1998 in metal

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1998.

Contents 1 Newly formed bands 2 Albums 3 Disbandments 4 Events

Newly formed bands

• Atreyu
• Betzefer
• Breaking Benjamin
• Chimaira
• Cog
• Freedom Call
• Peccatum
• Rebaelliun
• Rob Zombie
• Týr
• Underoath
• Unearth
• Winds

Albums

• Arch Enemy - Stigmata
• Atreyu - Visions (EP)
• Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
• Behemoth - Pandemonic Incantations
• Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
• Bolt Thrower - Mercenary
• Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
• Cannibal Corpse - Gallery of Suicide
• Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast
• Death - The Sound of Perseverance
• Deep Purple - Abandon
• The Dillinger Escape Plan - Under the Running Board
• Dimmu Borgir - Godless Savage Garden
• Edguy - Vain Glory Opera
• Fear Factory - Obsolete
• Freak Kitchen - Freak Kitchen
• Godsmack - "Godsmack"
• HammerFall - Legacy of Kings
• Helloween - Better Than Raw
• Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Iron Maiden - Virtual XI
• KISS - Psycho Circus
• Korn - Follow the Leader
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in Em, Opus 1, LIVE!
• Mercenary - First Breath
• Metal Church - Live
• Metallica - Garage Inc.
• Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
• Monster Magnet - Powertrip
• Moonspell - Sin/Pecado
• Motley Crue - Greatest Hits
• Motörhead - Snake Bite Love
• Nightwish - Oceanborn
• Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
• Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
• Pig Destroyer - Explosions In Ward 6
• Pitchshifter - www.pitchshifter.com
• Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
• Rhapsody of Fire - Symphony of Enchanted Lands
• Savatage - The Wake of Magellan
• Sepultura - Against
• Skid Row - Forty Seasons: The best...
• Slayer - Diabolus In Musica
• Stratovarius - Visions of Europe (live)
• Stratovarius - Destiny
• System of a Down - System of a Down
• Van Halen - Van Halen III
• Virgin Black - Trance EP

Disbandments

• 24-7 Spyz
• Faith No More

Events

• Aerosmith becomes the first rock band to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the single "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
• Mustis joins Dimmu Borgir on keyboards.
• Rob Halford of Judas Priest announces his homosexuality in an MTV interview.

Preceded by: 1997

Heavy Metal Timeline 1998

Followed by: 1999

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