1971 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1971.

Newly formed bands

• Aquelarre
• Buffalo
• Camel
• Captain Beyond
• Foghat
• The Flying Hat Band
• Hard Stuff
• Molly Hatchet
• New York Dolls
• Pentagram
• Pescado Rabioso

Albums

January

Day	Artist	Album
12	Alice Cooper	Love It to Death

February

Day	Artist	Album
???	Uriah Heep	Salisbury

March

Day	Artist	Album
19	Jethro Tull	Aqualung

April

Day	Artist	Album
???	Blue Cheer	Oh! Pleasant Hope
5	Flower Travellin' Band	Satori
30	Thin Lizzy	Thin Lizzy

June

Day	Artist	Album
???	Budgie	Budgie

July

Day	Artist	Album
10	Steppenwolf	For Ladies Only
21	Black Sabbath	Master of Reality

August

Day	Artist	Album
14	The Who	Who's Next

September

Day	Artist	Album
15	Deep Purple	Fireball
21	T. Rex	Electric Warrior

October

Day	Artist	Album
8	Hawkwind	In Search of Space
???	Uriah Heep	Look At Yourself

November

Day	Artist	Album
8	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin IV
???	Alice Cooper	Killer
???	Nazareth	Nazareth

Unknown

• Sir Lord Baltimore - Sir Lord Baltimore
• UFO - Flying

Disbandments

• Blue Cheer (temporarily)
• Iron Butterfly (reformed in 1974)
• Sir Lord Baltimore (reformed in 2006)

Births

• March 29 - Attila Csihar, Hungarian vocalist