@@jmagowan12 I did have a metal website since around 98-99, but I started doing interviews in 2001 so I call that the starting point since I don't remember when I uploaded the site. It's no longer online and it was actually the first thrash metal site on the internet back then. I have 100+ interviews on my hard drive, I hope to do something with them some day. :)
Funny, the last album you mentioned, I had. I had the cassette in my walkman waiting around my church for our youth group meeting to start. My priest, Father Michael, asked what I was listening to, just out of curiosity. I slowly said "Uuuhhh...Grim Reaper...Rock You To Hell...". Always the cool, young priest, he told me to pop the tape in the stereo in his office. As he bobbed his head to the beat, he said "When I was young, grownups we're terrified of their kids listened to Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, The Doors, and stuff like that. It doesn't do any good to freak out and ban music, because that will drive the kids away, deeper into the counter culture." I think that between my parents, and Father Michael, I was pretty fortunate.
Ideas for future episodes: 1-)First Wave of European Heavy Metal (1980-83) Focusing on German, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Spanish, Dutch, Belgian, French, Swedish and Italian scenes 2-) Metal Behind the Iron Curtain (1980-88) Focusing on Metal bands from Russia and Eastern Bloc states
@@RuthlessMetalYT Here are my suggestions for new segments 1) The beginning of Canadian Metal 2) The birth of European Power Metal 3 ) The Rise of Japanese/ Asian Metal
Nwobhm is weird because only a couple bands really remained known afterwards. Def Leppard and Iron Maiden became huge and venom went the opposite direction being really well known underground, everything else just kinda got forgotten unfortunately, my personal favs are venom, angel witch, withfynder general, diamond head, blitzkrieg, satan, raven.
Diamond head made a big mistake having the singers mum as manager bud Prager a big us manager wanted to sign them he had just had major success with foreigner (number one album foreigner 4 and single waiting for a girl like you) because she had never heard of him she said no but with his backing they could have been as big as maiden
I lived through all of this as a teenager and Saxon was the first gig I went to in 1980, on the Strong Arm of the Law tour…good times, I agree that it was all over by 85, probably had gone by 84 to be honest. I remember seeing Metallica at Donnington in 1985 and you could see the change had happened My favourite NWOBHM albums were Saxon’s The Eagle has Landed and probably the first Iron Maiden album
Same here. That was a brilliant period when I first started going to concerts. Saw a lot of the bands such as Motorhead with Saxon supporting, Maiden on their first tour, Diamond Head, Tygers, Leppard, Sansom, Praying Mantis and Priest. Tommy Vance and Geoff Barton are blasts from the past! Great days.
In 1984 the writing was on the wall. The big bands had already "made it" and it looked pretty bleak if one was expecting a lesser outfit to rise above with a hit record. Over here in the US, the Sunset Strip bands were making it and Thrash was really beginning to make waves though Kerrang hated the hell out of a lot of it in reviews. in 1985 it was all over. Personally, with the exception of Iron Maiden i went straight into Thrash and beyond. Last NWOBHM record i picked up during that time was Grim Reaper's Fear No Evil.
After 'On Through the Night' came out, I thought they were gonna be a modern Led Zepp, then MTV destroyed 'em like a lot of other bands. Hell Great White originally was very heavy.
Their first album was great, Rocks Off, Satelite, Rock Brigade, they could have chosen to be a great band instead of choosing to be a shite one. Few shite bands do it by choice, they usually do it through lack of talent. Def Leppard are the exception.
I was born in 1970 so by 1980 it was perfect timing for heavy metal to start creeping on me. Still a metal fan at 52. My parents generation had The Beatles, we got NWOBHM. 😎🤘
Iron Maiden and Saxon where my favorite bands of the genre but two albums i really love are Def Leppards' Pyromania and Girlschools' Screaming blue murder
What an exciting travel through time! Exzellent! Outstanding! I' m from 1964 and was lucky enough to live in this period. So much great stuff und memories.
Being an American, in the late 1970s, I was reading Creem and Circus magazines for articles on hard rock bands (too bad I didn't know about Sounds magazine at that time). By 1979, one of those magazines featured an "Is Heavy Metal Dead?" issue. I read the article and thought, NO WAY! At that time we had Van Halen, AC/DC, Scorpions, Rainbow, Judas Priest, etc... Even though punk, disco, and new wave were big at that time, I had no doubt that hard rock/heavy metal was going to live on. Then in 1980, there was an article in one of those magazines I was reading, and it featured a new heavy metal scene happening in England. I saw the names Saxon, Iron Maiden, and Def Leppard. OK, then with the releases of 3 BIG albums in 1980, "Heaven and Hell," "Back in Black," and "British Steel," plus that article I read, plus I got hold of a cassette tape in my high school (in New York) featuring NWOBHM bands (man, I wish I still had it), I was most certainly a NWOBHM fan in the year 1980. I bought Iron Maiden's debut album and got my friends into it. Eventually, there was record shop I went to that had import records, patches, pins, etc... and to top it off in 1981, my friends and I made the trek from Queens to Manhattan to see Iron Maiden open for Judas Priest in July 1981. I remember seeing a girl standing in line outside the venue wearing an "On Through the Night" t-shirt and said I want that! It was all such an experience to be young at that pivotal time (late 1970s/early 1980s), coming from Aerosmith, KISS, Boston, Ted Nugent, and Rainbow, straight head-on into the burgeoning NWOBHM scene, that catapulted heavy metal into the 1980s. I couldn't find an Iron Maiden shirt in 1980, so I went to a mall and had one made up on a raglan shirt: it had "Iron Maiden" on the front and "Heavy Metal Rules" on the back (I don't have this shirt anymore). So, in 1979, things were coming apart with Aerosmith (no Joe Perry), KISS (disco?), and Black Sabbath (no Ozzy), but it didn't take long for my spirits to perk up in 1980.
NWOBHM is my fav metal genre. All my favorite bands come from it: Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Saxon, Angel Witch, Venom, Diamond Head, and Witchfinder General
Great presentation and a fine NWOBHM primer. One small correction. The founder of Neat Records and Impulse Studio was Dave Woods, not Woodyger. I would contend that the NWOBHM is alive and well to this day with Angel Witch, Blitzkrieg and Satan all releasing new albums over the past ten years and in the case of Blitzkrieg over the past 25+ years. And of course Raven have been chipping away without stop.
