NWOBHM: A Timeline (Iron Maiden, Saxon, Def Leppard, Diamond Head, Venom, Raven & Angel Witch)

This YouTube channel is a god's gift for heavy metal fans.

Ideas for future episodes: 1-)First Wave of European Heavy Metal (1980-83) Focusing on German, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Spanish, Dutch, Belgian, French, Swedish and Italian scenes 2-) Metal Behind the Iron Curtain (1980-88) Focusing on Metal bands from Russia and Eastern Bloc states

Saxon is one of my favorite bands of any genre. They keep on kicking ass and I can't wait for their new record Carpe Deim to drop.

i can remember when Def Leppard were an actual Metal band. christ, i'm old

Man, those diamond head and Angel witch albums are so good

Nwobhm is weird because only a couple bands really remained known afterwards. Def Leppard and Iron Maiden became huge and venom went the opposite direction being really well known underground, everything else just kinda got forgotten unfortunately, my personal favs are venom, angel witch, withfynder general, diamond head, blitzkrieg, satan, raven.

I lived through all of this as a teenager and Saxon was the first gig I went to in 1980, on the Strong Arm of the Law tour…good times, I agree that it was all over by 85, probably had gone by 84 to be honest. I remember seeing Metallica at Donnington in 1985 and you could see the change had happened My favourite NWOBHM albums were Saxon’s The Eagle has Landed and probably the first Iron Maiden album

My first gig was Motorhead in April 1982 - such a baptism of fire ! I've loved metal ever since🤘 😎🤘

What an exciting travel through time! Exzellent! Outstanding! I' m from 1964 and was lucky enough to live in this period. So much great stuff und memories.

Iron Maiden and Saxon where my favorite bands of the genre but two albums i really love are Def Leppards' Pyromania and Girlschools' Screaming blue murder

Funny, the last album you mentioned, I had. I had the cassette in my walkman waiting around my church for our youth group meeting to start. My priest, Father Michael, asked what I was listening to, just out of curiosity. I slowly said "Uuuhhh...Grim Reaper...Rock You To Hell...". Always the cool, young priest, he told me to pop the tape in the stereo in his office. As he bobbed his head to the beat, he said "When I was young, grownups we're terrified of their kids listened to Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, The Doors, and stuff like that. It doesn't do any good to freak out and ban music, because that will drive the kids away, deeper into the counter culture." I think that between my parents, and Father Michael, I was pretty fortunate.

1979 to 1985 were my teenage years, I remember most of these bands and had many of these albums and saw a lot of them in concert. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.🤘

Such a great scene with so many amazing bands! NWOBHM FOREVER! 🤘🏻🇬🇧

This is actually a very good summary of the NWOBHM movement. A few things I wanna add: - Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show used to play a lot of Progressive Rock in its first year, by 1980 it was taken over by Heavy Metal/Hard Rock. - First ever NWoBHM single is Samson's 'Telephone', a self-produced single which charted in that Neal Kay HM charts in late 1978 (Clive Burr on drums!) - I'd say NWoBHM happened between '79-'82 and 1983 was the year it started to fade away. Classic Rock magazine did a nwobhm special issue a few years ago and most musicians agreed that by the end of 1983 it was over.

Being an American, in the late 1970s, I was reading Creem and Circus magazines for articles on hard rock bands (too bad I didn't know about Sounds magazine at that time). By 1979, one of those magazines featured an "Is Heavy Metal Dead?" issue. I read the article and thought, NO WAY! At that time we had Van Halen, AC/DC, Scorpions, Rainbow, Judas Priest, etc... Even though punk, disco, and new wave were big at that time, I had no doubt that hard rock/heavy metal was going to live on. Then in 1980, there was an article in one of those magazines I was reading, and it featured a new heavy metal scene happening in England. I saw the names Saxon, Iron Maiden, and Def Leppard. OK, then with the releases of 3 BIG albums in 1980, "Heaven and Hell," "Back in Black," and "British Steel," plus that article I read, plus I got hold of a cassette tape in my high school (in New York) featuring NWOBHM bands (man, I wish I still had it), I was most certainly a NWOBHM fan in the year 1980. I bought Iron Maiden's debut album and got my friends into it. Eventually, there was record shop I went to that had import records, patches, pins, etc... and to top it off in 1981, my friends and I made the trek from Queens to Manhattan to see Iron Maiden open for Judas Priest in July 1981. I remember seeing a girl standing in line outside the venue wearing an "On Through the Night" t-shirt and said I want that! It was all such an experience to be young at that pivotal time (late 1970s/early 1980s), coming from Aerosmith, KISS, Boston, Ted Nugent, and Rainbow, straight head-on into the burgeoning NWOBHM scene, that catapulted heavy metal into the 1980s. I couldn't find an Iron Maiden shirt in 1980, so I went to a mall and had one made up on a raglan shirt: it had "Iron Maiden" on the front and "Heavy Metal Rules" on the back (I don't have this shirt anymore). So, in 1979, things were coming apart with Aerosmith (no Joe Perry), KISS (disco?), and Black Sabbath (no Ozzy), but it didn't take long for my spirits to perk up in 1980.

I was born in 1970 so by 1980 it was perfect timing for heavy metal to start creeping on me. Still a metal fan at 52. My parents generation had The Beatles, we got NWOBHM. 😎🤘

One of the most important metal movements of all time! Great work, man!

NWOBHM is amazing, so many amazing bands that influnced so much. It's also what turned me into a metalhead. Thanks for these videos, mate!

One wave but an eclectic mix of genres of metal among them.

This was my prime teen years, thanks for bringing back great memories. I owned just about all these albums. I'm still listening and turned on this music to my sons. We are all going to see Maiden in Nov.