The eleventh essential album is this one, again its debatable whether it should be classified as the NWOBHM due to its hard rock leanings and apart from Urban I doubt many people will know this.
White Spirit White Spirit 1980
This band were from the unlikely location of Hartlepool and had a sound very much in the mold of Deep Purple, combined with the lengthy instrumental leanings of hard rock outfit Budgie. The group were without doubt top-notch musicians and are best remembered for band member Janick Gers, who later went onto feature in the Ian Gillan Band and then onto Iron Maiden. The first thing you notice on this album are the very liberal use of keyboards, something which sets them very much apart from all the the other bands listed here! White Spirit were basically a one album act that contained seven great songs, which all helped to make this a solid hard rock album at a time when the NWOBHM was firing on all cyclinders.
Next up will be the final album of the 1980-1981 time period and in my opinion the twelfth essential listen, is without doubt the best album relaeased by any band in the whole NWOBHM period.