1972 in heavy metal music

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

Bands formed

• Baumstam
• Beck, Bogert & Appice
• Bleak House
• Bonfire (as Cacumen)
• Frankenstein
• Geordie (featuring Brian Johnson on vocals)
• The Handsome Beasts
• Heavy Metal Kids (featuring Gary Holton on vocals)
• Jerusalem
• Magnum
• Mother's Finest
• Petra
• Poobah
• Pop Mašina
• Progresiv TM
• Resurrection Band
• Tarkus
• Tempest
• The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
• Styx
• The Tubes
• Twisted Sister (as Silver Star)
• Urchin
• Van Halen (as Genesis, later Mammoth)
• West, Bruce and Laing

Bands reformed

• The Stooges

Bands disbanded

• Cactus
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• MC5 (reformed in 1974)
• Steppenwolf (reformed in 1974)
• The Jeff Beck Group
• Van der Graaf Generator (reformed in 1975)

Albums

• Bang – Bang
• Night Sun – Mournin'
• Warpig – Warpig

January

Day	Artist	Album
	Blue Öyster Cult	Blue Öyster Cult[1]
	Lucifer's Friend	...Where the Groupies Killed the Blues

February

Day	Artist	Album
9	Scorpions	Lonesome Crow
10	Flower Travellin' Band	Made in Japan

March

Day	Artist	Album
3	Jethro Tull	Thick as a Brick
10	Thin Lizzy	Shades of a Blue Orphanage
24	Jerusalem	Jerusalem
30	Deep Purple	Machine Head[2]
	Humble Pie	Smokin'

April

Day	Artist	Album
4	Zz top	Rio Grande Mud
24	Mountain	Live: The Road Goes Ever On
28	Wishbone Ash	Argus[3]

May

Day	Artist	Album
19	Uriah Heep	Demons & Wizards[4]
31	James Gang	Straight Shooter

June

Day	Artist	Album
2	Pink Floyd	Obscured by Clouds
13	Alice Cooper	School's Out
16	Golden Earring	Together
23	Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Trilogy
	Buffalo	Dead Forever
	Tarkus	Tarkus

August

Day	Artist	Album
28	Cactus	'Ot 'n' Sweaty
	Elf	Elf

September

Day	Artist	Album
1	Budgie	Squawk
8	Yes	Close to the Edge
15	Grand Funk Railroad	Phoenix[5]
	Black Sabbath	Vol. 4[6]

November

Day	Artist	Album
24	Hawkwind	Doremi Fasol Latido
	Bang	Mother / Bow to the King
	Uriah Heep	The Magician's Birthday[7]

December

Day	Artist	Album
15	Status Quo	Piledriver
22	Deep Purple	Made in Japan[8]

References

1. "Blue Öyster Cult". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
2. "Machine Head 50 yrs".
3. "Argus". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
4. "Demons and Wizards". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
5. "Phoenix". Allmusic. Retrieved 2006-07-02.
6. "Black Sabbath, Vol. 4". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
7. "The Magician's Birthday". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
8. "Made in Japan". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.

Preceded by 1971

Heavy Metal Timeline 1972

Succeeded by 1973