This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1969. The Allman Brothers Band April Wine Argent Atomic Rooster Bang Blackfoot Blind...

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1970. A Foot in Coldwater Aerosmith Babe Ruth Bakery Bang Blackfeather Blast (Belgium)...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1968. Accept (as Band X) Alice Cooper Black Sabbath (as Earth) Breakout Deep Purple...

Christian metal, also known as white metal, Jesus metal, or heavenly metal, is heavy metal music distinguished by its Christian-themed song lyrics and...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1974. The Angels Baker Gurvitz Army Bijelo Dugme Drugi način George Thorogood and...

Canadian heavy metal music has a history going back to the late 1960s, with the band Bent Wind and Sussex released in 1969. Canada has produced metal bands...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1979. 220 Volt A II Z Atomkraft Axe Boss Chorny Kofe Cloven Hoof Crimson Glory Deep...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1973. AC/DC Ace Frehley Bachman-Turner Overdrive Bad Company Cheap Trick The Dictators...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1977. 707 44 Magnum Bad Brains Barnabas Black Death Death SS Dedringer Def Leppard...

of heavy metal in the year 1976. Accept Angel Witch (as Lucifer) Black Flag Bronz Chrome Citron Crys Diamond Head Ethel the Frog Foreigner Heavy Load...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1975. Angel The Babys Boston Bow Wow Crack the Sky Goddo Ian Gillan Band Iris Iron...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1971. Aquelarre Buffalo Camel Captain Beyond Cirith Ungol Color Humano Foghat The...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1972. Baumstam Beck, Bogert & Appice Bleak House Bonfire (as Cacumen) Frankenstein...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1978. Ángeles del Infierno Amebix Anvil (as Lips) Blind Illusion Bodine Cockney Rejects...

heavy metal subgenre. In the late 1960s, a number of bands began pushing the limits of blues rock into a new genre which would be called heavy metal....

Speed metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that originated in the late 1970s from new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) roots. It is described...

volume, theatricality, and other elements that became staples of the heavy metal style. In the late 1960s, this experimentation coalesced into various rock...

gratuitously or decoratively over letters in the names of mainly hard rock or heavy metal bands—for example, those of Blue Öyster Cult, Queensrÿche, Motörhead...

Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than...

covering hard rock in the 1970s, and in the 1980s it leaned more towards guitar virtuosos, featuring acts from the heavy metal music and progressive rock...

Iron Claw was a Scottish heavy metal band formed in 1969 and ended in 1974. In March 2007, the band were mentioned in an article in Classic Rock called "The...

notable events in music that took place in the year 1969. 1969 in British music 1969 in Norwegian music 1969 in country music 1969 in jazz Among the most...

August 1951) is an English heavy metal singer. He is best known as the lead vocalist of Judas Priest, which was formed in 1969 and has received accolades...

The music of New York City is a diverse and important field in the world of music. It has long been a thriving home for popular genres such as jazz, rock...

find a place in the LA metal scene in the early 1980s, it was difficult for the band to "play their [heavy] music and win over a crowd in a land where...

others. In the 1980s, a wave of Brazilian heavy metal bands gained public attention. The most commercially successful of these was Sepultura, founded in São...

14, 1969 – October 28, 2010) was the original guitarist for heavy metal band Mushroomhead. Also known as J.J. Righteous, was born and raised in Parma...

English heavy metal band formed in Birmingham in 1969. They have sold over 50 million albums and are frequently ranked as one of the greatest metal bands...

William Geoffrey Steer (born 3 December 1969) is a British guitarist and co-founder of the extreme metal band Carcass. He is considered a pioneer and an...