Top 10 Metal albums for each year of the 70's

Ultmetal requested it so here it is, i know some might class some of these albums as hard rock, glam rock, punk, progressive and not metal but you got to put them in context for the time there's no use comparing Slayer to some of these albums in terms of heaviness. All these albums rock hard and are quite heavy for the time.

1970
1. Deep Purple - In Rock
2. Led Zeppelin - III
3. Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You
4. Uriah Heep - Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble
5. The Stooges - Fun House
6. Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer's Friend
7. Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
8. Bloodrock - Bloodrock
9. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
10. Mountain - Mountain

1971
1. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
2. Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself
3. Alice Cooper - Killer
4. Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride
5. Bang - Bang
6. Deep Purple - Fireball
7. Leah Hound - Growers Of Mushroom
8. Dust - Dust
9. Led Zeppelin - Untitled (IV)
10. Budgie - Budgie

1972
1. Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
2. Night Sun -Mournin'
3. Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards
4. Deep Purple - Machine Head
5. Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday
6. Alice Cooper - School's Out
7. Mott The Hoople - Mott
8. Poobah - Let Me In
9. Hard Stuff - Bulletproof
10. Budgie - Squawk

1973
1. Queen - Queen
2. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
3. Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
4. Montrose - Montrose
5. Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
6. Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny & Mutation
7. Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend
8. Nazareth - Razamanaz
9. Aerosmith - Aerosmith
10. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

1974
1. Sweet - Sweet Fanny Adams
2. New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon
3. Queen - II
4. Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
5. Mott The Hoople - The Hoople
6. Aerosmith - Get Your Wings
7. Deep Purple - Burn
8. Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
9. Buffalo - Only Want You For Your Body
10. Budgie - In For The Kill

1975
1. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
2. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
3. The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy!
4. Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic
5. Budgie - Bandolier
6. Angel - Angel
7. Thin Lizzy - Fighting
8. Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
9. Max Webster - Max Webster
10. Styx - Equinox

1976 (See my previous topic)

1977
1. Aerosmith - Draw The Line
2. Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick
3. Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
4. The Dictators - Manifest Destiny
5. Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
6. The Dead Boys - Young, Loud And Snotty
7. The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks...
8. Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
9. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
10. The Damned - Damned Damned Damned

1978
1. The Dictators - Bloodbrothers
2. Van Halen - Van Halen
3. DMZ - DMZ
4. Judas Priest - Stained Class
5. Ram Jam - Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Ram
6. The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope
7. Gillan - Gillan
8. Rose Tattoo - Rose Tattoo
9. Yesterday And Today - Struck Down
10. Hounds - Unleashed

1979
1. Thin Lizzy - Black Rose
2. Judas Priest - Killing Machine (Hell Bent For Leather)
3. Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door
4. Van Halen - II
5. Scorpions - Lovedrive
6. Rainbow - Down To Earth
7. Riot - Narita
8. Motorhead - Overkill
9. Gillan - Mr. Universe
10. Cheap Trick - Dream Police

Tell me some of your favourites that are not on my list or if theres an album or artist you don't know about that's on my list ask me and i will fill you in on them.

Very nice. Bang, Budgie, Leaf Hound, Night Sun, Hard Stuff, Poobah! (Youngstown Ohio's finest). But how could you leave off the Godz from Akron. That must have been about 1978. Also I'll bump a punk and nominate "Whatever Happened to Slade", which I believe was 1977. I think it rocks as hard as any Queen or Sweet.

Ooops. You gotta find a place for Riot's "Rock City" there somewhere too.

impressive list. some great albums mentioned. however you failed to mention Judas Priests Sad Wings Of Destiny & perhaps Rocka Rolla (although that wasn't so heavy). both need to be included in a "best of the 70's" list imho.

plus, Motorheads s/t, Bomber & especially On Parole.

