This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1985. Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s, having its roots in hard rock bands which, between 1969 and 1974,[1] mixed blues and rock music to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Newly formed bands

• Blind Guardian
• Candlemass
• Carcass
• Dream Theater
• King Diamond
• Macabre

A Blind Guardian ticket for the live performance in Belgrade, Serbia. ... Candlemass is a Swedish Doom metal band established in the 1980s by Leif Edling (bass), its leader and songwriter. ... Carcass was a British death metal/goregrind band formed by Napalm Death guitarist Bill Steer together with drummer Ken Owen in 1985. ... Dream Theater is a progressive metal band formed by three students at the Berklee College of Music in 1985. ... King Diamond is the band that King Diamond formed after the split up of Mercyful Fate, following the departure of Hank Shermann. ... Macabre are a death metal band from the USA. They were formed in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois, and ever since have never had a line-up change. ...

Albums

• AC/DC - Fly on the Wall
• Aerosmith - Done With Mirrors
• Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
• The Cult - Love
• Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
• Dio - Sacred Heart
• Dokken - Under Lock And Key
• Exodus- Bonded by Blood
• Helloween - Helloween (EP), Walls Of Jericho
• Iron Maiden - Live After Death
• KISS - Asylum
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Marching Out
• Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!
• Metal Church - Metal Church
• Mötley Crüe - Theater of Pain
• Overkill - Feel The Fire
• Possessed - Seven Churches
• Ratt - Invasion of Your Privacy
• Savatage - Power Of The Night
• Slayer - Hell Awaits
• Stryper - Soldiers Under Command
• Trouble - The Skull
• Voivod - Rrröööaaarrr
• W.A.S.P. - The Last Command (album)
• Y&T - Down for the Count

This article is about the band. ... For other uses, see Fly on the wall (disambiguation). ... Aerosmith is a prominent American rock band, sometimes regarded as Americas Greatest Rock and Roll Band. [1][2] Although they are known as the bad boys from Boston, none of the members are actually from the city. ... Done with Mirrors (1985) is the eighth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, and marked the return of Joe Perry to the fold. ... Spreading the Disease is the second album by the band Anthrax and the first with vocalist Joey Belladonna and bassist Frank Bello. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Love is an album by the band The Cult, released in 1985 on Beggars Banquet Records. ... Celtic Frost is a heavy metal band from Zürich, Switzerland, best known for their influence on the thrash metal, black metal, death metal genres. ... To Mega Therion or Το Μεγα Θηριον is Greek for The Great Beast and is a reference to the Book of Revelation: Revelation 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast [θηριον, therion] rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon... Dio is a heavy metal band led by vocalist Ronnie James Dio, who formed it in October 1983 after leaving Black Sabbath. ... Track Listing King of Rock and Roll Sacred Heart Another Lie Rock N Roll Children Hungry for Heaven Like the Beat of a Heart Just Another Day Fallen Angels Shoot Shoot ____________ Note: This was the last Dio album to include guitarist Vivian Campbell, who went on to join several... Dokken is an American metal band which was formed in 1977. ... Under Lock and Key is the 3rd album by heavy metal band Dokken, released on November 9, 1985. ... Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1982 in San Francisco, California, by Kirk Hammett, Tom Hunting, Paul Baloff and Gary Holt. ... Bonded by Blood is a influential Thrash Metal album by the California band Exodus. ... This article is about the power metal band. ... Helloween is the début recording by the German band Helloween. ... Walls Of Jericho is the first full length album by the power metal band Helloween. ... Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from east London. ... Live After Death is the first live album by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on October 14, 1985. ... Kiss (sometimes typeset KISS, to fit the official logo) is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973. ... Look up asylum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (IPA pronunciation: /ˈɪŋveɪ/) (born Lars Johann Yngve Lannerbäck, June 30, 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, composer and bandleader. ... Marching Out is an album by Yngwie J. Malmsteen which was released in 1985. ... Megadeth is an American heavy metal band led by founder, frontman, and songwriter Dave Mustaine. ... Killing Is My Business. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Metal Church is the self-titled debut album of the band with the same name. ... Mötley Crüe (IPA pronunciation: ) is a popular American rock band from Los Angeles, California. ... Theatre of Pain is the third album by rock band Mötley Crüe, released in 1985. ... Overkill is one of the first Thrash Metal bands, formed in the early 1980s in New Jersey (but often attributed to New York City), and very active ever since. ... Feel the Fire was an album by thrash metal legends Overkill, released by Megaforce records in 1985. ... Possessed were a seminal death/thrash metal band formed in 1983 in El Sobrante, California, a San Francisco Bay Area suburb. ... Seven Churches was Possesseds debut album, released in 1985 through Combat. ... Ratt is an American glam metal band that enjoyed significant commercial success during the 1980s. ... Invasion Of Your Privacy is Ratts second full length album. ... Savatage is a heavy metal/progressive metal band founded by the brothers Jon and Criss Oliva in 1979. ... Power of the Night is the third album of Savatage, released in 1985. ... Slayer is an American thrash metal band, formed in 1982 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. ... Hell Awaits (1985) was the second full-length album by Slayer, released through Metal Blade Records. ... Stryper is a Christian metal band from Orange County, California, USA. Formed in 1983, they are considered pioneers in the mainstream popularization of Christian rock music. ... Soldiers Under Command is the second release, and first full-length studio album, from Christian metal band Stryper, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music). ... Trouble is an American (proto) Doom Metal band noted for their slow (by 80s standards), heavy albums such as their 1984 debut Trouble (later Psalm 9) The Skull (1985) and others. ... Voivod is an influential progressive metal band from Canada. ... Rrröööaaarrr is the second album by Canadian metal/cyberpunk band Voivod. ... This article is about the band. ... -1... Y&T (Yesterday & Today) is a rock band who formed in 1974. ...

Disbandments

• Mercyful Fate

Mercyful Fate is an influential Danish heavy metal group that helped inspire the black metal, thrash metal and prog metal genres. ...

Events