Into this vacuum came the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, or the NWOBHM as it’s rather cumbersomely abbreviated. Even second-wave bands like Rainbow were in decline, past both their artistic and commercial peaks, and increasingly moving towards a lightweight pop sound. Deep Purple had broken up four years earlier Led Zeppelin were in their death throes, with John Bonham dying in October of 1980 and Black Sabbath were recording with Ronnie James Dio as their singer - a configuration that I like, but which purists didn’t accept as true Black Sabbath. By 1980, the classic metal bands were a spent force.
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