1996 in heavy metal music

none June 20251996 1996 heavy metal music This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1996. Newly formed bands 20em 3 Doors Down Ajattara Alabama Thunderpussy Alien Ant Farm Averse Sefira Breed 77 Cattle Decapitation Combatwoundedveteran Control Denied The Crest Daylight Dies Decapitated Diabolic Dornenreich Drowning Pool Ebony Tears Fall of the Leafe Flaw (as F.law) Gardenian Goatsnake God Forbid Gojira The Haunted Heaven Shall Burn Hibria Into Eternity Iron Savior Kiss It Goodbye Kittie Linkin Park (as Xero) Manticora Maudlin of the Well MD.45 Mudvayne Nargaroth Narnia Nashville Pussy Nightwish Nocturnal Breed Norther Omnium Gatherum Orden Ogan Pain Penumbra Prayer for Cleansing Queens of the Stone Age Racetraitor Saliva Samsas Traum Sculptured Shadows of Steel Shining The Sins of Thy Beloved Soulburn Spineshank Spirit Caravan Stam1na Training for Utopia Trans-Siberian Orchestra Tvangeste Two Ultraspank uneXpect The Union Underground Viikate Within Temptation Yob Albums 30em 24-7 Spyz - 6 (alternate version released in America as Heavy Metal Soul by the Pound) 24-7 Spyz - Heavy Metal Soul by the Pound (alternate version released in Europe as 6) Anal Cunt - 40 More Reasons To Hate Us Accept - Predator Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics Alice in Chains - Unplugged (live) Altar - Ego Art Amon Amarth - Sorrow Throughout the Nine Worlds (EP) Amorphis - Elegy Anathema – Eternity Angelcorpse - Hammer of Gods Angra - Holy Land Angra - Freedom Call (EP) Antidote - Mind Alive Anvil (band) – Plugged in Permanent Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica by Four Cellos Arch Enemy - Black Earth Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia Asphyx - God Cries Asphyx - Embrace the Death (recorded in 1990) Ayreon - Actual Fantasy Bathory - Blood on Ice Behemoth - Grom Biohazard - Mata Leão Borknagar - Borknagar Bruce Dickinson - Skunkworks Brutality - In Mourning Brutal Truth - Kill Trend Suicide Burzum - Filosofem Cannibal Corpse - Vile Cathedral - Supernatural Birth Machine Civil Defiance - The Fishers For Souls Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky Corrosion of Conformity - Wiseblood Count Raven - Messiah of Confusion Cradle of Filth - V Empire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein (EP) Cradle of Filth - Dusk... and Her Embrace Crowbar - Broken Glass Cryptopsy - None So Vile The Cult – High Octane Cult Danzig – Danzig 5: Blackacidevil Dark Funeral - The Secrets of the Black Arts Dawn - Sorgh på Svarte Vingar Fløgh Deep Purple - Purpendicular Def Leppard - Slang Desultory - Swallow the Snake Deeds Of Flesh - Trading Pieces DGeneration – No Lunch Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst Dio - Angry Machines Downset. - Do We Speak a Dead Language? Drain STH – Horror Wrestling Dying Fetus - Purification Through Violence Earth Crisis - Gomorrah's Season Ends Edge of Sanity - Crimson Eyehategod - Dopesick Far - Tin Cans with Strings to You FireHouse – Good Acoustics Forbidden - Green Freak Kitchen - Spanking Hour Fu Manchu - In Search of... Godflesh - Songs of Love and Hate Gorefest - Soul Survivor Gorgoroth - Antichrist Grave - Hating Life Grinspoon - Licker Bottle Cozy (EP) Helloween - The Time of the Oath Hypocrisy - Abducted Hypocrisy - Maximum Abduction (EP) Immolation - Here in After In Flames - The Jester Race Iced Earth - The Dark Saga Integrity – Humanity is the Devil King Diamond - The Graveyard Kataklysm - Temple of Knowledge Katatonia - Brave Murder Day Khafra - Generacioneshttps://www.spirit-of-metal.com/es/album/Generaciones/23089 Second full-length album 'Generaciones' by heavy-metal band KHAFRA from Ciudad Obregón, México 1996 April 29, 2026 Korn - Life Is Peachy Korpse - Revirgin Kvist - For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike L.A. Guns – American Hardcore Tony MacAlpine - Violent Machine Madball - Demonstrating My Style Manowar - Louder Than Hell Marduk - Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar Memento Mori - La danse macabre Mercyful Fate - Into the Unknown Metallica - Load Ministry - Filth Pig Monstrosity - Millennium Moonspell - Irreligious Morgana Lefay - Maleficium Morgoth - Feel Sorry for the Fanatic Mortician - Hacked Up for Barbecue Mortification - EnVision EvAngelene Motörhead - Overnight Sensation My Dying Bride - Like Gods of the Sun Napalm Death - Diatribes Necrophobic – Spawned by Evil (EP) Nevermore - The Politics of Ecstasy Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood Occult – The Enemy Within Old Man's Child - Born of the Flickering Orange 9mm - Tragic Orphanage - By Time Alone Oomph! - Wunschkind Opeth - Morningrise Overkill – The Killing Kind Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill Pan.Thy.Monium - Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion Pitchshifter - Infotainment? P.O.D. - Brown Poison - Poison's Greatest Hits: 1986–1996 (compilation) Iggy Pop – Nude & Rude: The Best of Iggy Pop Pro-Pain – Contents Under Pressure Prong - Rude Awakening Quo Vadis - Forever... Rage - Lingua Mortis (four re-recorded songs from the album Black in Mind, with arrangements for a classic orchestra) Rage - End of All Days Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire Rotting Christ - Triarchy of the Lost Lovers Rush - Test for Echo Sacred Reich - Heal Samael - Passage Satyricon - Nemesis Divina Scorpions – Pure Instinct Sepultura - Roots Sentenced - Down Slayer - Undisputed Attitude Slipknot - Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. (demo) Solitude Aeturnus - Downfall Soundgarden - Down on the Upside Staind - Tormented Steelheart – Wait Stone Temple Pilots – Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop Stratovarius - Episode Stuck Mojo - Pigwalk Summoning - Dol Guldur Theatre of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear The 3rd and the Mortal - Painting on Glass The Hellacopters – Supershitty to the Max! Therion - Theli Thorr's Hammer - Dommedagsnatt (EP) Tool - Ænima Type O Negative - October Rust Steve Vai - Fire Garden Vader - Future of the Past Van Halen - Best Of – Volume I (compilation) Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part II Vision of Disorder - Vision of Disorder Warrant - Belly to Belly Warrant – The Best of Warrant Xentrix - Scourge Zakk Wylde – Book of Shadows Release DateArtistAlbumCountry19 Jan 1996The 3rd and the MortalPainting on GlassNorway25 Jan 1996Dimmu BorgirStormblåstNorway26 Jan 1996Napalm DeathDiatribesEngland30 Jan 1996MinistryFilth PigUSA31 Jan 1996BurzumFilosofemNorway12 Feb 1996SkycladIrrational AnthemsEngland12 Feb 1996ImmolationHere in AfterUSA13 Feb 1996HypocrisyAbductedSweden17 Feb 1996MalevolenceDominiumPortugal19 Feb 1996Bruce DickinsonSkunkworksEngland19 Feb 1996Secret DiscoveryA Question of TimeGermany20 Feb 1996In FlamesThe Jester RaceSweden20 Feb 1996SepulturaRootsBrazil27 Feb 1996CemetarySundownSweden02 Apr 1996Edge of SanityCrimsonSweden02 