Six spicy takes from yours truly.
Hot take videos/articles are all the rage these days, so why not pinch my loaf in the punchbowl? Here are six hot takes I have regarding metal of today and past events (probably more than likely past events). 1. Stop calling it 'NWOBHM.' When Bruce Dickinson fleetingly referred to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement as "NWOBHM" in shorthand on the Classic Albums documentary on The Number Of the Beast , it was so supposed to be just that, fleeting. As in, not supposed to be shorthand common term. Also, nothing like calling something that's 40, going in 50 years old new wave ay? Here is where I feel we need to take a cue from black metal and start calling it the second wave of heavy metal. Because really that's what it was. The first wave was Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Budgie. Yes there would be influential outliers that fit into neither wave (Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, Motorhead) as there always are, there really is two d