1989 in heavy metal music

none November 20251989 1989 heavy metal music This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1989. Newly formed bands Abhorrence Abruptum Absu Alleycat Scratch Anonymus Archgoat ASAP Baby Animals Bad Acid Trip Bal-Sagoth Beherit Benediction Bonham Brainstorm Brujeria Bruce Dickinson (solo career) Cathedral Cemetary Ceremonial Oath Clawfinger Conception Consolation Count Raven Cry of Love Cyclone Temple Damaged Damn Yankees Dark Tranquillity (as Septic Broiler) Dead Head Def Con Dos Demoncy Desultory Detritus diSEMBOWELMENT Dissection Doro (solo career) Downset. Dungeon Earth Earth Crisis Edge of Sanity Electric Angels Enchant Eucharist Exit-13 Falkenbach Fear Factory FireHouse The Four Horsemen Galactic Cowboys Gamma Ray The Gathering General Surgery Golem Gore Beyond Necropsy Gorefest Gorguts Gruntruck Haggard Helmet Hum Human Remains Incantation Infectious Grooves Iniquity Isengard JBO Killing Addiction Konkhra Kreyson Last Days of Humanity Life of Agony Living Sacrifice Lynch Mob Marilyn Manson Mindrot Misanthrope Monster Magnet Morgana Lefay Mortician Motorpsycho My Sister's Machine Necromantia Necrophobic Nightstalker Novembers Doom Obscenity Obtained Enslavement Only Living Witness Oomph! Opeth Ophthalamia Pitch Shifter Platero y Tú RAMP Red Harvest Reverend Ringworm Riverdogs Rorschach Royal Hunt Sacrament Saviour Machine Scatterbrain The Scream Seigmen Sentenced Sex Machineguns Sigh The 69 Eyes Slaughter Spread Eagle Starkweather Steelheart Stone Temple Pilots Stuck Mojo Talisman Tang Dynasty Therapy? Thorns Thought Industry Thunder Tourniquet Turbonegro Type O Negative Unleashed Varga Vomitory While Heaven Wept The Wildhearts Wizard Wuthering Heights Albums 20em 24-7 Spyz - Harder Than You Acid Reign - The Fear Accept - Eat the Heat Addictive - Pity of Man Aerosmith - Pump Agony Column – God, Guns and Guts Alias (US) – Metal to Infinity Alice Cooper - Prince of Darkness (comp) Alice Cooper - Trash Amulance – Feel the Pain Angelica – Angelica The Angels, aka Angel City - Beyond Salvation Angkor Wat – When Obscenity Becomes the Norm...Awake! Annihilator - Alice in Hell Anthem - Hunting Time Apollo Ra – Ra Pariah Atheist - Piece of Time Autopsy - Severed Survival The Awful Truth – The Awful Truth Babylon A.D. - Babylon A.D. Bad Brains - Quickness Badlands - Badlands Bang Tango – Live Injection Bang Tango - Psycho Café Barren Cross – State of Control Beau Nasty – Dirty But Well Dressed Believer - Extraction from Mortality Black Sabbath - Headless Cross Blacksmith – Fire from Within Blind Guardian - Follow the Blind Bloodgood - Out of the Darkness Blue Murder - Blue Murder Bonfire - Point Blank Bonham – The Disregard of Timekeeping Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness Candlemass - Tales of Creation Cannibal Corpse - Cannibal Corpse (demo) Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness Cats In Boots - Kicked and Klawed China - Sign in the Sky Cloven Hoof – A Sultan's Ransom Coroner - No More Color Coven - Death Walks Behind You Cro-Mags - Best Wishes Cruella – Vengeance Is Mine Cry Wolf - Cry Wolf The Cult - Sonic Temple Cynic - Reflections of a Dying World (demo) D.A.D – No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims Damien - Stop This War Danger Danger - Danger Danger Dangerous Toys - Dangerous Toys Dark Angel - Leave Scars D.D.T. - Victims Dead Horse – Horsecore: An Unrelated Story That's Time Consuming Dead Brain Cells - Universe Deliverance - Deliverance Destruction - Live Without Sense (live) Devastation – Signs of Life Doro - Force Majeure Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite D.R.I. - Thrash Zone Dirty Blonde – Passion Dirty Looks – Turn of the Screw Dyoxen - First Among Equals Earthshaker - Treachery Electric Boys - Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride Entombed - But Life Goes On (demo) Enuff Z'Nuff - Enuff Z'Nuff Equinox - Auf Wiedersehen Evildead - Annihilation of Civilization Excel - The Joke's on You Exodus - Fabulous Disaster Extreme - Extreme EZO - Fire Fire Faith No More - The Real Thing Faster Pussycat – Wake Me When Its Over Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry Fifth Angel – Time Will Tell Fongus - Sobredosis De Metalhttps://www.spirit-of-metal.com/es/album/Sobredosis_de_Metal/175922 Full-length album 'Sobredosis De Metal' by heavy-metal band FONGUS from Guadalajara, México 1989 April 29, 2026 Forbidden - Raw Evil: Live at the Dynamo (EP) Forced Entry – Uncertain Future The Four Horsemen – The Four Horsemen (EP) The Front - The Front Gammacide – Victims of Science Glory – Danger In this Game Grave - Anatomia Corporis Humani (demo) Great White - ...Twice Shy Grinder - Dead End Godflesh - Streetcleaner Gorky Park - Gorky Park Guardian - First Watch Gun – Taking On the World Heavy Pettin' – Big Bang Heavens Gate – In Control Heir Apparent - One Small Voice Helix - Over 60 minutes with... Helloween - Live in the U.K. (live) Helstar - Nosferatu Hermética - Hermética Holy Moses - The New Machine of Lichtenstein Howe II – High Gear Icon - Right Between the Eyes Intruder - "A Higher Form of Killing" Jailhouse - Alive In A Mad World (EP) Jersey Dogs – Don't Worry, Get Angry! (EP) Junkyard – Junkyard Keel - Larger Than Live King Diamond - Conspiracy Kingdom Come - In Your Face King's X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska Kiss - Hot in the Shade Kreator - Extreme Aggression Korzus - Pay For Your Lies (EP) Richie Kotzen – Richie Kotzen L.A. Guns - Cocked & Loaded Lȧȧz Rockit - Annihilation Principle Lȧȧz Rockit - Holiday In Cambodia (EP) Last Crack - Sinister Funkhouse #17 Leatherwolf - Street Ready Lillian Axe – Love + War Little Caesar – Name Your Poison (EP) Living Death - Worlds Neuroses Lizzy Borden - Master of Disguise Lobotomia - Nada É Como Parece Loudness - Soldier of Fortune Macabre - Gloom Yngwie Malmsteen - Trial by Fire: Live in Leningrad Marchello – Destiny Marshall Law – Marshall Law Alex Masi – Attack of the Neon Shark Massacra - Nearer from Death (demo) Masters of Reality – Masters of Reality McAuley Schenker Group - Save Yourself Mekong Delta - The Principle of Doubt Mercy – King Doom Meshuggah – Meshuggah, aka Psykisk Testbild (EP) Metal Massacre - Metal Massacre X (Compilation, various artists) Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise Michael Monroe – Not Fakin It Midas Touch – Presage to Disaster Mindless (Sinner) - Missin' Pieces Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness Mordred – Fools Game Morgoth - Resurrection Absurd (EP) Mortal Sin - Face of Despair Mortem - Slow Death Mr. Big - Mr. Big Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood Mystic-Force – Take Command (EP) Napalm - Cruel Tranquility Nasty Savage – Penetration Point Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Nirvana (band) - Bleach Nitro - O.F.R. Nuclear Assault - Handle with Care Obituary - Slowly We Rot The Obsessed – The Obsessed Oliver Magnum – Oliver Magnum Onslaught - In Search of Sanity Overkill - The Years of Decay Paradox – Heresy Pariah – Blaze of Obscurity Pestilence - Consuming Impulse Phantom Blue - Phantom Blue Poltergeist – Depression Pretty Boy Floyd - Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz Primus - Suck on This (live) Princess Pang - Self Titled album Rage - Secrets in a Weird World Repulsion - Horrified Reverend - Reverend (EP) Rotting Christ - The Other Side of Life (split EP with Sound Pollution) Rigor Mortis - Freaks (EP) Riot – Riot Live Rollins Band - Hard Volume Running Wild - Death or Glory Rush - A