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
- Chevelle
- Down
- Destroyer 666
- Dødheimsgard
- Evanescence
- Heavenly
- Rammstein
- Six Feet Under
- Skylark
- Slash's Snakepit
- 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
- The Cult - The Cult
- Deftones - Adrenaline
- Dio - Strange Highways
- Dream Theater - Awake
- Freak Kitchen - Appetizer
- Helloween - Master Of The Rings
- In Flames - Lunar Strain
- Infectious Grooves - Groove Family Cyco
- King's X - Dogman
- Korn - Korn
- Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
- Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen - The Seventh Sign
- Megadeth - Youthanasia
- Metal Church - Hanging in the Balance
- Overkill - W.F.O.
- Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
- Savatage - Handful of Rain
- Slayer - Divine Intervention
- Soundgarden - Superunknown
- Stratovarius - Dreamspace
- Symphony X - Symphony X
- Testament - Low
- The 3rd and the Mortal - Sorrow (EP), Tears Laid in Earth
Disbandments
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.