I've always said that Metal is like Jazz or Blues. It will never die! Be in main stream or underground, there will always be some club or festival anywhere refusing to let it die!!!!!!! LONG LIVE!!!!!
It was a great idea to have bands give their own take instead of trying to tell a chronological story of the movement (don’t even know if that’s possible). This style makes possible to have multiple parts with different bands.
Ja sam niko i ništa više osim broja na ovom pokvarenom svijetu ,reći kasnije zašto ,,velike riječi su se vrtile ,o tome da kreće nešto novo,,disko kuće ,,su pravile toliko visoke standarde da bendovi ,i to ste već čuli iz garaže, da ,budu u rangu sa Judom ,ili nije važno,govorim o tome da su uspili otvoriti vrata svima ,,sviraj svoj stil metala to je NWOTHM 😎🤪💣☠️☠️☠️
As a metalhead that grew up in the 80s it's great to see young bands ( I'm talking bands that haven't been around long) take up the legacy. Big fan of all of these bands covered here. As a wise man once said "Brothers of True Metal, Proud and standing tall!" 🤘🤘 Metal On!🤘🤘
With Bullet we were ahead of the pack, recording our demo in 2002. I still remember our first show. We wore the whole 80's gear studded leather and all, and the show organizer (wearing an In Flames hoodie and stupid cargo pants) asked us something to the effect of "This is a joke right? I mean you guys aren't serious?" Me or Hampus snapped back at him something about wearing hip-hop clothes haha. Maybe Bullet was more rock'n roll, but while I was in the band I always thought of us as Metal. I also gave O. Thunder his nickname because he let Bullet stay at his parents' house back in the day. Hail Heavy Metal Forever! Great Documentary Ruthless!
Dude u guys kick ass the video Heading to the Top was badass when I first saw that i thought holy fuck....these guys are smashing through the wall of all this scrappy music at the time and kick in fuckin ass. One of the coolest videos I ve ever seen and it was for real no bull shit. Much respect 🤘
I've been following the channel for quite some time now, and its just outstanding the amount of great content you are able to create in such a short amount of time. This documentary feels like the jewel in the crown. Keep It Up, this IS the best underground metal Channel un UA-cam
sacred steel, gladiators, pegazus, etc.. they all have more value than this fad. yes i get it, it is nice to uphold the tradition but seriously do you really think that any of these nwothm bands will record another killers, screaming for vengeance, or wheels of steel? because what made it sooooo fucking good is GOOD WRITING, catchy tunes. i haven't heard it in any of these bands, maybe enforcer, a couple of songs and that's it
My introduction to what you call "The New Wave of Metal" was through a youtube interview with Olof Wikstrand on some Greek outlet around the time when 'Death by Fire' was released in early 2013. The caption on that video clip was something like "Enforcer: the Saviours of Heavy Metal". Throughout that interview, I was very impressed with Olof's general attitude towards Heavy Metal music. That conversation took me back to 1980 when I was 15 years old. I showed my then 8 year old son the 'Mesmerized by Fire' video and his eyes lit up as if it was 1980 and hearing the Iron Maiden debut or 1983 and hearing 'Kill 'em All'. Finally he had the opportunity to love music from his time rather than his dad's time Those first three Enforcer albums impressed me so much, that I used the "Similar Artists" feature on the Metal Archives website and found Cauldron, Skull Fist, Portrait, In Solitude, Steelwing and others. Getting to meet the members of Enforcer on a number of occasions was a great experience for me and my son. They are a great bunch of guys. My take from listening to "NWOTHM" albums is that they make me feel happy. In my opinion, that was lost, for the most part, in heavy music in the '90s. Thanks to the bands and "Ruthless Metal" for keeping Heavy Metal alive.
Year after year, this music will continue to reach new horizons... For the energy, the heart and the passion the every musician put out in every single new song... Congratulations for this great metal documental !!! Heavy metal is forever, Never Surrender !!!! Abrazo power desde Buenos Aires, Argentina !!!!
I've been on a big NWOTHM kick for the last few weeks or so. I knew of the movement, but since i'm mainly a Death/Grind/Black guy and old enough to have gone through the NWOBHM era i pretty much stayed to just the Heavy Metal bands from the past. I checked out Eternal Champion just because of the cover art and i must have found at least 20 top quality bands in a week that i never even knew existed. I'm for sure going to pick up a lot of releases and some merch in the near future.
One of the best channels in all of UA-cam. this documentary really shows your dedication to all things metal and the hard work your willing to do for it.
Great independent mini documentary Ruuth, congrats Here in México we have 2 bands that are part of the first NWOTHM wave that you probably know (if you don't, you should check it out): Voltax & Split Heaven, Jet Jaguar a "newer" one but with the same level I take what Jarvis said: there are many bands in so many countries around the world, there's an insane camaraderie, nowdays because for the technology and internet we all are been able to connect in way or other, we have a global community here.. Btw once i met him and the other Night Demon dudes after they played with Skull Fist, nice guy Saludos from México! \m/
Totally Amazing. This is the best documentary I have ever seen. Jävligt bra upplägg! Kul att folk va helt ocencurerade! Kulturnyheterna - presenteras ikväll av Ruthless Metal! Ika kommenterar och nämner fina minnen från Muskelrock!
Excellent doc! I'm a holdover from the very end of the 80s, and watched as the USPM and thrash scenes crested in 90, 91 and then gave way to grunge and death metal. The mid-90s were "lost years" for true metal, though things were stirring in the underground, like Prototype, Steel Prophet, New Eden and Destiny's End from my hometown of Los Angeles (full disclosure: I knew the guys in those bands), Iron Rainbow and Twisted Tower Dire on the East Coast, and Slough Feg up in the Bay Area. I've been following as younger generations started taking up the mantle since the 2000s, and I think the quality of the bands now is on par with what Armored Saint and Vicious Rumors were doing back in the day, where they're not only paying homage to classic bands, but reinventing the genre and giving it a feel that's uniquely contemporary.
