1982 70 dated entries
What happened
- — Venom release Black Metal An album that supplies a genre with its name a decade before the genre exists.
Genres held to have emerged
- Black metal metal
- D-beat rock
- Industrial rock rock
A genre's date is an approximation historians argue about, unlike the events above it — the same distinction the timeline draws.
Bands formed
- Big Black
- D.R.I.
- Death Angel
- Demented Are Go
- Dio
- Hellhammer
- Kreator
- Martin Dupont
- Mob 47
- Napalm Death
- Pantera
- Spacemen 3
- Suicidal Tendencies
- Swans
- Tankard
- The Pogues
- The Smiths
- Voivod
- Watchtower
Bands that ended