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	Free New Wave of British Heavy Metal Music: Albums, Songs, Videos, Playlists - Rhapsody Online
		This was arguably the first descendant of Heavy Metal.
		After Hard Rock bands like Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull had been bumped from popularity in the wake of British Punk, a new wave of groups incorporated the raw sounds of Punk with the heavy guitar...
		New Wave of British Heavy Metal Key Tracks
	www.rhapsody.com /rockpop/metal/newwaveofbritishheavymetal (104 words)

	ipedia.com: Heavy metal music Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whereas a painting is experienced visually, a symphony experience audibly, a heavy metal band's "image" and the common theme that binds all their music is expressed in the artwork on the album, the set of the stage, the tone of the lyrics, in addition to the sound of the music.
		Ultimately, "pure" heavy metal would position itself at the periphery of pop culture, never quite at centre, and metal denizens contend that the move towards the centre was a commercialism that compromised both the artistic integrity of the form and the opportunity for messages to be taken seriously.
		Heavy metal also had an important influence on grunge which, like punk, was partly a reaction to the perceived slickness and corporate nature of much rock music.
	www.ipedia.com /heavy_metal_music.html (3481 words)

	Early Heavy Metal: Bands
		In some respects, one might argue that the hair metal scene of the 1980s was the logical endpoint of the glitter or glam rock movement of the 1970s; the visual similarities between the two, with the make-up and fanciful costumes, makes the argument more compelling.
		A lot of modern metal bands, especially gothic metal, progressive metal and power metal often include love songs, but they tend to be dark, dramatic and highly romantic, far from glam metal's partying and easy sex lyrics.
		Though some extreme metal fans find the lyrics of bands such as Opeth and Nightwish to be too soft for their tastes, few deny that they are still 'true metal' and they do not receive the criticism that teen angst based nu metal lyrics do.
	www.lycos.com /info/early-heavy-metal--bands.html (733 words)

	M4M: Speed/Thrash Metal
		Speed metal is a loosely defined sub-genre of heavy metal that spawned in the mid-late 1970s and was the direct musical progenitor of thrash metal.
		(NWOBHM) emerged in the late 1970s, in the United Kingdom, as a reaction in part to the decline of traditional heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath.
		Thrash metal is probably one of the most technically complex hard rock/heavy metal subgenres, along with death metal.
	www.utdallas.edu /~cme031000/SpeedThrash.html (380 words)

	Heavy Metal / New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Or the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, is a form of rock music characterized by aggressive, driving rhythms and highly amplified and distorted guitars.
		The earliest music commonly identified as Heavy Metal came out of the UK in the late 1960s with bands such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, who was the first band to be categorized as Heavy Metal.
		Heavy Metal reached its peak popularity in the 1980s but in the mid ‘80s it had branched out in many different directions and that including the faster >"Thrash Metal" (slayer, metallica) and Sleaze Rock bands like Guns N’ Roses.
	www2.hku.nl /~christia/nwobhm.html (222 words)

	The Rock Music Project timeline and essay page
		Unlike punk, which got nearly all of the press, the "New Wave of British Heavy Metal" went largely unnoticed in the late 1970's; the movement may be the most overlooked underground music movement in the history of modern popular music.
		Harris was the rare heavy metal vocalist with surprisingly good range; his vocal abilities suited Diamond Head's material well, consisting of largely epic songs that confronted the seemingly conflicting issues of emotional confusion and complete, unmasked anger and remorselessness.
		Along with the rise of these new heavy metals was the increasing popularity of a few established artists such as Ozzy Osbourne and Dio, the band created by Ronnie James Dio after a short stint with the remaining members of Black Sabbath (Osbourne left Black Sabbath in 1978).
	landru.i-link-2.net /jtrees/Rock/timeline3.htm (2753 words)

	A Tribute To Heavy Metal
		Heavy Metal started out from scratch, their was no audience and no bands.
		Their heavy Guitar and Bass drew many crowds and fans to the music and their music gotten influenced by so many people that a new revolution was going to occur.
		Over the past years in the 1980's Many Parents were disgusted over what Heavy Metal is. Some Parents threw away their kids Albums and Shirts due to the fact that is was grapical, and alot of swearing and violence was in it.
	members.tripod.com /~IronMaiden16/metal.html (836 words)

