Nu Metal

Gerard.C

Any fans of nu metal here? I was at the (Hed) P.E. gig in Dublin on Saturday, it was a great show. Loads of crowd interaction, really got the place going. The entire band was around after for photos and whatever, it was great. Limp Bizkit have a new album on the way this year too, should be good.

What are yer favourite nu metal bands/songs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujR9mKbodWQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyjs19vMS1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huf-NhRmvHU

Jemmaa

My favourite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn8vzTsnPps

Jako8

I like System of a Down if they fall under nu-metal.

Angron

Is Nu Metal not more in it's death throes at this stage? There isn't too many bands of the biggest Nu Metal bands left going is there?

Gerard.C

Denny M wrote: »

Is Nu Metal not more in it's death throes at this stage? There isn't too many bands of the biggest Nu Metal bands left going is there?

Limp Bizkit have a new album due out this year. So do KoRn, but there's only 3 of the 5 original members left. Both Ill Nino and (Hed) p.e. are still going. Deftones have a new album on the way, and Static X are still flying it. Papa Roach and Linkin Park branched out into other styles of music.

Suppose its not as big as it was. It's still deadly though

Angron

Gerard.C wrote: »

Limp Bizkit have a new album due out this year. So do KoRn, but there's only 3 of the 5 original members left. Both Ill Nino and (Hed) p.e. are still going. Deftones have a new album on the way, and Static X are still flying it. Papa Roach and Linkin Park branched out into other styles of music.

Suppose its not as big as it was. It's still deadly though

I was geniunely not aware Korn was still together O_O Was never a fan of Limp Bizkit, Deftones were decent though. Never really listened to Static X or (Hed) p.e

Max Power1

Nu Metal?

*shudder*

thats one thing im glad that its no longer popular. WTF were we thinking?

Angron

Max Power1 wrote: »

Nu Metal?

*shudder*

thats one thing im glad that its no longer popular. WTF were we thinking?

We were young and confused!

metzengerstein

Max Power1 wrote: »

Nu Metal?

*shudder*

thats one thing im glad that its no longer popular. WTF were we thinking?

a1 sharron ,really could never understand this ,no offence ment but i just couldnt stand the whole style ,the attitude,the clothes and personalised addidas bottoms w.t.f ,glad its faded away

in the words of cathedral

**death to nu metal**

:):):):):):):):):)

Max Power1

metzengerstein wrote: »

a1 sharron ,really could never understand this ,no offence ment but i just couldnt stand the whole style ,the attitude,the clothes and personalised addidas bottoms w.t.f ,glad its faded away

in the words of cathedral

**death to nu metal**

:):):):):):):):):)

...

in the words of steel panther (paraphrased) "Death to all NU metal"

Vomit

Nu metal is Butt-Metal

Gerard.C

Ah yes, here's the anti-nu metal brigade.

People say they hate nu metal but they never really say why. Anyone want to?

Max Power1

Gerard.C wrote: »

Ah yes, here's the anti-nu metal brigade.

People say they hate nu metal but they never really say why. Anyone want to?

Well I liked it when I was erm 12.

Its kiddy/teen music, something you like till you find somethng better. Ridiculous fashion sense, coupled with scratching effects that rappers/RnB would be proud of does not a good metal record make.

Max Power1

... oh and this,

Otis Driftwood

Nu metal came along when music was in a state of flux.It spawned some out standing albums like Korn or Slipknots debuts but was also responsible for some awful muck - Slipknot and Korns later albums,Limp Bizdick,Stone Sour etc etc etc.

It served its purpose in getting rock music past the grunge phase but did little else.

seachto7

Numetal did spawn some rubbish. The deftones though have gone on to create some pretty good music in my opinion.
I must admit, I have a LB album in my collection, the one with nookie on it, but if you want to laugh at fred durst and co, they're about as pointless and funny as deicide, morbid angel, cannibal corpse, or cradle of filth or norwegian black metal bands. the fact that those guys (deicide et al but especially norwegian black metal bands) actually take themselves seriously is a joke in itself. it's sh*t whatever angle you look at it....

Motley Crue

Most Nu Metal sucked, Limp Bizkit had slight relevance and I would possibly go to see them if they were in my area and I had the money, but otherwise the genre was a joke

Gerard.C

These are all such narrow minded, general wish-wash statements. It would be like someone coming on here and saying all Metal music is shouting and roaring, or whatever. To call nu metal a joke and say its all rubbish is such a ridiculous statement. I knew starting this topic there would probably be a reaction from, in fairness, people who like what it is cool to like in the metal scene.

