1975 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1975.

Newly formed bands

• Magnum^[1]
• Motörhead^[2]
• Quiet Riot^[3]
• Rainbow^[4]
• Ted Nugent^[5]
• Witchfynde
• Iron Maiden

Albums

• AC/DC - TNT
• Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic^[6]
• Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare^[7]
• Black Sabbath - Sabotage^[8]
• Budgie - Bandolier^[9]
• Deep Purple - Come Taste the Band^[10]
• Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti^[11]
• Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent^[12]
• Scorpions - In Trance^[13]
• Queen - A Night at the Opera^[14]
• The Kinks - Soap Opera
• KISS - Dressed to Kill^[15]
• KISS - Alive!^[16]
• Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow^[17]
• Thin Lizzy - Fighting^[18]
• Sweet - Strung Up
• UFO - Force It^[19]
• Uriah Heep - Return To Fantasy^[20]
• Moxy - Moxy ^[21]

Disbandments

Events

• Motörhead's original drummer, Lucas Fox, leaves the band. He is replaced by Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor.^[22]

• Gary Thain, bassist for Uriah Heep, dies from a heroin overdose on the 8th of December.^[23]
• AC/DC's first album TNT is released in Australia

References