Rockpedia

Genres held to have emerged

• Powerviolence rock

A genre's date is an approximation historians argue about, unlike the events above it — the same distinction the timeline draws.

Bands formed

• Alice in Chains
• Autopsy
• Cynic
• Doom
• Gorilla Biscuits
• Judge
• Kyuss
• Lush
• Meshuggah
• Nirvana
• No Use for a Name
• Operation Ivy
• Primordial
• Solitude Aeturnus
• Terrorizer
• The Jesus Lizard
• Uncle Tupelo

Bands that ended

• Big Black
• Martin Dupont
• Samhain
• The Smiths

Scenes that began

• 1987 Palm Desert Palm Desert, California · 1987–1996
• 1987 Tampa Tampa, Florida · 1987–1995