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1972 Metal & Hard Rock Albums
Browse 4 metal and hard rock albums released in 1972, with detailed artist pages, track lists, Spotify players and English liner notes.
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1972 Albums
Vol. 4 is Black Sabbath’s fourth album, a record that keeps the band’s heavy, ominous riff language intact while greatly widening its palette of tone, structure, and feel
Machine Head is a defining Deep Purple album from the Mark II lineup, joining riff, improvisation, vocal power, and groove with astonishing economy.
Lonesome Crow is the Scorpions debut, far removed from the sharp melodic hard rock the band would later make its own.
Shades of a Blue Orphanage is Thin Lizzy’s second album, made before the later twin-guitar attack and city-bred rock-and-roll identity had fully arrived.