German metal vs American metal

When it comes to the metal scene today, Germany by a mile. In the 80s and early 90s each had their high points with the U.S. slightly ahead but in recent times Germany has surpased us.

IMO

Germany is overall best in the power/speed category,and Kai Hansen is responsible for a lot of it, but,of course also, to me ,Grave Digger will always be the epitome,THE meaning of "power metal"

America now rules in Doom,and probably thrash too,but my tastes in thrash are limited,so admittedly my opinion is not as well informed concerning the genre,classic and epic doom is like a family to me, whereas thrash is like a friend I hang out with sometime,I really like some of the older thrash with the guys that really could sing well.......

American metal was always great, especially in the 80's. Until bands like Linkin park and limp Bizkit showed up and ruined the scenery. Ever since, Hardcore bands have been developping fast.

Germans remain, in general, more faithful to the true metal sound.

But that's just my opinion.

But in all cases, the return to old school metal among many american bands is a very positive sign. I hope they keep up.

Yeah,one guy that has really helped with that is Denis Gulbey of Sentinel Steel, www.sentinelsteel.com he is totally committed to keeping true metal alive,he has helped to resurrect many great 80's bands on his label and has great prices on his other distributed music too,I recently got Kamelot-Karma,Iron Savior Unification,and two comps all for 36.52 including shipping,awesome guy......

Sabbath In Solitude wrote:

Yeah,one guy that has really helped with that is Denis Gulbey of Sentinel Steel, www.sentinelsteel.com he is totally committed to keeping true metal alive,he has helped to resurrect many great 80's bands on his label and has great prices on his other distributed music too,I recently got Kamelot-Karma,Iron Savior Unification,and two comps all for 36.52 including shipping,awesome guy......

what does that have to do with German vs American?

Read Gilberts post,he was talking about old school American metal and Denis has greatly helped in that effort

yeah Denis Gulbey has done much for the metal scene. however, he is, nor has he ever been the be all, end all. maybe for power metal...

Hey, just trying to get the 50 posts so I can get in on the good stuff,guy has always been cool in my correspondence with him,answered my stock check requests promptly ,great prices,not trying to name him a Metal god, just a cool guy is all

German...by far