PRAYING MANTIS!!! EVERYBODY LOVES THEM, ON EVERY "NWOBHM TOP" VIDEOS THEY HIT AT LEAST TOP 5, SO WHY THE FUCK THEY AREN'T FAMOUS AT LEAST AS THAT DICKHEAD J.BIEBER?
Great job, but no Mythra or Trespass? Also Saxon were hackneyed old jouneymen bandwagon jumpers. They were previously the dire Son of a Bitch...but I hate to carp as it brings back great memories. Especially James Raid!!! who have refomed!
It all became such a fucking piss poor pantomime afterwards when Bruce Dickinson joined Iron Maiden things started to go down hill and it became another mass market commodity all the sub genres in metal/hard rock that have sprouted since the mid eighties have killed off the soul and melody out of HM, that these musical forefathers had
What a great record collection I'm turning green the more I listen to it. Great mix
Cool list, dude. I'd probably go with (in no order): 1. Persian Risk - Ridin' High 2. Goldsmith - Life Is Killing Me 3. Jaguar - Axe Crazy 4. Sledgehammer - ditto 5. Def Leppard - Rocks Off 6. Geddes Axe - Escape From New York 7. Savage - Ain't No Fit Place 8. Trespass - Bright Lights 9. Mendes Prey - On To the Borderline 10. Toad The Wet Sprocket - Reaching For the Sky 11. Le Griffe - Fast Bikes 12. Heritage - Strange Place To Be 13. Sweet Savage - Take No Prisoners 14. Shiva - Rock Lives On
Oi are ya nutz mate? Ya American or what? Most of yer single before 82 I mean what gives and I think Praying Mantis are prog and like Vardis is not THAT GOOD. And also pleez explain "Love Potion #9" and no Birmingham bands included what rot and don't say Diamond Head are from Birmingham they ain't mate go down the pipe.
I say this guy is trying to include the underrated bands of nwobhm thats why there is no daimond head, moterhead, def lepard, judas priest and angle witch
Its an excellent track - it cannot be denied. Can't remember hearing it when I was that age but I may have. This list is taken from the singles I still own and had I heard it I'm sure I would have bought it.
I was listening to an old cassette tape the other day and came across Wasted by Def Leppard. Don't think it was released as a single so wouldn't qualify for this list but its a good NWOBHM track - shame they sold their soul to sugary sounding crap as they had potential! Check it out.
"Avenger "Too wild to tame" with Brian Ross was great. So was Blitzkrieg and Satan. However, maybe I'm a late bloomer from Jersey USA, Either way, I had access to tons of great NWOBHM by living so close to Manhatten NY. When I was a freshman back in 1981, the 5 best Metal albums were: Iron Maiden (1st LP) Angelwitch (1st LP) Tank - Filthe Hounds of Hades, Raven - Rock until you drop & Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East.
Cool! In 1979 (coming up to my eighteenth year on planet Earth) as well as NWOBHM stuff I was searching out bands (in Reddingtons Rare Records in Birmingham), such as Pink Fairies, Taste, MC5, Godz, Iron Butterfly, Atomic Rooster, King Crimson. My liking for Southern American Rock also led me to the Outlaws, Grand Funk Railroad, Molly Hatchet and Point Blank. It was a time of great discovery! Ps - Judas Priest were not considered part of the NWOBHM scene.
Thank you for posting - this compilation allowed me to get a glimpse of the milieu in which Iron Maiden rose. I love that sound - this is the true sound of heavy metal - what good old times.
Good times indeed - much more about discovery than today - the internet and MTV has killed the mystique that surrounded the album orientated classic rock era!
WTF ?? took me back though, a lot of the best bands missed out, yes Motorhead but what about Angelwitch, i only saw a few good ones there. Fk me guys i wish metal come back again proper. Oh i miss those days. to many cunts got good jobs and lost there way.
Barracuda notes that Girl was a bad choice, and StormTroper in not Tank's best song. All know IM's Running Free and Am I Evil,; when one searches BNOWHM these days it is not to rediscover- it is to hear bands never heard before from the popular outlets. You're on the right path with Tank and Mantis However. I see that Your next upload will be better.
Barracuda notes that this attempt at showcasing the 14 greatest NWOBHM sadly, fails miserably simply because the songs chosen do not induce goosebumped euphoria in the minds of the alive brethern. Girl, love potion, might have sounded okay live, but these are studio recordings here, and it seems very modern it how it's pop-like. Many Tank songs are much better than StormTrooper. You are on the right track with Tank and Praying Mantis, so your next video upload will be much better I see.