Show of Hands (live) Rush - Presto Sabbat - Dreamweaver (Reflections of Our Yesterdays) Sacred Reich - Alive at the Dynamo (EP) Sacred Warrior – Master's Command Sacrilege - Turn Back Trilobite Saint Vitus - V Saraya - Saraya Sarcófago - Rotting (EP) Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream Savatage - Gutter Ballet Scanner - terminal Earth Scorpions – Best of Rockers and Ballads Sea Hags – Sea Hags Sepultura - Beneath the Remains Shakin' Street – Live and Raw! Shark Island – Law of the Order Shotgun Messiah – Shotgun Messiah Shout – In Your Face Signal - Loud & Clear Silent Rage - Don't Touch Me There Skid Row - Skid Row Sodom - Agent Orange Soundgarden - Louder Than Love Jack Starr's Burning Starr – Jack Starr's Burning Starr Steve Stevens – Atomic Playboys Stone - No Anaesthesia! Stratovarius - Fright Night Suicidal Tendencies - Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu Sweaty Nipples – Straight Outta Portland Tankard - Hair of the Dog (comp) Terrorizer - World Downfall Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy Testament - Practice What You Preach Thanatos - Omnicoitor (demo) Titan Force – Titan Force TNT – Intuition Tora Tora – Surprise Attack Toxik - Think This Trance – Back in Trance T.T. Quick – Sloppy Seconds Tyrranicide - God Save the Scene U.D.O - Mean Machine Unseen Terror - The Peel Sessions Vader - Necrolust (demo) Vain – No Respect Venom - Prime Evil Victory – Culture Killed the Native Viking - Man of Straw Viper - Theatre of Fate Voivod - Nothingface W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich Watchtower - Control and Resistance Wehrmacht - Biermacht Whiplash – Insult to Injury White Lion - Big Game Whitesnake - Slip of the Tongue White Zombie - Make Them Die Slowly Winter - Hour of Doom (demo) Wrathchild America - Climbin' the Walls Xentrix - Shattered Existence X Japan - Blue Blood XYZ - XYZ Zed Yago – Pilgrimage Zion - Thunder From the Mountain Disbandments CacophonyThe Virgin Encyclopedia of Heavy Rock 1999 Virgin Books 0-7535-0257-7 Colin Larkin First 88 Destruction (Schmier leaves the band) Dokken (reformed in 1993) LionTytan – Rough Justice (album review) https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/70378/Tytan-Rough-Justice/ December 1, 2019 Sputnikmusic.com Osmi Putnik (reformed in 2002) Quiet Riot (reformed in 1991) Events Primus records their live album Suck on This at Berkeley Square in Berkeley, California on February 25 and March 5. Mötley Crüe's album Dr. Feelgood reaches number one on the Billboard Top 100. Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions, Mötley Crüe, and Skid Row take part in the Moscow Music Peace Festival on August 12 & August 13, 1989. For the first time in its history, a Grammy is given for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance. The award is given to Jethro Tull for Crest of a Knave. Jason Becker is diagnosed with ALS. Faith No More, Soundgarden and Voivod embark on a U.S. tour together. Future Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo joins Suicidal Tendencies (and remains with them until their split in 1995). Following his participation, the band would abandon their hardcore punk style and become more of a thrash metal/funk metal band. Steve Vai leaves David Lee Roth's solo band and joins Whitesnake. Rick Rozz leaves Death and is replaced by then-future Obituary and Testament guitarist James Murphy. The new Death line-up (Chuck Schuldiner/James Murphy/Terry Butler/Bill Andrews) eventually records a new album that would be released next year. Jethro Tull is awarded "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental" to boos from the audience at the 31st Grammy Awards. References Heavy Metal Timeline 1988 1990 1989 Category:1980s in heavy metal music Metal