NWOBHM

by **Bestial Bill** on Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:15 pm

Lesser known, but utterly brilliant NWOBHM:

Virtue - We Stand to Fight 7"
Chateaux - Young Blood 7", Chained and Desperate, Fire Power
Y Diawled - Noson Y Blaidd 7"
Ricochet - Midas Light 7" (get it here: http://www.midaslight.com/mp3s.html)
Bleak House - Rainbow Warrior 7"
Tellurian - Reborn 7"

There's a lot of great stuff from this period, but also a lot of shite that tends towards AOR.

by **Darkweasel** on Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:58 pm

I started getting my metal education toward the end of it's run but to me the three best bands of the genre were:

Obviously there were loads of others (I still remember the first time I heard The Tygers of Pan Tang and Venom on the old Channel 4 programme ECT) but these three bands just summed up the genre perfectly.

by **Resilience Records** on Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:49 pm

ahhh! can't believe i've missed this thread!

have recently been really getting into NWOBHM big time, i love the authentic nievatiy (wow that must be spelt sooo wrong) of it. its raw and powerful and exactly what heavy metal should sound like. its such a true and pure genre (in general) and really sounds like the age of a new era (which it totally was).

looking forawrd to checking out some of Bill suggestions, i trust them to all to be truely genius... or my money back?...

by **Bangover** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:30 am

NWOBHM is teh sex. Such a great genre and full of top notch bands. My personal fav tho is Angel Witch

by **phodg** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:40 am

Witchfinder General were also very good. And Pagan Altar.

by **jonny_boy34** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:57 am

It's the best genre of all time (along with prog). I need to hear more obscure amazing bands. Too many bands get overshadowed by the might of Maiden and Priest (although that's because Maiden and Priest are better than anyone else, but still, there are many nice boys), and indeed I shall investigate further at some point. There are also loads of shit poser bands though who think they're NWOBHM but are really poncey twats who just want to show off their "great" voice of high range. But as with any genre, if you sift through the shit you will find some lovely sweetcorn. What a brilliant analogy.

by **Immortalicide** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:12 am

phodg wrote:Witchfinder General were also very good. And Pagan Altar.

There was a guy on countdown about 4 weeks ago wearing a pagan altar shirt :shock:

by **Mazz** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:22 am

I bought the HELLANBACH anthology. It was poo. Witchfinder General...they rock.

by **James** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:02 pm

jonny_boy34 wrote:There are also loads of shit poser bands though who think they're NWOBHM but are really poncey twats who just want to show off their "great" voice of high range.

Otherwise known as Power Metal? :wink:

Mazz wrote:Witchfinder General...they rock.

Yeah, I can't get enough of their stuff! The Battlewitch track Doom or Die reminds me quite a bit of them, that's a really catchy song!

by **Mazz** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:16 pm

James wrote:
jonny_boy34 wrote:There are also loads of shit poser bands though who think they're NWOBHM but are really poncey twats who just want to show off their "great" voice of high range.

Otherwise known as Power Metal?

Mazz wrote:Witchfinder General...they rock.

Yeah, I can't get enough of their stuff! The Battlewitch track Doom or Die reminds me quite a bit of them, that's a really catchy song!

Cheers. It is designed for crowd participation. We have yet to play on large enough stage for this to take full effect.

If this was 1981 I would have that on the A side and Merlin's riff on the B side.

by **jonny_boy34** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:46 pm

Merlin's Ryffe is amazing. It makes me hold out a fist of power to the sky. That is a sign of real metal of power and glory.

by **Mazz** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:52 pm

jonny_boy34 wrote:Merlin's Ryffe is amazing. It makes me hold out a fist of power to the sky. That is a sign of real metal of power and glory.

You are a kind sir.

by **Lev** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:08 pm

James wrote:
jonny_boy34 wrote:There are also loads of shit poser bands though who think they're NWOBHM but are really poncey twats who just want to show off their "great" voice of high range.

Otherwise known as Power Metal?

/kick in face

by **jonny_boy34** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:11 pm

Also known as Queensryche.

by **boovidge** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:22 pm

im seeing queensryche with Thin Lizzy later this year, are they really shit? Never heard them.