Budgie are a
Welsh hard rock band from
Cardiff. They are described by author Garry Sharpe-Young as one of the earliest
heavy metal bands and a seminal influence to many acts of that scene, with fast, heavy rock (an influence on the
New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) and acts such as
Metallica) being played as early as 1971. The band has been noted as "among the heaviest metal of its day".