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I'm starting to get into the New Wave of British Heavy Metal a bit. Here are some of my favorite albums:

Def Leppard - Pyromania

Motorhead - Ace of Spades

Venom - Black Metal

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

Saxon - Power & The Glory

Judas Priest - British Steel

 

Are there any albums I should check out that are similar to these?

 

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14 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

I'd recommend Angel Witch, must admit I'm not overly across the NWOBHM.

 

Also not to be that guy but Judas Priest, Mötorhead, and Venom were never part of the NWOBHM.

I checked out the Angel Witch album, and I liked it alright. I’ll listen to it again at some point.

Since the New Wave of British Heavy Metal was from the late 70s to the early 80s, how are Judas Priest and Motörhead not a part of that movement? 

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23 hours ago, Parker said:

I second Angel Witch, and agree that Judas Priest, Venom, and Motorhead are not NWOBHM. Here's a couple cool NWOBHM albums:

Diamond Head  -  Lightning to the Nations

Tank - Filth Hounds of Hades

Thanks for the album recommendations. The Diamond Head album was pretty good, but I haven’t listened to the Tank album yet. I might check it out in the next few days.

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3 hours ago, Parker said:

No prob. Did you notice how that album is full of riffs Metallica stole? 

Other than the fact that Metallica covered “Am I Evil?”, I didn’t notice any riffs being stolen by Metallica. However, I am starting to notice a similar sound between the New Wave of British Heavy Metal stuff and thrash metal.

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On 8/1/2018 at 3:52 AM, MetalheadFromBama said:

I checked out the Angel Witch album, and I liked it alright. I’ll listen to it again at some point.

Since the New Wave of British Heavy Metal was from the late 70s to the early 80s, how are Judas Priest and Motörhead not a part of that movement? 

Because they don't share any sonic similarity to the NWOBHM and pre-date the movement. This is something which has been repeatedly discussed so I'm not exactly rushing to cover old ground.

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Meh. This is an old canard that attracts opinions from a bunch of fucking kids who weren't even there when the shit hit the fan. The concept NWOBHM itself was an invention ... but it's never the less very interesting to hear how "thrash mertal" was a genre waiting to be born out of that early 1980s sound. You should probably not waste a lot of time on trying to "understand" what happened ... only accept that it was that moment in time and space, that required heavy metal to make sense.

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On 7/31/2018 at 8:22 PM, MetalheadFromBama said:

how are Judas Priest and Motörhead not a part of that movement? 

The New Wave Of British Hair Metal (NWOBHM) started when Motorhead released the album "Overkill" in March 1979. In hindsight, the very concept seems little but a fanciful way to promote Iron Maiden ... but people are the monkeys that they are so they like to make up shit and give it names. If a lot of them agree, this becomes "the truth". Either way, the NWOBHM was pretty much over by the year 1982. The principal surge was in the year 1980 ... before "big money" had its attention shifted in this direction.

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Witchfinder General, Diamond Head, Satan and Iron fucking Maiden. 

Witchfinder General gets extra points for having hilarious tracks championing alcohol and drug usage and having babes with beautiful tits on their album covers.

Some say God, some say faith
I say sex, drugs, rock and beer
My beeee-UH (ee-uh ee-uh ee-uh)

So awesome...

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On ‎9‎/‎18‎/‎2019 at 3:26 AM, TilDeathDoUsBarf said:

Witchfinder General, Diamond Head, Satan and Iron fucking Maiden. 

Witchfinder General gets extra points for having hilarious tracks championing alcohol and drug usage and having babes with beautiful tits on their album covers.

Some say God, some say faith
I say sex, drugs, rock and beer
My beeee-UH (ee-uh ee-uh ee-uh)

So awesome...

The tits are always a bonus

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NWOBHM is pretty much my favourite genre/movement in metal, loads of great bands;

Iron Maiden

Samson

Saxon

Angel Witch

Tytan

Raven

Tank

Praying Mantis

Blitzkrieg

Satan

Hell

Def Leppard (First Album)

Witchfinder General

Warfare

Tygers Of Pan Tang

Holocaust

Diamond Head

Savage

Quartz

Demon

 

Constantly looking for more great NWOBHM so if anyone has any suggestions please go ahead.

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On ‎9‎/‎26‎/‎2019 at 11:50 PM, H34VYM3T4LD4V3 said:

NWOBHM is pretty much my favourite genre/movement in metal, loads of great bands;

Iron Maiden

Samson

Saxon

Angel Witch

Tytan

Raven

Tank

Praying Mantis

Blitzkrieg

Satan

Hell

Def Leppard (First Album)

Witchfinder General

Warfare

Tygers Of Pan Tang

Holocaust

Diamond Head

Savage

Quartz

Demon

Savage

 

Constantly looking for more great NWOBHM so if anyone has any suggestions please go ahead.

Dude there was a lot of bands from Sweden at the time playing NWOBHM just they weren't from England, like Mindless Sinner, Rising and Randy from Denmark. I wonder if you ever heard of them. There is a site called Vibrations of Doom that has a  classic albums section, everything goes by alphabetical order, at least half of this guys collection is NWOBHM and you can listen to it all streaming for free. I found out about a lot of classic NWOBHM on there. Really rare stuff on there, bands that only had 1 7 inch release etc. Here's a few lesser known bands I like that I think you might too. Just in case you are looking for more.

http://www.vibrationsofdoom.com/test/

I'm sure this music is considered tame by today's standards but I still love it. It's still got the heavy in with the melody. Everyone forgets there was metal before the extreme stuff came out.

Randy (Denmark), if you like Tokyo Blade, you'll dig this.

Hels (Sweden)

Witch Cross (UK)

Charger (UK)

Slander (UK)

Persian Risk (UK)

Rising (Sweden)

 

Gotham City (Sweden)

 

Inner Sanctum (US)

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On 3/23/2021 at 6:50 PM, Strawberry said:

The band Magnum often get overlooked in discussions like this so I'll mention them here. On a storyteller's night is a great album. 

strawberry ive got tickets to see magnum live. hopefully im going to get to see them soon. keeps on getting delayed because of covid.  on a story tellers night is classic track, vigilante too is great. not convinced there a nwobhm band but there you go. they was always a very good hard rock band for me. out of interest whats your favourite album of theres?

On 10/2/2019 at 11:51 AM, the_thrashing said:

Dude there was a lot of bands from Sweden at the time playing NWOBHM just they weren't from England, like Mindless Sinner, Rising and Randy from Denmark. I wonder if you ever heard of them. There is a site called Vibrations of Doom that has a  classic albums section, everything goes by alphabetical order, at least half of this guys collection is NWOBHM and you can listen to it all streaming for free. I found out about a lot of classic NWOBHM on there. Really rare stuff on there, bands that only had 1 7 inch release etc. Here's a few lesser known bands I like that I think you might too. Just in case you are looking for more.

http://www.vibrationsofdoom.com/test/

I'm sure this music is considered tame by today's standards but I still love it. It's still got the heavy in with the melody. Everyone forgets there was metal before the extreme stuff came out.

Randy (Denmark), if you like Tokyo Blade, you'll dig this.

Hels (Sweden)

Witch Cross (UK)

Charger (UK)

Slander (UK)

Persian Risk (UK)

Rising (Sweden)

 

Gotham City (Sweden)

 

Inner Sanctum (US)

the_thrashing

Gotham city have a good name im going to check them out after listening to lightning to the nations again by diamond head. i can hear how mettalica was influenced by lighting........ album though. 

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