Funk Metal Events

1984 Aug 10 Red Hot Chili Peppers release self-titled first album
The Red Hot Chili Peppers is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 10, 1984 on EMI. The album was produced by Gang of Four gui...
1985 Aug 16 Red Hot Chili Peppers release Freaky Styley
Freaky Styley is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 16, 1985 on EMI. The album is the first to feature original guitarist ...
1987 Sep 29 Red Hot Chili Peppers release The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
The Uplift Mofo Party Plan is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on September 29, 1987 on EMI. It is the only studio album to feature...
1988 May 3 Living Colour release Vivid
Vivid is Living Colour's debut album, which was released on May 3, 1988. The band was discovered by Mick Jagger while playing a show at punk club CBGB's in 1987. The fact that Living Colo...
1989 Jun 20 Faith No More release The Real Thing
The Real Thing is the third studio album by the American rock band Faith No More. It was first released through Slash Records on June 20, 1989. It was the first release by the band not to...
1989 Aug 29 Red Hot Chili Peppers release Mother's Milk
Mother's Milk is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 29, 1989 on EMI. After the death of guitarist Hillel Slovak and subseq...
1989 Nov Primus releases Suck on This
Suck on This is a live album by the band Primus, released in 1989. At the time of recording, the featured lineup of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde and drummer Tim ...
1990 Feb Primus releases Frizzle Fry
Frizzle Fry is the first studio album recorded by the band Primus. Suck on This, a live album, preceded its release. Released in 1990 on Caroline Records, it features the band's first ...
1990 Jul 3 Suicidal Tendencies release Lights...Camera...Revolution!
Lights...Camera...Revolution! is an album by Suicidal Tendencies, which was released in 1990. It is their fourth proper studio album as their previous release, Controlled By Hatred/Feel L...
1990 Aug 7 Extreme releases Pornograffitti
Extreme II. Pornograffitti (A Funked Up Fairy Tale) is the second album released by the Boston rock band Extreme. The title is a portmanteau of pornography and graffiti. The album sold...
1990 Aug 20 Living Colour release Time's Up
Time's Up is the second album by Living Colour, released on August 20, 1990. It was the follow-up to the successful Vivid. The album features a wide range of genres and also includes came...
1991 May 14 Primus releases Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Sailing the Seas of Cheese is the second studio album and major-label debut by Primus, released on May 14, 1991. It spawned three singles: "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver", "Tommy the Cat", ...
1991 Jul 16 Living Colour release Biscuits
Biscuits was an EP of live and unreleased cuts by Living Colour, released on July 16, 1991. The Sony Music Japan edition of this disc had nine extra tracks not available on the internatio...
1991 Aug 13 Mr. Bungle release their self-titled debut album
Mr. Bungle is the 1991 self-titled album by Mr. Bungle. The album contains many genre shifts which are typical of the band, and helped increase the band's popularity, gaining them a reaso...
1991 Sep 24 Red Hot Chili Peppers release Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Blood Sugar Sex Magik is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on September 24, 1991. Produced by Rick Rubin, it was the band's first re...
1992 Mar 12 Primus releases Miscellaneous Debris
Miscellaneous Debris is an EP of five cover songs by Primus, released on March 12, 1992. The entire EP features bassist Les Claypool with his then-new fretless six-string Carl Thompson ba...
1992 Jun 8 Faith No More release Angel Dust
Angel Dust is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Faith No More. It was first released through Slash Records on June 8, 1992 in Europe and the United States. It is the follo...
1992 Jun 30 Suicidal Tendencies release The Art of Rebellion
The Art of Rebellion is the fifth full-length album by Suicidal Tendencies. It was released in 1992 on the Sony Music label. It is widely considered to be Suicidal's "experimental" alb...
1992 Sep 22 Extreme releases III Sides to Every Story
III Sides To Every Story was the third album by the Boston funk-metal band Extreme, released in 1992. Their most ambitious work, it is structured as a concept album in three sections l...
1993 Mar 2 Living Colour release Stain
Stain is the third album by Living Colour. It was released on March 2, 1993, by Epic Records. It is the first album to feature bassist Doug Wimbish. Stain features a much heavier and aggr...
