The hard rock and heavy metal albums released in 1995 marked a lot of notable endings and new beginnings. It was the last year Van Halen released an album with Sammy Hagar, or that Skid Row worked ...

And so it was with metal music in 1995. 30 years on, metal music from 1995 still forms part of my listening diet; if you are a metal fan, the same may be true for you. But I come to bury 1995, not to ...