You're saying any of those traditional doom bands are any more leading than, oh, say... FUCKING CANDLEMASS? Please. And if you're going to claim that American bands are better in every genre, you'll want to do better than pass off death-doom and funeral doom bands as "doom" and not comment further on them.
if Europe had one great and classic influential etc etc doom band, usa had many more.
Sure there are great bands from Europe in the gengre (My Dying Bride, Solstice, Mourning Beloveth, Reverend Bizzare) but not as many or as infuential as dozens of u.s. doom bands ... long live High On Fire and Abdullah(who are also from the usa)
Traditional heavy metal: hi, ever heard of a band called Iron Maiden? No? Judas Priest?
Same here, except of NWOBHM (and after NWOBHM) trad. heavy metal was grown in usa, where it lasted more and produced hundrends great 80s bands (Manowar, Manilla Road, Cirith Ungol, Omen, Heir Apparent and so many others) So if we are talking about country SCENES and not just specific bands, it is usa here too.
Thrash: I could just as well say Kreator, Destruction, Sodom, Sepultura... Yes, Slayer and some Bay Area bands were definitely "leading" the genre but so were Kreator... Just a different kind of thrash. I'm inclined to say that this also is a genre that leans towards the US, though. Nowadays, though, the more "modern" thrash bands like The Haunted, Dew Scented, Defleshed etc. generally come from Europe. The few thrash bands that remain in the US are mostly old bands like Exodus that still stick around.
more MAJOR thrash metal bands came out of the u.s.a. . Even in our times the best thrash metal albums of 2003 were not from Europe (Voivod and "Through The Ashes Of Empires that Machine Head released)
Power metal and prog I don't know and don't care about. I do know that you generally hear FAR more about European PM bands than you do about American ones. Which ones are better, I'm hardly the one to judge.
Not caring about, doesnt mean that these 2 gengres dont exist..they are so important and lasted long than many other gengres of metal (and still reign) . You generally hear FAR more about european PM bands who basically are not POWER metal at all (rhapsody , edgay, etc) USA was always the high king of power metal (Helstar,Sanctuary, Jag Panzer, Crimson Glory, Titan Force, Metal Church, Liege Lord .. the list is endless).And prog metal was glorified in u.s.a too of course (and still is)
"Every gengre" with non-clean vocals ...
ISIS (that were previously mentioned) are one of the most innovative bands of our times , they are from usa too.
Faith No More also ..
and last but not least NEVERMORE (possibly the best 90s hypermetal bands) is from the usa
Purple and Whitesnake at least were the Metal of the 70s. You take all those guys out, and suddenly Heavy Metal didn't exist until 1976 or something...
