1994 in heavy metal music
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1994.
Newly formed bands
- Abscess
- Amen
- Apostasy
- Ayreon
- Deströyer 666
- Dødheimsgard
- Hatebreed
- Heavenly
- Lacuna Coil
- Naer Mataron
- Neuraxis
- Rammstein
- Scarve
- Six Feet Under
- Skylark
- Slash's Snakepit
- Static-X
- Strapping Young Lad
- Symphony X
- Vintersorg
Albums
- Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
- Alice Cooper - The Last Temptation
- Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
- Aggressor - Of Long Duration Anguish
- Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes
- Bathory - Requiem
- Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes
- Body Count - Born Dead
- Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
- Bruce Dickinson - Balls To Picasso
- Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
- Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
- Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
- Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
- Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
- The Cult - The Cult
- Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
- Deliverance - River Disturbance
- Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid
- Dio - Strange Highways
- Dream Theater - Awake
- Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
- Freak Kitchen - Appetizer
- Forbidden - Distortion
- Gorefest - Erase
- Gorgoroth - Pentagram
- 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
- Mercyful Fate - Time
- Mötley Crüe - Mötley Crüe
- Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
- Obituary - World Demise
- Oomph! - Sperm
- Overkill - W.F.O.
- Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
- Pitch Shifter - Remix War
- Queensrÿche - Promised Land
- Rage - 10 Years in Rage
- Ram Jam - Nouvel Album (also released under the name Thank You Mam in 1995)
- Rotting Christ - Non Serviam
- Running Wild - Black Hand Inn
- Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
- Savatage - Handful of Rain
- Slayer - Divine Intervention
- Sodom - Get What You Deserve
- Soundgarden - Superunknown
- Stratovarius - Dreamspace
- Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal for Life
- Symphony X - Symphony X
- Tankard - Two-Faced
- Testament - Low
- Threshold - Psychedelicatessen
- The 3rd and the Mortal - Sorrow (EP), Tears Laid in Earth
- Tiamat - Wildhoney
- Vanden Plas - Colour Temple
- Various Artists - Nativity in Black
Disbandments
Events
- Divine Intervention by Slayer peaks at Number 8 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, with 93,000 copies sold in its first week, and later that year was certified gold in Canada and United States.
- 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.
- Frontman/guitarist of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, commits suicide on April 5.
- Metallica, Danzig and Suicidal Tendencies embark on a U.S. tour together.
- Oomph! establish the Neue Deutsche Härte genre with their album Sperm
- Vocalist Ralf Scheepers leaves Gamma Ray, He would later go on to form Primal Fear.
| Preceded by 1993 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 1994 |
Succeeded by 1995 |
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