The collision of styles that characterised the NWOBHM is now seen as key to the diversification of heavy metal in the second half of the 1980s into various subgenres that came to the fore in the 1990s.
A colisión de estilos que caracterizou o NWOBHM considerase chave na diversificación do heavy metal durante a segunda metade dos anos 1980 que deu lugar ós diversos subxéneros que xurdiron posteriormente nos anos 1990.