1984 76 dated entries
Genres held to have emerged
- Crossover thrash rock
- Crust punk rock
- Epic doom metal
- Funk rock rock
- Neoclassical metal metal
- Power metal metal
- Teutonic thrash metal
A genre's date is an approximation historians argue about, unlike the events above it — the same distinction the timeline draws.
Bands formed
- Agent Steel
- Atheist
- Blasphemy
- Blind Guardian
- Candlemass
- Death
- Fields of the Nephilim
- Helloween
- Mayhem
- Sepultura
- Soundgarden
- Stratovarius
- The Offspring
Bands that ended
Scenes that ended
- 1984 NWOBHM United Kingdom · 1979–1984