But with hotshot guitarist Randy Rhoads beside him, he hit the rails hard with this lunatic anthem and never looked back.ĪC/DC - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)Īngus and co. Nobody would’ve put money on a washed- up Ozzy becoming the biggest metal star of the decade. All three men who played on it are gone, but Ace Of Spades will live forever. The heavy metal classic your granny knows, with Lemmy playing the eternal gambler rolling snake eyes every time and not giving a fuck. The mohawked masses and the longhairs got it.ĭevil-locked New Jersey brats with embalming fluid in their veins and B-movies on the brain, Misfits were the original and greatest horror punks – and this gleefully nihilistic romp would become their calling card. Punk and metal were warring tribes back then, but Wardance’s convulsing rhythms and Jaz Coleman’s distorted bark-at- the-moon howl united both sides. The success of this immortal leather- clad metal anthem and genius-level parent album British Steel was their much- deserved payback. Judas Priest did the hard yards in the 70s to help put British heavy metal on the map. But their snarling second single suggested it wasn’t that wide of the mark – not least in singer Paul Di’Anno’s football hooligan bellow. Iron Maiden were pegged as punks with long hair, to Steve Harris’s annoyance. This punk- infused banger is one of that scene’s great overlooked classics. Seven minutes and 43 seconds of monstrous riffage from the greatest NWOBHM band never to become superstars, Am I Evil? is a towering monument to the era – as James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich can testify.Ĭall the cops! Sarf London hellcats Girlschool booted down the door of the NWOBHM sausage factory with their classic debut album, Demolition. The magnificent title track of their first album of the new decade set a new benchmark for them and everyone else. Instead, they signed up gravel-throated Geordie Brian Johnson and exploded back with the immense title track to the biggest- selling rock album ever.Įxit Ozzy, enter Ronnie James Dio – and a new lease of life for heavy metal’s forefathers. The death of talismanic singer Bon Scott should have finished AC/DC.
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