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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1973.
Day | Artist | Album |
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5 | Aerosmith | Aerosmith [3] |
12 | Deep Purple | Who Do We Think We Are [4] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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7 | Iggy and the Stooges | Raw Power |
25 | Flower Travellin' Band | Make Up |
Blue Öyster Cult | Tyranny and Mutation [5] | |
Camel | Camel |
Day | Artist | Album |
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1 | Pink Floyd | The Dark Side of the Moon |
23 | King Crimson | Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
28 | Led Zeppelin | Houses of the Holy [6] |
Alice Copper | Billion Dollar Babies |
Day | Artist | Album |
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Uriah Heep | Uriah Heep Live |
Day | Artist | Album |
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5 | Nazareth | Razamanaz |
11 | Hawkwind | Space Ritual |
Wishbone Ash | Wishbone Four | |
18 | Yes | Yessongs |
Edgar Broughton Band | Oora |
Day | Artist | Album |
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Bang | Music | |
Budgie | Never Turn Your Back On a Friend [7] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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13 | Jethro Tull | A Passion Play |
Queen | Queen I | |
15 | Grand Funk Railroad | We're an American Band |
Day | Artist | Album |
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13 | Lynyrd Skynyrd | (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) [8] |
Buffalo | Volcanic Rock | |
Golden Earring | Moontan |
Day | Artist | Album |
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3 | Uriah Heep | Sweet Freedom [9] |
21 | Thin Lizzy | Vagabonds of the Western World |
James Gang | Bang | |
The Amboy Dukes | Call of the Wild [10] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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17 | Montrose | Montrose [11] |
26 | The Who | Quadrophenia |
Day | Artist | Album |
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9 | Nazareth | Loud 'n' Proud |
16 | The Kinks | Preservation: Act 1 |
20 | Alice Cooper | Muscle of Love [12] |
Lucifer's Friend | I'm Just a Rock 'n' Roll Singer |
Day | Artist | Album |
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1 | Black Sabbath | Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
7 | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Brain Salad Surgery |
Yes | Tales from Topographic Oceans |
Slipknot is an American heavy metal band formed in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1995 by percussionist Shawn Crahan, former vocalist Anders Colsefni and bassist Paul Gray. After several lineup changes in its early years, the band settled on nine members for more than a decade: Crahan, Gray, Joey Jordison, Craig Jones, Mick Thomson, Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson, Chris Fehn, and Jim Root. Slipknot is well known for its attention-grabbing image, aggressive style of music, and energetic and chaotic live shows.
Econoline Crush is a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, formed in 1992. They have released five studio albums and two studio EPs, and are best known for their charting singles such as "You Don't Know What It's Like", "Home", "Surefire ", "All That You Are (X3)", "Make It Right", and "Dirty". They achieved platinum status with the 1997 album The Devil You Know and also received two Juno nominations, in 1995 for Purge and in 1998 for The Devil You Know.
Loudness is a Japanese heavy metal band formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi. They were the first Japanese metal act signed to a major label in the United States. Loudness subsequently released 26 studio albums and nine live albums by 2014 and reached the Billboard Top 100 during their heyday as well as charting on Oricon dozens of times. Despite numerous changes in its line-up, with Takasaki the sole constant member, the band continued their activities throughout the 1990s, finally reuniting the original line-up in 2000. This incarnation released a further seven albums until November 30, 2008, when original drummer Munetaka Higuchi died from liver cancer at a hospital in Osaka at age 49. He was replaced with Masayuki Suzuki.
