1994 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1994.

Newly formed bands

• Abscess
• Amen
• Ayreon
• Down
• Destroyer 666
• Dødheimsgard
• Heavenly
• Rammstein
• Scarve
• Six Feet Under
• Skylark
• Slash's Snakepit
• Static-X
• Strapping Young Lad
• Vintersorg

Albums

• Alice Cooper - The Last Temptation
• Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
• Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes
• Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
• Bruce Dickinson - Balls To Picasso
• Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
• Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
• Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
• Deftones - Adrenaline
• Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid
• Dio - Strange Highways
• Dream Theater - Awake
• Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
• Freak Kitchen - Appetizer
• Helloween - Master Of The Rings
• In Flames - Lunar Strain
• Infectious Grooves - Groove Family Cyco
• King's X - Dogman
• Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
• Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - The Seventh Sign
• Megadeth - Youthanasia
• Metal Church - Hanging in the Balance
• Mötley Crüe - Mötley Crüe (album)
• Overkill - W.F.O.
• Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
• Pitch shifter - Remix War
• Savatage - Handful of Rain
• Slayer - Divine Intervention
• Soundgarden - Superunknown
• Stratovarius - Dreamspace
• Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal for Life
• Symphony X - Symphony X
• Testament - Low
• The 3rd and the Mortal - Sorrow (EP), Tears Laid in Earth

Events

• Far Beyond Driven by Pantera debut's at No 1 on the U.S., British and Australian charts.
• Jar of Flies was the first and only EP ever to reach #1 on the Billboard US album chart.
• Bon Jovi release Cross Road, one of the best selling greatest hits albums not only of heavy metal, but of all time