metal

1994
Pantera released their seventh studio album

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.

Motörhead In February and March 1994, Motörhead toured the United States with

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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Black Sabbath released their seventeenth studio album

Under pressure from their record label, the band released their seventeenth studio album, Cross Purposes , on 8 February 1994, under the Black Sabbath name.

Black Sabbath Touring in support

Touring in support of Cross Purposes began in February with Morbid Angel and Motörhead in the US

Finger Eleven Rock Search competition

they won the 97.7 CHTZ (Hits) HTZ FM ‘s Rock Search competition in 1994.

Metallica Woodstock ’94 performance

including a headlining performance at Woodstock ’94

Megadeth Grammy nomination in 1994

and received a Grammy nomination in 1994.

Kiss (band) certified Gold

Creatures of the Night was Kiss’s heaviest album to date, and although it fared better than Music from “The Elder” , it peaked at only No. 45 on the charts and was not certified Gold until 1994. In Frehley’s absence, Kiss utilized a number of guitarists for the recording of…
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Icon (band) In 1994, (An Even) More Perfect Union —an expanded version of A More

In 1994, (An Even) More Perfect Union —an expanded version of A More Perfect Union , including tracks recorded for potential release on Right Between the Eyes —was released on CD. In 1999, a full live concert from 1984 was released on CD and video under the name Icon –…
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Slayer On September 27, 1994, Slayer released Divine Intervention , the

On September 27, 1994, Slayer released Divine Intervention , the band’s first album with Bostaph on the drums. The album featured songs about Reinhard Heydrich , an architect of the Holocaust, and Jeffrey Dahmer , an American serial killer and sex offender. Other themes included murder, the evils of church,…
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