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1976 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1976.

Contents

Newly formed bands

  • Accept
  • Bronz
  • Diamond Head
  • Ethel the Frog
  • Heavy Load
  • Kick Axe
  • Marseille
  • The Obsessed
  • Ratt
  • Rose Tattoo
  • The Runaways
  • Running Wild
  • Savage
  • Sorcery
  • Spider
  • Saxon
  • Sister
  • Vow Wow
  • Zoetrope

    • Disbandments

  • Deep Purple
  • Sammy Hagar leaves Montrose to go solo.

    • Events

  • Guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke joins Motörhead and Larry Wallis leaves after a month.
  • Deep Purple's guitarist Tommy Bolin dies from overdose on December 4 during the Private Eyes tour, just after his last show on stage.

    • References

    1976 in heavy metal music Wikipedia
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