Favorite Nu-Metal band

[DanteEdmond]

Remember the 1990s - early 00s phase of nu-metal? The music was characterized by a blend of metal with rap / hip-hop and other genres. Some nu-metal bands had DJs and turntables. Horror influences were often present too: the lyrics dwelt on horror themes, and some bands dressed in scary masks / face paints like Halloween costumes.

[nn586]

Deftones

[NMS3]

Slipknot is my favorite band. Seen them 8 times. But Limp Bizkit is right there also. I swear that Limp Bizkit’s unreleased tracks during their Results May Vary era are some of their best songs, period.

[FelixTheCat1919]

They all suck terribly, the epitome of angsty teenage music

[DanteEdmond]

Slipknot is my favorite band. Seen them 8 times. But Limp Bizkit is right there also. I swear that Limp Bizkit’s unreleased tracks during their Results May Vary era are some of their best songs, period.

Slipknot might be my fav band that gets characterized as nu-metal. But I feel they were nu-metal only in their first 2 albums. With Vol III: the Subliminal Verses, they moved on to groove-metal, which is what they've been since. So I wouldn't call them the greatest nu-metal band because their best work occurred after they left the nu-metal sound

I voted P.O.D.

[NEETvestor]

I liked many of the lesser-known nu-metal bands and still listen to them occasionally

[GoobyPls]

deftones was my #1 favorite band for a long time, still like them a lot but listen to way heavier stuff now. maybe their first 2 albums could be considered nu metal even though I dont really see it but after that they evolved and they just make great music in general. love all of the chino side projects also

[snowergrower]

Linkin Park

[DanteEdmond]

They all suck terribly, the epitome of angsty teenage music

even P.O.D? .. nothing about them is "angsty teenage music"

[theory816]

I like me some nu finish

[FelixTheCat1919]

Linkin Park

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[nn586]

deftones was my #1 favorite band for a long time, still like them a lot but listen to way heavier stuff now. maybe their first 2 albums could be considered nu metal even though I dont really see it but after that they evolved and they just make great music in general. love all of the chino side projects also

yah I wouldnt consider Deftones nu metal, a lot of people say that

other than Deftones on that poll for NU NU METAL id vote for Korn as my favorite. With SOAD behind them.

[ryu38]

well I'm super straight, so no thx jeff.

[NMS3]

Slipknot might be my fav band that gets characterized as nu-metal. But I feel they were nu-metal only in their first 2 albums. With Vol III: the Subliminal Verses, they moved on to groove-metal, which is what they've been since. So I wouldn't call them the greatest nu-metal band because their best work occurred after they left the nu-metal sound

I voted P.O.D.

Totally valid and true. On that front, then I’d have to pick Limp Bizkit as my favorite nu-metal band. Also, P.O.D. reps. I gotta listen to their recent new album still

[VegasLifter26]

Mudvayne, Disturbed, Korn

[chino3]

deftones was my #1 favorite band for a long time, still like them a lot but listen to way heavier stuff now. maybe their first 2 albums could be considered nu metal even though I dont really see it but after that they evolved and they just make great music in general. love all of the chino side projects also

They get wrongly lumped in due to being around at the same time. I mean MAYBE adrenaline could be considered nu metal, but ATF and onward definitely not.







that said, out of true "nu metal" Mudvayne 100% takes the cake. LD 50 is as perfect as it gets, and TEOATTC is a refined but still fantastic followup to ld50

[CrimsonSteel]

I'd put Slipknot at the top of the heap for sheer mystique. Not just the masks and jumpsuits and overall "lore" of the characters, but their music was easily the heaviest of the nu-metal bands. Their self-titled album was the perfect nu-metal formula, in my opinion, with shades of more genuine metal mixed with the more pubic angst of the nu-metal sound. Iowa reeked of atmosphere, sounds like they recorded it in a serial killers basement surrounded by corpses. Mudvayne weren't far off, but they didn't have quite the level of mystique, although they had MUCH better bass playing. Mushroomhead? Meh.

I'd give a nod to Marilyn Manson as well, he's right up there. Had some really solid rif***e in Antichrist Superstar and those other early albums. Then Rob Zombie was a dollar store Manson with a sprinkle of disco later on, and...I can dig it. Speaking of that, Static-X had a good nu-metal / disco / industrial blend as well.

Deftones and KoRn were the two bands that really birthed and pushed the genre, but I never listened to either. Never liked Jonathan Davis's singing and never even gave Deftones a stab.


What is really crazy is this was the LAST mainstream rock genre. This was the series finale of mainstream rock music. After Nu-Metal, rock music went backwards for the first time since BB King and the Beatles started the rennassaince. After nu-metal, what took over? A handful of post-grunge bands that just sounded like commercialized 90s music. A Foo Fighters here, a Nickelback there, a little Puddle of Mud. It wasn't even a full movement or scene, it was rocks dying whimper.

