This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1976. 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... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...

Newly formed bands

• Accept
• Diamond Head
• Running Wild
• Saxon

Accept is a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled in the early 1970s by Udo Dirkschneider. ... Diamond Head Diamond Head are a British heavy metal band formed in 1976 in Stourbridge, England. ... Running Wild is one of several German power metal bands to emerge in the mid/late 1980s (along with Iced Earth, Helloween, Rage, Blind Guardian, Grave Digger, etc). ... Saxon are a British heavy metal band, formed in 1976 in Barnsley, Yorkshire. ...

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
• Ted Nugent - Free-For-All
• Queen - A Day at the Races
• Rush - 2112
• Rainbow - Rising
• UFO - No Heavy Petting
• Uriah Heep - High and Mighty

This article is about the band. ... High Voltage is the first international studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released in May 1976. ... This article is about the band. ... Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is the third studio album by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released in September 1976 (see 1976 in music). ... This article is about the band. ... Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is the second international album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released in 1976 in Europe (see 1976 in music) and delayed for release in the U.S. until 1981, where it peaked at #3 and is currently 6 times platinum. ... Aerosmith is 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. ... Rocks is the fourth album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music). ... Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), is a rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans four decades. ... Goes to Hell is an album by Alice Cooper, released in 1976. ... For other uses, see Black Sabbath (disambiguation). ... Technical Ecstasy is the 1976 album from heavy metal band Black Sabbath. ... For other uses, see Black Sabbath (disambiguation). ... We Sold Our Soul for Rock n Roll was a compilation album by Black Sabbath. ... Blue Öyster Cult is an American psychedelic/heavy metal band formed in the late 1960s and active as of 2006. ... Agents of Fortune is a 1976 (see 1976 in music) hard rock album by Blue Öyster Cult. ... Judas Priest are a heavy metal band formed in 1968 in the northwest midlands of England, near Birmingham. ... Sad Wings of Destiny is the second album by the British heavy metal group Judas Priest, released in 1976. ... Kiss (sometimes typeset KISS, to fit the official logo) is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973. ... Destroyer is the fifth album by KISS. It was released in March 1976. ... Kiss (sometimes typeset KISS, to fit the official logo) is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973. ... Unlike Destroyer, which was recorded with members of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Rock and Roll Over was recorded by just Stanley, Frehley, Simmons, and Criss. ... For the bands 1969 self-titled debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ... Presence is a studio album by English rock band Led Zeppelin, released by Swan Song Records on March 31, 1976 (see 1976 in music). ... For the bands 1969 self-titled debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ... The Song Remains the Same is the soundtrack album of the concert film by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. ... Theodore Ted Nugent (born December 13, 1948, Detroit, Michigan) (aka The Nuge, Uncle Ted, Terrible Ted, Sweaty Teddy, Deadly Tedly, Great Gonzos, Theodocious Atrocious and The Motor City Madman) is a hard rock guitarist from Detroit, Michigan, originally gaining fame as a member of the Amboy Dukes, and recently noted... Second record by Ted Nugent Track listing Free-For-All Dog Eat Dog Writing on the Wall Turn It Up Street Rats Together Light My Way Hammerdown I Love You So I Told You a Lie Free-For-All [live/*] Dog Eat Dog [live/*] Street Rats [Alternate Version] Credits Anthony... Queen are an English rock band formed by Brian May, Freddie Mercury, and Roger Taylor in London, England in 1970 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. ... Rush is a Canadian rock band comprising bassist, keyboardist, and vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. ... For the year 2112, see 22nd century. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Rainbow Rising is a heavy metal album by Rainbow, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music). ... UFO are an English rock band formed in 1969. ... No Heavy Petting is an album by UFO, released in April 1976. ... 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. ... High and Mighty is the ninth studio album released by British progressive rock band Uriah Heep. ...

Disbandments

• Deep Purple

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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.