1982 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1982.

Newly formed bands

• Abattoir
• Arakain
• Armored Saint
• Artillery
• Avenger
• Baby Tuckoo
• BlackLace
• Brocas Helm
• Cinderella
• Cobra
• Coney Hatch
• Corrosion of Conformity (not originally a metal band)
• Crumbsuckers
• Culprit
• Death Angel
• Destruction
• Dio
• Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
• Dr. Mastermind
• D.A.D.
• Ezo
• Fates Warning
• The Georgia Satellites
• Godflesh (under the name "Fall of Because" until 1988)
• Griva
• Guardian
• Hazzard
• Heavens Gate
• Hell
• Hellhammer
• Hellion
• Helstar
• Kreator
• Lȧȧz Rockit
• Lethal
• Liege Lord
• Luzbel
• Mad Max
• Madam X
• Mournblade
• No Mercy
• Obsession
• Onslaught
• Outrage
• Philadelphia
• Post Mortem
• Roxx Gang
• Seikima-II
• Sieges Even
• Sinner
• Smack
• Streets
• Swans
• Tankard
• Terra Rosa
• TNT
• Tredegar
• Tublatanka
• Steve Vai
• Voivod
• W.A.S.P.
• Warfare
• Warlock
• Warrior
• Warriors
• Watchtower
• Waysted
• Wrath
• X (later known as X Japan)
• Znowhite

