1994 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1994.
Contents |
[edit] Newly formed bands
- Abscess
- Amen
- Apostasy
- Ayreon
- Down
- Destroyer 666
- Dødheimsgard
- Heavenly
- Lacuna Coil
- Naer Mataron
- Rammstein
- Scarve
- Six Feet Under
- Skylark
- Slash's Snakepit
- Static-X
- Strapping Young Lad
- Symphony X
- Vintersorg
[edit] Albums
- Alice Cooper - The Last Temptation
- Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
- Aggressor - Of Long Duration Anguish
- Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes
- Body Count - Born Dead
- Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
- Bon Jovi - Cross Road
- Bruce Dickinson - Balls To Picasso
- Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
- Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
- Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
- Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
- The Cult - The Cult
- Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid
- Dio - Strange Highways
- Dream Theater - Awake
- Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
- Freak Kitchen - Appetizer
- Helloween - Master Of The Rings
- In Flames - Lunar Strain
- Infectious Grooves - Groove Family Cyco
- King's X - Dogman
- Korn - Korn
- Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
- Tony MacAlpine - Premonition
- Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen - The Seventh Sign
- Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family
- Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
- Megadeth - Youthanasia
- Mötley Crüe - Mötley Crüe (album)
- Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
- Overkill - W.F.O.
- Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
- Pitch Shifter - Remix War
- Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
- Savatage - Handful of Rain
- Slayer - Divine Intervention
- Soundgarden - Superunknown
- Stratovarius - Dreamspace
- Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal for Life
- Symphony X - Symphony X
- Testament - Low
- The 3rd and the Mortal - Sorrow (EP), Tears Laid in Earth
[edit] Disbandments
[edit] Events
- Poison fires guitarist Richie Kotzen, hires Blues Saraceno.
- Far Beyond Driven by Pantera debut's at No 1 on the U.S., British and Australian charts.
- Jar of Flies was the first and only EP ever to reach #1 on the Billboard US album chart.
- Nicholas Barker becomes the drummer for Cradle Of Filth.
- Longtime Extreme drummer Paul Geary leaves the band is replaced by Michael Mangini.
- Testament release their sixth album Low. It is their first album recorded without original guitarist Alex Skolnick and drummer Louie Clemente, who both left the band a year before, and also their last with longtime bassist Greg Christian, who left two years later.
| Preceded by: 1993 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 1994 |
Followed by: 1995 |
