NWOBHM (album)
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NWOBHM. is an EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 from the Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band Darkthrone
Darkthrone
Darkthrone is a Norwegian black metal band. They formed in 1987 as a death metal band, but after embracing the black metal style in 1991, they became a driving force in the Norwegian black metal scene. For most of this period Darkthrone has consisted of just two musicians, Nocturno Culto and...

 and released during summer 2007 as a "small taster" for the album F.O.A.D.
F.O.A.D.
F.O.A.D. is the twelfth album by the Norwegian band Darkthrone. Released in September 2007, the album is a further shift from Darkthrone's black metal roots, expanding on the punk-oriented style introduced on their previous album, The Cult is Alive. It also features some parts that are similar to...

 NWOBHM is usually referred to as New Wave of British Heavy Metal
New Wave of British Heavy Metal
The New Wave of British Heavy Metal was a heavy metal movement that started in the late 1970s, in Britain, and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. The movement developed as a reaction in part to the decline of early heavy metal bands such as Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black...

 but in this case, N.W.O.B.H.M. means "New Wave of Black Heavy Metal".

There are four tracks on the CD version, and only two on the 7" vinyl
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...

 version. Also contains a different recording of the song "Wisdom of the Dead" and different vocal version of "Canadian Metal", plus the Punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band Testors cover song "Bad Attitude" which was originally on the EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 Forebyggende Krig
Forebyggende Krig
Forebyggende Krig is a 7" single released by Darkthrone in 2006. It is limited to 2000 copies and was available online exclusively.It contains the cover song "Bad Attitude" by the punk band Testors.-Track listing:#"Forebyggende Krig"...

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Track listing

  1. "Wisdom of the Dead"
  2. "Canadian Metal"
  3. "Hedninger Fra Helvete (Heathens from Hell)"
  4. "Bad Attitude" (Testors cover)

7" Track Listing

  1. "Hedninger Fra Helvete"
  2. "Canadian Metal"
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