1970 in heavy metal music

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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Bands formed

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Bands disbanded

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Events

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Deaths

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Albums

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January

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Day Artist Album
15 MC5 Back in the USA
The Guess Who American Woman

February

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Day Artist Album
13 Black Sabbath Black Sabbath[1]
Van der Graaf Generator The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other

March

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Day Artist Album
7 Mountain Climbing!
25 Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys
27 Alice Cooper Easy Action

April

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Day Artist Album
20 Jethro Tull Benefit
22 Iron Butterfly Live
Cream Live Cream
Day Artist Album
11 The Who Live at Leeds
15 King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon

June

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Day Artist Album
5 Deep Purple Deep Purple in Rock[2]
15 Grand Funk Railroad Closer to Home
19 Uriah Heep Very 'eavy... Very 'umble[3]
26 Free Fire and Water
Edgar Broughton Band Sing Brother Sing
Pretty Things Parachute

July

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Day Artist Album
1 Cactus Cactus
7 The Stooges Fun House
8 Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory
24 Yes Time and a Word
Humble Pie Humble Pie
James Gang James Gang Rides Again

August

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Day Artist Album
13 Iron Butterfly Metamorphosis
14 Hawkwind Hawkwind[4]

September

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Day Artist Album
18 Black Sabbath Paranoid[4]
Blue Cheer The Original Human Being

October

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Day Artist Album
5 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III[5]
21 Flower Travellin' Band Anywhere
UFO UFO 1

November

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Day Artist Album
16 Grand Funk Railroad Live Album
20 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer
27 The Kinks Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
Lucifer's Friend Lucifer's Friend
Slade Play It Loud
Steppenwolf Steppenwolf 7

December

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Day Artist Album
4 Wishbone Ash Wishbone Ash
9 Creedence Clearwater Revival Pendulum
11 King Crimson Lizard
Free Highway
Sir Lord Baltimore Kingdom Come[6]
Van der Graaf Generator H to He, Who Am the Only One

References

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  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. ^ a b "Paranoid". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
  5. ^ "Led Zeppelin III". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
  6. ^ "Kingdom Come". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
Preceded by Heavy Metal Timeline
1970
Succeeded by