Glad to see Withcyfnde anyway. You should have put the moment with the "give em hell" superhigh scream :) . But the whole song & album really kick ass. And Fist seems very interesting... among others. Oh, and Cobra's missing too :p . And others, but Angelwitch or Cobra really deserve to be in that top I believe :D .
I have some "Maniac" t-shirts like young Hetfield wore back in the day. Checkout my 'website' section of my profile if you wanna get one! ... I'd add Radium and Bleakhouse to this list
Cool list, Amoeba, I LOVE my NWOBHM 7" singles! How about these10 treaures: 1. WEAPON - Set the Stage Alight 2. PERSIAN RISK - Ridin' High 3. JAGUAR - Axe Crazy 4. GOLDSMITH -Life Is Killing Me 5. SWEET SAVAGE - Killing Time 6. MENDES PREY - Onto The Borderline 7. SAVAGE - Ain't No Fit Place 8. TYTAN - Blind Men & Fools 9. ROCK GODDESS - Satisfied Then Crucified 10. TOAD THE WET SPROCKET - Reaching for the Sky There is so much cool stuff from that era - it's crazy!
@oi565 that's what musician think about them.but the band has never said something like that.lemmy always says via his songs or interviews that what they played it's nothing but rock n roll.and if you re at least a little bit a motorhead fan you have to admit that their statement is widely more acceptable than anyone else's.
@Lemmy4tw Motorhead might be rock 'n' roll, but they still played a very important part in the NWOBHM. Motorhead can be placed under many genres, so I'm not going to moan that Motorhead are just one genre, because that isn't true.
All this great "classic" or "traditional" heavy metal makes me wish the movie, Heavy Metal, had used an all NWOBHM soundtrack. This kind of stuff always reminds me of fantasy and sci-fi stuff akin to the movie.
Hi, I want you to know I care about your plea for Iron Maiden, and I am pleased to inform you that, even though it pained me to admit their lame music to my list, I have appended "Running Free" to the number 14 slot to please you and only you, my true brother in metal.
For starters try listening to Metallicas "Hit the lights"and Weapons £Set the stage alight" side by side. there ar many comparisons to these 2 songs on youtube. Set the Stage alight was also festured on probably the best known NWOBHM collection "79 Revisited put together by Lars Ulrich.
My Favorite NWOBHM bands are Diamond Head Iron Maiden Samson Jaguar Venom Raven Withhynde White Spirit Girl Angel Witch. Riot as well. Praying Mantis. I will admit Def Leppard's First Album was good I have it.
Don't forget a couple of lesser known bands like Taurus and Zero Zero...Hellenbach were also very very good. My faves were White Spirit (Jan was my inspiration to take the guitar more seriously) and Limelight. Oh and there was also Saracen from Nottingham way. :)
Vardis! We had a support slot with them on the Isle of Wight. They spent 7 hours soundchecking...a 3 piece band! They weren't bloody Rush! We got told to get our gear on 5 minutes before the punters started coming in...TWATS!
Yeah, Black Rose. Check the myspace page at blackroserockband...this doesn't like me putting the full link in so put the myspace thing at the beginning!
I've got the CD 'Bright lights burnin' - very good, also the Neat record compilation CDs with those singles. Plus I found the tape of 'Walk it how you talk it' in the bargain bin of a record store in Milwaukee Wisconsin. I picked it up - I think it was stilll in the plastic wrapping yet.
Good God! Tape!!! Now there's something you don't see everyday! Our drummer still has a BOX of 'No Point Runnin' singles. He hopes to pay off his house one day in maybe 2047! :)
I agree that it started with BEATLES,STONES, THE WHO,CREAM,ZEPPELIN,then Ultra-Prog Deep Purple In Rock, then Sabbath with Paranoid; They had their influences to be sure but those bands kinda held the torch to the age of Metal or whatever genre splicing people do to define "Rock"
they call it nwobhm but wasnt black sabbath doing this shit 10 years prior? genres confuse the shit outta me. seems like the real original is never credited.
Sabbath etc were the FWOBHM (F = first) - only their era has never been posthumously given this title. More usually their era is associated with the birth of heavy metal. Its just semantics - as long as it sounds good who gives a fu*k!
