1976 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1976.

Contents 1 Newly formed bands 2 Albums 3 Disbandments 4 Events

[edit] Newly formed bands

• Accept
• Diamond Head
• Running Wild
• Saxon

[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

• Deep Purple

[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.

Preceded by: 1975

Heavy Metal Timeline 1976

Followed by: 1977

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