1990 in heavy metal music

none November 2025 1990 1990 heavy metal music This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1990. Newly formed bands 20em 21 Guns Allegiance Amorphis Anathema Antestor Ark Arghoslent ASKA At the Gates Bad Moon Rising Barathrum Beyond Dawn Body Count (by rapper Ice-T) Brutal Truth Buzzoven Centinex Channel Zero Chokehold Christ Agony Comecon Contraband Converge Crowbar The Crown Dark Heresy Dog Eat Dog Dawn Dead Infection Demigod Demilich Disbelief Exhumed Finger Eleven God Dethroned The God Machine Green Carnation Haemorrhage Hate Impaled Nazarene Impiety In Flames Isole Krisiun Lacrimosa Local H Lost Horizon (then known as Highlander) Lost Soul Man Is the Bastard Marduk Merauder Mirror of Deception Monstrosity Morgion Morpheus Descends My Dying Bride Nifelheim Nocturnal Rites Novembre Osvajači Pan.Thy.Monium Paragon Penance Quicksand Regurgitate Roxy Blue Runemagick Seance Septicflesh Shadow King Skrew Skyclad Sleep Slough Feg Solstice Subway To Sally Sugartooth Suiciety The Tea Party Temple of the Dog Thergothon Tool Torture Squad Tourniquet Winter's Bane Albums & EPs 20em 24-7 Spyz – Gumbo Millennium AC/DC – The Razors Edge Agony Column – Comes Alive (EP) (live) Alice in Chains – Facelift Aggressor – Indestructible (demo) Anacrusis – Reason Angkor Wat – Corpus Christi Annihilator – Never, Neverland Anthem – No Smoke Without Fire Anthrax – Persistence of Time Apocrypha – Area 54 Artillery – By Inheritance Asphalt Ballet – Asphalt Ballet (album) Atrocity – Hallucinations Atrophy – Violent by Nature Cronos - Dancing In the Fire The Bang Gang – Love Sells... Barren Cross – Hotter Than Hell Live! (live) Bathory – Hammerheart Baton Rouge – Shake Your Soul Believer – Sanity Obscure Benediction - Subconscious Terror Biohazard – Biohazard Bitter End – Harsh Realities The Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker Black Sabbath – Tyr Blasphemy - Fallen Angel of Doom Blind Guardian – Tales from the Twilight World Blue Cheer – Highlights and Lowlives Adam Bomb – Pure S.E.X Jon Bon Jovi – Blaze of Glory Cancer – To the Gory End Cannibal Corpse – Eaten Back to Life Carnage – Dark Recollections Celtic Frost – Vanity/Nemesis Chastain – For Those Who Dare Child'ƨ Play – Rat Race Cinderella – Heartbreak Station Cold Sweat – Break Out Count Raven - Storm Warning Cry Wolf – Crunch Damn Yankees – Damn Yankees Danzig – Danzig II: Lucifuge Deliverance – Weapons of Our Warfare Death – Spiritual Healing Death Angel – Act III Deicide – Deicide Destruction – Cracked Brain Bruce Dickinson – Tattooed Millionaire Dio – Lock Up the Wolves Don Dokken – Up from the Ashes Earthshaker – Pretty Good! Electric Angels – Electric Angels Electric Boys – Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride Entombed – Left Hand Path Eternal Ryte - World requiem Exhorder – Slaughter in the Vatican Extreme – Pornograffitti Exodus – Impact Is Imminent Eyehategod – In the Name of Suffering Fastway – Bad Bad Girls Flotsam and Jetsam – When the Storm Comes DownLarkin Colin The encyclopedia of popular music volume 6 1998 Muze London 033374134X 1,944 3 Forbidden – Twisted into Form FireHouse – FireHouse Michael Lee Firkins – Michael Lee Firkins Gamma Ray – Heading for Tomorrow Grinder – The 1st EP (EP) Gwar – Scumdogs of the Universe Harter Attack – Human Hell Heavens Edge – Heavens Edge Heavens Gate – Open the Gate and Watch! (EP) Hellion – The Black Book Helmet – Strap It On Hericane Alice – Tear the House Down Hexx – Watery Graves (EP) Holy Moses – World Chaos Holy Soldier – Holy Soldier House of Lords – Sahara Iced Earth – Iced Earth Impetigo - Ultimo Mondo Cannibale Inquisidor - Sobre Tu Cadaver (demo)https://www.discogs.com/es/release/3807962-Inquisidor-Sobre-Tu-Cadaver Demo album 'Sobre Tu Cadaver' by thrash-metal band INQUISIDOR from México City 1990 April 29, 2026 Iron Maiden – No Prayer for the Dying Intrinsic – Distortion of Perspective (EP) Jane's Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual Jersey Dogs – Thrash Ranch Jetboy – Damned Nation Judas Priest – Painkiller Killer Dwarfs - Dirty Weapons Killing Joke – Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions Kill For Thrills – Dynamite from Nightmareland King Diamond – The Eye King's X – Faith Hope Love Krokus - Stampede Jeffrey Kollman – Schizoid Richie Kotzen – Fever Dream Kreator – Coma of Souls Krokus – Stampede Kyuss – Sons of Kyuss (EP) Laos – We Want It Legs Diamond – Town Bad Girl Little Caesar – Little Caesar Living Colour – Time's Up London – Playa Del Rock Lostboys – Lost and Found Love/Hate – Blackout in the Red Room Lynch Mob – Wicked Sensation Tony MacAlpine – Eyes of the World Frank Marino – From the Hip Master – Master Yngwie Malmsteen – Eclipse Manilla Road - The Courts of Chaos Manitoba's Wild Kingdom – ...And You? Alex Masi – Vertical Invader Megadeth – Rust in Peace Meliah Rage – Solitary Solitude Monster Magnet – Monster Magnet (EP) Morbid Saint – Spectrum of Death Mortician - Brutally Mutilated Morgana Lefay – Symphony of the Damned Morgoth - The Eternal Fall (EP) Mystic-Force – Take Command - The Demo Years (compilation) Napalm Death – Harmony Corruption Neurosis – The Word as Law 9.0 – Too Far Gone Nocturnus – The Key Non-Fiction – Non-Fiction (EP) John Norum – Live in Stockholm (live EP) Obituary – Cause of Death Opprobrium – Beyond the Unknown (as Incubus) Pantera – Cowboys from Hell Paradise Lost – Lost Paradise Poison – Flesh & Blood Chris Poland – Return to Metalopolis Praying Mantis & Paul Di'Anno, Dennis Stratton – Live at Last (live) Pretty Maids – Jump the Gun Primus – Frizzle Fry Prong – Beg to Differ Psychotic Waltz – A Social Grace Pungent Stench - For God Your Soul... For Me Your Flesh Queensrÿche – EmpireLarkin Colin The encyclopedia of popular music volume 6 1998 Muze London 033374134X 4,383 3 Quicksand – Quicksand (EP) Quiet Riot – Winners Take All Quireboys – A Bit of What You Fancy Rage – Reflections of a Shadow Ratt – Detonator Realm – Suiciety Razor - Shotgun Justice Recon – Behind Enemy Lines Reverend – World Won't Miss You Rhino Bucket – Rhino Bucket Riot – The Privilege of Power Riverdogs – Riverdogs Sacred Reich – The American Way Sacred Warrior – Wicked Generation Sacrifice – Soldiers of Misfortune Sadus – Swallowed in Black Saint Vitus - V Salty Dog – Every Dog Has Its Day Sanctuary – Into the Mirror Black Scatterbrain – Here Comes Trouble Scorpions – Crazy World Slaughter – Stick It to Ya Slaughter – Stick It Live (live EP) Slayer – Seasons in the Abyss Sleeze Beez – Screwed Blued and Tattooed Sodom - Better Off Dead Sons of Angels – Sons of Angels Soundgarden – Screaming Life/Fopp Spread Eagle – Spread Eagle Steelheart – Steelheart Steve Vai – Passion and Warfare Stone – Colours Stryper – Against the Law Suicidal Tendencies – Lights...Camera...Revolution! Sweet F.A. – Stick To Your Guns Talisman – Talisman Tankard – The Meaning of Life Tesla – Five Man Acoustical Jam (live) Thunder – Backstreet Symphony Tiamat - Sumerian Cry Tigertailz – Bezerk Testament – Souls of Black Tourniquet – Stop the Bleeding Trixter – Trixter Trouble – Trouble U.D.O. – Faceless World V2 – Out to Launch Vader – Morbid Reich (demo) Vengeance Rising – Once Dead Vicious Rumors – Vicious Rumors Vio-lence – Oppressing the Masses Vow Wow – Mountain Top Bill Ward - Ward One: Along the Way Warfare – Hammer Horror Warrant – Cherry Pie Warrior Soul – Last Decade Dead Century Winger – In the Heart of the Young Winter - Into Darkness WWIII – World War III Xentrix – For Whose Advantage? Xysma – Above the Mind of Morbidity Y&T – Ten Zebra – Live (live) Disbandments Atrophy (reformed in 2015) Griva Events Adrian Smith, Iron Maiden's lead guitarist, leaves the band to pursue a solo career. Janick Gers is hired to replace him. Metallica wins the first ever Grammy award in the category of Best Metal Performance for the song "One." The infamous Clash of the Titans tour is this year, headlined by bands such as Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Testament, Suicidal Tendencies, and others. August 7: Extreme release their second album Pornograffitti. The album peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200 album chart and sold very well, due to the success of its single "More Than Words", which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart a year later. Judas Priest was involved in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit involving two Nevada teenager suicides allegedly caused by the song "Better by You, Better than Me". The band won the case.Jenkins Simon Simon Jenkins British rock band cleared The Times 63794 25 August 1990 9 0140-0460 Faith No More's The Real Thing, carried by the single "Epic", also cracks the Billboard Top 10. Marty Friedman joins Megadeth replacing Jeff Young on guitar. Possessed frontman, Jeff Becerra is paralyzed from the waist down after being shot in a mugging on his way home from work. Lȧȧz Rockit, Death Angel, Sacred Reich and others are featured on the soundtrack of Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III. References Heavy Metal Timeline 1989 1991 1990 Category:1990s in heavy metal music Metal