 Germany , Sweden , Denmark , Belgium , Netherlands , France and Spain promptly welcomed the new British bands and spawned imitators almost immediately . Acts like Accept , Grave Digger , Sinner and Warlock from Germany , E. F. Band from Sweden , Mercyful Fate from Denmark , Killer and Ostrogoth from Belgium , Picture and Bodine from the Netherlands , Trust and Nightmare from France , and Barón Rojo and Ángeles del Infierno from Spain , formed between 1978 and 1982 and were heavily influenced by the sound of the NWOBHM . Many of these bands signed with the Dutch Roadrunner Records or with the Belgian Mausoleum Records , independent labels that also published recordings of British NWOBHM acts . 
