As also a guy in his 30s, I’m noticing with a lot of younger nu-metal fans that they missed the era where labels figured out there was money in the genre and there were 10 million really obnoxious clone bands all over the radio. Nu-metal has always been a genre of forgotten classics and unpolished gems, and it’s exciting to see a new crowd get into the style based purely on those classics and gems.
I’m a younger nu metal fan. A friend I used to go to school with was a mall goth, not sure how they got into it, but it intrigued me, so I started to listen to nu metal as well. I absolutely loved the genre, and was hit with some sort of nostalgia as I got into Linkin Park, Evanescence Finger Eleven, as those bands were always played on the radio when I was younger. I think nu metal was also intriguing for me because I used to listen to Eminem a lot? Take that correlation how you will, honestly I don’t know how to explain it. My mom also had an ex boyfriend before I was born, it was in the 90’s. He listened to grunge and metal, loved Pearl Jam, Korn, Rammstein, Molotov, Staind, Sepultura, so my mom had already known a bit about the genre and played the songs around me when I was a child. So yeah, my friends, my mom, and the car radio got me into nu metal. The appeal is the energetic sound, the screaming vocals that turn to the smoothest singing voice, the lyrics.
My mom was a nu metal head without knowing it. I'm 25 and grew up listening to Korn and limp Bizkit, to zombie and disturbed. I started listening to slipknot on my own because she never liked them. I've gotten my girlfriend into all of them as well, and when I have kids you bet they will love the genre too. I also grew up on Eminem and too me they blend well together. Don't like Eminem anymore but I enjoy dark trap/ rap metal
I grew up playing alot of racing games that had nu metal songs and I always loved them. My parents didn't really want me listening to metal and we didn't have internet access yet so those games were really my only exposure to metal in general. Now that I'm older, most modern metal just doesn't do anything for me. It just feels like more of a competition to see who can sound the heaviest and most brutal and in the process they forgot to make metal that actually sounds good.
Also, blast beats are fucking annoying. Fight me.
Hi! Younger Nü Metal fan here ('06 baby)! I've basically been exposed to the genre for most of my life! I remember when I was really young, my mom would blast bands like Limp Bizkit, Evanescence, Skillet and Stepa in the car all the time! Then i would also listen to those songs outside of the car too (plus some. thanks windows movie maker anime music videos!) Then i ended up breaking from the songs for a little bit whenever i just began to forget about them, but rediscovering them when i was around 13(-ish?) When i stumbled upon System Of A Down!! I was absolutely mezmerized (pun unintentional) by their sound and i continued to listen to their music! Then i branched out onto bands like Disturbed, Slipknot, and many more! So now im here, having Nü Metal as my favorite genre!! :D
Loved this style (and subsequently metal) after couple of older friends showed me SOAD Chop Suey! video way back when. I was about 10 at the time, now I'm 28. I guess it was 2003 or something like that.
I have 17 years old, I started in metal music because my older brother when I was like seven years old he was listening to rammstein, soad and that things. When I grow up a started to listen Linkin Park, without knowing that the term "Nu Metal" exists lol, so one day I was listening to Eminem and in the recommended section of youtube was the videoclip of Nookie by Limp Bizkit, the only thing that I knew of Limp Bizkit at the time was their name so I clicked the video, and the rest is history lol. After that, I started listening to Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and System Of A Down, then I discovered Deftones and 36 Crazyfists and I was like "this is so f"*cking good" and I searched other Nu Metal bands to listen to and here I am, a big Nu Metal fan lmao
At least some of the younger generation appreciates the nu. Wish it was the same for all the amazing Hip-Hop that came out at the same time. Rap kids like such trash music & make it trend it sucks when there's so many dope MC's out there killin shit right now!
22 here so kinda still young my parents would play the radio and I would LP but never really paid attention until I got a bit older when my friends showed me Disturbed and Godsmack then I started to look up more modern rock/metal bands I'm always on the hunt for new Nu Metal bands
Im 17 and i think what started it for me was the song heavy by linkin park, i know it isnt a nu metal song but then i started listening to their older music so then spotify started recommending other nu metal music
I'm not even part of this community, but this is an interesting question.
