1972 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1972.

Bands formed

• 10cc
• Beck, Bogert & Appice
• Bleak House
• Bonfire (as Cacumen)
• Geordie (featuring Brian Johnson on vocals)
• The Handsome Beasts
• Heavy Metal Kids (featuring Gary Holton on vocals)
• Jerusalem
• Magnum
• Mother's Finest
• Petra
• Poobah
• Pop MaÅ¡ina
• Progresiv TM
• Resurrection Band
• Tempest
• The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
• Styx
• The Tubes
• Twisted Sister (as Silver Star)
• Urchin
• Van Halen (as Genesis, later Mammoth)
• West, Bruce and Laing

Bands reformed

• The Stooges

Bands disbanded

• Cactus
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• MC5 (reformed in 1974)
• Steppenwolf (reformed in 1974)
• The Jeff Beck Group
• Van der Graaf Generator (reformed in 1975)

Albums

• Bang – Bang
• Night Sun – Mournin
• Warpig – Warpig