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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

Day	Artist	Album
	Blue Öyster Cult	Blue Öyster Cult
Lucifer's Friend	...Where the Groupies Killed the Blues

February

Day	Artist	Album
9	Scorpions	Lonesome Crow
10	Flower Travellin' Band	Made in Japan

March

Day	Artist	Album
3	Jethro Tull	Thick as a Brick
10	Thin Lizzy	Shades of a Blue Orphanage
24	Jerusalem	Jerusalem
30	Deep Purple	Machine Head
	Humble Pie	Smokin'

April

Day	Artist	Album
4	ZZ Top	Rio Grande Mud
24	Mountain	Live: The Road Goes Ever On
28	Wishbone Ash	Argus

May

Day	Artist	Album
19	Uriah Heep	Demons & Wizards
31	James Gang	Straight Shooter

June

Day	Artist	Album
13	Alice Cooper	School's Out
16	Golden Earring	Together
	Buffalo	Dead Forever
Tarkus	Tarkus

August

Day	Artist	Album
28	Cactus	'Ot 'n' Sweaty
	Elf	Elf

September

Day	Artist	Album
1	Budgie	Squawk
15	Grand Funk Railroad	Phoenix
	Black Sabbath	Vol. 4

November

Day	Artist	Album
24	Hawkwind	Doremi Fasol Latido
	Bang	Mother / Bow to the King
Uriah Heep	The Magician's Birthday

December

Day	Artist	Album
15	Status Quo	Piledriver
22	Deep Purple	Made in Japan

References

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

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