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.

The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) pushed forth from the UK hot on the heels of punk, merging punk’s unfettered ferocity with art rock intricacy and musicianship amidst the churning ...

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 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 ...