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1996 in music
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heavy metal
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List of albums released
Overview of the events of 1996 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of
heavy metal music
in the year 1996.
Contents
Newly formed bands
Albums
Disbandments
Events
References
Newly formed bands
3 Doors Down
Ajattara
Alabama Thunderpussy
Alien Ant Farm
Averse Sefira
Breed 77
Cattle Decapitation
Combatwoundedveteran
Control Denied
The Crest
Daylight Dies
Decapitated
Diabolic
Dornenreich
Drowning Pool
Ebony Tears
Fall of the Leafe
Flaw
(as F.law)
Gardenian
Goatsnake
God Forbid
Gojira
The Haunted
Heaven Shall Burn
Hibria
Into Eternity
Iron Savior
Kiss It Goodbye
Kittie
Linkin Park
(as Xero)
Manticora
Maudlin of the Well
MD.45
Mudvayne
Nargaroth
Narnia
Nashville Pussy
Nightwish
Nocturnal Breed
Norther
Omnium Gatherum
Orden Ogan
Pain
Penumbra
Prayer for Cleansing
Queens of the Stone Age
Racetraitor
Saliva
Samsas Traum
Sculptured
Shining
The Sins of Thy Beloved
Soulburn
Spineshank
Spirit Caravan
Stam1na
Training for Utopia
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Tvangeste
Two
Ultraspank
uneXpect
The Union Underground
Within Temptation
Yob
Albums
24-7 Spyz
-
6
(alternate version released in America as
Heavy Metal Soul by the Pound
)
24-7 Spyz -
Heavy Metal Soul by the Pound
(alternate version released in Europe as
6
)
Anal Cunt
-
40 More Reasons To Hate Us
Accept
-
Predator
Acid Bath
-
Paegan Terrorism Tactics
Alice in Chains
-
Unplugged
(live)
Altar
-
Ego Art
Amon Amarth
-
Sorrow Throughout the Nine Worlds
(EP)
Amorphis
-
Elegy
Anathema
–
Eternity
Angelcorpse
-
Hammer of Gods
Angra
-
Holy Land
Angra
-
Freedom Call
(EP)
Antidote -
Mind Alive
Anvil (band)
–
Plugged in Permanent
Apocalyptica
-
Plays Metallica by Four Cellos
Arch Enemy
-
Black Earth
Arcturus
-
Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Asphyx
-
God Cries
Asphyx
-
Embrace the Death
(recorded in 1990)
Ayreon
-
Actual Fantasy
Bathory
-
Blood on Ice
Behemoth
-
Grom
Biohazard
-
Mata Leão
Borknagar
-
Borknagar
Bruce Dickinson
-
Skunkworks
Brutality -
In Mourning
Brutal Truth
-
Kill Trend Suicide
Cannibal Corpse
-
Vile
Cathedral
-
Supernatural Birth Machine
Civil Defiance
-
The Fishers For Souls
Converge
-
Petitioning the Empty Sky
Corrosion of Conformity
-
Wiseblood
Cradle of Filth
-
V Empire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein
(EP)
Cradle of Filth -
Dusk... and Her Embrace
Crowbar
-
Broken Glass
Cryptopsy
-
None So Vile
The Cult
–
High Octane Cult
Danzig
–
Danzig 5: Blackacidevil
Dark Funeral
-
The Secrets of the Black Arts
Dawn
-
Sorgh på Svarte Vingar Fløgh
Deep Purple
-
Purpendicular
Def Leppard
-
Slang
Desultory
-
Swallow the Snake
Deeds Of Flesh
-
Trading Pieces
DGeneration
–
No Lunch
Dimmu Borgir
-
Stormblåst
Dio
-
Angry Machines
Downset.
-
Do We Speak a Dead Language?
Drain STH
–
Horror Wrestling
Dying Fetus
-
Purification Through Violence
Earth Crisis
-
Gomorrah's Season Ends
Edge of Sanity
-
Crimson
Eyehategod
-
Dopesick
Far
-
Tin Cans with Strings to You
FireHouse
–
Good Acoustics
Forbidden
-
Green
Freak Kitchen
-
Spanking Hour
Fu Manchu
-
In Search of...
