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The new wave of British heavy metal (commonly abbreviated as NWOBHM) was a nationwide musical movement that started in England in the mid-1970s and achieved international attention by the early 1980s.
The mid-late 1970s–early 1980s period in the United Kingdom introduced a movement of young musicians, generally identified as the new wave of British heavy metal (often abbreviated as NWOBHM). The movement spawned more than a thousand hard rock and heavy metal bands from all over the UK, which were more or less forcibly identified as heavy ...
Jun 6, 2024 · In the late 70s, rock music was given a steel-booted kick up the backside by a new breed of band. The NWOBHM would go on to rule Britannia – and the world. Less than a decade after it had been forged in the white heat of the late 60s, British rock was in trouble.
- Dave Everley
Feb 15, 2022 · Metal bands were regulars on BBC TV’s unmissable weekly chart show Top of the Pops; metal albums scaled the charts; bands who had been playing tiny rooms in 1979 were filling the halls...
- Chris Chantler
- Wytch Hazel. As the Lancaster quartet’s PR blurb proclaims, “In the parallel universe where the NWOBHM happened 600 years early, Wytch Hazel are the band of choice for the discerning Plantagenet headbanger.”
- Tygers Of Pan Tang. One of the best-loved bands from the NWOBHM’s original Class of '79, the Whitley Bay rockers alienated their grass roots support when they were tempted down the path of major label compromise, watering down their sound for an American mass market that never materialised.
- Eliminator. These Lancashire heavyweights have been bubbling away for a decade, percolating in the trad metal underground with the promise of great things to come.
- Tokyo Blade. Bad management, shady labels, line-up turmoil, health disasters... Tokyo Blade’s 40-year career has been plagued with enough misfortune to break the hardiest soul.
May 8, 2015 · The New Wave of British Heavy Metal ended up launching nearly as many fledgling record labels as bands.
May 25, 2011 · Metal’s first discernible movement, our first codified army of punters, air guitarists, headbangers, denim and leather… such is the glory of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, an explosion of heavy metal bands and LPs and indie 45s emerging from all over the U.K. from roughly 1980 to 1983.
