1979 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1979.

Contents

Bands formed

Bands disbanded

Events

Deaths

Albums

January

DayArtistAlbum
16 Accept Accept
Def Leppard The Def Leppard E.P.
Nazareth No Mean City
UFO Strangers in the Night (live album)

February

DayArtistAlbum
28 Judas Priest Hell Bent For Leather (US)
Scorpions Lovedrive

March

DayArtistAlbum
23 Van Halen Van Halen II
Motörhead Overkill
Triumph Just a Game

April

DayArtistAlbum
13 Thin Lizzy Black Rose: A Rock Legend
Blackfoot Strikes
Ramones It's Alive (live album)

May

DayArtistAlbum
Saxon Saxon
Trust Trust

June

DayArtistAlbum
19 Blue Öyster Cult Mirrors
22 Queen Live Killers (live album)
Samson Survivors

July

DayArtistAlbum
10 The Kinks Low Budget
27 AC/DC Highway to Hell
Gamma Gamma 1
Golden Earring No Promises...No Debts

August

DayArtistAlbum
3 Rainbow Down to Earth
22 Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door

September

DayArtistAlbum
11 Foreigner Head Games
14 Jethro Tull Stormwatch
21 Whitesnake Lovehunter
Judas Priest Unleashed in the East (live album)
Molly Hatchet Flirtin' with Disaster
Sammy Hagar Street Machine

October

DayArtistAlbum
1 Slade Return to Base
12 Motörhead Bomber
Gillan Mr. Universe
Magnum Magnum II

November

DayArtistAlbum
2 Motörhead On Parole
9 Iron Maiden The Soundhouse Tapes (EP)
16 Aerosmith Night in the Ruts
The Hand of Doom Poisonoise

Unknown release date

ArtistAlbum
Gravestone Doomsday
Legend Fröm the Fjörds
Mass Slaughter House
Silvertrain Which Platform Please?
TKO Let It Roll


Preceded by Heavy Metal Timeline
1979
Succeeded by

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