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1995 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1995.

Contents

Newly formed bands

  • Aborted
  • Agalloch
  • Alien Ant Farm
  • Borknagar
  • Chevelle
  • Darkest Hour
  • Ensiferum
  • Evergrey
  • Evanescence
  • Godsmack
  • Shadows Fall
  • Kraljevski Apartman
  • Moonsorrow
  • Motograter
  • Silent Stream of Godless Elegy
  • Slipknot
  • Solefald
  • Skyforger
  • Staind
  • System of a Down
  • Thyrfing
  • Xasthur

    • Albums

  • 24-7 Spyz - Temporarily Disconnected
  • AC/DC - Ballbreaker
  • Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains
  • At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
  • Ayreon - The Final Experiment
  • Bal-Sagoth - A Black Moon Broods over Lemuria
  • Behemoth - Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
  • Beowülf - 2Cents
  • Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes Live
  • Black Sabbath - Forbidden
  • Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side
  • Bruce Dickinson - Alive in Studio A
  • Cruachan - Tuatha Na Gael
  • Carcass - Swansong
  • Cathedral - The Carnival Bizarre
  • Crematory - Illusions
  • Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
  • Darkthrone - Panzerfaust
  • Death - Symbolic
  • Def Leppard - Vault Greatest Hits 1980-1995
  • Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
  • Deliverance - Camelot in Smithereens
  • Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity
  • Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
  • Dokken - Dysfunctional
  • Down - NOLA
  • Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons (EP)
  • Edguy - Savage Poetry
  • Excel - Seeking Refuge
  • Extreme - Waiting for the Punchline
  • Faith No More - King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
  • Fear Factory - Demanufacture
  • Forced Entry - The Shore (EP)
  • Fu Manchu - Daredevil
  • Funeral - Tragedies
  • Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
  • Grip Inc. - The Power of Inner Strength
  • Helstar - Multiples of Black
  • Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
  • Immortal - Battles in the North
  • Incubus - Fungus Amongus
  • In Flames - Subterranean (EP)
  • Iron Maiden - The X Factor
  • Joe Satriani - Joe Satriani
  • King Diamond - The Spider's Lullabye
  • Konkhra - Spit or Swallow
  • Kreator - Cause for Conflict
  • Krisiun - Black Force Domain
  • Kyuss - ...And the Circus Leaves Town
  • Lord Belial - Kiss the Goat
  • Malevolent Creation - Eternal
  • Marilyn Manson - Smells Like Children (EP)
  • Megadeth - Hidden Treasures (EP)
  • Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
  • Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity
  • Moonspell - Wolfheart
  • Morbid Angel - Domination (Morbid Angel album)
  • Motörhead - Sacrifice
  • Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
  • My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River
  • Necrophagist - Necrophagist (Demo)
  • Nevermore - Nevermore
  • Nightfall - Athenian Echoes
  • Nothingface
  • Oomph! - Defekt
  • Opeth - Orchid
  • Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzmosis
  • Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
  • Pitchshifter - The Remix War (Remix album)
  • Quiet Riot - Down to the Bone
  • Rage - Black in Mind
  • Rammstein - Herzeleid
  • Running Wild - Masquerade
  • Saint Vitus - Die Healing
  • Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
  • Savatage - Japan Live '94
  • Sentenced - Amok
  • Savatage - Final Bell / Ghost in the Ruins
  • Septic Flesh - Esoptron
  • Skid Row - Subhuman Race
  • Skyclad - The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea
  • Sodom - Masquerade In Blood
  • Strapping Young Lad - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
  • Stratovarius - Fourth Dimension
  • Summoning - Lugburz
  • Summoning - Minas Morgul
  • Symphony X - The Damnation Game
  • Tankard - The Tankard
  • Theatre of Tragedy - Theatre of Tragedy
  • The 3rd and the Mortal - Nightswan (EP)
  • Tony MacAlpine - Evolution
  • Trouble - Plastic Green Head
  • Uncle Slam - When God Dies
  • Unleashed - Victory
  • Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets (EP)
  • Vader - De Profundis
  • Van Halen - Balance
  • Vince Neil - Carved In Stone
  • Virgin Black - Virgin Black Demo
  • Vital Remains - Into Cold Darkness
  • Voivod - Negatron
  • W.A.S.P. - Still Not Black Enough
  • Warrant - Ultraphobic
  • White Zombie - Astro Creep: 2000
  • Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Magnum Opus

    • Disbandments

  • Accept
  • Beowülf
  • The Cult
  • Excel
  • Kyuss (in October)
  • Living Colour
  • Pungent Stench
  • Saint Vitus
  • Suicidal Tendencies
  • Uncle Slam

    • Events

  • Motörhead's guitarist Michael "Würzel" Burston leaves the band.
  • Ingo Schwichtenberg of Helloween Died.
  • Necrophagist's guitarist, Jean-Paul Herm, and drummer, Raphael Kempermann, leave the band. Kempermann is replaced by Daniel Silva.
  • S.O.B.'s vocalist Tottsuan committed suicide by jumping onto railroad tracks.
  • Ralf Scheepers leaving Gamma Ray year earlier. Kai Hansen goes on lead vocals. First time since his 1985 debut album Walls of Jericho.
  • Matt Holt joins Nothingface, replacing David Gabbard as singer.

    • References

    1995 in heavy metal music Wikipedia
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