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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Newly formed bands

• Aerosmith
• Aunt Mary
• Bang
• Frumpy
• Fuzzy Duck
• Heart
• Irish Coffee
• Lucifer's Friend
• Mahogany Rush
• Necromandus
• Night Sun
• Pink Fairies
• Queen
• Speed, Glue & Shinki
• Suck
• T2
• Toad
• Warhorse

Albums

January

Day	Artist	Album
???	The Guess Who	American Woman

February

Day	Artist	Album
13	Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath[1]

June

Day	Artist	Album
???	Alice Cooper	Easy Action[2]
	Deep Purple	In Rock[3]
	Uriah Heep	Very 'eavy... Very 'umble[4]

August

Day	Artist	Album
14	Hawkwind	Hawkwind[5]

September

Day	Artist	Album
18	Black Sabbath	Paranoid[6]
???	Blue Cheer	The Original Human Being

October

Day	Artist	Album
5	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin III[7]
???	UFO	UFO 1

November

Day	Artist	Album
???	Lucifer's Friend	Lucifer's Friend
	Steppenwolf	Steppenwolf 7

December

Day	Artist	Album
???	Sir Lord Baltimore	Kingdom Come[8]

Unknown

• Asterix - Asterix
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Disbandments

• The Jimi Hendrix Experience

References

1. "Black Sabbath". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
2. "Easy Action". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
3. "Deep Purple in Rock". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
4. "Very 'Eavy... Very 'Umble". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
5. "Paranoid". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
6. "Paranoid". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
7. "Led Zeppelin III". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
8. "Kingdom Come". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-28.