NWOBHM

my 2 alltime favorite metal genres have always been 1.NWOBHM and 2.THRASH and in that order with other gneres like death and black following behind!
now the thing is some people dont think of the new wave of british heavy metal to be an actual metal genre but more of a movement,which i wont argue but if you really look into it you will find that it is technically considered a heavy metal genre!
nwobhm was the genre that got me into metal back in the early 1980's with bands like my alltime favorite iron maiden,motorhead and judas priest!
but the thing that i have always found the most interesting about nwobhm is all the lesser known british metal bands that were around during the same time that pretty much fell thru the cracks,bands like saxon,diamond head,tank,cloven hoof satan,girschool,venom and etc,
i could go on and on and on with the number of bands that were apart of that early movement of british metal which is one of the many reasons why i personally think it is the greatest style of heavy metal that ever was or ever will be.
for one thing when you look deep enough into nwobhm you will find that alot of those early bands had a huge influence on other genres of metal that would come later!
anyway i started this topic because i want to get a general idea of where mfa is with this legendary genre of metal so your thoughts and insights on this would be greatly apreciated!
thank you and up the irons!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Dave Reck(Roxx Inmyhead) on December 3, 2008 at 2:30pm: lozza, lozza, lozza.....where do i start...NWOBHM..or newobbem as Bruce Dickinson calls it...is rightly valid...i'll give an example...WAYYYY back in 80 whatever in sydney there was a metal importer called Utopia and guess what 90% of his stock was...thats right..NWOBHM...I spent time, coin and braincells in that joint listening too...SAXON, VENOM ( conrad was taking the piss right?) GIRLSCHOOL ( r.i.p KJ) IRON MAIDEN, SAMSON, ANGELWITCH, WRATHCHILD, TIGERTAILZ..SPIDER, maybe DEF LEP although Joe Elliot refuses to be lumped in with the rest...AHHH memories; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by larry on December 3, 2008 at 2:38pm: exactly dave,and also,i dont know how it was in australia at that time but in the states alot of headbangers had to rely on tape trading and heavy metal magazines like kerrang's mail order sections to get a hold of alot of those early nwobhm bands albums!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chad on December 3, 2008 at 2:47pm: I was lucky we had a small independent store called Blue Meannie after the Beatles the owner was a
HUGE Beatles fan and the first time I went into the store they had Number of the Beast 7" on red vinyl
I didn't have the money that night but got it next time out. They used to sell Kerrang, Metal Forces Metal Hammer had all the killer imports got all my Maiden 7" Saxon stuff there.

Very sad after going off and on for 25 years they closed last September hasn't been the same since.
Now I have to go to Hollywood to a Huge store called Amoeba Records great store just not the Meannie!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JD Bradshaw on December 5, 2008 at 11:14am: Back in the early 80's there was a little music store called "TAPE WORLD" in Salisbury Maryland that I used to buy all of the hard to find records,tapes,mags,patches,ect at..It was actually an african american owned store with disco stuff,incense,motown 45s,ect but had a very small section of Heavy metal records of unknown bands on the Noise,Combat,Metal Blade,Neat and Roadrunner labels..Too bad it closed down back in 2000 because it was cool and the owners were pretty hip..Now I go to Skinnies records in Norfolk,Va to get my hard to find stuff..I would have liked to have gone to the "Meanie" cause I love shops like this; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dave Reck(Roxx Inmyhead) on December 5, 2008 at 1:50pm: we were lucky we had a coupl;e of really good import shops, like..UTOPIA, with excellent mail order services...matter of fact thats were I bought me kerrangs, circus and hit paraders from...I dont thinktape tradingwas that big here..at least in my experience anyway; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by tegar on December 3, 2008 at 7:11pm: Larry you know what i think about the NWOBHM but you know what, i think some people dont know they like NWOBHM they like MAIDEN,PRIEST,MOTERHEAD and SAXON but dont know the term NWOBHM i think VENOM are the most underated of the movment; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chevcher on December 3, 2008 at 8:30pm: the record store where I worked was the only one in the area where you could find such musical treasures. no one else wanted to stock that music but us, the owner ate that up and ordered insane amounts of imports-totally crazy ! I would bring my Kerrang mags into work and give him addys of places he could buy from overseas. once I got involved with the tape trading, I'd bring those in for a listen or three. He was a cool dude, also a huge Beatles fan. I hated like hell to see him close, there will never be another record store like that again-unless I open one ;-); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by larry on December 3, 2008 at 8:44pm: hey! actually chev that wouldnt be a bad idea! lol; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chevcher on December 4, 2008 at 11:50am: I would love to open my own shop like that ! maybe that's what I will do when I retire ;-) ya know like the old hippies had organic restraunts, I'll be an old metalhead with a kick-ass record & tape store . I will introduce future genterations to Saxon,Diamond Head,and so on....; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by AnythinGoes on December 3, 2008 at 9:08pm: NWOBHM is one of the best things that happened to rock/metal. Screaming vocales, searing guitars & machine gun drums, metal broke away from blues & became one of the best sub genres in rock music. Motorhead, Diamondhead, Saxon, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Sweet savage all defined the genre. One of the distinctive feature was the neo clasical influence which resulted in virtuoso playing & awesome vocal ranges. NWOBHM is my favorite genre.

We can count Venom in the NWOBHM, but Venom is more into thrash/black metal, if at all we separate thrash/black from heavy metal.

I agree with Joe Elliot that Leppard is not NWOBHM, cause I think they are more hard rock than metal. So I would call them new wave of British hard rock haha.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by BadAssMetalMaiden on December 3, 2008 at 11:21pm: Sorry babe you know me there is not alot that i can tell you except the stuff (bands) i do know i love....iron maiden,motorhead and judas priest and all on my top 10 bands of all time ....i love them... beyond that i am of no help lolol... oh and larry.. NO I HAVENT YET hehehe; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by larry on December 4, 2008 at 11:19am: i wont hold it against you tash! lol instead i will tell you that there are alot of great bands of that era that went virtually unnoticed that are very much worth checking out!; ▶ Reply to This

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