1991 116 dated entries
What happened
- — My Bloody Valentine nearly bankrupt their label Two years and an enormous budget spent on one record.
- — Nevermind ends the Sunset Strip Nirvana sign to a major and the industry changes within six months.
- — The circle forms around Helvete in Oslo A record shop becomes the centre of black metal's second wave.
Genres held to have emerged
- Brutal death metal metal
- Desert rock rock
- Funeral doom metal
- Gothic metal metal
- Post-rock rock
- Rap metal metal
- Screamo rock
- Second wave metal
- Stoner doom metal
- Technical death metal metal
A genre's date is an approximation historians argue about, unlike the events above it — the same distinction the timeline draws.
Bands formed
- Acid Bath
- Angra
- Behemoth
- Burzum
- Cradle of Filth
- Don Caballero
- Dying Fetus
- Emperor
- Enslaved
- Immortal
- Internal Bleeding
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
- Kamelot
- Katatonia
- Machine Head
- Man Is the Bastard
- Mütiilation
- Oasis
- Orphaned Land
- Radiohead
- Rage Against the Machine
- Rancid
- Skepticism
- While Heaven Wept
Bands that ended
Scenes that began
- 1991 Helvete, Oslo Oslo · 1991–1994
Scenes that ended
- 1991 Bay Area thrash San Francisco · 1981–1991
- 1991 Sunset Strip Los Angeles · 1981–1991
- 1991 Washington DC hardcore Washington DC · 1980–1991