1995 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 1995.

Newly formed bands[]

Albums[]

  • 24-7 Spyz – Temporarily Disconnected
  • AC/DC – Ballbreaker
  • Alice Cooper – Classicks
  • Alice in Chains – Alice in Chains
  • Amorphis - Black Winter Day (EP)
  • Anathema – The Silent Enigma
  • Anathema - Pentecost III (EP)
  • Anthrax – Stomp 442
  • At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul
  • Ayreon – The Final Experiment
  • Bad Brains – God of Love
  • Bal-Sagoth – A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria
  • Behemoth – Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
  • Benediction - The Dreams You Dread
  • Beowülf – 2 Cents
  • Bestial Warlust - Blood & Valour
  • Black Sabbath – Cross Purposes Live (live box set)
  • Black Sabbath – Forbidden
  • Blind Guardian – Imaginations from the Other Side
  • Bruce Dickinson – Alive in Studio A (live)
  • Cancer - Black Faith
  • Carcass – Swansong
  • Cathedral – The Carnival Bizarre
  • Clawfinger – Use Your Brain
  • Comecon - Fable Frolic
  • Crematory – Illusions
  • Crowbar – Time Heals Nothing
  • The Crown - The Burning (as Crown of Thorns)
  • Cruachan – Tuatha na Gael
  • D-A-D – Good Clean Family Entertainment You Can Trust
  • Damaged - Passive Backseat Demon Engines (EP)
  • Dangerous Toys – The Rtist 4merly Known As Dangerous Toys
  • Dark Avenger – Dark Avenger
  • Dark Tranquillity – The Gallery
  • Darkthrone – Panzerfaust
  • Dawn - Nær Solen Gar Niþer For Evogher
  • Death – Symbolic
  • Deceased - The Blueprints for Madness
  • Def Leppard – Vault Greatest Hits 1980–1995 (compilation)
  • Deftones – Adrenaline
  • Deicide – Once upon the Cross
  • Deliverance –
  • Dismember – Massive Killing Capacity
  • Dismember – Casket Garden (EP)
  • Dissection – Storm of the Light's Bane
  • Dokken – Dysfunctional
  • Down – NOLA
  • Dream Theater – A Change of Seasons (EP)
  • Earth Crisis – Destroy the Machines
  • Edguy – Savage Poetry
  • Excel – Seeking Refuge
  • Extreme – Waiting for the Punchline
  • FireHouse – 3 (FireHouse album)
  • Faith No More – King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
  • Fear Factory – Demanufacture
  • Fight – A Small Deadly Space
  • Flotsam and Jetsam – Drift
  • Forced Entry – The Shore (EP)
  • Fu Manchu – Daredevil
  • Funeral – Tragedies
  • Gamma Ray – Land of the Free
  • The Gathering - Mandylion
  • Ghostorm - Frozen in Fire
  • Grip Inc. – The Power of Inner Strength
  • Gwar – Ragnarök
  • Helstar – Multiples of Black
  • Iced Earth – Burnt Offerings
  • Illdisposed - Submit
  • Immortal – Battles in the North
  • In Flames – Subterranean (EP)
  • Incubus – Fungus Amongus
  • Integrity – Systems Overload
  • Iron Maiden – The X Factor
  • Joe Satriani – Joe Satriani
  • Kamelot – Eternity
  • Kataklysm - Sorcery
  • Katatonia - For Funerals to Come... (EP)
  • Kix – Show Business
  • King Diamond – The Spider's Lullabye
  • Konkhra – Spit or Swallow
  • Krabathor - Lies
  • Krabathor - The Rise of Brutality (EP)
  • Kreator – Cause for Conflict
  • Krisiun – Black Force Domain
  • Kyuss – ...And the Circus Leaves Town
  • Lacrimosa – Inferno
  • Lord Belial – Kiss the Goat
  • Love/Hate –
  • Mad Season – Above
  • Malevolent Creation – Eternal
  • Marilyn Manson – Smells Like Children (EP)
  • Megadeth – Hidden Treasures (EP)
  • Meshuggah – Destroy Erase Improve
