Published by on 29 de julho de 2026 ESSENTIAL NWOBHM – The Best Of Neat Records Vol. 2 There was already hard rock in the late sixties and the seventies laid the foundation with bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, UFO, Kiss and Led Zeppelin. After the peak of punk, actual heavy metal emerged in England. Young bands took the hard rock of the aforementioned groups and mixed it with the energy and DIY attitude of the punk scene. The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, NWOBHM for short, was born and began in 1978, even if experts like to see 1979 as the starting point. While the major labels were cautious (Iron Maiden, Saxon), the “young wild ones” began pressing their own singles and LPs. The small recording studio Impulse in Newcastle thought similarly and founded the Neat Records label for all the newcomers who re.
