1984 in heavy metal music

1984 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1984.

Newly formed bands

* Agent Steel
* Annihilator
* Atheist
* Candlemass
* Celtic Frost
* Forced Entry
* Iced Earth
* King Kobra
* Nepal
* Nuclear Assault
* Razor
* Sadus
* Sepultura
* Stratovarius
* Tesla
* The Cult
* Tony MacAlpine
* Uncle Slam (known as The Brood until 1987)
* Warrant
* Whiplash
* Yngwie Malmsteen

Albums

* AC/DC - '74 Jailbreak
* Anthrax - "Fistful of Metal"
* Armored Saint - "March of the Saint"
* Bathory - "Bathory"
* Billy Idol - "Rebel Yell"
* Black Tears - "Child of the Stone"
* Bon Jovi - "Bon Jovi"
* Celtic Frost - "Morbid Tales"
* The Cult - "Dreamtime"
* Deep Purple - "Perfect Strangers"
* Destruction - "Sentence of Death"
* Dio - "The Last in Line"
* Dokken - "Tooth And Nail"
* Europe - "Wings of Tomorrow"
* Fastway - "All Fired Up"
* Fates Warning - "Night on Bröcken"
* Hanoi Rocks - "All Those Waisted Years"
* Hanoi Rocks - "Two Steps From The Move"
* Helix - "Walkin' the Razor's Edge"
* Iron Maiden - "Powerslave"
* Judas Priest - "Defenders of the Faith"
* Keel - "Lay Down The Law"
* KISS - "Animalize"
* Krokus - "The Blitz"
* Lizzy Borden - "Give 'em the Axe"
* Loudness - "Disillusion"
* Manowar - "Hail to England", "Sign of the Hammer"
* Mercyful Fate - "Don't Break The Oath"
* Metal Church - "Metal Church"
* Metallica - "Ride the Lightning"
* Motörhead - "No Remorse"
* Overkill - "Power in Black, Overkill (EP)"
* Pantera - "Projects in the Jungle"
* Queensrÿche - "The Warning"
* Quiet Riot - "Condition Critical"
* Razor - "Escape The Fire, Armed & Dangerous"
* Ratt - "Out of the Cellar"
* Running Wild (band) - "Gates to Purgatory"
* Rush (band) - "Grace Under Pressure"
* Sammy Hagar - "VOA"
* Samson (band) - "Don't Get Mad, Get Even"
* Savatage - "The Dungeons Are Calling"
* Scorpions - "Love at First Sting"
* Slayer - "Haunting the Chapel"
* Sodom - "In the Sign of Evil"
* Spinal Tap - "This Is Spinal Tap"
* Steve Vai - "Flex-Able"
* Stryper - "The Yellow and Black Attack"
* Trouble - "Psalm 9"
* Twisted Sister - "Stay Hungry"
* Van Halen - "1984"
* Voivod - "War and Pain"
* W.A.S.P. - "W.A.S.P."
* Warlock - "Burning the Witches"
* Whitesnake - "Slide It In"
* Y&T - "In Rock We Trust"
* Yngwie J. Malmsteen - "Rising Force"

Events

* Def Leppard's drummer Rick Allen loses his left arm in a car accident on December 31.
* Deep Purple Reunite.
* Quiet Riot 's Metal Health tops the charts at number 1, On November 26, 1983. Which starts the 80's L.A. glam metal scene.
* Death and Morbid Angel form thus creating what will become death metal
*Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle is killed in an automobile accident on December 9th. The driver of the car is Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe. Vince later spends time in jail for vehicular manslaughter.


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