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"Imagine, if you will, a long-lost UFO concept album about a seance gone awry": The Unexpected Guest by Demon - Album Of The Week Club review

The NWOBHM was a broad church, and Demon's second album The Unexpected Guest was more melodic than most

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10 obscure but amazing New Wave Of British Heavy Metal bands that should have been far, far bigger

Diamond Head, Tygers Of Pan Tang and Traitors Gate never became household names, but their galloping NWOBHM anthems deserve to be heard

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10 metal bands with obscenely long gaps between albums

Guns N' Roses and Tool can take a back seat: here are some metal bands who took literal generations to produce follow-ups to their early albums

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Every At The Gates album ranked from worst to best

They mastered melodeath, inspired the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal, then became one of heavy metal’s most consistent veterans. This is At The Gates’ back-catalogue in order of quality.

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"The cold, hard truth is that, for all the hard luck stories, they simply aren't that great as a band": Metal On Metal by Anvil - Album Of The Week Club review

An object of both affection and derision, Canada's Anvil made the NWOBHM-friendly Metal On Metal in 1982: It gave them an international audience and their most iconic song

Louder

The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Saxon, The Halo Effect and Equilibrium are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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"I’m not so lonely now, there are other girls to talk with and exchange tips and tricks on how to survive a tour!" Heavy metal Queen Doro on a career in rock, near-death experiences and, erm, fighting ducks

We interviewed living metal legend Doro Pesch using questions from her biggest fans

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The albums! The bands! The stories! The new issue of Classic Rock is the ultimate celebration of the 1980s

Includes: NWOBHM, Iron Maiden, Girlschool, Alice Cooper, Sunset Strip, the prog revival, the definitive guide to the albums that built the 80s, and much, much more

Louder

“I have 40 incomplete songs on the go”: We met the busiest solo artist in American metal, and he’s a one-man NWOBHM revival

Under the pseudonym Haunt, singer/multi-instrumentalist Trevor Church is releasing old-school metal bangers at an unbelievable pace

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A beginner's guide to speed metal in five essential albums

From its 80s heyday to its 2000s rejuvenation, here are the five albums that have defined speed metal through the years

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10 brilliant but overlooked albums turning 40 this year

1983 was the year heavy metal truly took off in America, but some of rock and metal's biggest bands released albums that fell by the wayside

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10 bands proving that NWOBHM is alive and kicking

Think the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal died off after the 80s? Think again

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Five brilliant but obscure NWOBHM albums that could have been huge in a parallel universe

They could have been Iron Maiden. Or Def Leppard. Or even Saxon. But they weren't

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Algy Ward, bassist with The Saints and The Damned and founder of Tank, dies aged 63

The UK bass player played a role in several acclaimed punk and metal bands, yet refused to be pigeonholed by either camp

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Algy Ward, former bassist with Tank, The Damned and The Saints, dead at 63

Alasdair Mackie 'Algy' Ward passed away on May 17, it has been confirmed

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Tygers Of Pan Tang's new album is the bog-average sound of a band dithering

Bloodlines is the unlucky 13th album from the band formerly known as "NWOBHM legends" Tygers Of Pan Tang

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Every band each member of Iron Maiden was in before Iron Maiden

They're one of the biggest and greatest metal bands of all time, but every member to have come through Maiden's ranks has some prior history

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12 obscure but excellent 80s rock and metal bands who should have been massive

The 80s were a golden time for rock and metal, but these 12 brilliant bands never got the mainstream success and recognition they so richly deserved

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