@@ericv7720 yeah, classic in comparison to thrash and death metal and those kind of things but metal from 1983 just sounded different from the more power metal sound of 1993.
@@RuthlessMetalYT Of course! I would say old Fates Warning is classic metal, for example, but when Ray Alder took over on "No Exit," it's not, because they became almost an entirely different band without the Maiden, Sabbath influences.
Great job. I helped shoot, record audio and Jarvis from Night Demon’s section. I had no idea at the time it was for this channel, which I’ve been watching for quite a while. A nice surprise!
Ah, yeah I recognize your name, I put you in the credits. :) Yeah, it's a small world, I'm going to upload the full interview with Jarvis in about a week, so look out for that. ;)
Thank you for bringing the future of THM to our attention. We desperately need a truth-teller like yourself pointing us towards the hope of a promised land. For all that you do for us- We Salute You Sir! Bravo!
Thank you Sir. Yeah metal media is generally kinda ass tbh so I'm trying to push the real bands and not whatever the media thinks is hot at the moment. Cheers!
I discovered Heavy Metal in 1988 and always loved the Traditional Heavy Metal bands the most, it's great these new bands are coming out now, many of them are as good if not better than the 80s bands! It's just a shame more people my age don't check them out they are just happy with the old stuff they already know! This is a great Doc, thanks Ruthless Metal \m/
Riot City the best out of all the bands in the video, followed by Skullfist and from Mexico and not featured… Voltax! Look at Tartaglia’s t-shirt. He’s a fan.
To me, everything these bands represent are of the utmost importance to keep the intrigue of true METAL alive and well. To me ( as a sufferer of the 90s and Aughts) and still keeping true, this a terrific observation of like-minded musicians. We can only hope to inspire our children to be inspired by the actual love of instrumentation and how to create significant music. In this world today, with all the distraction and greed, seeing fellowship in making quality music and honoring the past and yet providing a future to fresh ears is beyond commendable. Metal is life. Life is metal.
yeah, in 10-20 years all the legacy bands will be gone more or less so it's up to these guys and the following generations to take hold of the flame so to speak. :)
Have been saving this up for a treat, and it was exactly that. An absolute treat. Thanks Jim & big salute to HP & Portrait especially. Rock on lads! Metal forever. (I was that Australian guy at the show in Paris for the Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae tour -I was a fucking mess back then too)
Thank you so much for this documentary! I was only kind of familiar with the NWOTHM in the face of White Wizzard, but I've been amazed by their music ever since I've randomly stumbled upon them somewhere in the Internet. This video of yours definitely gave me a much better feeling of the scene and lots of names to get familiar and catch up with.
@@RuthlessMetalYT keep on doing what you do, man. You're pretty good at it and it's really cool to have a source of information outside of the word of mouth and the semi-blind personal discovery process for a change. The production value is also a cherry on top.
I believe metal is slowly being reborn after it's death in mainstream diversity. With the majority of modern metal bands being death metal bands. With very similiar material. Sometimes you need to go back to the roots to come up with interesting and enjoyable material people could get into more easily.
Very agreeable take. I would not say for certain more traditional forms of heavy metal (such as heavy metal itself, speed, power, old school doom, even glam) could make a proper mainstream comeback (least not here in the USA). However I do believe it will increase in popularity among the younger generation as a somewhat underground movement.
I was born in the 80's, so I didn't live in this era of legendary great heavy metal bands, so this gives millennials like me a new freshness of traditional heavy metal from that era to the 21st century with new bands, amazing! great documentary🤘⚡
Grym dokumentär!! Kunde ju haft med kanske ett av de första... RAM! Sudden Impact är ju i min mening den bästa Ep'n i denna genre. Annars svinebra som vanligt!
It would be nice to mention the new wave of women in heavy metal.Bands like Huntress /that sadly disbanded after the death of Jill Janus/,Burning Witches,Lovebites /an amazing all female power-heavy metal band/ ,Kobra And The Lotus ,Unleash The Archers and at least dozen of female fronted or all-female bands. It is a very refreshing movement that has been going on in metal for at least last 10 years and it seems that you completely disregarded that.
Yes, there are like 5000 NWOTHM bands out there and I couldn't include all of 'em, I just interviewed the pioneers and the most popular ones of those who agreed to take part.
@@RuthlessMetalYT Of course,it is clear that you wouldn't be able to include all bands and you were limited to those who agreed to take part,still the subject of new wave of female fronted and all-female heavy metal bands was overlooked.Which is a pity because those bands bring a new,refreshing approach to heavy metal.
I'm happy to see these new bands getting some recognition, it's just a shame that they don't get the label support to do full tours as I would love to see these guys come to Atlanta.
@@RuthlessMetalYT In High School I was obsessed with 70s and 80s Heavy Metal and I couldn't stand all the nu metal bands. I thought Heavy Metal was a dead genre until I discovered Enforcer around 2013ish. I love all the newer bands coming out now! Long live HEAVY METAL!!!!!
14:50 the extreme, extreme, metal bands that sort of branched off from traditional heavy metal, I think small record companies were Paying bands to sound like that. More extreme, more extreme is also something that people somewhat like.
yes, 9 out of ten bands here are also like that or more. The only guys in my town that played old school metal was helvetets port but they moved down to Gothenburg. :D
@@RuthlessMetalYT Yes. I see most of the newer bands from Sweden that are on Frontiers or similar labels are going for the old-school commercial AOR type sound. I want to start a Minnesota version of Lost Horizon.
