1977 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1977.

Newly formed bands

• Angel Witch
• Barnabas
• Black Death
• Death SS
• Dedringer
• Def Leppard
• Divlje Jagode
• Gordi
• Gravestone
• Great White
• Holocaust
• Kix
• Manilla Road
• Mentors
• Misfits
• Oz
• Rock Goddess
• TKO
• Trust

Albums

• AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
• Aerosmith - Draw the Line
• Alice Cooper - Lace and Whiskey
• Blue Öyster Cult - Spectres
• Foreigner - Foreigner
• Goddo - Goddo
• Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
• KISS - Love Gun
• KISS - Alive II
• Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
• Motörhead - Motörhead
• Ram Jam - Ram Jam
• Scorpions - Taken by Force
• Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
• Quartz - Quartz
• Queen - News of the World
• Rush - A Farewell to Kings
• Rainbow - On Stage
• The Runaways- "Waitin For The Night"
• Sweet - Off the Record
• Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
• UFO - Lights Out

Disbandments

• T. Rex

Events

• Queen release "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions".

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