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1982 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1982.

Contents

Newly formed bands

  • Armored Saint
  • Artillery
  • Carnivore
  • Corrosion of Conformity (not originally a metal band)
  • Death Angel
  • Destruction
  • Dio
  • Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
  • Kreator
  • Possessed
  • Spinal Tap
  • Steve Vai
  • Voivod
  • Warlock
  • Warriors
  • W.A.S.P.
  • Watchtower
  • X (later known as X Japan)

    • Events

  • Iron Maiden's first album with Bruce Dickinson, The Number of the Beast, reaches No.1 in the U.K. music charts.
  • Motörhead's Guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke leaves the band and is replaced by ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson.
  • Judas Priest's single You've Got Another Thing Comin' is released. It will go on to become the band's best selling single.
  • Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist Randy Rhoads dies in an airplane accident on March 19.
  • Late that year Iron Maiden's drummer Clive Burr is fired from Maiden because of personal and tour-schedule problems and Nicko McBrain from Trust is hired to replace him.
  • Ace Frehley, Space Ace and lead guitarist of Kiss, leaves the band. Vinnie Vincent takes his place.
  • Queen departs from their hard rock legacy with the ill-received funk/disco album Hot Space
  • December: Former Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan replaces Ronnie James Dio in Black Sabbath
  • The band Metallica leaves Los Angeles and relocates to the San Francisco Bay Area.

    • References

    1982 in heavy metal music Wikipedia
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