1987 in heavy metal music

none 1987 1987 heavy metal music May 2025 This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1987. Newly formed bands 20em Addictive Alastis Alchemist Alice in Chains Asphyx Assück Autopsy Backyard Babies Bad English Biohazard Blue Murder BulletBoys Cynic Danger Danger Dangerous Toys Danzig Dead Horse Defecation Deicide Devil Doll Disharmonic Orchestra Electric Boys Entombed Epidemic Equinox Every Mother's Nightmare Extremoduro Femme Fatale Fleshcrawl Follow for Now Gargoyle Giant Gorky Park Gun Hamlet Harem Scarem Hermética Heaven's Edge Hobbs' Angel of Death House of Lords Impellitteri Impetigo Internal Void Intruder Ira Jailhouse Junkyard Kamelot Kingdom Come Kyuss Lawnmower Deth Lion's Share Little Caesar Malevolent Creation Master's Hammer Meliah Rage Meshuggah Monumentum Mortification Nasty Idols Ningen Isu Nirvana Nocturnus Obliveon Order from Chaos Pariah Pavor Phantom Blue Pink Cream 69 Porcupine Tree Pretty Boy Floyd Primordial Re-Animator Ripping Corpse Rollins Band Root Rotting Christ Roxus Samael Sanatorium Saraya Secrecy Seventh Angel Shout Sleeze Beez Solitude Aeturnus Spiritus Mortis Sweaty Nipples Terrorvision Therion Tiamat Transmetal Tyketto U.D.O. Ugly Kid Joe Uncle Slam Valhall Vengeance Rising Veni Domine Von Warrior Soul Winger Zeni Geva Albums & EPs Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force Alice Cooper - Raise Your Fist and Yell The Angels, aka Angel City – Live Line (live) Anthem - Bound to Break Anthrax - Among the Living Anthrax - I'm the Man (EP) Anvil - Strength of Steel Aria - Герой Асфальта (Hero of Asphalt) Armored Saint - Raising Fear Artillery - Fear of Tomorrow Atomkraft – Conductors of Noize (EP) Attomica - Attomica Autograph - Loud and Clear Barón Rojo - Tierra de Nadie Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark Billy Idol – Vital Idol Bitch - The Bitch Is Back Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol Blood Feast - Face Fate (EP) Blood Feast - Kill for Pleasure Bloodgood - Detonation Bonfire - Fireworks Burning Starr - Blaze of Glory Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony Candlemass - Nightfall Carnivore - Retaliation Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium Paul Chain Violet Theatre - Opera 4th Chastain - The 7th of Never Chrome Molly - Stick It Out Coroner - R.I.P. The Cult - Electric Dead Brain Cells - Dead Brain Cells D.R.I. - Crossover Dirty Looks – I Want More Death - Scream Bloody Gore Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence Def Leppard - Hysteria Destruction - Mad Butcher (EP) Paul Di'Anno's Battlezone – Children of Madness Dio - Dream Evil Dokken - Back for the Attack Earthshaker - Aftershock Excel - Split Image Exodus - Pleasures of the Flesh EZO - EZO Faith No More - Introduce Yourself Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat Frehley's Comet - Frehley's Comet Great White - Once Bitten Grim Reaper - Rock You to Hell Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction Hades - Resisting Success Heathen - Breaking the Silence Helix - Wild in the Streets Hellion - Screams in the Night Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I Holy Moses - Finished with the Dogs Icon – A More Perfect Union Impellitteri – Impellitteri (EP) Infernäl Mäjesty – None Shall Defy Intruder - Live to Die Jesters of Destiny - In a Nostalgic Mood (EP) Judas Priest - Priest...Live! Kane Roberts - Kane Roberts Keel - Keel King Diamond - Abigail Kiss - Crazy Nights Kreator - Terrible Certainty Lȧȧz Rockit - Know Your Enemy Leatherwolf - Leatherwolf Liege Lord - Burn to My Touch Lion - Dangerous Attraction Lizzy Borden - Terror Rising (EP) Lizzy Borden - Visual Lies Loudness - Hurricane Eyes Tony MacAlpine - Maximum Security Mad Max - Night of Passion Malibu Barbi - Rude Girls (EP) Malice - License to kill Mama's Boys – Growing Up the Hard Way Mammoth - Mammoth Manilla Road - Mystification Manowar - Fighting the World Masi - Fire in the Rain Mayhem - Deathcrush (EP) McAuley Schenker Group - Perfect Timing Metal Massacre - Metal