Not living there, but a band I know of from Knoxville area is Place of Skulls. They are Traditional Doom with some great musicians with long histories.
do metal heads exist in america? ehehehe no no ,i'm just joking =),USA is the country where my favourite band,Cynic,was born....i hope that USA will become a great metallic point of reference for all global metal scene as in the '90s
oh yeah im in a band too, check us out if you get bored, we play a lot around knoxville and out in murfreesboro/nashville. we're called the showdown, melodic but metal. http://www.purevolume.com/theshowdown
I live in Chattanooga, TN. Not too many metalheads here, but some. Its quite hard to find any good metal musicians here besides the very very few that I know. I saw you guys (The Showdown) a little bit back at Ziggy's with Destroy X3, i definitely thought you guys were the best band that played that night by far, very melodic children of bodomish/in flames sort of stuff from what i recall. great job.
I might be moving to Collierville, TN about 20 minutes or so from Memphis. I was wondering if there was any metal music or metal heads at all that live around there, let alone Tennessee. I listen to a variety of music, but mostly metal.