Now there is a band every few years that just gets force-fed to people on the outskirts of mainstream music, all with a gimmick that feels like it was made by an algorithm rather than meth'd out people from Iowa making crazy masks to be edgy.
You'll get a Dragonforce, or a Baby Metal, a Greta Van Fleet, a Ghost, or a Sleep Token. And it is all, to my ears, completely soulless, devoid of any actual genuine artistry. Like an AI made it.

To wrap up this little rant, I grew up the perfect age to catch nu-metal as a kid, to then hate it as a teenager, to then go back to it as an adult in his 30s and appreciate that even though it was incredibly juvenile, it was a lot of fun, and most of the bands had a unique sound to them. I also recognize it was the death of rock in the mainstream, for good, before the entire music industry just became Jay-Z, Beyonce, Drake, and girls groomed on the Disney channel to become MK Ultra sex kitten pop stars as adults.

If 80s metal was the coke sniffed in the bathroom and grunge was the dope shot in the parking lot, Nu-Metal was the final round of Jaegar bombs at the bar just before last call on the night it will be shuttered for good. Now there is no more bar, so people resort to prozac and other mood stabilizers. The party is over. You don't have to go home but you can't stay here. Go listen to Billy Eilish or Sleep Token, you piece of chit.

[DanteEdmond]

I'd put Slipknot at the top of the heap for sheer mystique. Not just the masks and jumpsuits and overall "lore" of the characters, but their music was easily the heaviest of the nu-metal bands. Their self-titled album was the perfect nu-metal formula, in my opinion, with shades of more genuine metal mixed with the more pubic angst of the nu-metal sound. Iowa reeked of atmosphere, sounds like they recorded it in a serial killers basement surrounded by corpses. Mudvayne weren't far off, but they didn't have quite the level of mystique, although they had MUCH better bass playing. Mushroomhead? Meh.

I'd give a nod to Marilyn Manson as well, he's right up there. Had some really solid rif***e in Antichrist Superstar and those other early albums. Then Rob Zombie was a dollar store Manson with a sprinkle of disco later on, and...I can dig it. Speaking of that, Static-X had a good nu-metal / disco / industrial blend as well.

Deftones and KoRn were the two bands that really birthed and pushed the genre, but I never listened to either. Never liked Jonathan Davis's singing and never even gave Deftones a stab.


What is really crazy is this was the LAST mainstream rock genre. This was the series finale of mainstream rock music. After Nu-Metal, rock music went backwards for the first time since BB King and the Beatles started the rennassaince. After nu-metal, what took over? A handful of post-grunge bands that just sounded like commercialized 90s music. A Foo Fighters here, a Nickelback there, a little Puddle of Mud. It wasn't even a full movement or scene, it was rocks dying whimper.

Now there is a band every few years that just gets force-fed to people on the outskirts of mainstream music, all with a gimmick that feels like it was made by an algorithm rather than meth'd out people from Iowa making crazy masks to be edgy.
You'll get a Dragonforce, or a Baby Metal, a Greta Van Fleet, a Ghost, or a Sleep Token. And it is all, to my ears, completely soulless, devoid of any actual genuine artistry. Like an AI made it.

To wrap up this little rant, I grew up the perfect age to catch nu-metal as a kid, to then hate it as a teenager, to then go back to it as an adult in his 30s and appreciate that even though it was incredibly juvenile, it was a lot of fun, and most of the bands had a unique sound to them. I also recognize it was the death of rock in the mainstream, for good, before the entire music industry just became Jay-Z, Beyonce, Drake, and girls groomed on the Disney channel to become MK Ultra sex kitten pop stars as adults.

If 80s metal was the coke sniffed in the bathroom and grunge was the dope shot in the parking lot, Nu-Metal was the final round of Jaegar bombs at the bar just before last call on the night it will be shuttered for good. Now there is no more bar, so people resort to prozac and other mood stabilizers. The party is over. You don't have to go home but you can't stay here. Go listen to Billy Eilish or Sleep Token, you piece of chit.

I don't think Marilyn Manson was ever nu-metal. He was industrial metal from the start. His last album "We Are Chaos" are a little more hard rock and radio-friendly though

After nu-metal in the 1990s, there was a phase for metalcore in the mid-2000s: bands like Atreyu, Parkway Drive, Killswitch Engage, Bring Me the Horizon etc. But the dominant bands seemed to be the radio-rock bands. Nickelback and Linkin Park were the highest selling bands of that decade, I think. Three Days Grace and Shinedown got the most #1 singles

Going to rock concerts nowadays, you'll see that a lot of them play in venues that cap at 1,000 people or so. Very few of them can sell out amphitheaters, let alone football stadiums (like Taylor Swift does)

[anonkunbrah]

KoRn but pre issues album

[Lithre]

'Ill Nino' were solid