After Lemmy was booted from his first band Hawkwind for doing non Hawkwind approved drugs in 1975, he formed his own new band Motorhead. Well they were called Bastard at first but his manager suggested changing the name to a more friendly name for publicity and pop purposes, Lemmy concurred and changed it to […]
Although they had a leading roll in the NWOBHM movement, Saxon never really broke into the U.S. heavy metal scene the way most of the other bands in the movement did.
Starting orignally as Son Of A Bitch with line up Biffy Byford on vocals, Paul Quinn and Graham Oliver on guitars, Pete Gill on drums […]
One of the leading bands of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal was Diamond Head. In 1976 Diamond Head was formed by Brian Tatler And Duncan Scott, two school friends, and later hired Sean Harris as their vocals. Bass duties would be covered by Colin Kimberly after various others had come and gone.
After nine […]
I figured I’d start the British Invasion week out with the band most call the pioneers of Heavy Metal. Honestly, what can I say about Black Sabbath that hasn’t already been said.
Black Sabbath originated out of Birmingham England in 1968 as a blues and rock band under the names Polka Tulk Blues Company and Earth. […]
I kinda forgot about the theme week thing I was going to satart this month, so this coming monday I’m going to kick off British invasion week. Each Day I’m going to cover a British band, either from the NWOBHM era or a newer era. I’ll do a brief history of the band and what […]
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