1981 62 dated entries
What happened
- — Minor Threat invent straight edge A subculture founded in forty-six seconds.
Genres held to have emerged
- Coldwave / minimal wave rock
- First wave metal
- Glam metal metal
- Neo-prog rock
- Speed 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
Bands that ended
Scenes that began
- 1981 Bay Area thrash San Francisco · 1981–1991
- 1981 Sunset Strip Los Angeles · 1981–1991