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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1972.
Day | Artist | Album |
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Blue Öyster Cult | Blue Öyster Cult [1] | |
Lucifer's Friend | ...Where the Groupies Killed the Blues |
Day | Artist | Album |
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9 | Scorpions | Lonesome Crow |
10 | Flower Travellin' Band | Made in Japan |
Day | Artist | Album |
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3 | Jethro Tull | Thick as a Brick |
10 | Thin Lizzy | Shades of a Blue Orphanage |
24 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem |
30 | Deep Purple | Machine Head [2] |
Humble Pie | Smokin' |
Day | Artist | Album |
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4 | Zz top | Rio Grande Mud |
24 | Mountain | Live: The Road Goes Ever On |
28 | Wishbone Ash | Argus [3] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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19 | Uriah Heep | Demons & Wizards [4] |
31 | James Gang | Straight Shooter |
Day | Artist | Album |
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2 | Pink Floyd | Obscured by Clouds |
13 | Alice Cooper | School's Out |
16 | Golden Earring | Together |
23 | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Trilogy |
Buffalo | Dead Forever | |
Tarkus | Tarkus |
Day | Artist | Album |
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28 | Cactus | 'Ot 'n' Sweaty |
Elf | Elf |
Day | Artist | Album |
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1 | Budgie | Squawk |
8 | Yes | Close to the Edge |
15 | Grand Funk Railroad | Phoenix [5] |
Black Sabbath | Vol. 4 [6] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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24 | Hawkwind | Doremi Fasol Latido |
Bang | Mother / Bow to the King | |
Uriah Heep | The Magician's Birthday [7] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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15 | Status Quo | Piledriver |
22 | Deep Purple | Made in Japan [8] |
Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard rock music was produced by the Kinks, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Cream, Vanilla Fudge, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In the late 1960s, bands such as Blue Cheer, the Jeff Beck Group, Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, Golden Earring, Steppenwolf, Grand Funk, Free, and Deep Purple also produced hard rock.
Possessed is an American thrash metal band, originally formed in 1982 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
2 Skinnee J's is an American hip hop band from Brooklyn, New York, whose music has been categorized as nerdcore and rap rock. The band was founded in 1991 by Special J (vocals), Rabbi J-Slim (vocals), Joey Viturbo (guitar), Sammy B, DJ Casper (keyboards), and Andy Action (drums). With numerous line-up changes, the band was active through the 1990s until 2003, when they officially disbanded. The group recorded several demos, 2 EPs, and 3 studio albums; SuperMercado! on Capricorn Records, Volumizer on Volcano Records, and Sexy Karate on Dolphins vs. Unicorns. The band went through several key membership changes before its breaking up in 2003, although they briefly reunited for reunion tours in 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2012.
Symphonic metal is a cross-generic style designation for the symphonic subsets of heavy metal music subgenres. It is used to denote any metal band that makes use of symphonic or orchestral elements. The style features the heavy drums and guitars of metal with different elements of orchestral classical music, such as symphonic instruments, choirs and sometimes a full orchestra, or just keyboard orchestration.
Stuck Mojo is an American rap metal band from Atlanta, formed in 1989 by bassist Dwayne Fowler. The band is considered to be one of the pioneers of rap metal. They have toured alongside bands such as Machine Head and Slapshot. Stuck Mojo's most successful album, Rising, peaked at No. 48 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. The band disbanded in 2000, reforming five years later. In 2006, their original vocalist, Bonz, was replaced by rapper Lord Nelson. Stuck Mojo released their seventh studio album, Here Come the Infidels, via Pledge Music in 2016. In the press release, the band also announced the addition of two new members, Robby J. Fonts (vocals) and Len Sonnier (bassist). To date, they have released seven studio albums and one live album.
Necrodeath is an Italian extreme metal band from Liguria. It is one of the first extreme metal bands originating in Italy. They take inspiration from Slayer, Dark Angel, Possessed, Venom, Kreator, Celtic Frost, Bathory and Sodom. The band is also renowned for its live performances, and notably for their "wall of sound".
"Hot for Teacher" is a song by the American rock band Van Halen, taken from their sixth studio album, 1984. The song was written by band members Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth, and produced by Ted Templeman. It was released as the fourth and final single from the album in October 1984, and was the final single released during the band's 1974–1985 era.
Gothic metal is a fusion genre combining the aggression of heavy metal with the dark atmospheres of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music. The genre originated during the early 1990s in the United Kingdom originally as an outgrowth of death-doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal. Lyrics are generally dark and introspective with inspiration from gothic fiction as well as personal experiences.
"Metal Health", sometimes listed as "Metal Health (Bang Your Head)", "Bang Your Head" or, as it was listed on the Billboard Hot 100, "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)", is a song by the American heavy metal band Quiet Riot on their breakthrough album, Metal Health. One of their best known hits and receiving heavy MTV music video and radio play, "Metal Health" was the band's second and final top 40 hit, peaking at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Bang Tango is an American hard rock band. The band was formed in Los Angeles in 1988 and was signed to MCA Records the same year.
"Bang-A-Boomerang" is a song by ABBA, first released by Svenne & Lotta. The track was first recorded as a demo with English lyrics in September 1974 by the ABBA musicians for their eponymous album ABBA. The song was written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson and at one point had the working title "Stop and Listen to Your Heart". The lyrics compare the "message of love" with the returning boomerangs which the Aboriginal Australians developed.
Since the dawn of rock music in the 1950s and continuing through the 1960s, various artists pushed the boundaries of the genre to emphasize speed, aggression, volume, theatricality, and other elements that became staples of the heavy metal style. In the late 1960s, this experimentation coalesced into various rock subgenres like hard rock, acid rock, and psychedelic rock, which were all influential in the development of heavy metal. These albums would later be retroactively categorised as proto-metal.
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1974.
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1975.
Next is the second album by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, released in 1973.
Heavy Metal Kids are a British rock band.
Robert Tench was a British vocalist, guitarist, sideman, songwriter and arranger.
Rexx Erected is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal/glam metal band Diamond Rexx. It was released by Crash Music Inc. on November 6, 2001.
Hellsongs is a three piece acoustic band from Sweden who produce covers of famous hard rock and heavy metal songs in a very different style that they call 'lounge metal'. That means old metal classics performed with clear female vocals, soft guitars and organ.
Warpigs is a Hungarian rock band formed in 1993 .