- 1994 in heavy metal music
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year
1994 .Newly formed bands
* Abscess
* Amen
* Apostasy"
*Ayreon
* Down
*Destroyer 666
*Dødheimsgard
* Heavenly
*Lacuna Coil
*Naer Mataron
*Rammstein
*Scarve
* Six Feet Under
* Skylark
*Slash's Snakepit
*Static-X
*Strapping Young Lad
*Symphony X
*Vintersorg Albums
*
Alice Cooper - "The Last Temptation "
*Alice in Chains - "Jar of Flies "
* Aggressor - "Of Long Duration Anguish
*Black Sabbath - "Cross Purposes "
*Body Count - "Born Dead "
* Bolt Thrower - "...For Victory "
*Bon Jovi - "Cross Road "
*Bruce Dickinson - "Balls To Picasso"
*Burzum - "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss "
*Cannibal Corpse - "The Bleeding "
*Cradle of Filth - "The Principle of Evil Made Flesh "
*Cryptopsy - "Blasphemy Made Flesh "
*The Cult - "The Cult"
*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 "
*Korn - "Korn "
*Kyuss - "Welcome to Sky Valley "
*Tony MacAlpine - "Premonition"
* Machine Head - "Burn My Eyes "
*Yngwie J. Malmsteen - "The Seventh Sign"
* Marilyn Manson - "Portrait of an American Family "
*Mayhem - "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas "
*Megadeth - "Youthanasia "
*Mötley Crüe - "Mötley Crüe (album) "
*Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral "
* Overkill - "W.F.O. "
*Pantera - "Far Beyond Driven "
* Pitch Shifter - "Remix War "
* Satyricon - "The Shadowthrone "
*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 "Disbandments
*Atheist
*Follow for Now
*Lost Horizon (then known as Highlander)Events
* Poison fires guitarist
Richie Kotzen , hiresBlues Saraceno .
* "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.
*Nicholas Barker becomes the drummer forCradle Of Filth .
* LongtimeExtreme drummerPaul Geary leaves the band is replaced by Michael Mangini.
* Testament release their sixth album "Low". It is their first album recorded without original guitaristAlex Skolnick and drummerLouie Clemente , who both left the band a year before, and also their last with longtime bassistGreg Christian , who left two years later.
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