I was waiting to hear Marty DiBergi : Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? Nigel Tufnel : [pause] These go to eleven….🤣🤣😂. Great doc..thank you….In case it’s needed..from the movie Spinal Tap…..favorite scene was the Stonehenge….Ruthless…what was yours?
I didn't expect this to be so long dude! Never heard of any of these bands but the documentary is fabulous! Me being a metalhead from India, I had never heard of Kryptos before, found it out on the playlist in your description cheers! 🍻
In 2005, thanks to Internet, I could get into "Court in the Act" of Satan, that shit changed my mind, I'm from Perú, a country with a more extreme taste in metal, all I could get in heavy metal were what I call "magazine bands", I mean the famous ones like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Dio, Accept, Running Wild..., nobody talked to me about Angel Witch or even Tank That same year I consolidated the first "Cobra" formation, and did a research of the traditional bands of the moment, I remember digging into Revenge from Colombia and Enforcer. Enforcer was different even back then, to me they were the only ones to do something similar in style and quality of what I've been looking for my own band. I remember some greek bands also. Those were nice times, I learned about KIT, and learned how my new favorites bands, all of them from the 80s, played there. I also remember when Internet had 0 (zero) videos of Satan, and they were very enigmatic to me for a long time. Time have past, swedish and canadians bands have consolidated, this got into a strong movement, I have to recognize that most of the bands of this movement to me are lame (I mean maybe 95%), but I'm happy to know that there is still poeple that honestly holds the heavy metal flag. I hope a second part with more bands from other sides of the world (I'm not even talking about South America here), cheers
Seeing Riot City drinking Rainier beer reminds me of being a teen in Kelowna BC, and scrounging up 4 bucks to give a bootlegger for a 6 pack. Raaaaaaaiii,nieeeerrrr, beeeeeeerrr....
Great stuff, I really enjoyed watching this. One thing I have to say is that Cauldron is not from eastern Canada. They are from Toronto, more like central Canada.
Damn I loved this documentary. Fills me with joy that there are bands on the way up keeping metal vital. From the get go when Dan Cleary name checked Racer X, I had a feeling that this was exactly my vibe. Hevetets Port chanelling Spinal Tap? Love it. A mark of a mind expanding documentary, my browser is filled with tabs hunting for more info on Enforcer and Striker and White Wizzard. I appreciated your delving into their inspirations, deep stuff like Venom and Mercyful Fate hadn't crossed my mind for ages. Certainly led to a UA-cam rabbit hole watching Cronos go crazy. One thought I'd have is it would be nice if there were more of the music itself. Even if it was a bit longer or had fewer bands in it. I planted with an old friend, and we found ourselves often pausing to look up the bands. In deep pandemic I stumbled across your channel looking for live shows of obscure Swedish bands. (Probably Easy Action? Can't remember!). I love the videos you put out. Lots of research and great info. Thank you!
yeah, even if the bands agrees to do interviews, there are still issues with copyrights so I can't play their music because it belongs to them and their labels and I don't think Helvetets Port would be happy with the Spinal Tap comparison but hey. ;) cheers!
Ah, I can see the licensing issues. That was meant as a compliment that they are true rock stars with high levels of dont-give-a-fuck. Not as a hex on O Thunder.
After watching. I think dubbing the interviewed bands over some of their concert footage and music would make this more interesting. It's alright for being the first documentary you made but It could be a lot more exciting. Especially if it's supposed to get new highly engaged fans.
I’m from Mexico 🇲🇽 and I’m 27 years old. I’m a beginner guitar player, influenced by NWOBHM and early glam metal (1981-1985, when glam was still heavy). I’m thinking to create a heavy metal band with a melodic old school metal sound inspired on Maiden, early Leppard, Saxon, Diamond Head, Tygers of Pan Tang and also early Dokken, Europe, Crüe, Ratt, Van Halen, Scorpions and a little bit of Whitesnake. It would be cool to write songs and to record an album and to join this movement, to take part of the NWOTHM. Being a successful metal musician is not easy in my native Mexico and Latin America (rock and metal are not so appreciated in the mainstream and society) as it is on USA and Europe, whose culture is too different. Anyway as well as having my career and professional life I’d like to be on a band although just to play covers in a bar or a nightclub, to open for a band in a concert or at an event or festival in Mexico where many cover bands perform rock and metal covers or their own songs on stage.
Hell Yeah Man! Lots of great bands coming out in Lat Am. Especially Argentina I have noticed. Lots of great overlooked bands from Argentina. Mexico too.
Never thought of the surplus of black metal and other genrew as having to do with a limit of talented singers who can sing more melodically and with a greater range. Makes sense though. I love all of metal practically though. Great documentary.
@@RuthlessMetalYT Oh, I remember some stuff from the 90's. Morbid Angel, Sepultura, Obituary, Sodom, Kreator, Morgoth. Maybe it was dropped from MTV, but it never really went away. 🤘
Ruthless Metals Is my favourite channel. On that era the same thing was happening in Spain!... The new wave of Spanish heavy metal...like Avalanch, Tierra Santa, silverfist and metal mareny.
The 2nd half of the 90‘s had tons of new Power Metal bands, Hammerfall, Rhapsody, Pegazus, Iron Savior, Morgana LeFay, Labyrinth and many more especially from Sweden, Finland, Germany and Italy. They laid the ground for the Metal revival! When the Hammerfall debut came out, is was an era making event!
