1983_in_metal

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1983.

Newly formed bands

• Bathory
• Bon Jovi
• Death
• Excel (known as Chaotic Noise until 1985)
• Fates Warning
• Helloween
• Living Colour
• Mayhem
• Megadeth
• Morbid Angel
• Metal Church
• Possessed
• Testament (known as Legacy until 1986)
• Savatage
• Stryper

Albums

• AC/DC - Flick of the Switch
• Accept - Balls to the Wall
• Alice Cooper - DaDa
• Alcatrazz - No Parole From Rock N\' Roll
• Black Sabbath - Born Again
• Def Leppard - Pyromania
• Dio - Holy Diver
• Dokken - Breaking the Chains
• Europe - Europe
• Fastway - Fastway
• Hanoi Rocks - Back to Mystery City
• Helix - No Rest For The Wicked
• Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
• KISS - Lick It Up
• Krokus - Headhunter
• Manowar - Into Glory Ride
• Mercyful Fate - Melissa
• Metallica - Kill \'Em All
• Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil
• Motörhead - Another Perfect Day
• Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon
• Pantera - Metal Magic
• Phoenix Rising - Phoenix Rising
• Queensrÿche - Queensrÿche
• Quiet Riot - Metal Health
• Ratt - Ratt (EP)
• Savatage - Sirens
• Slayer - Show No Mercy
• Steeler - Steeler
• Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
• Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
• Twisted Sister - You Can\'t Stop Rock \'N\' Roll
• Y&T - Mean Streak

Events

• At the end of the year, drummer Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor and guitarist Brian Robertson leave Motörhead. The band is reborn with a new, four-piece line-up (Lemmy/Phil Campbell/Würzel/Pete Gill).
• Yngwie Malmsteen got his start this year in the band Steeler. Also in that band was (Future Keel vocalist) Ron Keel & Former W.A.S.P. bassist Rik Fox. The band had only one album, Steeler.
• Dave Mustaine, lead guitarist for Metallica, is fired for drug/alcohol abuse, and is replaced by Exodus guitarist Kirk Hammett, after which he formed the L.A. Thrash band Megadeth
• Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil Becomes a huge hit marking one of the turning points into commercialization of Heavy Metal. Helping make the L.A. Glam Metal scene even bigger.
• KISS put away their makeup.
• On November 19, 1983 Quiet Riot\'s Cum on Feel the Noize Becomes the first ever top 5 hit in Heavy Metal history.
• November 26, 1983 Cum on Feel the Noize is #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for a second week. This week, Quiet Riot\'s Metal Health Album Also Tops The chart. The first time a metal band had a top 10 hit song & a #1 album the same week. Metal health also sells over 6 Million copies. Other bands such as Def Leppard, & Albums like Shout at the Devil by Mötley Crüe are Sometimes falsely considered the "breakthru". However it wasn\'t Until Quiet Riot had their success that the Metal scene really started.
• Black Sabbath Vocalist Ronnie James Dio and drummer Vinny Appice left the band to form Dio and were replaced by ex-Deep Purple Singer Ian Gillan and former Sabbath Drummer Bill Ward

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