
• Dimmu Borgir^[433]
• Dragonlord – Dominion^[434]
• Electric Wizard^[435]
• Evildead^[20]
• Guns N' Roses^[436]
• Havok^[437]
• In This Moment^[438]
• Incantation^[439]
• Jag Panzer – The Deviant Chord^[440]
• Lääz Rockit^[441]
• Lizzy Borden^[442]
• Lock Up^[443]
• Masterplan (covers album)^[444]
• Nasty Savage^[21]
• Nine Inch Nails^[445]
• The Obsessed^[446]
• Onslaught^[447]
• Ozzy Osbourne^[448]
• The Raven Age – Darkness Will Rise^[449]
• Samael^[450]
• Sanctuary^[451]
• Savatage^[452]
• Skid Row – United World Rebellion – Chapter Three^[453]
• Tesseract^[454]
• Tool^[455]
• Toxik – In Humanity^[456]
• Warrant^[457]
• Whiplash – Old School American Way^[458]
• Within the Ruins^[459]
• Wolves in the Throne Room^[460]
• X Japan^[461]
• Y&T^[462]

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