This is actually a very good summary of the NWOBHM movement. A few things I wanna add: - Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show used to play a lot of Progressive Rock in its first year, by 1980 it was taken over by Heavy Metal/Hard Rock. - First ever NWoBHM single is Samson's 'Telephone', a self-produced single which charted in that Neal Kay HM charts in late 1978 (Clive Burr on drums!) - I'd say NWoBHM happened between '79-'82 and 1983 was the year it started to fade away. Classic Rock magazine did a nwobhm special issue a few years ago and most musicians agreed that by the end of 1983 it was over.
Yes, the prime years were certainly 1980-1982. But for decades NWOBHM was more or less described as 79-85 but I've seen more and more people that want to say that it was over by 84 or 85 and maybe so. Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT The thing is most of the '84\'85 releases are from those left-over bands from the early 80s NWoBHM scene. Anyway this was a great short documentary ;)
I disagree first ever nwobhm recording was Quartz Mainline riders that song is more heavy, Samson's telephone is more rock n roll. However Im not a fan of thundersticks playing the drums on head on are annoying and too poppy
@@XenoMorphGaming79 Clive Burr plays on that Samson single :) Quartz is too early to be nwobhm, when they released their album in '77, there was no wave of HM around them. Also, Samson's recording is a self-produced independent single (which's a characteristic of the nwobhm culture), whereas Quartz released their first album thru a big label.
This was my prime teen years, thanks for bringing back great memories. I owned just about all these albums. I'm still listening and turned on this music to my sons. We are all going to see Maiden in Nov.
1979 to 1985 were my teenage years, I remember most of these bands and had many of these albums and saw a lot of them in concert. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.🤘
Thanks for this! Right on and enjoyed all the content of bands that I even questioned when putting together my NWOBHM playlist a couple months ago. Keep it coming Broman! Cheers! 🍻
One more incredibly significant 1980 release was the album Axe Attack. Metal for Muthers was a small scale release, Axe Attack was by K-Tel and had prime time TV commercials for it on National TV. Another long forgotten thing was the Heavy Metal Box. A square cardboard box the size of 45" singles. It was decorated heavy metal style and had about 50 Metal singles in it. It was designed to sit on the counter of every record shop. So when people went the the counter they saw it. In it was not the latest metal singles but instead classics from the last decade. This encouraged loads of kids who had gone in to buy a pop single to buy a classic metal one out of curiosity.
My brother had Axe Attack. I can't remember much that was on it. Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent, I remember. My first metal lp was a compilation called Heavy with Iron Maiden, Rush and Motorhead, among other, actually less heavy songs (like Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh out of The Eagles???). It was advertised on TV with the slogan 'Your mother won't like it - but you will'! In truth, I only liked about half of it. Evidenced to this day by the fact that, because I was 13 or something, I took a bic biro and put either a tick, a cross, or 'ok' next to every song on the back cover. Meatloaf's Bat Out Of Hell had a cross next to it and Journey's Don't Stop Believin' (on an album called Heavy!) had ok next to it. I'm not sorry. In The Heat Of The Night was on it, as well (✔️).
@@LouisWinthorpe622 Axe Attack 1 and 2 are on youtube if you search, another one I remeber I had was Heavy Duty a weird mix of April Wine and Iron Maiden on the same album.
Thanks for this video. You were both thorough and to the point. This should be a valuable resource for anyone getting into this scene and for those of us who know the major and mid tier stuff and want to find those obscure gems.
Tytan’s Rough Justice was recorded in 1982 at the peak, but was only released in 1985 after the band had split! (Reformed in 2012 and we’re still playing live and writing) because record companies went bankrupt. This happened to a lot of nwobhm bands so release date chronology doesn’t always represent where the bands were active. Band’s like Tytan were gigging a lot and appearing on Radio 1s Friday Rock Show where many fans recorded bootleg cassettes that became as important as official releases. Thanks for an interesting video.
@@RuthlessMetalYT delay yes but 3 years is excessive!!!. If Rough Justice has been released in 82 rather than 85 it would have sounded much fresher and possibly would have meant Tytan would have stayed together, toured and even recorded more. Record labels have a lot to answer for.
Blast from the past 👍I bought the 'blind men and fools' ep when it came out in 82' so at least yous had something out at the time. Tommy vance greatest rock dj of all time rip grand metal meister🤜🤘🤛 I remember listening every Friday night in anticipation of all new stuff that was being released and the sessions and you can't forget 'the Friday night connection' ah all the memories😊
Really good to see you give Warfare a shout. Loved them in the day. Hanging around with post-punk mates, into Expolited, GBH etc. Warfare & Venom were the crossover that unified us.
Dude,I have to Tell something,Your Channel is one of The best,amazing Channel with great informations about Metal,about so many different bands that headbangers love.
Congratulations for this excellent presentation! Two bands that worth mentioning as well, are Damascus (Open Your Eyes EP, 1984) and Chariot (The Warrior LP, 1984).
This was awesome. And you cost me a coupla quid. Thanx. And besides the Big Three, my favorite NWOBHM release has always been "Wild Cat" by Tygers of Pan Tang
Yeah, NWOBHM is amazing, all the underground bands from this era are more or less amazing, at least if it's not too much pub rock or boogie like some bands were. Cheers!
Yeah, but during that time, the genres were closer tied I think, speed was just slightly faster heavy metal, black metal the same but with a darker image, etc. :)
Excelent Job !!! I liked it very much ...keep on with the metal Moments in timeline ,i always found it hard to pack all this info !!! All My 80s friend must know see this.
Great Job on this brother. I was an early American follower of this stuff. We had to find issues of Kerrang and Aardschok at local record stores that supported imports.
yeah, crazy times. Thanks for the memories! Dated my GF in '77, married in '79. After years of BS, LZ, LS and UFO, tried to mix with Ambrosia, Chris Rea and things She liked. I did, too. Get Hell Bent For Leather as a gift on a cassette with UFO Lights Out. Killer. Bought Lep's On Thru The Night. Loved it. Covered Wasted in a band, '82. I can go on but will end with buying IM's Killer.... Different but different ;) Abit speedy but loved it after time. New territory. saw them twice. Rock on.
