This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1979. 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... For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). ...

Newly formed bands

• Gamma
• Hanoi Rocks
• Saint Vitus
• Trouble
• Venom

Gamma was a band formed by guitarist Ronnie Montrose and singer Davey Pattison. ... Hanoi Rocks is a Finnish rock band. ... Saint Vitus is known as one of the first doom metal bands, starting out as early as in the late 70s. ... Look up trouble in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Venom is an early black metal band, formed in late 1978, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. ...

Albums

• AC/DC - Highway to Hell
• Aerosmith - Night in the Ruts
• Blue Öyster Cult - Mirrors
• Gamma - Gamma 1
• Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather
• Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East (live album)
• Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door
• Motörhead - On Parole (unofficial release from sessions recorded in 1975), Overkill, Bomber
• Queen - Live Killers
• KISS - Dynasty
• Saxon - Saxon
• UFO - Strangers In The Night

This article is about the band. ... Highway to Hell is the sixth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released in July 1979. ... 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. ... Night in the Ruts is sixth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). ... Blue Öyster Cult is an American psychedelic/heavy metal band formed in the late 1960s and active as of 2006. ... Mirrors is an album by Blue Öyster Cult released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). ... Gamma was a band formed by guitarist Ronnie Montrose and singer Davey Pattison. ... Description: Gamma: Davey Pattison (vocals); Ronnie Montrose (guitar); Jim Alcivar (synthesizer); Alan Fitzgerald (bass); Skip Gillette (percussion). ... Judas Priest are a heavy metal band formed in 1968 in the northwest midlands of England, near Birmingham. ... Hell Bent for Leather (UK title: Killing Machine) is an album by Judas Priest. ... Judas Priest are a heavy metal band formed in 1968 in the northwest midlands of England, near Birmingham. ... Unleashed in the East is Judas Priests live album that was recorded live in Tokyo, Japan during the Hell Bent for Leather tour in 1978. ... For the bands 1969 self-titled debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ... In Through the Out Door is the final studio album by English rock band Led Zeppelin, recorded in November and December of 1978 at Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, and released by Swan Song Records on 15 August, 1979. ... The title of this article contains the following characters: ö. Where they are unavailable or not desired, the name may be given as Motorhead. ... On Parole was the first album recorded by Motörhead way back in 1975. ... Overkill is the second album recorded by Motörhead in 1979. ... Bomber is Motörheads third released (fourth recorded) album. ... 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. ... Live Killers is a double vinyl and compact disc live album by English rock band Queen released on June 26, 1979. ... Kiss (sometimes typeset KISS, to fit the official logo) is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973. ... Dynasty is a studio album by the American hard rock band KISS. It was released less than a year after the four solo albums, which were commercial disappointments. ... Saxon are a British heavy metal band, formed in 1976 in Barnsley, Yorkshire. ... Saxon is the debut studio album by heavy metal band Saxon released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). ... UFO are an English rock band formed in 1969. ... Strangers in the Night is a live rock album by the hard rock band UFO, first released in 1979 (see 1979 in music) on the Chrysalis label. ...

Disbandments

Events

• Ozzy Osbourne is kicked out of Black Sabbath due to heavy involvement and problems with drugs and alcohol, his place is taken by Ronnie James Dio