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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1987.
Newly formed bands
Albums & EPs
- Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
- Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force
- Alice Cooper - Raise Your Fist and Yell
- Anthem - Bound to Break
- Anthrax - Among the Living
- Anthrax - I'm the Man (EP)
- Anvil - Strength of Steel
- Apocrypha - The Forgotten Scroll
- Armored Saint - Raising Fear
- Barón Rojo - Tierra de Nadie
- Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
- Bitch - The Bitch Is Back
- Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol
- Blood Feast - Face Fate (EP)
- Blood Feast - Kill for Pleasure
- Bloodgood - Detonation
- Bonfire - Fireworks
- Breaker (US) - Get Tough
- Burning Starr - Blaze of Glory
- Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony
- Candlemass - Nightfall
- Carnivore - Retaliation
- Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
- Paul Chain Violet Theatre - Opera 4th
- Chastain - The 7th of Never
- Chrome Molly - Stick It Out
- Commander - The High N' Mighty
- Coroner - R.I.P.
- The Cult - Electric
- Crying Steel - On the Prowl
- D.R.I. - Crossover
- Death - Scream Bloody Gore
- Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence
- Death Row (Ger) - Raging Steel
- Def Leppard - Hysteria
- Devastation - Violent Termination
- Dio - Dream Evil
- Dokken - Back for the Attack
- Earthshaker - Aftershock
- Emerald - Armed for Battle (EP)
- ESP - The Future Is Now
- Excel - Split Image
- Exodus - Pleasures of the Flesh
- EZO - EZO
- Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
- Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat
- Frehley's Comet - Frehley's Comet
- Geisha - Phantasmagoria
- Great White - Once Bitten
- Grim Reaper - Rock You to Hell
- Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
- Hades - Resisting Success
- Hammerwitch - Return to Salem (EP)
- Heathen - Breaking the Silence
- Helix - Wild in the Streets
- Hellion - Screams in the Night
- Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I
- Holy Moses - Finished with the Dogs
- Intruder - Live to Die
- Ion Britton - Eat Metal (EP)
- Judas Priest - Priest...Live! (live)
- Kane Roberts - Kane Roberts
- Keel - Keel
- Killers (Fra) - Mise aux Poings
- King Diamond - Abigail
- Kiss - Crazy Nights
- Kreator - Terrible Certainty
- Kublai Kahn - Annihilation
- Lȧȧz Rockit - Know Your Enemy
- Leatherwolf - Leatherwolf
- Liege Lord - Burn to My Touch
- Lion - Dangerous Attraction
- Lizzy Borden - Terror Rising (EP)
- Lizzy Borden - Visual Lies
- Loudness - Hurricane Eyes
- Tony MacAlpine - Maximum Security
- Mad Max - Night of Passion
- Manowar - Fighting the World
- Masi - Fire in the Rain
- McAuley Schenker Group - Perfect Timing
- Metallica - The $5.98 E.P. / $9.98 CD: Garage Days Re-Revisited (EP)
- Vinnie Moore - Mind's Eye
- Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
- Motörhead - Rock 'n' Roll
- Napalm Death - Scum
- Nasty Savage - Indulgence
- John Norum - Total Control
- Obsession - Methods of Madness
- Omen - Nightmares (EP)
- Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute (live)
- Overlorde - Overlorde (EP)
- Overkill - Taking Over
- Paganini - It's a Long Way to the Top
- Pentagram (US) - Day of Reckoning
- Possessed - The Eyes of Horror (EP)
- Pretty Maids - Future World
- Protector - Misanthropy (EP)
- Prong - Primitive Origins (EP)
- Racer X - Second Heat
- Rage - Execution Guaranteed
- Railway - Climax
- Raven - Life's a Bitch
- Rollins Band - Life Time
- Running Wild - Under Jolly Roger
- Rush - Hold Your Fire
- Sacred Child - Sacred Child
- Sacrifice - Forward to Termination
- Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
- Sanctuary - Refuge Denied
- Satanic Rites - No Use Crying
- Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
- Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
- Seikima-II - Big Time Changes
- Sepultura - Schizophrenia
- Shok Paris - Steel and Starlight
- Sinner - Dangerous Charm
- Suicidal Tendencies - Join the Army
- Joey Tafolla - Out of the Sun
- Tankard - Chemical Invasion
- Taramis - Queen of Thieves
- Testament - The Legacy
- Tigertailz - Young and Crazy
- Trouble - Run to the Light
- Twisted Sister - Love Is for Suckers
- Tygers of Pan Tang - Burning in the Shade
- Tyrant (US) - Too Late to Pray
- Tyrants Reign - Year of the Tyrants (EP)
- Tyton - Mind Over Metal
- U.D.O. - Animal House
- Vengeance (Hol) - Take It or Leave It
- Venom - Calm Before the Storm
- Vicious Rumors - Digital Dictator
- Victory - Hungry Hearts
- Voivod - Killing Technology
- Vow Wow - V
- Warlock - Triumph and Agony
- W.A.S.P. - Live...In the Raw (live)
- Whiplash - Ticket to Mayhem
- White Lion - Pride
- Whitesnake - Whitesnake
- Y&T - Contagious
- Zodiac Mindwarp - Tattooed Beat Messiah
Disbandments
- Alcatrazz (reformed in 2006)
- Sound Barrier
- Twisted Sister (reformed in 2003)
Events
- Udo Dirkshneider departs Accept citing management issues and later the same year forms U.D.O.
- Bon Jovi headlined 1987's Monsters of Rock festival with Dio, Metallica, Anthrax, W.A.S.P. and Cinderella. Dee Snider, Bruce Dickinson and Paul Stanley joined Bon Jovi to perform "We're an American Band" by Grand Funk.
- Motörhead's drummer Pete Gill leaves the band and Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor returns.
- Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls peaked at No. 2 in the Billboard charts.
- The show Headbangers Ball debuts on MTV on April 18, 1987.
- Bon Jovi's album Slippery When Wet topped the Billboard charts for eight weeks.
- In December 1987, Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx suffers a near-fatal heroin overdose.
- Bassist Louiche Mayorga leaves Suicidal Tendencies and is replaced by Bob Heathcote. At the same time, the band becomes a five piece as they hire former No Mercy guitarist Mike Clark as their rhythm guitarist.
Preceded by 1986 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 1987 |
Succeeded by 1988 |
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