1984 in heavy metal music

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from 1984 in metal)

Jump to: navigation, search

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1984.

[edit] Newly formed bands

[edit] Albums

AC/DC - '74 Jailbreak
Anthrax - Fistful of Metal
Armored Saint - March of the Saint
Bathory - Bathory
Black Tears - Child of the Stone
Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
The Cult - Dreamtime
Dark Angel - We Have Arrived
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Destruction - Sentence of Death
Dio - The Last in Line
Dokken - Tooth And Nail
Europe - Wings of Tomorrow
Fastway - All Fired Up
Fates Warning - Night on Bröcken
Hanoi Rocks - All Those Waisted Years
Hanoi Rocks - Two Steps From The Move
Helix - Walkin' The Razor's Edge
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Keel - Lay Down The Law
KISS - Animalize
Krokus - The Blitz
Lizzy Borden - Give 'em the Axe
Manowar - Hail to England, Sign of the Hammer
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
Metal Church - Metal Church
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Motörhead - No Remorse
Overkill - Power in Black, Overkill (EP)
Pantera - Projects in the Jungle
Queensrÿche - The Warning
Quiet Riot - Condition Critical
Razor - Escape The Fire, Armed & Dangerous
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
Sammy Hagar - VOA
Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling
Scorpions - Love at First Sting
Slayer - Haunting the Chapel
Sodom - In the Sign of Evil
Spinal Tap - This Is Spinal Tap
Steve Vai - Flex-Able
Stryper - The Yellow and Black Attack
Trouble - Psalm 9
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
Van Halen - 1984
Voivod - War and Pain
W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
Warlock - Burning the Witches
Whitesnake - Slide It In
Y&T - In Rock We Trust
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Rising Force

[edit] Events

Def Leppard's drummer Rick Allen loses his arm in a car accident on December 31.
Deep Purple Reunite.
Quiet Riot 's Metal Health tops the charts at number 1, On November 26, 1983. Which starts the 80's L.A. glam metal scene.
Death and Morbid Angel form thus creating what will become death metal
In December, Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle is killed in an automobile accident. The driver of the car is Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe. Vince later spends time in jail for vehicular manslaughter.