Best Metal Bands from the USA

[Magic]

Although the USA isn't well noted for having the best metal, there are still some pretty awesome bands that hail from the USA. What is your favorite metal band that is from the USA?




Mine:



Van Halen

 

[electric funeral]

Riot
Meliah Rage
Metallica
Y and T
Slayer
Suicidal Tendencies
Testament
Death Angel

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

I don't consider Van Halen to be metal myself, Magic. To me they are one of the Big Four for the epitome of hard rock (along with AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, and Aerosmith).

My pick for the best metal band would probably be...um...I think these boys:

Dream Theater

 

[Soot and Stars]

My favorite metal band is from Utah
(unless someone wants to dissect them and say they aren't metal to which I'll say "Nope! Don't care!" "Oooooh wait a second! Ummmmm.....Nope, still don't care!!!! )

The Used

 

[Magic]

You are right in one sense, Cosmic, and wrong in another. Eddie Van Halen was a smokin' guitarist. His solo's could rival any heavy metal band.

IMHO, hard rock and heavy metal ride a fine line of definition. "Running with the Devil" to me is metal. It contains all the elements of metal; there is guitar distortion, loudness, solos, heavy bass and drums, and a screaming vocalist.

I think Van Halen fell on both sides of the fence, some songs are rock to hard rock and others fit into the heavy metal category.

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

You are right in one sense, Cosmic, and wrong in another. Eddie Van Halen was a smokin' guitarist. His solo's could rival any heavy metal band.

IMHO, hard rock and heavy metal ride a fine line of definition. "Running with the Devil" to me is metal. It contains all the elements of metal; there is guitar distortion, loudness, solos, heavy bass and drums, and a screaming vocalist.

I think Van Halen fell on both sides of the fence, some songs are rock to hard rock and others fit into the heavy metal category.

Oh yes I can agree. I mean, I understand exactly why Van Halen can be considered metal but personally just don't see them as a metal band.

 

[R. Evans]

How about Dio? Definitely American and surely metal.

 

[METALPRIEST]

You are right in one sense, Cosmic, and wrong in another. Eddie Van Halen was a smokin' guitarist. His solo's could rival any heavy metal band.

IMHO, hard rock and heavy metal ride a fine line of definition. "Running with the Devil" to me is metal. It contains all the elements of metal; there is guitar distortion, loudness, solos, heavy bass and drums, and a screaming vocalist.

I think Van Halen fell on both sides of the fence, some songs are rock to hard rock and others fit into the heavy metal category.

Oh yes I can agree. I mean, I understand exactly why Van Halen can be considered metal but personally just don't see them as a metal band.

I see both sides here and agree they rode the fine line. When I was a kid, there was enough leather on that first album that made them metal. Alot of the metal crowd I hung with back in the day would hold them high on the metal pedestal along with Raven, Accept and the like.

Songs like Dance The Night Away (sure) would be a bit more rock and roll...but Atomic Punk, On Fire and Runnin' With The Devil had all the elements of a great hard working metal band, trying to make a broader statement within' the genre itself.

Oh and harmony....Dream Theater...GOOD CALL my friend!!

...and DIO R. Evans

 

[Riff Raff]

Plenty of good bands came from America.
Pantera
Korn
Metallica
Megadeth
Trivium too.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Mastodon
Black Tusk
Baroness
Kylesa
High On Fire
Grief
Melvins
Saint Vitus
Sleep
Isis
Megadeth
Slayer
Metallica
Buzzov*en
Eyehategod
Down
Pantera
Morbid Saint
Death
Morbid Angel
Sacred Reich
Acid Bath
Exhorder

too many for me to name.