1989 in metal.html



This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1989.

Newly formed bands

• 122 Stab Wounds
• Aggressor
• Abhorrence
• Abruptum
• Bal-Sagoth
• Beherit
• Benediction
• Brujeria
• Mägo de Oz
• Bruce Dickinson's solo career starts (though he remains with Iron Maiden until 1993).
• Cathedral
• Comecon
• Consolation
• Dark Tranquillity
• Dissection
• diSEMBOWELMENT
• Dungeon
• Edge Of Sanity
• Falkenbach
• The Gathering
• Gorefest
• Gorguts
• Immortal
• Incantation
• Iniquity
• Insanity Reigns Supreme
• Isengard
• Living Sacrifice
• Marilyn Manson
• Mortician
• Necromantia
• Necrophobic
• Aggressor
• Novembers Doom
• Ophthalamia
• Polluted Inheritance
• Pitch Shifter
• Reverend
• Saviour Machine
• Sentenced
• Sigh
• Slaughter
• Tourniquet
• Thorns
• Thought Industry
• Unanimated
• Unleashed
• Vital Remains
• Vomitory
• Von
• While Heaven Wept
• Wizard

Albums

• 24-7 Spyz - Harder Than You
• Acid Reign - The Fear
• Accept - Eat the Heat
• Addictive - Pity of Man
• Aerosmith - Pump
• Alice Cooper - Prince Of Darkness, Trash
• Annihilator - Alice in Hell
• Atheist - Piece of Time
• Atrocity - Blue Blood (Single)
• Autopsy - Severed Survival
• Bang Tango - Psycho Cafe
• Blue Murder - Blue Murder
• Believer - Extraction from Mortality
• Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
• Blind Guardian - Follow the Blind
• Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos - Slaves To Darkness
• Candlemass - Tales of Creation
• Cannibal Corpse - Cannibal Corpse (5-song demo cassette)
• Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
• Coroner - No More Color
• The Cult - Sonic Temple
• Cynic - Reflections of a Dying World (demo)
• Dark Angel - Leave Scars
• Deliverance - Deliverance
• Destruction - Live Without Sense
• Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
• D.R.I. - Thrash Zone
• Entombed - But Life Goes On (demo)
• Equinox - Auf Wiedersehen
• Evildead - Annihilation of Civilization
• Excel - The Joke's on You
• Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
• Extreme - Extreme
• Faith No More - The Real Thing
• Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
• Forbidden - Raw Evil: Live At The Dynamo
• Forced Entry - Uncertain Future
• Funebre - Cranial Torment (demo)
• Grave - Anatomia Corporis Humani (demo)
• Great White - ...Twice Shy
• Helix - Over 60 minutes with...
• Helstar - Nosferatu
• Hermética - Hermética
• Holy Moses - The New Machine of Lichtenstein
• Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream
• Keel - Larger Than Live
• King Diamond - Conspiracy
• KISS - Hot in the Shade
• Kreator - Extreme Aggression
• Korzus - Pay For Your Lies
• Lääz Rockit - Annihilation Principle
• Leatherwolf - Street Ready
• Living Death - Worlds Neuroses
• Lizzy Borden - "Master of Disquise"
• Lobotomia - Nada É Como Parece
• Macabre - Gloom
• Massacra - Nearer from Death (demo)
• Mekong Delta - The Principle of Doubt
• Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise
• Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
• Morgoth - Resurrection Absurd
• Mortal Sin - Face of Despair
• Mortem - Slow Death
• Mr. Big - Mr. Big
• Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood
• Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
• Nitro - "O.F.R."
• Nuclear Assault - Handle with Care
• Obituary - Slowly We Rot
• Onslaught - In Search of Sanity
• Overkill - The Years of Decay
• Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
• Phantom Blue - Phantom Blue
• Primus - Suck on This (live)
• Rage - Secrets in a Weird World
• Reverend - Reverend
• Rotting Christ - The Other Side of Life (split EP with Sound Pollution)
• Rigor Mortis - Freaks
• Running Wild - Death or Glory
• Rush - Presto
• Sabbat - Dreamweaver (Reflections of Our Yesterdays)
• Sacred Reich - Alive at the Dynamo
• Saint Vitus - V
• Sarcófago - Rotting
• Savatage - Gutter Ballet
• Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
• Skid Row - Skid Row
• Sodom - Agent Orange
• Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
• Stone - No Anaesthesia!
• Stratovarius - Fright Night
• Suicidal Tendencies - Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu
• Tankard - Hair of the Dog (compilation)
• Terrorizer - World Downfall
• Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy
• Testament - Practice What You Preach
• Thanatos - Omnicoitor (demo)
• Toxik - Think This
• Unseen Terror - The Peel Sessions
• Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice
• Viper - Theatre of Fate
• Voivod - Nothingface
• W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children
• Watchtower - Control and Resistance
• Wehrmacht - Biermacht
• White Lion - Big Game
• Whitesnake - Slip Of The Tongue
• White Zombie - Make Them Die Slowly
• Winter - Hour of Doom (demo)
• Wrathchild America - Climbin' the Walls
• Xentrix - Shattered Existence
• X Japan - Blue Blood
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Trial By Fire: Live in Leningrad

Disbandments

• Cacophony
• Dokken

Events

• Primus records their live album Suck on This at Berkeley Square in Berkeley, California on February 25 and March 5.
• Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions, Mötley Crüe, and Skid Row take part in the Moscow Music Peace Festival on August 12 & August 13, 1989.
• For the first time in its history, a Grammy is given for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance. The award is given to Jethro Tull for Crest of a Knave
• Jason Becker is diagnosed with ALS.