Nu-Metal music of the late 90s/early 2000s

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Music_Rock_Cat
07/14/2025
03:08 PM
#1
The days when Sega Dreamcast and Woodstock 1999 were new. You may or may not have bought Final Fantasy 8 on the PS1 or maybe you bought something cooler back then like Metal Gear Solid. What were your thoughts on a time period where agro and stupid vibes were amok in public. The days where you could rap about cookies in a sexually aggressive matter and no one would care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTMVOzPPtiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIF4So6xcU8
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wwinterj25
07/14/2025
03:32 PM
#2
Yep and still do now. Linkin Park comes to mind.
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KalloFox34
07/14/2025
03:36 PM
#3
Depends on the band.

Slipknot, Korn, System of a Down, and Linkin Park are great.

Limp Bizkit, on the other hand...
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DevilSummoner
07/14/2025
03:43 PM
#4
yes because I was a teen and didn't know any better
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LaggnFragnLarry
07/14/2025
03:50 PM
#5
was a big fan but now i hardly ever listen to it. first big concert i went to was family values tour with limp bizkit, red man and method man, and System of a Down. had a lot of action
ParanoidObsessive
07/14/2025
03:59 PM
#6
I enjoyed some of it, but I never really loved it. At least not in the sense that most Millennials who grew up with it as their formative teenage music might.

I really liked Evanescence, Trapt, Cold... never really liked bands like Slipknot or Linkin Park.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nu_metal_bands

Based on that list, I've got albums from about 20 of those bands (in some cases, more than one album for certain bands). And because that was right in the middle of the Napster era, I downloaded a fair number of songs from other bands I never bought albums for (like Papa Roach and Crazy Town).

I've also got a few soundtracks from that era that have a fair number of NuMetal songs on them (like the Daredevil soundtrack and the Scream 3 soundtrack).

I also got into some stuff via video games. Like the Kidneythieves having songs in Deus Ex: Invisible War led me to buy a bunch of their albums, and bands like Trust Company getting a ton of play as background music in older WWE games led me to get some of their stuff, and so on.
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Music_Rock_Cat
07/14/2025
04:32 PM
#7
Does Incubus count or.....? Cause I loved them too mainly from the start they were Mr Bungle type Funk Metal in 1995 then SCIENCE was totally nu-metal Magic 10/10 at least I thought it was idk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6wALK3sRlM
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Damn_Underscore
07/14/2025
04:34 PM
#8
Limp Bizkit released some fantastic albums

And for the haters, they were self-aware of how they appeared silly despite their "hardcore" image
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ParanoidObsessive
07/14/2025
04:58 PM
#9
Damn_Underscore posted...
And for the haters, they were self-aware of how they appeared silly despite their "hardcore" image

That's like the old forum meme though.

"The jokes on you, I'm only pretending to be r*******!"

Being self-aware about your behavior doesn't really change your behavior. Or how other people are going to judge you for it.
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Damn_Underscore
07/14/2025
05:07 PM
#10
They were funny though.

Limp Bizkit was a mixture of great music and humor in a hardcore nu-metal shell. They also got a lot of legit musicians from that era to collaborate with them
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KJ_StErOiDs
07/14/2025
05:30 PM
#11
I listened to modern rock on the radio a lot back in the day, I enjoyed most of it.
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OhhhJa
07/14/2025
05:37 PM
#12
Nu-metal is barely a genre since those bands often times had little in common. Slipknot sounds nothing like deftones. Deftones and slipknot sound nothing like linkin park etc

The only bands that I think were worth a damn from that era are SOAD and deftones. Everything else is mediocre or trash. I will say hybrid theory had some solid pop songs despite being cringe as fuck in hindsight... well then too probably if you weren't 14
Muscles
07/14/2025
06:05 PM
#13
Yep, used to love it, still do but to a lesser extent. I can't listen to Disturbed or Limp Bizkit anymore but I still love Korn, Mudvayne, System of a Down, Slipknot and a few others
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ParanoidObsessive
07/14/2025
06:07 PM
#14
OhhhJa posted...
The only bands that I think were worth a damn from that era are SOAD and deftones. Everything else is mediocre or trash.

Which is funny, because I'd probably suggest the same about those two bands.

I definitely find SOAD cringe as fuck (and did then as well). Deftones are more just bleh.
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wwinterj25
07/14/2025
06:08 PM
#15
Slipknot is my favourite band but is that not just metal?
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OhhhJa
07/14/2025
06:31 PM
#16
ParanoidObsessive posted...
Which is funny, because I'd probably suggest the same about those two bands.

