Originally Posted by
Simon Barden
You need to remove Judas Priest from that list. They were going long before TNWOBHM hit the music world, which was somewhere around 1980-1981. Judas Priest were very much of the old school of rock, more on a level with Thin Lizzy than Sabbath. They later reinvented themselves as more of a metal band, but they were never officially part of TNWOBHM. TNWOBHM was a convenient music press label to give to bands that had generally been started and going unnoticed through the late '70s, when labels were generally just signing punk and new wave bands (because 'rock was dead') and then when the punk phase ended, the labels still found that there was a big demand for loud rock music, so TNWOBHM became the new bandwagon for a while. Certainly Saxon, Iron Maiden and Def Leppard were in it, then there were some of the lesser known bands like The Tygers of Pan Tang, Samson, Girlschool and Witchfinder General. Maiden was the most metal of the lot, the others were really no more than heavy rock. Even Ian Gillan (with his band Gillan) was included within the TNWOBHM label.
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