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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1996.
Newly formed bands
3 Doors Down
Ajattara
Alabama Thunderpussy
Alien Ant Farm
Averse Sefira
Breed 77
Cattle Decapitation
Combatwoundedveteran
Control Denied
The Crest
Daylight Dies
Decapitated
Diabolic
Dornenreich
Drowning Pool
Ebony Tears
Fall of the Leafe
Flaw (as F.law)
Gardenian
Goatsnake
God Forbid
Gojira
The Haunted
Heaven Shall Burn
Hibria
Into Eternity
Iron Savior
Kiss It Goodbye
Kittie
Linkin Park (as Xero)
Manticora
Maudlin of the Well
MD.45
Mudvayne
Nargaroth
Narnia
Nashville Pussy
Nightwish
Nocturnal Breed
Norther
Omnium Gatherum
Orden Ogan
Pain
Penumbra
Prayer for Cleansing
Queens of the Stone Age
Racetraitor
Saliva
Samsas Traum
Sculptured
Shining
The Sins of Thy Beloved
Soulburn
Spineshank
Spirit Caravan
Stam1na
Training for Utopia
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Tvangeste
Two
Ultraspank
uneXpect
The Union Underground
Within Temptation
Yob
Albums
Disbandments
Beherit
Carnis
Damn Yankees
Down
Extreme
Prong
Sexart
Skid Row
Trouble
Events
Alice in Chains plays their last concert with Layne Staley on July 23, 1996. They later go on hiatus until April 20, 2002, in which Staley is found dead in his apartment after overdosing on a speedball.
Body Count drummer Beatmaster V dies of leukemia.
The first Ozzfest tour sets off, with headliners Ozzy Osbourne, Slayer and Danzig.
The original line-up of KISS (Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, Paul Stanley) come back together.
Bassist Greg Christian of Testament left the band, leaving guitarist Eric Peterson as the sole ever-present in the line-up.
Slash leaves Guns N' Roses, citing differences with Axl Rose
Sammy Hagar departs Van Halen after a feud with Eddie Van Halen. Van Halen briefly reunites with David Lee Roth at a highly publicized event at the MTV Video Music Awards, but fires him shortly thereafter.
Tim 'Ripper' Owens fills the void left by Rob Halford in 1993 as lead singer of Judas Priest.