The New Wave of American Heavy Metal was an exciting period in time for, well, American heavy metal. As we emerged from the nü metal-induced fog of the late ’90s and early 2000s, a new crop of metal ...

And then lets just change it to ‘New Wave Of American Heavy Metal’ instead of ‘New Wave Of British Heavy Metal’, and just kinda having fun and that caught on. "I remember getting ‘New ...

Metal Injection’s Drew Zalucky has written a fantastic editorial entitled “Reflecting on the New Wave of American Heavy Metal,” now that the movement is basically over. I recommend you go and read ...

Today, when you hear double bass drums and melodic riffs over soaring clean vocals on rock radio, you have the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal -- the early-’00s movement led by bands like ...

In the last few weeks, New Wave of American Heavy Metal bands have been dropping like flies. Shadows Fall are calling it quits. Chimaira is over. Last year, God Forbid officially ended their run.

For Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, there is one electric guitar that stands above the rest in his arsenal for the metal band’s ...

The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) pushed forth from the UK hot on the heels of punk, merging punk’s unfettered ferocity with art rock intricacy and musicianship amidst the churning ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As inelegant acronyms go, NWOBHM was at least onomatopoeic: an approximation of metal’s thudding ...

Channeling Hum, Catherine Wheel, Starflyer 59, and Swervedriver, these so-called “heavy shoegaze” bands ... of them definitely are), this New Wave of American Shoegaze is in direct ...

We went through a phase where it seemed like we would idolize all these American bands without ... that defined the 1980s NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) outfits who’ve so long been ...

We had the broad scope of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal ultimately bound by their adoration of heavy rhythms, the tech-death explosion, new sonic depths to chart with deathcore and djent ...

In the latest episode of our podcast Inside Track, bands from the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal remember when it all began. Members of Killswitch Engage, Lamb Of God, Unearth, and more relive ...