1990 in heavy metal music

Newly formed bands

Anathema

At the Gates

Body Count (by rapper Ice-T)

Cathedral

Converge

Dark Tranquility (then Septic Broiler)

Fear Factory

In Flames

Infectious Grooves

Krisiun

Kyuss

Lamb of God (not yet known as LOG but known as Burn the Priest)

Lost Horizon (then known as Highlander)

My Dying Bride

Opeth

Osvajači

Satyricon

Seance

Tool

Type O Negative

Albums

24-7 Spyz - Gumbo Millennium

AC/DC - The Razors Edge

Alice in Chains - Facelift

Aggressor - Indestructible (Demo)

Anacrusis - Reason

Annihilator - Never, Neverland

Anthrax - Persistence of Time

Atrocity - Hallucinations

Atrophy - Violent by Nature

Bathory - Hammerheart

Believer - Sanity Obscure

Black Sabbath - Tyr

Blind Guardian - Tales from the Twilight World

Blue Cheer - Highlights and Lowlives

Bruce Dickinson - Tattooed Millionaire

Cancer - To the Gory End

Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back to Life

Carnage - Dark Recollections

Celtic Frost - Vanity/Nemesis

Cinderella - Heartbreak Station

Damn Yankees - Damn Yankees

Danzig - Danzig II: Lucifuge

Deliverance - Weapons of Our Warfare

Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence

Death - Spiritual Healing

Death Angel - Act III

Deicide - Deicide

Destruction - Cracked Brain

Dio - Lock up the Wolves

Entombed - Left Hand Path

Exhorder - Slaughter in the Vatican

Extreme - Pornograffitti

Exodus - Impact is Imminent

Flotsam and Jetsam - When the Storm Comes Down

Forbidden - Twisted into Form

FireHouse - FireHouse

Gamma Ray - Heading For Tomorrow

Harter Attack - Human Hell

Hericane Alice - Tear The House Down

Iced Earth - Iced Earth

Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying

Judas Priest - Painkiller

Jon Bon Jovi - Blaze of Glory

King Diamond - The Eye

King's X - Faith Hope Love

Kreator - Coma of Souls

Kyuss - Sons of Kyuss EP

Living Colour - Time's Up

Tony MacAlpine - Eyes of the World

Master (American band) - Master

Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Eclipse

Megadeth - Rust in Peace

Meliah Rage - Solitary Solitude

Monster Magnet - Monster Magnet

Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption

Nocturnus - The Key

Obituary - Cause of Death

Opprobrium - Beyond the Unknown

Paradise Lost - Lost Paradise

Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

Poison - Flesh & Blood

Primus - Frizzle Fry

Prong - Beg to Differ

Queensrÿche - Empire

Quireboys - A Bit of What You Fancy

Rage - Reflections of a Shadow

Ratt - Detonator

Realm - Suiciety

Reverend - World Won't Miss You

Sacred Reich - The American Way

Sacrifice - Soldiers of Misfortune

Sadus - Swallowed in Black

Sanctuary - Into The Mirror Black

Saxon - Solid Ball of Rock

Scatterbrain - Here Comes Trouble

Scorpions - Crazy World

Slaughter - Stick It to Ya

Slaughter - Stick It Live

Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss

Sodom - Better Off Dead

Steelheart - Steelheart (album)

Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare

Stone - Colours

Stryper - Against the Law

Suicidal Tendencies - Lights...Camera...Revolution!

Tankard - The Meaning of Life

Tesla - Five Man Acoustical Jam

The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker

Tigertailz - Bezerk (album)

Testament - Souls of Black

Tourniquet - Stop the Bleeding

Trixter - Trixter

Trouble - Trouble

U.D.O. -Faceless World

Vader - "Morbid Reich" (demo)

Vicious Rumors - Vicious Rumors

Vio-lence - Oppressing the Masses

Warrant - Cherry Pie

Winger - In the Heart of the Young

Xysma - Yeah

Disbandments

atrophy

Events

Adrian Smith, Iron Maiden's lead guitarist leaves the band to pursue a solo career. Janick Gers is hired to replace him.

Metallica wins the first ever Grammy award in the category of Best Metal Performance for the song "One."

The infamous Clash of the Titans tour is this year, headlined by bands such as Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Testament, Suicidal Tendencies, and others.

August 7: Extreme release their second album Pornograffitti. The album peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200 album chart and sold very well, due to the success of its single "More Than Words", which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart a year later.

Judas Priest was involved in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit involving two Nevada teenager suicides allegedly caused by the song "Better by you Better than me". The band won the case.

Faith No More's The Real Thing, carried by the single "Epic", also cracks the Billboard Top 10.

Marty Friedman joins Megadeth replacing Jeff Young on guitar.

Possessed frontman, Jeff Becerra is paralyzed from the waist down after being shot in a mugging on his way home from work.