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White Spirit
White Spirit
British heavy metal band
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Girlschool
Girlschool
British rock band that formed in the new wave of British heavy metal scene in 1978
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Rogue Male
Rogue Male
musical artist
3
Angel Witch
Angel Witch
British metal band
4
Brian Slagel
Brian Slagel
American music executive
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Atomkraft
Atomkraft
band that plays speed metal
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Shy
Shy
UK band
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HellsBelles
HellsBelles
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Jaguar
Jaguar
band
9
Hollow Ground
Hollow Ground
British band
10
Race Against Time (band)
Race Against Time (band)
11
Salem
Salem
hard rock/metal band from Hull, England
12
Ross Halfin
Ross Halfin
British photographer
13
Broken Teeth
Broken Teeth
English hardcore punk band
14
Blink-182
Blink-182
American pop punk band
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Marseille
Marseille
British heavy metal band
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Vardis
Vardis
English hard rock band
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Discharge
Discharge
British hardcore punk band
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Grim Reaper
Grim Reaper
British heavy metal band
19
L7
L7
American rock band founded in Los Angeles, California
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Cubanate
Cubanate
band
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Higher Power
Higher Power
English punk band
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Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
English heavy metal band
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Wrathchild
Wrathchild
English heavy metal band
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Synyster Gates
Synyster Gates
American musician
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Algy Ward
Algy Ward
English guitarist
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Soho Roses
Soho Roses
musical artist
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Tom DeLonge
Tom DeLonge
American rock musician
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British journalist
Music

Geoff Barton (born July 1955) is a British journalist who founded the heavy metal magazine Kerrang! and was an editor of Sounds music magazine.

He joined Sounds at the age of 19 after completing a journalism course at the London College of Printing. He specialised in covering rock music and helped popularise the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) after using the term for the first time (after editor Alan Lewis coined it) in the May 1979 issue of Sounds. In 1981 he edited the first issue of Kerrang!, which was published as a one off. This was successful so it became a fortnightly magazine. He left the magazine in 1995.

Barton's articles for Sounds which covered the NWOBHM helped to create the sense that an actual movement was taking place, and in a sense helped to create one in the process. Barton recalls: "The phrase New Wave of British Heavy Metal was this slightly tongue-in-cheek thing...I didn't really feel that any of these bands were particularly linked in a musical way, but it was interesting that so many of them should then be emerging at more or less the same time." He currently works for Classic Rock.