I have stopped labelling bands "Metalcore, Gothenburg, Butt Metal, whatever." All those sub-sub-sub genres start getting confusing and mixing together, so it really stopped mattering to me. Plus people start saying "This sub-sub-sub genre of metal/punk/whatever is for sellouts, true metalheads/punks/whatevers listen to other sub-sub-sub genre," and it all becomes a bunch of elitist crap.
That being said, I think "God Forbid" should be mentioned as a good American metal band. The new Machine Head is actually suprisingly good as well.
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