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
 * 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