1993 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1993.

Newly formed bands

• Abigor
• Ablaze My Sorrow
• Acid King
• Adorned Brood
• Aeternus
• Anata
• Apocalyptica
• Arckanum
• Artension
• Aura Noir
• Avalanch
• Bestial Warlust
• Botch
• Breach
• Burst
• Capharnaum
• Children of Bodom (as Inearthed)
• Cirith Gorgor
• Cirrha Niva
• Coal Chamber
• Dark Funeral
• Dark Moor
• Darkwoods My Betrothed
• Deeds of Flesh
• Defeated Sanity
• Demoniac
• Diabolical Masquerade
• Dimmu Borgir
• The Donnas
• Dub War
• Einherjer
• Electric Wizard
• Enthroned
• Extol
• Filter
• Forgotten Silence
• Funeral Mist
• Gehenna
• God Lives Underwater
• Grip Inc.
• HammerFall
• Hanzel und Gretyl
• Hecate Enthroned
• Horna
• Keep of Kalessin
• Korn
• Korpiklaani
• Lacrimas Profundere
• Limbonic Art
• Madder Mortem
• Manes
• Mass Hysteria
• Melechesh
• Midvinter
• Misery Loves Co.
• Mournful Congregation
• Mushroomhead
• Nagelfar
• Nazxul
• Nile
• Nocte Obducta
• Nothingface
• Old Man's Child
• Orphanage
• Panzerchrist
• Papa Roach
• Pegazus
• Pist.On
• Rhapsody of Fire
• Rotten Sound
• Sacrificium
• Sear Bliss
• Setherial
• Sheavy
• Six Feet Under
• Slash's Snakepit
• Spastic Ink
• Storm
• Strongarm
• Summoning
• Superjoint
• Taake
• Theatre of Tragedy
• Thou Art Lord
• To/Die/For
• Tsjuder
• Tulus
• Ulver
• Unholy Grave
• Ved Buens Ende
• Vlad Tepes
• Vomitorial Corpulence
• Voodoocult
• Waylander
• Zao

