This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1991. Heavy metal is derivative 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 by... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Newly formed bands

• Angra
• Behemoth
• Cradle of Filth
• Emperor
• Enslaved
• Nevermore
• Rage Against the Machine

Angra is a progressive power metal band from São Paulo, Brazil known for its use of symphonic interludes and regional elements in their songs. ... Behemoth is an influential Polish blackened death metal band. ... Cradle of Filth is a heavy metal band formed in Suffolk, England in 1991. ... Emperor is a seminal and infamous Norwegian black metal formed in 1991. ... Enslaved is a black/viking metal band from Bergen, Norway. ... Nevermore is a North American progressive metal band from Seattle, Washington assembled in 1991 from the ashes of the power metal band Sanctuary. ... Rage Against the Machine was a highly influential American rock band noted for their pioneering blend of rap, hard rock, funk and Hardcore as well as their vocal revolutionary socialist beliefs. ...

Albums

• Anthrax - Attack of the Killer B's
• Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid
• Bolt Thrower - War Master
• Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth
• Death - Human
• The Cult - Ceremony
• Forced Entry - As Above, So Below
• Great White - Hooked
• Helloween - Pink Bubbles Go Ape
• Infectious Grooves - The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves
• Richie Kotzen - Electric Joy
• Kyuss - Wretch
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - The Yngwie Malmsteen Collection
• Metal Church - The Human Factor
• Metallica - Metallica
• Monster Magnet - Spine of God
• Motörhead - 1916
• Mr. Big - Lean Into It
• Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
• Queen - Innuendo
• Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
• Rush - Roll the Bones
• Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera
• Sepultura - Arise
• Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
• Soundgarden- Badmotorfinger
• Stratovarius - Stratovarius II
• Stryper - Can't Stop the Rock

Attack of the Killer Bs is the name of the fourth EP by the Thrash Metal band Anthrax. ... Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), is a rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans four decades. ... Hey Stoopid was a studio album from heavy metal singer Alice Cooper. ... Bolt Thrower are a death metal band from Coventry, England. ... War Master is a Bolt Thrower album, recorded at Slaughterhouse studios in September 1990, produced by Bolt Thrower and Colin Richardson. ... Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band founded in 1988. ... Butchered at Birth is Cannibal Corpses second album. ... Death was an influential death metal band from the United States that was founded in 1983 and dissolved in 1999. ... Human is the fourth album released by Death in 1991. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Ceremony is an album by The Cult that was first released in 1991. ... Forced Entry was a thrash metal band from Mountlake Terrace, Washington. ... Hermes Trismegistuss axiom, As Above, So Below is a key metaphysical concept. ... Great White is an American blues-based Rock and Glam Metal band. ... Hooked is the ninth collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael, covering the years 1985 to 1988. ... This article is about the power metal band. ... Pink Bubbles Go Ape is the fourth album by the German heavy metal band Helloween, released in 1991. ... The Infectious Grooves are a Funk metal band led by Suicidal Tendencies frontman Mike Muir. ... The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move. ... Image:R-kotzen. ... This article is about the band Kyuss. ... Wretch is the debut album by Kyuss, released in 1991 (see 1991 in music) after forming and renaming the band from their original name Sons of Kyuss. ... Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (IPA pronunciation: /ˈɪŋveɪ/) (born Lars Johann Yngve Lannerbäck, June 30, 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, composer and bandleader. ... The Yngwie Malmsteen Collection is the first compilation album by Yngwie J. Malmsteen. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Human Factor (ISBN 0679409920) is an espionage novel by Graham Greene, first published in 1978 and adapted into a 1979 film by Otto Preminger. ... Metallica is an American heavy metal band, formed on October 28, 1981. ... Metallica is the fifth album by the band Metallica, released August 12, 1991 through Elektra Records. ... Monster Magnet is an American rock band founded by Dave Wyndorf (vocals and guitar), John McBain (guitar), Tom Diello (drums), and Tim Cronin (vocals and bass). ... Spine of God is an album by Monster Magnet, released in 1991 (see 1991 in music). ... The title of this article contains the following characters: ö. Where they are unavailable or not desired, the name may be given as Motorhead. ... 1916 was the first album Motörhead recorded for WTG, their new label, after the legal battle with GWR was resolved. ... Mr. ... Lean Into It is an album by hard rock band Mr. ... Ozzy redirects here. ... No More Tears is an album by Ozzy Osbourne. ... Queen are an English rock band formed by Brian May, Freddie Mercury, and Roger Taylor in London, England in 1970 from the remains of Smile, with John Deacon completing the lineup the following year. ... Innuendo is a 1991 album by English rock band Queen. ... Primus is an American rock band formed in California in the mid-1980s. ... Sailing the Seas of Cheese is the second album by Primus, released on May 14, 1991. ... Rush is a Canadian rock band comprising bassist, keyboardist, and vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. ... Roll the Bones is the fourteenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1991 (see 1991 in music). ... Savatage is a heavy metal/progressive metal band founded by the brothers Jon and Criss Oliva in 1979. ... Streets: A Rock Opera is a concept album by Savatage, dealing with the rise and fall of the musician D.T. Jesus. ... Sepultura is a Brazilian heavy metal band that began as a thrash metal group in 1984. ... Arise was the fourth LP by Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura released in 1991 (1991 in music) through Roadrunner Records. ... Skid Row is an American heavy metal band which became the hair metal prototypes of the late 1980s metal scene and were reasonably successful until they were eclipsed by the Seattle grunge bands in 1991. ... Slave to the Grind is Skid Rows second album, released on June 11, 1991. ... Soundgarden was a seminal Seattle rock band who helped to define the sound that came to be called grunge. ... Badmotorfinger is the third album by the band Soundgarden. ... Stratovarius is a Finnish Neoclassical/power metal band, known for its melodic approach to the genre. ... II is the second album by the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius. ... 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. ... Cant Stop the Rock is the sixth album by Christian Metal band Stryper. ...

Disbandments

• Death Angel

Death Angel is a Filipino-American thrash metal band from San Francisco, California. ...

Events

• Queen frontman Freddie Mercury dies of AIDS induced bronchial pneumonia.
• 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 then once in the same version. It has now spent 14 weeks at number one.
• KISS Drummer - Eric Carr dies at age 41 on November 24. 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 first and 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 thrash metal album to hit No.1 in the Billboard music charts.
• Skid Row, Guns N' Roses, and Metallica's albums all debut #1, at that time they were all in tour together.
• 8th January: Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark dies of alcoholic poisoning.
• 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 for as the album art of the album Dawn of the Black Hearts.