This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1973 Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s, having its roots in hard rock bands which, between 1969 and 1974,[1] mixed blues and rock music to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

[edit] Newly formed bands

• AC/DC
• Montrose

This article is about the band. ... Montrose was the original Californian hard rock band, pioneering the kind of short and punchy songs that would be a template for later and more successful bands such as Van Halen. ...

[edit] Albums

• Aerosmith - Aerosmith
• Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
• Alice Cooper - Muscle of Love
• The Amboy Dukes - Call of the Wild
• Beck, Bogert & Appice - Beck, Bogert & Appice
• Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
• Blue Öyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation
• Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On a Friend
• Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are
• Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band
• Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
• Montrose - Montrose
• Nazareth - Razamanaz
• Queen - Queen
• The Stooges - Raw Power
• Uriah Heep - Sweet Freedom

Aerosmith are a prominent American rock band, sometimes regarded as Americas Greatest Rock and Roll Band. [1][2] Although they are known as the bad boys from Boston, none of the members are actually from the city. ... Aerosmith is the self-titled debut album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music). ... Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), is a rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans four decades. ... Billion Dollar Babies is an album by American Hard rock band Alice Cooper, (released in 1973). ... Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), is a rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans four decades. ... Muscle of Love is an album by Alice Cooper, released in 1973. ... AmboyDukes CD cover for the album, Best of Amboy Dukes The Amboy Dukes were an American rock music band of the late 1960s and early 1970s from Detroit, Michigan, best remembered for their hit single Journey to the Center of the Mind. ... A blues rock power trio composed of guitarist Jeff Beck (The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck Group), Tim Bogert (Vanilla Fudge, Cactus) and Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge, Cactus). ... Beck, Bogert & Appice is the eponymous debut album by the 70s rock and roll band Beck, Bogert & Appice. ... For other uses, see Black Sabbath (disambiguation). ... Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is the fifth studio album by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music). ... Blue Öyster Cult is an American rock band formed in 1967 and still active in 2007. ... Tyranny and Mutation was the second album by hard rock band, Blue Öyster Cult, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music). ... Budgie is a hard rock band from Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales. ... Never_Turn_Your_Back_On_A_Friend is Budgies third album. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Who Do We Think We Are is a hard rock album by Deep Purple. ... Grand Funk Railroad is an American power trio band. ... Were An American Band is Grand Funk Railroads seventh studio album, and was released in July of 1973 by Capitol Records. ... For the bands 1969 self-titled debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ... Houses of the Holy is an album by English rock band Led Zeppelin released by Atlantic Records on March 28, 1973 (see 1973 in music). ... Montrose was the original Californian hard rock band, pioneering the kind of short and punchy songs that would be a template for later and more successful bands such as Van Halen. ... Montrose is the debut album by the band Montrose in 1973. ... Nazareth is an earthy and versatile Scottish rock band that had several hard rock hits, as well as scoring with the Felice and Boudleaux Bryant penned ballad, Love Hurts, in the middle of the 1970s. ... Track listing Razamanaz (Agnew, Charlton, McCafferty, Sweet) - 3:52 Alcatraz (Russell) - 4:23 Vigilante Man (Guthrie) - 5:21 Woke up This Morning (Agnew, Charlton, McCafferty, Sweet) - 3:53 Night Woman (Agnew, Charlton, McCafferty, Sweet) - 3:29 Bad Bad Boy (Agnew, Charlton, McCafferty, Sweet) - 3:57 Sold My Soul (Agnew, Charlton... Queen are an English rock band, formed in 1970 in London by Brian May, Roger Taylor, and the late Freddie Mercury from the remains of Smile, with John Deacon completing the lineup the following year. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Stooges are an American rock band that was first active from about 1967 to 1974, and then reformed in 2003. ... Raw Power is a 1973 album by hard rock band The Stooges, fronted by future icon Iggy Pop. ... Uriah Heep is an English rock band, formed in 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley (previously a member of The Gods and Toe Fat) to join Spice, a band signed to his own Bronze Records label. ... Sweet Freedom is the sixth album released by British rock band Uriah Heep. ...

[edit] Disbandments

[edit] Events