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List of new wave of British heavy metal bands. 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 ...
Dec 13, 2023 · The band started strong as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, releasing all-time classics in the early 80s like “Denim & Leather” and “Strong Arm of the Law“. However, after spending trying out hair metal in the mid and late 80s, the band returned to its roots.
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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 ...
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- 10 Best U.K. Metal Bands. Scroll through the gallery as we count down the 10 Best U.K. Metal Bands!
- Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath's impact on metal is unrivaled. Their first six studio albums serve as one of the most remarkable hot streaks in all of music, not just metal, combining Tony Iommi’s riffing muscle with Geezer Butler’s iconoclastic lyrics which were then channeled through the haunting dread of Ozzy Osbourne’s voice.
- Bolt Thrower. Bolt Thrower’s perennial war themes were matched in full effect with the booming intensity of their groove-crushing death metal. Tread-strapped rhythms marched on in varying paces while Karl Willets’ bellowing, unwavering growl exposed humanity’s history of violent conflict from all angles.
- Carcass. Carcass took the early grindcore movement in a new direction quickly, authoring two defining albums that wretched forth the goregrind genre. Hacking and slashing through medical text and bodies, they evolved their sound with the addition of Michael Amott, slowing it down with lurching riffs and surgical harmonized lead work on ‘Necroticism.’
Sep 7, 2016 · 2. Tygers of Pan Tang – Don’t Stop By. Metal doesn’t really do difficult second albums (unless you were in Diamond Head) and indeed NWOBHM threw up quite a few bands whose second album was ...
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Although fluid in the early years of the band, the line-up for most of the band's history has consisted of Harris, lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson, drummer Nicko McBrain, and guitarists Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and ...
