NWOBHM News
Signings, tours, records announced and bands ending, in NWOBHM.
SAXON Give Medusa a Greek Myth and Hand the UK Leg to ARMORED SAINT
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The second song off Gods Of Thunder arrives with a Peter Sallai sleeve, and the album's British dates now have a Los Angeles support act.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
SAXON Bring Back the Thirty Foot Eagle for Four Dates in March
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The second European leg runs through March, and the stage prop built for Denim And Leather comes out in Brussels, Zurich, Cologne and Tilburg.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 26, 2026
SAXON Book Milan and Florence for March on the Gods of Thunder Tour
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The Alcatraz on 18 March and the Viper at Tenax on 19 March, with tickets from ten in the morning on 27 October.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 26, 2026
Nicko McBrain Says IRON MAIDEN Should Have Dropped the Keys for BLAZE BAYLEY
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The drummer told Classic Album Review the band never transposed the songs and should have taken them down half a step or a whole one.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 26, 2026
SAXON's Former Drummer Nigel Durham Has Died at Sixty One
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
He played on Destiny in 1988 and spent ten years afterwards in Oliver and Dawson Saxon, the band the original members kept running.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 25, 2026
IRON MAIDEN's Nicko McBrain on Paul Di'Anno, and the One Regret
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The drummer says there was no bad blood when Bruce Dickinson arrived, and that he wishes he had stayed in touch with the first singer.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 25, 2026
HEAVY PETTIN Open for Uriah Heep From Tomorrow, With X-Rated Out First
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
Twenty one European dates on The Magician's Farewell tour begin on 24 October in Haarlem, and the band put out a video the day before.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
IRON MAIDEN Will Not Say What Follows Run For Your Lives
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
Rod Smallwood, 47 years into managing the band, declines to say what comes after the tour, and gives an update on Nicko McBrain.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 22, 2026
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