"It's generally not known that most of the European silver one sees is made from American metal," he said.

The band is also considered one of the background players in the new wave of American heavy metal.

Only Living Witness was an American metal / hardcore band.

While the group only released these two albums, they later became of historical interest to collectors interested in early American heavy metal.

This is the complete discography of American heavy metal and hard rock band Dokken.

The music has grown more propulsive, incorporating the stop-start rhythms that have long been popular in American metal.

American heavy metal band Fozzy covered the song on their 2002 album Happenstance.

Mike Clark is an American heavy metal and punk rock guitarist.

"Bored" is a single by the American alternative metal band Deftones, released in 1995.

Some critics have arguably labeled it the "first American heavy metal album".