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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

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

Events

• Pat Mason of Arsonists Get All The Girls passes away on the morning of 30 November, his 21st birthday.
• 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.
• Matte Modin is fired from Dark Funeral, for disrupting their live performance schedule through deceit, according to the band. He is replaced by Nils Fjällström of Aeon, who is given the stage name "Dominator".
• Gorgoroth splits into two sides. One is headed by Infernus and the other by King and Gaahl.

Albums released

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

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