1987 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1987.
Contents |
[edit] Newly formed bands
[edit] Albums
- Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
- Alice Cooper - Raise Your Fist and Yell
- Anthrax - Among the Living, I'm the Man (EP)
- Anvil - Strength Of Steel
- Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol
- Carnivore - Retaliation
- The Cult - Electric
- Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
- Death - Scream Bloody Gore
- Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence
- Def Leppard - Hysteria
- Dio - Dream Evil
- Dokken - Back For The Attack
- Frehley's Comet - Frehley's Comet
- Great White - Once Bitten
- Grim Reaper - Rock You To Hell
- Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
- Helix - Wild In The Streets
- Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 1
- Judas Priest - Priest...Live!
- Keel - Keel
- KISS - Crazy Nights
- Kreator - Terrible Certainty
- Manowar - Fighting the World
- McAuley Schenker Group - Perfect Timing
- Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
- Motörhead - Rock 'n' Roll
- Napalm Death - Scum
- Overkill - Taking Over
- Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
- Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
- Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
- Testament - The Legacy
- Trouble - Run to the Light
- Twisted Sister - Love Is For Suckers
- W.A.S.P. - Live...In the Raw
- White Lion - Pride
- Whitesnake - Whitesnake
- Y&T - Contagious
- Zodiac Mindwarp - Tattooed Beat Messiah
[edit] Disbandments
[edit] Events
- Iron Maiden headlines the Monsters of Rock festival at Donnington, England on a bill which includes KISS, Guns N' Roses, David Lee Roth, Megadeth, and Helloween (correction - this was the 1988 line-up, NOT the 1987 line-up).
- Motörhead's drummer Pete Gill leaves the band and Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor returns.
- Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls Debuts at #2 in the Billboard charts becoming the biggest album debut since Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains The Same
| Preceded by: 1986 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 1987 |
Followed by: 1988 |
