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1970 Metal & Hard Rock Albums
Browse 4 metal and hard rock albums released in 1970, with detailed artist pages, track lists, Spotify players and English liner notes.
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Black Sabbath is the debut on which Black Sabbath replaces rock’s usual sense of celebration with menace, slow-dropping riffs, and the weight of silence.
Paranoid takes the heavy, dark atmosphere Black Sabbath uncovered on its debut and sharpens it into shorter, more direct songs with distinct identities.
Deep Purple in Rock is the record on which Deep Purple’s Mark II lineup turns decisively away from the earlier phase that crossed psychedelic ideas with orchestral e
Led Zeppelin III preserves the electric force of Led Zeppelin’s first two albums while moving much further into acoustic instruments, folk texture, and quiet space.