1976 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1976.
Contents |
[edit] Newly formed bands
[edit] Albums
- AC/DC - High Voltage (International album)
- AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
- AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (UK)
- Aerosmith - Rocks
- Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper Goes to Hell
- Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy
- Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll
- Blue Öyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
- Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
- KISS - Destroyer
- KISS - Rock and Roll Over
- Led Zeppelin - Presence
- Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
- Scorpions - Virgin Killer
- Ted Nugent - Free-For-All
- Queen - A Day at the Races
- Rush - 2112
- Rainbow - Rising
- Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
- Thin Lizzy - Johnny the Fox
- UFO - No Heavy Petting
- Uriah Heep - High and Mighty
[edit] Disbandments
[edit] Events
- Guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke joins Motörhead and Larry Wallis leaves after a month.
- AC/DC's second international album "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" is released in the United Kingdom on November this year and would later be released in the United States in April 1981.
- Deep Purple's guitarist Tommy Bolin dies from overdose on december 4th during the Private Eyes tour, just after his last show on on stage.
Preceded by: 1975 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 1976 |
Followed by: 1977 |