This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1994.
Disbandments
Atheist
Follow for Now
Lost Horizon (then known as Highlander)
Metal Church
Korn release their critically acclaimed self-titled debut album, which is generally considered the first ever "nu metal" album.
Divine Intervention by Slayer peaks at Number 8 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, with 93,000 copies sold in its first week, and later that year was certified gold in Canada and United States.
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.
Metallica, Danzig and Suicidal Tendencies embark on a U.S. tour together.
Oomph! establish the Neue Deutsche Härte genre with their album Sperm
Vocalist Ralf Scheepers leaves Gamma Ray, He would later go on to form Primal Fear.
1994 in heavy metal music Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