@rockinamoeba Black Sabbath is GOD EVERYONE IS WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING... String Theory and Evolution is not real, Because Black Sabbath is even more REAL!!!!
Love all the bands here, especially Sledgehamer Tank, Jameson Raid, and Fist, some of my favourites next to Venom. Good to see Captured City at #2, well worth it, its my favourite Praying Mantis release/song.
Oh yeah, and I always thought Girl were a lot heavier than their name made them out to be.
The site of personal experience - a great time to be growing up if you were into heavy metal! Still own all the singles in the list and still love to play them!
Holy shit man. i wasn't there but i agree that was a great time for metal, before the glam faggots in L.A. came along. NWOBHM and Thrash are my 2 favorite metal subgenres. it sucks though that alot of these British bands tour or even release albums anymore
Getcha Rocks Off was my favourite of Def Leppard - much better than all that commercial (ie financially rewarding) crap they later sold their souls to!
I live in the US and ordered singles and lps back in the day. I have the 1st 3 Raven singles, also several more from DH, Holocaust, Venom, Jaguar, Violation (from the US). What comps. do you have? Mine are HM Heroes 1&2, Lead Weight, and the Varney Shrapnel US Metal 1-3. I had Neat's 60 of Metal, but sold it. Luckily most of the songs are on Metal Minded comp CD which I've seen a few in the states -got mine used. Comps have great stuff,unfortunately some not on CD. I miss No Quarter's Power&Key
Very nice list but still missing the more important harder bands like satan, angelwitch, jaguar, raven, holocaust and black rose to mension just a few ...
dude good bands. I like the NWOBHM nut never heard of a lotta them. Thats what i like about it, cause there are tonnes of NWOBHM bands that are really good, but just dont get exposure to an audiance.
The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (or NWOBHM is a term coined by rock journalist Geoff Barton to refer to the uprising of literally hundreds of grassroots-level metal bands that formed in Britain circa 1979-1981
Good list! There's just so many to chose from - and this list contains a few I didn't know about!
My personal favourite NWOBHM single of all time was 'Seven Days Of Splendour - Jameson Raid', but I'm probably biased because I've seen them live. I've seen Diamond Head a few times, too. They were good, but Jameson Raid were fuckin' AWESOME live! :-o
Great video but only 14 is a great injustice!!!
Where's Venom's Die Hard ,Rock Goddess's Heavy Metal Rock N Roll,Holocaust's Heavy Metal Mania,Iron Maiden's Purgatory ...
abrasilf 1 week ago
Iron Maiden \m/ Up the Irons!!
slyfox3333 1 month ago
NO BLACK SABBATH NO MOTORHEAD
BZ123456BZ 1 month ago
I would have replaced Running Free with Sanctuary.
drewa1973 1 month ago
PRAYING MANTIS!!! EVERYBODY LOVES THEM, ON EVERY "NWOBHM TOP" VIDEOS THEY HIT AT LEAST TOP 5, SO WHY THE FUCK THEY AREN'T FAMOUS AT LEAST AS THAT DICKHEAD J.BIEBER?
gedsvg 1 month ago
ooh no samson.paul samson and chris aylmer will be turning in their graves,bruce dickinsons finest hour.
1kevpap 2 months ago
I love NWOBHM and this list pretty much rules.
TheMagmagoblin 3 months ago
IRON MAIDEN OWNS ALL!!!
filth69ify1 4 months ago
you choosed great songs but where are Motorhead and Venom?
ter50 5 months ago
@ter50 Motorhead aint NWOBHM dude
disturbedspike 4 months ago
Great job, but no Mythra or Trespass? Also Saxon were hackneyed old jouneymen bandwagon jumpers. They were previously the dire Son of a Bitch...but I hate to carp as it brings back great memories. Especially James Raid!!! who have refomed!
hugobear1 6 months ago
i think the trooper should be number 1, fucking up the irons people
corpralkirsch 6 months ago 4
cryptic fate - odhikar
lightbulbsunattack 6 months ago
IMO I think either Number Of The Beast or am I evil should be number 1
Havent watched it yet btw xD
xMegadethFTWx 6 months ago
Where tf is Battle Hymn from Manowar?
And Rob Halford & co?
SimonLeBonbonbon 8 months ago
I wish I grew up in that era, I would be going to the clubs like the bandwagon/soundhouse to see all of these N.W.O.B.H.M. bands
tetsuyanamamura 8 months ago
i have seen 5 videos like this one, and nobody have Holocaust or Venom on their tops
EtieneyOssip 10 months ago
wow, great to hear triarchy!
