1996 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1996.
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
- Shadows of Steel
- Shining
- The Sins of Thy Beloved
- Soulburn
- Spineshank
- Spirit Caravan
- Stam1na
- Training for Utopia
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- Tvangeste
- Two
- Ultraspank
- uneXpect
- The Union Underground
- Viikate
- 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
- Burzum - Filosofem
- Cannibal Corpse - Vile
- Cathedral - Supernatural Birth Machine
- Civil Defiance - The Fishers For Souls
- Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky
- Corrosion of Conformity - Wiseblood
- Count Raven - Messiah of Confusion
- 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
- Khafra - Generaciones[1]
- 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
- Memento Mori - La danse macabre
- 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
- Slayer - Undisputed Attitude
- Slipknot - Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. (demo)
- Solitude Aeturnus - Downfall
- Soundgarden - Down on the Upside
- 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
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.