1993 Apr 20 Primus releases Pork Soda
Pork Soda is the third studio album by alternative rock band Primus, released April 20, 1993. Pork Soda was certified Gold in September 1993 and certified Platinum in May 1997.
1993 Jun 15 Suicidal Tendencies release Still Cyco After All These Years
Still Cyco After All These Years is a 1993 compilation album by Suicidal Tendencies. It is a re-recording of the band's 1983 debut album, Suicidal Tendencies and also contains 3 additiona...
1994 Jun 14 Suicidal Tendencies release Suicidal for Life
Suicidal for Life is an album by Suicidal Tendencies, which was released in 1994. It is their sixth proper studio release as Still Cyco After All These Years is a re-recording of the band...
1995 Feb 7 Extreme releases Waiting for the Punchline
Waiting for the Punchline is Extreme's fourth album, which was released in 1995. It was labeled as a "grunge" album, but despite stripped down production and frontman Gary Cherone's gruff...
1995 May 23 Primus releases Tales from the Punchbowl
Tales from the Punchbowl is the fourth studio album by Primus, released on May 23, 1995. It is the band's last album with Tim Alexander before he rejoined Primus seven years later. Punchb...
1995 Sep 12 Red Hot Chili Peppers release One Hot Minute
Dave Navarro first appeared with the band at Woodstock '94, where they wore enormous light bulb costumes attached precariously to chrome metallic suits, making it near-impossible for them...
1995 Nov 14 Living Colour release Pride
Pride is Living Colour's 1995 greatest hits album. It contains four rare tracks recorded for the follow-up of their third album Stain. However, this collection is now out of print. Proble...
1997 Jul 8 Primus releases Brown Album
Brown Album is the fifth studio album by alternative rock band Primus. It was released on July 8, 1997. It was the first Primus release to not feature drummer Tim Alexander; as such, this...
1998 Aug 11 Primus releases Rhinoplasty
Rhinoplasty is an extended play record by Primus. It was released on August 11, 1998 by Interscope Records. It features covers of songs by artists such as XTC, Stanley Clarke, The Police,...
1999 Jun 8 Red Hot Chili Peppers release "Californication"
Californication is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on June 8, 1999 on Warner Bros. Records. Produced by Rick Rubin, Californicat...
1999 Oct 19 Primus releases Antipop
Antipop is the sixth studio album by alternative rock band Primus, released on October 19, 1999 before their hiatus in 2000-2003. It is also the last album with drummer Bryan Mantia.
2002 Jul 9 Red Hot Chili Peppers release By the Way
By the Way is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on July 9, 2002, on Warner Bros. Records. It sold over 282,000 copies in the first ...
2003 Oct 7 Living Colour release Collideøscope
Collideøscope is the fourth album by Living Colour. Released in 2003, it is the first studio album by the band in more than a decade. After they split in 1995, Living Colour returned in t...
2003 Oct 7 Primus releases Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People
Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People is a career-spanning retrospective DVD plus bonus EP by Primus, released on October 7, 2003. The title was inspired by a crayon-made story book w...
2006 May 5 Red Hot Chili Peppers release Stadium Arcadium
Stadium Arcadium is the ninth studio album by alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on May 5, 2006, on Warner Bros. Records in Europe and May 9 in the United States. It so...
2008 Aug 12 Extreme releases Saudades de Rock
Saudades de Rock (which roughly translates from Portuguese as "Nostalgic Yearnings of Rock") is Extreme's fifth studio album, released on August 12, 2008. It was the band's first album of...
2009 Sep 15 Living Colour release The Chair in the Doorway
The Chair in the Doorway is the fifth studio album by Living Colour, which was released on September 15, 2009. It is their first studio album since the release of Collideøscope in 2003, a...
2011 Aug 26
to 2011 Aug 30
 Red Hot Chili Peppers release I'm with You
I'm with You is the tenth studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers. The album was released by Warner Bros. Records on August 26, 2011 in several countries and on August 29 in the US, a day e...
2011 Sep 12
to 2011 Sep 13
 Primus releases Green Naugahyde
Green Naugahyde is the seventh studio album by alternative rock group Primus, released by ATO Records and Prawn Song on September 12, 2011 in Europe, and on September 13, 2011 in the Unit...