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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1995.

Contents 1 Newly formed bands 2 Albums 3 Disbandments 4 Events

[edit] Newly formed bands

• Agalloch
• Borknagar
• Ensiferum
• Shadows Fall
• Slipknot
• Solefald
• Kraljevski Apartman
• Moonsorrow
• System of a Down
• Thyrfing
• Xasthur

[edit] Albums

• 24-7 Spyz - Temporarily Disconnected
• AC/DC - Ballbreaker
• Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains
• At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
• Ayreon - The Final Experiment
• Behemoth - Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
• Beowülf - 2Cents
• Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes Live
• Black Sabbath - Forbidden
• Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side
• Bon Jovi - These Days
• Bruce Dickinson - Alive in Studio A
• Cruachan - Tuatha Na Gael
• Carcass - Swansong
• Cathedral - The Carnival Bizarre
• Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
• Death - Symbolic
• Def Leppard - Vault Greatest Hits 1980-1995
• Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
• Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons (EP)
• Edguy - Savage Poetry
• Excel - Seeking Refuge
• Extreme - Waiting for the Punchline
• Faith No More - King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
• Fear Factory - Demanufacture
• Forced Entry - The Shore (EP)
• Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
• Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
• Immortal - Battles in the North
• In Flames - Subterranean (EP)
• Iron Maiden - The X Factor
• King Diamond - The Spider's Lullabye
• Kreator - Cause for Conflict
• Kyuss - ...And the Circus Leaves Town
• Megadeth - Hidden Treasures (EP)
• Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
• Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity
• Moonspell - Wolfheart
• Motörhead - Sacrifice
• My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River
• Necrophagist - Necrophagist (Demo)
• Opeth - Orchid
• Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzmosis
• Pitchshifter - The Remix War (Remix album)
• Rammstein - Herzeleid
• Saint Vitus - Die Healing
• Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
• Savatage - Japan Live '94
• Sentenced - Amok
• Savatage - Final Bell / Ghost in the Ruins
• Skid Row - Subhuman Race
• Strapping Young Lad - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
• Stratovarius - Fourth Dimension
• Theatre of Tragedy - Theatre of Tragedy
• The 3rd and the Mortal - Nightswan (EP)
• Tony MacAlpine - Evolution
• Trouble - Plastic Green Head
• Uncle Slam - When God Dies
• Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets (EP)
• Van Halen - Balance
• Vince Neil - Carved In Stone
• Virgin Black - Virgin Black Demo
• W.A.S.P. - Still Not Black Enough
• Warrant - Ultraphobic
• White Zombie - Astro Creep: 2000
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Magnum Opus

[edit] Disbandments

• Accept
• Beowülf
• The Cult
• Excel
• Kyuss (in October)
• Living Colour
• Pungent Stench
• Saint Vitus
• Suicidal Tendencies
• Uncle Slam
• B.H.P

[edit] Events

• Saint Vitus reform with original vocalist Scott Reagers for a new album and tour, then breaks up afterwards.
• Motörhead's guitarist Michael "Würzel" Burston leaves the band.
• Ingo Schwichtenberg of Helloween committed suicide by jumping in front of a subway train after suffering more and more of schizophrenia. Schwichtenberg's suicide had terrible effects on all members of Helloween and fans of metal worldwide.
• Necrophagist's guitarist, Jean-Paul Herm, and drummer, Raphael Kempermann, leave the band. Kempermann is replaced by Daniel Silva.

Preceded by: 1994

Heavy Metal Timeline 1995

Followed by: 1996