This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1992.
Events
Alice in Chains release their widely popular concept album, Dirt. Motörhead's drummer Phil Taylor finally leaves after recording "Ain't No Nice Guy" for the March or Die album. The drummer on that album is Tommy Aldridge, who was replaced by Mikkey Dee after recording the album. Metallica frontman James Hetfield suffers second and third-degree burns due to a pyrotechnic accident during the Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour. Living Colour's bassist Muzz Skillings leaves and is replaced by Doug Wimbish. On April, 20, The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert is held. Top heavy metal/hard rock acts such as Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Metallica, Extreme and the heavy metal parody band Spinal Tap perform, as well as heavy metal/hard rock legends such as Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin), Roger Daltrey (The Who), and Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath). Body Count sparks nationwide controversy over the song from their self-titled debut album, "Cop Killer". Vince Neil leaves Mötley Crüe and is replaced by John Corabi Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo is replaced by Paul Bostaph. Fantoft Stave Church near Bergen, Norway is destroyed by Varg Vikernes of Burzum on June 6. Other church burnings attributed to black metal musicians also took place throughout Scandinavia.
Newly formed bands
Aborym
Alarum
Altar
Am I Blood
Ancient
The Atomic Bitchwax
Beseech
Beyond Twilight
Black Messiah
Blockheads
Bloodlet
Bloodthorn
Boris
Cage
Candiria
Callenish Circle
Carpathian Forest
Cavity
Cephalic Carnage
Charon
Cruachan
Cubanate
Darkseed
Deinonychus
Dew-Scented
Dies Irae
Disciple
Discordance Axis
Disgorge
Edguy
Embodyment
Esoteric
Evoken
Fight
Fimbulwinter
Freak Kitchen
Freak of Nature
Gates of Ishtar
Godgory
Gorgoroth
Gotthard
Grand Belial's Key
Graveworm
Harvey Milk
Helheim
Hey
In the Woods... Infernum Jimmie's Chicken Shack Judas Iscariot Jungle Rot Legion of the Damned (as Occult) Lethargy Lord Belial Lordi Malignancy Meathook Seed Memento Mori Memory Garden Moonspell Morifade Mystic Circle Mysticum Naglfar Nasum Necrophagist Nefilim Nidingr Obtest On Thorns I Lay P.O.D. Quo Vadis Rudra Sacramentum Saratoga Sirrah Skinless Sons of Otis Souls at Zero Sponge Stone Sour The 3rd and the Mortal The Chasm Tito & Tarantula Today Is the Day Trelldom Tristitia Troll Ultimatum Urgehal Vince Neil Vision of Disorder Wolfgang