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1979 in heavy metal music

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List of years in heavy metal music (table)
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1979.

Bands formed

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Bands disbanded

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Events

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Deaths

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  • February 2 – John Simon Ritchie, better known by his stage name Sid Vicious, former bassist of Sex Pistols, died from a drug overdose at the age of 21.
  • March 22 – Clayborn Pinkins, founding member and bassist of Black Death, was murdered by gunshot at the age of 25.
  • June 21 – Angus William MacLise, original drummer of The Velvet Underground, died from hypoglycemia and pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 41.

Albums

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January

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Day Artist Album
16 Accept Accept
Black Flag Nervous Breakdown
Def Leppard The Def Leppard E.P.
Nazareth No Mean City
UFO Strangers in the Night (live album)

February

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Day Artist Album
28 Judas Priest Hell Bent For Leather
Scorpions Lovedrive

March

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Day Artist Album
23 Van Halen Van Halen II
Motörhead Overkill
Triumph Just a Game

April

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Day Artist Album
13 Thin Lizzy Black Rose: A Rock Legend
Blackfoot Strikes
Ramones It's Alive (live album)

May

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Day Artist Album
Saxon Saxon
Trust Trust

June

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Day Artist Album
19 Blue Öyster Cult Mirrors
22 Queen Live Killers (live album)
Samson Survivors

July

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Day Artist Album
10 The Kinks Low Budget
27 AC/DC Highway to Hell
Gamma Gamma 1
Golden Earring No Promises...No Debts

August

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Day Artist Album
3 Rainbow Down to Earth
22 Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door

September

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Day Artist Album
11 Foreigner Head Games
14 Jethro Tull Stormwatch
21 Whitesnake Lovehunter
Judas Priest Unleashed in the East (live album)
Molly Hatchet Flirtin' with Disaster
Sammy Hagar Street Machine

October

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Day Artist Album
1 Slade Return to Base
12 Motörhead Bomber
Gillan Mr. Universe
Magnum Magnum II

November

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Day Artist Album
2 Motörhead On Parole
9 Iron Maiden The Soundhouse Tapes (EP)
16 Aerosmith Night in the Ruts
30 Pink Floyd The Wall
The Hand of Doom Poisonoise

December

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Day Artist Album
14 The Clash London Calling

Unknown release date

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Artist Album
Gravestone Doomsday
Legend Fröm the Fjörds
Mass Slaughter House
Silvertrain Which Platform Please?
TKO Let It Roll


Preceded by Heavy Metal Timeline
1979
Succeeded by

References

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