1994 in heavy metal music

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List of years in heavy metal music (table)

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1994.

Newly formed bands[]

Albums[]

  • Accept – Death Row
  • Acid Bath – When the Kite String Pops
  • Acid King – Acid King (EP)
  • Alice Cooper – The Last Temptation
  • Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies
  • Aggressor – Of Long Duration Anguish
  • The Almighty – Crank
  • Altar - Youth Against Christ
  • Amorphis – Tales from the Thousand Lakes
  • Ancient – Svartalvheim
  • Annihilator – King of the Kill
  • Arcturus – Constellation (EP)
  • Asphyx - Asphyx
  • At the Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease
  • Bang Tango – Love After Death
  • Bathory – Requiem
  • Behemoth – And the Forests Dream Eternally (EP)
  • Benediction - The Grotesque / Ashen Epitaph (EP)
  • Bestial Warlust - Vengeance War Till Death
  • Biohazard – State of the World Address
  • Black Sabbath – Cross Purposes
  • The Black Crowes – Amorica
  • Body Count – Born Dead
  • Bolt Thrower – ...For Victory
  • Bon Jovi – Cross Road
  • Bruce Dickinson – Balls to Picasso
  • Brutality - When the Sky Turns Black
  • Brutal Truth - Need to Control
  • Burzum – Hvis lyset tar oss
  • Cannibal Corpse – The Bleeding
  • Cathedral – Cosmic Requiem (EP)
  • Cathedral – In Memorium (EP)
  • Cathedral – Statik Majik (EP)
  • Cemetary – Black Vanity
  • Cinderella – Still Climbing
  • Converge – Halo in a Haystack
  • Corrosion of Conformity – Deliverance
  • Cradle of Filth – The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
  • Cryptopsy – Blasphemy Made Flesh
  • The Cult – The Cult
  • Dangerous Toys – Pissed
  • Danzig – Danzig 4
  • Dark Funeral – Dark Funeral (EP)
  • Darkthrone – Transilvanian Hunger
  • Deliverance – River Disturbance
  • Destruction – Destruction (EP)
  • Desultory -
  • Dimmu Borgir – For all tid
  • Dio – Strange Highways (US release)
  • DGeneration – DGeneration
  • Downset. – Downset.
  • Dream Theater – Awake
  • Edge of Sanity – Purgatory Afterglow
  • Electric Wizard – Electric Wizard
  • Emperor – In the Nightside Eclipse
  • Enslaved – Frost
  • Enslaved – Vikingligr Veldi
  • Fates Warning – Inside Out
  • Freak Kitchen – Appetizer
  • Forbidden – Distortion
  • Fu Manchu – No One Rides for Free
  • Gehenna – First Spell (EP)
  • Gilby Clarke – Pawnshop Guitars
  • Godflesh – Selfless
  • Gorefest – Erase
  • Gorgoroth – Pentagram
  • Gotthard – Dial Hard
  • Grave - Soulless
  • Gwar – This Toilet Earth
  • Helloween – Master of the Rings
  • Helmet – Betty
  • Hypocrisy – The Fourth Dimension
  • Impaled Nazarene – Suomi Finland Perkele
  • In Flames – Lunar Strain
  • Incantation – Mortal Throne of Nazarene
  • Infectious Grooves – Groove Family Cyco
  • Killing Joke – Pandemonium
  • King's X – Dogman
  • Korn – Korn
  • Korpse - Pull the Flood
  • Kyuss – Welcome to Sky Valley
  • L.A. Guns – Vicious Circle
  • Lake of Tears – Greater Art
  • Love/Hate –
  • Luciferion - Demonication (The Manifest)
  • Tony MacAlpine – Premonition
  • Machine Head – Burn My Eyes
  • Madball – Set It Off
  • Magnum – Rock Art
  • Yngwie Malmsteen – The Seventh Sign
  • Manic Eden – Manic Eden
  • Marduk – Opus Nocturne
  • Marilyn Manson – Portrait of an American Family
  • Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
  • Megadeth – Youthanasia
  • Melvins – Stoner Witch
  • Memento Mori – Life, Death, and Other Morbid Tales
  • Mercyful Fate – Time
  • Moonspell – Under the Moonspell (EP)
  • Mortification - Blood World
  • Mötley Crüe – Mötley Crüe
  • My Dying Bride - I Am the Bloody Earth (EP)
  • Nailbomb – Point Blank
  • Napalm Death – Fear, Emptiness, Despair
  • The New York Dolls – Rock'n Roll
  • Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
  • Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York
  • No One Is Innocent – No One Is Innocent
  • Occult – Prepare to Meet Thy Doom
  • Obituary – World Demise
  • The Obsessed – The Church Within
  • Oomph! – Sperm
  • Overkill – W.F.O.
  • Pantera – Far Beyond Driven
  • Pearl Jam – Vitalogy
  • Pentagram - Be Forewarned
  • Pitchshifter – The Remix War (remix)
  • Pride & Glory – Pride & Glory
  • Pro-Pain – The Truth Hurts
  • Prong – Cleansing
  • Pungent Stench - Club Mondo Bizarre – For Members Only
  • P.O.D. – Snuff the Punk
  • Queensrÿche – Promised Land
  • Rage – 10 Years in Rage (compilation)
  • Ram Jam – Nouvel Album (also released under the name Thank You Mam in 1995)
  • Rollins Band – Weight
  • Ron Wasserman – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the Album: A Rock Adventure (soundtrack)
  • Rotting Christ – Non Serviam
  • Running Wild – Black Hand Inn
  • Samael – Ceremony of Opposites
  • Satyricon – Dark Medieval Times (World release)
  • Satyricon – The Shadowthrone
  • Savatage – Handful of Rain
  • Senser – Stacked Up
  • Sentenced - The Trooper (EP)
  • Septicflesh - Mystic Places of Dawn
  • Skyclad – Prince of the Poverty Line
  • Slayer – Divine Intervention
  • Sodom – Get What You Deserve
  • Solitude Aeturnus – Through the Darkest Hour
  • Solstice – Lamentations
  • Soundgarden – Superunknown
  • Stabbing Westward – Ungod
  • Stone Temple Pilots – Purple
  • Stratovarius – Dreamspace
  • Suicidal Tendencies – Suicidal for Life
  • Symphony X – Symphony X
  • Tankard – Two-Faced
  • Testament – Low
  • Therapy? – Troublegum
  • Threshold – Psychedelicatessen
  • The 3rd and the Mortal – (EP)
  • The 3rd and the Mortal – Tears Laid in Earth
  • Tiamat – Wildhoney
  • Tuff –
  • Urban Dance Squad – Persona Non Grata
  • Vader – Sothis (EP)
  • Vanden Plas – Colour Temple
  • Various Artists – Nativity in Black (Black Sabbath tribute album)
  • Vicious Rumors – Word of Mouth
  • Whitesnake – Greatest Hits
  • Widowmaker – Stand by for Pain

Disbandments[]

Events[]

  • Korn release their critically acclaimed self-titled debut album, which is generally considered the first ever "nu metal" album.
  • 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.
  • Metallica, Danzig and Suicidal Tendencies embark on a U.S. tour together.
  • Oomph! establish the rudiments of the Neue Deutsche Härte genre with their album Sperm.
  • Vocalist Ralf Scheepers leaves Gamma Ray. He would later go on to form Primal Fear.
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