1995 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1995.
Newly formed bands
- Aborted
- Agalloch
- Alien Ant Farm
- Borknagar
- Chevelle
- Darkest Hour
- Ensiferum
- Evergrey
- Shadows Fall
- Kraljevski Apartman
- Moonsorrow
- Motograter
- Silent Stream of Godless Elegy
- Slipknot
- Solefald
- Skyforger
- Staind
- System of a Down
- Thyrfing
- Xasthur
Albums
- 24-7 Spyz - Temporarily Disconnected
- AC/DC - Ballbreaker
- Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains
- At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
- Ayreon - The Final Experiment
- Bal-Sagoth - A Black Moon Broods over Lemuria
- Behemoth - Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
- Beowülf - 2Cents
- Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes Live
- Black Sabbath - Forbidden
- Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side
- Bruce Dickinson - Alive in Studio A
- Cruachan - Tuatha Na Gael
- Carcass - Swansong
- Cathedral - The Carnival Bizarre
- Crematory - Illusions
- Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
- Darkthrone - Panzerfaust
- Death - Symbolic
- Def Leppard - Vault Greatest Hits 1980-1995
- Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
- Deliverance - Camelot in Smithereens
- Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity
- Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
- Dokken - Dysfunctional
- Down - NOLA
- Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons (EP)
- Edguy - Savage Poetry
- Excel - Seeking Refuge
- Extreme - Waiting for the Punchline
- Faith No More - King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
- Fear Factory - Demanufacture
- Forced Entry - The Shore (EP)
- Fu Manchu - Daredevil
- Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
- Grip Inc. - The Power of Inner Strength
- Helstar - Multiples of Black
- Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
- Immortal - Battles in the North
- Incubus - Fungus Amongus
- In Flames - Subterranean (EP)
- Iron Maiden - The X Factor
- Joe Satriani - Joe Satriani
- King Diamond - The Spider's Lullabye
- Konkhra - Spit or Swallow
- Kreator - Cause for Conflict
- Krisiun - Black Force Domain
- Kyuss - ...And the Circus Leaves Town
- Lord Belial - Kiss the Goat
- Malevolent Creation - Eternal
- Marilyn Manson - Smells Like Children (EP)
- Megadeth - Hidden Treasures (EP)
- Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
- Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity
- Moonspell - Wolfheart
- Morbid Angel - Domination (Morbid Angel album)
- Motörhead - Sacrifice
- Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
- My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River
- Necrophagist - Necrophagist (Demo)
- Nevermore - Nevermore
- Nightfall - Athenian Echoes
- Nothingface
- Oomph! - Defekt
- Opeth - Orchid
- Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzmosis
- Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
- Pitchshifter - The Remix War (Remix album)
- Quiet Riot - Down to the Bone
- Rage - Black in Mind
- Rammstein - Herzeleid
- Running Wild - Masquerade
- Saint Vitus - Die Healing
- Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
- Savatage - Japan Live '94
- Sentenced - Amok
- Savatage - Final Bell / Ghost in the Ruins
- Septic Flesh - Esoptron
- Skid Row - Subhuman Race
- Skyclad - The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea
- Sodom - Masquerade In Blood
- Strapping Young Lad - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
- Stratovarius - Fourth Dimension
- Symphony X - The Damnation Game
- Tankard - The Tankard
- Theatre of Tragedy - Theatre of Tragedy
- The 3rd and the Mortal - Nightswan (EP)
- Tony MacAlpine - Evolution
- Trouble - Plastic Green Head
- Uncle Slam - When God Dies
- Unleashed - Victory
- Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets (EP)
- Vader - De Profundis
- Van Halen - Balance
- Vince Neil - Carved In Stone
- Virgin Black - Virgin Black Demo
- Vital Remains - Into Cold Darkness
- Voivod - Negatron
- W.A.S.P. - Still Not Black Enough
- Warrant - Ultraphobic
- White Zombie - Astro Creep: 2000
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Magnum Opus
Disbandments
- Accept
- Beowülf
- The Cult
- Excel
- Kyuss (in October)
- Living Colour
- Pungent Stench
- Saint Vitus
- Suicidal Tendencies
- Uncle Slam
Events
- Motörhead's guitarist Michael "Würzel" Burston leaves the band.
- Ingo Schwichtenberg of Helloween Died.
- Necrophagist's guitarist, Jean-Paul Herm, and drummer, Raphael Kempermann, leave the band. Kempermann is replaced by Daniel Silva.
- S.O.B.'s vocalist Tottsuan committed 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.
| Preceded by | Heavy Metal Timeline 1995 |
Succeeded by 1996 |