Testament is an American thrash metal band from Berkeley, California. Formed in 1983 under the name Legacy, the band's current lineup comprises rhythm guitarist Eric Peterson, lead vocalist Chuck Billy, lead guitarist Alex Skolnick, bassist Steve Di Giorgio and drummer Chris Dovas. Testament has experienced many lineup changes over the years, with Peterson being the only remaining original member, though they have since reunited with Skolnick, who had been out of the band from 1992 to 2005. Billy has been a member of Testament since 1986, when he replaced original singer Steve "Zetro" Souza, who had left to replace Paul Baloff in Exodus. He and Peterson are the only members to appear on all of Testament's studio albums, with the latter being the only constant member overall. The band has released thirteen studio albums, four live albums, five compilation albums, thirteen singles and three DVDs. They are estimated to have sold over 1.4 million albums in the United States since the beginning of the SoundScan era, and over 14 million copies worldwide as of 2016.
James Kottak was an American drummer, best known for his work with the German hard rock band Scorpions, which he joined in 1996. At the time of his firing from the band in 2016, he was their longest-serving drummer. Kottak was also an original member of Kingdom Come, of whom he was their drummer from 1987 to 1989 and again from 2018 to his death in 2024, and he had his own band Kottak, formerly known as KrunK. Other bands Kottak played for were Montrose, Warrant, Wild Horses, the McAuley Schenker Group, and Buster Brown.
Montrose was an American hard rock band formed in 1973 and named after guitarist and founder Ronnie Montrose. The band's original lineup featured lead vocalist and frontman Sammy Hagar, who later found greater success as a solo artist and as a member of Van Halen. Rounding out the original foursome were bassist Bill Church and drummer Denny Carmassi. The band experienced moderate success before disbanding in early 1977. The 1973 debut album Montrose eventually proved to be an international sleeper hit, selling in excess of one million copies and attaining platinum status in 1986.
Vinnie Vincent Invasion is an American glam metal band, formed in 1984 by former Kiss guitarist Vinnie Vincent.
Nathan Jonas "Joey" Jordison was an American musician. He was the original drummer of the heavy metal band Slipknot, in which he was designated #1, and the guitarist for the horror punk supergroup Murderdolls.
Union is an American rock group formed in Los Angeles in 1997 featuring lead vocalist and guitarist John Corabi, guitarist Bruce Kulick (ex-Kiss), bassist James Hunting, and drummer Brent Fitz (Slash).
Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont is a Cuban American hard rock/heavy metal bassist. He remains best known for his work with Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, and Whitesnake, and has also played with several well known heavy metal and hard rock acts including Manic Eden, Dio, Blue Öyster Cult, Geoff Tate's Queensrÿche, Devil City Angels, and the Guess Who. He re-joined Quiet Riot in 2021. Though not a founding member, he is the longest-serving member currently in the band.
Jimmy DeGrasso is an American heavy metal drummer.
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1975.
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1977.
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1978.
Aeon is a death metal band that formed in Östersund, Sweden, in 1999. The band comprises vocalist Tommy Dahlström, guitarists Sebastian Nilsson and Daniel Dlimi, bassist Tony Östman and drummer Timo Häkkinen. The band released its debut album, Bleeding the False, in 2005; and the second album Rise to Dominate in 2007, after signing a record deal with Metal Blade Records. The band's third album, Path of Fire, was released in 2010 and Aeons Black in 2012.
Barry Sparks is an American rock bassist and guitarist for artists such as Yngwie Malmsteen, the Michael Schenker Group, UFO, Dokken, and Ted Nugent, among others. Currently Sparks is part of the touring band for the Japanese rock group B'z, and has also contributed to many of their albums and singles.
Brent Fitz is a Canadian-American musician and multi-instrumentalist. In his career, he has worked with Slash, Myles Kennedy, Theory of a Deadman, Alice Cooper, Vince Neil, Union, Gene Simmons, The Guess Who, Brad Whitford from Aerosmith, Derek St. Holmes, Ronnie Montrose, Indigenous, Lamya, Streetheart, Harlequin, and Econoline Crush.
Buster Brown was an American glam metal band from Louisville, Kentucky. Members included lead vocalist Johnny Edwards, guitarist Allan Phelps, and bassist Kevin Downs.