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Featured Album
Slaughter & Apparatus - A Methodical Overture (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Race Against Time is a NWOBHM/heavy metal band from Nottingham, England, formed in 2014. The band channels the spirit of the original New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the East Midlands.
Radar is a NWOBHM/heavy metal and hard rock band from Leicester, England, formed in 2022. The band revives the classic NWOBHM sound from the East Midlands.
Radium is a NWOBHM/heavy metal band from Nottingham, England, active since 2007. Nearly two decades of classic-style British heavy metal make them one of the veteran NWOBHM revival acts.
Raider is a NWOBHM/heavy metal band from Grimsby in Lincolnshire, England, formed in 2018. The band channels the classic New Wave of British Heavy Metal sound from the Humber estuary fishing port.
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Random Black is a NWOBHM/heavy metal band from Essex, England, formed in 2015. The band channels the classic spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from east of London.
Rankelson is a NWOBHM/heavy metal and hard rock band from Cardiff, Wales, active since 2011. Over a decade of classic British metal from the Welsh capital.
NWOBHM/heavy metal band from Huddersfield, formed in 2025. Their approach channels the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the West Yorkshire town.
Heavy metal/NWOBHM band from Manchester, active since 2018. Their approach channels the classic British heavy metal tradition from northern England.
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