1968 in heavy metal music

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List of years in heavy metal music
(table)

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1968.

Contents

Bands formed

Bands disbanded

Songs

Albums

January

DayArtistAlbum
16 Blue Cheer Vincebus Eruptum
22 Iron Butterfly Heavy
29 Steppenwolf Steppenwolf
30 The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat

February

DayArtistAlbum
Vanilla Fudge The Beat Goes On

June

DayArtistAlbum
14 Cream Wheels of Fire
Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Vanilla Fudge Renaissance
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

July

DayArtistAlbum
17 Deep Purple Shades of Deep Purple
29 The Jeff Beck Group Truth

August

DayArtistAlbum
Blue Cheer Outsideinside

October

DayArtistAlbum
16 Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland
Deep Purple The Book of Taliesyn
Steppenwolf The Second

November

DayArtistAlbum
22 The Kinks The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

December

DayArtistAlbum
20 Pretty Things S.F. Sorrow

References

  1. ↑ Barnet & Burriss 2001, p. 87 "It was not so much the music as it was his over-the-top theatrical stage show that made him instantly infamous. Thus, Alice Cooper started what many pop music historians believe was the first true prototype for heavy metal."
  2. 1 2 3 Walser 1993, p. 10 "The sound that would become known as heavy metal was definitely codified in 1970 with the release of Led Zeppelin II, Black Sabbath's Paranoid, and Deep Purple In Rock."
  3. ↑ Hoffmann & Ferstler 2005, p. 454 "A populist blend of heavy metal and updated blues boogie, Grand Funk Railroad provided a model for rock band successes in the 1970s."
  4. ↑ Frith & Goodwin 1990, p. 85 "The lack of intermediary strata between heavy metal audiences and groups was further determined by another characteristic of the music. Most of the groups that were predominant - Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Humble Pie, Deep Purple, and so on - were British."
  5. 1 2 Walser 1993, p. 10 "A "second generation of heavy metal," the first to claim the name unambiguously, was also active throughout the 1970s: KISS, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Judas Priest, Ted Nugent, Rush, Motorhead, Rainbow, Blue Öyster Cult. Scorpions, from Germany, became the first heavy metal band from a non-English speaking country to achieve international success."
  6. ↑ Everett 2008, p. 267 "Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" may prove more influential to the post-'60s future of heavy metal than the more often-cited Led Zeppelin in the nonfunctional and nondiatonic basis of its chord relationships."
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