1989 in heavy metal music
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1989. Newly formed bands Abhorrence Abruptum Absu Alleycat Scratch Anonymus Archgoat ASAP Baby Animals Bad Acid Trip Bal-Sagoth Beherit Benediction Bonham Brainstorm Brujeria Bruce Dickinson's solo career starts (though he remains with Iron Maiden until 1993). Cathedral Cemetary Ceremonial Oath Clawfinger Conception Consolation Count Raven Cry of Love Cyclone Temple Damaged Damn Yankees Dark Tranquillity (as Septic Broiler) Dead Head Def Con Dos Demoncy Desultory Detritus diSEMBOWELMENT Dissection Doro (begins solo career) Downset. Dungeon Earth Earth Crisis Edge of Sanity Electric Angels Enchant Eucharist Exit-13 Falkenbach Fear Factory FireHouse The Four Horsemen Galactic Cowboys Gamma Ray The Gathering General Surgery Golem Gore Beyond Necropsy Gorefest Gorguts Gruntruck Haggard Helmet Hum Human Remains Incantation Infectious Grooves Iniquity Isengard JBO Killing Addiction Konkhra Kreyson Last Days of Humanity Life of Agony Living Sacrifice Lynch Mob Marilyn Manson Mindrot Misanthrope Monster Magnet Moonblood Morgana Lefay Mortician Motorpsycho My Sister's Machine Necromantia Necrophobic Nightstalker Novembers Doom Obscenity Obtained Enslavement Only Living Witness Oomph! Opeth Ophthalamia Pitch Shifter Platero y Tú Red Harvest Reverend Ringworm Riverdogs Rorschach Royal Hunt Sacrament Saviour Machine Scatterbrain The Scream Seigmen Sentenced Sex Machineguns Sigh The 69