I don’t think those bands had anything to do with this revival. Those were the bands among others that we wanted to be the total opposite of and make heavy metal cool and serious again without the nerdy plastic attitude of the 90s power metal wave
Morgana Lefay had nothing to do with power metal, they started in 1990 and played a doomy and sometimes thrashy form of heavy metal that was way darker sounding with a vocalist with some actual character and balls.
I would agree that most of the New wave metal bands came from there, but there was so many bands that were important influnces and creators of New Wave Heavy Metal.
Battle Beast, Beast In Black, my favorites on the power metal side, cringey but great. Dream Evil(named after the best Dio album) and Bloodbound are more easily digestable power metal, and Holy Grail and Primal Fear still kind of power metal but definitely old school like you guys want. Icon of Sin if you want young Bruce Dickinson though
I've always said that Metal is like Jazz or Blues. It will never die! Be in main stream or underground, there will always be some club or festival anywhere refusing to let it die!!!!!!! LONG LIVE!!!!!
It was a great idea to have bands give their own take instead of trying to tell a chronological story of the movement (don’t even know if that’s possible). This style makes possible to have multiple parts with different bands.
Yeah it's such a massive thing with countless of bands, it's hard to tell where it started or if it ever fully ended in the 80s. Thanks!
Ja sam niko i ništa više osim broja na ovom pokvarenom svijetu ,reći kasnije zašto ,,velike riječi su se vrtile ,o tome da kreće nešto novo,,disko kuće ,,su pravile toliko visoke standarde da bendovi ,i to ste već čuli iz garaže, da ,budu u rangu sa Judom ,ili nije važno,govorim o tome da su uspili otvoriti vrata svima ,,sviraj svoj stil metala to je NWOTHM
😎🤪💣☠️☠️☠️
As a metalhead that grew up in the 80s it's great to see young bands ( I'm talking bands that haven't been around long) take up the legacy. Big fan of all of these bands covered here. As a wise man once said "Brothers of True Metal, Proud and standing tall!"
🤘🤘 Metal On!🤘🤘
Yeah it's fun that we speak of young and new bands when these bands have been playing for 15-25 years already. haha 🤘
Dude I grew up in the '80s and the very first album I heard was Metallica's Black and then I never went back
With Bullet we were ahead of the pack, recording our demo in 2002. I still remember our first show. We wore the whole 80's gear studded leather and all, and the show organizer (wearing an In Flames hoodie and stupid cargo pants) asked us something to the effect of "This is a joke right? I mean you guys aren't serious?" Me or Hampus snapped back at him something about wearing hip-hop clothes haha. Maybe Bullet was more rock'n roll, but while I was in the band I always thought of us as Metal. I also gave O. Thunder his nickname because he let Bullet stay at his parents' house back in the day. Hail Heavy Metal Forever!
Great Documentary Ruthless!
Thank you, you guys should have been in the documentary. :) I saw Bullet on Sweden Rock Festival in 2006 I think it was, Good times! Cheers!
@@joshgeiger8942 Nice! It's a never ending race on the Metal highway!
Dude u guys kick ass the video Heading to the Top was badass when I first saw that i thought holy fuck....these guys are smashing through the wall of all this scrappy music at the time and kick in fuckin ass. One of the coolest videos I ve ever seen and it was for real no bull shit. Much respect 🤘
Heading for the Top i mean sorry for the typo kick ass all the same Heavy Metal Forever🤘
Ruthless metal is the best channel ever
Thanks boss! Cheers! 🤘
I've been following the channel for quite some time now, and its just outstanding the amount of great content you are able to create in such a short amount of time. This documentary feels like the jewel in the crown. Keep It Up, this IS the best underground metal Channel un UA-cam
Yes this one took like six months to finish. Been a long time and countless hours. Now I'm back to the low budget stuff. haha Cheers!
I second this. If you get a chance give Vomitor a spin, great Aussie death metal.
This is how metal documentaries should be done bravo 👏
thanks boss
striker, stallion, visigoth, eternal champion, outlaw, stormrider, stormburner, achelous, warrior path, wotan
many great bands!
sacred steel, gladiators, pegazus, etc.. they all have more value than this fad. yes i get it, it is nice to uphold the tradition but seriously do you really think that any of these nwothm bands will record another killers, screaming for vengeance, or wheels of steel? because what made it sooooo fucking good is GOOD WRITING, catchy tunes. i haven't heard it in any of these bands, maybe enforcer, a couple of songs and that's it
@DrumpTard Zionist Collusion Sabaton? Lol
@@vicfame3171 sabaton is crap
Deivore, Murdersickle, Blood Born, WarHorde, Goremonger
My introduction to what you call "The New Wave of Metal" was through a youtube interview with Olof Wikstrand on some Greek outlet around the time when 'Death by Fire' was released in early 2013. The caption on that video clip was something like "Enforcer: the Saviours of Heavy Metal". Throughout that interview, I was very impressed with Olof's general attitude towards Heavy Metal music. That conversation took me back to 1980 when I was 15 years old. I showed my then 8 year old son the 'Mesmerized by Fire' video and his eyes lit up as if it was 1980 and hearing the Iron Maiden debut or 1983 and hearing 'Kill 'em All'. Finally he had the opportunity to love music from his time rather than his dad's time
Those first three Enforcer albums impressed me so much, that I used the "Similar Artists" feature on the Metal Archives website and found Cauldron, Skull Fist, Portrait, In Solitude, Steelwing and others. Getting to meet the members of Enforcer on a number of occasions was a great experience for me and my son. They are a great bunch of guys.
My take from listening to "NWOTHM" albums is that they make me feel happy. In my opinion, that was lost, for the most part, in heavy music in the '90s. Thanks to the bands and "Ruthless Metal" for keeping Heavy Metal alive.
