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The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (frequently abbreviated as NWOBHM) was a heavy metal movement that started in the late 1970s, in Britain, and achieved in...
NWOTHM. 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. Editor Alan Lewis coined the term for an article by Geoff Barton in a May 1979 issue of the British music newspaper Sounds to describe ...
- A Trio of Early Standard Bearers Emerges
- The New Wave Begins to Crest
- Revolution's Impact Continues to Reverberate
- 1,000 Days That Shook The World
The New Wave of British Heavy Metal reached a tipping point that fateful year, behind a perfect storm of increasing press coverage, thriving regional “scenes” and, perhaps most importantly, key releases such as Iron Maiden’s legendary "Soundhouse Tapes" demo (recorded at and named after Neal Kay’s events), Def Leppard’s eponymous EP and Saxon’s deb...
This largely independent second wave of artists kept the NWOBHM’s momentum cresting throughout 1981, with a veritable deluge of albums, singles and tours that visited every corner of the U.K. It was called the New Wave of British Heavy Metal for a reason: From Scotland, there was Holocaust; from Northern Ireland, Sweet Savage and from Wales, Persia...
That's perhaps the greatest legacy of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal: generating a musical butterfly effect that would spawn virtually endless permutations of the heavy metal template over ensuing decades – be that thrash, death, black, doom, power or progressive. Every one of these major sub-genres has roots that clearly trace back to NWOBHM,...
Strictly speaking, the NWOBHM really only lasted two or three years, a dizzying 1,000 days or so roughly spanning 1979 and 1981. Subsequent bands inevitably either fell into the “inspired by” category, or worse, denomination as a subpar parody. Either way, the dream was over for all but a few, and for some it had actually become some kind of a nigh...
The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (frequently abbreviated as NWOBHM) was a heavy metal movement that started in the late 1970s, in Britain, and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. NWOBHM bands toned down the blues influences of earlier acts, incorporated elements of punk, increased the tempo, and adopted a "tougher" sound, taking a harder approach to its music. Often panned ...
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Sep 20, 2022 · Geoff Barton is a British journalist who founded the heavy metal magazine Kerrang! and was an editor of Sounds music magazine. He specialised in covering rock music and helped popularise the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) after using the term for the first time (after editor Alan Lewis coined it) in the May 1979 issue of Sounds.
