We all know that the NWOBHM was an important movement in heavy metal. However, what do you think metal would've been like if that movement never existed?

No offense meant, but that question is completely useless, because IMO it's impossible to know the answer to that since the NWOBHM is the foundation of metal. Personally I deem all "what if" questions as unanswerable.

Written by Oaken on 01.09.2012 at 02:41

NWOBHM is the foundation of metal.

You're gonna have a bad time.

Written by [user id=109376] on 01.09.2012 at 02:49

Written by Oaken on 01.09.2012 at 02:41

NWOBHM is the foundation of metal.

You're gonna have a bad time.

TBH I hesitated before writing it (it might be terribly wrong), but what kind of question is that? It's like saying "What would have happened with MS if the internet had never been created?".

Written by Oaken on 01.09.2012 at 02:53

it might be terribly wrong

Not only it might, but it is

As for the question itself, I guess punk would have had a bigger impact, or maybe the psychedelic music of the hippies from which derived bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, ...

Then the americans would've made it. An evolution so clear in music or any other department is just inevitable. So if the British would.nt have done it somebody else would. Like the man on the moon.

Written by [user id=109376] on 01.09.2012 at 02:57

Not only it might, but it is

As for the question itself, I guess punk would have had a bigger impact, or maybe the psychedelic music of the hippies from which derived bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, ...

Yeah, but even if what I said was wrong, it is impossible to know. Personally I find "what if" questions very unanswerable, especially in this case, in which NWOBHM was very, very influential.

Darkthrone wont release "NWOBHM"

We wouldn't have this thread?

Written by M C Vice on 04.09.2012 at 06:37

We wouldn't have this thread?

Bazinga!
... We can always use another thread to muse about fictional situations and talk out of our butts for a while.

Well interesting, I say many bands wont exit nowdays German HM 80's bands wont eb so forgotten and rule the world, we would have lil diferen fassion style, Conan never would exist, girlsd wont say sexy men has huge muscles, there would be less posers in this genre, there be less bands and I think norsk bm wont be so overated and many bands be more in deeper underground and in MA datebase wont be so huge and and Bruve Dickinson never would be so famose and Steave Harris would be ICF top boy

If the NWOBHM movement never existed, there would have been something else there that molded heavy metal into what it presently is today.

What if threads like this never existed?

Written by [user id=115335] on 04.09.2012 at 18:06

What if threads like this never existed?

I couldn't agree more, "what if" threads are simply pointless.

Why is every second thread infested with posts complaining about usefulness of the thread?

there are no useful forum threads...ever...all of them are just a product of lost souls wasting their time discussing and arguing about shit

Written by Ellrohir on 04.09.2012 at 18:34

Why is every second thread infested with posts complaining about usefulness of the thread?

there are no useful forum threads...ever...all of them are just a product of lost souls wasting their time discussing and arguing about shit

QFT.

Written by [user id=115335] on 04.09.2012 at 18:06

What if threads like this never existed?

some of us would have 2-3 posts less

and if NWOBHM never existed I would say there would be something NVODHM - new wave of deutche hm , because Ger scene is huge , biggest in 80's after USA maybe bigger, so many bands lie MP whatever wont be forgotten

I know Metal would probably not be the way it is today without it, however it could come across through a different movement or at a later period in time. Metal would probably sound different today if that were the case possibly.

NWOBHM is not a sound it's actually a period in time.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 07.12.2012 at 14:25

NWOBHM is not a sound it's actually a period in time.

Explain.

Written by Oaken on 01.09.2012 at 02:41

No offense meant, but that question is completely useless, because IMO it's impossible to know the answer to that since the NWOBHM is the foundation of metal. Personally I deem all "what if" questions as unanswerable.

Why is the thread useless? It's a discussion forum, so why not talk about this? Comments like that is useless I would say..

Written by Boxcar Willy on 07.12.2012 at 14:49

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 07.12.2012 at 14:25

NWOBHM is not a sound it's actually a period in time.

Explain.

it was a period from 1979 till 1983 or so when loads of new metal bands that got popular came out of England/UK

Just compare, from that period, Iron Maiden, Venom, Def Leppard, Samson, Holocaust, A II Z, Saxon, Diamond Head, Sweet Savage, Raven, Girlschool, Witchfynde, Jaguar, Angelwitch, Tresspass, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Sledgehammer, Vardis, Blitzkrieg, Praying Mantis, Fist and Witchfinder General and you'll see that musically they can't really be compared except one or two of them.

Long answer: The world as we know it wouldn't have been the same.