1995 in heavy metal music

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

Newly formed bands

 * Aborted
 * After Forever
 * Agalloch
 * Agathodaimon
 * Aghora
 * Angelcorpse
 * Arch Enemy
 * Astarte
 * Autumn
 * Ayreon
 * Azaghal
 * A.C.T
 * The Berzerker
 * The Blood Divine
 * Bongzilla
 * Borknagar
 * Buckcherry
 * Carnival in Coal
 * Catamenia
 * Cave In
 * Chevelle
 * Chthonic
 * Church of Misery
 * Cipher System
 * Coheed and Cambria
 * Crazy Town
 * Dahmer
 * Darkest Hour
 * Darzamat
 * Devourment
 * Diablo
 * Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
 * Dimension Zero
 * Disembodied
 * Dog Fashion Disco
 * Dry Kill Logic
 * Ensiferum
 * Entwine
 * Evergrey
 * Evanescence
 * Forest Stream
 * The Fucking Champs
 * Godsmack
 * Greenmachine
 * Grinspoon
 * GZR
 * Handsome
 * Hate Forest
 * I Shalt Become
 * Impaled
 * In Extremo
 * Iron Fire
 * Kraljevski Apartman
 * Krieg
 * Macbeth
 * Månegarm
 * Melechesh
 * Metalucifer
 * Moonsorrow
 * Morning Again
 * Motograter
 * Nickelback
 * Night in Gales
 * Nortt
 * One Minute Silence
 * Orange Goblin
 * Otyg
 * Reverend Bizarre
 * Secrets of the Moon
 * Shadows Fall
 * Shai Hulud
 * Silencer
 * Silent Stream of Godless Elegy
 * Silentium
 * Skyfire
 * Skyforger
 * Slipknot
 * Snot
 * Soilwork
 * Solefald
 * Sólstafir
 * Sonata Arctica
 * Staind
 * Ten
 * Thy Serpent
 * Thyrfing
 * Tristania
 * Triumphator
 * Tuatha de Danann
 * Vanishing Point
 * Virgin Black
 * Will Haven
 * Wolf
 * Wolverine
 * Xasthur

