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The British heavy metal musical groups category is for heavy metal groups who were founded in Britain. It may or may not apply to groups which were founded elsewhere but contain British musicians; judge each case carefully. It should not apply to groups which were founded elsewhere but had their main success in the UK.
The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales and digital downloads. [1]
The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company , the data is based on each song's weekly physical sales, digital downloads (since 2007) and streams (since 2015), and is currently published every Friday. [ 1 ]
Oct. 11—A gathering for the dark at heart is one way to describe the ABQ Headbangers Market. The event curates vendors who sell macabre and gothic items, as well as offer heavy metal merchandise ...
The UK was a cradle of the first wave of heavy metal, ... Melody Maker even published a weekly heavy metal chart based on record shop sales. [244]
Eventually, the band signed with Neat Records, a low-budget metal label based in Newcastle, England. [13] They released their first single, "Don't Need Your Money", in 1980 [13] and embarked on a number of UK shows opening for bands such as Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard of Ozz, Motörhead, Whitesnake, and Iron Maiden.
Previously, the UK Rock Singles chart, sometimes called the Metal Singles chart, that was compiled by CIN, which later became OCC, was published in Hit Music from September 1992 intermittently to February 1997 and interchangeably with the Rock and Metal Albums chart (which was sometimes under the title of Rock and Metal Singles chart) and also ...
The mid-late 1970s–early 1980s period in the United Kingdom introduced a movement of young musicians, generally identified as the new wave of British heavy metal (often abbreviated as NWOBHM). The movement spawned more than a thousand hard rock and heavy metal bands from all over the UK, which were more or less forcibly identified as heavy ...