Tag NWOBHM
This is a re-release of this Dutch bands one and only album from 1989. Unfortunately originally released during traditional metal’s decline in favour of thrash in the late 80’s, this band were doing the rounds with other notable countrymen of… Continue Reading →
Toledo Steel are a band I caught live earlier this year and boy was I impressed. Their demo material was a shape of things to come and these young guys certainly feel inspired by the NWOBHM movement and a fair… Continue Reading →
Soldier were one of those NWOBHM bands that got away, but rather than repeat the story, you will have to buy the CD to read the story as told in the CD booklet! A couple of years ago I caught… Continue Reading →
Diamond Lil eh? Sounds like a right character, perhaps from around the old East End, a lady not to be messed with as she may cut you with a blade just like a diamond. She is a fearsome character a… Continue Reading →
Even with the current rude health exhibited by the more traditional end of the NWOBHM inspired heavy metal spectrum, with two previously well received album’s it’s fair to say that Allentown PA gang Sinister Realm have well and truly got… Continue Reading →
It’s been, quite literally, a lifetime since the last Witch Cross album. Back in 1984 metal was just metal and you wore long hair, jeans (most likely blue, I’m afraid), trainers and it was all about vinyl or maybe a… Continue Reading →
In days gone by I would have bought this Witches Mark on the strength of the diabolically cheesy album art that adorns it. You’ll see what I mean when you see it. That aside I was expecting an album of… Continue Reading →
This was a terrific line up on paper and opening band Widow got the evening started with a bang. Widow are from North Carolina and this was their first trip to these shores and what an impression they made. Opener ‘Take… Continue Reading →
Tank were dirty NWOBHM that was pretty consistent up until the last two releases, ‘War Nation’ and ‘War Machine’ which I did find rather poor and disappointing, or rather verging into power metal. So I wasn’t really that fussed about… Continue Reading →
To be philosophical for a moment (hard with that album title hanging above): The notion of ‘black n roll’ is either just the logical extension of heavy metal’s occult obsession within the rock framework, or actually pretty much the antithesis… Continue Reading →
Any doom fans out on the live scene in the past year would have been hard pressed to miss Age of Taurus as they have been very busy indeed in preparation of the release of this, their debut full length…. Continue Reading →
I’ll admit that I’m not particularly familiar with the metal scene in New Zealand at all. From memory I can only name three Kiwi bands that I’ve experienced the music of (those being Diocletian, Ulcerate and Dawn of Azazel). I… Continue Reading →