I definitely find SOAD cringe as fuck (and did then as well). Deftones are more just bleh.
I'm not gonna get on a podium to defend either band. At the end of the day, I'm still far more of a death/black/thrash/heavy metal guy. But i cant call soad cringe because they always came across as just a group of guys having fun and not taking themselves too seriously despite some of the political messages
OhhhJa
07/14/2025
06:32 PM
#17
By contrast, linkin park absolutely took themselves very seriously
ReturnOfFa
07/14/2025
08:10 PM
#18
Yeah, it depends on the band for me.

When I think of big nu-metal bands when I was in highschool, I think of SOAD, Disturbed, KoRn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and Linkin Park. I think other bands like Evanescence and Three Days Grace kind of fit the bill too. It's funny that I never heard a lot about Deftones, and I feel like they kind of straddle a few genres.

I got into SOAD in grade 11 having not been into metal previously. I gravitated to anything with a bit of 'weirdness' to it. I got tired of them after highschool, but I enjoy them again. They're an odd band and I can see why people wouldn't like it. People tried to show me Disturbed and KoRn, but I found them boring. Slipknot too, but I think it was more that I didn't like 'serious' stuff. I also didn't enjoy the Linkin Park end of the spectrum because I felt like it was too cheesy.

I've only listened to one Deftones album tbh, and while I like it (Around the Fur) it does get a bit samey after a while.

I listened to a lot of Faith No More, who are considered influential for nu-metal, although I don't really understand why. The sound isn't really similar, but I guess I can see that nu-metal bands thought it was cool that Faith No More blended a bit of other genres into metal. I also liked Helmet a lot, and they get mentioned as inspirations.

I got into Limp Bizkit a few years ago and honestly like the majority of their music. Again, it's not very self-serious, which is a draw. Although these days I do enjoy the 'serious' stuff too, although that's more in other genres because being self-serious in nu-metal is kinda silly. But these days I can appreciate a performance from any of the bands mentioned as long as it's impressive, and all of them have impressive stuff. It's just that I gravitate to something specific that's hard to describe like most of us. Or I just like the terminally stupid shit.
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ReturnOfFa
07/14/2025
08:13 PM
#19
When I saw this on facebook, I commented "damn chester can sing Chino's own songs better" just to make people mad lol. I have no idea if Chester was the more consistent singer (haven't obsessively consumed enough), but it generally seems like it. Nu-metal sure had its fair share of odd singing. Chino was always kind of inconsistent in videos that I watched, even though he still delivers in general.
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Damn_Underscore
07/14/2025
08:16 PM
#20
This may be the first big nu-metal song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ3WZaKjHNQ
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BADoglick
07/14/2025
08:22 PM
#21
Really depends on the band is going to be most people's answers and what that means is really going to depend on the person. I love Limp Bizkit. I hate Creed. Same with Staind, POD, Trapt, Five Finger Death Punch; disliked all of that. Papa roach had some bangers. Mudvayne I really like. CKY is an all time favorite of mine.

Anything post grunge I disliked, or anything that took itself way too seriously unless it had the instrumentation or whatever to justify taking itself seriously.
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SunWuKung420
07/14/2025
08:23 PM
#22
I still listen to Slipknot and Korn.
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ReturnOfFa
07/14/2025
08:25 PM
#23
Damn_Underscore posted...
This may be the first big nu-metal song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ3WZaKjHNQ
Eh, it's rap with a thrash metal band covering the groove in '91. The original song "Bring the Noise" came out in '88.

I'd go with We Care a Lot originally released in '85. Epic from '88 fits the bill pretty well too.
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LaggnFragnLarry
07/14/2025
08:26 PM
#24
soulfly and sevendust were also some good ones no one has mentioned
ReturnOfFa
07/14/2025
08:28 PM
#25
Hmm the internet is claiming that "Blind" by Korn is the first nu-metal song. It's definitely a good early example. Helmet makes way more sense as a precursor to this sound.
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ReturnOfFa
07/14/2025
08:30 PM
#26
LaggnFragnLarry posted...
soulfly and sevendust were also some good ones no one has mentioned
Sevendust took all the nu-metal sounds and dialed them up to 1000. Those guys are talented.
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inferiorweasel
07/15/2025
06:42 AM
#27
Some Bands were Good, Some were fucking Terrible.

I was into 90's Alternative Rock / Punk music of the time. Late 80's and early 90's also still had some good Metal. For me Nu Metal was no beuno because of the screamer/ing aspect. My brother loved Korn, Limp Bizkit etc. Of the Nu Metal probably PowerMan 5000 for me. Possible System of a Down if you consider them Nu Metal. (I loved system). Some people have tried to tell me Rob Zombie is Nu Metal but I consider him a cross of Metal/Hard Rock but more Metal.

