Demon celebrate 45 years in business. Forming back in 1979 and lining up as one of many bands seeking to make their mark in the (then) emerging New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene. They made quite a fist of it back then too with cracking albums such as Night of the Demon and The […] The post Demon: Invincible Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

Pagan Altar’s debut album from all the way back in 1982 gets a 2024 re-issue via Dying Victims Promotions. It is not only one of the classic albums from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era days, but also influential in the emerging dark, doomy stuff. Pagan Altar didn’t go on to too much […] The post Pagan Altar: Judgement of the Dead Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

Long standing British progressive rock band Pendragon give a 2024 slight refresh to and reissue of The Masquerade Overture – their biggest selling album originally issued back in 1996. My history with Pendragon isn’t exactly in depth – I own just Pure and Passion, both of which I think are excellent with their harder edge […] The post Pendragon: The Masquerade Overture Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

Plan Nine is a project by Arjen Lucassen and Robert Soeterboek which has its origins back in the early 1990s. Lucassen should need to introduction – Ayreon, Star One his solo stuff etc. Robert Soeterboek is a name you may not be familiar with. He’s a wonderful vocalist and has appeared on a number of […] The post Plan Nine: The Long Lost Songs Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

With The Empyrean Equation Of The Long Lost Things, German progressive metal band Vanden Plas have one of the finest albums of the genre you’re likely to hear. It’s got the lot. Heavy, bombastic, melodic, symphonic, expert musicianship, technical yet easily accessible compositions all making an album which delivers on all levels. For me it’s […] The post Vanden Plas: The Empyrean Equation Of The Long Lost Things Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

Captain Hawk Ghosts of the Sea is a rollickingly good listen. The glorious artwork cover notes it as a “metal opera”. That’s about right. It is heavy but also has symphonic, melodic and progressive elements all so well written and performed with a crystal clear production. I took a chance on it after seeing it […] The post Captain Hawk: Ghosts of the Sea Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

Power Games – Jaguar’s classic debut album back 1983 back the New Wave of British Heavy Metal days get a spruce-up from High Roller Records with a reissue including a slip case cover, comprehensive booklet and a mini-poster. High Roller do this sort of stuff so well with old NWOBHM stuff. Recently they gave their […] The post Jaguar: Power Games 2024 Reissue NWOBHM first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

Six By Six consist of guitarist Ian Chrichton (Saga), drummer Nigel Glocker (Saxon) and multi-instrumentalist Robert Berry taking care of bass, keys and vocals. Their self-titled debut album was a top notch slab of fresh and powerful prog rock/metal. Now they return with their second album titled Beyond Shadowland. Ian Chrichton’s guitar is spellbinding. Flicking […] The post Six By Six: Beyond Shadowland Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

Ghost Stories is not strictly a new studio album from the Oyster Boys. There are no new songs here. Instead it is a collection off odds and sods recorded a couple of years either side of 1980 which must have been deemed not worthy of a spot on an album. The exception is an insipid […] The post Blue Oyster Cult: Ghost Stories Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

The Tygers have been around for decades now and of course were up there right from the start of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. And still pumping out the good stuff today as evidenced by their last two recent albums – Ritual from 2019 and last year’s excellent Bloodlines. OK – we can […] The post Tygers of Pan Tang: Live Blood Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more