That is cool, I've been friends with Olof since even before he started Enforcer. Cool guy and an awesome musician. Thank you, Cheers! 🤘🏻
Very cool
Year after year, this music will continue to reach new horizons... For the energy, the heart and the passion the every musician put out in every single new song... Congratulations for this great metal documental !!! Heavy metal is forever, Never Surrender !!!! Abrazo power desde Buenos Aires, Argentina !!!!
Cheers!
I've been on a big NWOTHM kick for the last few weeks or so. I knew of the movement, but since i'm mainly a Death/Grind/Black guy and old enough to have gone through the NWOBHM era i pretty much stayed to just the Heavy Metal bands from the past. I checked out Eternal Champion just because of the cover art and i must have found at least 20 top quality bands in a week that i never even knew existed. I'm for sure going to pick up a lot of releases and some merch in the near future.
Yeah there is a big world out there. an endless supply of good metal bands. Cheers!
I wanna see all these guys get together and do a cover of we're stars that Dio project from the 80s
That would rock.If you haven't already,check out the Korean version .In my humble opinion,it's the best,so far.Respect.
One of the best channels in all of UA-cam. this documentary really shows your dedication to all things metal and the hard work your willing to do for it.
Thank you Sir. :) Cheers!
Thank you! That was an excellent documentary. One of the most enjoyable for a long time. Plus I got to meet and investigate some great bands.
Perfect! Thank you!
I enjoyed this and now have new bands to check out. Thanks, Ruthless!
Thank you! 🤘
Great independent mini documentary Ruuth, congrats
Here in México we have 2 bands that are part of the first NWOTHM wave that you probably know (if you don't, you should check it out): Voltax & Split Heaven, Jet Jaguar a "newer" one but with the same level
I take what Jarvis said: there are many bands in so many countries around the world, there's an insane camaraderie, nowdays because for the technology and internet we all are been able to connect in way or other, we have a global community here..
Btw once i met him and the other Night Demon dudes after they played with Skull Fist, nice guy
Saludos from México! \m/
Yeah there are so many bands that play trad. heavy metal these days. can't keep track of em no longer. :) 🤘🏻
Good shit man, cheers for putting this all together! \m/
Thank you, Cheers!
"Objectively, the absolute best sound."
huh
Excellent documentary. Thanks for posting this.
Thank you!
Totally Amazing. This is the best documentary I have ever seen. Jävligt bra upplägg! Kul att folk va helt ocencurerade! Kulturnyheterna - presenteras ikväll av Ruthless Metal! Ika kommenterar och nämner fina minnen från Muskelrock!
haha, tackar. :)
The work that went into the production of this is much appreciated. - A well-researched documentary. Thanks a lot.
Thanks!
Nice work Jim! Really enjoyed this!
Thanks! Cheers!
Loving this documentary. Great video ruthless \m/
thanks! Cheers!
Excellent doc! I'm a holdover from the very end of the 80s, and watched as the USPM and thrash scenes crested in 90, 91 and then gave way to grunge and death metal. The mid-90s were "lost years" for true metal, though things were stirring in the underground, like Prototype, Steel Prophet, New Eden and Destiny's End from my hometown of Los Angeles (full disclosure: I knew the guys in those bands), Iron Rainbow and Twisted Tower Dire on the East Coast, and Slough Feg up in the Bay Area. I've been following as younger generations started taking up the mantle since the 2000s, and I think the quality of the bands now is on par with what Armored Saint and Vicious Rumors were doing back in the day, where they're not only paying homage to classic bands, but reinventing the genre and giving it a feel that's uniquely contemporary.
yeah, but a lot of those bands had more of a power metal vibe to it than a classic heavy metal sound.
@@RuthlessMetalYT I guess. It's all "classic metal" to me.
@@ericv7720 cheers
@@ericv7720 yeah, classic in comparison to thrash and death metal and those kind of things but metal from 1983 just sounded different from the more power metal sound of 1993.
@@RuthlessMetalYT Of course! I would say old Fates Warning is classic metal, for example, but when Ray Alder took over on "No Exit," it's not, because they became almost an entirely different band without the Maiden, Sabbath influences.
Great job. I helped shoot, record audio and Jarvis from Night Demon’s section. I had no idea at the time it was for this channel, which I’ve been watching for quite a while. A nice surprise!
Ah, yeah I recognize your name, I put you in the credits. :) Yeah, it's a small world, I'm going to upload the full interview with Jarvis in about a week, so look out for that. ;)
@@RuthlessMetalYT Thank you!
Thank you for bringing the future of THM to our attention. We desperately need a truth-teller like yourself pointing us towards the hope of a promised land. For all that you do for us- We Salute You Sir! Bravo!
Thank you Sir. Yeah metal media is generally kinda ass tbh so I'm trying to push the real bands and not whatever the media thinks is hot at the moment. Cheers!
I discovered Heavy Metal in 1988 and always loved the Traditional Heavy Metal bands the most, it's great these new bands are coming out now, many of them are as good if not better than the 80s bands! It's just a shame more people my age don't check them out they are just happy with the old stuff they already know! This is a great Doc, thanks Ruthless Metal \m/
thank you Sir! Cheers!
Riot City is so fucking sick it’s insane
Cheers! :)
Riot City the best out of all the bands in the video, followed by Skullfist and from Mexico and not featured… Voltax! Look at Tartaglia’s t-shirt. He’s a fan.
Man it was AWESOME to watch this!! All hails to the NWOTHM movement! Lets Keep Heavy Metal Strong!!
Thank you, Cheers!