I was born in 1961 and have beed buying albums since 1970, wih the money I got to go to the local fairground attraction which arrived at our village twice a year. You know, bumper cars and BB shooting stands and all that. At first I was into bands like Slade and Sweet, buying their singles (45rpm vinyl recordings) but ever since I heard the announcement of Deep Purple's new record in early 1972, "Machine Head" I knew what I liked and I switched from singles to albums. The term "Heavy Metal" didn't come on our radar until indeed 1977 with the release of Priest's "Sin After Sin" album. Because that album was different. I did security jobs at gigs ever since 1979 and was at the 1980, 81, 82 and 1983 Reading Festival concerts, so, I was right in the middle of the NWOBHM movement, without knowing it at the time. I saw bands at some of their first gigs. Bands like Iron Maiden, Saxon, Def Leppard, Angelwitch, Diamond Head, Girlschool, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Holocaust, Quartz, Raven, Vardis, Budgie, Weappon, Praying Mantis, etc. At the time, in the early seventies, we didn't call Black Sabbath or Deep Purple's music heavy metal. We called it hard rock. I've seen a few thousands of bands over the last 40 years or so, and only a handfull would to me get the moniker of "heavy metal band". Most of them are "just" hard rock bands. But you are probaly too young to understand the difference, eh? You have to have lived through the era to truly understand...
Enjoying this. Nice to see a mention for Marseille who’s legacy was children’s television presenter Neil Buchanan. There is a great clip on YT of him interviewing Gary Moore and pretending not to know about guitars. Lots of bands on the periphery like Silverwing and Toad the Wet Sprocket (on the Metal for Muthas album long before the alt rock band of the same name). I’ve seen Magnum mentioned in the comments - quite a big local following but more of a career that ran parallel to the NWOBHM than part of it.
Ah, cool. haven't seen that one. :) I agree, there were several british hard rock and heavy metal bands that had parallel careers, priest, budgie, magnum, black sabbath, etc. :) Cheers!
i got into metal in 1981 - i was 13 and listening to early punk , clash, pistols etc - it was like a spark lit in my head - i remember walking past my local record shop in newport s. wales - roxene records it was called and the owner was putting up a huge poster for iron maiden's killers in the window - i was transfixed by how good the album cover was so went in and bought it - played it and was blown away - i went to see them on this tour not long after in bristol uk and still today the best metal album i have ever heard - still play my original vinyl today and love it - ironically i can't stand them now , they have not made a proper metal album since powerslave, shame really
I love your CZcams channel! Amazing stuff around here everytime you upload something. As the owner of Spotify's most followed NWOBHM playlist called 'NWOBHM Classics 🔥🔥' (cheap plug), I can tell you, that time was magical!
This video brought back so many forgotten memories. This was the music I grew up on, I was only 13/14 but I owned many of these albums! As I got older I got more into Punk and Hardcore I traded in all my NWOBHM for The Melvins, Conflict, Discharge, DRI, Dead Kennedys, etc, a move I will always regret! This video brought the memories because at one point I owned and held in my hand almost 90% of those albums.
In my opinion nwobhm ran from end 79' to mid 82' it started to wain after that,because of 'number of the beast' which took it out of the underground,and into the mainstream! Top job with the timeline👌🤘
Yes, that one and the Def Leppard album definitely made things more mainstream. But I still think that bands like Wolf, Cloven Hoof, Tokyo Blade and a few other post 82 releases needs to be part of the NWOBHM. :) Cheers!
Love your videos. Another NWOBHM band that's good, is Stormqueen. Their 1982 single: Come Silent the World b/w Raising the Roof is kick ass. They now have an anthology called Raising the Roof on HR records. Worth checking out.
To this day I don't understand how Def Leppard are considered as a Metal band, even a Heavy Band? They are a rock/pop band. Great breakdown of the NWOBHM phenomenon. Keep it coming.
The first two Def Leppard albums were solid heavy metal. Their third album, Pyromania, was a bit more radio friendly hard rock, but still had some great heavy riffs and decent songs. After that, they became ever more poppy and lost any metallic edge they once had. If a person liked Bryan Adams and Duran Duran as well as metal, that person would probably continue to enjoy Def Leppard. If not, well, there were always a bunch of teenage girls looking for the next New Kids on the Block, and they would buy new Def Leppard albums. 😆
@@deantodd8103 And everyone likes to blame Def Leppard for some NWOBHM bands going soft (and they do deserve some blame), but bands like Praying Mantis and Tygers of Pan Tang were commercializing their sound even before "Pyromania". And they can't blame that on the US, cuz in the early 80s no one had even heard of those bands across the pond.
Great job, as always! One minor point is that Carrere were not a rock label. They did put out a varied bunch of stuff before Saxon but it was generally a mixture of French artists, pop, jazz and disco. Back in the day, it was quite common for bands on tour to have label-mates as support bands, which could have seen Biff and the boys on tour supported by Sacha Distel and La Belle Epoque!
I started to listed to heavy metal back in 1986. To be honest, I only knew two of nwobhm bands - Iron Maiden and Def Leppard (I only learned about Venom afterwards)
Yeah it was mainly an underground scene with lots of singles and demos but it was there that metal exploded and became a genre and not just something that a handful of bands were doing. Cheers! 🤘🏼
As a 65yr old I enjoyed this trip down memory lane. So many wonderful Album covers (Saxon would have the hoard at their door with pitchforks for the “Innocence “ cover now) admittedly not in the same league as the Blind Faith cover, but can you imagine that today.. Just an opinion but Girls School we’re simply dreadful. A bit like decaffeinated coffee.
Hello ruthless metal nice video man question will you do the best death metal albums of 95-96 out of interest but anyway man love your videos and keep up the good work man absolutely killing with the uploads man keep it up 😁😁😁😁🤟🤟🤟🤟
Congratulations. This is such a great vídeo!!! The only thing I would add is the importance of some of these bands in the early days of Metallica. Even knowing that Metallica s not NWOBHM band, they contributed a lot to make the latest 80's and early 90's generations get to know some of the NWOBHM.
