NEW WAVE OF METAL • A Heavy Metal Documentary (NWOTHM)

It was a great idea to have bands give their own take instead of trying to tell a chronological story of the movement (don’t even know if that’s possible). This style makes possible to have multiple parts with different bands.

I've always said that Metal is like Jazz or Blues. It will never die! Be in main stream or underground, there will always be some club or festival anywhere refusing to let it die!!!!!!! LONG LIVE!!!!!

As a metalhead that grew up in the 80s it's great to see young bands ( I'm talking bands that haven't been around long) take up the legacy. Big fan of all of these bands covered here. As a wise man once said "Brothers of True Metal, Proud and standing tall!" 🤘🤘 Metal On!🤘🤘

With Bullet we were ahead of the pack, recording our demo in 2002. I still remember our first show. We wore the whole 80's gear studded leather and all, and the show organizer (wearing an In Flames hoodie and stupid cargo pants) asked us something to the effect of "This is a joke right? I mean you guys aren't serious?" Me or Hampus snapped back at him something about wearing hip-hop clothes haha. Maybe Bullet was more rock'n roll, but while I was in the band I always thought of us as Metal. I also gave O. Thunder his nickname because he let Bullet stay at his parents' house back in the day. Hail Heavy Metal Forever! Great Documentary Ruthless!

I've been following the channel for quite some time now, and its just outstanding the amount of great content you are able to create in such a short amount of time. This documentary feels like the jewel in the crown. Keep It Up, this IS the best underground metal Channel un YouTube

Ruthless metal is the best channel ever

This is how metal documentaries should be done bravo 👏

My introduction to what you call "The New Wave of Metal" was through a youtube interview with Olof Wikstrand on some Greek outlet around the time when 'Death by Fire' was released in early 2013. The caption on that video clip was something like "Enforcer: the Saviours of Heavy Metal". Throughout that interview, I was very impressed with Olof's general attitude towards Heavy Metal music. That conversation took me back to 1980 when I was 15 years old. I showed my then 8 year old son the 'Mesmerized by Fire' video and his eyes lit up as if it was 1980 and hearing the Iron Maiden debut or 1983 and hearing 'Kill 'em All'. Finally he had the opportunity to love music from his time rather than his dad's time Those first three Enforcer albums impressed me so much, that I used the "Similar Artists" feature on the Metal Archives website and found Cauldron, Skull Fist, Portrait, In Solitude, Steelwing and others. Getting to meet the members of Enforcer on a number of occasions was a great experience for me and my son. They are a great bunch of guys. My take from listening to "NWOTHM" albums is that they make me feel happy. In my opinion, that was lost, for the most part, in heavy music in the '90s. Thanks to the bands and "Ruthless Metal" for keeping Heavy Metal alive.

I've been on a big NWOTHM kick for the last few weeks or so. I knew of the movement, but since i'm mainly a Death/Grind/Black guy and old enough to have gone through the NWOBHM era i pretty much stayed to just the Heavy Metal bands from the past. I checked out Eternal Champion just because of the cover art and i must have found at least 20 top quality bands in a week that i never even knew existed. I'm for sure going to pick up a lot of releases and some merch in the near future.

striker, stallion, visigoth, eternal champion, outlaw, stormrider, stormburner, achelous, warrior path, wotan

I had the pleasure of seeing Skull Fist live behind an arcade in a small Iowa town and they KILLED IT! There were maybe 30 people in the crowd but Skull Fist gave their all and put on a great show. Then after the show they hung out and played pinball with my son for like an hour. Great band and great guys. Great video too!

I wanna see all these guys get together and do a cover of we're stars that Dio project from the 80s

Year after year, this music will continue to reach new horizons... For the energy, the heart and the passion the every musician put out in every single new song... Congratulations for this great metal documental !!! Heavy metal is forever, Never Surrender !!!! Abrazo power desde Buenos Aires, Argentina !!!!

Thank you to for bringing this material to light. A job well done.

I need to listen to all of these bands ASAP! What a great movie.

Thank you! That was an excellent documentary. One of the most enjoyable for a long time. Plus I got to meet and investigate some great bands.

I can hardly express how much I smiled when the Helvetets Port guys mentioned Magnesium and Gorgon! That's the real Heavy Metal spirit in my eyes! And just as a little anecdote: I tried to sell a 7" single to their singer Witchfinder at some kind of a club party around 15 or 20 years ago and he refused to buy it, since he just bought records from the 80s back then. He's being really authentic about this whole thing. :)

Metal rules

One of the best channels in all of YouTube. this documentary really shows your dedication to all things metal and the hard work your willing to do for it.

The work that went into the production of this is much appreciated. - A well-researched documentary. Thanks a lot.