Thats interesting what you said about the 'Whatever Happened To Slade' album, it is definately their heaviest and my second favourite after Slayed! but it isn't quite as heavy as Sweet's Sweet Fanny Adams or Give Us A Wink although not far off. As for the Godz their great but i think if was to pick southern rocking biker metal it would be The Boyzz and their album Too Wild To Tame which came out in 1978 the same year as The Godz near classic S/T debut.

Mc666, Judas Priest's Sad Wings Of Destiny made it to number 4 or 5 on my 1976 list which is on my previous topic '1976 - The Greatest Year in Hard Rock/History?'. Rocka Rolla was a solid album without being special and had stiff competition from 1974. As for Motorhead's earlier albums i like them without loving them, Overkill was in my opinion when they got the ball rolling.

fair enough about the Motorhead.. i totally forgot your 1976 list lol... glad to know the Priest was there.

Wow! Great list. I'm sure mine would differ slightly, but I think we'd also have a lot in common.

MIA:
Ted Nugent - s/t (1975)

Rattpoison, the list is awesome. I have to look into a lot of these bands now.

I tried to find some holes in your list, but it's pretty tight. Here are perhaps some alternates...

1970- Stray s/t
1971- Tucky Buzzard "Warm Slash" (very heavy in spots)
1972- Captain Beyond s/t
1973- Silverhead "16 & Savaged"
1974- Stonewall- "Stoner"
1975- Moxy- s/t (heavier than it gets credit for being IMO)
1976- Teaze- s/t (A little spirituality, rare for 1976))
1977- Journey-Next (I love mk I Journey, side 2 is very heavy)
1978- The Godz- s/t (never heard the Boyzz, $100 on Ebay, no thanks)
1979-no additions, unless Tygers of Pan Tang had something out by then.

Ideosyncratic acquired tastes....

Incredible Hog s/t 1973
Neil Merryweather "Kryptonite" 1975 (some very heavy songs)
Hot Tuna-"Hopkorv"(not really metallic, but some serious power chords for 1976, I think it was '76)

And (goodbye to my credibility) Paris s/t from 1973 (Bob Welch); It sounds pretty heavy, Zeppelinesque, and drug twisted to me; but everyone tells me that's just because I'm twisted.

Some great stuff you listed SAHB healer. Heres a few more i could add:

Thundertrain - Teenage Suicide (1977)
Boston band that sounds like across between DMZ and the New York Dolls with a bit of the Dictators and Kiss thrown in. As heavy as say Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic.

Truth And Janey - No Rest For The Wicked (1976)
Iowa band with a sound like Thin Lizzy or Legs Diamond crossed with hard southern rock. Great band it's been reissued by Monster records.

Marseille - Marseille (1979)
Band from Liverpool, basically the same concept as early Def Leppard, taking influence from the mid 70's glam rock of Sweet and Slade and late 70's boogie metal of AC/DC and Status Quo and coming up with something that is somehow more akin to the top flight American stadium metal sound of Riot and Legs Diamond.

As for the Boyzz - Too Wild To Tame from 1978 its available on ebay as cd or vinyl for around $10 to $20. You should get it if you like the Godz s/t

I'm glad you mentioned Legs Diamond, I was gonna get on you for not listing them.
Truth & Janey disappointed me when I heard them. Not as over rated as fellow legends Gracious, but close.
I liked my homeboys Cain (also Monster re-issued) better.

Sorry. I meant Granicus, not Gracious. Over-rated.

Yeah Legs Diamond are great other bands i'd put in what i would call late 70's American Stadium Metal would be Rex, Starz, Derringer and Diamond Reo. I've heard about Granicus and have heard not that many great things about them. Cain on the other hand is brilliant, 'A Pound Of Flesh' is fantastic.

Wow, impressive list! I need to get more stuff from the 70's!

I see that the Boyzz "Too Wild to Tame" was reissued this year on CD. Slightly spendy but always under $20. I look forward to hearing it for the first time!