Nu Metal - I love it
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I've a confession. I'm a huge fan of Nu Metal.
I really got into metal around 97 as 15 year old. I was given a tape with Korn - Korn on one side, System of a Down - System of a Down on the other, with a few other tracks bolted on, by artists such as Sepultura, Marilyn Manson, Coal Chamber. I'd love to find that tape and see what was on it now. Just prior to this I'd been listening to things like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, that kind of thing from my step-dads old record collection which I'd found in the loft a year or so before.
From there my love of metal grew. I used to buy Kerrang each week and I recall the spirit of independence CD being given away with it, which contained Wait and Bleed by Slipknot. I vividly remember buying the Slipknot album in 99 (which I still have, the original with Frail Limb Nursery & Purity) and taping it so I could listen to it when out and about. I did the baggy trousers, band T-Shirts and hoodies (still do mostly) and got a Soulfly tattoo.
My first ever gig was 3rd March 2000. I went and saw Slipknot at Portsmouth Guilhall, along with Kittie and One Minute Silence. I went to Reading festival in 2000 and saw Slipknot and Rage. I went to Ozzfest in 2001 where I saw Slipknot (again), Soulfly, Hed PE, Tool, Papa Roach, Disturbed. I went to Reading the same year where I saw Maryln Manson, Papa Roach, System of a down. I then went again the following year to Ozzfest at Donnington.
Then Nu Metal started to die. I left college and the friends I went to these gigs with all went in different directions however I never stopped listening to it. Here I am almost 20 years later at 36, still listening to the same stuff I grew up on and I love it. Nu Metal is often seen as the poor relation of metal but for me its one of the best, and the reason I love heavy music so much.
I stumbled across this article on Vice earlier and it nails that time perfectly https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/znwaj3/what-i-l...
It's okay to like Nu Metal.
I really got into metal around 97 as 15 year old. I was given a tape with Korn - Korn on one side, System of a Down - System of a Down on the other, with a few other tracks bolted on, by artists such as Sepultura, Marilyn Manson, Coal Chamber. I'd love to find that tape and see what was on it now. Just prior to this I'd been listening to things like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, that kind of thing from my step-dads old record collection which I'd found in the loft a year or so before.
From there my love of metal grew. I used to buy Kerrang each week and I recall the spirit of independence CD being given away with it, which contained Wait and Bleed by Slipknot. I vividly remember buying the Slipknot album in 99 (which I still have, the original with Frail Limb Nursery & Purity) and taping it so I could listen to it when out and about. I did the baggy trousers, band T-Shirts and hoodies (still do mostly) and got a Soulfly tattoo.
My first ever gig was 3rd March 2000. I went and saw Slipknot at Portsmouth Guilhall, along with Kittie and One Minute Silence. I went to Reading festival in 2000 and saw Slipknot and Rage. I went to Ozzfest in 2001 where I saw Slipknot (again), Soulfly, Hed PE, Tool, Papa Roach, Disturbed. I went to Reading the same year where I saw Maryln Manson, Papa Roach, System of a down. I then went again the following year to Ozzfest at Donnington.
Then Nu Metal started to die. I left college and the friends I went to these gigs with all went in different directions however I never stopped listening to it. Here I am almost 20 years later at 36, still listening to the same stuff I grew up on and I love it. Nu Metal is often seen as the poor relation of metal but for me its one of the best, and the reason I love heavy music so much.
I stumbled across this article on Vice earlier and it nails that time perfectly https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/znwaj3/what-i-l...
It's okay to like Nu Metal.
Edited by S100HP on Saturday 21st September 08:04
Have you listened to Vein? Errorzone has a whole lot of Nu-metal esque parts in it.
It was a unique time - maybe the last time we'll see heavy music intertwined with Pop Culture. Movie soundtracks from this era are often loaded with nu-metal tracks, and the main bands were always in the charts.
Nu-Metal (sort of) gave us Deftones too, although after the one album they became much more post-metal.
It was a unique time - maybe the last time we'll see heavy music intertwined with Pop Culture. Movie soundtracks from this era are often loaded with nu-metal tracks, and the main bands were always in the charts.
Nu-Metal (sort of) gave us Deftones too, although after the one album they became much more post-metal.
JLC25 said:
Have you listened to Vein? Errorzone has a whole lot of Nu-metal esque parts in it.
