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Overview of the events of 1996 in heavy metal music
This is a timeline documenting the events of
heavy metal music in the year 1996.
Newly formed bands
Albums
Disbandments
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 .
References
Preceded by
Heavy Metal Timeline 1996
Succeeded by