To me, Flaw is just another one of the nu-metal bands that the US keeps producing in the same vein as Linkin Park and P.O.D or something like that. They all pretty much sound the same, with guitars downtuned subsonically and no melodic creativity to speak of. I am from New York too, but once I heard a lot of bands from the whole European metal scene, I realized how shoddy these US bands are for the *most* part. No, I don't like Cannibal Corpse or anything grotesque like that, I think a good example would be the band Sentenced. They're from Sweden I believe, and some songs, such as "Nepenthe" are great examples of what SHOULD be mainstream metal but is not in the US. Many of the heaviest european metal bands don't have to have retarded hair styles or face paint to play good music, like Flaw, Korn, Mudvayne, etc.
Just my two cents.