{"id":732319,"date":"2026-08-09T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732319\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T08:32:08","slug":"sheffield-heavy-metal-fanzine-marks-45th-anniversary-with-new-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732319\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield heavy metal fanzine marks 45th anniversary with new CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NWOBHM is generally accepted to have started in the late 1970s with artists such as Iron Maiden, Diamond Head and Venom fusing earlier heavy metal sounds with a punk DIY ethic, speed and intensity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The old school was fading out and the new school was coming in, that&#8217;s why it got labelled as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal,&#8221; recalls Holmes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Bands like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, they didn&#8217;t die but interest was being created by these new bands; Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 1981, Mot\u00f6rhead and Barnsley-based band Saxon, considered early members of the NWOBHM, broke into the top 10 of the UK album charts, signalling the start of the commercial success of the movement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, by the mid-1980s many NWOBHM bands, including Sheffield&#8217;s Def Leppard, began moving towards a more glam metal and radio-friendly sound which led to the movement&#8217;s decline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It just faded away through the 80s when different stuff happened and people moved on into different walks of life and that,&#8221; says Holmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NWOBHM is generally accepted to have started in the late 1970s with artists such as Iron Maiden,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-732319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}