V.A. – Crash! Bang! Wallop! New Wave Of Lowlands Heavy Metal 1979-1984 [2022]
The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) exploded around 1979 and at the same time things started to move in The Netherlands and Belgium as well. More and more bands came out of their practice bunkers, going on stage, recording demo tapes and gathering some first publicity in Dutch magazines like Heavy Metal Demons and Aardschok.
It was an exciting period as every day you were discovering new bands from Europe, the USA, Canada, basically all over the world.
This double CD titled ”Crash! Bang! Wallop! New Wave Of Lowlands Heavy Metal 1979-1984” is wonderful compilation of bands from that proto Dutch / Belgian scene – “Lowlands Heavy Metal”, including very early recordings from bands the later became world-wide known like PICTURE, ACID or BODINE, but also unknown and good acts such as Adrian Vandenberg’s TEASER, or a previously unreleased song by MOVER, Arjen Lucassen’s first band…
