1996 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of
heavy metal
in the year
1996
.
Contents
1
Newly formed bands
2
Albums
3
Disbandments
4
Events
5
References
Newly formed bands
American Head Charge
Arch Enemy
Control Denied
Decapitated
Evergrey
God Forbid
Gojira
Lordi
Nightwish
Samsas Traum
Sonata Arctica
The Crest
The Haunted
Within Temptation
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
)
Alice in Chains
-
Unplugged
Arch Enemy
-
Black Earth
Ayreon
-
Actual Fantasy
Behemoth
-
Grom
Bruce Dickinson
-
Skunkworks
Cannibal Corpse
-
Vile
Cradle of Filth
-
Vempire
Cradle of Filth
-
Dusk And Her Embrace
Deep Purple
-
Purpendicular
Def Leppard
-
Slang
Dimmu Borgir
-
Stormblåst
Dio
-
Angry Machines
Eyehategod
-
Dopesick
[
1
]
Freak Kitchen
-
Spanking Hour
Helloween
-
The Time Of The Oath
Hypocrisy
-
Abducted
In Flames
-
The Jester Race
Iced Earth
-
The Dark Saga
Korn
-
Life is Peachy
Tony MacAlpine
-
Violent Machine
Manowar
-
Louder Than Hell
Marilyn Manson
-
Antichrist Superstar
Metallica
-
Load
Ministry
-
Filth Pig
Moonspell
-
Irreligious
Motörhead
-
Overnight Sensation
Neurosis
-
Through Silver in Blood
Opeth
-
Morningrise
Rage Against the Machine
-
Evil Empire
Pantera
-
The Great Southern Trendkill
Pitch Shifter
-
Infotainment?
Poison
-
Greatest Hits 1986-1996
Rush
-
Test for Echo
Sepultura
-
Roots
Sentenced
-
Down
Soundgarden
-
Down on the Upside
Slipknot
-
Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.
Stratovarius
-
Episode
Theatre of Tragedy
-
Velvet Darkness They Fear
The 3rd and the Mortal
-
Painting on Glass
Tool
-
Ænima
Steve Vai
-
Fire Garden
Van Halen
-
Best of Volume I
Warrant
-
Belly To Belly
Warrant
-
Live 86 - 96
Disbandments
Down
Extreme
Prong
Skid Row
Trouble
Events
Alice in Chains
plays their last ever concert with
Layne Staley
on July 23, 1996. They later go on hiatus until April 20, 2002 in which Staley is found dead in his apartment after overdosing on a
Speedball (drug)
.
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
is out of 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
^
York, William. "
Eyehategod -
Dopesick
".
Allmusic
. Retrieved on 2008-04-10.
Preceded by:
1995
Heavy Metal Timeline
1996
Followed by:
1997
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