New Wave of American Heavy Metal
The New Wave of American Heavy Metal (abbreviated as NWOAHM or NWoAHM) is a movement in heavy metal music that originated in the United States during the mid to late 1990s. The term NWOAHM is a reference to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement of the 1980s.[1][2][3] Although the term is used by the Rock media with increasing frequency, the definition has not been finished completely.[2] NWOAHM is credited by some with bringing heavy metal back into the mainstream.[3][4]
History
The movement has its origins in a group of groove metal and hardcore acts from the 1990s such as Pantera, Biohazard and Machine Head that brought heavy metal "back to its core brutality and drawing not from the traditional blues formula but from NYHC, thrash metal and punk."[2] "At one end of the spectrum, you have the traditionalists, the bands who choose to remain within the rigid confines of whatever style they play; and at the other, the innovators who, despite equally strong contributions from the traditionalists, are providing the most thrills these days, taking metal's sound in daring new directions."[4]
Garry Sharpe-Young from Rockdetector says that in the book New Wave of American Heavy Metal he "included some of the older bands that show the real roots of metalcore, like Agnostic Front and the whole NYHC, plus the groups that broke the metal scene into new territory after grunge — Pantera, Biohazard, Machine Head and KoRn (as the start of nu metal). From there it gets really diverse, crossing the spectrum from melodic death metal to emocore and everything in between."[1] The movement encompasses a number of different styles including alternative metal, sub-Gothique, emocore, hardcore, progressive metal, mathcore, melodic death metal, metalcore, neo-thrash and screamo bands.[1][5][2][4][6]
List of key NWOAHM artists
A list of notable bands who emerged during the NWOAHM era of music: Vorlage:Col-begin Vorlage:Col-2
- All That Remains[7]
- As I Lay Dying[1]
- Atreyu[8]
- Biohazard[2][1][6]
- Byzantine[1][9]
- Chimaira[10][11][8][9]
- Damageplan[1]
- Darkest Hour[1]
- DevilDriver[1]
- God Forbid[12]
- Down[1]
- Hatebreed[13]
- Killswitch Engage[11][14][15][16][17]
- Korn[1]
- Lamb of God[3][11][16]
- Life of Agony[1][6]
- Machine Head[2][1][6][8]
- Mastodon[3][4]
- Otep[1]
- Poison the Well[1]
- Prong[1][6]
- Shadows Fall[3][11][16][18][19][17]
- Slipknot[2][1][6][8]
- Superjoint Ritual[1]
- System of a Down[1]
- The Agony Scene[1]
- The Black Dahlia Murder[1]
- The Dillinger Escape Plan[1]
- The Red Chord[1]
- Throwdown[1]
- Trivium[20][21]
- Unearth[1]
Further reading
Notes
External links
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y 'New Wave Of American Heavy Metal' Book Documents Over 600 Bands. Blabbermouth.net
- ↑ a b c d e f g Garry Sharpe-Young, New Wave of American Heavy Metal (link)
- ↑ a b c d e James Edward: The Ghosts of Glam Metal Past. Lamentations of the Flame Princess
- ↑ a b c d Adrien Begrand: BLOOD AND THUNDER: Regeneration. Popmatters, abgerufen am 14. Mai 2008.
- ↑ {{cite web/>
Heavy metal | url = http://www.maximummetal.com/columns/tales/37.asp | publisher = Maximum Metal | title = NWOAHM - New Frontier Or Well Worn Path? | author = | accessdate = 2008-05-18 }} - ↑ a b c d e f New Wave of American Heavy Metal. Zondabooks, abgerufen am 6. Mai 2006.
- ↑ Terry, Nick: The Fall of Ideals review. Decibelmagazine.com
- ↑ a b c d SHOEGAZER ROSS: LAMB OF GOD - Burn The Priest. Metal Express Radio, abgerufen am 6. Mai 2008.
- ↑ a b NWOAHM bands (9). Rockdetector, abgerufen am 2. August 2008.
- ↑ Bansal, Vik: The Impossibility Of Reason review.
- ↑ a b c d Fong, Erik: Rock of Lamb. Metroactive.com
- ↑ Terry, Nick: IV: Constitution of Treason review. Decibelmagazine.com
- ↑ Armin: Interview with Mike Chlasciak. metalglory.de
- ↑ Terry, Nick: As Daylight Dies review. Decibelmagazine.com
- ↑ Bansal, Vik: Killswitch Engage - Metal To The Core.
- ↑ a b c Lee, Cosmo: Sacrament review. Stylusmagazine.com
- ↑ a b THROWDOWN Prepare To Record New Album. Blabbermouth, abgerufen am 24. Juni 2008.
- ↑ Bansal, Vik: The War Within review.
- ↑ Terry, Nick: The War Within review. Decibelmagazine.com
- ↑ Bansal, Vik: Ascendancy review.
- ↑ Terry, Nick: Ascendancy review. Decibelmagazine.com