1972 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1972.

Newly formed bands

• Cirith Ungol
• Geordie (featuring Brian Johnson on vocals)
• The Handsome Beasts
• Heavy Metal Kids (featuring Gary Holton on vocals)
• Jerusalem
• Magnum
• The Tubes
• Twisted Sister^[1]
• Urchin
• Van Halen

Albums

January

Day	Artist	Album
???	Blue Öyster Cult	Blue Öyster Cult[2]

March

Day	Artist	Album
10	Thin Lizzy	Shades of a Blue Orphanage
10	Deep Purple	Machine Head[3]

April

Day	Artist	Album
28	Wishbone Ash	Argus[4]

May

Day	Artist	Album
19	Uriah Heep	Demons & Wizards[5]

June

Day	Artist	Album
???	Alice Cooper	School's Out[6]
25	The Kinks	Everybody's in Show-Biz

September

Day	Artist	Album
25	Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath Vol. 4[7]
???	Grand Funk Railroad	Phoenix[8]

November

Day	Artist Status Quo	Album Piledriver
???	Hawkwind	Doremi Fasol Latido
	Uriah Heep	The Magician's Birthday[9]

December

Day	Artist	Album
???	Deep Purple	Made in Japan[10]

Unknown

• Budgie - Squawk^[11]
• Elf - Elf

Disbandments

• The Jeff Beck Group
• MC5
• Mountain
• Steppenwolf

Events

References

1. "Twisted Sister Bio". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
2. "Blue Öyster Cult". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
3. "Machine Head". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
4. "Argus". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
5. "Demons and Wizards". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
6. "School's Out". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
7. "Black Sabbath, Vol. 4". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
8. "Phoenix". Allmusic. Retrieved 2006-07-02.
9. "The Magician's Birthday". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
10. "Made in Japan". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
11. "Squawk". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.