Spirit Of The Chateaux - Roxxcalibur

The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) was the most important movement in the history of Heavy Metal. It started
around 1977/1978 when Punk lost its credibility and the old heroes like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath or UFO were too much
"over the top" for the fans. New bands like Iron Maiden, Def Leppard or Samson took the do-it-yourself attidute from the
Punk-scene and mixed it with classic Hardrock and Heavy Metal. The result was a new scene called NWOBHM with all
its independent-labels (Neat, Guardian, Heavy Metal Records and others) and many self-produced and self-released


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