SOAD:Armenian folk-metal, unusual, individual, great tunes, nonsense lyrics, gloriously heavy and insane.
Deftones:Nu-metal, but GOOD nu-metal. Get 'Around the Fur'.
Slipknot:-thats not music, its just a PILE OF SHIT!!!!
Staind:boooooooorrrrriiiiiiinnnnggggggg........
Limp Bizkit:Apart from Fred Durst [whiny arsehole who cant write proper lyrics] they are a very good band, heavy and melodic.
Papa Roach:Ok, but slightly boring.
Crazy Town:The worst lyrics in the history of music and are a also a bunch of posers peddling generic rap-metal tunes.
The only metal bands I like are Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, SOAD, RATM, and Deftones. I am 16 but I do not just like nu-metal, OK!
Oh and btw Muse DO NOT SOUND LIKE RADIOHEAD!!!!!!!!!
― sid, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
As far as every single band mentioned here in this thread, screw them all. Give me any ONE of the following bands over the lot of 'em: Monster Magnet, Kyuss, Nashville Pussy, Motorhead, Judas Priest, Venom, Slayer, Deadly Snakes, Turbonegro, King Brothers, The Reds, Leatherface, Iron Maiden, Celtic Frost, Coroner and Hellacopters. Perhaps this list applies to any newcomers in the future as well. That's the entire list of what I'd ever need as far as hard music.
― Nude Spock, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― tom grice, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
the two worst bands of this whole nu metal thing are Linkin Park and Crazy town. I would have said limp bizkit but at least the band is good.....but fred durst sucks. I think chester from linkin park is a better singer. none of these bands have meaning or anything and a lot have dumb, pointless lyrics. the whole entire linkin park album was like "i hate you, get away, i hate myself, stop screwing with my head!"
well.......thats all folks.........ill stop writing now......
― Celeste, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 3 February 2003 10:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Zora (Zora), Monday, 3 February 2003 22:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Saturday, 8 February 2003 01:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Saturday, 8 February 2003 01:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 9 March 2003 22:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
The rest of it is shite.
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
DUD!
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 10 March 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 March 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm not gonna add anything but this: I like System of a Down. They have a sense of humor for sure, but they also know how to properly use it so as not to seem a "novelty" band, a category so many other bands with senses of humor are so often dismissed into.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 March 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
Especially the Deftones comments...barely two years have passed and it's as if they never existed!
― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 10 March 2003 15:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
This line is quite funny.
I've pretty much succeeded in blotting most of these bands out of my existence by just not paying attention. I saw a video a couple of days ago for a Deftones tune that had a title about some spy in the house of spiders or something like that, which I thought was kind of nifty. I listened to that one with the skinny girl with the bikini back around 98 for about five minutes at work once as that was enough for me.
The two bands that didn't get mentioned here that I had roommates that listened to ton back in the day that at least to my ears had a similar sound was Clutch and Quicksand.
Clutch is still going, but I haven't heard anything past their 2nd record. "Shotgun Named Marcus" sounds like a template for alot of these bands.
I've been searching around trying to find one of the Quicksand albums used, as they used to be in every used bin, but not anymore. Being that I used to really like drugs and booze, the fact that Walter was in Gorilla Biscuits used to kind of keep me a bit at bay, but at least to my memory Quicksand had some interesting music.
― earlnash, Thursday, 19 June 2003 03:01 (twenty years ago) link
Also, I have the Moondog bootleg and it scares the SHIT out of me.
― Pitchblender (Pitchblender), Thursday, 19 June 2003 13:52 (twenty years ago) link
Destroy: Papa Roach's live performance on Carson Daily where their vocalist runs out of breath, can't sing his lines, and falls his fat ass off the stage...okay actually search that and laugh hysterically like I did
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 June 2003 14:06 (twenty years ago) link
― mei (mei), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:18 (twenty years ago) link
― yo moms fuck boy, Saturday, 3 January 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 January 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago) link
Destroy - all the others.
― Stupid (Stupid), Saturday, 3 January 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago) link
How I wish all these Korn-hoody-wearing self-proclaimed-neo-'goths' would shut up and listen to Godflesh...
― Stupid (Stupid), Saturday, 3 January 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 4 January 2004 08:21 (twenty years ago) link
― plebian plebs (plebian), Sunday, 4 January 2004 08:39 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 4 January 2004 08:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link
― MeTaL RuLeS, Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v20/durstrocks/9.jpg
― MeTuL RuLeZ (Ian Christe), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link
Is it finally dead now?
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 2 August 2007 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
System of a Down is the only thing left.
― humansuit, Thursday, 2 August 2007 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I didnt listen to hair metal at the time, so I missed out on the grounding for the current nostalgiafest. It seems to me both hair and nu metal are loud and have lots of riffs: hair is a bit more playful and nu is more intense, but then wasnt the playfulness of hair and the intensity of *grunge* why everyone said hair had to die anyway? Nu is also arguably more musically interesting cos of the hip-hop elements - there are more places it could go.Both of them trade in exaggerated and absurdified masculine images - hair has queeny glam braggadocio, nu has the tats and piercings look (the masculine body warping and modifying under culture-pressure). This allows both genres to achieve moments of sudden tenderness which are more affecting because you're not expecting them (though maybe by this point you should be).The critical reaction to nu metal is fascinating - all of the old critical saws which people get jumped on here for applying to pop any more (they dont mean it! its commodified! its old hat! rich people shouldnt be angry! its just for 15 year olds!) have achieved glittering new life in the nu-metal-crit arena.Search and Destroy? No idea, mate.-- Tom, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 01:00
Both of them trade in exaggerated and absurdified masculine images - hair has queeny glam braggadocio, nu has the tats and piercings look (the masculine body warping and modifying under culture-pressure). This allows both genres to achieve moments of sudden tenderness which are more affecting because you're not expecting them (though maybe by this point you should be).
The critical reaction to nu metal is fascinating - all of the old critical saws which people get jumped on here for applying to pop any more (they dont mean it! its commodified! its old hat! rich people shouldnt be angry! its just for 15 year olds!) have achieved glittering new life in the nu-metal-crit arena.
Search and Destroy? No idea, mate.
-- Tom, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 01:00
What do you think now, Tom?
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 2 August 2007 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I just saw a TV ad for the new Korn album. Fucking hell.
At least the Deftones are still making interesting music. I never really considered them nu-metal; though they associated/toured with all those other bands I don't need to mention, they never really fit in with that crowd to me. I could easily imagine them having a record on Hydra Head, for example (which would instantly make the hipsters love 'em to bits).
― MacDara, Friday, 3 August 2007 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Hipsters already did like Deftones. Because they were actually good.
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 3 August 2007 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, August 2, 2007 2:04 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Link
― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I think nu-metal and post-hardcore have bled into each other to a degree that we have bottom-heavy screamo now, but that's about it.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 01:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Search: Papa Roach's "Last resort"---Whiny angst rock with a great medieval sounding stop-start riff
Whcih was totally ripped off the intro of this.
― chap, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 01:58 (sixteen years ago) link
deftones uber alles
― brightscreamer, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I went to a Deftones show once. To see Will Haven.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 09:41 (sixteen years ago) link
This was a treat. Thanks.
-- Nate Carson, Tuesday, June 3, 2008 9:23 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Search: the last 50 seconds or so of 'Chop Suey!'
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Nu_metal/Archive_1
― markers, Friday, 9 September 2011 08:07 (twelve years ago) link
Excuse me, but why this article's authors are absolutely convinced that Red Hot Chili Peppers have not to be considered nu metal inspirators? (unsigned)