There are albums I’ve only been ever able to listen to on CZcams over the years and periodically I will check to see if some of these have been added to Spotify. Your video reminded me to check on Pariah and all of their music is now available. Thanks! I think it would be pretty rad if you did a video on the history of Satan/Blind Fury/Pariah.
Yes, most singles and stuff like that were released without much fanfare so it was hard to impossible to find the dates for each album, so the timeline is far from complete but hey. :) At least we know the years. Cheers!
Yeah this was a great period to live through. I lived in White Spirit's home town and bought their debut single Backs to the Grind, which I still have. I saw Diamond Head, Samson, Saxon, Raven and others in concert around 1980 such a cool time.
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What? Driving a Tank, with wheels of steel, wearing denim and leather, in the heat of the night, fynding witches and sinful bitches and a harlot called Charlotte, etc?
I own all but the singles from Rush on the chart that you showed at 3:48. KZOK was the hard rock/metal station of Seattle in the late '70s-'82 when they began their transition to classic rock while KISW carried the flag for metal (even though they played a lot of grunge) through the 2000s. That chart shows how I went from hard rock and guitar rock to metal and thrash.
Thanks, I was USAF stationed in Germany 1980-83 and the NWOBHM along with Heavy Metal of Europe was way better than Hollywood except for METALLICA. Now I can revisit many bands forgotten.
I remember hearing Running Free the first time, as a friend had the vinyl. 14 years old, little did I know what a ride I had before me. It hasn't stopped, ha ha.
Great video. My favorite NWOBHM albums are Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind from Iron Maiden and High and Dry and Pyromania from Def Leppard. I have been trying to find some of those Girlshool albums as well
This CZcams channel is a god's gift for heavy metal fans.
Damn, thanks boss! Cheers!
Lemmy? Haha
Really is since 2001
@@RuthlessMetalYT How is it from 2001? Did you run a website called "Ruthless metal".
@@jmagowan12 I did have a metal website since around 98-99, but I started doing interviews in 2001 so I call that the starting point since I don't remember when I uploaded the site. It's no longer online and it was actually the first thrash metal site on the internet back then. I have 100+ interviews on my hard drive, I hope to do something with them some day. :)
Funny, the last album you mentioned, I had. I had the cassette in my walkman waiting around my church for our youth group meeting to start. My priest, Father Michael, asked what I was listening to, just out of curiosity. I slowly said "Uuuhhh...Grim Reaper...Rock You To Hell...". Always the cool, young priest, he told me to pop the tape in the stereo in his office. As he bobbed his head to the beat, he said "When I was young, grownups we're terrified of their kids listened to Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, The Doors, and stuff like that. It doesn't do any good to freak out and ban music, because that will drive the kids away, deeper into the counter culture." I think that between my parents, and Father Michael, I was pretty fortunate.
hehe, cool dude. Cheers!
Ideas for future episodes:
1-)First Wave of European Heavy Metal (1980-83) Focusing on German, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Spanish, Dutch, Belgian, French, Swedish and Italian scenes
2-) Metal Behind the Iron Curtain (1980-88) Focusing on Metal bands from Russia and Eastern Bloc states
Not bad ideas. We'll see what the future holds, it's kinda hard to find the exact release dates for everything but hey. Cheers! 🍻
Super good idea ❤️🔥
@@RuthlessMetalYT Here are my suggestions for new segments
1) The beginning of Canadian Metal
2) The birth of European Power Metal
3 ) The Rise of Japanese/ Asian Metal
Saxon is one of my favorite bands of any genre. They keep on kicking ass and I can't wait for their new record Carpe Deim to drop.
Cheers! 🍻
Nwobhm is weird because only a couple bands really remained known afterwards. Def Leppard and Iron Maiden became huge and venom went the opposite direction being really well known underground, everything else just kinda got forgotten unfortunately, my personal favs are venom, angel witch, withfynder general, diamond head, blitzkrieg, satan, raven.
Yeah that always happens. The same with the bay area thrash scene for example. Cheers!
Blitzkrieg and Satan were very good. they should have been bigger. alot of them though were so ,so or forgotten unfortunately .
Diamond head made a big mistake having the singers mum as manager bud Prager a big us manager wanted to sign them he had just had major success with foreigner (number one album foreigner 4 and single waiting for a girl like you) because she had never heard of him she said no but with his backing they could have been as big as maiden
Venom is huge
My first gig was Motorhead in April 1982 - such a baptism of fire !
I've loved metal ever since🤘 😎🤘
Your very lucky, I can still bring Lemmy back from the dead on You Tube
I lived through all of this as a teenager and Saxon was the first gig I went to in 1980, on the Strong Arm of the Law tour…good times, I agree that it was all over by 85, probably had gone by 84 to be honest. I remember seeing Metallica at Donnington in 1985 and you could see the change had happened
My favourite NWOBHM albums were Saxon’s The Eagle has Landed and probably the first Iron Maiden album
Cool, I was born during this era so I missed it all. :S Cheers! 🍻
Same here. That was a brilliant period when I first started going to concerts. Saw a lot of the bands such as Motorhead with Saxon supporting, Maiden on their first tour, Diamond Head, Tygers, Leppard, Sansom, Praying Mantis and Priest. Tommy Vance and Geoff Barton are blasts from the past! Great days.
In 1984 the writing was on the wall. The big bands had already "made it" and it looked pretty bleak if one was expecting a lesser outfit to rise above with a hit record. Over here in the US, the Sunset Strip bands were making it and Thrash was really beginning to make waves though Kerrang hated the hell out of a lot of it in reviews. in 1985 it was all over. Personally, with the exception of Iron Maiden i went straight into Thrash and beyond. Last NWOBHM record i picked up during that time was Grim Reaper's Fear No Evil.
@@RuthlessMetalYT you didn’t listen to it when you were a baby???
@@mysticmagicsmurfdarklord6844 listened to what?
Man, those diamond head and Angel witch albums are so good
Yes Sir! Cheers!
i can remember when Def Leppard were an actual Metal band.
christ, i'm old
Yeah, they quickly turned to shit. : Cheers!