	British Steel Review \| Judas Priest \| Reviews @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
		British Steel brings that process full circle, offering the band's catchiest, most accessible set of tunes yet.
		British Steel is perhaps the most accessible metal album of all-time.
		British Steel was step two in Priest's catalog as far as commerical success goes.
	www.ultimate-guitar.com /reviews/compact_discs/judas_priest/british_steel (316 words)

	Heavy metal - Wikipidiya
		Heavy metal; Heavy metal is a subgenre of rock music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s, having its roots in hard rock bands which, between 1969 and 1974,[1] mixed blues and rock music to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised by the use of highly-amplified distortion.
		Out of heavy metal various subgenres later evolved, many of which are referred to simply as "metal".
		As a result, "heavy metal" now has two distinct meanings: either the genre and all of its subgenres, or the original heavy metal bands of the 1970s style sometimes dubbed "traditional metal", as exemplified by Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath.
	qu.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heavy_metal (138 words)

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		The band Metal Church recorded a few rehearsals in 1980-81 that were similar to the early efforts of Metallica and Overkill, though not quite as thrashy.
		The death metal classic Seven Churches, released in 1985 was one of the earliest examples of the death metal sub-genre.
		Recently thrash (along with many genres of extreme metal previously considered dead by the mainstream media, but well alive to the underground metal scene) has seen a certain degree of resurgence of popularity, including (but not limited to) the younger audience of Generation Y (many of which have embraced the genre greatly).
	www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=thrash_metal (3482 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Kill 'Em All - Metallica at Epinions.com
		All the metal bands like Motorhead, Venom and discharge were more or less doing the same thing and there were a bunch of new hardcore bands that were making harder and angrier music.
		It’s a hackneyed, fussy, stodgy and mid-paced romp that nods to both the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and Venoms cartoon Satanism.
		Metal Militia: A straightforward sprint to the finishing post that salutes those fans that helped give Metallica their initial leg-up.
	www.epinions.com /content_180816219780 (798 words)

	New York Waste
		Def Leppard was the first Heavy Metal band to ever crack the Top Ten (with Pyromania landing the number two spot behind Michael Jackson's Thriller album in 1983.) and that was the beginning of the end for this movement.
		The other thing that totally irritated me about the mid-1980's Hard Rock and Heavy Metal movement which still actually exists to this very day is, you had to be a rocket scientist to figure out what category a band fits in with.
		The name of this new band is Queen V and their sound is a seventies influenced Hard Rock mixed with a modern edge, kind of a hard band to describe, but they are a great new band with a new great sound none the less.
	www.newyorkwaste.com /nyw_main/music/markdark07.html (2035 words)

	Free New Wave of British Heavy Metal Music: Album, Track and Artist Charts - Rhapsody Online
		Description of New Wave of British Heavy Metal
		After Hard Rock bands like Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull had been bumped from popularity in the wake of British Punk, a new wave of groups incorporated the raw sounds of Punk with the heavy guitar of bands like the Scorpions and Black Sabbath.
		Countless Heavy Metal acts the world over have evolved from, or merely copied, this influential British sound.
	www.rhapsody.com /rockpop/metal/newwaveofbritishheavymetal/more.html (192 words)

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		Motörhead's overwhelmingly loud and fast style of heavy metal was one of the most groundbreaking styles the genre had to offer in the late '70s.
		Emerging in the late '70s as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the group actually owed more to the glam rock and metal of the early '70s -- their sound was equal parts T. Rex, Mott the Hoople, Queen, and Led Zeppelin.
		For their part, as brilliant as they were at composing complex heavy metal anthems, Tatler and Harris proved incapable (or subconsciously unwilling) to pen radio-friendly singles.
	www.mp3.com /new-wave-of-british-heavy-metal/genre/379/subgenre.html (6389 words)

	Ink 19 :: The New Wave of European Heavy Metal
		Since the ascension of grunge and indie rock, heavy metal has become less hip to the musical masses -- at least in the United States, where pop culture tastes are as fickle as fashion trends.
		Perhaps this latest wave of European bands, which continues the pioneering traditions of early metal bands, is a reaction to the Hollywood excesses of the '80s hair metal scene, not to mention a continuation of the underground spirit of that same decade.
		In the 90’s, the new breed of fl metallers have chosen to go to folk and classical music for inspiration, many choosing to add in keyboards and strange chants to offset their overriding atonality.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/99_02/ink_spots/new_wave_of_metal_nf.html (3412 words)