I can't believe u manage to get Riot City as the guest 🤘
I've been listening to the bands in this video and I must say Riot City freakin flat out rocks!
I told them I would tell everyone that they suck if they didn't agree to do the documentary and it worked. ;) haha 🤘
@@RuthlessMetalYT That's kind of a dick thing to do.... :(
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@@MetalPersonJ You know that was a joke, right?😂
To me, everything these bands represent are of the utmost importance to keep the intrigue of true METAL alive and well. To me ( as a sufferer of the 90s and Aughts) and still keeping true, this a terrific observation of like-minded musicians. We can only hope to inspire our children to be inspired by the actual love of instrumentation and how to create significant music. In this world today, with all the distraction and greed, seeing fellowship in making quality music and honoring the past and yet providing a future to fresh ears is beyond commendable. Metal is life. Life is metal.
yeah, in 10-20 years all the legacy bands will be gone more or less so it's up to these guys and the following generations to take hold of the flame so to speak. :)
Have been saving this up for a treat, and it was exactly that. An absolute treat.
Thanks Jim & big salute to HP & Portrait especially.
Rock on lads! Metal forever.
(I was that Australian guy at the show in Paris for the Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae tour -I was a fucking mess back then too)
Thank you Sir. Ah, must have been great. Never seen Portrait live but I met the band in 2004-2005 something.
@@RuthlessMetalYT You're welcome Brother!
The trip to Paris to see Portrait was all-round epic, they were great and the show was brilliant.
Thank you so much for this documentary! I was only kind of familiar with the NWOTHM in the face of White Wizzard, but I've been amazed by their music ever since I've randomly stumbled upon them somewhere in the Internet. This video of yours definitely gave me a much better feeling of the scene and lots of names to get familiar and catch up with.
Thank you, glad you like it!
@@RuthlessMetalYT keep on doing what you do, man. You're pretty good at it and it's really cool to have a source of information outside of the word of mouth and the semi-blind personal discovery process for a change. The production value is also a cherry on top.
Great video. I enjoyed the takes by Night Demon, H Port and White Wizzard especially
thank you!
Great Documentary NWOTHM Is Extremely Underrated Such An Incredible Music Scene
Thank you Sir!
A great way to kick off the weekend with this awesome video! Thank you very much for this!
Thank you Sir! :)
I like your voice better than anyone else who talks about music on UA-cam... cheers man...
Thanks man. :D Cheers!
I believe metal is slowly being reborn after it's death in mainstream diversity. With the majority of modern metal bands being death metal bands. With very similiar material. Sometimes you need to go back to the roots to come up with interesting and enjoyable material people could get into more easily.
Very agreeable take. I would not say for certain more traditional forms of heavy metal (such as heavy metal itself, speed, power, old school doom, even glam) could make a proper mainstream comeback (least not here in the USA). However I do believe it will increase in popularity among the younger generation as a somewhat underground movement.
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Fantastic documentary love all these bands!! Riot city probably my favourite.
Thank you!
I met Jarvis twice, coolest dude ever...!
Yes! cheers!
Black Knight from Helvetets Port, the ending track, is amazing, cant wait for the new album !
Amazing and inspiring documentary !
Thank you! Cheers!
This is so cool, Jim! Beautifully done! 🔥
Thanks Kali, glad you liked it. :) Took some time to put this one together.
I was born in the 80's, so I didn't live in this era of legendary great heavy metal bands, so this gives millennials like me a new freshness of traditional heavy metal from that era to the 21st century with new bands, amazing! great documentary🤘⚡
Thank you! 🤘
Shine on Metalheads!
Cheers!
This is the best documentary that I've ever seen! We want more! We demand more! SAAATAAAAN! JEEESUSS!! EEEEVIIIL!!! GAAAARRRGGHHH!!! UGH! More Metal!
Thank you and chill bruh!
Grym dokumentär!! Kunde ju haft med kanske ett av de första... RAM! Sudden Impact är ju i min mening den bästa Ep'n i denna genre. Annars svinebra som vanligt!
Jo jag försökte kontakta RAM och flertalet andra som inte svarade. tackar!
@@RuthlessMetalYT Nerds!! Hahaha..
It would be nice to mention the new wave of women in heavy metal.Bands like Huntress /that sadly disbanded after the death of Jill Janus/,Burning Witches,Lovebites /an amazing all female power-heavy metal band/ ,Kobra And The Lotus ,Unleash The Archers and at least dozen of female fronted or all-female bands. It is a very refreshing movement that has been going on in metal for at least last 10 years and it seems that you completely disregarded that.
Yes, there are like 5000 NWOTHM bands out there and I couldn't include all of 'em, I just interviewed the pioneers and the most popular ones of those who agreed to take part.
@@RuthlessMetalYT Of course,it is clear that you wouldn't be able to include all bands and you were limited to those who agreed to take part,still the subject of new wave of female fronted and all-female heavy metal bands was overlooked.Which is a pity because those bands bring a new,refreshing approach to heavy metal.
Great film and interviews !
thanks, Cheers!
I'm happy to see these new bands getting some recognition, it's just a shame that they don't get the label support to do full tours as I would love to see these guys come to Atlanta.
yeah, there aren't enough cash in metal these days.
We played in Atlanta many times. The masquerade is a classic kickass ceñudo. So have cauldron, skull fist and night demon also.
@@Enforcer Thanks for the info, I just recently moved here from the Philly area where I knew where to go even up to NYC or down to Baltimore.
Heavy Metal forever and ever.
Cheers!
Portrait is such a great band. I have there CD from 2011. But he has a Root shirt on!
cheers
This doc rips man! Thank you
Thanks you!
