The LOL At Nu-Metal thread

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

I guess I didn't like nu-metal as much as I thought I did. I've only heard of like half of these bands.

 

[Brocklock]

I guess I didn't like nu-metal as much as I thought I did. I've only heard of like half of these bands.

Your missing out. These videos/songs are the funniest thing ever when you relive them through a jaded adult's eyes.

I still have several tapes of nu-metal videos I taped from the MTV hard rock/their vision of metal show. I need to go through them and find some gems.

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

I spent my teenage years trying to emulate mainstream rappers. That's probably why I didn't pay attention to a lot of these bands.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Breaking Benjamin ~ Polyamorous [Run Like Hell Version]

 

[Brocklock]

I spent my teenage years trying to emulate mainstream rapers. That's probably why I didn't pay attention to a lot of these bands.

Only rappers I listened to in my nu-metal phase were Eminem, Busta Rhymes, and DMX.

More horrible nu-metal

Coal Chamber - Sway

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

(Hed) Planet Earth - Bartender

I loved this song when I was 14. LOVED.

Darwins Waiting Room - Live for the Moment

Adema - Giving In

A good friend used to be in the Navy. Whenever he would come home on leave and we would hang out, Adema's album with "Giving in" and "The Way You Like It" was what he always wanted to listen to. I have to confess to enjoying the song Adema made for Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

The shyte part about Slipknot is that the first minute or two of every song is surprisingly decent metal, but then...ugh...it just devolves into pop garbage. I used to be big into them when the s/t came out and still even like a few songs (namely "Heretic Anthem" and the album version of "My Plague," as well as "Psychosocial" for how deliciously they rip off "Ride the Lightning"'s main riff), but man...once I got into Slayer and Nile? All I used to do is rag on the people I knew who still listened to them.

Did you listen to the vid of Slipknot without Corey Taylor? It's very mindblowing. The dead bass player was insane on that song.

Yeah. I've heard half of MateFeedKillRepeat years ago (since the other half was altered to go on the self-titled). I'm not exactly a fan of Mr. Bungle (just a preference, because it's ridiculous how talented they are), so playing a more grind-influenced Bungle isn't going to endear me.

It's still fucking sad how bad they dumbed themselves down. I could see pulling a Metallica, exchanging the technicality for groove and an excellent riff, but this...ugh...Mick Thompson is an extremely talented guitarist that resorts to riffs Dino Cazares wrote 15 years ago and Joey Jordison is really the only person who's allowed to show any hint of talent. If Slipknot did one positive thing (outside of get an entire generation of angry young boys into heavier shit, thus allowing them to seek out more and more of it and, eventually, find real metal)? It's place a solid emphasis in heavy music on the drumming.

Mainstream rap died when Soulja Boy encouraged all these fags to wear skinny jeans and make beats on cell phones. There was some good shit in 05-06. I remember 2007 really as the beginning of this decline.

Odd how I've been ranting about Soulja Boy since he first broke and now people are starting to realize I was right, eh?

Kittie actually started producing somewhat decent music after their second album. They still can't write a fucking full song to save their lives, but the material from the third album to the one that came out last year is decent. I just wish Fallon Bowman (the darker skinned guitarist in that video, with the bright red hair) didn't freak out and join a cult. She was cute.

MORE GARBAGE!
Flaw - Medicate

Trapt - Headstrong (Video)
(I'm surprised this didn't get posted earlier, but its only positive is that it was the last nu metal song to really be a big hit)

 

[Brocklock]

Shattermask - Divine God (Music Video)

This is a horrible midwestern based band that I saw live at the local shithole five years ago. They were the headliners of a concert featuring a shitty metalcore band a few acquaintances were in.

It was both the best and worst experience ever. First, one of the band members name was Da Boogeyman. This was around the same time the wrestling version of The Boogeyman debuted so I kept trolling him and got an ironic autograph. Second, the music was hilariously bad. Third, the front man had a surprising amount of presence/swag and was hilarious despite being in a terrible band. I remember him breakdancing, pulling out capoeria moves, calling the audience faggots, and saying "MY NIGGAHS" right before a awful breakdown.

 

[snuffbox]

Damn the late 90s was a real shitty time

the last 5 years of mainstream rap are up there with it.​

Yes! We might become friends yet.

 

[MFer]

Man, I got tired of that fucking Headstrong song quick (It was on Legends of Wrestling video game soundtrack too!). Not really a huge rock/metal guy, but there were a few nu-metal bands I listened to. Mainly the well-known ones: Disturbed, Godsmack, System of a Down (not sure if they count) Saliva, etc. Anyways, are there any nu-metal bands considered good even now, or is the genre just one big fail from start to finish?

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

I present for the approval of the board, "Proposition Fuck You" by Tommy Lee's Methods of Mayhem
Methods of Mayhem- Proposition Fuck You
"New Skin" - the album version of this featured Kid Rock "rapping" during the second verse. Just his usual bullshit about his album going platinum however many times.
Method Of Mayhem - New Skin
"Get Naked"
Methods Of Mayhem ft. Fred Durst & Lil Kim - Get Naked.mpg
This is the disc that the MoM album was on:

Actually, I would like to apologize for this post.

 

[AntiLeaf33]

I was an angsty little teenager in the 90's, so I still have a soft spot for bands like Korn, Disturbed, Adema, Powerman 5000, Mudvayne, etc. Though looking back on the content of some of the songs, I can see why parents would be worried.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Throw your hate at me
With all your might
Hit me cuz I'm strange
Hit me
Tell me I'm a pussy
And you're harder than me
What's with you, boy?
Think hard
A tattooed body to
Hide who you are
Scared to be honest
Be yourself
A cowardly man

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

System of a Down (not sure if they count)

We've actually had this debate quite a few times. I'm iffy on them. At times they're pretty fucking great (especially their slower stuff, oddly enough, because the unique voices of Serj and Daron work rather well with the music), but a lot of their more popular stuff is garbage (I see you, "Violent Pornography") or filled with horrid uber-liberal politics (yeah, "BYOB," you're here).

