Yes, New Wave of British Heavy Metal, this topic is to discuss and recommend NWOBHM albums, as everybody knows Iron Maiden is the the most well-known and appreciated band in this genre, but also exist others great bands and albums of this underrated genre.
Well I'm Not a expert in the NWOBHM genre, but apart Iron Maiden 80's albums (masterpieces), there are others great albums, like for example:

Angel Witch - Angel Witch ; this is a total masterpiece and my favorite NWOBHM album even above Iron Maiden
Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
Chariot - The Warrior
Tygers of Pan Tang - Wild Cat
Avenger - Blood Sports
Tank - Honour & Blood

well, discuss about the bands and recommend more kick ass albums of this genre.

In-fucking-deed my friend, everyone should own a copy of this album!



Not exactly pioneers, but truly great albums nonetheless:

Raven - Rock Until You Drop
Savage - Loose 'n' Lethal
Grim Reaper - See You in Hell

Yeah , Angel Witch Kick serious ass, and thanks for the recommendations.

NWOBHM reccomendations that haven't been mentioned:

Blitzkrieg - A Time of Changes, has the all powerful track Blitzkrieg plus Hell to Pay and Inferno. This album shoes a few asses people...find it, hear it, worship it!!!

Chateaux - Pretty much all of their albums are kind of assy kicky. Chained and Desperate features Grim Reaper's own Steve Grimmett on vox so that's a plus. High Strung + Firepower are available on a double re-release out their somewhere.

Holocaust - The Nightcomers is an absolute mandatory piece of NWOBHM butt whoopery. Heavy Metal Mania, Death or Glory, the title track...just absolute British ownage, also, Live (Hot Curry and Wine) includes the Small Hours which many of you might know that a certain "M" band covered.

Jaguar - Power Games, nice little slab of speedy NWOBHM here...Dutch Connection, The Fox, Occasional Hell all sloppy speed freakery NWOBHM style...also find the single Axe Crazy cuz it slays a little as well in a NWOBHM kind of way.

Raven - Wiped Out and All For One both have been known to rock out with their cock out. Speedy,punky and raw in that great NWOBHM kind of way, basically an all around kick ass time. Kreator covered the song Hung, Drawn & Quartered off of All For One which adds some points.

Satan - Court In The Act, must have NWOBHM right here. Band evolved into a Speed metal band (Blind Fury) than later a Thrash band (Pariah) and Court in the Act is probably their finest hour, Suspended Sentence ain't to bad either, oh and the Kiss of Death single.

Saxon - Everything up to Crusader (well ok the frist song off of Crusader) is vital to any NWOBHM collection. Wheels of Steel, Strong Arm of The Law, Power and The Glory are all NWOBHM masterpieces.

Sweet Savage - The single Killing Time. Find it somehow because it's a classic as many "M" band fans know...the rest of their stuff...ehhh...it's all right but that song punts arse.

Tokyo Blade - Night of the Blade & Tokyo Blade are good albums, kind of on the lite, melodic side of stuff but songs like Unleash the Beast and Dead of the Night rule a little so check them out.

Tygers of Pan Tang - Spellbound, their second album, catchy as the clap off a Tijuana whore.

Weapon - It's a Mad Mad World 7" if only to here the song Set the World Alight where Metallica got that intro for Hit The Lights from.

Venom - Obviously

Witchfinder General - Very nice traditional doom metal here, best album Death Penalty

Pagan Altar - See Witchfinder General only replace album with Volume 1

Honorable mention bands to look into - Bitches Sin, Cloven Hoof, Aragorn, Geddes Axe, Marquis De Sade, Cynic, White Spirit, Witchfynde, Battle Axe, Demon Pact, ARC, Samson, Hollow Ground, Samurai and Stormtrooper

What about the mighty Blood Money(unless you categorize in a different subgenre) and all these bands you mentioned should be good starters for people
getting into the genre.

Blood Money along with Tysondog, Preyer, Atomkraft and a few others are damn near speed/thrash not to mention they came along at the tail end of the NWOBHM movement if not after it was over completely. There are other British bands that also were kind of post NWOBHM as well...Blade Runner, Elixir and Deep Switch come to mind that came after the actual NWOBHM movement had faded.

The NWOBHM wasn't a sound per se as much as it was a movement. There were quite a few bands that sounded nothing alike one another (Saxon, Venom and Demon for example) so simply because a band was British and recorded music in the 80's that doesn't mean they were NWOBHM. To me 1979 - 1983 or 1984 was NWOBHM time and anything afterwards is only loosely related.

oooo yes how could I forget. I actually have Axe Crazy and Back Street Woman if anyone needs them.

Axe Crazy kicks asssss, I love that song it's sloppy, thrashy just completely NWOBHM and yes Back Street Woman, completely forgot about that tune, that was a single wasn't it? 1981 or so I think also a classic.

I have an assload of NWOBHM , do you have much?

I haven't delved into too much NWOBHM but I love Maiden, Grim Reaper and the song Angel Witch (haven't heard the whole album). I should get on it.

NWOBHM is pretty kick ass stuff and given that alot of it (Savage, Saxon, Blitzkrieg, Angel Witch, Sweet Savage, Holocaust, Jaguar, Weapon,Diamond Head, Raven among others) was pretty much the DIRECT inspiration for Thrash it should be on every Thrashers "to hear" list sir.

Hear the song White Witch, my favorite of the album, Helstar do a killer version of that song in their last album, everyone should hear that song

I love NWOBHM as much as the next guy, but I actually prefer American bands over the British ones.

American NWOBHM bands???

Hey Lucy, you ga some 'Splaininnnn to doooo!!

Actually I don't have much. I fucking looove good nwobhm almost as much as I love thrash too. I gotta check out Holocaust, Weapon and Pagan Altar, all the others I'm pretty familiar with.

Hey I have a question; are there bands that play NWOBHM at the present time? I mean new bands like in thrash in these days. the only band that I know and have something of NWOBHM is Enforcer, but there are more?