1984 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1984.
[edit] Newly formed bands
- Agent Steel
- Annihilator
- Atheist
- Blind Guardian (under the name "Lucifer's Heritage")
- Candlemass
- Celtic Frost
- Death
- Eudoxis
- Iced Earth
- King Kobra
- Nepal
- Nuclear Assault
- Razor
- Sadus
- Sepultura
- Soundgarden
- Stratovarius
- Tesla
- The Cult
- Tony MacAlpine
- Uncle Slam (known as The Brood until 1987)
- Warrant
- Whiplash
- Yngwie Malmsteen
[edit] Albums
- AC/DC - '74 Jailbreak
- The Angels - Two Minute Warning
- Anthrax - Fistful of Metal
- Armored Saint - March of the Saint
- Bathory - Bathory
- Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
- Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi
- Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
- Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
- The Cult - Dreamtime
- Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
- Destruction - Sentence of Death
- Dio - The Last in Line
- Dokken - Tooth And Nail
- Europe - Wings of Tomorrow
- Exciter- Long Live the Loud
- Fastway - All Fired Up
- Fates Warning - Night on Bröcken
- Grim Reaper (band) - See You in Hell (album)
- Hanoi Rocks - All Those Waisted Years
- Hanoi Rocks - Two Steps From The Move
- Helix - Walkin' the Razor's Edge
- Hellhammer - Apocalyptic Raids
- Icon (band) - Icon (Icon album)
- 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
- Loudness - Disillusion
- 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)
- Omen - Battle Cry
- Pantera - Projects in the Jungle
- Queensrÿche - The Warning
- Quiet Riot - Condition Critical
- Razor - Escape The Fire, Armed & Dangerous
- Ratt - Out of the Cellar
- Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory
- Rush - Grace Under Pressure
- Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
- Sammy Hagar - VOA
- Samson - Don't Get Mad, Get Even
- Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling
- Saxon - Crusader
- 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
- Tank - Honour And Blood
- Trouble - Psalm 9
- Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
- Van Halen - 1984
- Venom - At War with Satan
- Voivod - War and Pain
- W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
- Warlock - Burning the Witches
- Whitesnake - Slide It In
- Witchfynde - Lords of Sin
- Y&T - In Rock We Trust
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Rising Force
[edit] Events
- Def Leppard's drummer Rick Allen loses his left arm in a car accident on December 31.
- Deep Purple reunite.
- Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle is killed in an automobile accident in early December. The driver of the car is Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe.
- The debut albums of both Saint Vitus (Saint Vitus) and Trouble (Psalm 9) are released.
| Preceded by: 1983 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 1984 |
Followed by: 1985 |