After 'On Through the Night' came out, I thought they were gonna be a modern Led Zepp, then MTV destroyed 'em like a lot of other bands. Hell Great White originally was very heavy.
Their first album was great, Rocks Off, Satelite, Rock Brigade, they could have chosen to be a great band instead of choosing to be a shite one. Few shite bands do it by choice, they usually do it through lack of talent. Def Leppard are the exception.
Def Leppard was the first metal band I listen to even ozzy too
@@Fiddling_while_Rome_burns Yep, really talented. All about the 'Fortune and Fame'
I was born in 1970 so by 1980 it was perfect timing for heavy metal to start creeping on me. Still a metal fan at 52. My parents generation had The Beatles, we got NWOBHM. 😎🤘
Yeah we got the good shit. hehe
Iron Maiden and Saxon where my favorite bands of the genre but two albums i really love are Def Leppards' Pyromania and Girlschools' Screaming blue murder
Cheers! 🍻
What an exciting travel through time! Exzellent! Outstanding! I' m from 1964 and was lucky enough to live in this period. So much great stuff und memories.
Must have been great. :) Cheers! 🍻
Being an American, in the late 1970s, I was reading Creem and Circus magazines for articles on hard rock bands (too bad I didn't know about Sounds magazine at that time). By 1979, one of those magazines featured an "Is Heavy Metal Dead?" issue. I read the article and thought, NO WAY! At that time we had Van Halen, AC/DC, Scorpions, Rainbow, Judas Priest, etc... Even though punk, disco, and new wave were big at that time, I had no doubt that hard rock/heavy metal was going to live on. Then in 1980, there was an article in one of those magazines I was reading, and it featured a new heavy metal scene happening in England. I saw the names Saxon, Iron Maiden, and Def Leppard. OK, then with the releases of 3 BIG albums in 1980, "Heaven and Hell," "Back in Black," and "British Steel," plus that article I read, plus I got hold of a cassette tape in my high school (in New York) featuring NWOBHM bands (man, I wish I still had it), I was most certainly a NWOBHM fan in the year 1980. I bought Iron Maiden's debut album and got my friends into it. Eventually, there was record shop I went to that had import records, patches, pins, etc... and to top it off in 1981, my friends and I made the trek from Queens to Manhattan to see Iron Maiden open for Judas Priest in July 1981. I remember seeing a girl standing in line outside the venue wearing an "On Through the Night" t-shirt and said I want that! It was all such an experience to be young at that pivotal time (late 1970s/early 1980s), coming from Aerosmith, KISS, Boston, Ted Nugent, and Rainbow, straight head-on into the burgeoning NWOBHM scene, that catapulted heavy metal into the 1980s. I couldn't find an Iron Maiden shirt in 1980, so I went to a mall and had one made up on a raglan shirt: it had "Iron Maiden" on the front and "Heavy Metal Rules" on the back (I don't have this shirt anymore). So, in 1979, things were coming apart with Aerosmith (no Joe Perry), KISS (disco?), and Black Sabbath (no Ozzy), but it didn't take long for my spirits to perk up in 1980.
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NWOBHM is my fav metal genre. All my favorite bands come from it: Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Saxon, Angel Witch, Venom, Diamond Head, and Witchfinder General
Sabbath and Priest actually preceded NWOBHM, they were the pioneers of metal (incl. NWOBHM). :)
Yes, good 'ol british heavy metal. Cheers!
Black Sabbath and Priest aren't NWOBHM even though they are British. They weren't of the New Wave. Cheers!
Great presentation and a fine NWOBHM primer.
One small correction. The founder of Neat Records and Impulse Studio was Dave Woods, not Woodyger.
I would contend that the NWOBHM is alive and well to this day with Angel Witch, Blitzkrieg and Satan all releasing new albums over the past ten years and in the case of Blitzkrieg over the past 25+ years. And of course Raven have been chipping away without stop.
Yeah British Metal is certainly alive, the NWOBHM died decades ago. ;) Cheers!
One of the most important metal movements of all time! Great work, man!
Most definitely, metal wouldn't have been a thing without it. Thanks. Cheers!
THE most important metal movement right after Tony Iommi cutting off his fingertips.
not one of the.. most important !
This is actually a very good summary of the NWOBHM movement. A few things I wanna add:
- Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show used to play a lot of Progressive Rock in its first year, by 1980 it was taken over by Heavy Metal/Hard Rock.
- First ever NWoBHM single is Samson's 'Telephone', a self-produced single which charted in that Neal Kay HM charts in late 1978 (Clive Burr on drums!)
- I'd say NWoBHM happened between '79-'82 and 1983 was the year it started to fade away. Classic Rock magazine did a nwobhm special issue a few years ago and most musicians agreed that by the end of 1983 it was over.
Yes, the prime years were certainly 1980-1982. But for decades NWOBHM was more or less described as 79-85 but I've seen more and more people that want to say that it was over by 84 or 85 and maybe so. Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT The thing is most of the '84\'85 releases are from those left-over bands from the early 80s NWoBHM scene. Anyway this was a great short documentary ;)
I disagree first ever nwobhm recording was Quartz Mainline riders that song is more heavy, Samson's telephone is more rock n roll. However Im not a fan of thundersticks playing the drums on head on are annoying and too poppy
@@XenoMorphGaming79 Clive Burr plays on that Samson single :) Quartz is too early to be nwobhm, when they released their album in '77, there was no wave of HM around them. Also, Samson's recording is a self-produced independent single (which's a characteristic of the nwobhm culture), whereas Quartz released their first album thru a big label.
This was my prime teen years, thanks for bringing back great memories. I owned just about all these albums. I'm still listening and turned on this music to my sons. We are all going to see Maiden in Nov.
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1979 to 1985 were my teenage years, I remember most of these bands and had many of these albums and saw a lot of them in concert. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.🤘
damn, that must have been an awesome time. Cheers!
Excellent timeline. Congratulations for the amazing job!
Thanks boss! Cheers!
Such a great scene with so many amazing bands!
NWOBHM FOREVER! 🤘🏻🇬🇧
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This timeline video is awesome, thank you for creating!
Thank you, yeah it took forever to find all the dates for every release and in most cases I couldn't even find that so I did what I could. :D Cheers!
