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Saxon, the British N.W.O.B.H.M. icons, are back with a brand-new studio album, “Gods Of Thunder”. The album, which draws inspiration from historical events, ancient mythology, horror stories and fantasy tales, plus a dose of pagan rituals,…

Former Saxon drummer Nigel Durham (born 1965), who played drums on the album "Destiny", has died. "Destiny" is Saxon's ninth album, released in March 1988 on EMI. Saxon shared the sad news on social media on October 24, 2026 (original…

More, the legendary N.W.O.B.H.M. band who released their third studio album, “Destructor”, on March 6, 2026, are showing off the video and single Scream, and you can check it out below. The album came out on the band's own label,…

Raven (support: Kämaradi)Friday, 4. 9. 2026, 8:00 p.m.Zagreb / Hard Place / Croatia Raven are legends of the first wave of British heavy metal bands. That's the wave that laid the foundations for metal blowing up on a global scale.…

Cloven Hoof, the cult N.W.O.B.H.M. outfit, will drop their new studio album "Never A Prophet In Your Own Land" on September 25, 2026. The record is coming out via High Roller Records. Down below you'll find the first single and video…

Saxon, the British N.W.O.B.H.M. icons, are back with a new studio album, "Gods Of Thunder". Drawing inspiration from historical events, ancient mythology, horror and fantasy tales, and even pagan rituals, the record will drop on January…

Tygers Of Pan Tang, the legendary N.W.O.B.H.M. icons, are back with a fresh original single, Rise Up!, and you can check it out below. Tygers Of Pan Tang, who are signed to Mighty Music, are using the new single to announce a brand-new…

Tygers Of Pan Tang, the legendary N.W.O.B.H.M. veterans, are back with a fresh original single, Dark Divinity, and you can check it out below. Tygers Of Pan Tang, who are signed to Mighty Music, are using the new single to announce a…

This October, HNE Recordings will release a four-CD compilation box set from cult N.W.O.B.H.M. band Satan, titled "Out Of The Fire – 1981–1985". The new collection, a four-disc set with accompanying material, will also feature demo…

Cloven Hoof, the cult N.W.O.B.H.M. outfit, will release their new studio album »Never A Prophet In Your Own Land« on September 25, 2026. The album is coming out via High Roller Records. Down below you'll find the first single from the…

Cloven Hoof, the cult N.W.O.B.H.M. outfit, will release a new studio album, »Never A Prophet In Your Own Land«, on September 25, 2026. The record is coming out via High Roller Records. The band also promises the first single from the album…

On Friday, September 4, 2026, legendary N.W.O.B.H.M. metallers Raven will take the stage at the Hard Place club in Zagreb! The lineup is built around the eternal brotherly duo of Mark (guitar) and John Gallagher (bass, vocals), with Mike…

Tokyo Blade, the cult N.W.O.B.H.M. outfit, will release their new studio album "Hoist The Colours High" on August 21, 2026 via Dissonance Productions. With long-standing members Andy Boulton and Alan Marsh on board, "Hoist The Colours…

Tygers Of Pan Tang, the legendary N.W.O.B.H.M. icons, are back with a fresh original single and a video for the track Electrifyed, which you can check out below. The video was directed by Andy Pilkington. Tygers Of Pan Tang, who are…

Praying Mantis, the big veterans of British melodic hard and heavy rock who emerged back in the days of the N.W.O.B.H.M. movement, are in the middle of booking shows across the old continent for this year. The band has confirmed a…

More, the legendary N.W.O.B.H.M. outfit, will release their third studio album, “Destructor”, on March 6, 2026. The record is coming out via the band's own label, Warhead Music LLP. Below you'll find the second single (and lyric video),…

KnuckleBonz has put out a figurine of one of the central figures of the N.W.O.B.H.M. era, Iron Maiden's first singer Paul Di'Anna, and you can already order it. The figure, or more precisely a statue made at 1/9 scale, is part of the…

Label: Silver Lining MusicRelease date: October 24, 2025Production: Genre: Heavy RockRating: 8.5/10 Back in the '80s, the Scottish rock 'n' roll warriors Heavy Pettin conquered stages all over the world, while their 1983 debut album…

Iron Maiden (support act: Halestorm)Prague / Letiště Praha Letňany / Czech RepublicSaturday, 31 May 2025, from 18:40 to 22:00 Years come. Well, and they go. It happens quietly — this thing we call aging. And pretty fast, too. The…

Paul Andrews, known by the stage name Paul Di'Anno, vocalist of Iron Maiden from 1978 to 1981, has died at the age of 67. Paul was born on May 17, 1958 in Chingford, East London, and first rose to fame as the singer of the English heavy…

Label: Mighty MusicRelease date: 6. 9. 2024Production: Nick JennisonAlbum length: 48.17 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 Blitzkrieg are a British heavy metal outfit belonging to the movement abbreviated as N.W.O.B.H.M. That puts…

Label: Mighty MusicRelease date: 4/26/2024Album length: 68.27 minGenre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M.Rating: 8.0/10 Tygers of Pan Tang, living N.W.O.B.H.M. fossils, know no rest. Formed way back in 1978 in the English seaside town of…

Label: Mighty MusicRelease date: 5. 5. 2023Production: Tue MadsenAlbum length: 44.01 minGenre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M.Rating: 9.0/10 Tygers Of Pan Tang are one of the most stubbornly persistent bands to come out of the "New Wave…

Label: Silver LiningRelease date: 19. 1. 2024Production: Andy Sneap & Biff ByfordAlbum length: 42.23 minGenre: N.W.O.B.H.M. / Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 “Hell, Fire and Damnation” kicks off a new chapter for the…

