SMOKIN' VALVES: A HEADBANGER'S GUIDE TO 900 NWOBHM RECORDS by Martin Popoff CD Whereas this opening track and

Whereas this opening track and “Squirming in Your Guts” both serve to highlight how effective a well-written

Grutle Kjellson comments on the album: I'm generally not a huge fan of live albums

Minds will be blown

But no sooner than making this fateful amputation

In Wheels of Steel: The Explosive Early Years of the NWOBHM

SMOKIN' VALVES: A HEADBANGER'S GUIDE TO 900 NWOBHM RECORDS by Martin Popoff CD Whereas this opening track andTaking cue from the do it yourself attitude of their country's punk movement, Britain's up and coming heavy metal bands that comprised the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) were not content to wait for record labels to come knocking. Instead, they took to issuing their own music, typically in the form of 7 inch singles but also 12s and full length album, many indie, some on small labels, and some on the major labels smart enough to get on board