When the term first arrived on the pop music scene in the late part of the '70s, new wave was used as a catch-all for music that wasn't quite punk, but it wasn't traditional pop or rock music either.

The New Wave of American Heavy Metal was an exciting period in time for, well, American heavy metal. As we emerged from the nü metal-induced fog of the late ’90s and early 2000s, a new crop of metal ...