1970 in heavy metal music

Summary

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1970.

List of years in heavy metal music (table)
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Newly formed bands edit

Albums edit

January edit

Day Artist Album
??? The Guess Who American Woman

February edit

Day Artist Album
13 Black Sabbath Black Sabbath[1]

March edit

Day Artist Album
7 Mountain Climbing!

May edit

Day Artist Album
15 King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon

June edit

Day Artist Album
5 Deep Purple Deep Purple in Rock[2]
19 Uriah Heep Very 'eavy... Very 'umble[3]

August edit

Day Artist Album
14 Hawkwind Hawkwind[4]

September edit

Day Artist Album
18 Black Sabbath Paranoid[5]
??? Blue Cheer The Original Human Being

October edit

Day Artist Album
5 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III[6]
??? UFO UFO 1

November edit

Day Artist Album
??? Lucifer's Friend Lucifer's Friend
Steppenwolf Steppenwolf 7

December edit

Day Artist Album
??? Sir Lord Baltimore Kingdom Come[7]

Disbandments edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Black Sabbath". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
  2. ^ "Deep Purple in Rock". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
  3. ^ "Very 'Eavy... Very 'Umble". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
  4. ^ "Paranoid". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
  5. ^ "Paranoid". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
  6. ^ "Led Zeppelin III". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
  7. ^ "Kingdom Come". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
Preceded by Heavy Metal Timeline
1970
Succeeded by