Favorite NWOBHM Songs

80s Metal Lady wrote:

(P.S. TNT is Norwegian).

It's this TNT: http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/TNT/28864

firestarter wrote:

80s Metal Lady wrote:

(P.S. TNT is Norwegian).

It's this TNT: http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/TNT/28864

Oh! I'll have to check them out. I don't really care for the Norwegian TNT, except Knights of a New Thunder. That album is sweet.

Oh wow, I'd forgotten just how good Angel Witch were! Thanks for that

Oh wow, I'd forgotten just how bad Avenger were (and I used to own that album)

Boris2008 wrote:

Oh wow, I'd forgotten just how good Angel Witch were! Thanks for that

Oh wow, I'd forgotten just how bad Avenger were (and I used to own that album)

I like this song:

Ah this thread... Most of the videos in my old post aren't showing up anymore but I'm pretty sure at least one of them was Avenger - Enforcer.



What the heck, here's some more for the bump:

Toad The Wet Sprocket - Reaching For The Sky


Dragonslayer - The Slayer


Black Axe - Highway Rider

This song is an ass-kicker:



and this one...



and one of my favorites since I first heard the album at age 13:

ultmetal wrote:

Dark Horseman wrote:

Saxon is always considered NWOBHM and they're not obscure. Most lists I look up list Priest and Maiden so I go with that. Sure Priest were around already but they still fit the sound to my untrained ear.

Priest were a part of the FIRST wave of British Heavy Metal that included bands like Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Judas Priest, Budgie, UFO, Motorhead, etc. Of course their sound fits in with the NWOBHM, they are one of the biggest inspirations on those new bands at the time.

I agree with that 100%

I could go on and on and on...

A ton of great songs, Witchfinder, but I REALLY dig that Trespass tune!

This has probably already been posted. Here it is again!

I've always had a soft spot for Samson

Ha! I was checking to see if I had posted in this thread yet, and I see I started it. Forgot about this one. My top NWOBHM songs are probably about the same.

chewie wrote:

A ton of great songs, Witchfinder, but I REALLY dig that Trespass tune!

This has probably already been posted. Here it is again!

Trespass is really good and it's a shame they never released a full LP in the 80s.  

I dig Ethel The Frog too.

I am too lazy to go back through all the posts, but Dark Star's "Lady of Mars" is one of the absolute classics of the whole NWOBHM scene:



"Kaptain America" is another great tune of theirs:



"Dead Reckoning" (The 1982 Four Cuts EP version) is one of my favorites by Diamond Head:



"Treason" by A-II-Z is cool:

Not sure if Rogue Male really can be considered NWOBHM, because First Visit came out in '85 - but here is a track from them [the VERY first band I ever saw at First Ave - they opened for Savatage and the headliners were something called "Illusions".  This was recorded at that show in '85.  Saw no less than 200 shows at First Ave after that one].

They probably left it too long to release a record to be thought of as part of the NWOBHM movement but they had been around a long time before this came out in '86. Credit to them for sticking to their guns in a world of wall to wall thrash and glam.