The new wave of American heavy metal has its origins in a group of post-grunge acts from the 1990s that brought heavy metal "back to its core brutality" and drawing not from the traditional blues formula but from thrash metal and punk.
The New Wave of American Heavy Metal bevægelse har sin oprindelse i en gruppe af post-grunge handlinger fra 1990'erne, der bragte heavy metal "tilbage til sin kerne brutalitet og tegning ikke fra thtraditionel blues formel, men fra NYHC, thrash metal og punk. "