This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1985.
Newly formed bands
Acid Reign
Aftermath
Agathocles
Alvacast
Aria
Attitude Adjustment
Atrocity
Banshee
Blood Feast
Britny Fox
Carcass
Chakal
China
Cry Wolf
Dare
David Lee Roth
Defiance
Deliverance
Diamond Rexx
Doom
Dream Theater (under the name "Majesty") Drivin N Cryin Eternity X Executer Exhorder Extreme Extreme Noise Terror Exumer Faster Pussycat Fate Forbidden Fu Manchu Goatlord Gore Guns N' Roses Holocausto Hunter Jane's Addiction Juggernaut
King Diamond
L7
Loudblast
Love/Hate
Macabre
Meanstreak
Mekong Delta
Morgoth
Mortal Sin
Mr. Bungle
Mutilator
Neurosis
Osmi Putnik
Pentagram Chile
Poltergeist
Radiohead
Rata Blanca
Sabbat
Sacred Oath
Sacred Reich
Sadistik Exekution
Sanctuary
Sarcófago
Satanic Slaughter
Screaming Trees
Sea Hags
Shadow Gallery
Shotgun Messiah
Skin Yard
Stone
Stormtroopers of Death
Tarot (under the name "Purgatory" until record deal) Thee Hypnotics Tora Tora Tormentor Toxik Tuff Vio-lence Viper White Tiger White Zombie Whitecross Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction