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Old 10-16-2011, 06:33 PM   #81 (permalink)
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So it's safe to say that there are a few 80's British metal band that wouldn't fall into the sub-genre?
Oh definitely but there was a big explosion of one album only bands on scores of independent labels just like Punk so there is a lot of crap to wade through to find some real class.
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Old 10-17-2011, 03:48 AM   #82 (permalink)
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Tank were a fantastic band. Great production and vocals. This Means War and Honour & Blood were fantastic returns to form after the disappointing Power Of The Hunter and are two of my favourite Metal albums of all time especially this masterpiece from This Means War:

If anyone asks me to sum up the NWOBHM in one track I would choose this everytime. First heard in 1988 and I still love the fecker over 20 years later.
Yer Tank were great and This Means War and Honour & Blood are also on the include list. BTW I always liked Power of the Hunter as it showed a more polished sound, something some of the NWOBHM bands were starting to put out around that time anyway.

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Okay, Just out of curiosity, because I was never too clear about it, are the two sole criteria for NWBHM those of time and origin, i.e. early to mid 80's Great Britain, or are there style criteria as well? Basically I'm asking if all metal that came out of England during the eighties considered NWBHM. I know this sounds like an anal question, but I've always wondered.
Jackhammer has summed it up perfectly, but I`d also add it was strongly about image as well, with nearly all the future thrash bands basically looking the same as the NWOBHM bands and as said most of the thrash bands just took the punk and hardcore ethos along with the NWOBHM sound and just basically Americanized it to sound faster and more aggressive. Its safe to say that if there were no NWOBHM there wouldn`t have been a thrash metal movement out of San Francisco a few years later.

There were also a number of bands, one or two of which I`ve included in the list that musically were not really NWOBHM, but because their origin and the timescales match they were grouped in with the NWOBHM but in hindsight they were stylistically different.

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Old 10-17-2011, 05:26 AM   #83 (permalink)
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got that Witchfinder General and that Diamond Head (from an earlier post)

will be spinning them soon
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Old 10-17-2011, 06:10 AM   #84 (permalink)
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got that Witchfinder General and that Diamond Head (from an earlier post)

will be spinning them soon
Two great albums but that Diamond Head album is one of the greatest metal albums ever released imo.
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Old 11-19-2011, 04:20 AM   #85 (permalink)
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Next up a band that often get mentioned on other threads.

Girlschool Demolition 1980

Girlschool were certainly a novelty of their time and served as the first ever all-female metal band (as far as I know) at that time punk and punk related bands had some all-female line-ups such as the X-Ray Specs and the Runaways, and hard rock had the Wilson sisters fronting Heart. Girlschool had five dedicated handbangers who just happened to be women and played their metal albeit with a heavy punk and straight up rock approach with the grit of any male band. Music wise though, I don`t actually think Girlschool ever released a great album! But if you take the best songs off their early albums you`d have a great complilation of this band as they have some great individual songs that really added to the NWOBHM movement, but the real appeal of this band was just seeing them perform live and they gained real recognition here in the UK largely due to their association with Motorhead, with whom they recorded the St.Valentine`s Day Massacre EP in 1981.

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Girlschool were sorta like the chick version of Motorhead, but I actually liked them better than Motorhead. They were just way more fun to listen to.

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Old 11-19-2011, 09:23 AM   #87 (permalink)
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^Nice. I think this is the first I've heard them. I can definitely see why you'd compare them to Motörhead.
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And here they are with Motorhead doing a cover song, from what I think is Top of the Pops (A british pop show) circa 1980. The performance cracks me up


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Not to mention Girlschool covering Motorhead.

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Both the above songs are on the St.Valentines Day Massacre EP they did together.
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