Anyways, are there any nu-metal bands considered good even now, or is the genre just one big fail from start to finish?

It's basically died off because there never was a true definition of what "nu-metal" entailed. At first it was just heavier alternative rock, like Helmet, and then it was any band that blended rap with rock, like {insert every rap/rock band}, but then kinda formed into overly melodic grunge-inspired drivel that used the break-beat as a backing structure, like Disturbed. Stuff like thrash, death, black, doom, etc. has lasted because there's pretty clear definitions of what they entail as a whole, despite the bands that push the envelope within those sub-genres, but nu-metal never had that. It was, basically, a catch-all term for any popular heavier-than-NSync music released between 1997 and 2003.

A friend (well, person I converse with frequently via the Internet, who used to write for 411) and I did a co-op article for a site he wrote for that tried to dissect the rise and fall of nu-metal as well as why it was a horrible "genre" that was never going to last beyond a few years. If I can find it I'll edit this and link it, but I think the site it was for is now gone.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

I never really considered a few of the bands listed as nu-metal. Powerman 5000 was around for a bit before that title was being thrown around. I really like their stuff (their new album is pretty damn good). They started more as a funk-metal outfit, then moved on to a more electronic-metal sound, threw in some punk and then went back to their electronic-metal.

Disturbed, even though they came out during that time, I, personally didn't put in as nu-metal, but I can see how they are labeled that way. It's like in the 1990s how anything that came out that wasn't pop was considered alternative.

I agree with what Corey said about the genre dying out. There are still some bands from that time that are still making music, Korn, Disturbed, PM5K, Limp Bizkit is back, Linkin Park, etc, but the genre itself is no longer a genre.

 

[Brocklock]

Limp Bizkit is back,

YOU BET THEY ARE

Limp Bizkit - Shotgun

POP OFF THE ROCK SHIP!!! POP! POP! POP! POP OFF THE ROCK SHIP!!!

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Sevendust - Waffle

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Is it just me or does it seem like Linkin Park is trying to disassociate itself from the nu-metal tag? I mean their music always sort of the tag but their sensibilities always more along the lines of like My Chemical Romance or some wimpy shit like that. And now they're KOAB's favorite band, for some reason.

 

[Brocklock]

Is it just me or does it seem like Linkin Park is trying to disassociate itself from the nu-metal tag? I mean their music always sort of the tag but their sensibilities always more along the lines of like My Chemical Romance or some wimpy shit like that. And now they're KOAB's favorite band, for some reason.

they basically stopped being Nu-Metal like five years ago and became emo fags. Let's relive the good years

Linkin Park - One Step Closer

Linkin Park - Papercut

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

I don't think Linkin Park even know what they're trying to sound like at the moment. I caught one of their newer videos (I assume) and it started off with about 30 seconds of rap, followed by this sloooow emo singing shit for the next 2 minutes or so. Sad part is last year I watched some of their Project Revolution tour on some channel we had a free preview of that shows concerts 24/7. When they played any of what im assuming is their recent material, the band looked dead inside, but when they busted out One Step Closer, Somewhere I Belong, or another old song, they all looked so happy and excited to be on stage. I know they're not everyones cup of tea, and even my musical tastes have moved on, but it was clear even they hate their sound at the moment.

 

[Red Baron]

Godsmack - Voodoo

Godsmack is still kicking around, somehow.

Evanescence - Bring Me To Life

Shame that Evanescence got so much airplay since Lacuna Coil was a better band than them.

 

[AntiLeaf33]

Shame that Evanescence got so much airplay since Lacuna Coil was a better band than them.

And a hotter lead singer to boot

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

I remember I read a review of the second Evanescence album in the newspaper. The guy writing the review said how it was great that they were the first metal band with a female lead singer. I then e-mailed the reviewer and told him that if he was going to write statements like that, then he should actually do his job properly since Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, Otep and other bands were doing it first and better. I never got a reply.

 

[Brocklock]

Static-X - Push It (Video)
This is a nu-metal song I can tolerate. It's mostly because of the video.

Here's the real Static X

Static-X - Cannibal [Live] (Video)

Some kid in high school who was gay and looked like a taller, gay bob_barron randomly shrieked how much he loved Static X to our english teacher which became a running gag for us.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

I remember I read a review of the second Evanescence album in the newspaper. The guy writing the review said how it was great that they were the first metal band with a female lead singer. I then e-mailed the reviewer and told him that if he was going to write statements like that, then he should actually do his job properly since Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, Otep and other bands were doing it first and better. I never got a reply.

Not to mention Warlock and the Plasmatics back in 1982...

 

[Gary]

Bumped because I just found out Korn made a Dubstep album.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

Bumped because I just found out Korn made a Dubstep album.

I was able to get my hands on a copy of it. I've been a Korn fan since 1994. I have all their albums and like each one for different reasons. I was going to give this one a shot, but it's really not very good. I never really heard dubstep before, but what the hell is that stuff? Personally, I wouldn't be sad if they decided to hang it up now.

 

[Mazto]

Dubstep is Wub Wub Wub Wub man.

Wub Wub Wub.

Now you are Wub Wub Wub Dubstepping.

 

[Gary]

The only Dubstep artist worth a damn is Burial.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Jonathan Davis: Obama is an Illuminati puppet.