Listed here are 10 New Wave of British Heavy Metallic (NWOBHM) bands that ought to have been greater, however weren’t.
The NWOBHM modified every little thing. It gave us Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon, all of whom went on to have very, very completely different careers. It laid the groundwork for thrash, pace, and energy metallic and it produced an awesome wave of bands, a lot of whom had the expertise, sound, and hearth to go the gap… however didn’t.
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Some have been too early, some too uncooked and a few simply caught within the fallacious place on the fallacious time. Whether or not it was dangerous timing, poor label help, or simply being a bit of too completely different, these bands by no means broke by means of to the extent they need to have.
However, they nonetheless mattered. Their information nonetheless maintain up. Their affect nonetheless lingers. And in some instances, they arguably formed the way forward for heavy music simply as a lot, or in some instances, much more than the bands who truly obtained well-known.
It is a have a look at a few of NWOBHM’s best almost-made-its… the bands that had every little thing however the highlight.
10 NWOBHM Bands That Ought to Have Been Big (However Weren’t)
Diving into the New Wave of British Heavy Metallic (NWOBHM) and its untapped potential in metallic’s large league. These bands ought to’ve been big!
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