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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
21 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
17 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
Whitesnake Lovehunter
12 Motörhead Bomber
Gillan Mr. Universe
Magnum Magnum II
Motörhead On Parole

November

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Day Artist Album
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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