1995 in heavy metal music explained

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1995.

Newly formed bands

Albums

24-7 Spyz – Temporarily Disconnected
AC/DC – Ballbreaker
Alice Cooper – Classicks
Alice in Chains – Alice in Chains
Amorphis - Black Winter Day (EP)
Anathema – The Silent Enigma
Anathema - Pentecost III (EP)
Anal Cunt -Top 40 Hits
Anthrax – Stomp 442
At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul
Ayreon – The Final Experiment
Bad Brains – God of Love
Bal-Sagoth – A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria
Behemoth – Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
Belphegor – The Last Supper
Benediction - The Dreams You Dread
Beowülf – 2 Cents
Bestial Warlust - Blood & Valour
Black Sabbath – Cross Purposes Live (live box set)
Black Sabbath – Forbidden
Blind Guardian – Imaginations from the Other Side
Bruce Dickinson – Alive in Studio A (live)
Brujería - Raza Odiada
Cancer - Black Faith
Carcass – Swansong
Cathedral – The Carnival Bizarre
Clawfinger – Use Your Brain
Comecon - Fable Frolic
Craig Goldy - Better Late Than Never
Crematory – Illusions
Crowbar – Time Heals Nothing
The Crown - The Burning (as Crown of Thorns)
Cruachan – Tuatha na Gael
D-A-D – Good Clean Family Entertainment You Can Trust
Damaged - Passive Backseat Demon Engines (EP)
Dangerous Toys – The Rtist 4merly Known As Dangerous Toys
Dark Avenger – Dark Avenger
Dark Tranquillity – The Gallery
Darkthrone – Panzerfaust
Dawn - Nær Solen Gar Niþer For Evogher
Death – Symbolic
Deceased - The Blueprints for Madness
Def Leppard – Vault Greatest Hits 1980–1995 (compilation)
Deftones – Adrenaline
Deeds Of Flesh - Gradually Melted (EP)
Deicide – Once upon the Cross
Deliverance – Camelot in Smithereens
Dimmu Borgir – For all tid
Dismember – Massive Killing Capacity
Dismember – Casket Garden (EP)
Dissection – Storm of the Light's Bane
Dokken – Dysfunctional
Down – NOLA
Dream Theater – A Change of Seasons (EP)
Earth Crisis – Destroy the Machines
Edguy – Savage Poetry
Excel – Seeking Refuge
Extreme – Waiting for the Punchline
FireHouse – 3 (FireHouse album)
Faith No More – King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
Fear Factory – Demanufacture
Fight – A Small Deadly Space
Flotsam and Jetsam – Drift
Forced Entry – The Shore (EP)
Fu Manchu – Daredevil
Funeral – Tragedies
Gamma Ray – Land of the Free
The Gathering - Mandylion
Ghostorm - Frozen in Fire
Grave Digger - Heart of Darkness
Grip Inc. – The Power of Inner Strength
Gwar – Ragnarök
Helmet – Born Annoying
Helstar – Multiples of Black
Iced Earth – Burnt Offerings
Illdisposed - Submit
Immortal – Battles in the North
In Flames – Subterranean (EP)
Incubus – Fungus Amongus
Integrity – Systems Overload
Iron Maiden – The X Factor
Joe Satriani – Joe Satriani
Kamelot – Eternity
Kataklysm - Sorcery
Katatonia - For Funerals to Come... (EP)
Kix – Show Business
King Diamond – The Spider's Lullabye
Konkhra – Spit or Swallow
Krabathor - Lies
Krabathor - The Rise of Brutality (EP)
Kreator – Cause for Conflict
Krisiun – Black Force Domain
Kyuss – ...And the Circus Leaves Town
Lacrimosa – Inferno
Lord Belial – Kiss the Goat
Love/Hate – Im Not Happy
Mad Season – Above
Malevolent Creation – Eternal
Marilyn Manson – Smells Like Children (EP)
Megadeth – Hidden Treasures (EP)
Meshuggah – Destroy Erase Improve
Metal Massacre - Metal Massacre XII (Compilation, various artists)
Mindrot - Dawning
Mindrot - Forlorn (EP)
