This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1993. 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... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

Newly formed bands

• Children of Bodom
• Dark Funeral
• Diabolical Masquerade
• Dimmu Borgir
• HammerFall
• Korn
• Mournful Congregation
• Nile
• Rhapsody of Fire
• Papa Roach
• Symphony X
• Ulver

Children of Bodom is a metal band from Espoo, Finland. ... Dark Funeral is a black metal band from Sweden. ... Diabolical Masquerade is a Swedish one-man project. ... Dimmu Borgir ( (help·info); pronounced Di-moo bore-gear) is a Symphonic/Melodic Black Metal band from Norway, and its one of the best selling Black Metal bands in the world. ... Joacim Cans HammerFall is a Swedish power metal band assembled in 1993. ... Korn (often typeset as KoЯn to fit their logo) is a Grammy Award-winning nu metal band from Bakersfield, California. ... Mournful Congregation are funeral doom metal band from Loxton, Australia. ... Nile is a death metal band from South Carolina, USA assembled in 1993. ... Rhapsody of Fire is an Italian symphonic power metal/epic metal band, formerly known as Thundercross and - more recently - Rhapsody. ... Papa Roach is a four-piece nu metal band from Vacaville, California. ... Symphony X is an American progressive metal band from New Jersey founded in 1994 by guitarist Michael Romeo. ... Ulver (Norwegian for Wolves) is an experimental musical ensemble from Norway that started out making folk-inspired black metal and neo-classical folk music. ...

Reformed Bands

• Dokken

Dokken is an American metal band which was formed in 1977. ...

Albums

• Aerosmith - Get A Grip
• Annihilator - Set the World on Fire
• Anthrax - Sound of White and Noise
• Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face (EP)
• Deep Purple - The Battle Rages On
• Def Leppard - Retro Active
• Helloween - Chameleon
• Infectious Grooves - Sarsippius' Ark
• Macabre - Sinister Slaughter
• Monster Magnet - Superjudge
• Motörhead - Bastards
• Mr. Big - Bump Ahead
• Primus - Pork Soda
• Rush - Counterparts
• Savatage - Edge of Thorns
• Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
• Steve Vai - Sex and Religion

Aerosmith is a prominent American rock band, often regarded as Americas Greatest Rock and Roll Band. ... Get a Grip is the eleventh studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1993 (see 1993 in music). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Set the World on Fire is an album by Annihilator, released in 1993 (see 1993 in music). ... Sound of White Noise is the name of the eleventh album by the band Anthrax. ... Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band founded in 1988. ... Hammer Smashed Face is Cannibal Corpses first EP. It was released in 1993 through Metal Blade Records. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Battle Rages On is the fourteenth studio album by Deep Purple, released in 1993. ... Def Leppard are a hard rock/heavy metal band from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, who formed in 1977 at the time of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. ... Retro Active is an album by British hard rock band Def Leppard, released in 1993 (see 1993 in music). ... This article is about the power metal band. ... Chameleon is an album by the German heavy metal band Helloween, released in 1993. ... The Infectious Grooves are a Funk metal band led by Suicidal Tendencies frontman Mike Muir. ... Sarsippius Ark is the seccond album from Infectious Grooves. ... 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. ... Sinister Slaughter is the second full-length album by American heavy metal band Macabre and was released in 1993 by Nuclear Blast 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). ... Superjudge is an album by Monster Magnet, released on April 6, 1993 (see 1993 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. ... A bastard is an illegitimate child. ... Mr. ... Bump Ahead is an album by hard rock band Mr. ... Primus is an American rock band formed in California in the mid-1980s. ... Pork Soda is the fourth album by Primus. ... Rush is a Canadian rock band comprising bassist, keyboardist, and vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. ... Counterparts is the fifteenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1993 (see 1993 in music). ... Savatage is a heavy metal/progressive metal band founded by the brothers Jon and Criss Oliva in 1979. ... Edge of Thorns is an album by Savatage, released in 1993 on Atlantic Records. ... Sepultura is a Brazilian heavy metal band that began as a thrash metal group in 1984. ... Chaos A.D. was a music album released in 1993 by Sepultura through Roadrunner Records. ... Steven Siro Vai (born June 6, 1960 in Carle Place, New York) is a Grammy Award-winning guitarist, composer and record producer. ... Sex and Religion is a Steve Vai album presented under the name of simply Vai. It features Strapping Young Lad and The Devin Townsend Band vocalist and guitarist Devin Townsend on vocals before he started either band. ...

Disbandments

Events

• Bruce Dickinson leaves Iron Maiden. Wolfsbane's singer Blaze Bayley is chosen to replace him.
• Rob Halford of Judas Priest leaves the band to start his own project Fight
• Michael Kiske of Helloween leaves the band due to personal reasons. He was replaced by Andi Deris.
• Øystein Aarseth aka Euronymous of black metal band Mayhem was murdered on August 10th, by Varg Vikernes of Burzum.
• Criss Oliva of Savatage was killed in a car crash on October 17th by a drunk driver.