I think 2024 sees Praying Mantis celebrate their fiftieth anniversary. Or if not fifty years it is around that. Going all the way back to the early New Wave of British Heavy Metal days and their excellent Time Tells No Lies album. Five decades later and the band remains active with brothers Tino and Chris […] The post Praying Mantis: Defiance Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

Sun Q is a duo comprising of Ivan Shalimov and Elena Tiron. Myth is their second album on which Ivan and Elena are joined by a host of guest musicians. The CD arrived via the band and Bad Dog Promotions who do send me interesting stuff to listen to. Myth is certainly no exception to […] The post Sun Q: Myth Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

Van Der Graaf’s live album – Vital – from 1978 has a remastered reissue on double CD (other formats available…..) which restores the full running order from the original double vinyl. Earlier versions had some cut to fit on a single CD. None of that here and it’s the full original in all its glory. […] The post Van Der Graaf: Vital Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

The irrepressible Hawkwind release their 36th studio album – Stories From Time and Space – a year or so following The Future Never Waits. Now in their sixth decade and as active as ever with Dave Brock the ever present driving force, Hawkwind roll on and on. Dave’s in his early eighties now so we […] The post Hawkwind: Stories From Time and Space Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

The wonderful Obscure NWOBHM Releases label have somehow unearthed another couple of New Wave of British Heavy Metal era bands who went very much under the radar. Both are due to be released on 24th April . As usual with the label will be limited edition CD runs of 500 each. This time it is […] The post Two Obscure NWOBHM Releases Due This Month first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

All the way back in the late 1970s/early 1980s as well as listening to as much New Wave of British Heavy Metal as my ears could handle – Diamond Head, Tygers of Pan Tang, White Spirit, Witchfynde, Angel Witch, Tytan, Vardis etc. I had a bit of a soft spot for a little of American […] The post Quarterflash: Take Another Picture Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

The mighty Shakin Street captured in a pulsating live performance at the Old Waldorf, San Francisco in 1979. Fronted by the glorious and distinctive force of nature Fabienne Shine, it was looking good for French rockers Shakin Street towards the end of the 1970s. A middling debut album (Vampire Rock) went down well and they […] The post Shakin Street: Scarlet The Old Waldorf August 1979 Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

With Future Days, The Raging Project, fronted by Ivan Jacquin joined by an ensemble cast of other musicians, has a thumping album of interesting music which on balance I’d say is progressive metal. As Ivan is French there’s that angle to with with some songs sung in French. Ivan handles keyboards, synths and the majority […] The post The Raging Project: Future Days Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

New Wave of British Heavy Metal heaven here. A four CD box set of a massive eighty two tracks of a selection of classic NWOBHM singles as originally released on Neat Records back then. Neat were based up in the north east of England, which was something of a seething mass of NWOBHM-era bands looking […] The post NWOBHM: All Systems Go The Neat Singles Volume 1 Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more

Lakesongs of Elbid is the debut album from Albion. The band being fronted by Joe Parish-James, who you may know from being guitarist for Jethro Tull in recent years until leaving Tull to concentrate on Albion. Albion of course is an ancient name for Great Britain which explains the name of the band and the […] The post Albion: Lakesongs of Elbid Review first appeared on New Wave of British Heavy Metal Blog ..read more