This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1987. 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 to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised by... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Newly formed bands

• Alice in Chains
• Asphyx
• Autopsy
• Burzum
• Cynic
• Danzig
• Entombed
• Primordial
• Nirvana

Alice in Chains is an influential band of the grunge movement in the early-1990s in Seattle, Washington, along with Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden. ... Asphyx is a Dutch death metal band. ... Autopsy were an influential death metal band founded in 1987 in the United States of America by Chris Reifert after he left Death. ... Burzum began in 1987 as a prominent Norwegian black metal solo project. ... Cynic were a technical death metal band that was formed in Florida, United States, in 1987 by vocalist/guitarist Paul Masvidal, guitarist Jason Gobel, bassist Mark Van Erp, and drummer Sean Reinert. ... Danzig is an American band which fuses dark lyrics and imagery with Hard rock/heavy metal music. ... Entombed is a Swedish metal band which formed in 1987 (see 1987 in music) under the name of Nihilist. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... [ (Devanagari , Pali: Nibbāna निब्बान -- Chinese: 涅槃; Pinyin: niè pán), literally extinction and/or extinguishing (ie, of the passions) is a mode of being that is free from mind-contaminants (Kilesa) such as lust, anger or craving. ...

Albums

• Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
• Alice Cooper - Raise Your Fist and Yell
• Anthrax - Among the Living, I'm the Man (EP)
• Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol
• The Cult - Electric
• Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
• Death - Scream Bloody Gore
• Deep Purple - The House of Blue Light
• Def Leppard - Hysteria
• Dio - Dream Evil
• Dokken - Back For The Attack
• Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
• Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 1
• Jethro Tull - Crest of a Knave
• Judas Priest - Priest...Live!
• KISS - Crazy Nights
• Manowar - Fighting the World
• Metal Church - The Dark
• Motörhead - Rock 'n' Roll
• Napalm Death - Scum
• Overkill - Taking Over
• Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
• Testament - The Legacy
• Trouble - Run to the Light
• White Lion - Pride
• Whitesnake - Whitesnake
• Y&T - Contagious
• Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls

Aerosmith is a prominent American rock band, which regards itself 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. ... Permanent Vacation is the ninth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1987 (see 1987 in music). ... Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), is a hard rock singer and musician, whose work spans four decades. ... Raise Your Fist and Yell was the 1987 release by Alice Cooper. ... Among the Living is the name of the third album by the band Anthrax. ... Im the Man is the name of the second EP by the band Anthrax. ... There are other articles with similar names; see Black Sabbath (disambiguation). ... The Eternal Idol is the 13th studio album by Black Sabbath. ... The Cult are an English rock band. ... Electric is an album by The Cult and it was released in 1987 on Beggars Banquet (Catalogue number BEGA 80). ... Celtic Frost is an early black metal group from Zürich, Switzerland. ... Into the Pandemonium is the 1987 (see 1987 in music) album by death/thrash metal band Celtic Frost. ... Death was an influential death metal band from the United States that was founded in 1983 and dissolved in 1999. ... Scream Bloody Gore is the first album released by Death in 1987. ... Deep Purple are an English hard rock band formed in London, England in 1968 (see 1968 in music). ... The House of Blue Light is the twelfth studio album by Deep Purple, released in 1987, it is the second recording by the re-formed Mark II lineup. ... Def Leppard is an English hard rock/heavy metal band from Sheffield who formed in 1977 at the time of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. ... Hysteria is the fourth album by British hard rock band Def Leppard, released in 1987 (see 1987 in music). ... Dio is a heavy metal band led by vocalist Ronnie James Dio, who formed it in October 1982 after leaving Black Sabbath. ... Dream Evil was Dios fourth album, released on July 21, 1987. ... Dokken is an American metal band which was formed in 1978. ... Back for the Attack is the 4th album by heavy metal band Dokken, released on November 27, 1987. ... Guns N Roses is an American hard rock band that gained fame during the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Appetite for Destruction was rock and roll band Guns N Roses debut album. ... Helloween is a German power/speed metal band founded in the early 1980s by members of the two bands Ironfist and Powerfool. ... Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 is the second release from the German power metal/heavy metal band Helloween. ... This article is about the band. ... Crest of a Knave is an album by the British progressive rock group Jethro Tull, released in 1987. ... Judas Priest are a heavy metal band formed in 1968 in the northwest midlands, near Birmingham, England. ... Priest. ... The Kiss by Francesco Hayez, 19th century. ... Crazy Nights (1987) is an album by KISS. It was the fourth Platinum seller for the band in a row. ... Manowar is an American heavy metal band from Auburn, New York, which formed in 1980. ... TRACK LIST 01. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Dark was the eighth Magic: The Gathering set and the fourth expansion set, released in August, 1994. ... Motörhead are a British heavy metal band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy Kilmister (real name Ian Kilmister) after his ejection from the iconic space-rock band Hawkwind. ... Recorded at Master Rock and Redwood, London, Rock n Roll is the first appearance of the four-piece Motörhead line up of Lemmy, Philthy Animal Taylor, Wurzel and Philip Campbell, which lasted from 1987 until 1992. ... Napalm Death is a grindcore/death metal band formed in the village of Meriden near Birmingham, England in 1982 by Nicholas Bullen and Miles Ratledge. ... Scum is an album by the grindcore band Napalm Death. ... 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. ... Taking Over was the second album recorded by Overkill, released by Megaforce records in 1987. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... Surfing With the Alien is the second album by instrumental rock solo artist Joe Satriani, released in 1987. ... Testament (a. ... The Legacy is the debut album of the band Testament. ... 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. ... Run to the Light was the third album by the American doom metal band Trouble, released on July 15, 1987. ... White Lion was a hard rock band active in the 1980s and early 1990s. ... Pride was White Lions second album. ... Whitesnake is a Hard rock band, active primarily in the 1980s. ... Whitesnake, the self-titled 1987 album by the hard rock band of the same name, was a major crossover hit and one of the top-selling albums in the hair metal genre, eventually selling over eight million copies (and thus going eight times platinum). ... Y&T (Yesterday & Today) is a rock band who formed in 1974. ... A disease is any abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person affected or those in contact with the person. ... Mötley Crüe (pronounced ) is a popular American rock band from Los Angeles, California. ... Girls, Girls, Girls is the fourth studio album, released in 1987 by heavy metal group Mötley Crüe. ...

Disbandments

• Twisted Sister

Twisted Sister is an American hard rock/glam metal band from New York City. ...

Events

• Iron Maiden headlines the Monsters of Rock festival at Donnington, England on a bill which includes KISS, Guns N' Roses, Dokken, Whitesnake and Helloween.
• Motörhead's drummer Pete Gill leaves the band and Philthy Animal Taylor returns.
• Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls Debuts at #2 in the Billboard charts becoming the biggest album debut since Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains The Same