Massacre VIII (Compilation, various artists) Metallica - The $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-Revisited (EP) Montrose – Mean Vinnie Moore - Mind's Eye Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls Motörhead - Rock 'n' Roll Napalm Death - Scum Nasty Savage - Indulgence Necrophagia – Season of the Dead Neurosis – Pain of Mind John Norum - Total Control Obsession - Methods of Madness Odin – The Gods Must Be Crazy Omen - Nightmares (EP) Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute (live) Ostrogoth - Feelings of Fury Overkill - Taking Over Paganini - It's a Long Way to the Top Paradox - Product of Imagination Pentagram - Day of Reckoning Phenomena – Phenomena II: Dream Runner Picture – Marathon Possessed - The Eyes of Horror (EP) Post Mortem – The Missing Link (EP) Pretty Maids - Future World Primal Scream – Volume One Prong - Primitive Origins (EP) Racer X - Second Heat Rage - Execution Guaranteed Raven - Life's a Bitch Rollins Band - Life Time Running Wild - Under Jolly Roger Rush - Hold Your Fire Sacred Child - Sacred Child Sacred Reich - Ignorance (album) Sacrifice - Forward to Termination Sacrilege – Within the Prophecy Saint Vitus - Thirsty and Miserable Sarcófago - I.N.R.I. Satan - Suspended Sentence Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King Seikima-II - Big Time Changes Sepultura - Schizophrenia Shout - It Won't Be Long Sinner - Dangerous Charm Slaughter - Strappado Sodom - Persecution Mania Suicidal Tendencies - Join the Army Joey Tafolla - Out of the Sun Tankard - Chemical Invasion Taramis - Queen of Thieves Tarantula - Tarantula Testament - The Legacy Tigertailz - Young and Crazy TNT – Tell No Tales Tormé – Die Pretty, Die Young Transmetal - Velocidad, Desecho Y Metal (demo) Triumph – Surveillance Trouble - Run to the Light Twisted Sister - Love Is for Suckers Tygers of Pan Tang - Burning in the Shade U.D.O. - Animal House Unseen Terror - Human Error Vanadium – Corruption of Innocence Vengeance (Hol) - Take It or Leave It Venom - Calm Before the Storm Victory - Hungry Hearts Viper - Soldiers of Sunrise Voivod - Killing Technology Vow Wow - V VXN - VXN (EP) Warlock - Triumph and Agony W.A.S.P. - Live... in the Raw Whiplash - Ticket to Mayhem White Lion - Pride Whitesnake - Whitesnake Wild Dogs - Reign of Terror Wrath - Nothing to Fear Würzel – Bess (EP) Xyster - Escuadrón Metálico (Proyecto II) (split)https://www.spirit-of-metal.com/es/album/Escuadron_Metalico_(Proyecto_II)/183389 Split album 'Escuadrón Metálico (Proyecto 2)' by Mexican heavy-metal bands 1987 April 29, 2026 Y&T - Contagious Zodiac Mindwarp - Tattooed Beat Messiah Disbandments Alcatrazz (reformed in 2006) Sound Barrier (reformed in 2017) Twisted Sister (reformed in 2003) Events Udo Dirkschneider departs Accept citing management issues, and later the same year forms U.D.O. Bon Jovi headlines the Monsters of Rock festival with Dio, Metallica, Anthrax, W.A.S.P. and Cinderella. Dee Snider, Bruce Dickinson and Paul Stanley join Bon Jovi to perform "We're an American Band" by Grand Funk. Motörhead's drummer Pete Gill leaves the band and Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor returns. Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls peaked at No. 2 in the Billboard charts. The show Headbangers Ball debuts on MTV on April 18, 1987.Edwards Clayton On This Day in 1987, MTV Gave Metalheads a Reason to Watch with 'Headbangers Ball' https://americansongwriter.com/on-this-day-in-1987-mtv-gave-metalheads-a-reason-to-watch-with-headbangers-ball/ American Songwriter 14 May 2025 18 April 2025 Bon Jovi's album Slippery When Wet tops the Billboard charts for eight weeks. In December 1987, Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx suffers a near-fatal heroin overdose. Bassist Louiche Mayorga leaves Suicidal Tendencies and is replaced by Bob Heathcote. At the same time, the band becomes a five-piece as they hire former No Mercy guitarist Mike Clark as their rhythm guitarist. References Heavy Metal Timeline 1986 1988 1987 Category:1980s in heavy metal music Metal