New Wave of American Heavy Metal

"Neo-metal" redirects here. For the genre of music with a similar name, see nu metal.

The New Wave of American Heavy Metal is a heavy metal music movement that originated in the United States and Canada during the early to mid-1990s[1][2] and expanded most in the early to mid-2000s. Some of the bands considered part of the movement had formed as early as the late 1980s, but did not become influential or reach popular standing until the following decade.[1][2] The term itself borrows from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal dating to 1979.[2] NWOAHM includes a wide variety of styles, including alternative metal, groove metal, industrial metal, nu metal and metalcore.

Although the term is used by the media with increasing frequency, the definition has not been finished completely.[2] This is due in part to the growing addition of bands that assimilate to common styles in NWOAHM (as defined below), yet have not differentiated greatly enough as to garner a new genre moniker.[3] One description by longtime metal author Garry Sharpe-Young helps classify the NWOAHM as a "marriage of European-style riffing and throaty vocals"[3] Several of the bands within the NWOAHM are credited with bringing heavy metal back into the mainstream.[1][4]

History

Machine Head

The New Wave of American Heavy Metal has its origins in a group of post-grunge acts from the 1990s that brought heavy metal "back to its core brutality" and drawing not from the traditional blues formula but from thrash metal and punk.[2] In the book The Next Generation of Rock & Punk, Joel McIver acknowledged Korn as the pioneers of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, and also credits them as the first band labeled as nu metal.[5] The nu metal genre was popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Other roots of NWOAHM are attributed to bands such as Pantera, Biohazard, and Machine Head.

Lamb of God in 2009

The producers behind the 2005 documentary Metal: A Headbanger's Journey have written of the NWOAHM: "In essence, NWOAHM can embody the seething aggression of the 'hardcore' hormone, but play a type of acrobatic, precise, technical thrash/death metal synthesis regularly touched by the melody of traditional metal, but often just briefly. Vocally, these bands huddle around Pantera-derived roar, leaning toward a death metal bark, but often with 'clean' or 'sung' vocals as ear candy, sometimes from a member of the band who is not the front man."[6] They also reference Unearth, Shadows Fall, and Lamb of God as "leaders of the pack".[6]

In the book New Wave of American Heavy Metal, when listing the wave's most popular contributors, Garry Sharpe-Young stated: "...the groups that broke the metal scene into new territory after grunge [were] Pantera, Biohazard, and Machine Head. From there it gets really diverse, crossing the spectrum from melodic death metal to progressive metal and everything in between."[2] Sharpe-Young described bands such as Pantera, Biohazard and Machine Head as neo-metal, writing that the band Pantera started a new time period of heavy metal that involved both Biohazard and Machine Head.[3] Sharpe-Young lists the broad range of styles in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal movement as ranging from the Christian metalcore scene, the 70's progressive rock of Coheed and Cambria, melodic death metal, and the screamo and "sub-Gothique" emocore of Alkaline Trio and My Chemical Romance.[2] Beyond this, the genre encompasses a number of different styles including alternative metal, groove metal, hardcore punk and metalcore,[4][7][8] despite the fact that metalcore and hardcore punk pre-date NWOAHM by almost twenty years.

List of key artists

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 James Edward. "The Ghosts of Glam Metal Past". Lamentations of the Flame Princess. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 Sharpe-Young, Garry. New Wave of American Heavy Metal.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Sharpe-Young, Garry (2007). "Metal: A Definitive Guide". New Plymouth: Jawbone. ISBN 1-906002-01-0.
  4. 1 2 3 Adrien Begrand. "BLOOD AND THUNDER: Regeneration". Popmatters. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
  5. 1 2 McIver, Joel (2002). "How Did We Get to Nu-Metal From Old Metal?". Nu-Metal: The Next Generation of Rock & Punk. Omnibus Press. pp. 10; 12. ISBN 0-7119-9209-6.
  6. 1 2 Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005, Director: Sam Dunn), Disc Two: "Metal Genealogy Chart"
  7. ↑ "NWOAHM - New Frontier Or Well Worn Path?". Maximum Metal. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
  8. 1 2 "New Wave of American Heavy Metal". Zondabooks. Retrieved 2006-05-06.
  9. ↑ Terry, Nick. "The Fall of Ideals review". Decibelmagazine.com. Archived from the original on August 13, 2006. Retrieved November 13, 2015.
  10. 1 2 SHOEGAZER ROSS. "LAMB OF GOD - Burn The Priest". Metal Express Radio. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
  11. ↑ Bansal, Vik. "The Impossibility Of Reason review". MusicOMH. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
  12. 1 2 3 4 Fong, Erik. "Rock of Lamb". Metroactive.com. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
  13. ↑ Williams, Robert (February 20, 2010). "Interview with Andrew Laurenson". Metal Rules. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
  14. ↑ Terry, Nick (October 2010). "IV: Constitution of Treason review". Decibelmagazine.link.
  15. ↑ Terry, Nick. "As Daylight Dies review". Decibelmagazine.com. Archived from the original on November 26, 2006. Retrieved November 13, 2015.
  16. ↑ Bansal, Vik. "Killswitch Engage - Metal To The Core". MusicOMH. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
  17. 1 2 3 Lee, Cosmo. "Sacrament review". Stylusmagazine.com. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
  18. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Killswitch Engage [2000]". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-02-19.
  19. ↑ "MTVNews.com: The Greatest Metal Bands of All Time: Pantera". MTV. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  20. ↑ Bansal, Vik. "The War Within review". MusicOMH. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
  21. ↑ Terry, Nick. "The War Within review". Decibelmagazine.com. Archived from the original on November 29, 2006. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
  22. ↑ Bansal, Vik. "Ascendancy review". MusicOMH. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
  23. ↑ Terry, Nick. "Ascendancy review". Decibelmagazine.com. Archived from the original on October 20, 2006. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
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