1968 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1968.

Bands formed

• Accept (as Band X)
• Alice Cooper
• Black Sabbath (as Earth)
• Breakout
• Deep Purple
• Edgar Broughton Band
• Free
• Grand Funk Railroad
• Humble Pie
• Led Zeppelin
• Meat Loaf
• Nazareth
• Queen City Kids
• Rush (as The Projection)
• Sir Lord Baltimore
• Sweet
• Warpig
• Writing on the Wall

Bands disbanded

• Cream

Songs

• "Fire" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
• "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf
• "Voodoo Child" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• "Helter Skelter" by The Beatles
• "The House at Pooneil Corners" by Jefferson Airplane
• ’’Hurdy Gurdy Man’’ by Donovan
• "A Trial In Our Native Town" by Savage Rose
• "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly
• "Race With the Devil" by The Gun
• "Summertime Blues" by Blue Cheer

Albums

January

February

June

July

August

October

November

December

References