What does NWBHM stand for?

New Wave of British Heavy Metal (music genre)

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As leading lights in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal they had huge success in the 1980s with eight UK Top 40 albums including four UK Top 10 albums and numerous singles in the Top 20 singles chart.

Metallic ring to Bonfire Night... Also playing: Saxon and Anvil

We were five lads from Liverpool at the forefront of what later became known as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal," he explains.

I've given up Art Attack for my leather trousers; Children's TV star ...

Metal fans -- especially those with a fetish for Judas Priest and/or the New Wave of British Heavy Metal -- shouldn't miss local band Savage Wizdom.

SOUNDWAVES; MY COUNTRY, SHRED OF THEE

With a technically jaw-dropping lead guitarist, a leather-lunged vocalist and a brutal rhythm section, the Miami four-piece are a throwback to the golden days of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

reviews: Gigs

Not only is there talk of a new wave of British heavy metal on the way with bands such as Gallows and Bring Me The Horizon being talked up feverishly by the music press and older bands such as Biffy Clyro (who I've been raving about for years by the way) being heralded as possible heirs to Nirvana, but research tells us that the brightest teenagers are metal fans.

It's not that metal kids are brighter, they're just more needy; ...

Now revered as the true kings of a genre still lovingly described as the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), Maiden continue to write and produce cutting-edge rock with attitude and their global fan base swells by the week.

Iron kings bring on rock

Monsters Of Rock was born at Donington Park in 1980 on the crest of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, and is synonymous with the cream of hard rock and heavy metal.

Doing the Monster mosh

He went on to form Chevy with Paul Shanahan, who had been in the band Jalopy Ride alongside Rhythm Studios mainman John Rivers, forever living under the banner of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (or NWOBHM).

BACKBEAT: Leamington rocks - and here's the proof; BECAUSE THEY DON'T ...