ACDCisNiCe 10 months ago
witchhfynde sounds like grim reaper
bonscott55 10 months ago
wytchhfynde sounds like grim reaper
bonscott55 10 months ago
It all became such a fucking piss poor pantomime afterwards when Bruce Dickinson joined Iron Maiden things started to go down hill and it became another mass market commodity all the sub genres in metal/hard rock that have sprouted since the mid eighties have killed off the soul and melody out of HM, that these musical forefathers had
What a great record collection I'm turning green the more I listen to it. Great mix
Runrome 10 months ago
Venom shouls be on this list
Chemicalwarfare84 11 months ago
SabuPtolemy 11 months ago
Watching football and listening to new wave of british heavy metal is amazing . Just like you were in the 80's
kreator397 11 months ago
"What a piece of work is a man!"
rockinamoeba 1 year ago
Oi are ya nutz mate? Ya American or what? Most of yer single before 82 I mean what gives and I think Praying Mantis are prog and like Vardis is not THAT GOOD. And also pleez explain "Love Potion #9" and no Birmingham bands included what rot and don't say Diamond Head are from Birmingham they ain't mate go down the pipe.
TheMagmagoblin 1 year ago
Right with ya' bro !! Magic times !!
TheJetfighter666 1 year ago
Witchfynde = awesomeness
BeconTorpedo 1 year ago
I say this guy is trying to include the underrated bands of nwobhm thats why there is no daimond head, moterhead, def lepard, judas priest and angle witch
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@mrmetalfan365 Diamond Head are there.
DarkMedievalTimes1 1 year ago
@mrmetalfan365 Judas Priest are not considered a NWOBHM band and he has included Diamond Head.
DarkMedievalTimes1 1 year ago
@DarkMedievalTimes1 Actually Judas Priest kind of started the nwobhm
mrmetalfan365 1 year ago
seleção de merda!!!! o cara colocou poucas bandas boas!!!!!!
largadosnanoite 1 year ago
NWOBHM IS THE FUCKING LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
luishdezhdez 1 year ago
Where is Midas light by Ricochet? surely no top ten nwobhm list should be without it!! great to hear this top 14 though.
captainbloodvessell 1 year ago
Its an excellent track - it cannot be denied. Can't remember hearing it when I was that age but I may have. This list is taken from the singles I still own and had I heard it I'm sure I would have bought it.
I was listening to an old cassette tape the other day and came across Wasted by Def Leppard. Don't think it was released as a single so wouldn't qualify for this list but its a good NWOBHM track - shame they sold their soul to sugary sounding crap as they had potential! Check it out.
rockinamoeba 1 year ago
"Avenger "Too wild to tame" with Brian Ross was great. So was Blitzkrieg and Satan. However, maybe I'm a late bloomer from Jersey USA, Either way, I had access to tons of great NWOBHM by living so close to Manhatten NY. When I was a freshman back in 1981, the 5 best Metal albums were: Iron Maiden (1st LP) Angelwitch (1st LP) Tank - Filthe Hounds of Hades, Raven - Rock until you drop & Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East.
EfillanRete 1 year ago
Cool! In 1979 (coming up to my eighteenth year on planet Earth) as well as NWOBHM stuff I was searching out bands (in Reddingtons Rare Records in Birmingham), such as Pink Fairies, Taste, MC5, Godz, Iron Butterfly, Atomic Rooster, King Crimson. My liking for Southern American Rock also led me to the Outlaws, Grand Funk Railroad, Molly Hatchet and Point Blank. It was a time of great discovery! Ps - Judas Priest were not considered part of the NWOBHM scene.
@EfillanRete
rockinamoeba 1 year ago
Is Dio NWOBHM band?
oi565 1 year ago
No
@oi565
rockinamoeba 1 year ago
@oi565 no Dio is an American band but Dio himself is Italian decent but born and grew up in America
mrmetalfan365 1 year ago
@mrmetalfan365 So NWOBHM band has to be from UK?
oi565 1 year ago
@oi565 yes its the new wave of British heavy metal to be a British heavy metal band band you have to the U.K.
mrmetalfan365 1 year ago
@mrmetalfan365 are you sure that it was not just invented in UK?
oi565 1 year ago
@oi565 Dio's american ¬_¬
xMegadethFTWx 6 months ago
Thank you for posting - this compilation allowed me to get a glimpse of the milieu in which Iron Maiden rose. I love that sound - this is the true sound of heavy metal - what good old times.
