List of new wave of American heavy metal bands explained

A list of notable bands and artists who emerged during the new wave of American heavy metal era of music in the early to mid-1990s:

List of key artists

0–9

• 10 Years^[1]
• 100 Demons
• 108
• 21 Guns
• 25 ta Life
• 36 Crazyfists
• 7 Angels 7 Plagues

A

• Abigail Williams
• The Absence
• The Acacia Strain
• Acid Bath
• The Accüsed
• A Day to Remember
• Adema
• A Dozen Furies
• AFI
• Age of Ruin
• Agnostic Front
• The Agony Scene
• Aiden
• A Life Once Lost
• All Out War
• All Shall Perish
• Allegiance
• All That Remains^[2]
• The Alter Boys
• Amen
• American Head Charge
• American Me
• Andrew W.K.
• Animosity
• Aphasia
• Armor for Sleep
• As Cities Burn
• Asesino
• As I Lay Dying
• At All Cost
• A Static Lullaby
• At the Drive-In
• Atreyu
• August Burns Red
• The Autumn Offering
• Avenged Sevenfold

B

• Bad Acid Trip
• Bane
• The Banner
• Bayside
• Becoming the Archetype
• Behold... The Arctopus
• Benümb
• Between the Buried and Me
• Biohazard
• The Black Dahlia Murder
• Black Label Society
• Blacklisted
• Black Veil Brides
• The Blamed
• Bleed the Sky
• Bleeding Through
• The Bled
• The Blood Brothers
• Bloodlined Calligraphy
• Blood Has Been Shed
• BlöödHag
• Bloodsimple
• Botch
• Boysetsfire
• Breakdown
• Buried Inside
• Burn Season
• Burnt by the Sun
• Bury Your Dead
• Buzzoven
• Byzantine

C

• Calico System
• Candiria
• Cannae
• Casey Chaos
• Carnifex
• Cave In
• Cavity
• Champion
• The Chariot
• Chimaira^{[3] [4]}
• Coal Chamber
• Coalesce
• Coheed and Cambria
• Cold
• Comeback Kid
• Common Dead^[5]
• Converge
• Corrosion of Conformity
• Cro-Mags
• Crowbar
• Crumbsuckers
• Cursed
• Cursive

D

• Damageplan
• Darkest Hour
• Deftones
• Demon Hunter
• DevilDriver
• The Devil Wears Prada
• The Dillinger Escape Plan
• Disturbed^[1]
• Down
• D.R.I.
• The Dream Is Dead
• Drowning Pool
• Dry Kill Logic

E

• Eighteen Visions
• The End
• The Esoteric
• Every Time I Die

F

• Fear Factory
• Five Finger Death Punch

G

• Give Up the Ghost
• God Forbid^[6]
• Godsmack

H

• Haste the Day
• Hatebreed^[3]
• High on Fire^[1]
• The Human Abstract

I

• Ill Niño
• I Prevail

J

• The Juliana Theory
• The Junior Varsity

K

• Korn^[7]
• Killswitch Engage^{[8] [9] [10]}

L

• Lamb of God^{[11] [12] [13]}

M

• Machine Head^[14]
• Mahavatar
• Marilyn Manson
• Martyr A.D.
• Mastodon^[15]
• Misery Signals
• Most Precious Blood
• Mudvayne
• Mushroomhead

N

• Nine Inch Nails
• Norma Jean

O

• Overcast
• Of Mice & Men

P

• Pantera^[16]
• Poison the Well
• Papa Roach

R

• The Red Chord
• The Red Death

S

• Sevendust
• Shadows Fall^{[17] [18]}
• Skinlab
• Soulfly
• Slipknot
• Spineshank
• Static-X
• Still Remains
• Stone Sour
• Suicide Silence
• Superjoint
• System of a Down

T

• T.S.O.L.
• Tenet
• Terror
• These Arms Are Snakes
• Thine Eyes Bleed
• This Is Hell
• Thrice
• Through the Eyes of the Dead
• Throwdown
• Thursday
• Training for Utopia
• Trivium^{[19] [20]}
• Twelve Tribes
• Twisted Method

