NWOBHM News
Signings, tours, records announced and bands ending, in NWOBHM.
IRON MAIDEN Headline Sonic Temple on 14 May, the First Name on the 2027 Bill
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The festival runs 13 to 16 May at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, and the band play the Friday as one of nearly 150 acts.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 18, 2026
IRON MAIDEN's Bruce Dickinson Sang The Trooper From Out of Sight in Quito
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The flares in the crowd were venting straight at the stage, so he finished the song where the smoke could not reach him.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 16, 2026
IRON MAIDEN Cancel Their Break and Add Sixteen More American Shows
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
Spring 2027, sixteen shows, the regions the last leg missed, and two festival headline slots at the end of it.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 16, 2026
IRON MAIDEN Close North America With Fifteen Shows and Four Words
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
Toronto on 29 August to San Antonio on 29 September, fifteen shows in all, and then four words: we must do it again some time.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 16, 2026
ANGEL WITCH Get the Rockpalast Treatment for White Witch
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
A professionally filmed version of the song from Rock Hard Festival 2026, fifty years after the band started out as Lucifer.
Robin Aalto · Oct 14, 2026
VENOM Footage From 1997 Surfaces Eleven Days After Cronos Died
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
Video of the Cronos, Mantas and Abaddon line up at Milwaukee Metal Fest in July 1997 has gone up on YouTube this week.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 12, 2026
The Night GIRLSCHOOL Were the First British All Female Band to Play Japan Reaches Vinyl
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
Cleopatra puts the 21 January 1982 Tokyo show out on 6 November, on CD and on vinyl for the first time.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 10, 2026
More Than Fifty Musicians Write About Cronos and Napalm Death's Singer Calls Him the Caveman in Chief
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
Metal Underground has collected statements from the extreme metal underground a week after Conrad Lant died at sixty three.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 9, 2026
A Hundred Songs Later, Brian Slagel Puts Hallowed Be Thy Name at Number One
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The final episode of the Metal Blade founder's podcast gives the top place to the Number Of The Beast closer, with Chris Jericho along for it.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 5, 2026
Cronos Explained His Own Songs, and Only One of Them Was About the Devil
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
BraveWords has published part of a 2015 interview in which he walked through Black Metal, Witching Hour, Die Hard, Manitou and At War With Satan.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 4, 2026
Bruce Dickinson Says There Are IRON MAIDEN Surprises He Will Not Name Yet
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
He rates the new solo album above The Mandrake Project, says five videos are shot, and says the band's news is coming soon.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 3, 2026
Mantas Speaks for Abaddon Too, and Says They Knew Two Days Early
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
Jeff Dunn's tribute to Cronos sets the turbulent history aside and comes back to the three of them. Tony Dolan posted his own.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 2, 2026
Cronos Has Died at Sixty Three, and Black Metal Had Its Name From Him
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
Venom announced on 1 October that Conrad Lant, their founder, singer and bassist for more than four decades, has died. No cause was given.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 1, 2026
IRON MAIDEN Now Have More Than 110 Licensing Partners, and Eddie Is in Primark
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
Global Merchandising Services says the programme has passed the number, across apparel, collectibles, publishing and fan attractions.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 30, 2026
TANK Release the Song They Left Off This Means War in 1983
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The Man Who Never Was went out as a b-side instead of onto the album. Cleopatra put the album back in the shops on 23 October with the song and its demo among the bonus tracks.
Robin Aalto · Sep 26, 2026
CLOVEN HOOF Put Out Their Eleventh Album Tomorrow, With Harry Conklin Singing
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Never a Prophet in Your Own Land lands on 25 September through High Roller Records, ten songs, two years after Heathen Cross and forty seven years after the band started in Wolverhampton.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
TYGERS OF PAN TANG Go Heavier on New Album 'Electrifyed'
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
More than forty years after they helped shape the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the band went back to the raw energy of their early records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026