 The crisis of British heavy rock giants left space for the rise of other rock bands in the mid @-@ 1970s , like : Queen , Hawkwind , Budgie , Bad Company , Status Quo and Nazareth , all of which had multiple chart entries in the UK and had conducted successful international tours . The British chart results of the period show that there was still a vast audience for heavy metal in the country and upcoming bands Thin Lizzy , UFO and Judas Priest , also had tangible success and media coverage in the late 1970s . Foreign hard rock acts , such as Blue Öyster Cult and Kiss from the US , Rush from Canada , Scorpions from Germany , and especially AC / DC from Australia , climbed the British charts in the same period . 
