1994 in metal
This is a timeline documenting the events of
heavy metal
in the year
1994
.
Contents
1
Newly formed bands
2
Albums
3
Disbandments
4
Events
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
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
Disbandments
Atheist
Follow for Now
Lost Horizon (then known as Highlander)
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