It was a unique time - maybe the last time we'll see heavy music intertwined with Pop Culture. Movie soundtracks from this era are often loaded with nu-metal tracks, and the main bands were always in the charts.
Nu-Metal (sort of) gave us Deftones too, although after the one album they became much more post-metal.
Oh White Pony. What an album. My first band T-Shirt was a white pony one, got it at Reading 2001.It was a unique time - maybe the last time we'll see heavy music intertwined with Pop Culture. Movie soundtracks from this era are often loaded with nu-metal tracks, and the main bands were always in the charts.
Nu-Metal (sort of) gave us Deftones too, although after the one album they became much more post-metal.
Not tried Vein. Will take a look. Thanks.
I'm 31 years old so the early days of nu metal were a big influence on my formative years. My parents were broke so I had to do a couple of paper rounds to scratch some spending money together and I used to spend a lot of it on CD's, the first of which was Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park, an album that I played constantly for months after I bought it and one that I still love to this day.
That led on to the usual suspects of the time, both within and outwith the genre, SOAD, RATM, Manson, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Static X etc etc etc.
That interest lead me to the Evening News Arena in Manchester with my Uncle (dad's brother) to see Iron Maiden on their Brave New World tour, I was absolutely hooked from the get go, I had never seen a live concert before that show and it blew me away. My taste expanded from there across the whole rock/metal/whatever genres.
I now have tattoo's of Eddie covering my right arm from my shoulder to my elbow and I'll be flying to Santiago, Chile, to see Iron Maiden perform twice next month. Seeing them in South America after the sensational Rock in Rio album that got so much air time during my early years ahas always been a dream of mine, I can't wait.
Naturally during that period of obsession my interest in nu metal has remained quite strong!
So ya, nu metal,
That led on to the usual suspects of the time, both within and outwith the genre, SOAD, RATM, Manson, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Static X etc etc etc.
That interest lead me to the Evening News Arena in Manchester with my Uncle (dad's brother) to see Iron Maiden on their Brave New World tour, I was absolutely hooked from the get go, I had never seen a live concert before that show and it blew me away. My taste expanded from there across the whole rock/metal/whatever genres.
I now have tattoo's of Eddie covering my right arm from my shoulder to my elbow and I'll be flying to Santiago, Chile, to see Iron Maiden perform twice next month. Seeing them in South America after the sensational Rock in Rio album that got so much air time during my early years ahas always been a dream of mine, I can't wait.
Naturally during that period of obsession my interest in nu metal has remained quite strong!
So ya, nu metal,
Edited by FN2TypeR on Thursday 19th September 22:44
i'm 44 to put the following into context 
as a kid i was exposed to rock/metal formative stuff through my old fella.. deep purple, led zep, argent, uriah heep, wishbone ash... that sort of stuff.
when i was 13 iron maiden released 7th son and i was hooked...i'd noticed somewhere in time (older kid at school) but it didn't bed in until 7th son.
i discovered testament and nuclear assault back to back on headbangers ball around the same time and that quickly changed the course of my listening ....it was a bit like a rolling snowball...i stuck with what i'd grown up with and added maiden, then started adding all the thrash stuff while at the same time finding all the weird and wonderful stuff.
again, the same year (the first year i was allowed to get the bus into town alone...probably a big factor in my music explosion) i used to save my pocket money and buy a record every other week from the legendary probe records in liverpool.... something drew me to "damaged" by black flag...yet another life changing album and the little sst records "other releases" pamphlet inside the sleeve ensured i was buying stuff like "descendents" at a very early age...
i started playing guitar very early..just fiddling about after my dad got me an acoustic and showed me a couple of chords.... basically self taught but started a proper band when i was 15...i began song writing soon after and by the time i was late teens/ early 20s we were out playing and supporting all sorts of metal/ hardcore bands around the north west...
anyway.....to get around to the original post....
another monumental thing happened when i was 20.... "deftones" and "korn"......i had been leaning towards (and getting massively influenced by) the post hardcore stuff from '90 onwards like quicksand, orange 9mm, downset, helmet etc........but when i heard blind and 7 words ....f
k me!!!!!!
i found a lot of the nu metal stuff that follwed fairly generic but some great bands were thrown up at that time...bands that never got real exposure like "taproot" turned out some great material....
everything goes in cycles and i see after its deeply "uncool" phase it seems to be creeping back in.. there's some great bands now that are incorporating nu metal into their sound...
