Taking cue from the do-it-yourself attitude of their country's punk
movement, Britain's up-and-coming heavy metal bands that comprised the
New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) were not content to wait for
record labels to come knocking. Instead, they took to issuing their own
music, typically in the form of 7 inch singles but also 12s and
full-length album, many indie, some on small labels, and some on the
major labels smart enough to get on board (essentially EMI and MCA).
Martin Popoff, writer of more record reviews than anybody in history
across all genres), has undertaken the task of documenting virtually
every record large and small from heavy metal's most fabled period
(beginning essentially in `79 with a hard stop at 1983) providing
catalogue information, mini reviews as only he can do, plus a gob of
thumbnails of those wonderful 7" picture sleeves and LP covers.
Additional features: * Includes hundreds of rare 45 picture sleeve and
album cover images. * Every record rated out of 10. * Layout designed
so that LPs are distinguished from 7", 10" and 12" singles/EPs. *
Label, year of release and catalogue number for almost every entry. *
Two appendices, displaying all 9's and 10's for singles as opposed to
LPs.