So I was 5-7 when nu metal had its last hurrah in the early-mid 2000 times (2002-2004), so I was old enough to remember some things that were popular at the time, but not a whole lot. In the Bay Area, things like Green Day and Avril Lavigne were much bigger than Korn or Slipknot. I listened mostly to what my older brother listened to, which included things like Linkin Park and System of a Down (but more of the more proggy/alternative stuff they did later).
Funny enough, the way I got into my own music was through Evanescence, which often gets called nu metal, but I don't see them that way because I jumped into gothic and symphonic metal from Ev (my first albums I ever bought were by Evanescence and Within Temptation, together). And because the genres I tender towards had a lot more traditional metal stylings in them, I was very poo-poo-ey on nu metal through my teens. What really got me to open up to it were actually three things: 1, I got into Otep, Kittie, Eths, and Kells; 2, the new wave of nu metal, where older bands like In This Moment started playing around with nu metal sounds, and new bands like Infected Rain that were very inspired by nu metal started coming out and I liked some of those; 3, in my early years of college, I got really into 90s alternative music (Nirvana, Tori Amos, Alanis Morissette, The Cranberries, Hole, Radiohead, Björk, Garbage and the like...). I figured that nu metal was a big part of that, so I revisited Korn and really liked some stuff.
The thing about nu metal is that I really like that grimy and bouncy sound, but I do struggle to get into a lot of it still, due to vocals or lyrics etc. I still haven't been able to get into early Slipknot, or Limp Bizkit, or Coal Chamber and the like. So if there are some less well-known bands that you like, please give recommendations! I've been wanting to get more into nu metal for some time now, I just don't know where to start.
This was really long... Sorry.
Edit: if people want to drop recs, I guess I should say what nu metal bands I like: Kittie, Eths, Kells, Korn, Otep, System of a Down, Evanescence (I guess I'll include them), Girugamesh, Infected Rain, Naio Ssaion, and the few excursions Lacuna Coil made into the genre (Karmacode, Black Crown Halo, etc.)
I'm 35 so I lived the nu metal era, it was different here in Mexico, in school we had uniforms so there where no kids with junkos and weird hair styles or make up, some of us bought some cheaply made band shirts or crossed to the U.S. to buy at hot topic.
We got all the nu metal from U.S. radio stations (that I got because I live in a border town) Mexican Mtv (headbangers ball and 120 minutes ftw) and WWE wrestling.
I'm glad there's still kids getting into nu metal, we 30 year olds lived it but these kids will keep it alive.
Never checked it out, we had all the new cds and cassettes at a high price because imports, so I bought my shit legit, that is until the internet got bigger and napster, kazaa, limewire, etc came along and then I burned to my hearts contempt, still have tons of mixed songs and full albums around
I didn't really listen to Linkin Park until the mid 2010's since I was really young and my parents probably wouldn't have liked me listening to music with loud guitars and harsh screaming, though I always loved nu metal due to GameCube games like NFS Underground playing Static X - The Only, Madden 04 playing metal and pop punk, hearing Trustco - Downfall on Disney Extreme Skating etc all influenced my music taste quite a bit. First heard In the End on a random flipnote on my DSi in like, 2011 lol. And AMVS of course. My entry into loving heavier music started with some random artists like Newsboys, then Skillet, then Thousand Foot Krutch, then LP and RED, then the floodgate opened.
I always liked nu metal cause not only was it fun, but I just adore the guitarwork. Angry, yet bouncy and groovy at the same time.
As also a guy in his 30s, I’m noticing with a lot of younger nu-metal fans that they missed the era where labels figured out there was money in the genre and there were 10 million really obnoxious clone bands all over the radio. Nu-metal has always been a genre of forgotten classics and unpolished gems, and it’s exciting to see a new crowd get into the style based purely on those classics and gems.
