Inspired by goobster and his motorbike accident - the accident being listening to NWOBHM. I've been reliving my \m/ past. Warning: Links are the full album. • Somebody said "Fair Warning" Lord! Lord strike that poor boy down: Van Halen - Fair Warning • Is it to the sky, is it to the sky, is it to the sky and down: Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger Since it's been so hot and sunny this week • Backward goes time as the stars are passing by and nothing remains of this foolish man except his fate: Candlemass – Epicus Doomicus Metallicus • Nights, they grow longer when I'm around. Your world is smothered under frozen ground: Saint Vitus - V That led me down the doom metal rabbit hole, because it's objectively the best metal genre. I mean, that's just a fact. Greatest hits: • Trouble - Psalm 9 • Saint Vitus - Born Too Late • Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium • Paradise Lost - Gothic • Thergothon - Stream from the Heavens • Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics... • Electric Wizard - Dopethrone By the way goobster - I'm sure It was somewhat embarrassing
was just for effect, but seriously fuck everything about the notion of being embarrassed by what you enjoy.
Oh man... I had that first Saint Vitus album. That one was really divisive amongst my friends... punk? metal? punketal? munk? Nobody could agree on what 'type' of music it was.... but we all agreed that the guitar sound was BRUTAL. And I draw a strong line in my mind between the NWOBHM, and other metal from the same era. It's like the NWOBHM forked and became Hair Metal (Poison), Van Halen-esque (Motley Crue, Sammy Hagar, Scorpions), Straight-up Metal (Metallica, Sepultura, Megadeth, Mastodon), and Black Metal (Mercyful Fate, etc). And then a bunch of us metalheads in Seattle started mumbling, messing with song structures, and playing with really grungy distortion... and inadvertently invented Grunge. For me and my friends, we were just being a modern Black Sabbath, but in cut off army pants and flannel shirts.
Reading the NWOBHM wiki the Bruce Dickinson quote hits the bullseye. They could have just called it anymetal. Just when you get the point where there really is a difference between hardcore and thrash metal, a wild Melvins appears and it seems you're to blame eh? Metal & electronic genres all confuse the hell out of me. NWOBHM was a fiction, really, an invention of Geoff Barton and Sounds (music paper). It was a cunning ruse to boost circulation. Having said that, it did represent a lot of bands that were utterly ignored by the mainstream media. Because of that it became real and people got behind it
I was watching a documentary about ... some band? ... and there was an actual clip of an interview with Geoff Barton who said exactly that, I wanted to write about these bands, and needed to give them a genre or classification so I could talk about them as a group... so I invented the term NWOBHM...
Wilco has a new album out this year. They released the first track from it. I dig it.