I love the way it stopped being cool to like Nu Metal after a while. People can be such sheep sometimes

Gerard.C

Max Power1 wrote: »

... oh and this,

The 80's called, it wants most of the stuff discussed on this forum back

Vomit

Gerard.C wrote: »

The 80's called, it wants most of the stuff discussed on this forum back

ooOOOOoooo

Useful.Idiot

IMO nu metal is dead now, it was great at the time (early Slipknot, Korn, Static X etc.) but it has run its course. Any nu-metal band still going these days are now releasing ****e.

Also I refuse to classify Deftones as nu-metal.

Angron

Gerard.C wrote: »

These are all such narrow minded, general wish-wash statements. It would be like someone coming on here and saying all Metal music is shouting and roaring, or whatever. To call nu metal a joke and say its all rubbish is such a ridiculous statement. I knew starting this topic there would probably be a reaction from, in fairness, people who like what it is cool to like in the metal scene.

I love the way it stopped being cool to like Nu Metal after a while. People can be such sheep sometimes

That's generalizing things a lot too. Some of us just don't like it, plain and simple, not because it's not "cool"

Gerard.C

Denny M wrote: »

That's generalizing things a lot too. Some of us just don't like it, plain and simple, not because it's not "cool"

And thats fair enough, I was more refering to the people who came on, slated nu metal with no reason, and went off again

Angron

Gerard.C wrote: »

And thats fair enough, I was more refering to the people who came on, slated nu metal with no reason, and went off again

Yeah, I suppose that's true. Still, we all get people like that, not just metalheads

GirlOfGlass

Useful.Idiot wrote: »

IMO nu metal is dead now, it was great at the time (early Slipknot, Korn, Static X etc.) but it has run its course. Any nu-metal band still going these days are now releasing ****e.

Also I refuse to classify Deftones as nu-metal.

I agree, it's definitely run it's course. It reminds me of being like 14, the only bands I'd still listen to these days the odd, odd time is Slipknot and Korn. The rest I can't bare, especially Limp Bizkit!
Have to say though, it was all pretty cool at the time.

Gerard.C

Denny M wrote: »

Yeah, I suppose that's true. Still, we all get people like that, not just metalheads

Shur dont I know!

There just seems to be an awful stigma against nu metal. Most people say they grew out of it. To me, its kinda only starting to make sense now. "just think about it, you'll get it" as the great Fred Durst puts it

Joe_Dull

nedtheshed wrote: »

Nu metal came along when music was in a state of flux.It spawned some out standing albums like Korn or Slipknots debuts but was also responsible for some awful muck - Slipknot and Korns later albums,Limp Bizdick,Stone Sour etc etc etc.

It served its purpose in getting rock music past the grunge phase but did little else.

What's the obsession with Korn's first record? I'm a massive fan, but that and Life is Peachy are practically unlistenable

Kess73

It is too easy to just say that Nu Metal was one particular sound. Mudvayne, Godsmack, Disturbed, Powerman 5000 and even Incubus have all been lumped under the Nu metal banner at one point or another.


I take a much simpler view of the different genres of metal. Does not matter to me if it is heavy, thrash, speed, death, Nu, grunge, black, or whatever kind of metal. If a band makes good music then that's enough for me, if that band makes great music then I'm onto a winner.

Same goes for pretty much any type of music.

120_Minutes

Kess73 wrote: »

It is too easy to just say that Nu Metal was one particular sound. Mudvayne, Godsmack, Disturbed, Powerman 5000 and even Incubus have all been lumped under the Nu metal banner at one point or another.


I take a much simpler view of the different genres of metal. Does not matter to me if it is heavy, thrash, speed, death, Nu, grunge, black, or whatever kind of metal. If a band makes good music then that's enough for me, if that band makes great music then I'm onto a winner.

Same goes for pretty much any type of music.

this.


but i will go on to say that the only good limp bizkit song is an instrumental limp bizkit song.

Motley Crue

Nu Metal can stay buried, it had some redeeming qualities, and if Limp Bizkit toured in my area I would be tempted to go and see them for the sake of having seen them...their music "takes me back" to a time in my life more so then the music itself being relatively important to what I listened to then or listen to now

I was at a gig a few years ago in Dublin that I went to with a friend by chance, American Head Charge supported by Twin Method, and that made me laugh because they're both gone now (AHC cancelled the tour a few days later) and they were both "flag bearers" in the US for Nu Metal.....oh well....when I think of the crowd at that time...and what people were wearing lol

Max Power1

Gerard.C wrote: »

The 80's called, it wants most of the stuff discussed on this forum back

good music is timeless...

nu metal on the other hand...

metzengerstein

Gerard.C wrote: »

Ah yes, here's the anti-nu metal brigade.