for the uninitiated....."ocean grove" from australia..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UHXwXoc53w
just to prove how nu metal seeped into my song writing here's a gratuitous clip of our last tune from '99....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t6g2O5nRdE
and after a 20 year hiatus ( i never stopped writing or playing) there's a mini clip on my instagram page of me putting guitar tracks down in the studio last month.... still writing heavy st with a nu metal influence???.... hell yeah!!!
https://www.instagram.com/dav2866/?hl=en
right, i've rattled on for long enough.....
as a kid i was exposed to rock/metal formative stuff through my old fella.. deep purple, led zep, argent, uriah heep, wishbone ash... that sort of stuff.
when i was 13 iron maiden released 7th son and i was hooked...i'd noticed somewhere in time (older kid at school) but it didn't bed in until 7th son.
i discovered testament and nuclear assault back to back on headbangers ball around the same time and that quickly changed the course of my listening ....it was a bit like a rolling snowball...i stuck with what i'd grown up with and added maiden, then started adding all the thrash stuff while at the same time finding all the weird and wonderful stuff.
again, the same year (the first year i was allowed to get the bus into town alone...probably a big factor in my music explosion) i used to save my pocket money and buy a record every other week from the legendary probe records in liverpool.... something drew me to "damaged" by black flag...yet another life changing album and the little sst records "other releases" pamphlet inside the sleeve ensured i was buying stuff like "descendents" at a very early age...
i started playing guitar very early..just fiddling about after my dad got me an acoustic and showed me a couple of chords.... basically self taught but started a proper band when i was 15...i began song writing soon after and by the time i was late teens/ early 20s we were out playing and supporting all sorts of metal/ hardcore bands around the north west...
anyway.....to get around to the original post....
another monumental thing happened when i was 20.... "deftones" and "korn"......i had been leaning towards (and getting massively influenced by) the post hardcore stuff from '90 onwards like quicksand, orange 9mm, downset, helmet etc........but when i heard blind and 7 words ....f
k me!!!!!!i found a lot of the nu metal stuff that follwed fairly generic but some great bands were thrown up at that time...bands that never got real exposure like "taproot" turned out some great material....
everything goes in cycles and i see after its deeply "uncool" phase it seems to be creeping back in.. there's some great bands now that are incorporating nu metal into their sound...
for the uninitiated....."ocean grove" from australia..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UHXwXoc53w
just to prove how nu metal seeped into my song writing
here's a gratuitous clip of our last tune from '99....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t6g2O5nRdE
and after a 20 year hiatus ( i never stopped writing or playing) there's a mini clip on my instagram page of me putting guitar tracks down in the studio last month.... still writing heavy s
t with a nu metal influence???.... hell yeah!!!https://www.instagram.com/dav2866/?hl=en
right, i've rattled on for long enough.....
I'm the same age as you OP and went from listening to a lot of Indie and more alternative rock to quite a bit of Nu metal when I was 14-17ish as well. Still enjoy some of it now, especially the first two deftones albums, and a lot of the classic tracks by Coal Chamber, Bizkit, Korn, SOAD, Powerman 5000 etc bring back awesome memories of a lot of teen parties and relationships etc. Those parties were sountracked by 50% nu-metal and 50% punk rock (Offspring, Rancid, NOFX, Greenday, pennywise),
I don't listen to much of anymore (was amazed that Korn are still making new music though) and I mostly listen to heavy rock from that era (Wildhearts, Therapy? etc) or their more modern equivalents (Airbourne, Black Stone Cherry and so on)
I don't listen to much of anymore (was amazed that Korn are still making new music though) and I mostly listen to heavy rock from that era (Wildhearts, Therapy? etc) or their more modern equivalents (Airbourne, Black Stone Cherry and so on)
a lot of the punk and post punk stuff went hand in hand for me. it all started ( for me) with black flag's album "damaged".... it was so much more aggressive and feral than the punk i had been exposed to in the pistols and the damned etc... that album set me off on a lifelong love of hardcore but in conjunction with that i was getting into the catchier more melodic bands that would pave the way for the green day/offspring types of punk bands that followed.
a DC band called "dag nasty" that was born out of the back of pioneers "minor threat" ~(along with agent orange, gang green etc) were so influential on all the bands that came after they can't be ignored ( travis barker's chest tattoo " can i say" is the title of dag nasty's best album)...
