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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1999.

Contents

• Newly formed bands
• Reformed bands
• Albums
• Disbandments
• Events
• References

Newly formed bands

Reformed bands

• Armored Saint
• Destruction (Schmier's comeback)
• Lost Horizon (reformed as Highlander, name was changed soon after)
• Pungent Stench
• Rollins Band
• Skid Row
• White Lion

Albums

Disbandments

• Death
• Far (reformed in 2008)
• Mercyful Fate- on hiatus

Events

• Drummer Tommy Lee leaves Mötley Crüe.
• Ex-drummer of Megadeth Gar Samuelson dies at age 41 from liver failure.
• Singer Blaze Bayley leaves Iron Maiden, while Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith re-join.
• Kittie bassist Tanya Candler quits. She is later replaced by Talena Atfield.
• ICS Vortex joins Dimmu Borgir on bass/backing vocals. Drummer Nicholas Barker leaves Cradle of Filth and joins as well.
• Singer Naoki Hashimoto left Outrage.
• Mudvayne signs with Epic Records.
• Poison appear in an episode of Behind the Music .

References