@@RuthlessMetalYT In High School I was obsessed with 70s and 80s Heavy Metal and I couldn't stand all the nu metal bands. I thought Heavy Metal was a dead genre until I discovered Enforcer around 2013ish. I love all the newer bands coming out now! Long live HEAVY METAL!!!!!
Excellent documentary! Very inspiring and a great way to promote some of the bands who play the music I love!
Thank you! :)
Awesome documentary!
thank you!
I love this🤘🏾🤘🏾
Thanks! Cheers!
14:50 the extreme, extreme, metal bands that sort of branched off from traditional heavy metal, I think small record companies were Paying bands to sound like that. More extreme, more extreme is also something that people somewhat like.
Yeah they kinda forgot the art of classic metal
Jättebra dokumentär=)
Tack och bock!
NIGHT DEMON RULES!!! Going to see them Nov 6th in Ashville NC
Awesome!
Guy from Helvetets Port wears Kat - Metal and Hell t-shirt 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻my first cassette I bought in 1986
Yeah, KAT is such a cool band! 🤘🏻
Thanks so much for doing this! NWOTHM is super underrated.
Thank you, Yeah to my knowledge there are no documentaries on this wave even if it's been around for 20 years.
I'm a 55yo guitarist living in Minnesota and It's IMPOSSIBLE to try and put a band like this together. It's frustrating. 🎸
Yeah. I feel you. I tried back in the day too but nobody understood what the heck I was doing. haha
@@RuthlessMetalYT It's either cookie monster or Motley Crue wannabes. They're clueless to the Euro Power Metal scene.
yes, 9 out of ten bands here are also like that or more. The only guys in my town that played old school metal was helvetets port but they moved down to Gothenburg. :D
@@RuthlessMetalYT Yes. I see most of the newer bands from Sweden that are on Frontiers or similar labels are going for the old-school commercial AOR type sound. I want to start a Minnesota version of Lost Horizon.
I was astound by this premiere on the upcoming documentary should catch up for this😊//.
Cheers! :) 🤘
This didn't show up in my notifications so I'm late. But I'm watching now
Cheers!
Epic job, man!! Very entertaining. ⚔️
Thank you Sir!
I was waiting to hear Marty DiBergi : Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? Nigel Tufnel : [pause] These go to eleven….🤣🤣😂. Great doc..thank you….In case it’s needed..from the movie Spinal Tap…..favorite scene was the Stonehenge….Ruthless…what was yours?
Haven't seen that movie in 20 years. I just remember the knobs going to 11. ;)
I didn't expect this to be so long dude! Never heard of any of these bands but the documentary is fabulous! Me being a metalhead from India, I had never heard of Kryptos before, found it out on the playlist in your description cheers! 🍻
Ah, thank you, check 'em out! Cheers!
Check out Against Evil from india too
@@steamh4mmer264 sure man! Cheers
When O. Thunder says "band" at 40:15, he sounds like William Riker in Star Trek TNG (and looks like him, all along).
I have never watched Star Trek. :)
thank you very interesting Documentary
Thank you! Cheers!
In 2005, thanks to Internet, I could get into "Court in the Act" of Satan, that shit changed my mind, I'm from Perú, a country with a more extreme taste in metal, all I could get in heavy metal were what I call "magazine bands", I mean the famous ones like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Dio, Accept, Running Wild..., nobody talked to me about Angel Witch or even Tank
That same year I consolidated the first "Cobra" formation, and did a research of the traditional bands of the moment, I remember digging into Revenge from Colombia and Enforcer. Enforcer was different even back then, to me they were the only ones to do something similar in style and quality of what I've been looking for my own band. I remember some greek bands also. Those were nice times, I learned about KIT, and learned how my new favorites bands, all of them from the 80s, played there. I also remember when Internet had 0 (zero) videos of Satan, and they were very enigmatic to me for a long time.
Time have past, swedish and canadians bands have consolidated, this got into a strong movement, I have to recognize that most of the bands of this movement to me are lame (I mean maybe 95%), but I'm happy to know that there is still poeple that honestly holds the heavy metal flag.
I hope a second part with more bands from other sides of the world (I'm not even talking about South America here), cheers
yes, a lot of the best stuff is still underground. Cheers!
Now this is a damned fine show!
thank you!
Very important video. You just Wrote (Tell) history!
thanks boss! Cheers! 🎃
Interesting. Metal is amazing! I also like Hard Rock and Classic Rock! 🤘
🤘 Cheers! :)
Grand Magus Hammer of the North is one of my personal faves
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Got a signed copy of Riot City's album and another one from Evil Invaders :D
nice!! 🤘
Seeing Riot City drinking Rainier beer reminds me of being a teen in Kelowna BC, and scrounging up 4 bucks to give a bootlegger for a 6 pack. Raaaaaaaiii,nieeeerrrr, beeeeeeerrr....
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@@RuthlessMetalYTLove your vids man. Cheers
thank you Sir! 👍
Great stuff, I really enjoyed watching this. One thing I have to say is that Cauldron is not from eastern Canada. They are from Toronto, more like central Canada.
cheers!
Damn I loved this documentary. Fills me with joy that there are bands on the way up keeping metal vital. From the get go when Dan Cleary name checked Racer X, I had a feeling that this was exactly my vibe. Hevetets Port chanelling Spinal Tap? Love it. A mark of a mind expanding documentary, my browser is filled with tabs hunting for more info on Enforcer and Striker and White Wizzard. I appreciated your delving into their inspirations, deep stuff like Venom and Mercyful Fate hadn't crossed my mind for ages. Certainly led to a UA-cam rabbit hole watching Cronos go crazy.
