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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.
Jun 6, 2024 · As the 1970s hurtled towards its conclusion, a new wave of heavy bands from all corners of the United Kingdom sparked off a grass-roots revolution, rewriting the rule book on how things could be done and giving their more established counterparts a shot in the arm.
May 8, 2015 · Revolution's Impact Continues to Reverberate. That's perhaps the greatest legacy of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal: generating a musical butterfly effect that would spawn virtually...
Feb 15, 2022 · The New Wave of British Heavy Metal came into focus in May 1979. Its heyday was brief — maybe a couple of years — and it was brought to a close when Def Leppard released their album Pyromania...
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 were more or less forcibly identified ...
The term “New Wave of British Heavy Metal” (NWOBHM) was coined by journalist Geoff Barton in the May 1979 issue of the British music newspaper Sounds. This term was not just a label; it was a declaration of the arrival of a new era in heavy metal.
In a two-page spread in the music weekly in May 1979, Barton christened the scene the “new wave of British heavy metal”. It was a mouthful, but it stuck. Kay would eventually start...
