# List of new wave of American heavy metal bands

A list of notable bands and artists who emerged during the new wave of American heavy metal era of music in the early to mid-1990s:

## List of key artists

* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

### 0–9

* 10 Years
* 100 Demons
* 108
* 21 Guns
* 25 ta Life
* 36 Crazyfists
* 7 Angels 7 Plagues

### A

* Abigail Williams
* The Absence
* The Acacia Strain
* Acid Bath
* The Accüsed
* A Day to Remember
* Adema
* A Dozen Furies
* AFI
* Age of Ruin
* Agnostic Front
* The Agony Scene
* Aiden
* A Life Once Lost
* All Out War
* All Shall Perish
* Allegiance
* All That Remains
* The Alter Boys
* Amen
* American Head Charge
* American Me
* Andrew W.K.
* Animosity
* Aphasia
* Armor for Sleep
* As Cities Burn
* Asesino
* As I Lay Dying
* At All Cost
* A Static Lullaby
* At the Drive-In
* Atreyu
* August Burns Red
* The Autumn Offering
* Avenged Sevenfold

### B

* Bad Acid Trip
* Bane
* The Banner
* Bayside
* Becoming the Archetype
* Behold... The Arctopus
* Benümb
* Between the Buried and Me
* Biohazard
* The Black Dahlia Murder
* Black Label Society
* Blacklisted
* Black Veil Brides
* The Blamed
* Bleed the Sky
* Bleeding Through
* The Bled
* The Blood Brothers
* Bloodlined Calligraphy
* Blood Has Been Shed
* BlöödHag
* Bloodsimple
* Botch
* Boysetsfire
* Breakdown
* Buried Inside
* Burn Season
* Burnt by the Sun
* Bury Your Dead
* Buzzoven
* Byzantine

### C

* Calico System
* Candiria
* Cannae
* Casey Chaos
* Carnifex
* Cave In
* Cavity
* Champion
* The Chariot
* Chimaira
* Coal Chamber
* Coalesce
* Coheed and Cambria
* Cold
* Comeback Kid
* Common Dead
* Converge
* Corrosion of Conformity
* Cro-Mags
* Crowbar
* Crumbsuckers
* Cursed
* Cursive

### D

* Damageplan
* Darkest Hour
* Deftones
* Demon Hunter
* DevilDriver
* The Devil Wears Prada
* The Dillinger Escape Plan
* Disturbed
* Down
* D.R.I.
* The Dream Is Dead
* Drowning Pool
* Dry Kill Logic

### E

* Eighteen Visions
* The End
* The Esoteric
* Every Time I Die

### F

* Fear Factory
* Five Finger Death Punch

### G

* Give Up the Ghost
* God Forbid
* Godsmack

### H

* Haste the Day
* Hatebreed
* High on Fire
* The Hope Conspiracy
* The Human Abstract

### I

* Ill Niño

### J

* The Juliana Theory
* The Junior Varsity

### K

* Korn
* Killswitch Engage

### L

* Lamb of God

### M

* Machine Head
* Mahavatar
* Marilyn Manson
* Martyr A.D.
* Mastodon
* Misery Index
* Misery Signals
* Most Precious Blood
* Mudvayne
* Mushroomhead

### N

* Nine Inch Nails
* Norma Jean

### O

* Overcast
* Of Mice & Men

### P

* Pantera
* Poison the Well

### R

* The Red Chord
* The Red Death

### S

* Sevendust
* Shadows Fall
* Skinlab
* Soulfly
* Slipknot
* Spineshank
* Static-X
* Still Remains
* Stone Sour
* Suicide Silence
* Superjoint
* System of a Down

### T

* T.S.O.L.
* Tenet
* Terror
* These Arms Are Snakes
* Thine Eyes Bleed
* This Is Hell
* Thrice
* Through the Eyes of the Dead
* Throwdown
* Thursday
* Training for Utopia
* Trivium
* Twelve Tribes
* Twisted Method

### U

* Underoath
* Unearth

### V

* Vision of Disorder

### W

* Walls of Jericho
* Will Haven
* With Passion

### Y

* Yakuza
* Year of Desolation
* Youth of Today

### Z

* Zao
* Zeke
* Zero Down
* Zimmers Hole