This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1995. 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... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Newly formed bands

• Slipknot
• System of a Down

Slipknot is a nine-piece nu-metal band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 1995 and currently signed to Roadrunner Records. ... System of a Down (also referred to as SOAD or System) is a four-piece alternative metal band that formed in 1995 in Los Angeles, California. ...

Albums

• AC/DC - Ballbreaker
• Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains
• Behemoth - Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
• Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes Live
• Black Sabbath - Forbidden
• Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side
• Bruce Dickinson - Alive in Studio A
• Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons (EP)
• Edguy - Savage Poetry
• Fear Factory - Demanufacture
• Forced Entry - The Shore (EP)
• Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
• Iron Maiden - The X Factor
• Kyuss - ...And the Circus Leaves Town
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Magnum Opus
• Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity
• Moonspell - Wolfheart
• Motörhead - Sacrifice
• Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
• Opeth - Orchid
• Rammstein - Herzeleid
• Skid Row - Subhuman Race
• Strapping Young Lad - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
• Stratovarius - Fourth Dimension
• The 3rd and the Mortal - Nightswan (EP)
• Trouble - Plastic Green Head
• Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets (EP)
• Van Halen - Balance
• White Zombie - Astro Creep: 2000

AC/DC are a hard rock band which formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973 (see 1973 in music) by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. ... Ballbreaker is an album by the iconic hard rock band AC/DC, released in 1995. ... 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. ... Alice in Chains is the self-titled album by the Seattle grunge group Alice In Chains. ... Behemoth is an influential Polish blackened death metal band. ... Cover of Sventevith Sventevith (Storming Near The Baltic) is an album released in 1995 by Polish black metal group Behemoth. ... There are other articles with similar names; see Black Sabbath (disambiguation). ... Cross Purposes Live is an album recorded by the British rock band Black Sabbath. ... There are other articles with similar names; see Black Sabbath (disambiguation). ... Forbidden was the 1995 effort from Black Sabbath. ... A Blind Guardian ticket for the live performance in Belgrade, Serbia. ... Imaginations from the Other Side is an album by Blind Guardian that was released in 1995. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Alive in Studio A is a heavy metal album released in 1995 (see 1995 in music) by Bruce Dickinson. ... Dream Theater is a progressive metal band formed in Long Island, New York by three students at the Berklee College of Music in 1985. ... A Change Of Seasons is a 1995 EP by progressive metal band Dream Theater. ... Edguy is a power metal band from Fulda, Germany. ... Savage Poetry, released in 1995 (see 1995 in music), is the first album by the power metal band Edguy. ... Fear Factory is an American death/industrial metal band that has toured with Black Sabbath, Pantera, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Dream Theater and Rammstein; performed at three Ozzfests and the inaugural Gigantour; and had singles in the Mainstream Rock Top 40 and albums in the Billboard top 40, 100 and... Demanufacture is the second official album (not counting the previous EP Fear is the Mindkiller) by the Los Angeles groove metal/industrial band Fear Factory. ... Forced Entry was a thrash metal band from Mountlake Terrace, Washington. ... Iced Earth is an American heavy metal band that combines influences from thrash metal, power metal, progressive metal and NWOBHM. // The central figure of Iced Earth is rhythm guitarist and songwriter Jon Schaffer, who formed the band under the name Purgatory in Indiana in 1984. ... Burnt Offerings is Iced Earths third album, released April 18, 1995, by Century Media Records. ... Iron Maiden is an English heavy metal band from East London. ... The X Factor is a heavy metal album released October 2, 1995 by Iron Maiden. ... This article is about the band Kyuss. ... ...And the Circus Leaves Town is the fourth and last album by Kyuss, released on July 11, 1995 (see 1995 in music) before disbanding in October. ... Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (born Lars Johann Yngve Lannerbäck, June 30, 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, composer and bandleader. ... Magnum opus (sometimes Opus magnum), from the Latin meaning great work, refers to the best, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an author, artist, or composer. ... 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). ... Dopes to Infinity is the third album by Monster Magnet. ... Moonspell is a band from Portugal, initially formed in 1989 as Morbid God by Fernando Ribeiro (vocals), Ares (bass guitar) and two of the bands former members as a black metal band. ... Wolfheart is the first full-length album by gothic metal band Moonspell. ... 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. ... [ (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. ... MTV Unplugged in New York is the name of a concert by Nirvana, recorded on the MTV Unplugged series. ... Opeth is a progressive death metal band from Sweden. ... Orchid is Opeths debut album. ... Rammstein is a German band that was formed in 1994. ... Herzeleid (German for Heartache) is the German NDH-metal band Rammsteins first musical album. ... Skid Row is an American heavy metal band which became the heavy metal prototypes of the late 1980s metal scene and were reasonably successful until they were eclipsed by the Seattle grunge bands in 1991. ... Subhuman Race was the third full-length album from New Jersey metal band Skid Row. ... Strapping Young Lad (aka SYL) is a Canadian metal band, started by Devin Townsend in 1994. ... Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing is the debut album by Canadian heavy metal band Strapping Young Lad. ... Stratovarius is a Finnish Neoclassical/power metal band, known for its melodic approach to the genre. ... Fourth Dimension is an album by the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius. ... The 3rd and the Mortal (alternative spelling The Third and the Mortal) is a norwegian experimental heavy metal-band. ... 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. ... Steven Siro Vai (born June 6, 1960 in Carle Place, New York) is an American virtuoso guitarist, composer, and record producer, notable for having received a Grammy Award (along with nine nominations) and being cited as an influence by many guitarists ever since the 1980s. ... Alien Love Secrets is an EP by Steve Vai in 1995. ... Van Halen is an American hard rock band. ... Balance is the tenth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1995 (see 1995 in music). ... White Zombie was an American band named after the 1932 film White Zombie, which starred Bela Lugosi. ... Astro Creep: 2000 - Songs Of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head was released in 1995 by White Zombie through Geffen Records. ...

Disbandments

• Accept
• The Cult
• Kyuss (in October)
• Suicidal Tendencies

Accept is a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled in the early 1970s by Udo Dirkschneider. ... The Cult are an English rock band. ... This article is about the band Kyuss. ... Suicidal Tendencies are a hardcore punk band formed in 1982 in Venice, California. ...

Events

• Motörhead's guitarist Michael "Würzel" Burston leaves the band.
• Ingo Schwichtenberg of Helloween committed suicide by jumping in front of a subway train after suffering more and more of Schizophrenic. Schwichtenberg's suicide had terrible effects on all members of Helloween and fans of metal worldwide.