Monster Magnet – Dopes to Infinity
Moonspell – Wolfheart
Morbid Angel – Domination
Morgana Lefay – Sanctified
Mortician - House by the Cemetery (EP)
Mortification - Primitive Rhythm Machine
Motörhead – Sacrifice
Mr. Bungle – Disco Volante
My Dying Bride – The Angel and the Dark River
Naglfar - Vittra
Necrophagist – Necrophagist (demo)
Nembrionic - Psycho One Hundred
Nevermore – Nevermore
Night in Gales - Sylphlike (EP)
Nightfall – Athenian Echoes
Ningen Isu – Odoru Issunboushi
Nothingface – Nothingface
Novembers Doom - Amid Its Hallowed Mirth
On Thorns I Lay - Sounds of Beautiful Experience
Oomph! – Defekt
Opeth – Orchid
Orphanage - Oblivion
Ozzy Osbourne – Ozzmosis
Paradise Lost – Draconian Times
Pessimist - Absence of Light (EP)
Powerman 5000 – The Blood-Splat Rating System
Primus - Tales from the Punchbowl
Quiet Riot – Down to the Bone
Rage – Black in Mind
Rainbow – Stranger in Us All
Rammstein – Herzeleid
RAMP - Intersection
Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute
Roxx Gang – The Voodoo You Love
Running Wild – Masquerade
Saint Vitus – Die Healing
Samael - Rebellion (EP)
Savatage – Dead Winter Dead
Savatage – Japan Live '94 (live)
Savatage – Ghost in the Ruins – A Tribute to Criss Oliva (live)
Saxon – Dogs of War
Sentenced – Amok
Sentenced – Love & Death (EP)
Septicflesh – Esoptron
Sinister - Hate
Six Feet Under - Haunted
Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet
Skid Row – Subhuman Race
Skyclad – The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea
Slash's Snakepit – It's Five O'Clock Somewhere (album)
Slaughter – Fear No Evil
Sodom – Masquerade in Blood
Strapping Young Lad – Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
Stratovarius – Fourth Dimension
Stuck Mojo – Snappin' Necks
Suffocation - Pierced from Within
Sugar Ray – Lemonade and Brownies
Summoning – Lugburz
Summoning – Minas Morgul
Symphony X – The Damnation Game
Tad Morose – Sender of Thoughts
Tankard – The Tankard
Theatre of Tragedy – Theatre of Tragedy
Therapy? – Infernal Love
Therion - Lepaca Kliffoth
The 3rd and the Mortal – Nightswan (EP)
Tony MacAlpine – Evolution
Trouble – Plastic Green Head
Tuff – Religious Fix
Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil
Uncle Slam – When God Dies
Unleashed – Victory
Uriah Heep - Sea of Light
Steve Vai – Alien Love Secrets (EP)
Vader – De Profundis
Van Halen – Balance
Vince Neil – Carved in Stone
Virgin Black – Virgin Black (demo)
Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part I
Vital Remains – Into Cold Darkness
Voivod – Negatron
W.A.S.P. – Still Not Black Enough
Warrant – Ultraphobic
Warrior Soul – The Space Age Playboys
White Zombie –
Y&T – Musically Incorrect
Yngwie Malmsteen – Magnum Opus

Disbandments

Events

Motörhead's guitarist Michael "Würzel" Burston leaves the band.
Ingo Schwichtenberg of Helloween dies.
Necrophagist's guitarist Jan-Paul Herm and drummer Raphael Kempermann leave the band. Kempermann is replaced by Daniel Silva.
S.O.B.'s vocalist Tottsuan commits suicide by jumping onto railroad tracks.
Ralf Scheepers leaving Gamma Ray year earlier, Kai Hansen goes on lead vocals. First time since his 1985 debut album Walls of Jericho.
Matt Holt joins Nothingface, replacing David Gabbard as singer.

Notes and References

Web site: Rivadavia, Eduardo . [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p568178|pure_url=yes}} Aborted ]. Allmusic . 10 June 2009.