HasaniSabbo 1 year ago 5
Good times indeed - much more about discovery than today - the internet and MTV has killed the mystique that surrounded the album orientated classic rock era!
@HasaniSabbo
rockinamoeba 1 year ago
@HasaniSabbo Yes Maiden will always rule.
flacoferlife 1 year ago
WTF ?? took me back though, a lot of the best bands missed out, yes Motorhead but what about Angelwitch, i only saw a few good ones there. Fk me guys i wish metal come back again proper. Oh i miss those days. to many cunts got good jobs and lost there way.
Grouter12 1 year ago
OLD TIMES.Thanks from Poland.
Czesiek21 1 year ago
Wheres Bad News
thoomoo 1 year ago
@thoomoo hi, see my band too... search: PERCEPTOR " new days four walls"
fotosesiones 9 months ago
Barracuda notes that Girl was a bad choice, and StormTroper in not Tank's best song. All know IM's Running Free and Am I Evil,; when one searches BNOWHM these days it is not to rediscover- it is to hear bands never heard before from the popular outlets. You're on the right path with Tank and Mantis However. I see that Your next upload will be better.
barraccuddaa 1 year ago
Barracuda notes that this attempt at showcasing the 14 greatest NWOBHM sadly, fails miserably simply because the songs chosen do not induce goosebumped euphoria in the minds of the alive brethern. Girl, love potion, might have sounded okay live, but these are studio recordings here, and it seems very modern it how it's pop-like. Many Tank songs are much better than StormTrooper. You are on the right track with Tank and Praying Mantis, so your next video upload will be much better I see.
barraccuddaa 1 year ago
No Angelwitch ???
Glad to see Withcyfnde anyway. You should have put the moment with the "give em hell" superhigh scream :) . But the whole song & album really kick ass. And Fist seems very interesting... among others. Oh, and Cobra's missing too :p . And others, but Angelwitch or Cobra really deserve to be in that top I believe :D .
RBButcher 1 year ago
I loved this stuff when I was a kid. Still do. I always look for bands who have this classic sound.
jwaller66 1 year ago
awesome list ! but..
Where is wasted from def leppard ? :(
gruenerApfel666 1 year ago
TANK kick ass! always
DouglasDischarger 1 year ago
Missing The One and Only BUDGIE!!!!!!!!!!
hiramnaman 1 year ago
I hold my Nose, closed my Eyes and took a driiiiink!
Mega Song!
ThrashReisball 1 year ago
I have some "Maniac" t-shirts like young Hetfield wore back in the day. Checkout my 'website' section of my profile if you wanna get one! ... I'd add Radium and Bleakhouse to this list
youngmetalattack666 1 year ago
I lovvvvve the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal since I'm a British Metalhead :D \M/ Long live British Steel \m/
ThePoison27 1 year ago
where is DEMON ?
priestjanko 1 year ago
SabuPtolemy 1 year ago
No Angelwitch?
winoguy 1 year ago
Saxon is one of the best band ever..way too underrated. Theres a lot of bands missing from your top notch....
faustoj26a 1 year ago
They Inspired MetallicA
William6likes6Rock 1 year ago
What no SILVERWING????????
wederell1 1 year ago
Witchfynde motherfuckers!!!!!!!!
MrJoeyHolt 2 years ago
Where are Motorhead?
Motorhead215 2 years ago 11
See comment from "ter50" 11 months ago
rockinamoeba 2 years ago
Motorhead were never NWOBHM, just an obscure cult Leather Biker Band at the time. NWOBHM made them...
Redsnappa05 1 year ago 3
@Motorhead215
Motorhead is rock n roll.not nwobhm
Lemmy4tw 1 year ago
@Lemmy4tw Motörhead is heavy metal -.-
oi565 1 year ago
@oi565 Your both right really. Motorhead like to call what they play Rock n Roll. So basically they play rock n roll which sounds like Speed Metal
Hughesy16LFC 1 year ago
@oi565 that's what musician think about them.but the band has never said something like that.lemmy always says via his songs or interviews that what they played it's nothing but rock n roll.and if you re at least a little bit a motorhead fan you have to admit that their statement is widely more acceptable than anyone else's.
