1995 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1995.

Newly formed bands

• Aborted
• After Forever
• Agalloch
• Agathodaimon
• Aghora
• Angelcorpse
• Arch Enemy
• Astarte
• Autumn
• Ayreon
• Azaghal
• ACT
• The Berzerker
• The Blood Divine
• Bongzilla
• Borknagar
• Buckcherry
• Carnival in Coal
• Catamenia
• Cave In
• Chevelle
• Chthonic
• Church of Misery
• Cipher System
• Coheed and Cambria
• Crazy Town
• Dahmer
• Darkest Hour
• Darzamat
• Devourment
• Diablo
• Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
• Dimension Zero
• Disembodied
• Dog Fashion Disco
• Dry Kill Logic
• Ensiferum
• Entwine
• Evergrey
• Evanescence
• Forest Stream
• The Fucking Champs
• Godsmack
• Greenmachine
• Grinspoon
• GZR
• Handsome
• Hate Forest
• I Shalt Become
• Impaled
• In Extremo
• Iron Fire
• Kraljevski Apartman
• Krieg
• Macbeth
• Månegarm
• Melechesh
• Metalucifer
• Moonsorrow
• Morning Again
• Motograter
• Nickelback
• Night in Gales
• Nortt
• One Minute Silence
• Orange Goblin
• Otyg
• Reverend Bizarre
• Secrets of the Moon
• Shadows Fall
• Shai Hulud
• Silencer
• Silent Stream of Godless Elegy
• Silentium
• Skyfire
• Skyforger
• Slipknot
• Snot
• Soilwork
• Solefald
• Sólstafir
• Sonata Arctica
• Staind
• Ten
• Thy Serpent
• Thyrfing
• Tristania
• Triumphator
• Tuatha de Danann
• Vanishing Point
• Virgin Black
• Will Haven
• Wolf
• Wolverine
• Xasthur

