I meant #1, although considering your second option I get the feeling I don't know what feelings metal is (unless you used black and doom metal only because they're inherently feelingsy styles vs, say, the deathliest death metal band which likely has no feelings-dependence).
Of all Northern European feelings metal Opeth is likely the one I'm most partial to, but I still have a hard time caring about them. The rest (Katatonia, Amorphis, Tiamat, etc) I can hardly even force myself to listen to. It's basically alternative metal for pallid Sisters of Mercy-listening Europeans. Same goes for all those English doom/death bands by the mid 90's. If it wasn't for the fetishization of contemporary European pop culture by the American left, people wouldn't even consider that shit to be metal.
EDIT: But to be fair, right-wing neo-Nazi sentiment plays a part in the double-standard too. All that damn funk and rap influence in American groove/nu metal invalidates its metal qualities, but cheap imitations of European folk and classical? Sign me up! All that rhythm and syncopation shit is for people of African descent. Give me something bleak and mopey with endless tremolo-picking unchanging in note duration, post-punk or black metal, I don't care, that's the shit that's metal.