there is a documentary on youtube called "filmage: the story of descendents/ALL" which is worth a watch if this stuff interests you. descendents basically invented pop punk, starting way back in '76..... the documentary interviews tonnes of people like dave grohl amongst others talking about how descendents shaped them and changed everything going forward.....i last saw descendents in leeds in '98 and haven't seem them since....until this year!.. they headlined the rebellion punk festival in blackpool last month as part of their world tour and i was made up after a 21 year gap to see them again....
a DC band called "dag nasty" that was born out of the back of pioneers "minor threat" ~(along with agent orange, gang green etc) were so influential on all the bands that came after they can't be ignored ( travis barker's chest tattoo " can i say" is the title of dag nasty's best album)...
there is a documentary on youtube called "filmage: the story of descendents/ALL" which is worth a watch if this stuff interests you. descendents basically invented pop punk, starting way back in '76..... the documentary interviews tonnes of people like dave grohl amongst others talking about how descendents shaped them and changed everything going forward.....i last saw descendents in leeds in '98 and haven't seem them since....until this year!.. they headlined the rebellion punk festival in blackpool last month as part of their world tour and i was made up after a 21 year gap to see them again....
Saw Deftones with the OH at Ally pally last year, AFI supported.
It was ace, despite Alexandra Palace being a terrible gig venue.
We tried to get Slipknot tickets for the upcoming tour but failed... both into our metal and punk from the late 90s early 00s though.
My first ever festival was Ozzfest at MK bowl back in 2001 I think.
It was ace, despite Alexandra Palace being a terrible gig venue.
We tried to get Slipknot tickets for the upcoming tour but failed... both into our metal and punk from the late 90s early 00s though.
My first ever festival was Ozzfest at MK bowl back in 2001 I think.
designforlife said:
Saw Deftones with the OH at Ally pally last year, AFI supported.
It was ace, despite Alexandra Palace being a terrible gig venue.
We tried to get Slipknot tickets for the upcoming tour but failed... both into our metal and punk from the late 90s early 00s though.
My first ever festival was Ozzfest at MK bowl back in 2001 I think.
Was there too. Ozzy fell over It was ace, despite Alexandra Palace being a terrible gig venue.
We tried to get Slipknot tickets for the upcoming tour but failed... both into our metal and punk from the late 90s early 00s though.
My first ever festival was Ozzfest at MK bowl back in 2001 I think.
malks222 said:
ahhh some great bands mentioned in those lists. I loved ‘one minute silence’, saw them a couple of times along the way.
also deftones- only saw them once in glasgow (braehead arena) supported by biffy clyro!
still love nu-metal!!
I watched One Minute Silence and The Pulkas playing in a tiny pub in Bristol whilst Brian May stood directly behind me (he's quite tall). Think he was getting inspiration for his dodgy metal-esq album he released around that time.also deftones- only saw them once in glasgow (braehead arena) supported by biffy clyro!
still love nu-metal!!
designforlife said:
My abiding memory of the whole festival was that the sound was utterly crap for Mudvayne's entire set...
I was 16 at the time so tbh my memories of the day are fairly foggy!
Mine was Corey Taylor coming to do "jumpdafI was 16 at the time so tbh my memories of the day are fairly foggy!
kup" with Soulfly and watching Tool, who I'd not heard before.Posted elsewhere but was listening to Powerman 5000 - Tonight the stars revolt last night. I'd not tried them before, but heard a song on shuffle the other day which gave me a flashback to the Nu Metal times. Turns out its a great album.
I grew up around Watford and there was a huge Nu Metal scene around that period. There was a band called Sikth that used to run local gigs for the heavy rock scene most Fridays at a Rugby club I think and then it moved to a venue on Watford Hospitals grounds. I was never a big fan of Nu metal but was really into the punk scene of that time...some of the bands have been mentioned above like NOFX, MXPX, LTJ, Fenix TX I was also a huge pop punk fan like Green Day, New Found Glory and the holy grail...Blink 182
designforlife said:
I've also just remembered that TOOL played lol, Maynard Keenan did the set in his underwear if I recall!!
My wife is a huge TOOL fan, we were hoping to get tickets to see them on the recent tour, but ££££
Thats it! A pair of leather hotpants and a set of Oakleys, the weird cyborg type ones that came over the top of your head. God they were awful (the glasses, not Tool)My wife is a huge TOOL fan, we were hoping to get tickets to see them on the recent tour, but ££££
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