Apr 1996NeurosisThrough Silver in BloodUSA22 Apr 1996Cradle of FilthV Empire, or Dark Faerytales in PhallusteinEngland22 Apr 1996NefilimZoonEngland22 Apr 1996SatyriconNemesis DivinaNorway26 Apr 1996DissectionWhere Dead Angels LieSweden29 Apr 1996Rotting ChristTriarchy of the Lost LoversGreeceMay 1996InhumanStrange DesirePortugal06 May 1996PanteraThe Great Southern TrendkillUSA14 May 1996AmorphisElegyFinland20 May 1996Cannibal CorpseVileUSA20 May 1996Iced EarthThe Dark SagaUSA26 May 1996CrematoryCrematoryGermany27 May 1996BathoryBlood on IceSweden28 May 1996NevermoreIn MemoryUSA01 Jun 1996CarcassSwansongEngland03 Jun 1996ArcturusAspera Hiems SymfoniaNorway04 Jun 1996MetallicaLoadUSA05 Jun 1996DesireInfinity... A Timeless Journey Through an Emotional DreamPortugal05 Jun 1996Dismal EuphonyDismal Euphony (EP)Norway05 Jun 1996DødheimsgardMonumental PossessionNorway10 Jun 1996GorefestSoul SurvivorHolland13 Jun 1996ApocalypticaPlays Metallica by Four CellosFinland18 Jun 1996Pro-PainContents Under PressureUSA19 Jun 1996Dimmu BorgirDevil's Path (EP)Norway24 Jun 1996MardukHeaven Shall Burn... When We Are GatheredSweden24 Jun 1996OpethMorningriseSwedenJuly 1996ArcanaDark Age of ReasonSwedenJuly 1996Limbonic ArtMoon in the ScorpioNorway01 Jul 1996Psychotic WaltzBleedingUSA3 Jul 1996CryptosyNone So VileCanada13 Jul 1996NevermoreThe Politics of EcstasyUSA15 Jul 1996EmpyriumA Wintersunset...Germany18 Jul 1996Orphaned LandEl Norra AlilaIsrael23 Jul 1996EarthPentastar: In the Style of DemonsUSA23 Jul 1996MassacrePromiseUSA29 Jul 1996MoonspellIrreligiousPortugal29 Jul 1996Solitude AeturnusDownfallUSA31 Jul 1996AtrocityWillenskraftGermanyAug 1996DecayedResurrectiónem MortuórumPortugal01 Aug 1996KatatoniaBrave Murder DaySweden03 Aug 1996BorknagarBorknagarNorway05 Aug 1996SinisterBastard SaintsHolland06 Aug 1996Dying FetusPurification Through ViolenceUSA09 Aug 1996TherionTheliSweden13 Aug 1996White ZombieSupersexy Swingin' SoundsUSA17 Aug 1996Sear BlissPhantomsHungary19 Aug 1996SamaelPassageSwitzerland19 Aug 1996Type 0 NegativeOctober RustUSA20 Aug 1996James MurphyConvergenceUSA20 Aug 1996Mercyful FateInto the UnknownDenmark27 Aug 1996MonstrosityMillenniumUSA27 Aug 1996HeavenwoodDivaPortugal28 Aug 1996Cradle of FilthDusk and Her EmbraceEngland Disbandments Beherit Carnis Damn Yankees Down Extreme Mumbo's Brain Prong Sexart Skid Row TeslaPhillips William https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofhe0000phil/page/230/mode/2up?q=1996 Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music 2009 Greenwood Press 9780313348006 230 Trouble Events Alice in Chains plays their last concert with Layne Staley on July 23, 1996. Body Count drummer Beatmaster V dies of leukemia. The first Ozzfest tour sets off, with headliners Ozzy Osbourne, Slayer and Danzig. The original line-up of Kiss (Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, Paul Stanley) come back together. Bassist Greg Christian of Testament left the band, leaving guitarist Eric Peterson as the sole ever-present in the line-up. Slash leaves Guns N' Roses, citing differences with Axl Rose. Sammy Hagar departs Van Halen after a feud with Eddie Van Halen. Van Halen briefly reunites with David Lee Roth at a highly publicized event at the MTV Video Music Awards, but fires him shortly thereafter. Tim 'Ripper' Owens fills the void left by Rob Halford in 1993 as lead singer of Judas Priest. References Heavy Metal Timeline 1995 1997 1996 Category:1990s in heavy metal music Metal