1979 64 dated entries
What happened
- — Sounds magazine names the New Wave of British Heavy Metal Neal Kay's club night and a music paper give a name to hundreds of bands releasing their own records.
Genres held to have emerged
- Anarcho-punk rock
- Deathrock rock
- Gothic rock rock
- Horror punk rock
- NWOBHM metal
A genre's date is an approximation historians argue about, unlike the events above it — the same distinction the timeline draws.
Bands formed
- 45 Grave
- Beastie Boys
- Christian Death
- Cocteau Twins
- Exodus
- Fishbone
- Killing Joke
- Marillion
- Present
- Stray Cats
- The Business
- Venom
- Vicious Rumors
Artists born
Bands that ended
Scenes that began
- 1979 NWOBHM United Kingdom · 1979–1984
Scenes that ended
- 1979 London punk London · 1976–1979