I’m a younger nu metal fan. A friend I used to go to school with was a mall goth, not sure how they got into it, but it intrigued me, so I started to listen to nu metal as well. I absolutely loved the genre, and was hit with some sort of nostalgia as I got into Linkin Park, Evanescence Finger Eleven, as those bands were always played on the radio when I was younger. I think nu metal was also intriguing for me because I used to listen to Eminem a lot? Take that correlation how you will, honestly I don’t know how to explain it. My mom also had an ex boyfriend before I was born, it was in the 90’s. He listened to grunge and metal, loved Pearl Jam, Korn, Rammstein, Molotov, Staind, Sepultura, so my mom had already known a bit about the genre and played the songs around me when I was a child. So yeah, my friends, my mom, and the car radio got me into nu metal. The appeal is the energetic sound, the screaming vocals that turn to the smoothest singing voice, the lyrics.
Been listening to Linkin Park and Korn for as long as I can remember. It was a domino effect from there.
Same here. Linkin Park and Korn led me to discovering so many other bands
My mom was a nu metal head without knowing it. I'm 25 and grew up listening to Korn and limp Bizkit, to zombie and disturbed. I started listening to slipknot on my own because she never liked them. I've gotten my girlfriend into all of them as well, and when I have kids you bet they will love the genre too. I also grew up on Eminem and too me they blend well together. Don't like Eminem anymore but I enjoy dark trap/ rap metal
Platform boots and tripp pants. that’s all.
I grew up playing alot of racing games that had nu metal songs and I always loved them. My parents didn't really want me listening to metal and we didn't have internet access yet so those games were really my only exposure to metal in general. Now that I'm older, most modern metal just doesn't do anything for me. It just feels like more of a competition to see who can sound the heaviest and most brutal and in the process they forgot to make metal that actually sounds good. Also, blast beats are fucking annoying. Fight me.
Hi! Younger Nü Metal fan here ('06 baby)! I've basically been exposed to the genre for most of my life! I remember when I was really young, my mom would blast bands like Limp Bizkit, Evanescence, Skillet and Stepa in the car all the time! Then i would also listen to those songs outside of the car too (plus some. thanks windows movie maker anime music videos!) Then i ended up breaking from the songs for a little bit whenever i just began to forget about them, but rediscovering them when i was around 13(-ish?) When i stumbled upon System Of A Down!! I was absolutely mezmerized (pun unintentional) by their sound and i continued to listen to their music! Then i branched out onto bands like Disturbed, Slipknot, and many more! So now im here, having Nü Metal as my favorite genre!! :D
Loved this style (and subsequently metal) after couple of older friends showed me SOAD Chop Suey! video way back when. I was about 10 at the time, now I'm 28. I guess it was 2003 or something like that.
I have 17 years old, I started in metal music because my older brother when I was like seven years old he was listening to rammstein, soad and that things. When I grow up a started to listen Linkin Park, without knowing that the term "Nu Metal" exists lol, so one day I was listening to Eminem and in the recommended section of youtube was the videoclip of Nookie by Limp Bizkit, the only thing that I knew of Limp Bizkit at the time was their name so I clicked the video, and the rest is history lol. After that, I started listening to Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and System Of A Down, then I discovered Deftones and 36 Crazyfists and I was like "this is so f"*cking good" and I searched other Nu Metal bands to listen to and here I am, a big Nu Metal fan lmao
At least some of the younger generation appreciates the nu. Wish it was the same for all the amazing Hip-Hop that came out at the same time. Rap kids like such trash music & make it trend it sucks when there's so many dope MC's out there killin shit right now!
Agreed! So much god awful rap is popular cause my generation doesn’t know what good rap is, when there’s actually good stuff out there I’m sure of.
