Sat, 24/02/2007 - 12:13 - Edward Box
The New Wave of British Heavy Metal promised much but in reality produced only three bands of any note: Iron Maiden, Saxon and, although they always hated the tag, Def Leppard.
However, for a time between March 1980 and the following year, metal was king of all it surveyed and nothing symbolised its reign better than British Steel, the most metal album ever made in the entire history of the genre...