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NWOBHM sites or blogs

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:58 pm
by omen of hate
It's quite difficult to find a relyable, complete NWOBHM site.
Does someone have some hintd to find a good one ?

Thanks a lot.

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:15 am
by Hellride Mike
Here's a blog:

http://nwobhmblog.blogspot.com/

and this sites allright:

http://nwobhm.eigenstart.nl/

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:25 am
by omen of hate
Thanks a lot !

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:59 am
by Noisenik
Isn't this one the most complete?

http://www.nwobhm.info/

Pardon me, if it isn't ...

Re: NWOBHM sites or blogs

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 1:35 pm
by DaN
omen of hate wrote:It's quite difficult to find a relyable, complete NWOBHM site.
Does someone have some hintd to find a good one ?

Thanks a lot.
Funny. 8 years later I'm looking for the same thing and hardly anything comes up apart from this thread. Where have all the good NWOBHM sites gone? And does anyone know the guy behind the old nwobhm.info site? Need to get in contact with him.

Re: NWOBHM sites or blogs

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 3:13 pm
by Prowler
Would be about time to write an updated NWOBHM Encyclopedia. That first part (although it's huge) doesn't covers many obscure acts and also it would be about time to write something about the acts from the late 80's like Diva, Paper Tyger, Teaser, Grafitti, La Roche, Laiden Run etc etc ...

Re: NWOBHM sites or blogs

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 7:45 pm
by DaN
Well, I'd say the first volume carries quite a few obscurities, but I guess once they're in a book they're no longer obscure :?:

I agree that post-NWOBHM UK Metal is a very poorly documented scene tho'. I guess what would be ideal would be a site completely dedicated to British 80's Heavy Metal, regardless of acronyms.

Re: NWOBHM sites or blogs

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 8:29 pm
by Prowler
Indeed it would. Alone for the reason that most british bands even in the post-NWOBHM era couldn't get rid off their british NWOBHM roots. However, the late 80's scene hides a few raw diamonds. I just discovered a few quite respectable Melodic Metal singles that nobody talked about yet and if the sellers wouldn't have added soundclips I'd never would have bought the crap as you know for the unknown stuff that nobody wants even for low prices, it's always a walk on the Drahtseil, might it be crap or does it sound listenable???

Re: NWOBHM sites or blogs

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 10:08 am
by martinsane
Prowler wrote:Indeed it would. Alone for the reason that most british bands even in the post-NWOBHM era couldn't get rid off their british NWOBHM roots. However, the late 80's scene hides a few raw diamonds. I just discovered a few quite respectable Melodic Metal singles that nobody talked about yet and if the sellers wouldn't have added soundclips I'd never would have bought the crap as you know for the unknown stuff that nobody wants even for low prices, it's always a walk on the Drahtseil, might it be crap or does it sound listenable???
Yes but this is the fun of it all isn't it?

And if the investment is small the gamble is even better.

I remember 10 plus years ago every pawn shop out west were selling truckloads of CD's for $.25 a piece and I was buying them ALL up. I would spend hours upon hours pouring over boxes and reading liner notes to see if I had found something amazing. And at a quarter a piece I found many amazing albums, but alas many duds as well. :)

Re: NWOBHM sites or blogs

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 11:07 am
by Prowler
martinsane wrote:
Prowler wrote:Indeed it would. Alone for the reason that most british bands even in the post-NWOBHM era couldn't get rid off their british NWOBHM roots. However, the late 80's scene hides a few raw diamonds. I just discovered a few quite respectable Melodic Metal singles that nobody talked about yet and if the sellers wouldn't have added soundclips I'd never would have bought the crap as you know for the unknown stuff that nobody wants even for low prices, it's always a walk on the Drahtseil, might it be crap or does it sound listenable???
Yes but this is the fun of it all isn't it?

And if the investment is small the gamble is even better.
Sometimes yes, but mostly the sellers want 9,99 GBP for the single. If it has a nothing saying cover and no sound clip it is always hard to decide to buy it or not. I don't wanna waste money ... fortunately it didn't happen yet. Just got the Love and War 7". Pretty cool US style Glam Metal/Hard Rock. Sounds more american than british and no Vince Neil imitator on vox! haha

Re: NWOBHM sites or blogs

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 9:31 am
by Korgüll
Not sure if anyone has seen this yet?

http://nwobhm.com/

Re: NWOBHM sites or blogs

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 9:47 am
by Noisenik
Korgüll wrote:Not sure if anyone has seen this yet?

http://nwobhm.com/
Gosh! thanks, much needed now.

Re: NWOBHM sites or blogs

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 11:10 am
by Khnud
Noisenik wrote:
Korgüll wrote:Not sure if anyone has seen this yet?

http://nwobhm.com/
Gosh! thanks, much needed now.
Unfortunately there are far too many bands missing for the site to compete with Malc's book.

Re: NWOBHM sites or blogs

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 11:14 am
by Korgüll
Looks like it's still a work in progress?

Re: NWOBHM sites or blogs

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 7:26 pm
by Keir
Khnud wrote:Unfortunately there are far too many bands missing for the site to compete with Malc's book.
I'm not sure anyone expects it to replace Malc's book. If you were looking for pictures you could easily say that Malc's book can't compete with that site.