1993 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1993.

Newly formed bands

* Children of Bodom
* Dark Funeral
* Demoniac
* Diabolical Masquerade
* Dimmu Borgir
* HammerFall
* Limbonic Art
* Melechesh
* Mournful Congregation
* Nile
* Rhapsody of Fire
* Symphony X
* Ulver
* Virgin Black

Reformed bands

* Atheist
* Dokken

Albums

* Accept - "Objection Overruled"
* Aerosmith - "Get a Grip"
* Aggressor - "Procreate the Petrifactions"
* Annihilator - "Set the World on Fire"
* Anthrax - "Sound of White Noise"
* Atheist - "Elements"
* Believer - "Dimensions"
* Beowülf - "Un-Sentimental"
* Cannibal Corpse - "Hammer Smashed Face" (EP)
* Carcass - "Heartwork"
* Crowbar - "Crowbar"
* The Cult - ""
* Cynic - "Focus"
* Darkthrone(band) - "Under a Funeral Moon"
* Death - "Individual Thought Patterns"
* Deep Purple - "The Battle Rages On"
* Def Leppard - "Retro Active"
* Entombed - "Wolverine Blues"
* Europe - "1982–1992" (Compilation)
* Eyehategod - "Take as Needed for Pain"
* Helloween - "Chameleon"
* Immortal - "Pure Holocaust"
* Infectious Grooves - "Sarsippius' Ark"
* Kiss - "Alive III"
* Living Colour - "Stain"
* Macabre - "Sinister Slaughter"
* Tony MacAlpine - "Madness"
* Metal Church - "Hanging in the Balance"
* Metallica - "" (box set)
* Morbid Angel - "Covenant"
* Monster Magnet - "Superjudge"
* Motörhead - "Bastards"
* Mr. Big - "Bump Ahead"
* Overkill - "I Hear Black"
* Primus - "Pork Soda"
* Pearl Jam - "Vs."
* Pitch Shifter - "Desensitized"
* Poison - "Native Tongue"
* Rush - "Counterparts"
* Satyricon - "Dark Medieval Times"
* Savatage - "Edge of Thorns
* Scorpions - Face the Heat"
* Sepultura - "Chaos A.D."
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* Steve Vai - "Sex and Religion"
* Tool - "Undertow"
* Uncle Slam - "Will Work for Food"
* Van Halen - ""
* Vince Neil - "Exposed"
* Vio-lence - "Nothing to Gain"

Events

* Accept reforms with Udo Dirkshneider on vocals for a new album and European/American tour
* After a brief hiatus, Atheist reform to record their final album, "Elements", in order to finish their third album contract to their record label. After this, the band breaks up again a year later.
* 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.
* Alex Skolnick and Louie Clemente of Testament are out of the band and replaced by James Murphy on guitar and John Tempesta on drums. Skolnick later joins Savatage to replace the late Criss Oliva.
* Øystein Aarseth aka Euronymous of black metal band Mayhem was murdered on August 10th, by Mayhem's bassist Varg Vikernes.
* Criss Oliva of Savatage was killed in a car crash on October 17th by a drunk driver.

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