This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1991.
Acid Bath
Angra
Behemoth
Betrayer, who assume the name Belphegor in 1993
Burzum
Cradle of Filth
Down
Emperor
Enslaved
Hank Williams III
Incubus (not to be confused with the thrash metal Incubus)
Labyrinth
Mercenary
Nevermore
Marduk
Pyogenesis
Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid
Altered State - Altered State
Anthrax - Attack of the Killer B's
Armored Saint - Symbol of Salvation
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Badlands - Voodoo Highway
Bang Tango - Dancin' On Coals
Bathory - Twilight of the Gods
Bolt Thrower - War Master
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth
Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium
Confessor - Condemned
The Cult - Ceremony
Cyclone Temple - I Hate Therefore I Am
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
David Lee Roth - "A Little Ain't Enough"
Death - Human
Dangerous Toys - Hellacious Acres
Deliverance - What a Joke
Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Entombed - Clandestine
Europe - Prisoners in Paradise
Fates Warning - Parallels
Follow for Now - Follow for Now
Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I and II
Heathen - Victims of Deception
Helloween - Pink Bubbles Go Ape
Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
Immolation - Dawn of Possession
Infectious Grooves - The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves
Intruder - Psycho Savant
Richie Kotzen - Electric Joy
Kyuss - Wretch
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - The Yngwie Malmsteen Collection
Meshuggah - Contradictions Collapse
Metal Church - The Human Factor
Metallica - Metallica
Mind Funk - Mind Funk
Monster Magnet - Spine of God
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
Mortal Sin - Every Dog Has Its Day
Mortification - Mortification
Mötley Crüe - Decade of Decadence
Motörhead - 1916
Mr. Big - "Lean into It"
Overkill - Horrorscope
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
Paradise Lost - Gothic
Pitch Shifter - Industrial
Poison - Swallow This Live
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Prong - Prove You Wrong
Queen - Innuendo
Rage - Extended Power (EP)
Ratt - Ratt & Roll 81-91
Reverend - Play God
Rush - Roll the Bones
Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera
Sepultura - Arise
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Slayer - Decade of Aggression
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Stone - Emotional Playground
Stratovarius - Stratovarius II
Stryper - Can't Stop the Rock
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Tesla - Psychotic Supper
Thorns - Grymyrk
Tuff - What Comes Around Goes Around
Tyketto - Don't Come Easy
Type O Negative - Slow, Deep and Hard
U.D.O. - Timebomb
Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Warrior Soul - Drugs, God and the New Republic
White Lion - Mane Attraction
XYZ - Hungry
Disbandments
Death Angel
Whitesnake
Sanctuary
Poison fires guitarist CC DeVille. Conflict between Michaels and DeVille culminated in a fistfight backstage at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards, provoked by DeVille's inept live performance. After bringing "Unskinny Bop" to a grinding halt, DeVille launched into "Talk Dirty To Me", forcing the band to switch songs in mid-performance. Deville was fired and replaced by Pennsylvanian guitarist Richie Kotzen.
Queen releases Innuendo.
November 24: Queen's Freddie Mercury dies of AIDS induced bronchial pneumonia.
Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark dies on January 8 due to compression of the brain stem from excessive alcohol mixed with anti-depressants and painkillers (as a result of a rib injury).
Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" goes to number one in the UK for the second time, the only song to ever go to number one more than once in the same version. It has now spent 14 weeks at number one.
Extreme's hit single "More Than Words" reaches number one on the United States Billboard Hot 100 chart. This brought the band to their first mainstream success in North America.
KISS Drummer - Eric Carr dies at age 41 on November 24 (The same day as Freddie Mercury). As a tribute, the group's 1992 release Revenge featured what is said to be the only drum solo Carr ever recorded with the band, which was titled "Carr Jam 1981".
Skid Row's second album Slave to the Grind becomes the only 90s classic heavy metal album to debut at No.1 in the Billboard music charts in the 90s.
Metallica's self-titled Black Album becomes the first album by a thrash metal band to hit No.1 in the Billboard music charts.
Guns N' Roses set a record when their albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II debut at the top two positions of the Billboard 200, the only time a rock band has ever achieved this
Mayhem's vocalist, Per Yngve Ohlin aka Dead, kills himself by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun and slitting his wrists with a hunting knife. He left a note reading "excuse all the blood". Photographs of his corpse taken by bandmate, Euronymous, were later used as cover art for the bootleg album Dawn of the Black Hearts.
Europe release the 5th album titled Prisoners in Paradise. It's Europe's last studio album before they decide to take a long break.
"Monsters in Moscow" takes place at Moscow's Tushino Airfield featuring AC/DC, The Black Crowes, EST, Metallica and Pantera.
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