Name your favorite NWOBHM band that did not make it big

[Hawk]

That would be Tresspas for me.

Runners up:

Bitches Sin
Sweet Savage
Toad The Wet Sproket "One glass of wiskey"
Angel Witch -> The way they played in 1980, Baphomet, Extermination Day, Fligh 19...
White Spirit [with Janic Gers] Their first album is great.

 

[Stormbringer]

samson!

 

[anvil(old)]

Tygers of Pan Tang

 

[wolf]

Not a favourite but Angelwitch was good.

 

[Heart Collector]

Angel witch - I've got Angel Witch, Devils Tower and free man on MP3 and they sound ok.

 

[Lee_B]

I always liked Tank. The first Demon album was great too.

 

[Hawk]

Yeah Tank were great. I saw them as support act of Motorhead in Belgium.

 

[Vim Fuego]

Diamond Head, although they lose points for encouraging Lars Ulrich...
And Angel Witch too. They should have been bigger, but were just a bit too scary for people back then.

 

[Black Lagoon]

Got to be Diamond Head. They were so good and just ruined by bad management.
Goes to show, don't let your mum manage your band!

 

[ms. anthrope]

ANGEL WITCH, PRAYING MANTIS

 

[IcedEarth_811]

Angel Witch and Diamond Head

 

[AngelWitch73]

ANGELWITCH !!!

 

[madgirl]

toad the wet sproket.. now theres a name ive not heard for a long time!!!!!!!

 

[Psycho]

Tank and Holocaust. Of course, Holocaust depends how you think that Scotland fits in the scene of NWOBHM

 

[Hawk]

I would say Holocaust would fit in damn fine! "The nightcomers" is a great NWOBHM albums and certainly a classic.

 

[Ayeka]

Samson, Diamond Head and Angel Witch in that order

I have the original Metal For Muthas LP, and do think Sledgehammer sounded alright, ne?

(and before any of you get any ideas - all this happened 5 years before I was even born )

 

[junnie from the east]

"that did not make it big", isn't it?
i think Angel Witch and Tigers of pang tang, or Tank were big here or in the UK...not as big as Iron Maiden or Motorhead tho...
mine is Desolation Angels!

 

[Hawk]

Damn!!! Sledgehammer were great!! They played Reading did they not??

 

[Ayeka]

I wouldn't have a fucking clue, I only got the song on Metal For Muthas and then - blip! Nothing else! After the big names of the NWOBHM all the others are alien to me

Although - I bought a pair of old 7"s today - Tygers Of Pan Tang and Spider. Both new bands to me. Anyone heard of the latter?

 

[Hawk]

Spider was a Status Quo [the band] clone. They were quite populair in England in the early 80s