Lemmy4tw 1 year ago
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@Lemmy4tw wow, you REALLY dont have a clue what you're talking about.
greyfox92 1 year ago
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@Lemmy4tw Motorhead might be rock 'n' roll, but they still played a very important part in the NWOBHM. Motorhead can be placed under many genres, so I'm not going to moan that Motorhead are just one genre, because that isn't true.
Motorhead215 1 year ago
holocaust!!!
damianbranica 2 years ago
Fist kick ass!
878commando 2 years ago
wha' about overdrive on the run?
migrainband 2 years ago
tank,diamond head and iron maiden is best
pyromanician 2 years ago
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how did witchfynde get in this list, as for Maiden there overrated
GatorWarrior14 2 years ago
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Most not all of the NWOBHM bands were hard rock not metal
sprimusp 2 years ago
All this great "classic" or "traditional" heavy metal makes me wish the movie, Heavy Metal, had used an all NWOBHM soundtrack. This kind of stuff always reminds me of fantasy and sci-fi stuff akin to the movie.
CodyRicheson 2 years ago
Two different bands Tygers of Pan Tang. With Jon Deverill and John Sykes they were decent, first album with Jess Cox was awful.
69johnholmes 2 years ago
where are Iron Maiden????
NUCLEARDOLPHIN 2 years ago 18
I've been asking that question since I first saw them back in June 1980 - raw and brilliant. On this list they are No 14.
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@rockinamoeba i think they are No 1..... realy.....
RockOnBand 1 year ago
@NUCLEARDOLPHIN Running free
pennenbuisje 1 year ago
@NUCLEARDOLPHIN It was there. It's your prob if u don't notice Di'Anno
brutalictesku 1 year ago
@NUCLEARDOLPHIN
Hi, I want you to know I care about your plea for Iron Maiden, and I am pleased to inform you that, even though it pained me to admit their lame music to my list, I have appended "Running Free" to the number 14 slot to please you and only you, my true brother in metal.
TheMagmagoblin 1 year ago
@NUCLEARDOLPHIN #14 is Iron Maiden...Running Free
RemusStelistu 10 months ago
@NUCLEARDOLPHIN seriously man, up the irons
corpralkirsch 6 months ago
Weapon's "Set the stage alight" should be in there. A very influential song released in 1980
leostrater 2 years ago 7
Afraid it's not in my collection. Who did it influence?
rockinamoeba 2 years ago 2
For starters try listening to Metallicas "Hit the lights"and Weapons £Set the stage alight" side by side. there ar many comparisons to these 2 songs on youtube. Set the Stage alight was also festured on probably the best known NWOBHM collection "79 Revisited put together by Lars Ulrich.
leostrater 2 years ago 2
@rockinamoeba Metallica...Listen to Hit the lights:)
Weaponx58 1 year ago
hola,metaleros,para mi Saxon forever,pero con mucho respeto atodas las bandas.
1727able 2 years ago
My Favorite NWOBHM bands are Diamond Head Iron Maiden Samson Jaguar Venom Raven Withhynde White Spirit Girl Angel Witch. Riot as well. Praying Mantis. I will admit Def Leppard's First Album was good I have it.
Wehategod 2 years ago
Diamond Head great. Local band for me so saw them loads of times.
Riot also great but they are a heavy metal band formed in New York City in 1975.
Saw them support Sammy Hagar in 1980 and first ever Monsters of Rock.
Also saw Maiden in 1980 with Prayin Mantis as support which was one of my favourite gigs from that era.
Do a google search for Rockinamoeba - its a classic rock journey!
rockinamoeba 2 years ago
Hey, I'm not englishman, and I scream for help!
Does the Jameson Raid means James on Raid?
de6at6he6nd 2 years ago
As far as I know Mr Jameson led a raid against South Afrikas Paul Kruger in the late 1800`s, which led to the Boer War.
So not James on Raid - just Jameson raid
TimBatkin 2 years ago
thank you very much, indeed!!!: )
de6at6he6nd 2 years ago
maiden ftw!
steveharrismetalgod 2 years ago
Are you the real 'Rockin Amoeba!!!'
myampgoesupto11 2 years ago
Vardis Was Rocking When You Little Pukes were in kindergarden
steelassin01 2 years ago
That would make them about 60 years old then as I'm 47! We don't do Kindergarten over this side of the pond mate...we go to school.
wahwah666 2 years ago
you never toured with vardis you're a crappy 90's band
cliffordgirl 2 years ago
Nope...I'm strictly 80's. We didn't tour with Vardis...one gig was enough!
