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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1992.

Events

Alice in Chains release their widely popular concept album, Dirt .
Motörhead's drummer Phil Taylor finally leaves after recording "Ain't No Nice Guy" for the March or Die album. The drummer on that album is Tommy Aldridge, who was replaced by Mikkey Dee after recording the album.
Metallica frontman James Hetfield suffers second and third-degree burns due to a pyrotechnic accident during the Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour.^[1]
Living Colour's bassist Muzz Skillings leaves and is replaced by Doug Wimbish.
On April, 20, The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert is held. Top heavy metal/hard rock acts such as Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Metallica, Extreme and the heavy metal parody band Spinal Tap perform, as well as heavy metal/hard rock legends such as Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin), Roger Daltrey (The Who), and Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath).
Body Count sparks nationwide controversy over the song from their self-titled debut album, "Cop Killer".
Vince Neil leaves Mötley Crüe and is replaced by John Corabi
Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo is replaced by Paul Bostaph.^[2]
Fantoft Stave Church near Bergen, Norway is destroyed by Varg Vikernes of Burzum on June 6. Other church burnings attributed to black metal musicians also took place throughout Scandinavia.

Newly formed bands

Reformed bands

Mercyful Fate

Albums

24-7 Spyz – Strength in Numbers
AC/DC – AC/DC Live (live)
Alice in Chains – Dirt
Alice in Chains – Sap (EP)
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Anathema - The Crestfallen (EP)
Anthem – Domestic Booty
Anvil – Worth the Weight
Asphyx - Crush the Cenotaph (EP)
At the Gates – The Red in the Sky Is Ours
Atrocity - Todessehnsucht
Autopsy – Acts of the Unspeakable
Babylon A.D. – Nothing Sacred
Bad4Good – Refugee
Bangalore Choir – On Target
Bang Tango – Aint No Jive Live
Benediction - Dark is the Season (EP)
Biohazard – Urban Discipline
Black Sabbath – Dehumanizer
Blind Guardian – Somewhere Far Beyond
Body Count – Body Count
Bolt Thrower – The IVth Crusade
Bon Jovi – Keep the Faith
Brain Dead – From the Ecstasy
Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
Burzum – Burzum
Candlemass – Chapter VI
Cannibal Corpse – Tomb of the Mutilated
Carcass - Tools of the Trade (EP)
Cathedral - Soul Sacrifice (EP)
Celtic Frost – Parched with Thirst Am I and Dying (comp)
Comecon - Megatrends in Brutality
Cro-Mags – Alpha Omega
Damn Yankees – Don't Tread
Darkthrone – A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Danzig – Danzig III: How the Gods Kill
Def Leppard – Adrenalize
Deicide – Legion
Deliverance – Stay of Execution
Demolition Hammer – Epidemic of Violence
Dirty Looks – Five Easy Pieces
Dismember - Pieces (EP)
Dream Theater – Images and Words
Drive – Diablero
Earthshaker – Earthshaker
Edge of Sanity - Unorthodox
Edwin Dare – Unthinkable Deed
Electric Boys – Groovus Maximus
Elegy – Labyrinth Of Dreams
Exhorder – The Law
Exodus – Force of Habit
Extreme – III Sides to Every Story
Faith No More – Angel Dust
Faster Pussycat – Belted, Buckled and Booted
Faster Pussycat – Whipped!
Fear Factory – Soul of a New Machine
FireHouse – Hold Your Fire
FM - Aphrodisiac
The Gathering - Always...
Godflesh – Pure
Gorefest – False
Maestro Alex Gregory – Paganini's Last Stand
Grave - You'll Never See...
Gun – Gallus
Gwar – America Must Be Destroyed
Hardline – Double Eclipse
Heavens Gate – Hell for Sale!
Heavens Gate – More Hysteria (EP)
Helmet – Meantime
Darren Housholder – Darren Housholder
Hypocrisy – Penetralia
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Immortal – Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism
Impetigo - Horror of the Zombies
Iron Maiden – Fear of the Dark
Kik Tracee – Field Trip
Killers – Murder One
King's X – King's X
Kiss – Revenge
Krabathor - Only Our Death Is Welcome...
Kreator – Renewal
Kyuss – Blues for the Red Sun
Lacrimosa – Einsamkeit
L.A. Guns – Cuts
Lawnmower Deth - The Return of the Fabulous Metal Bozo Clowns
Life Sex & Death – The Silent Majority
Little Caesar – Influence
Loudness – Loudness
Love/Hate – Wasted In America
Lynch Mob – Lynch Mob