One thought I'd have is it would be nice if there were more of the music itself. Even if it was a bit longer or had fewer bands in it. I planted with an old friend, and we found ourselves often pausing to look up the bands.
In deep pandemic I stumbled across your channel looking for live shows of obscure Swedish bands. (Probably Easy Action? Can't remember!). I love the videos you put out. Lots of research and great info. Thank you!
yeah, even if the bands agrees to do interviews, there are still issues with copyrights so I can't play their music because it belongs to them and their labels and I don't think Helvetets Port would be happy with the Spinal Tap comparison but hey. ;) cheers!
Ah, I can see the licensing issues.
That was meant as a compliment that they are true rock stars with high levels of dont-give-a-fuck. Not as a hex on O Thunder.
Great doc my friend. Loved it
Thank you!
After watching. I think dubbing the interviewed bands over some of their concert footage and music would make this more interesting.
It's alright for being the first documentary you made but It could be a lot more exciting. Especially if it's supposed to get new highly engaged fans.
Yeah, but I'm on youtube and I can't steal others filmed videos or use copyrighted music. :)
1:22:07 lmao love the reference
Cheers!
I’m from Mexico 🇲🇽 and I’m 27 years old. I’m a beginner guitar player, influenced by NWOBHM and early glam metal (1981-1985, when glam was still heavy). I’m thinking to create a heavy metal band with a melodic old school metal sound inspired on Maiden, early Leppard, Saxon, Diamond Head, Tygers of Pan Tang and also early Dokken, Europe, Crüe, Ratt, Van Halen, Scorpions and a little bit of Whitesnake. It would be cool to write songs and to record an album and to join this movement, to take part of the NWOTHM. Being a successful metal musician is not easy in my native Mexico and Latin America (rock and metal are not so appreciated in the mainstream and society) as it is on USA and Europe, whose culture is too different. Anyway as well as having my career and professional life I’d like to be on a band although just to play covers in a bar or a nightclub, to open for a band in a concert or at an event or festival in Mexico where many cover bands perform rock and metal covers or their own songs on stage.
it's not common in mainstream here either. metal is kinda dead.
Hell Yeah Man! Lots of great bands coming out in Lat Am. Especially Argentina I have noticed. Lots of great overlooked bands from Argentina. Mexico too.
I love 80s sounds but I don’t know any of the (new) bands you listed, interesting material
Never thought of the surplus of black metal and other genrew as having to do with a limit of talented singers who can sing more melodically and with a greater range. Makes sense though. I love all of metal practically though. Great documentary.
yeah, it's probably easier to just bark into the mic then try to sing when all your buddies are watching. haha, thanks! cheers!
Nothing ever goes away.
Once something exists,
It exists Forever.
Trends will always come & go
But Metal is Immortal. 🤘
Metal was practically dead in the 90s. traditional styled metal a la Priest, Maiden and Saxon. :)
@@RuthlessMetalYT
Oh, I remember some stuff from the 90's.
Morbid Angel, Sepultura, Obituary, Sodom, Kreator, Morgoth.
Maybe it was dropped from MTV,
but it never really went away. 🤘
@@RuthlessMetalYT I remember how Hammerfall revived it with their first album :) Cheers 🍻
Ruthless Metals Is my favourite channel. On that era the same thing was happening in Spain!... The new wave of Spanish heavy metal...like Avalanch, Tierra Santa, silverfist and metal mareny.
good stuff!
HAMMERFALL...was the band that bring back the revival of 80's Metal
maybe to some degree, but they also had this european power metal thing going.
The 2nd half of the 90‘s had tons of new Power Metal bands, Hammerfall, Rhapsody, Pegazus, Iron Savior, Morgana LeFay, Labyrinth and many more especially from Sweden, Finland, Germany and Italy.
They laid the ground for the Metal revival! When the Hammerfall debut came out, is was an era making event!
Yes there were some death, black and european power metal and symphonic metal and stuff like that.
I don’t think those bands had anything to do with this revival. Those were the bands among others that we wanted to be the total opposite of and make heavy metal cool and serious again without the nerdy plastic attitude of the 90s power metal wave
Morgana Lefay had nothing to do with power metal, they started in 1990 and played a doomy and sometimes thrashy form of heavy metal that was way darker sounding with a vocalist with some actual character and balls.
We wanna participate of this documentary if is possible.
the documentary is already filmed and done. ;)
Do more parts, with other bands from another countries, have too much more to see and to know.
Love this genre!! back to the source!!!
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Great docu man 👍🤘
Metal is MetAaaal!
Thank you!
I would agree that most of the New wave metal bands came from there, but there was so many bands that were important influnces and creators of New Wave Heavy Metal.
yes, an endless supply. Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT I will admit as an Irishman I have allot of "beef" as the USer's say with the English.
Now what we need is a bunch of bands to play NWOTHM harder and faster somewhere in the Bay Area
Metal will never die
Cheers!
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I gave you a shout out on my Instagram and Facebook 🤘💀🤘
I love the fact that JJ Tartaglia wears a Voltax t-shirt
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Muito obrigado! Thank you ! 🇧🇷
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Battle Beast, Beast In Black, my favorites on the power metal side, cringey but great. Dream Evil(named after the best Dio album) and Bloodbound are more easily digestable power metal, and Holy Grail and Primal Fear still kind of power metal but definitely old school like you guys want. Icon of Sin if you want young Bruce Dickinson though
Cheers!
Hilarious that I was the 666th like. Very cool high quality documentary. Thanks! - Heather
Thank you! Cheers!
Lmao. I love the pitcher of beer at the table
No metal without some alcohol. ;) 🤘🏻
Cauldron is another great new band
Yes, I tried to reach out to them but I got no response. Cheers!