List of new wave of American heavy metal bands

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

Contents: 

• Top
• 0–9
• 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
• Z

0–9

• 10 Years[1]
• 100 Demons[1]
• 108[1]
• 21 Guns[1]
• 25 ta Life[1]
• 3 Inches of Blood[1]
• 36 Crazyfists[1]
• 7 Angels 7 Plagues[1]

A

• Abigail Williams[1]
• The Absence[1]
• The Acacia Strain[1]
• Acid Bath[1]
• The Accüsed[1]
• A Day to Remember[1]
• Adema[1]
• A Dozen Furies[1]
• AFI[1]
• Age of Ruin[1]
• Agnostic Front[1]
• The Agony Scene[1]
• Aiden[1]
• A Life Once Lost[1]
• All Out War[1]
• All Shall Perish[1]
• Allegiance[1]
• All That Remains[2]
• The Alter Boys[1]
• Amen[1]
• American Head Charge[1]
• American Me (band)[1]
• Andrew W.K.[1]
• Animosity[1]
• A Perfect Murder[1]
• Aphasia[1]
• Armor for Sleep[1]
• As Cities Burn[1]
• Asesino[1]
• As I Lay Dying[1]
• At All Cost[1]
• A Static Lullaby[1]
• At the Drive-In[1]
• Atreyu[1]
• August Burns Red[1]
• The Autumn Offering[1]
• Avenged Sevenfold[1]

B

• Bad Acid Trip[1]
• Bane[1]
• The Banner[1]
• Bayside[1]
• Becoming the Archetype[1]
• Behold... The Arctopus[1]
• Benümb[1]
• Between the Buried and Me[1]
• Biohazard
• The Black Dahlia Murder[1]
• Black Label Society[1]
• Blacklisted[1]
• Black Veil Brides[1]
• The Blamed[1]
• Bleed the Sky[1]
• Bleeding Through[1]
• The Bled[1]
• The Blood Brothers[1]
• Bloodlined Calligraphy[1]
• Blood Has Been Shed[1]
• BlöödHag[1]
• Bloodsimple[1]
• Botch[1]
• Boysetsfire[1]
• Breadwinner
• Breakdown[1]
• Buried Inside[1]
• Burn Season[1]
• Burnt by the Sun[1]
• Bury Your Dead[1]
• Buzzoven[1]
• Byzantine[1]

C

• Calico System[1]
• Candiria[1]
• Cannae[1]
• Casey Chaos[1]
• Carnifex[1]
• Cave In[1]
• Cavity[1]
• Champion[1]
• The Chariot[1]
• Chimaira[3][4][5][6]
• Coalesce[1]
• Coheed and Cambria[1]
• Cold[1]
• Comeback Kid[1]
• Common Dead[7]
• Converge[1]
• Coq Roq[1]
• Corrosion of Conformity[1]
• Cro-Mags[1]
• Crowbar[1]
• Crumbsuckers[1]
• Cursed[1]
• Cursive[1]

D

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

E

• Eighteen Visions[1]
• The End[1]
• The Esoteric[1]
• Every Time I Die[1]

F

• Five Finger Death Punch[1]

G

• Give Up the Ghost[1]
• God Forbid[8]
• Godsmack[1]

H

• Hatebreed[3]
• The Human Abstract[1]

J

• The Juliana Theory[1]
• The Junior Varsity[1]

K

• Korn[9]
• Killswitch Engage[1][6][10][11][12][13]

L

• Lamb of God[14][6][12]
• Linkin Park[1]

M

• Machine Head[1][4]
• Marilyn Manson[1]
• Martyr A.D.[1]
• Mastodon[14][15]
• Misery Signals[1]
• Most Precious Blood[1]
• Mudvayne[1]
• Mushroomhead[1]

N

• Nine Inch Nails[1]
• Norma Jean[1]

O

• Overcast[1]
• Of Mice & Men[1]

P

• Pantera[16]
• Poison the Well[1]

R

• The Red Chord[1]
• The Red Death[1]
• Rob Zombie

S

• Sevendust[14]
• Shadows Fall[14][6][12][17][18]
• Slipknot[1]
• Static-X[1]
• Still Remains[1]
• Stone Sour[1]
• Suicide Silence[1]
• Superjoint Ritual[1]
• System of a Down[1]

T

• T.S.O.L.[1]
• Tenet[1]
• Terror[1]
• These Arms Are Snakes[1]
• Thine Eyes Bleed[1]
• This Is Hell[1]
• Thrice[1]
• Through the Eyes of the Dead[1]
• Throwdown[1]
• Thursday[1]
• Training for Utopia[1]
• Trivium[19][20]
• Twelve Tribes[1]
• Twisted Method[1]

U

• Underoath[1]
• Unearth[1]

V

• Vision of Disorder[1]

W

• Walls of Jericho[1]
• Will Haven[1]
• With Passion[1]
• White Zombie

Y

• Yakuza[1]
• Year of Desolation[1]
• Youth of Today[1]

Z

• Zao[1]
• Zeke[1]
• Zero Down[1]
• Zimmers Hole[1]

See also

• New wave of British heavy metal

Notes

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