Pantera released their seventh studio album, titled Far Beyond Driven , on March 22, 1994; it debuted at number one in both United States and Australian album charts.
In February and March 1994, Motörhead toured the United States with Black Sabbath and Morbid Angel . In April the band resumed their tour of the States until early May, playing an engagement with the Ramones on 14 May at the Estadio Velez in Buenos Aires, attracting a crowd of…
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Under pressure from their record label, the band released their seventeenth studio album, Cross Purposes , on 8 February 1994, under the Black Sabbath name.
Touring in support of Cross Purposes began in February with Morbid Angel and Motörhead in the US
Columbia Records released Alice in Chains’ second acoustic-based EP, Jar of Flies , on January 25, 1994. Written and recorded in one week, Jar of Flies debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first EP—and first Alice in Chains release—to top the charts.
Hide , who released his first solo album Hide Your Face in 1994,
Starr left the band after the release of Dirt . Staley told Rolling Stone in 1994 about Starr leaving the band, “It was just a difference in priorities. We wanted to continue intense touring and press. Mike was ready to go home.” Years later, Starr claimed that he was fired…
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stayed on for a European summer tour in 1994.
and received a Grammy nomination in 1994.
In 1994, after only one live show at the Roxy and one jam session recording, Hakopyan and Laranio left the band.