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1972 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1972.

Bands formed

  • Beck, Bogert & Appice
  • Bleak House
  • Bonfire (as Cacumen)
  • Frankenstein
  • Geordie (featuring Brian Johnson on vocals)
  • The Handsome Beasts
  • Heavy Metal Kids (featuring Gary Holton on vocals)
  • Jerusalem
  • Magnum
  • Mother's Finest
  • Petra
  • Poobah
  • Pop Mašina
  • Progresiv TM
  • Resurrection Band
  • Tarkus
  • Tempest
  • The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
  • Styx
  • The Tubes
  • Twisted Sister (as Silver Star)
  • Urchin
  • Van Halen (as Genesis, later Mammoth)
  • West, Bruce and Laing

Bands reformed

  • The Stooges

Bands disbanded

  • Cactus
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • MC5 (reformed in 1974)
  • Steppenwolf (reformed in 1974)
  • The Jeff Beck Group
  • Van der Graaf Generator (reformed in 1975)

Albums

  • Bang – Bang
  • Night Sun – ''Mournin'''
  • Warpig – Warpig

January

DayArtistAlbum
Blue Öyster CultBlue Öyster Cult
Lucifer's Friend...Where the Groupies Killed the Blues

February

DayArtistAlbum
9ScorpionsLonesome Crow
10Flower Travellin' BandMade in Japan

March

DayArtistAlbum
3Jethro TullThick as a Brick
10Thin LizzyShades of a Blue Orphanage
24JerusalemJerusalem
30Deep PurpleMachine Head
Humble PieSmokin'

April

DayArtistAlbum
4ZZ TopRio Grande Mud
24MountainLive: The Road Goes Ever On
28Wishbone AshArgus

May

DayArtistAlbum
19Uriah HeepDemons & Wizards
31James GangStraight Shooter

June

DayArtistAlbum
13Alice CooperSchool's Out
16Golden EarringTogether
BuffaloDead Forever
TarkusTarkus

August

DayArtistAlbum
28Cactus'Ot 'n' Sweaty
ElfElf

September

DayArtistAlbum
1BudgieSquawk
15Grand Funk RailroadPhoenix
Black SabbathVol. 4

November

DayArtistAlbum
24HawkwindDoremi Fasol Latido
BangMother / Bow to the King
Uriah HeepThe Magician's Birthday

December

DayArtistAlbum
15Status QuoPiledriver
22Deep PurpleMade in Japan

References

References

  1. "Blue Öyster Cult". [[Allmusic]].
  2. "Machine Head 50 yrs".
  3. "Argus". [[Allmusic]].
  4. "Demons and Wizards". [[Allmusic]].
  5. "Phoenix". [[Allmusic]].
  6. "Black Sabbath, Vol. 4". [[Allmusic]].
  7. "The Magician's Birthday". [[Allmusic]].
  8. "Made in Japan". [[Allmusic]].
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