Albums

• 24-7 Spyz – Temporarily Disconnected
• AC/DC – Ballbreaker
• Alice Cooper – Classicks
• Alice in Chains – Alice in Chains
• Amorphis – Black Winter Day (EP)
• Anathema – The Silent Enigma
• Anathema – Pentecost III (EP)
• Anal Cunt -Top 40 Hits
• Anthrax – Stomp 442
• At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul
• Ayreon – The Final Experiment
• Bad Brains – God of Love
• Bal-Sagoth – A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria
• Behemoth – Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
• Belphegor – The Last Supper
• Benediction – The Dreams You Dread
• Beowülf – 2 Cents
• Bestial Warlust – Blood & Valour
• Black Sabbath – Cross Purposes Live (live box set)
• Black Sabbath – Forbidden
• Blind Guardian – Imaginations from the Other Side
• Bruce Dickinson – Alive in Studio A (live)
• Brujería – Raza Odiada
• Cancer – Black Faith
• Carcass – Swansong
• Cathedral – The Carnival Bizarre
• Clawfinger – Use Your Brain
• Comecon – Fable Frolic
• Craig Goldy – Better Late Than Never
• Crematory – Illusions
• Crowbar – Time Heals Nothing
• The Crown – The Burning (as Crown of Thorns)
• Cruachan – Tuatha na Gael
• D-A-D – Good Clean Family Entertainment You Can Trust
• Damaged – Passive Backseat Demon Engines (EP)
• Dangerous Toys – The Rtist 4merly Known As Dangerous Toys
• Dark Avenger – Dark Avenger
• Dark Tranquillity – The Gallery
• Darkthrone – Panzerfaust
• Dawn – Nær Solen Gar Niþer For Evogher
• Death – Symbolic
• Deceased – The Blueprints for Madness
• Def Leppard – Vault: Def Leppard Greatest Hits (1980–1995) (compilation)
• Deftones – Adrenaline
• Deeds Of Flesh – Gradually Melted (EP)
• Deicide – Once upon the Cross
• Deliverance – Camelot in Smithereens
• Dimmu Borgir – For all tid
• Dismember – Massive Killing Capacity
• Dismember – Casket Garden (EP)
• Dissection – Storm of the Light's Bane
• Dokken – Dysfunctional
• Down – NOLA
• Dream Theater – A Change of Seasons (EP)
• Earth Crisis – Destroy the Machines
• Edguy – Savage Poetry
• Excel – Seeking Refuge
• Extreme – Waiting for the Punchline
• FireHouse – 3 (FireHouse album)
• Faith No More – King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
• Fear Factory – Demanufacture
• Fight – A Small Deadly Space
• Flotsam and Jetsam – Drift
• Forced Entry – The Shore (EP)
• Fu Manchu – Daredevil
• Funeral – Tragedies
• Gamma Ray – Land of the Free
• The Gathering – Mandylion
• Ghostorm – Frozen in Fire
• Grave Digger – Heart of Darkness
• Grip Inc. – The Power of Inner Strength
• Gwar – Ragnarök
• Helmet – Born Annoying
• Helstar – Multiples of Black
• Iced Earth – Burnt Offerings
• Illdisposed – Submit
• Immortal – Battles in the North
• In Flames – Subterranean (EP)
• Incubus – Fungus Amongus
• Integrity – Systems Overload
• Iron Maiden – The X Factor
• Joe Satriani – Joe Satriani
• Kamelot – Eternity
• Kataklysm – Sorcery
• Katatonia – For Funerals to Come... (EP)
• Kix – Show Business
• King Diamond – The Spider's Lullabye
• Konkhra – Spit or Swallow
• Коррозия Металла - 1.966
• Krabathor – Lies
• Krabathor – The Rise of Brutality (EP)
• Kreator – Cause for Conflict
• Krisiun – Black Force Domain
• Kyuss – ...And the Circus Leaves Town
• Lacrimosa – Inferno
• Lord Belial – Kiss the Goat
• Love/Hate – Im Not Happy
• Mad Season – Above
• Malevolent Creation – Eternal
• Marilyn Manson – Smells Like Children (EP)
• Megadeth – Hidden Treasures (EP)
• Merauder – Master Killer
• Meshuggah – Destroy Erase Improve
• Metal Massacre – Metal Massacre XII (Compilation, various artists)
• Mindrot – Dawning
• Mindrot – Forlorn (EP)
• Monster Magnet – Dopes to Infinity
• Moonspell – Wolfheart
• Morbid Angel – Domination
• Morgana Lefay – Sanctified
• Mortician – House by the Cemetery (EP)
• Mortification – Primitive Rhythm Machine
• Motörhead – Sacrifice
• Mr. Bungle – Disco Volante
• My Dying Bride – The Angel and the Dark River
• Naglfar – Vittra
• Necrophagist – Necrophagist (demo)
• Nembrionic – Psycho One Hundred
• Nevermore – Nevermore
• Night in Gales – Sylphlike (EP)
• Nightfall – Athenian Echoes
• Ningen Isu – Odoru Issunboushi
• Nothingface – Nothingface
• Novembers Doom – Amid Its Hallowed Mirth
• On Thorns I Lay – Sounds of Beautiful Experience
• Oomph! – Defekt
• Opeth – Orchid
• Orphanage – Oblivion
• Ozzy Osbourne – Ozzmosis
• Paradise Lost – Draconian Times
• Pessimist – Absence of Light (EP)
• Powerman 5000 – The Blood-Splat Rating System
• Primus – Tales from the Punchbowl
• Quiet Riot – Down to the Bone
• Rage – Black in Mind
• Rainbow – Stranger in Us All
• Rammstein – Herzeleid
• RAMP – Intersection
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute
• Riot – The Brethren of the Long House
• Roxx Gang – The Voodoo You Love
• Running Wild – Masquerade
• Saint Vitus – Die Healing
• Samael – Rebellion (EP)
• Savatage – Dead Winter Dead
• Savatage – Japan Live '94 (live)
• Savatage – Ghost in the Ruins – A Tribute to Criss Oliva (live)
• Saxon – Dogs of War
• Sentenced – Amok
• Sentenced – Love & Death (EP)
• Septicflesh – Esoptron
• Seventh Avenue – Tales Of Tales
• Sinister – Hate
• Six Feet Under – Haunted
• Skepticism – Stormcrowfleet
• Skid Row – Subhuman Race
• Skyclad – The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea
• Slash's Snakepit – It's Five O'Clock Somewhere (album)
• Slaughter – Fear No Evil
• Sodom – Masquerade in Blood
• Strapping Young Lad – Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
• Stratovarius – Fourth Dimension
• Stuck Mojo – Snappin' Necks
• Suffocation – Pierced from Within
• Sugar Ray – Lemonade and Brownies
• Summoning – Lugburz
• Summoning – Minas Morgul
• Symphony X – The Damnation Game
• Tad Morose – Sender of Thoughts
• Tankard – The Tankard
• Theatre of Tragedy – Theatre of Tragedy
• Therapy? – Infernal Love
• Therion – Lepaca Kliffoth
• The 3rd and the Mortal – Nightswan (EP)
• Tony MacAlpine – Evolution
• Transport League – Stallion Showcase
• Trouble – Plastic Green Head
• Tuff – Religious Fix
• Unanimated – Ancient God of Evil
• Uncle Slam – When God Dies
• Unleashed – Victory
• Uriah Heep – Sea of Light
• Steve Vai – Alien Love Secrets (EP)
• Vader – De Profundis
• Van Halen – Balance
• Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters
• Vince Neil – Carved in Stone
• Virgin Black – Virgin Black (demo)
• Virgin Steele – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part I
• Vital Remains – Into Cold Darkness
• Voivod – Negatron
• W.A.S.P. – Still Not Black Enough
• Warrant – Ultraphobic
• Warrior Soul – The Space Age Playboys
• White Zombie – Astro-Creep: 2000
• Y&T – Musically Incorrect
• Yngwie Malmsteen – Magnum Opus

Disbandments

• Accept
• Beowülf
• Child's Play
• The Cult
• Excel
• Kyuss (in October)
• Living Colour
• Pungent Stench
• Saint Vitus
• Suicidal Tendencies
• Uncle Slam
• Visceral Evisceration

Events

• Long Beach, California-based hard rock and heavy metal radio station KNAC (Pure Rock) goes off the air and is replaced by a Spanish-language radio station KBUE (Que Buena).
• Motörhead's guitarist Michael "Würzel" Burston leaves the band.
• Ingo Schwichtenberg of Helloween dies.
• Necrophagist's guitarist Jan-Paul Herm and drummer Raphael Kempermann leave the band. Kempermann is replaced by Daniel Silva.
• S.O.B.'s vocalist Tottsuan commits 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.