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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 1977.

Newly formed bands

Albums

February

Day Album Artist Notes
? On Earth as It Is in Heaven Angel -

March

Day Album Artist Notes
8 Foreigner Foreigner Debut
21 Let There Be Rock AC/DC Australia

April

Day Album Artist Notes
8 Sin After Sin Judas Priest -
29 Lace and Whiskey Alice Cooper -
? Off the Record Sweet -

May

Day Album Artist Notes
13 Cat Scratch Fever Ted Nugent -
? Lights Out UFO -
? Little Queen Heart -

June

Day Album Artist Notes
20 Ram Jam Ram Jam Debut
30 Love Gun Kiss -

July

Day Album Artist Notes
15 On Stage [1] Rainbow Live

August

Day Album Artist Notes
12 Motörhead [2] Motörhead Debut

September

Day Album Artist Notes
2 Bad Reputation Thin Lizzy -
7 A Farewell to Kings Rush -

October

Day Album Artist Notes
7 Waitin' for the Night The Runaways -
14 Alive II Kiss Live + 5 new studio tracks
21 Bat Out of Hell Meat Loaf -
28 News of the World Queen -
? The Golden Greats Sweet Compilation

November

Day Album Artist Notes
10 Rock City Riot -
? Spectres Blue Öyster Cult -

December

Day Album Artist Notes
4 Taken by Force Scorpions -
9 Draw the Line [3] Aerosmith -

Release date unknown

Disbandments

Events

References

  1. ^ "News in brief" (PDF). Record Mirror. 18 June 1977. p. 5. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Motörhead certification".
  3. ^ LTD, BubbleUp (2021-12-09). "AeroHistory: Draw the Line". www.aerosmith.com. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
Preceded by Heavy Metal Timeline
1977
Succeeded by