Black(or New Wave Of American Heavy Metal)
The wave can become the most successful architect in nature, as long as it sculpts the right rock.
How it sounds
Like “American” Metal or like English riffs of NWOBHM with crap vocals.
It is in fact the incorporation of new approaches to metal music in pure English Metal.
Why listen to it
Because it is the definition of modern Metal, without the hooks of the classic.
And because it includes a wide range of sounds, including some of the top names in music.
It essentially made Metal popular worldwide.
Why not
Because you do not like the mainstream character of Metal and you prefer the more classic sound, without mixing with other genres.
Where we meet it
The USA, the name says it after all
When did it start
Early-mid 1990s.
Who are the pioneers
Although the characteristics of the genre were already evident through Post-grunge, Korn is definitely its pioneer.
But even Pantera, Biohazard, and Machine Head.
You have to listen
As I Lay Dying, All That Remains, DevilDriver, Chimaira, Avenged Sevenfold, Hatebreed, Shadows Fall, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Killswitch Engage, Unearth, Black Label Society, Coheed & Cambria, Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch, Godsmack, and many more…
Days of glory
From its appearance until today, it is the flagship of Metal and in the charts.
In general, bands of the genre usually fill stages.
Red card
Its mainstream character often becomes an instrument of demagogy for those that have power.
Basically in the multiracial country of the American continent.
Also, the diversity and wide range of the genres face the same problems as its country of origin.
What is it confused with
Alternative metal, Groove Metal, Metalcore, Industrial Metal, Nu Metal.
How do you describe it to an irrelevant
The music is heard in the end titles of the movie “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider”.