However, the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (abbreviated as NWOBHM; just don’t try to pronounce that acronym phonetically unless you want to sound like a dumbass) has aged incredibly well since ...

It’s no exaggeration to say that the New Wave of British Heavy Metal saved metal from itself, when it simultaneously replaced and legitimized the efforts of many critically abused ‘70s ...

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.

Although they travel on the same passports, the best of the current crop share few of the flag-waving tendencies that defined the 1980s NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) outfits who’ve so ...

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 ...

Photo by Fernando Catalina Landa. CC BY 2.0 Outside of a hardcore of grizzled loyalists and fanatical record collectors, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) tends to be remembered for what ...

Behold, four of the finest British heavy metal bands from the Thatcher era. Diamond Head may not be known to casual heavy metal fans, but they were part of the new wave of British heavy metal ...

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 ...

progressive metal, shock rock and early punk, then the era of new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM), thrash metal, death metal, stoner metal, speed metal, and further, black metal, metalcore ...

Iron Maiden And The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal uncovers the beginning of the genre, its rise to popularity and eventual decline. It's a fascinating history with interviews from band members ...

Amid the social strife of 1970s Britain emerged NWOBHM, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. New bands from ordinary British towns and suburbs like Iron Maiden, Def Leppard; Saxon, and Girlschool ...