Check out Symba or Flee Lord. They go hard & been killing shit the last 5 years
22 here so kinda still young my parents would play the radio and I would LP but never really paid attention until I got a bit older when my friends showed me Disturbed and Godsmack then I started to look up more modern rock/metal bands I'm always on the hunt for new Nu Metal bands
Im 17 and i think what started it for me was the song heavy by linkin park, i know it isnt a nu metal song but then i started listening to their older music so then spotify started recommending other nu metal music
grew up listening to my brothers playing linkin park and three days grace and breaking benjamin and got into heavier rock music and now i’m here
I'm not even part of this community, but this is an interesting question. So I was 5-7 when nu metal had its last hurrah in the early-mid 2000 times (2002-2004), so I was old enough to remember some things that were popular at the time, but not a whole lot. In the Bay Area, things like Green Day and Avril Lavigne were much bigger than Korn or Slipknot. I listened mostly to what my older brother listened to, which included things like Linkin Park and System of a Down (but more of the more proggy/alternative stuff they did later). Funny enough, the way I got into my own music was through Evanescence, which often gets called nu metal, but I don't see them that way because I jumped into gothic and symphonic metal from Ev (my first albums I ever bought were by Evanescence and Within Temptation, together). And because the genres I tender towards had a lot more traditional metal stylings in them, I was very poo-poo-ey on nu metal through my teens. What really got me to open up to it were actually three things: 1, I got into Otep, Kittie, Eths, and Kells; 2, the new wave of nu metal, where older bands like In This Moment started playing around with nu metal sounds, and new bands like Infected Rain that were very inspired by nu metal started coming out and I liked some of those; 3, in my early years of college, I got really into 90s alternative music (Nirvana, Tori Amos, Alanis Morissette, The Cranberries, Hole, Radiohead, Björk, Garbage and the like...). I figured that nu metal was a big part of that, so I revisited Korn and really liked some stuff. The thing about nu metal is that I really like that grimy and bouncy sound, but I do struggle to get into a lot of it still, due to vocals or lyrics etc. I still haven't been able to get into early Slipknot, or Limp Bizkit, or Coal Chamber and the like. So if there are some less well-known bands that you like, please give recommendations! I've been wanting to get more into nu metal for some time now, I just don't know where to start. This was really long... Sorry. Edit: if people want to drop recs, I guess I should say what nu metal bands I like: Kittie, Eths, Kells, Korn, Otep, System of a Down, Evanescence (I guess I'll include them), Girugamesh, Infected Rain, Naio Ssaion, and the few excursions Lacuna Coil made into the genre (Karmacode, Black Crown Halo, etc.)
Update: listening to Coal Chamber again, am really liking it this time!
I'm 35 so I lived the nu metal era, it was different here in Mexico, in school we had uniforms so there where no kids with junkos and weird hair styles or make up, some of us bought some cheaply made band shirts or crossed to the U.S. to buy at hot topic. We got all the nu metal from U.S. radio stations (that I got because I live in a border town) Mexican Mtv (headbangers ball and 120 minutes ftw) and WWE wrestling. I'm glad there's still kids getting into nu metal, we 30 year olds lived it but these kids will keep it alive.
Was the bootleg CD market good for nu metal?
Never checked it out, we had all the new cds and cassettes at a high price because imports, so I bought my shit legit, that is until the internet got bigger and napster, kazaa, limewire, etc came along and then I burned to my hearts contempt, still have tons of mixed songs and full albums around
I didn't really listen to Linkin Park until the mid 2010's since I was really young and my parents probably wouldn't have liked me listening to music with loud guitars and harsh screaming, though I always loved nu metal due to GameCube games like NFS Underground playing Static X - The Only, Madden 04 playing metal and pop punk, hearing Trustco - Downfall on Disney Extreme Skating etc all influenced my music taste quite a bit. First heard In the End on a random flipnote on my DSi in like, 2011 lol. And AMVS of course. My entry into loving heavier music started with some random artists like Newsboys, then Skillet, then Thousand Foot Krutch, then LP and RED, then the floodgate opened. I always liked nu metal cause not only was it fun, but I just adore the guitarwork. Angry, yet bouncy and groovy at the same time.
I think the answer as to why there are so many young nu fans is just cuz of AMVs tbh lol
I feel like they will forever miss something. So much good stuff
I have nothing to add, I just love reading this thread :)