Reformed bands

• Atheist
• Cream- for a few shows
• Dio
• Dokken

Albums

• Accept – Objection Overruled
• Aerosmith – Get a Grip
• Alleycat Scratch – Deadboys in Trash City
• Aggressor – Procreate the Petrifactions
• Amorphis – Privilege of Evil (EP)
• Anacrusis – Screams and Whispers
• Anathema – Serenades
• Anal Cunt – Everyone Should Be Killed
• Angra – Angels Cry
• Annihilator – Set the World on Fire
• Anthrax – Sound of White Noise
• April Wine – Attitude
• Arcade – Arcade
• At the Gates – With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
• Atheist – Elements
• Bad Brains – Rise
• Believer – Dimensions
• Beherit – Drawing Down the Moon
• Benediction – Transcend the Rubicon
• Beowülf – Un-Sentimental
• Blue Murder – Nothin but Trouble
• Brujería – Matando Güeros
• Brutality – Screams of Anguish
• Brutal Truth – Perpetual Conversion (EP)
• Bulletboys – Za-Za
• Burzum – Aske (EP)
• Burzum – Det som engang var
• Cancer – The Sins of Mankind
• Cannibal Corpse – Hammer Smashed Face (EP)
• Carcass – Heartwork
• Cathedral – The Ethereal Mirror
• Cherry St. – Squeeze it Dry
• Child'ƨ Play – Long Way
• Clawfinger – Deaf Dumb Blind
• Comecon – Converging Conspiracies
• Conception – Parallel Minds
• Count Raven - High on Infinity
• Coverdale/Page – Coverdale/Page
• Craig Goldy – Insufficient Therapy
• Cro-Mags – Near Death Experience
• Crowbar – Crowbar
• Cynic – Focus
• Damaged – Do Not Spit
• Damn the Machine - Damn the Machine
• Danzig – Thrall-Demonsweatlive
• Darkthrone – Under a Funeral Moon
• Dark Tranquillity – Skydancer
• Death – Individual Thought Patterns
• Deceased – 13 Frightened Souls (EP)
• Deep Purple – The Battle Rages On
• Def Leppard – Retro Active (compilation)
• Deliverance – Learn
• Desultory – Into Eternity
• Dio – Strange Highways (Europe release)
• Disincarnate – Dreams of the Carrion Kind
• Dismember – Indecent & Obscene
• Dissection – The Somberlain
• Dream Theater – Live at the Marquee
• Earth (American band) – Earth 2 (album)
• Earthshaker – Real
• Earthshaker – Yesterday & Tomorrow
• Edge of Sanity – The Spectral Sorrows
• Entombed – Wolverine Blues
• Entombed – Hollowman (EP)
• Enuff Z'nuff – Animals with Human Intelligence
• Europe – 1982–1992 (compilation)
• Every Mothers Nightmare – Wake up Screaming
• Eyehategod – Take as Needed for Pain
• Fight – War of Words
• Fishbone – Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe
• Gamma Ray – Insanity and Genius
• The Gathering – Almost a Dance
• Genitorturers – 120 Days of Genitorture
• Gorguts – The Erosion of Sanity
• Grave – ...And Here I Die... Satisfied (EP)
• Guns N' Roses – The Spaghetti Incident?
• Helloween – Chameleon
• Hittman – Vivas Machina
• Hypocrisy – Osculum Obscenum
• Hypocrisy – Pleasure of Molestation (EP)
• Illdisposed – Four Depressive Seasons
• Immortal – Pure Holocaust
• Impaled Nazarene – Ugra Karma
• Iron Maiden – A Real Live One (Live)
• Iron Maiden – A Real Dead One (Live)
• Iron Maiden – Live at Donington (Live)
• Judas Priest – Metal Works '73–'93 (Compilation)
• Kataklysm – The Mystical Gate of Reincarnation (EP)
• Katatonia – Dance of December Souls
• Kingdom Come – Bad Image
• Kiss – Alive III (live)
• KMFDM – Angst
• Konkhra – Sexual Affective Disorder
• Krabathor – Cool Mortification
• Lacrimosa – Satura
• Life of Agony – River Runs Red
• Living Colour – Stain
• Love/Hate – Let's Rumble
• Macabre – Sinister Slaughter
• Tony MacAlpine – Madness
• Marduk – Those of the Unlight
• Malevolent Creation – Stillborn
• Duff McKagan – Believe in Me
• Melvins – Houdini
• Memento Mori - Rhymes of Lunacy
• Mercyful Fate – In the Shadows
• Metal Church – Hanging in the Balance
• Metallica – ' (live box set)
• Morbid Angel – Covenant
• Morgana Lefay – Knowing Just as I
• Morgana Lefay – The Secret Doctrine
• Morgoth – Odium
• Mortician – Mortal Massacre (EP)
• Mortification – Post Momentary Affliction
• Monster Magnet – Superjudge
• Motörhead – Bastards
• Mr Big – Bump Ahead
• My Dying Bride – Turn Loose the Swans
• My Dying Bride – The Thrash of Naked Limbs (EP)
• Necrophobic – The Nocturnal Silence
• Necrophobic – The Call (EP)
• Neurosis – Enemy of the Sun
• Ningen Isu – Rashōmon
• Nirvana – In Utero
• Nuclear Assault – Something Wicked
• Overkill – I Hear Black
• Pan.Thy.Monium – Khaooohs
• Paradise Lost – Icon
• Pearl Jam – Vs.
• Pestilence – Spheres
• Phantom Blue – Built to Perform
• Pitchshifter – Desensitized
• Pungent Stench – Dirty Rhymes & Psychotronic Beats (EP)
• Quiet Riot – Terrified
• Rage – The Missing Link
• Riot - Nightbreaker
• Robert Plant – Fate of Nations
• Rotting Christ – Thy Mighty Contract
• Rush – Counterparts
• Sacred Reich – Independent
• Satyricon – Dark Medieval Times
• Savatage – Edge of Thorns
• Scorpions – Face the Heat
• Sentenced – North from Here
• Sepultura – Chaos A.D.
• Shotgun Messiah – Violent New Breed
• Sick of It All – Live in a World Full of Hate (live)
• Sinister – Diabolical Summoning
• Sinner – Respect
• Sleep – Sleep's Holy Mountain
• Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
• Steve Vai – Sex & Religion
• Suffocation – Breeding the Spawn
• Tad – Inhaler
• Tad Morose – Leaving the Past Behind
• Talisman – Genesis
• Therapy? – Hats Off to the Insane
• Therion – '
• Threshold – Wounded Land
• Tool – Undertow
• Transmetal – Dante's Inferno
• Treponem Pal – Excess and Overdrive
• Type O Negative – Bloody Kisses
• Unanimated – In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead
• Uncle Slam – Will Work for Food
• Unleashed – Across the Open Sea
• Van Halen – ' (live)
• Vince Neil – Exposed
• Vio-lence – Nothing to Gain
• Voïvod – The Outer Limits
• Warrior Soul – Chill Pill
• Winger – Pull
• X Japan – Art of Life