  • Metal Massacre - Metal Massacre XII (Compilation, various artists)
  • Mindrot - Dawning
  • Mindrot - Forlorn (EP)
  • Monster Magnet – Dopes to Infinity
  • Moonspell – Wolfheart
  • Morbid Angel – Domination
  • Morgana Lefay – Sanctified
  • Mortician - House by the Cemetery (EP)
  • Mortification - Primitive Rhythm Machine
  • Motörhead – Sacrifice
  • Mr. Bungle – Disco Volante
  • My Dying Bride – The Angel and the Dark River
  • Necrophagist – (demo)
  • Nembrionic - Psycho One Hundred
  • Nevermore – Nevermore
  • Night in Gales - Sylphlike (EP)
  • Nightfall – Athenian Echoes
  • Nothingface – Nothingface
  • Novembers Doom - Amid Its Hallowed Mirth
  • Oomph! – Defekt
  • Opeth – Orchid
  • Orphanage - Oblivion
  • Ozzy Osbourne – Ozzmosis
  • Paradise Lost – Draconian Times
  • Pessimist - Absence of Light (EP)
  • Powerman 5000 – The Blood-Splat Rating System
  • Primus - Tales from the Punchbowl
  • Quiet Riot – Down to the Bone
  • Rage – Black in Mind
  • Rainbow – Stranger in Us All
  • Rammstein – Herzeleid
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute
  • Roxx Gang – The Voodoo You Love
  • Running Wild – Masquerade
  • Saint Vitus – Die Healing
  • Samael - Rebellion (EP)
  • Savatage – Dead Winter Dead
  • Savatage – Japan Live '94 (live)
  • Savatage – Ghost in the Ruins – A Tribute to Criss Oliva (live)
  • Saxon – Dogs of War
  • Sentenced – Amok
  • Sentenced – Love & Death (EP)
  • Septicflesh – Esoptron
  • Sinister - Hate
  • Six Feet Under - Haunted
  • Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet
  • Skid Row – Subhuman Race
  • Skyclad – The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea
  • –
  • Slaughter – Fear No Evil
  • Sodom – Masquerade in Blood
  • Strapping Young Lad – Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
  • Stratovarius – Fourth Dimension
  • Stuck Mojo – Snappin' Necks
  • Suffocation - Pierced from Within
  • Summoning – Lugburz
  • Summoning – Minas Morgul
  • Symphony X – The Damnation Game
  • Tad Morose –
  • Tankard – The Tankard
  • Theatre of Tragedy – Theatre of Tragedy
  • Therapy? – Infernal Love
  • Therion - Lepaca Kliffoth
  • The 3rd and the Mortal – (EP)
  • Tony MacAlpine – Evolution
  • Trouble – Plastic Green Head
  • Tuff –
  • Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil
  • Uncle Slam – When God Dies
  • Unleashed – Victory
  • Steve Vai – Alien Love Secrets (EP)
  • Vader – De Profundis
  • Van Halen – Balance
  • Vince Neil – Carved in Stone
  • Virgin Black – Virgin Black (demo)
  • Vital Remains – Into Cold Darkness
  • Voivod – Negatron
  • W.A.S.P. – Still Not Black Enough
  • Warrant – Ultraphobic
  • Warrior Soul – The Space Age Playboys
  • White Zombie – Astro-Creep: 2000
  • Y&T – Musically Incorrect
  • Yngwie Malmsteen – Magnum Opus

Disbandments[]

Events[]

  • Motörhead's guitarist Michael "Würzel" Burston leaves the band.
  • Ingo Schwichtenberg of Helloween dies.
  • Necrophagist's guitarist and drummer leave the band. Kempermann is replaced by Daniel Silva.
  • S.O.B.'s vocalist Tottsuan commits suicide by jumping onto railroad tracks.
  • Ralf Scheepers leaving Gamma Ray year earlier, Kai Hansen goes on lead vocals. First time since his 1985 debut album Walls of Jericho.
  • Matt Holt joins Nothingface, replacing David Gabbard as singer.
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