Though most of it sucked ass, this thread is a homage to the ubiquitous nu metal bands of the late 1990s/ early 2000s. Notable acts:

Korn
Coal Chamber
Limp Bizkit
Fear Factory
Static-X
Godsmack
HED P.E.
Tantric
Incubus
Kid Rock
Staind
Disturbed
From Zero
Kittie
Linkin Park
Papa Roach
Orgy
Taproot
System of a Down

and many, many others.......

11/22/2007 7:23:42 PM

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"most all of it sucked ass"

11/22/2007 7:28:27 PM

shit, i forgot about Sevendust

11/22/2007 7:28:55 PM

hey, that's pretty much true and all, but if you liked it back then, then theres still a part of you that would like it now. it's fun to go back and listen to, but only for a few minutes just to remember.

11/22/2007 7:29:30 PM

Most of those bands were absolutely god awful.

11/22/2007 7:30:22 PM

Incubus actually wrote some really good music, and their albums up through 'Morning View' still get listens from me, and they are still great live.

And you left of 2 bands from that list that usually get grouped with those bands that are also head and shoulders above the rest: deftones and Tool.

other than that, terrible.

11/22/2007 7:32:13 PM

I agree with the fact that they suck ass, but I can still find (for some of them, at least) at least one song I still like, even if it is just one.

[Edited on November 22, 2007 at 7:33 PM. Reason : .]

11/22/2007 7:33:31 PM

Despite their good music I hate Incubus because they opened the door for Hoobastank.

11/22/2007 7:34:32 PM

Would you guys rather take the music from that time (I'll say from 1998 to 2001) as opposed to what's being played now?

11/22/2007 7:36:04 PM

based on that list, heck no.

But if youre talking 'that time' as in the 90s/early 2000s meaning:

Radiohead
Sunny Day Real Estate
Foo Fighters
Texas is the Reason
Mineral
Hum
The Appleseed Cast
Smashing Pumpkins
Dillinger
The Breeders
Hopesfall
Between the Buried and Me
Prayer for Cleansing
Beloved
Codeseven
Pavement etc. etc. etc.

Then yea itd be a tough call.

[Edited on November 22, 2007 at 7:48 PM. Reason : ]

11/22/2007 7:44:08 PM

what was that one band....i cant remember their name but their album was a picture of a ferris wheel

11/22/2007 7:45:16 PM

Fear Factory was good at the time Demanufacture was released, then they went south and fast.

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"Would you guys rather take the music from that time (I'll say from 1998 to 2001) as opposed to what's being played now?"

As bad as a lot of that stuff is it's still better than some of the stuff that is played on the radio these days. Nu-metal > Fag/emo metal.

I can only hope that the 2010's have a decent music genre that comes as a result of a backlash to the pop-junk that is passing for music these days.

11/22/2007 7:51:10 PM

^ I wouldn't count on it.

11/22/2007 8:00:43 PM

^^ well yea if youre comparing radio music now to then no doubt. But there is a plethora of amazing bands out now that you will never hear on a commercial radio station.

the only reason it would even be a tough call for me in my previous post is nostalgia. But there are so many good bands out now that, if you cant find several you like, youre not looking in the right places.

there are so many bands across so many different 'genres' and genre blending. that one single genre emerging as a saving grace to commercial radio wont ever happen. because of the internet and just not needing the radio or tv or major labels for people to hear music, there will never be a defining genre that describes a decade in the near future because the music is being controlled by the listeners not the corporate labels.

[Edited on November 22, 2007 at 8:06 PM. Reason : ]

11/22/2007 8:04:17 PM

I know there will always be good bands. It just seems that the stuff that gets airplay nowadays is all engineered. Thats what I meant when I said "dont count on it"

11/22/2007 8:06:05 PM

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"I know there will always be good bands. It just seems that the stuff that gets airplay nowadays is all engineered."

thats your problem

[Edited on November 22, 2007 at 8:12 PM. Reason : ]

11/22/2007 8:09:15 PM

Well yeah, it's not like Metallica, Slayer, and Pantera were getting radio play in the late 80's. In the early to mid 90's WKNC would play a decent variety of metal so you could feel out new bands. Now that pipeline is shut down and I really don't have the time to search out bands - just what I stumble upon.

11/22/2007 8:17:40 PM

How is that my problem? I don't control the fucking radio waves.

^ I feel the same way. I can usually only find out about good stuff from word of mouth or sheer luck.

[Edited on November 22, 2007 at 8:19 PM. Reason : .]

11/22/2007 8:18:44 PM

I miss Incubus. The good Incubus, not this band that has paraded around the last 3 years calling themselves Incubus.

