Are American metal bands really inferior?

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

I must say it is interesting to see that American thrash is given more accolades than American death. I personally feel the opposite is true.

 

[Ender Rises]

i dunno i kinda go w/ bands as i discover them so most of the stuff i find is american so i cant really comment so what am i doing?

 

[Draconian]

European nothing else

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

america - death
europe - everything else

 

[Guthrum]

We also have Arghoslent and The Lord Weird Slough Feg.

 

[Nico]

The US is too inconsistent with their death metal. Bolt Thrower and Incantation are my favourite death metal bands, but on the flipside I'd much rather listen to Grave or Dismember than say, Obituary, Suffocation or Disgorge.

 

[Nico]

We also have Arghoslent and The Lord Weird Slough Feg.

And Weakling, and Wolves in the Throne Room, and Hammers of Misfortune. US = winnar (sometimes).

 

[Carcassian]

Hmmmmmm....*ponders*

I think, on average, I prefer European metal. That isn't to say that America hasn't produced some superb heavy metal (it clearly has; Slough Feg, the Thrash bands, the Florida DM bands) - but I prefer the relative inventiveness of European metal.

Part of the problem is that each massive "trend" seems to originate state side - the fal out of which is that we, in the UK, get a trillion washed out wannabe bands that try and get on the band wagon. You truly haven't experienced the horror of Nu-metal unless you've seen some teens from Wolverhampton put on a faux Californian drawl and whine on about how their dad won't give them any pocket money.

Perhaps Patriotism plays its part for me; I've always had a soft spot for British metal, whether that be Priest, Sabbath or Maiden or relative newcomers like Gorerotted, Screamin' Daemon or Sons of Slaughter. It doesn't hurt that Carcass were British, of course.

...after all of which, chances are, if it's good, I'll listen to it.

 

[cookiecutter]

Bolt Thrower and Incantation are my favourite death metal bands,

Bolt Thrower is from England

 

[CF87]

American death metal past 93,94 is worthless. Music for europe & other countries any day.

Our newer death metal scene is horrifying. We have a lot of brutal whigger death metal bands & suffocation clones. I do not even look into a death metal albums unless it's from the early 90's being obscure. Usually those albums happen to be from europe or finland > I'M STUPID!!!

Who knows maybe those countries have the same problem now. I have not looked into newer death metal enough from those countries.

 

[Erik]

europe or finland.

lmfao

 

[Nico]

Bolt Thrower is from England

Much thanks, must've slipped my mind.

 

[IOfTheStorm]

meh

 

[CF87]

lmfao

It's early in the morning... my bad. I know finland is in europe but that's just how my brain distiguished music i've heard inside europe by seperating them even though places like norway,sweden,finland are all in europe touching.

Just say i'm listening to grave,entombed,dismember from sweden forget how closely linked it is to say bands like demigod,adramelech,funebre,demlich because the word SWEDEN sounds like it's own seperate country to say finland even though both are in europe. I don't even know if i'm saying finland death metal bands names corretly but swedish bands seem more english to me so both don't even seem like they are from the same country. The word funebre,adramelech makes no sense to me when seeing it not registering as anything in my head.... where dismember,entombed do. All these bands languages are not originally english(probably) but swedish bands seem more like american bands. How come some bands from the same country use american culture more then their own country when say english is probably their second language.

this probably makes no sense

 

[IOfTheStorm]

@Erik:
Heavy/epic: Europe never had any Manowar, Manilla Road, Cirith Ungol, Omen, Slough Feg etc
Doom: If Europe had 3 GRAND doom metal bands, usa had 10. And other things.

 

[IOfTheStorm]

Also about power/prog: I don't know if you are familiar enough with u.s. power, in order to realize its significance.

 

[IOfTheStorm]

And about death: america always had the best and most influential bands. Fact

 

[IOfTheStorm]

And i posted 4 posts in a row cause UM is being a bastard

 

[Erik]

Doom: If Europe had 3 GRAND doom metal bands, usa had 10. And other things.

nah, i don't agree. probably because i include SUB-GENRES OF DOOM METAL like death-doom & funeral doom into the equation. still, even in only trad/epic doom, europe has lots of fucking great bands:

pagan altar
candlemass
mirror of deception
spiritus mortis
isole
lamented souls
cathedral
thunderstorm
thee plague of gentlemen

ETC ETC

yeah you get the point

again: certainly not enough not to make me go "well usa is better" even if they have plenty of amazing bands too

 

[Erik]

Heavy/epic: Europe never had any Manowar, Manilla Road, Cirith Ungol, Omen, Slough Feg etc

europe had IRON FUCKEN MAIDEN and JUDAS FUCKEN PRIEST and BLACK FUCKEN SABBATH etc. so...