Label: Silver Lining MusicRelease date: March 24, 2023Production: Biff, Seb Byford & Jacky LehmannCompilation length:Genre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M. Rating: 9.0/10 Saxon! Is there anything left to say about this band that…

Steve Grimmett, singer of the cult N.W.O.B.H.M. band Grim Reaper, has died at the age of 63. The news was first confirmed on social media by his brother Mark, who wrote yesterday, 8/15/2022: "I really don't know where to start, so…

Label: Metal Blade RecordsRelease date: April 1, 2022Production: SatanAlbum length: 47.36 minGenre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M.Rating: 9.0/10 And here's yet another Satan album. The band, which has been enjoying a renaissance in…

Label: Heavy Metal RecordsRelease date: March 11, 2022Production: Cloven HoofAlbum length: 41.29 minGenre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M.Rating: 9.0/10 Cloven Hoof are metal legends today. The band comes from the N.W.O.B.H.M. days, and…

Label: Silver Lining Music Release date: February 4, 2022 Production: Andy Sneap & Biff Byford Album length: 44.19 min Genre: Heavy Metal / N. W. O. B. H. M. Rating: 9.0/10 Saxon! A band that has survived everything. Literally every…

Label: Parlophone Records / BMGRelease date: September 3, 2021Production: Kevin ShirleyAlbum length: 81.58 min (2CD)Genre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M.Rating: 7.0/10 Fans of Britain's biggest metal institution, Iron Maiden, had to…

Label: Mighty MusicRelease date: May 28, 2021Production: Chris Tsangarides, Soren Andersen, Harry Hess, Ben MatthewsAlbum length: 67.54 minGenre: heavy metal/N.W.O.B.H.M.Rating: 9.0/10 Tygers Of Pan Tang rank today among the…

Label: Silver Lining Music/Militia GuardRelease date: 19. 3. 2021Production: Biff ByfordGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.0/10 Saxon. Unbelievable. The older they get, the more stubborn and defiant they become. It's genuinely odd that…

In 1981, Iron Maiden were slowly closing in on the massive change that the world would witness at the end of March 1982. But even the stretch right before that career turning point wasn't without some radical upheavals, and they followed…

Label: Silver Lining MusicRelease date: 11/20/2020Production: Brian Tatler & Rasmus Bom AndersenAlbum length: 60.53 minGenre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M.Rating: 9.0/10 “Lightning To the Nations” is considered a cult heavy metal…

Label: SPV/SteamhammerRelease date: September 18, 2020Production: RavenAlbum length: 38.55 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 For fans of the days when metal was the young, innocent child of the ever-harder rock of the seventies,…

"Fans of the N.W.O.B.H.M. days will be thrilled (again) after 'Unbroken', because with 'Dark Revolution' Tokyo Blade have paid off yet another one of the many debts they owed their fans, who over the years had every right to lose hope that…

"Dominator returns! On wings of apocalyptic doom and merciless fury, he'll crush the last spark of your barren faith and delusional hopes, because the era of steel has dawned."

Four decades ago, on April 14, 1980, heavy metal giants Iron Maiden unleashed their self-titled studio debut on the world. The road to it was thorny, but when the album landed, it actually charted one spot higher than the red-hot Saxon,…

" Back then, you'd have been hard-pressed to find an album that captured the wild, untamed spirit of a brand-new genre's big adventure better than "Wheels Of Steel". It's regarded as the central musical achievement that founded the…

" Elixir have risen once again and, once more, stood their ground. They've kept all their trademarks and carried them over to their sixth studio album, which sounds just as you'd expect, as if it were lost in time and space."

" “Angel Of Light” isn't as varied as its predecessor “As Above, So Below”, but it keeps all the core elements that define the character of this cult band."

"Of all the artistic moves Tatler has boldly made with his band over the years, often gambling dangerously with the credibility of an old-school metal pose, "The Coffin Train" is the one where Diamond Head come closest, and most…

"It's fair to say the current incarnation of the band hit its creative peak with »Ritual«, and that Tygers Of Pan Tang are living through a kind of new renaissance, a rebirth, and, as our own Avtomobili would put it, a late spring. "

"This EP is clearly a tactical move, a way for the band to bridge the gap between the still-current »Judge Not« and its follow-up, which will be the band's tenth studio album overall."

"All in all. A nice album from a legendary musician. Worth a spin. But all three cult classics of the eighties remain untouchable."

Label: High Roller RecordsRelease date: 28.04.2017Production: Cloven HoofAlbum length: 44.43 minGenre: Heavy Metal (N.W.O.B.H.M.)Rating: 9.0 / 10 These days Cloven Hoof are considered heavy metal legends. They emerged during the…

"»Tygers Of Pan Tang« is a record that will go down best with fans of heavy rock heroes like Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Thin Lizzy, yet it also has plenty of moments that bring back the 'good old days' of the…

Label: Parlophone Records / BMGRelease date: September 4, 2015Production: Kevin ShirleyAlbum length: 92.11 min (2CD)Genre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M.Rating: 8.0/10 "The Book of Souls" is the sixteenth studio album from heavy metal…

"The songs Keeping Me Alive, She, One of a King and These Eyes are the real workhorses that keep Tygers of Pan Tang tightly bound to the first half of the eighties, which makes this album well worth your time."

"Let's just hope that creative spark doesn't die out, and that the band puts out the next album within three years of "Resist Or Serve.""

"With "The Number of the Beast," Iron Maiden reaped worldwide fame and crowned themselves the kings of heavy metal. "The Number of the Beast" is an immortal record that, 25 years after its release, still sounds as fresh as if it had been…

"Iron Maiden is a superb showcase of the evolution of the Iron Maiden sound and a historically important release, for the band, for the genre and for music history as a whole. Up the Irons!"