wahwah666 2 years ago
Hey, I know that view of Worcester on your page. I was in Lower Broadheath last weekend and drove up there about 4 times...small world!
wahwah666 2 years ago
savage- anything off Loose/Lethal qualifies , or Tresspass when the woman comes over
Love4SK 2 years ago
Don't forget a couple of lesser known bands like Taurus and Zero Zero...Hellenbach were also very very good. My faves were White Spirit (Jan was my inspiration to take the guitar more seriously) and Limelight. Oh and there was also Saracen from Nottingham way. :)
wahwah666 2 years ago
Vardis! We had a support slot with them on the Isle of Wight. They spent 7 hours soundchecking...a 3 piece band! They weren't bloody Rush! We got told to get our gear on 5 minutes before the punters started coming in...TWATS!
wahwah666 2 years ago
you my friend are a metalhead. fuck the imposters.
Love4SK 2 years ago
I can imagine that must have been a tad irritating!! What was the name of your band?
rockinamoeba 2 years ago
Black Rose...never hit the big time...or the little one either! :)
wahwah666 2 years ago
At least you had a go ..... you in a band now?
rockinamoeba 2 years ago
Yeah, Black Rose. Check the myspace page at blackroserockband...this doesn't like me putting the full link in so put the myspace thing at the beginning!
wahwah666 2 years ago
This the one with the songs 'No point runnin' and 'Knocked out'? That along with Tresspass had some great music.
nitwitbit 2 years ago
Yep, 'No Point Runnin' was our first and probably most succesful single...very simple.
wahwah666 2 years ago
I've got the CD 'Bright lights burnin' - very good, also the Neat record compilation CDs with those singles. Plus I found the tape of 'Walk it how you talk it' in the bargain bin of a record store in Milwaukee Wisconsin. I picked it up - I think it was stilll in the plastic wrapping yet.
nitwitbit 2 years ago
Good God! Tape!!! Now there's something you don't see everyday! Our drummer still has a BOX of 'No Point Runnin' singles. He hopes to pay off his house one day in maybe 2047! :)
wahwah666 2 years ago
why no white spirit and limelight? essential bands of this genre of their time.
akennedy1903 2 years ago
Wait... so you actually mean you OWN all these singles? lucky you
Luckioh 2 years ago
Good stuff,long live NWOBHM
2monaros 2 years ago
Witchfynde are fuckin awesome!!!
joshlockwood69 2 years ago
I agree that it started with BEATLES,STONES, THE WHO,CREAM,ZEPPELIN,then Ultra-Prog Deep Purple In Rock, then Sabbath with Paranoid; They had their influences to be sure but those bands kinda held the torch to the age of Metal or whatever genre splicing people do to define "Rock"
1lemurian 2 years ago 2
they call it nwobhm but wasnt black sabbath doing this shit 10 years prior? genres confuse the shit outta me. seems like the real original is never credited.
seanjohn135 2 years ago
Sabbath etc were the FWOBHM (F = first) - only their era has never been posthumously given this title. More usually their era is associated with the birth of heavy metal. Its just semantics - as long as it sounds good who gives a fu*k!
rockinamoeba 2 years ago
@rockinamoeba Black Sabbath is GOD EVERYONE IS WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING... String Theory and Evolution is not real, Because Black Sabbath is even more REAL!!!!
saynotodrug999 1 year ago
Stormtrooper - Pride before the fall was a good single
gyroe182 2 years ago
Your list blows. =(
gordon24champ 2 years ago
good choice.
rockrabbitt 2 years ago
praying mantis are prob one of the best bands to come out of the nwobhm.imo diamond head wer the best.highly underrated
louiscfc93 2 years ago
Love all the bands here, especially Sledgehamer Tank, Jameson Raid, and Fist, some of my favourites next to Venom. Good to see Captured City at #2, well worth it, its my favourite Praying Mantis release/song.
Oh yeah, and I always thought Girl were a lot heavier than their name made them out to be.
