1985 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1985.
Contents |
[edit] Newly formed bands
- Blind Guardian
- Candlemass
- Carcass
- DBC (Dead Brain Cells)
- David Lee Roth
- Dream Theater (under the name "Majesty")
- Exhorder
- Extreme
- Guns N' Roses
- King Diamond
- Macabre
- Sanctuary
- White Zombie
[edit] Albums
- Accept - Metal Heart
- AC/DC - Fly on the Wall
- Aerosmith - Done With Mirrors
- Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse, Mad Locust Rising
- Anthrax - Armed and Dangerous, Spreading the Disease
- Armored Saint - Delirious Nomad
- Artillery - Fear of Tomorrow
- Black Tears - The Slave
- Bon Jovi - 7800°Fahrenheit
- Celtic Frost - Emperor's Return, To Mega Therion
- The Cult - Love
- D.R.I. - Dealing With It
- David Lee Roth - Crazy from the Heat
- Destruction - Infernal Overkill
- Dio - Sacred Heart
- Dokken - Under Lock And Key
- Exodus- Bonded by Blood
- Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
- Grim Reaper - Fear No Evil
- Helix - Long Way To Heaven
- Helloween - Helloween (EP), Walls Of Jericho
- Iron Maiden - Live After Death
- Keel - The Right To Rock
- King Kobra - Ready to Strike
- KISS - Asylum
- Kix - Midnite Dynamite
- Kreator - Endless Pain
- Lizzy Borden - Love You To Pieces
- Loudness - Thunder in the East
- Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!
- Mötley Crüe - Theater of Pain
- Overkill - Feel The Fire
- Onslaught - Power from Hell
- Pantera - I Am The Night
- Possessed - Seven Churches
- Ratt - Invasion of Your Privacy
- Razor - Executioner's Song, Evil Invaders
- Rough Cutt - Rough Cutt
- Savatage - Power of the Night
- Scorpions - Worldwide Live
- Slayer - Hell Awaits
- Stryper - Soldiers Under Command
- Trouble - The Skull
- Twisted Sister - Come Out and Play
- W.A.S.P. - The Last Command
- Warlock - Hellbound
- White Lion - Fight to Survive
- Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly
- Y&T - Open Fire, Down for the Count
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Marching Out
[edit] Disbandments
[edit] Events
- Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid cofounds the Black Rock Coalition, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the creative freedom and works of black musicians interested in playing rock music.
- Twisted Sister's Dee Snider testifies at The P.M.R.C. Senate hearings on rock censorship at Washington D.C. on September 19, 1985
- David Lee Roth releases his solo debut (ep) Crazy From The Heat in January 1985, with it comes the announcement he has permanently left Van Halen.
- Led Zeppelin reunites at Live Aid with Phil Collins replacing deceased drummer John Bonham.
- Kam Lee leaves Death and Chuck Schuldiner becomes the vocalist.
- Uriah Heep's former lead singer, David Byron dies on February 28th, due to alcohol complications.
| Preceded by: 1984 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 1985 |
Followed by: 1986 |