Albums

 * 24-7 Spyz – Temporarily Disconnected
 * AC/DC – Ballbreaker
 * Alice Cooper – Classicks
 * Alice in Chains – Alice in Chains
 * Amorphis - Black Winter Day (EP)
 * Anathema – The Silent Enigma
 * Anathema - Pentecost III (EP)
 * Anal Cunt -Top 40 Hits
 * Anthrax – Stomp 442
 * At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul
 * Ayreon – The Final Experiment
 * Bad Brains – God of Love
 * Bal-Sagoth – A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria
 * Behemoth – Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
 * Belphegor – The Last Supper
 * Benediction - The Dreams You Dread
 * Beowülf – 2 Cents
 * Bestial Warlust - Blood & Valour
 * Black Sabbath – Cross Purposes Live (live box set)
 * Black Sabbath – Forbidden
 * Blind Guardian – Imaginations from the Other Side
 * Bruce Dickinson – Alive in Studio A (live)
 * Brujería - Raza Odiada
 * Cancer - Black Faith
 * Carcass – Swansong
 * Cathedral – The Carnival Bizarre
 * Clawfinger – Use Your Brain
 * Comecon - Fable Frolic
 * Craig Goldy - Better Late Than Never
 * Crematory – Illusions
 * Crowbar – Time Heals Nothing
 * The Crown - The Burning (as Crown of Thorns)
 * Cruachan – Tuatha na Gael
 * D-A-D – Good Clean Family Entertainment You Can Trust
 * Damaged - Passive Backseat Demon Engines (EP)
 * Dangerous Toys – The Rtist 4merly Known As Dangerous Toys
 * Dark Avenger – Dark Avenger
 * Dark Tranquillity – The Gallery
 * Darkthrone – Panzerfaust
 * Dawn - Nær Solen Gar Niþer For Evogher 
 * Death – Symbolic
 * Deceased - The Blueprints for Madness
 * Def Leppard – Vault Greatest Hits 1980–1995 (compilation)
 * Deftones – Adrenaline
 * Deeds Of Flesh - Gradually Melted (EP)
 * Deicide – Once upon the Cross
 * Deliverance – Camelot in Smithereens
 * Dimmu Borgir – For all tid
 * Dismember – Massive Killing Capacity
 * Dismember – Casket Garden (EP)
 * Dissection – Storm of the Light's Bane
 * Dokken – Dysfunctional
 * Down – NOLA
 * Dream Theater – A Change of Seasons (EP)
 * Earth Crisis – Destroy the Machines
 * Edguy – Savage Poetry
 * Excel – Seeking Refuge
 * Extreme – Waiting for the Punchline
 * FireHouse – 3 (FireHouse album)
 * Faith No More – King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
 * Fear Factory – Demanufacture
 * Fight – A Small Deadly Space
 * Flotsam and Jetsam – Drift
 * Forced Entry – The Shore (EP)
 * Fu Manchu – Daredevil
 * Funeral – Tragedies
 * Gamma Ray – Land of the Free
 * The Gathering - Mandylion
 * Ghostorm - Frozen in Fire
 * Grave Digger -  Heart of Darkness
 * Grip Inc. – The Power of Inner Strength
 * Gwar – Ragnarök
 * Helmet – Born Annoying
 * Helstar – Multiples of Black
 * Iced Earth – Burnt Offerings
 * Illdisposed - Submit
 * Immortal – Battles in the North
 * In Flames – Subterranean (EP)
 * Incubus – Fungus Amongus
 * Integrity – Systems Overload
 * Iron Maiden – The X Factor
 * Joe Satriani – Joe Satriani
 * Kamelot – Eternity
 * Kataklysm - Sorcery
 * Katatonia - For Funerals to Come... (EP)
 * Kix – Show Business
 * King Diamond – The Spider's Lullabye
 * Konkhra – Spit or Swallow
 * Krabathor - Lies
 * Krabathor - The Rise of Brutality (EP)
 * Kreator – Cause for Conflict
 * Krisiun – Black Force Domain
 * Kyuss – ...And the Circus Leaves Town
 * Lacrimosa – Inferno
 * Lord Belial – Kiss the Goat
 * Love/Hate – Im Not Happy
 * Mad Season – Above
 * Malevolent Creation – Eternal
 * Marilyn Manson – Smells Like Children (EP)
 * Megadeth – Hidden Treasures (EP)
 * Meshuggah – Destroy Erase Improve
 * Metal Massacre - Metal Massacre XII (Compilation, various artists)
 * Mindrot - Dawning
 * Mindrot - Forlorn (EP)
 * Monster Magnet – Dopes to Infinity
 * Moonspell – Wolfheart
 * Morbid Angel – Domination
 * Morgana Lefay – Sanctified
 * Mortician - House by the Cemetery (EP)
 * Mortification - Primitive Rhythm Machine
 * Motörhead – Sacrifice
 * Mr. Bungle – Disco Volante
 * My Dying Bride – The Angel and the Dark River
 * Naglfar - Vittra
 * Necrophagist – Necrophagist (demo)
 * Nembrionic - Psycho One Hundred
 * Nevermore – Nevermore
 * Night in Gales - Sylphlike (EP)
 * Nightfall – Athenian Echoes
 * Ningen Isu – Odoru Issunboushi
 * Nothingface – Nothingface
 * Novembers Doom - Amid Its Hallowed Mirth
 * On Thorns I Lay - Sounds of Beautiful Experience
 * Oomph! – Defekt
 * Opeth – Orchid
 * Orphanage - Oblivion
 * Ozzy Osbourne – Ozzmosis
 * Paradise Lost – Draconian Times
 * Pessimist - Absence of Light (EP)
 * Powerman 5000 – The Blood-Splat Rating System
 * Primus - Tales from the Punchbowl
 * Quiet Riot – Down to the Bone
 * Rage – Black in Mind
 * Rainbow – Stranger in Us All
 * Rammstein – Herzeleid
 * RAMP - Intersection
 * Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute
 * Roxx Gang – The Voodoo You Love
 * Running Wild – Masquerade
 * Saint Vitus – Die Healing
 * Samael - Rebellion (EP)
 * Savatage – Dead Winter Dead
 * Savatage – Japan Live '94 (live)
 * Savatage – Ghost in the Ruins – A Tribute to Criss Oliva (live)
 * Saxon – Dogs of War
 * Sentenced – Amok
 * Sentenced – Love & Death (EP)
 * Septicflesh – Esoptron
 * Sinister - Hate
 * Six Feet Under - Haunted
 * Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet
 * Skid Row – Subhuman Race
 * Skyclad – The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea
 * Slash's Snakepit – It's Five O'Clock Somewhere (album)
 * Slaughter – Fear No Evil
 * Sodom – Masquerade in Blood
 * Strapping Young Lad – Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
 * Stratovarius – Fourth Dimension
 * Stuck Mojo – Snappin' Necks
 * Suffocation - Pierced from Within
 * Sugar Ray – Lemonade and Brownies
 * Summoning – Lugburz
 * Summoning – Minas Morgul
 * Symphony X – The Damnation Game
 * Tad Morose – Sender of Thoughts
 * Tankard – The Tankard
 * Theatre of Tragedy – Theatre of Tragedy
 * Therapy? – Infernal Love
 * Therion - Lepaca Kliffoth
 * The 3rd and the Mortal – Nightswan (EP)
 * Tony MacAlpine – Evolution
 * Trouble – Plastic Green Head
 * Tuff – Religious Fix
 * Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil
 * Uncle Slam – When God Dies
 * Unleashed – Victory
 * Uriah Heep - Sea of Light
 * Steve Vai – Alien Love Secrets (EP)
 * Vader – De Profundis
 * Van Halen – Balance
 * Vince Neil – Carved in Stone
 * Virgin Black – Virgin Black (demo)
 * Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part I
 * Vital Remains – Into Cold Darkness
 * Voivod – Negatron
 * W.A.S.P. – Still Not Black Enough
 * Warrant – Ultraphobic
 * Warrior Soul – The Space Age Playboys
 * White Zombie – Astro-Creep: 2000
 * Y&T – Musically Incorrect
 * Yngwie Malmsteen – Magnum Opus

Disbandments

 * Accept
 * Beowülf
 * Child's Play
 * The Cult
 * Excel
 * Kyuss (in October)
 * Living Colour
 * Pungent Stench
 * Saint Vitus
 * Suicidal Tendencies
 * Uncle Slam

Events

 * Motörhead's guitarist Michael "Würzel" Burston leaves the band.
 * Ingo Schwichtenberg of Helloween dies.
 * Necrophagist's guitarist Jan-Paul Herm and drummer Raphael Kempermann leave the band. Kempermann is replaced by Daniel Silva.
 * S.O.B.'s vocalist Tottsuan commits suicide by jumping onto railroad tracks.
 * Ralf Scheepers leaving Gamma Ray year earlier, Kai Hansen goes on lead vocals. First time since his 1985 debut album Walls of Jericho.
 * Matt Holt joins Nothingface, replacing David Gabbard as singer.