1969 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1969.

Bands formed

• April Wine
• Argent
• Atomic Rooster
• Bang
• Blackfoot
• Bloodrock
• Blue Mountain Eagle
• Blues Creation
• Brownsville Station
• Cactus
• Coven
• Crushed Butler
• Dust
• Elonkorjuu
• Eloy
• Epitaph
• Faces
• Focus
• Gary Moore
• Grand Funk Railroad
• Granicus
• Hawkwind
• High Tide
• Hookfoot
• Humble Pie
• Iron Claw
• Jacula
• Josefus
• Judas Priest (as Freight)
• King Crimson
• Leaf Hound
• Little Free Rock
• May Blitz
• Morly Grey
• Mott the Hoople
• Mountain
• Neon Rose
• November
• Thin Lizzy
• Titanic
• Toe Fat
• Trapeze
• Truth and Janey
• Tucky Buzzard
• UFO
• Uriah Heep
• Wishbone Ash
• ZZ Top

Albums

• Morgen – Morgen
• Writing on the Wall - The Power of the Picts

January

February

March

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

References