1994

List of releases and events in 2011.

Newly Formed Bands

 * Abscess
 * Amen
 * Apostasy
 * Ayreon
 * Destroyer 666
 * Dodheimsgard
 * Hatebreed
 * Heavenly
 * Lacuna Coil
 * Naer Mataron
 * Neuraxis
 * Rammstein
 * Scarve
 * Six Feet Under
 * Skylark
 * Slash's Snakepit
 * Static-X
 * Strapping Young Lad
 * Symphony X
 * Vintersorg

Music Releases

 * Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
 * Alice Cooper - The Last Temptation
 * Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
 * Aggressor - Of Long Duration Anguish
 * Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes
 * Body Count - Born Dead
 * Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
 * Bruce Dickinson - Balls To Picasso
 * Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
 * Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
 * Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
 * Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
 * Crytopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
 * The Cult - The Cult
 * Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid
 * Dio - Strange Highways
 * Dream Theatre - Awake
 * Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
 * Freak Kitchen - Appetizer
 * Forbidden - Distortion
 * Gorefest - Erase
 * Helloween - Master of the Rings
 * In Flames - Lunar Strain
 * Infectious Grooves - Groove Family Cyco
 * King's X - Dogman
 * KoRn - KoRn
 * Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
 * Tony MacAlpine - Premonition
 * Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
 * Yngwie J. Malmsteen - The Seventh Sign
 * Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family
 * Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
 * Megadeth - Youthanasia
 * Motley Crue - Motley Crue
 * Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
 * Oomph! - Sperm
 * Overkill - W.F.O.
 * Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
 * Pitch Shifter - Remix War
 * Queensryche - Promised Land
 * Rotting Christ - Non Seviam
 * Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
 * Savatage - Handful of Rain
 * Slayer - Divine Intervention
 * Sodom - Get What You Deserve
 * Soundgarden - Superunknown
 * Stratovarius - Dreamspace
 * Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal for Life
 * Symphony X - Symphony X
 * Tankard - Two-Faced
 * Testament - Low
 * The 3rd and the Mortal - Sorrow
 * The 3rd and the Mortal - Tears Laid in Earth
 * Tiamat - Wildhoney
 * Various Artists - Nativity in Black

Bands Split Up

 * Atheist
 * Follow for Now
 * Highlander (Lost Horizon)
 * Metal Church
 * Nirvana

Events

 * Nirvana frontman and guitarist Kurt Cobain found dead.
 * Nicholas Barker joins Cradle of Filth.
 * Michael Mangini joins Extreme.
 * Paul Geary leaves Extreme.