U

• Underoath
• Unearth

V

• Vision of Disorder

W

• Walls of Jericho
• Will Haven
• With Passion

Y

• Yakuza
• Year of Desolation
• Youth of Today

Z

• Zao
• Zeke
• Zero Down
• Zimmers Hole

See also

• New wave of British heavy metal

Notes and References

1. Book: Sharpe-Young . Garry . New Wave of American Heavy Metal . New Plymouth, New Zealand . Zonda Books Limited . 1 November 2005 . 978-0958268400 . 17 May 2016 .
2. Web site: Terry, Nick . The Fall of Ideals review . Decibelmagazine.com . November 13, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20060813131646/http://www.decibelmagazine.com/reviews/aug2006/allthatremains.aspx. August 13, 2006.
3. Book: Sharpe-Young, Garry . Metal: A Definitive Guide . New Plymouth . Jawbone . 2007 . 978-1-906002-01-5 .
4. Bansal, Vik . The Impossibility Of Reason review . . April 27, 2008 . 9 May 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080509105343/http://www.musicomh.com/albums/chimaira.htm . dead .
5. Williams, Robert (February 20, 2010). "Interview with Andrew Laurenson" Metal Rules. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
6. Web site: Terry, Nick . IV: Constitution of Treason review . Decibelmagazine.link . October 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061020233813/http://www.decibelmagazine.com/reviews/oct2005/godforbid.aspx . 2006-10-20 .
7. Book: McIver, Joel . Nu-Metal: The Next Generation of Rock & Punk . 2002 . . 0-7119-9209-6 . 10; 12 . How Did We Get to Nu-Metal From Old Metal? .
8. Web site: Terry, Nick . As Daylight Dies review . Decibelmagazine.com . November 13, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20061126102131/http://www.decibelmagazine.com/reviews/dec2006/killswitchengage.aspx. November 26, 2006.
9. Bansal, Vik . Killswitch Engage - Metal To The Core . . April 27, 2008 . 16 May 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080516052039/http://www.musicomh.com/interviews/killswitch-engage.htm . dead .
10. Web site: Rivadavia, Eduardo . Killswitch Engage [2000] . . 2011-02-19 .
11. Web site: Raggi, James Edward . The Ghosts of Glam Metal Past . Lamentations of the Flame Princess . April 27, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110108081333/http://www.lotfp.com/content.php?editorialid=64 . January 8, 2011 .
12. Web site: Fong, Erik . Rock of Lamb . Metroactive.com . April 27, 2008.
13. Web site: Lee, Cosmo . Sacrament review . Stylusmagazine.com . April 27, 2008 . 15 May 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080515215818/http://stylusmagazine.com/reviews/lamb-of-god/sacrament.htm . dead .
14. Web site: LAMB OF GOD - Burn The Priest. Metal Express Radio. SHOEGAZER ROSS. 2008-05-06. 17 September 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090917140650/http://www.metalexpressradio.com/menu.php?main=reviews&id=1013. dead.
15. BLOOD AND THUNDER: Regeneration. PopMatters. Adrien Begrand. 2008-05-14.
16. Web site: MTVNews.com: The Greatest Metal Bands of All Time: Pantera. https://web.archive.org/web/20060718224726/http://www.mtv.com/bands/m/metal/greatest_metal_bands/071406/index6.jhtml. dead. 18 July 2006. MTV. 17 February 2012.
17. Bansal, Vik . The War Within review . . April 27, 2008 . 6 May 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080506122343/http://www.musicomh.com/albums/shadows-fall.htm . dead .
18. Web site: Terry, Nick . The War Within review . Decibelmagazine.com . April 27, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061129065350/http://www.decibelmagazine.com/reviews/oct2004/shadows_fall.aspx . November 29, 2006 .
19. Bansal, Vik . Ascendancy review . . April 27, 2008 . 11 May 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080511215006/http://www.musicomh.com/albums/trivium.htm . dead .
20. Web site: Terry, Nick . Ascendancy review . Decibelmagazine.com . April 27, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20061020231320/http://www.decibelmagazine.com/reviews/may2005/trivium.aspx . October 20, 2006 .