Thanks for this! Right on and enjoyed all the content of bands that I even questioned when putting together my NWOBHM playlist a couple months ago. Keep it coming Broman! Cheers! 🍻
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One more incredibly significant 1980 release was the album Axe Attack. Metal for Muthers was a small scale release, Axe Attack was by K-Tel and had prime time TV commercials for it on National TV.
Another long forgotten thing was the Heavy Metal Box. A square cardboard box the size of 45" singles. It was decorated heavy metal style and had about 50 Metal singles in it. It was designed to sit on the counter of every record shop. So when people went the the counter they saw it. In it was not the latest metal singles but instead classics from the last decade. This encouraged loads of kids who had gone in to buy a pop single to buy a classic metal one out of curiosity.
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Small scale release? You mean two top thirty albums in the UK. Volume two sold 37,000 +before it was even released in the UK alone.
My brother had Axe Attack. I can't remember much that was on it. Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent, I remember. My first metal lp was a compilation called Heavy with Iron Maiden, Rush and Motorhead, among other, actually less heavy songs (like Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh out of The Eagles???). It was advertised on TV with the slogan 'Your mother won't like it - but you will'!
In truth, I only liked about half of it. Evidenced to this day by the fact that, because I was 13 or something, I took a bic biro and put either a tick, a cross, or 'ok' next to every song on the back cover. Meatloaf's Bat Out Of Hell had a cross next to it and Journey's Don't Stop Believin' (on an album called Heavy!) had ok next to it. I'm not sorry. In The Heat Of The Night was on it, as well (✔️).
@@LouisWinthorpe622 Axe Attack 1 and 2 are on youtube if you search, another one I remeber I had was Heavy Duty a weird mix of April Wine and Iron Maiden on the same album.
I had both Axe Attack albums, they were a great primer to the metal genre. Lots of bands that I heard for the first time there.
Thanks for this video. You were both thorough and to the point. This should be a valuable resource for anyone getting into this scene and for those of us who know the major and mid tier stuff and want to find those obscure gems.
Yeah I tried to throw in some singles and EP's too. Hard to find the release dates but hey. Cheers! 🍻
Tytan’s Rough Justice was recorded in 1982 at the peak, but was only released in 1985 after the band had split! (Reformed in 2012 and we’re still playing live and writing) because record companies went bankrupt. This happened to a lot of nwobhm bands so release date chronology doesn’t always represent where the bands were active. Band’s like Tytan were gigging a lot and appearing on Radio 1s Friday Rock Show where many fans recorded bootleg cassettes that became as important as official releases.
Thanks for an interesting video.
True, but there is always a bit of delay I guess, not often several years but hey. :) Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT delay yes but 3 years is excessive!!!. If Rough Justice has been released in 82 rather than 85 it would have sounded much fresher and possibly would have meant Tytan would have stayed together, toured and even recorded more. Record labels have a lot to answer for.
Blast from the past 👍I bought the 'blind men and fools' ep when it came out in 82' so at least yous had something out at the time.
Tommy vance greatest rock dj of all time rip grand metal meister🤜🤘🤛
I remember listening every Friday night in anticipation of all new stuff that was being released and the sessions and you can't forget 'the Friday night connection' ah all the memories😊
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@@avelinosilvadias Awesome and yes Tommy was a legend!
Ruthless Metal, please never stop! Love this channel and the FB group. These videos take me back to a great time, my brother. Thank you for your work!
Thank you, I light run out of ideas some day. Hehe
This was such a great timeline video. Great research, and great presentation! Thanks for the time warp!
Thank you! Cheers!
NWOBHM is amazing, so many amazing bands that influnced so much. It's also what turned me into a metalhead. Thanks for these videos, mate!
Thank you, yeah it's the birth place for metal more or less. Cheers!
Great job, brings back lots of great memories for me, I feel very lucky to have been around when this all kicked off.
amazing, Cheers! 🍻
Really good to see you give Warfare a shout. Loved them in the day. Hanging around with post-punk mates, into Expolited, GBH etc. Warfare & Venom were the crossover that unified us.
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And Discharge 👌🤘
I think I’ve got a lot of those early singles and albums hidden away somewhere. Takes me back , thank you for this.
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Dude,I have to Tell something,Your Channel is one of The best,amazing Channel with great informations about Metal,about so many different bands that headbangers love.
Thanks boss, I appreciate the support!
The channel that just keeps on giving! Awesome stuff man.
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Congratulations for this excellent presentation!
Two bands that worth mentioning as well, are Damascus (Open Your Eyes EP, 1984) and Chariot (The Warrior LP, 1984).
Yes, I couldn't fit every band in there unfortunately. Cheers!
This was awesome. And you cost me a coupla quid. Thanx.
And besides the Big Three, my favorite NWOBHM release has always been "Wild Cat" by Tygers of Pan Tang
That is a solid record. Cheers!
This was really well done. Quality video as usual my friend, cheers!
Thanks boss. Cheers!
I absolutely LOVE your channel. keep up the great work!
Thanks, I'll try. Cheers!
you can be sure, in the future I will come back to this video and listen to a lot of unnoticed material, great stuff!
Yeah, NWOBHM is amazing, all the underground bands from this era are more or less amazing, at least if it's not too much pub rock or boogie like some bands were. Cheers!
Very informative. That’s why I watch this channel.
Thanks boss!
One wave but an eclectic mix of genres of metal among them.
Yeah, but during that time, the genres were closer tied I think, speed was just slightly faster heavy metal, black metal the same but with a darker image, etc. :)
Awesome video brother! 🤘🏼🔥❤️🔥🔥🔥
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Excelent Job !!! I liked it very much ...keep on with the metal Moments in timeline ,i always found it hard to pack all this info !!! All My 80s friend must know see this.
Thanks boss! I appreciate it. Cheers!
I like how you respect the history of metal.You're very accurate as well.I love this channel.No bullshit,just the facts.🤘
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Great Job on this brother.
I was an early American follower of this stuff.
We had to find issues of Kerrang and Aardschok at local record stores that supported imports.
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yeah, crazy times.
Thanks for the memories!
Dated my GF in '77, married in '79.
