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

[edit] Newly formed bands

• American Head Charge
• Arch Enemy
• Control Denied
• Decapitated
• Disturbed
• Gojira
• Kittie
• Lordi
• Nightwish
• Sonata Arctica
• The Crest
• Within Temptation

[edit] Albums

• 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
• Freak Kitchen - Spanking Hour
• Helloween - The Time Of The Oath
• Hypocrisy - Abducted
• In Flames - The Jester Race
• Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
• 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?
• 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

[edit] Disbandments

• Down
• Prong
• Skid Row
• Trouble

[edit] 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).
• 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.
• 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.

Preceded by: 1995

Heavy Metal Timeline 1996

Followed by: 1997

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