New World Order Bringing Heavy Metal 2012

I drove down to Wolver on Saturday for the NWOBHM Denim & Leather Festival at the Slade Rooms on Broad Street. Dutch Michaels of Metaltalk.com rightly billed this as the gig of the week. The bands performing were outstandingly skillful melodic metal merchants - Praying Mantis, Weapon, Stampede, Gaskin and Agincourt. One Japanese fan called Ko, had travelled from Tokyo and was booked on a flight back home the next day. As I walked in the first face I recognised was Danny from Weapon who effortlessly helped me film an intro to the whole event at the start of this video. The quality of musicianship displayed by every band was unquestionable - they are true masters of their instruments. The whole event was organised by Roger Fauske of Rock Rotation Radio, Jeff Summers of Weapon and the indispensable local influence of Reuben Archer from Stampede. 
 The whole event was like being backstage at Donnington and any of these bands could fill that stage with ease. I still can't believe they all played together on one bill in a small club hosted by Krusher Joule.
 With the advent of new social media networks the "New World Order Bringing Heavy Metal" can spread and infect the world like a plague.

My message is simple: The world needs ROCK and rock fans need to support ALL genres in order for it to emerge from the underground that current media trends enforce.

SO FRICKIN' BRING IT!