After years of BS, LZ, LS and UFO, tried to mix with Ambrosia, Chris Rea and things She liked. I did, too.
Get Hell Bent For Leather as a gift on a cassette with UFO Lights Out. Killer.
Bought Lep's On Thru The Night. Loved it. Covered Wasted in a band, '82.
I can go on but will end with buying IM's Killer.... Different but different ;)
Abit speedy but loved it after time. New territory. saw them twice.
Rock on.
Good times, Cheers! 🤘🏼
Amazing video.Keep up the good work...Thanks.😀👍👍
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I was born in 1961 and have beed buying albums since 1970, wih the money I got to go to the local fairground attraction which arrived at our village twice a year. You know, bumper cars and BB shooting stands and all that. At first I was into bands like Slade and Sweet, buying their singles (45rpm vinyl recordings) but ever since I heard the announcement of Deep Purple's new record in early 1972, "Machine Head" I knew what I liked and I switched from singles to albums. The term "Heavy Metal" didn't come on our radar until indeed 1977 with the release of Priest's "Sin After Sin" album. Because that album was different. I did security jobs at gigs ever since 1979 and was at the 1980, 81, 82 and 1983 Reading Festival concerts, so, I was right in the middle of the NWOBHM movement, without knowing it at the time. I saw bands at some of their first gigs. Bands like Iron Maiden, Saxon, Def Leppard, Angelwitch, Diamond Head, Girlschool, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Holocaust, Quartz, Raven, Vardis, Budgie, Weappon, Praying Mantis, etc. At the time, in the early seventies, we didn't call Black Sabbath or Deep Purple's music heavy metal. We called it hard rock. I've seen a few thousands of bands over the last 40 years or so, and only a handfull would to me get the moniker of "heavy metal band". Most of them are "just" hard rock bands. But you are probaly too young to understand the difference, eh? You have to have lived through the era to truly understand...
Maybe so, but the metal magazines were calling Black Sabbath for heavy metal in the early eighties so both terms were definitely used. Cheers!
Enjoying this. Nice to see a mention for Marseille who’s legacy was children’s television presenter Neil Buchanan. There is a great clip on YT of him interviewing Gary Moore and pretending not to know about guitars.
Lots of bands on the periphery like Silverwing and Toad the Wet Sprocket (on the Metal for Muthas album long before the alt rock band of the same name). I’ve seen Magnum mentioned in the comments - quite a big local following but more of a career that ran parallel to the NWOBHM than part of it.
Ah, cool. haven't seen that one. :) I agree, there were several british hard rock and heavy metal bands that had parallel careers, priest, budgie, magnum, black sabbath, etc. :) Cheers!
This was a good one, loved it👍
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i got into metal in 1981 - i was 13 and listening to early punk , clash, pistols etc - it was like a spark lit in my head - i remember walking past my local record shop in newport s. wales - roxene records it was called and the owner was putting up a huge poster for iron maiden's killers in the window - i was transfixed by how good the album cover was so went in and bought it - played it and was blown away - i went to see them on this tour not long after in bristol uk and still today the best metal album i have ever heard - still play my original vinyl today and love it - ironically i can't stand them now , they have not made a proper metal album since powerslave, shame really
yeah, bands cant record their stuff properly anymore. Cheers!
I love your CZcams channel!
Amazing stuff around here everytime you upload something.
As the owner of Spotify's most followed NWOBHM playlist called 'NWOBHM Classics 🔥🔥' (cheap plug), I can tell you, that time was magical!
It sure was. Nice, my NWOBHM playlist ain't as successful. ;) hehe Cheers!
Really interesting stuff there great video seen one of my favourite albums ,powerslave great work
good times!
Thx you for making this I love NWOBHM
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@@RuthlessMetalYT cheers man long live the new wave 🤘
SIR, THANK YOU for your dedication and work for metal , excellent information 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Thank you. More timelines are coming. I just need some weeks to put 'em together. Cheers!
Awesome video! I'd love to see a USPM documentary some time.
maybe some day.
This video brought back so many forgotten memories. This was the music I grew up on, I was only 13/14 but I owned many of these albums! As I got older I got more into Punk and Hardcore I traded in all my NWOBHM for The Melvins, Conflict, Discharge, DRI, Dead Kennedys, etc, a move I will always regret! This video brought the memories because at one point I owned and held in my hand almost 90% of those albums.
trade 'em back! ;) hehe Cheers!
It's nice to see Fist included in the movement. There's another band named Fist fom Canada that I also used to listen to.Hot Spikes!
Very Appreciated video! Thank you!
Thanks boss, Cheers!
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In my opinion nwobhm ran from end 79' to mid 82' it started to wain after that,because of 'number of the beast' which took it out of the underground,and into the mainstream!
Top job with the timeline👌🤘
Yes, that one and the Def Leppard album definitely made things more mainstream. But I still think that bands like Wolf, Cloven Hoof, Tokyo Blade and a few other post 82 releases needs to be part of the NWOBHM. :) Cheers!
Thank God for Thrash.
Yeah it carried on for a little while after but the 'spirit' in my opinion had gone.
Very good. As usual... Cheers
thanks boss, Cheers!
Love your videos. Another NWOBHM band that's good, is Stormqueen. Their 1982 single: Come Silent the World b/w Raising the Roof is kick ass. They now have an anthology called Raising the Roof on HR records. Worth checking out.
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This channel deserves more subs.
My favourite NWOBHM band is Maiden.
It's only been 10 months, hopefully the channel can continue to grow. :) Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT Hey, best of luck to ya mate. Metal is life!
Great content. Learned a lot.
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Great work. Thanks a lot
Thanks, Cheers! 🍻
They told me that i'm lacking some metal in my online musical content. Subscribed 🤘
thanks boss
Nice job. Like how the backdrop of this video has the same wear as a vinyl sleeve.
Yes, it's an image of a vinyl sleeve. :) Cheers!
To this day I don't understand how Def Leppard are considered as a Metal band, even a Heavy Band? They are a rock/pop band.
Great breakdown of the NWOBHM phenomenon. Keep it coming.