11/22/2007 11:16:26 PM

when we were tailgating for wf game, rollin by limp can on, hilarious, gave me memories of that rollin dance in the video

11/22/2007 11:21:52 PM

the only people who get nostalgic about nu-metal are people with awful fucking taste in music anyway

11/22/2007 11:26:50 PM

how the hell is orgy considered "nu-metal" ?

11/22/2007 11:42:44 PM

I guess they flipped a coin.

Heads = nu-metal
Tails = One hit wonder, and the hit was a New Order cover

11/23/2007 10:13:29 AM

i hope you deliberately left off the progenitors (and ultimate "caretakers") of that genre:

The Deftones

because every band you listed, try as they might, was completely fucking terrible.

cept for S.C.I.E.N.C.E. by Incubus. But you probably weren't including that.

[Edited on November 23, 2007 at 11:50 AM. Reason : eh]

11/23/2007 11:49:59 AM

Fear Factory had some great metal albums before they got gay.

11/23/2007 12:06:10 PM

11/23/2007 12:17:29 PM

is this a bit too recent to be nostalgic about?

11/23/2007 12:48:21 PM

i don't consider tool or deftones nu-metal. i call the few decent bands 'alternative metal' specifically to keep them out of the filth that was/is nu-metal.

11/26/2007 10:23:33 AM

tell me

how does it feel sucking each other's cock so fucking hard?

11/26/2007 10:32:45 AM

wrong thread?

11/26/2007 11:11:26 AM

how is this not dead yet

11/26/2007 2:28:30 PM

jesus, I certainly don't consider the deftones nu-metal.

but the attempts at becoming the deftones that followed over the next 4-6 years are certainly where it was born.

11/29/2007 11:09:36 PM

hopesfall's last album was a fairly blatant ripoff of the current deftones..which is kind of weird. haha

11/29/2007 11:12:30 PM

Korn
Coal Chamber
Limp Bizkit
Fear Factory
Static-X
Godsmack
HED P.E.
Tantric
Incubus
Kid Rock
Staind
Disturbed


Linkin Park
Papa Roach
Orgy
Taproot
System of a Down

I own at least one album from each of those bands -- most of which, I own two. It was a trend in music; it will always be part of music history; you may not like the bands now, but at some point you liked at least one track from one of these bands, for example:

Korn - Blind, Shoots and Ladders, No Place to Hide, A.D.I.D.A.S., Got the Life, Freak on a Leash
Coal Chamber - Loco, Shock the Monkey
Limp Bizkit - Counterfeit, Faith, Nookie, Ra-Arranged, N 2 Gether Now, Break Stuff
Fear Factory - Shock, Descent, Cars
Static-X - Bled for Days, Push It
Godsmack - Whatever, Voodoo, Keep Away
HED P.E. - Killing Time, The Meadow, Bartender
Tantric - Breakdown
Incubus - ah hell ... Fungus Amongus, S.C.I.E.N.C.E., and Make Yourself were brilliant albums
Kid Rock - (hahah) I am the Bullgod, Bawitdaba, Cowboy
Staind - Mushovel, Just Go, Raw (anything off Dysfunction, really)
Disturbed - Stupify, Down With the Sickness, Voices
Linkin Park - One Step Closer, Papercut, Crawling, In the End (this was a good album, and have yet to match it)
Papa Roach - Last Resort, Broken Home
Orgy - Blue Monday, Fiction
Taproot - Again & Again, I, Poem, Mine (these guys are still putting out good stuff under the radar)
System of a Down - Sugar, Spiders, Chop Suey, Johnny, Toxicity, Aerials (I enjoy all of their albums)

[Edited on November 30, 2007 at 12:43 AM. Reason : ]

11/30/2007 12:42:53 AM

bttt!

6/29/2014 10:57:28 PM

does U2 fit into this category?

6/29/2014 11:05:48 PM

While i certainly like bands no one listens to like the best entertainment snob, id still rather listen to System of a Down than most shit posted on this forum.

6/29/2014 11:42:58 PM

Labeling Fear Factory as nu-metal is just wrong. Demanufacture is one of the best metal albums of the 90s.

6/29/2014 11:50:06 PM

http://music.thetalkhouse.com/talks/marissa-paternoster-screaming-females-talks-papa-roach-and/?awesm=tlkh.se_p08

6/30/2014 12:42:44 PM

http://www.avclub.com/article/wye-oaks-jenn-wasner-on-why-she-hates-papa-roachs--84924

6/30/2014 3:18:34 PM

Follow-up to that ^

http://www.avclub.com/article/wye-oaks-jenn-wasner-got-flowers-from-papa-roach-t-85257

6/30/2014 3:26:30 PM

haha i remember that

6/30/2014 6:08:10 PM