[QUOTE="AsinineZomg"][QUOTE="NearTheEnd"]Black Sabbath and Electric Wizard are awesome. America has Sleep though, proving we can rip off black sabbath just as well.
Mogwai are pretty cool, but they've gotten pretty boring. That's not as much their fault as much as post rock just getting boring in general.
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Cathedral is also quite good for those blasted Brits.However, the Americas do have Kyuss, Weedeater, Cold Mourning, etc. But you do have Mistress, though, which is made of pure awesome. AND Mistress pretty much became Anaal Nathrakh, which makes Mistress significantly more awesome.
America also has way more noticeable BM acts than Britain, I've found. So, Britain is kind of obsolete.
What does the American BM scene even look like now? I have no idea. I assume that it's pretty much divided into dudes who bought guitars at hot topic, WITTR and bands that sound like them, and closet weirdos that make extreme harsh BM that barely anyone ever hears.While I agree American BM is pretty terrible in general, and doesn't hold a candle to some of the older Norwegian acts, there are some fairly solid American ones: Xasthur, Leviathan, Judas Iscariot, Nachtmystium, Hellvomit (lol production). Really, the entire BM scene is dying slowly. A shame, but that's how it goes. Read something about how BM and DM are the next sub-genres to be destroyed-- which is becoming quite evident with what Satyricon and Dimmu have become along with Cradle of Filth.
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