he and British music writer Geoff Barton compiled the album New Wave Of British Heavy Metal ’79 Revisited. Much in the way that his fellow journalist, Garry Bushell, named and codified the punk ...

Barton’s review of this particular show, which emerged in the next issue of the weekly music paper Sounds, carried the first known printed reference to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

This was the new wave of British heavy metal (Or “NWOBHM” – pronounced “nuh-wob-um”) and for a while it seemed it might remake rock in its own image. “England was a bit chaotic at the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As inelegant acronyms go, NWOBHM was at least onomatopoeic: an approximation of metal’s thudding ...

The vanguard of the "new wave of British heavy metal," Saxon snagged eight U.K. Top 40 albums in the 1980s, including four U.K. Top 10 albums and a couple of Top 5 albums. They're an English heavy ...