The British are coming? Nah, they never really went away. Whether it be the prototypical likes of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, game-changing extremists Napalm Death, Bolt Thrower and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iron Maiden onstage. Less than a decade after it had been forged in the white heat of the late 60s, British rock was in trouble.

In the beginning, heavy metal rocker band Saxon outpaced even the legendary Iron Maiden and Def Leppard. Fans, who will remember Saxon's 1980 "Wheels of Steel," can see Saxon May 21 at the Brown ...

The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) pushed forth from the UK hot on the heels of punk, merging punk’s unfettered ferocity with art rock intricacy and musicianship amidst the churning riffage.

Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham influenced heavy metal music when Page continued the heavy blues he’d begun with The Yardbirds. They certainly had aspects of what became ...