Albums & EPs

• Lee Aaron - The Lee Aaron Project
• Accept - Restless and Wild
• Acid - Acid
• Aerosmith - Rock in a Hard Place
• Alice Cooper - Zipper Catches Skin
• Americade - American Metal
• Anvil - Metal on Metal
• April Wine - Power Play
• August Redmoon - Fools Are Never Alone (EP)
• Axewitch - Pray for Metal (EP)
• The B'zz – Get Up
• Barón Rojo - Volumen brutal
• Beast (Ger) - Beast
• Bengal Tigers - Metal Fetish (EP)
• Bitch - Damnation Alley (EP)
• Bitches Sin - Predator
• Blackfoot - Highway Song Live!
• Black Sabbath - Live Evil
• Blue Öyster Cult - Extraterrestrial Live
• Bodine - Bold as Brass
• Bow Wow – Asian Volcano
• Bow Wow – Warning From Stardust
• Budgie - Deliver Us from Evil
• Breaker (Can) - In Days of Heavy Metal (EP)
• Breslau - Volksmusik
• Cheap Trick - One on One
• Cintron - Cintron (EP)
• Cloven Hoof - The Opening Ritual (EP)
• Coney Hatch - Coney Hatch
• Demon - The Unexpected Guest
• Demon Flight - Demon Flight (EP)
• Diamond Head - Borrowed Time
• Dietrich - Dietrich (EP)
• E.F. Band - Deep Cut
• Fargo - F
• Fist (UK) - Back with a Vengeance
• Fortnox - Fortnox
• Gamma - Gamma 3
• Gary Moore - Corridors of Power
• Gaskin - No Way Out
• Geddes Axe - Escape from New York (EP)
• Gillan - Magic
• Girl - Wasted Youth
• Girlschool - Screaming Blue Murder
• Glory Bells Band - Dressed in Black
• Grand Prix – There for None to See
• Sammy Hagar - Three Lock Box
• Hanoi Rocks - Oriental Beat
• Hanoi Rocks - Self Destruction Blues
• Headpins - Turn It Loud
• Heavy Load - Death or Glory
• Heritage - Remorse Code
• Hughes/Thrall - Hughes/Thrall
• The Hunt - The Thrill of the Kill
• Hyksos - Hyksos
• Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
• Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
• Killer (Bel) - Wall of Sound
• Killer (Swi) - Thriller
• Kiss - Creatures of the Night
• Krokus - One Vice at a Time
• Led Zeppelin - Coda (comp)
• Legend - Death in the Nursery
• Legend - Frontline (EP)
• Loudness - Devil Soldier
• Mad Max - Mad Max
• Magnum - Chase the Dragon
• Mama's Boys - Plug It In
• Manilla Road - Metal
• Manowar - Battle Hymns
• Frank Marino - Juggernaut
• Mercy – Swedish Metal (EP)
• Mercyful Fate - Nuns Have No Fun (EP)
• Messendger - Messendger
• Metal Massacre - Metal Massacre (Compilation, various artists)
• Metal Massacre - Metal Massacre II (Compilation, various artists)
• Michael Schenker Group - Assault Attack
• More - Blood & Thunder
• Motörhead - Iron Fist
• Night Ranger - Dawn Patrol
• Nightwing – Black Summer
• No Bros - Ready for the Action
• Aldo Nova - Aldo Nova
• Ted Nugent - Nugent
• Obús - Poderoso como el trueno
• Ozzy Osbourne - Speak of the Devil (live)
• Overlord (US) - Broken Toys (EP)
• Pat Benatar - Get Nervous
• Picture - Diamond Dreamer
• Plasmatics - Coup d'Etat
• Rage (UK) - Nice 'n' Dirty
• Rainbow - Straight Between the Eyes
• Rapid Tears - Honestly
• Raven - Crash Bang Wallop (EP)
• Raven - Wiped Out
• Resurrection Band - D.M.Z.
• Riff Raff - Robot Stud
• Riot - Restless Breed
• Riot - Riot Live (EP)
• The Rods - Wild Dogs
• Rose Tattoo - Scarred for Life
• Rush - Signals
• Samson - Losing My Grip (EP)
• Samson - Before the Storm
• Santers - Mayday (EP)
• Santers - Racing Time
• Saxon - The Eagle Has Landed (live)
• Scorpions - Blackout
• Sharks - Altar Ego
• Shiva - Firedance
• Sinner - Wild 'n' Evil
• Speed Queen - Speed Queen, aka II
• Split Beaver - When Hell Won't Have You
• Squadron - First Mission
• Stampede - Days of Wine and Roses (EP)
• Stampede - The Official Bootleg (live)
• Street Fighter - Feel the Noise
• Stress - Stress
• Sweet - Identity Crisis
• Talas - Sink Your Teeth Into That
• Tank - Filth Hounds of Hades
• Tank - Power of the Hunter
• Teeze (CA) - Teeze (EP)
• 38 Special - Special Forces
• TNT - TNT
• Torch - Fire Raiser (EP)
• Bernie Tormé – Turn Out the Lights
• Trance - Break Out
• Trust - Savage
• Twisted Sister - Ruff Cuts (EP)
• Twisted Sister - Under the Blade
• Tygers of Pan Tang - The Cage
• Tytan - Blind Men and Fools (EP)
• UFO - Mechanix
• Uriah Heep - Abominog
• Vanadium - Metal Rock
• Vandenberg - Vandenberg
• Van Halen - Diver Down
• Vardis - Quo Vardis
• Vendetta (US) - Vendetta
• Venom - Black Metal
• Virgin Steele - Virgin Steele
• Viva – Dealers of the Night
• Voie De Fait - Ange ou Démon
• Voltz - Knight's Fall
• Warning - Warning II
• White Heat – White Heat
• Whitesnake - Saints & Sinners
• Witchfinder General – Soviet Invasion (EP)
• Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
• Y&T - Black Tiger
• Zero Nine – Blank Verse
• Zero Nine – Visions, Scenes and Dreams

Disbandments

• Rok Mašina

Events

• Uriah Heep re-forms with Mick Box as bandleader. ^[1]
• Iron Maiden's first album with Bruce Dickinson, The Number of the Beast , reaches No.1 in the U.K. music charts.
• Motörhead's guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke leaves the band and is replaced by ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson.
• Judas Priest's single "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" is released. It will go on to become the band's best selling single.
• Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist Randy Rhoads dies in an airplane accident on March 19.
• Iron Maiden's drummer Clive Burr is fired from the band because of personal and tour-schedule problems. Nicko McBrain from Trust is hired to replace him.
• Ace Frehley, Space Ace and lead guitarist of Kiss, leaves the band. Vinnie Vincent takes his place.
• Queen departs from their hard rock legacy with the ill-received funk/disco album Hot Space .
• December: Former Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan replaces Ronnie James Dio in Black Sabbath.
• The band Metallica leaves Los Angeles and relocates to the San Francisco Bay Area.

References

1. Phillips, William (2009). Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music. Greenwood Press. p. 246. ISBN   9780313348006.

Preceded by 1981

Heavy Metal Timeline 1982

Succeeded by 1983