Originally Posted by Briks

If the NWOBHM movement started in the early '70s, and included Judas Priest, then what was the first wave of British heavy metal? I hope I understood you correctly.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.