People say they hate nu metal but they never really say why. Anyone want to?

i said why

and also no guitar solos ,booooooo

Gerard.C

Max Power1 wrote: »

good music is timeless...

nu metal on the other hand...

....is still going, as a matter or fact.

Cool_CM

Gerard.C wrote: »

....is still going, as a matter or fact.

That doesn't mean much, ChuckleVision is "still going", it doesn't automatically make it good.

Vomit

Most Nu metal is just boring sounding corporate metal-by-numbers.

Look, a wise man once said: There are only two types of music in the world - good and bad. Sure, perhaps you can't tar all nu-metal with the same brush, bet generally speaking, it's mostly not worth one's time.

MickShamrock

Useful.Idiot wrote: »

Also I refuse to classify Deftones as nu-metal.

Agreed. They were just lumped in with all those other bands.

metzengerstein

MickShamrock wrote: »

Agreed. They were just lumped in with all those other bands.

they are most definitly nu metal they were one of the 1st nu metal bands along with korn ,and both had 1st albums that where not great but one or two listenable songs ,and then there next albums they changed there style of music wtf

deftones didnt change there style just got worse ,korn went all hip hop and then there next one i think went more rappy then back to some sort of heavyness (make up your mind )

chin_grin

Nu Metal - ah the folly of youth.

Death Metal/Grindcore/Sludge/Every other genre - ah the tamed ear of the old.

DrumSteve

deftones are amazing. i wish ill on any person the speak illeth of them.

metzengerstein

DrumSteve wrote: »

deftones are amazing. i wish ill on any person the speak illeth of them.

i now have a sore throat ,thanks alot steve ha ha ha ha ha ha

120_Minutes

Deftones "white pony" is one of the finest albums of the decade.

korns first 3 albums are great,

i'll repeat any limp bizkit song with no vocals is a great one.

Star Bingo

Cool_CM wrote: »

That doesn't mean much, ChuckleVision is "still going", it doesn't automatically make it good.

thats a fair point. but at least Paul and Barry were on form for nigh-on 20yr..

but even as the title suggested. nu-metal, like the adolescence of those to whom it appealed to, was always likely to be shortlived n become well, old.

however the tills just keep 'rollin rollin roll-in..' to a tweenie Limp Bizkit must be the stuff of 'lore

Angron

O_O Chucklevision is still on? I haven't seen that in years!

Star Bingo

Denny M wrote: »

O_O Chucklevision is still on? I haven't seen that in years!

i.. cannot confirm this. _CM? last saw it a year ago.. i think.. the boys are too busy touring. bigger draw than the deftones apparently. raking it in

MickShamrock

metzengerstein wrote: »

they are most definitly nu metal they were one of the 1st nu metal bands along with korn ,and both had 1st albums that where not great but one or two listenable songs ,and then there next albums they changed there style of music wtf

deftones didnt change there style just got worse ,korn went all hip hop and then there next one i think went more rappy then back to some sort of heavyness (make up your mind )

Maybe there first album could be classified as such cause of the time it was released and their association with Korn, but their later albums aren't nu metal. They are the best band to have emerged from the whole nu metal scene.

Sephiroth_dude

Deftones are not nu-metal.Far from it actually.

metzengerstein

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Deftones are not nu-metal.Far from it actually.

i dont see how they are not nu metal ,and dont see how there music has changed either .they have everything nu metal is .riffs and no solos ,that whingey vocal which then turns into shouting ..oh and they had the addias bottoms too

chin_grin

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Deftones are not nu-metal.Far from it actually.

I think they started off at Nu Metal and then just evolved out of it. I'm not really sure what they are now. I remember White Pony being an amazing album and very far from nu metal-ey. I haven't listened to anything after that.

There are bands that'll just be stuck in their genre and then there are ones who'll try something new. I admire Deftones for doing that something.

metzengerstein

i liked two of the songs on there 1st album,but when the 2nd one had come around ,i just think it wasnt what they where on the 1st one ,kinda like korn a listenable 1st album and then when the 2nd album came it was complete diffrent ,i wanted to hear more of the same

i suppose thats just me i like to hear what i heard on bands 1st albums ,thats what majority of fans want ,or maybe thats just me

Executive Steve