Listen to the Def Leppard EP. It's as heavy as anything. They became a pop/rock band later on. Cheers! 🤘🏼
The first two Def Leppard albums were solid heavy metal. Their third album, Pyromania, was a bit more radio friendly hard rock, but still had some great heavy riffs and decent songs.
After that, they became ever more poppy and lost any metallic edge they once had. If a person liked Bryan Adams and Duran Duran as well as metal, that person would probably continue to enjoy Def Leppard. If not, well, there were always a bunch of teenage girls looking for the next New Kids on the Block, and they would buy new Def Leppard albums. 😆
@@deantodd8103 And everyone likes to blame Def Leppard for some NWOBHM bands going soft (and they do deserve some blame), but bands like Praying Mantis and Tygers of Pan Tang were commercializing their sound even before "Pyromania". And they can't blame that on the US, cuz in the early 80s no one had even heard of those bands across the pond.
@@independenceltd. Tyger's 'The Cage' (1982) sounds so "glam-metallish" that I'd say it was actually quite ahead of it's time
@@MGdelOeste Hanoi Rocks-ish?
My mate Pete was the bassist for witchfynde they supported Def leppard, i used to be their sound guy for years later on during their career
Damn, that must have been awesome!
Nice I remember all of this good job on this one man
Thanks boss, Cheers!
Great job, as always! One minor point is that Carrere were not a rock label. They did put out a varied bunch of stuff before Saxon but it was generally a mixture of French artists, pop, jazz and disco. Back in the day, it was quite common for bands on tour to have label-mates as support bands, which could have seen Biff and the boys on tour supported by Sacha Distel and La Belle Epoque!
Yes, I hope I didn't say that it was a metal label. I didn't talk much about the NWOBHM labels in this one.
I started to listed to heavy metal back in 1986. To be honest, I only knew two of nwobhm bands - Iron Maiden and Def Leppard (I only learned about Venom afterwards)
Yeah it was mainly an underground scene with lots of singles and demos but it was there that metal exploded and became a genre and not just something that a handful of bands were doing. Cheers! 🤘🏼
As a 65yr old I enjoyed this trip down memory lane. So many wonderful Album covers (Saxon would have the hoard at their door with pitchforks for the “Innocence “ cover now) admittedly not in the same league as the Blind Faith cover, but can you imagine that today.. Just an opinion but Girls School we’re simply dreadful. A bit like decaffeinated coffee.
yeah, metal in general is way too offensive for TV these days. :) Cheers!
I can´t stop saying "wooow" with every album you mention, wath a great era
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Great video!
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Hello ruthless metal nice video man question will you do the best death metal albums of 95-96 out of interest but anyway man love your videos and keep up the good work man absolutely killing with the uploads man keep it up 😁😁😁😁🤟🤟🤟🤟
Yes, we're voting on 95 for DM right now in the discord. Cheers!
WOW that's awesome job 👏👏😁🤘🤘
Thanks, Cheers! 🤘🏼
your fb group is pretty cool, introduced me to cool bands. Keep up the good work btw your videos have cool production value
Yeah I'm not responsible for whatever folks post in there so. ;) hehe Thank you! Cheers!
Great Video!THX!!! \m/
Thank you!
Congratulations. This is such a great vídeo!!! The only thing I would add is the importance of some of these bands in the early days of Metallica. Even knowing that Metallica s not NWOBHM band, they contributed a lot to make the latest 80's and early 90's generations get to know some of the NWOBHM.
Yes, but not just Metallica, more or less every 80's metal band owes it to the NWOBHM movement. Thanks and Cheers!
Correct as always! Rock on.
In 1980 those years as a 14year old kid were kick ass.
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There are albums I’ve only been ever able to listen to on CZcams over the years and periodically I will check to see if some of these have been added to Spotify. Your video reminded me to check on Pariah and all of their music is now available. Thanks!
I think it would be pretty rad if you did a video on the history of Satan/Blind Fury/Pariah.
That would be cool. ;) Cheers!
Great video, I took a lot of notes
Thanks, Cheers!
Absolutely fantastic!.
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Thanks boss, Cheers!
Legendary research thanks 👍🏻
Thanks boss, even if I missed some stuff and some albums were hard to find the correct release date on. Cheers!
Thanks! I'm just young enough that these were oldies by the time I started listening to metal, so I've always had a poor grasp of the NWOBHM timeline.
Yes, most singles and stuff like that were released without much fanfare so it was hard to impossible to find the dates for each album, so the timeline is far from complete but hey. :) At least we know the years. Cheers!
JJ's Powerhouse!! I actrually interviewed Jon a good few years ago.
Cool. :)
Yeah this was a great period to live through. I lived in White Spirit's home town and bought their debut single Backs to the Grind, which I still have. I saw Diamond Head, Samson, Saxon, Raven and others in concert around 1980 such a cool time.
Nice. :) Must have been great. Cheers! 🍻
My favorite sub genre of Heavy Metal! I worship Iron Maiden! And so many underrated bands that I’m still discovering.
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Due my birth at 1975, i just missed this one. But i do enjoy still many of these bands. Anyway, thanks for informative video. #respect
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What? Driving a Tank, with wheels of steel, wearing denim and leather, in the heat of the night, fynding witches and sinful bitches and a harlot called Charlotte, etc?
Great history lesson about best years in HM 1979-1983
True! Cheers! 🍻
I own all but the singles from Rush on the chart that you showed at 3:48.
KZOK was the hard rock/metal station of Seattle in the late '70s-'82 when they began their transition to classic rock while KISW carried the flag for metal (even though they played a lot of grunge) through the 2000s.
That chart shows how I went from hard rock and guitar rock to metal and thrash.
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Thanks, I was USAF stationed in Germany 1980-83 and the NWOBHM along with Heavy Metal of Europe was way better than Hollywood except for METALLICA. Now I can revisit many bands forgotten.
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I remember hearing Running Free the first time, as a friend had the vinyl. 14 years old, little did I know what a ride I had before me. It hasn't stopped, ha ha.
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Great video. My favorite NWOBHM albums are Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind from Iron Maiden and High and Dry and Pyromania from Def Leppard. I have been trying to find some of those Girlshool albums as well
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Nice Work ,, Interesting ....
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classic history , respect and love this thank \m/
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soundtrack of my adolescence. THANKS
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