• Source: 2004 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2004.




Newly formed bands






Reformed bands


Extreme (for a few shows)
Glyder
Megadeth
Mötley Crüe




Albums






Bands disbanded


Bathory
Creed
Damageplan
Nothingface (reformed in 2005)
Prayer for Cleansing
SugarComa
Windir




Events


Brian "Head" Welch announced his departure from Korn after converting to Christianity.
Bassist Tim Gaines announced his departure from Stryper after 10 complete years. He was replaced by Tracy Ferrie.
Jason Jones was announced as Drowning Pool's new lead singer and joined them on the album Desensitized.
Supergroup Velvet Revolver releases their debut album Contraband which debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and goes double platinum.
After an eight-year hiatus, Extreme briefly returns for a short tour and a few concerts in Japan.
Van Halen reunites with Sammy Hagar for a summer tour.
Anal Cunt vocalist Seth Putnam slips into a coma after consuming a large amount of drugs.
Aerosmith returns to a raw hard rock sound with their blues cover album Honkin' on Bobo
Terry Balsamo leaves Cold and joins Evanescence as their new guitarist.
Guitarist Lisa Marx joins Kittie as a session member, replacing Jeff Phillips.
Maniac leaves Mayhem and is replaced by the band's former singer, Attila Csihar.
Dave Mustaine reforms Megadeth with 3 session musicians, former and original Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland, bassist Jimmie Lee Sloas and drummer Vinnie Colaiuta to record The System Has Failed, then tour the album with full-time members Glen Drover on guitar, James MacDonough on bass and Shawn Drover on drums.
Ex-Judas Priest drummer Dave Holland is sentenced to eight years in prison for attempted rape against a then 17-year-old boy.




Deaths


January 14 – Terje "Valfar" Bakken, founder, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of Windir, died from hypothermia after being caught in a snow storm. He was 25.
June 3 – Thomas Börje "Quorthon" Forsberg, founder, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of Bathory, died from heart failure at the age of 38.
August 17 – Dennis "D-Roc" Miles, guitarist of Body Count, died from lymphoma complications at the age of 44.
October 20 – Flowing Tears founding members, former drummer Cristian Zimmer and former guitarist Björn Lorson, died in a car accident.
December 8 – "Dimebag" Darrell Lance Abbott, founding member and former guitarist of Pantera and guitarist of Damageplan, was killed on stage, along with three other people, while performing with Damageplan at a nightclub in Ohio. He was 38.
December 26 – Mieszko Andrzej Talarczyk, vocalist and guitarist of Nasum, died in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake at the age of 30. His body was identified on February 16, 2005.
Piero "Sanctis Ghoram" Gori, former Death SS vocalist, died from cancer.




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