Godflesh
-
Songs of Love and Hate
Gorefest
-
Soul Survivor
Gorgoroth
-
Antichrist
Grave
-
Hating Life
Grinspoon
-
Licker Bottle Cozy
(EP)
Helloween
-
The Time of the Oath
Hypocrisy
-
Abducted
Hypocrisy
-
Maximum Abduction
(EP)
Immolation
-
Here in After
In Flames
-
The Jester Race
Iced Earth
-
The Dark Saga
Integrity
–
Humanity is the Devil
King Diamond
-
The Graveyard
Kataklysm
-
Temple of Knowledge
Katatonia
-
Brave Murder Day
Korn
-
Life Is Peachy
Korpse -
Revirgin
Kvist -
For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike
L.A. Guns
–
American Hardcore
Tony MacAlpine
-
Violent Machine
Madball
-
Demonstrating My Style
Manowar
-
Louder Than Hell
Marduk
-
Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered
Marilyn Manson
-
Antichrist Superstar
Mercyful Fate
-
Into the Unknown
Metallica
-
Load
Ministry
-
Filth Pig
Monstrosity
-
Millennium
Moonspell
-
Irreligious
Morgana Lefay
-
Maleficium
Morgoth
-
Feel Sorry for the Fanatic
Mortician
-
Hacked Up for Barbecue
Mortification
-
EnVision EvAngelene
Motörhead
-
Overnight Sensation
My Dying Bride
-
Like Gods of the Sun
Napalm Death
-
Diatribes
Necrophobic
–
Spawned by Evil
(EP)
Nevermore
-
The Politics of Ecstasy
Neurosis
-
Through Silver in Blood
Occult
–
The Enemy Within
Old Man's Child
-
Born of the Flickering
Orange 9mm
-
Tragic
Orphanage
-
By Time Alone
Oomph!
-
Wunschkind
Opeth
-
Morningrise
Overkill
–
The Killing Kind
Pantera
-
The Great Southern Trendkill
Pan.Thy.Monium
-
Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion
Pitchshifter
-
Infotainment?
P.O.D.
-
Brown
Poison
-
Poison's Greatest Hits: 1986–1996
(compilation)
Iggy Pop
–
Nude & Rude: The Best of Iggy Pop
Pro-Pain
–
Contents Under Pressure
Prong
-
Rude Awakening
Quo Vadis
-
Forever...
Rage
-
Lingua Mortis
(four re-recorded songs from the album
Black in Mind
, with arrangements for a classic orchestra)
Rage -
End of All Days
Rage Against the Machine
-
Evil Empire
Rotting Christ
-
Triarchy of the Lost Lovers
Rush
-
Test for Echo
Sacred Reich
-
Heal
Samael
-
Passage
Satyricon
-
Nemesis Divina
Scorpions
–
Pure Instinct
Sepultura
-
Roots
Sentenced
-
Down
Soundgarden
-
Down on the Upside
Slayer
-
Undisputed Attitude
Slipknot
-
Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.
(demo)
Staind
-
Tormented
Steelheart
–
Wait
Stone Temple Pilots
–
Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
Stratovarius
-
Episode
Stuck Mojo
-
Pigwalk
Summoning
-
Dol Guldur
Theatre of Tragedy
-
Velvet Darkness They Fear
The 3rd and the Mortal
-
Painting on Glass
The Hellacopters
–
Supershitty to the Max!
Therion
-
Theli
Thorr's Hammer
-
Dommedagsnatt
(EP)
Tool
-
Ænima
Type O Negative
-
October Rust
Steve Vai
-
Fire Garden
Vader
-
Future of the Past
Van Halen
-
Best Of – Volume I
(compilation)
Virgin Steele
-
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part II
Vision of Disorder
-
Vision of Disorder
Warrant
-
Belly to Belly
Warrant
–
The Best of Warrant
Xentrix
-
Scourge
Zakk Wylde
–
Book of Shadows
Disbandments
Beherit
Carnis
Damn Yankees
Down
Extreme
Prong
Sexart
Skid Row
Tesla
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1
]
Trouble
Events
Alice in Chains
plays their last concert with
Layne Staley
on July 23, 1996.
Body Count
drummer
Beatmaster V
dies of
leukemia
.
The first
Ozzfest
tour sets off, with headliners
Ozzy Osbourne
,
Slayer
and
Danzig
.
The original line-up of
KISS
(
Ace Frehley
,
Gene Simmons
,
Peter Criss
,
Paul Stanley
) come back together.
Bassist
Greg Christian
of
Testament
left the band, leaving guitarist
Eric Peterson
as the sole ever-present in the line-up.
Slash
leaves
Guns N' Roses
, citing differences with
Axl Rose
.
Sammy Hagar
departs
Van Halen
after a feud with
Eddie Van Halen
.
Van Halen
briefly reunites with
David Lee Roth
at a highly publicized event at the
MTV Video Music Awards
, but fires him shortly thereafter.
Tim 'Ripper' Owens
fills the void left by
Rob Halford
in 1993 as lead singer of
Judas Priest
.
References
↑
Phillips, William (2009).
Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music
. Greenwood Press. p.
230.
ISBN
9780313348006
.
Preceded
by
1995
Heavy Metal Timeline
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Succeeded
by
1997
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