	raphael.longbournprods.com » Blog Archive » 30 heavy metal songs to listen to before the planet explodes, ...
		By 1983, heavy metal had evolved into an international form, with tons of bands in, for example, Sweden, Germany and North America lending their own sensibilities to what had pretty much been entirely a British working-class musical genre just a couple years before.
		This new heavy metal standard, although heavily inspired by the nwobhm, was very different: it was faster, it was more aggressive, it was more technical, and it obviously was less idiosyncratically English.
		One of the bands from this 2nd Wave of British Heavy Metal is Midlanders Cloven Hoof, who’d been plugging away for a number of years before they nabbed a chance to record their first LP, with the ubiquitous Geordies Neat Records in 1984.
	raphael.longbournprods.com /2007/03/09/30-heavy-metal-songs-to-listen-to-before-the-planet-explodes-part-2 (1073 words)

	Suzie Smiled - Tales from The NWOBHM (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The widely-accepted view is that the birth of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal can be dated to a gig in May 1979, which means that 2004 marks the 25
		I was lucky enough to watch the NWOBHM unfold around me. More recently, I have worked with Sanctuary Records on a number of their NWOBHM re-issues, both compiling CDs and writing booklet notes.
		Suzie Smiled?Tales From The NWOBHM is not a nostalgia trip by an aging rocker but a personal tribute to the bands from the movement and to the timeless music they produced.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /amskuse/Suzie.htm (238 words)

	Hessian.org: heavy metal music and culture
		Metal music has a deep, rich, history of life changing material and it's catalog can be intimidating when getting started.
		Basically a sub-genre' of fl metal, viking metal takes the rich history of the ancients and uses that as influence for an anti modern stance instead of using the metaphor of satan.
		Black metal has a sense of heroism; death metal is very (romantically)anti-heroic and sometimes blantantly valueless while at the same time becoming inspirational in it's brutality.
	www.hessian.org /metal/music (2866 words)

	The History of Heavy Metal
		The basic components of their style still represent the essential aspects of heavy metal and they probably rank as the most important influence on the genre.
		Heavy metal has gradually come of age over the last quarter of a century; it has transcended, infiltrated and incorporated all musical styles to some degree, including classical, jazz, blues, rock, pop, folk and funk.
		The growth and diversification of metal has proceeded at an expansive rate over the last 25 years and there is no evidence to suggest that it is slowing down.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~marshall/methist.htm (1207 words)

	Judas Priest Biography and Discography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Judas Priest was one of the most influential heavy metal bands of the '70s, spearheading the New Wave of British Heavy Metal late in the decade.
		Their next album, 1980's British Steel, entered the British charts at number three, launched the hit singles "Breaking the Law" and "Living After Midnight," and was their second American platinum record; Point of Entry, released the following year, was nearly as successful.
		metal tastes were beginning to change, as Metallica and other speed/thrash metal groups started to grow in popularity.
	www.rockul.info /band_judas_priest_en.php (1068 words)

	Universal Music India
		are a English hard rock band from Sheffield who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
		Their music is a mixture of hard rock, glam rock, and heavy metal elements.
		The band has occasionally been associated with the pop metal movement of the 1980s, although its sound is more accurately associated with the contemporary New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) genre of the late 1970s.
	www.umusicindia.com /artistprofile.php?artistid=139 (199 words)

	NWOBHM BRITISH HEAVY METAL SAXON IN CONCERT GLASGOW
		This is somewhat unexpected, since King Tut's is an unlikely place to find such Monsters of Metal -- the band who, with Iron Maiden, were at the centre of "The New Wave of British Heavy Metal" (NWOBHM), in the early '80s.
		This is the band that last played Glasgow 20 years ago, in the Glasgow Apollo and when lead minstrel "Biff" Byford reminds the sold-out audience of that fact, it seems from the roar that a goodly proportion of them were there at the time.
		Indeed, most of the audience, aged between 35-45, are clearly delighted that the band has brought their unique brand of Melodic, Motorcycle Metal to the city once more, even after such a long break.
	www.sovereignty.org.uk /siteinfo/newsround/saxongla.html (498 words)

	All That Remains
		The New Wave Of American Heavy Metal, more importantly the northeastern contingent has been a fertile hot bed as of late spawning success story after success story.
		This American metal is the U.S. returning to the fans its own form of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal.
		Fans of extreme metal are once again gravitating toward actual musicianship, and Chris Bartlett and Oli Herbert of ALL THAT REMAINS hang their hats on the unbridled talent of their six-string mastery.
	www.metalbladestore.com /allthatremains (442 words)

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