NoiseFilthFury 2 years ago 2
and iron maiden¿¿
yopo173 2 years ago
Dude what site did you find all these bands from? i'm a big fan of the NWOBHM and would like to find more bands from that genre
HeadBangerAust 2 years ago
The site of personal experience - a great time to be growing up if you were into heavy metal! Still own all the singles in the list and still love to play them!
rockinamoeba 2 years ago
Holy shit man. i wasn't there but i agree that was a great time for metal, before the glam faggots in L.A. came along. NWOBHM and Thrash are my 2 favorite metal subgenres. it sucks though that alot of these British bands tour or even release albums anymore
HeadBangerAust 2 years ago
in my opinion Fastway got nothing to do with NWOBHM.But Def leppard hits the first positions with overture.
vaitomanocuseutubo 2 years ago
Getcha Rocks Off was my favourite of Def Leppard - much better than all that commercial (ie financially rewarding) crap they later sold their souls to!
rockinamoeba 2 years ago
Def Leppard is a variated band.
Early Leppard: NWOBHM
Mid Leppard: Hard Rock
New Leppard: Rock Pop
SerchTV 2 years ago
Where is FASTWAY???????????
Fastway is a-w-e-s-o-m-e but none of their songs made this selection. Can't bellieve that.
IamRockDemon 2 years ago
This countdown is based on the singles I bought and still have from that era. Therefore it's not the definitive list.
By the way - who are Fastway?
rockinamoeba 2 years ago
Fast Eddie Clark and Pete Way's band
synystersevilheir 2 years ago
I live in the US and ordered singles and lps back in the day. I have the 1st 3 Raven singles, also several more from DH, Holocaust, Venom, Jaguar, Violation (from the US). What comps. do you have? Mine are HM Heroes 1&2, Lead Weight, and the Varney Shrapnel US Metal 1-3. I had Neat's 60 of Metal, but sold it. Luckily most of the songs are on Metal Minded comp CD which I've seen a few in the states -got mine used. Comps have great stuff,unfortunately some not on CD. I miss No Quarter's Power&Key
nitwitbit 2 years ago
Very nice list but still missing the more important harder bands like satan, angelwitch, jaguar, raven, holocaust and black rose to mension just a few ...
KillerElite1966 2 years ago
man, why cant i be old enough to remember this? NWOBHM ftw!
GWB201092 2 years ago
Holy shit anyone remenber the soundhouse tapes???
saynotodrug999 2 years ago
does anyone have "my number" by "Girl" if so can you send it to me.?
KROMEXICAN 3 years ago
dude good bands. I like the NWOBHM nut never heard of a lotta them. Thats what i like about it, cause there are tonnes of NWOBHM bands that are really good, but just dont get exposure to an audiance.
thatguy106 3 years ago
no grim reaper, motorhead, demon, judas priest, venom, angel witch?
hellorama67 3 years ago
Motorhead and Judas Priest are not part of NWOBHM, they belong to the previous wave of hard rock/heavy metal bands like Rainbow
ter50 3 years ago 2
dude motorhead was like one of the major influences in the nwobhm
robthomas05 3 years ago
Of course, but they are not part of the movement.
ter50 3 years ago
Angelwitch?
cririthungol21 3 years ago
Venom Bloodlust should be No1
RaunchyRocker 3 years ago 3
were the fukk is the GRIM REAPER
DokkenLynchMob 3 years ago
fuck yeah!!
GOLDNIN 3 years ago
Dark Star - Lady of Mars would be top of my list.
brailaconnect69 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
this isn't heavy metal asshole
bleachrazz 3 years ago
The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (or NWOBHM is a term coined by rock journalist Geoff Barton to refer to the uprising of literally hundreds of grassroots-level metal bands that formed in Britain circa 1979-1981
rockinamoeba 3 years ago
To bleachrazz - What the hell does a 15 yr old yank numpty know about british heavy metal. Tosser. I was there, you didn't even exist.
brailaconnect69 3 years ago
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brailaconnect69 3 years ago
P.S. sledgehammer+tank kick ass!!!
riotvds 3 years ago
Tsis vid it starts with the sound of blitzkrieg? why not in the list?
riotvds 3 years ago
The intro is from Diamond Head - Am I Evil.
rockinamoeba 3 years ago
Right... my mistake=))
riotvds 3 years ago
ha ha i had the tank record on picture disk great band great list!!!!!
lynseycam23 3 years ago
Thanks. RA
rockinamoeba 3 years ago
Good list! There's just so many to chose from - and this list contains a few I didn't know about!
My personal favourite NWOBHM single of all time was 'Seven Days Of Splendour - Jameson Raid', but I'm probably biased because I've seen them live. I've seen Diamond Head a few times, too. They were good, but Jameson Raid were fuckin' AWESOME live! :-o
SAHBfan 3 years ago