1986 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1986.
[edit] Newly formed bands
[edit] Albums
- AC/DC - Who Made Who
- Alice Cooper - Constrictor
- Black Sabbath - Seventh Star
- Cinderella - Night Songs
- Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
- Destruction - Eternal Devastation
- Dio - Intermission
- Europe - The Final Countdown
- Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
- Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
- Judas Priest - Turbo
- Keel - The Final Frontier
- Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
- Krokus - Change Of Address
- Lizzy Borden Murderous Metal Live Roadshow
- Lizzy Borden - Menace To Society
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Trilogy
- Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
- Metal Church - The Dark
- Metallica - Master of Puppets
- Motörhead - Orgasmatron
- Nuclear Assault - Game Over
- Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin
- Poison - Look What the Cat Dragged In
- Quiet Riot - QR III
- Ratt - Dancing Undercover
- Savatage - Fight for the Rock
- Sepultura - Morbid Visions
- Slayer - Reign in Blood
- Stryper - The Yellow and Black Attack (Reissue), To Hell with the Devil
- Tesla - Mechanical Resonance
- Van Halen - 5150
- Warlock - True As Steel
- W.A.S.P. - Inside the Electric Circus
[edit] Events
- Metallica's bassist Cliff Burton dies at 25 on September 27 in a bus accident in Sweden. Jason Newsted from Phoenix band Flotsam and Jetsam is hired after auditions are held.
- Metal Hammer Magazine is first published.
| Preceded by: 1985 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 1986 |
Followed by: 1987 |