Tony MacAlpine – Freedom to Fly
Malevolent Creation – Retribution
Yngwie Malmsteen – Fire and Ice
Manowar – The Triumph of Steel
Massacre - Inhuman Condition (EP)
Marduk - Dark Endless
Megadeth – Countdown to Extinction
Mekong Delta - Kaleidoscope
Mercyful Fate - Return of the Vampire
Ministry – Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs
M.O.D. - Rhythm of Fear
Monster Magnet – Tab (EP)
Monstrosity – Imperial Doom
Mordred - Vision (EP)
Mortification - Scrolls of the Megilloth
Motörhead – March ör Die
My Dying Bride – As the Flower Withers
My Dying Bride – Symphonaire Infernus et Spera Empyrium (EP)
Napalm Death – Utopia Banished
Necrophagist – Requiems of Festered Gore (demo)
Nembrionic - Themes on an Occult Theory (EP)
Neurosis – Souls at Zero
Nine Inch Nails – Broken (EP)
Nine Inch Nails – Fixed (EP)
Nocturnus – Thresholds
Non-Fiction – In the Know
Nuclear Assault - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon
Obituary – The End Complete
Oomph! – Oomph!
Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power
Pan.Thy.Monium - Dawn of Dreams
Paradise Lost – Shades of God
Pitchshifter – Submit (EP)
Pretty Maids - Sin-Decade
Pro-Pain – Foul Taste of Freedom
Prong - Whose Fist Is This Anyway (EP)
Psychotic Waltz – Into the Everflow
Racer X – Extreme Volume II Live (live)
Rage – Trapped!
Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine
RAMP – Thoughts
Re-Animator - That Was Then...This Is Now
Reverend – Live (live EP)
Riot - Live in Japan
Rollins Band – The End of Silence
Sadus – A Vision of Misery
Saigon Kick – The Lizard
Saint Vitus - C.O.D.
Saints & Sinners – Saints & Sinners
Samael - Blood Ritual
Saxon – Forever Free
The Screaming Jets – Tear of Thought
Sinister - Cross The Styx
Skid Row – B-Side Ourselves (EP)
Skyclad - A Burnt Offering for the Bone Idol
Slaughter – The Wild Life
Sleeze Beez – Powertool
Slik Toxik – Doin' the Nasty
Sodom – Tapping the Vein
Solitude Aeturnus – Beyond the Crimson Horizon
Spinal Tap – Break Like the Wind
Spread Eagle – Open To The Public
Steelheart – Tangled in Reins
Stone Temple Pilots – Core
Izzy Stradlin – Izzy Stradlin and The Ju Ju Hounds
Stratovarius – Twilight Time
Suicidal Tendencies – Art of Rebellion
T-Ride – T-Ride (album)
Tankard – Stone Cold Sober
Testament – The Ritual
The Black Crowes – The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Therapy? – Pleasure Death
Therapy? – Nurse
Therion - Beyond Sanctorum
Tiamat – Clouds
TNT – Realized Fantasies
Tora Tora – Wild America
Tourniquet – Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance
Triumph – Edge of Excess
Trixter – Hear!
Trouble – Manic Frustration
T.T. Quick – Thrown Together Live (live)
Type O Negative - The Origin of the Feces
Ugly Kid Joe – America's Least Wanted
Unleashed – Shadows in the Deep
Unruly Child – Unruly Child
Vader – The Ultimate Incantation
Vengeance Rising - Released Upon the Earth
Viper – Evolution
Viper Brazil – Vipera Sapiens (EP)
Vital Remains – Let Us Pray
Von – Satanic Blood
Von Groove – Von Groove
W.A.S.P. – The Crimson Idol
Warrant – Dog Eat Dog
Warrior Soul – Salutations from the Ghetto Nation
White Zombie – La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One
Wildside – Under the Influence
Xentrix - Kin

Disbandments

Armored Saint (reformed in 1999)
Atheist (reformed in 1993)
Britny Fox (reformed in 2000)
Europe (Hiatus until December 31, 1999, then full reformation with John Norum at guitar on October 2, 2003)
Nightfall
Nitro (reformed in 2016)
Ratt (reformed in 1996)
Stryper (reformed in 2003)
White Lion (reformed in 1999)

References

↑ "25 Years Ago: A Guns N' Roses and Metallica Concert Ends in a Riot". Ultimate Classic Rock. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
↑ "Slayer draft in Paul Bostaph to replace drummer Dave Lombardo - NME". NME. 3 June 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2018.

Preceded by 1991	Heavy Metal Timeline 1992	Succeeded by 1993

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[1] "25 Years Ago: A Guns N' Roses and Metallica Concert Ends in a Riot". Ultimate Classic Rock. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2018.

[2] "Slayer draft in Paul Bostaph to replace drummer Dave Lombardo - NME". NME. 3 June 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2018.

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