1991 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1991.
Contents |
[edit] Newly formed bands
- Angra
- Behemoth
- Cradle of Filth
- Emperor
- Enslaved
- Labyrinth
- Mercenary
- Nevermore
- Rage Against the Machine
- Wolfgang
[edit] Albums
- Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid
- Anthrax - Attack of the Killer B's
- Bolt Thrower - War Master
- Armored Saint - [[* Symbol of Salvation
- Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth
- The Cult - Ceremony
- Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
- Death - Human
- Europe - Prisoners in Paradise
- Fates Warning - Parallels
- Forced Entry - As Above, So Below
- Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I and II
- Heathen - Victims of Deception
- Helloween - Pink Bubbles Go Ape
- Infectious Grooves - The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves
- Richie Kotzen - Electric Joy
- Kyuss - Wretch
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen - The Yngwie Malmsteen Collection
- Metal Church - The Human Factor
- Metallica - Metallica
- Monster Magnet - Spine of God
- Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
- Motörhead - 1916
- Nirvana - Nevermind
- Overkill - Horrorscope
- Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
- Pearl Jam - Ten
- Pitch Shifter - Industrial
- Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
- Prong - Prove You Wrong
- Queen - Innuendo
- Rush - Roll the Bones
- Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera
- Sepultura - Arise
- Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
- Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
- Stratovarius - Stratovarius II
- Stryper - Can't Stop the Rock
- U.D.O. - Timebomb
[edit] Disbandments
[edit] Events
- Queen releases Innuendo, a return to their early days of progressive rock and heavy metal. It is their most popular album since "The Game."
- Queen Freddie Mercury dies of AIDS induced bronchial pneumonia.
- Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark dies in January 8 due to compression of the brain stem from excessive alcohol mixed with anti-depressants and painkillers (as a result of a rib injury).
- Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" goes to number one in the UK for the second time, the only song to ever go to number one more than once in the same version. It has now spent 14 weeks at number one.
- KISS Drummer - Eric Carr dies at age 41 on November 24. As a tribute, the group's 1992 release Revenge featured what is said to be the only drum solo Carr ever recorded with the band, which was titled "Carr Jam 1981".
- Skid Row's second album Slave to the Grind becomes the first and only 90s classic heavy metal album to debut at No.1 in the Billboard music charts in the 90s.
- Metallica's self-titled Black Album becomes the first album by a thrash band to hit No.1 in the Billboard music charts.
- Guns N' Roses set a record when their albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II debut at the top two positions of the Billboard 200, the first and only time a rock band has ever achieved this
- Mayhem’s vocalist, Per Yngve Ohlin aka Dead, kills himself by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun and slitting his wrists with a hunting knife. He left a note reading "excuse all the blood". Photographs of his corpse taken by bandmate, Euronymous, were later used as cover art for the bootleg album Dawn of the Black Hearts.
- Europe release the 5th album titled Prisoners in Paradise. It's Europe's last studio album before they decide to take a long break.
| Preceded by: 1990 | Heavy Metal Timeline 1991 | Followed by: 1992 |
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