I've even heard people retroactively tell me Marilyn Manson was Nu Metal.....
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inferiorweasel
07/15/2025
06:43 AM
#28
SunWuKung420 posted...
I still listen to Slipknot and Korn.

Korn is doing a tour right now. My best friend and Brother and our adopted brother are all going. Not I, I just never was a Korn fan. Some songs, but not enough to go see them in my 40's.
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OhhhJa
07/15/2025
09:57 AM
#29
ReturnOfFa posted...
When I saw this on facebook, I commented "damn chester can sing Chino's own songs better" just to make people mad lol. I have no idea if Chester was the more consistent singer (haven't obsessively consumed enough), but it generally seems like it. Nu-metal sure had its fair share of odd singing. Chino was always kind of inconsistent in videos that I watched, even though he still delivers in general.
https://youtu.be/wixN4-5WIGU
I actually listened to isolated vocals tracks of chino and surprisingly they actually sound pretty good despite the fact hes definitely not on key sometimes. Never listened to Chester isolated but he sounds pretty on point to me from a technical perspective
GanglyKhan
07/15/2025
10:10 AM
#30
inferiorweasel posted...
Of the Nu Metal probably PowerMan 5000 for me

I still love these guys, their newest album was excellent
man101
07/15/2025
11:15 AM
#31
OhhhJa posted...
Nu-metal is barely a genre since those bands often times had little in common.
This. The Nu metal label was just slapped on any vaguely hard rock ish band doing anything that didn't neatly fit into a pre-existing genre. There is no identifiable musical or lyrical component common to all the nu metal bands.
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Venixon
07/15/2025
12:02 PM
#32
Not my thing. I know people like it, but I never did.
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acesxhigh
07/15/2025
12:17 PM
#33
man101 posted...
This. The Nu metal label was just slapped on any vaguely hard rock ish band doing anything that didn't neatly fit into a pre-existing genre. There is no identifiable musical or lyrical component common to all the nu metal bands.
downtuned guitars, staccato type of riffs, rap, turntable scratching, kind of unhinged vocals, melodic pop style chorus.
it's common for not all bands of a genre to sound exactly the same, I think it's fine to just describe a general trend in popular metal of that era.
ReturnOfFa
07/15/2025
12:27 PM
#34
OhhhJa posted...
I actually listened to isolated vocals tracks of chino and surprisingly they actually sound pretty good despite the fact hes definitely not on key sometimes. Never listened to Chester isolated but he sounds pretty on point to me from a technical perspective
Pretty good but not on key??? lol
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OhhhJa
07/15/2025
05:50 PM
#35
ReturnOfFa posted...
Pretty good but not on key??? lol
I mean, I think hes one of those guys who's intentionally not always singing right in key. Because I think he clearly can sing in key as he does most of the time
Music_Rock_Cat
07/15/2025
11:15 PM
#36
Asked alot of my younger friends at work and transgender friends and they had no fucking clue who Fred Durst was or what Woodstock 99 was
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Questionmarktarius
07/15/2025
11:48 PM
#37
I think the only "90s band" I still listen to on the regular is Sublime.
ParanoidObsessive
07/16/2025
02:52 AM
#38
man101 posted...
This. The Nu metal label was just slapped on any vaguely hard rock ish band doing anything that didn't neatly fit into a pre-existing genre. There is no identifiable musical or lyrical component common to all the nu metal bands.

I'd argue it was mostly the label that got slapped onto bands that were generally alt rock but which took on more of a metal influence. They were sort of the Venn Diagram overlap of the two previously existing genre super-categories.

Metal in particular was a tree with way too many different branches. Nu-Metal was just one of those branches (the one on the alt rock side of the yard).
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SunWuKung420
07/16/2025
05:19 AM
#39
Music_Rock_Cat posted...
Asked alot of my younger friends at work and transgender friends and they had no fucking clue who Fred Durst was or what Woodstock 99 was
Do you frequently say "these are my friends and these are my transgender friends"?

And why?
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Mystic_Myotis
07/16/2025
05:39 AM
#40
Depends on the individual song. I like quite a few SoaD songs, I guess.
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kind9
07/16/2025
05:42 AM
#41
Nu metal seems more like an umbrella term than an actual genre. Since it's supposed to be heavy metal that is infused with other genres including funk, hip hop, groove, industrial, gothic, grunge, and hardcore. Also I always assumed that term came about as a pejorative since I only ever saw it used that way when it was new.

There's a lot of nu metal I like and a lot that I hate.
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SunWuKung420
07/16/2025
05:54 AM
#42
kind9 posted...
Nu metal seems more like an umbrella term than an actual genre. Since it's supposed to be heavy metal that is infused with other genres including funk, hip hop, groove, industrial, gothic, grunge, and hardcore. Also I always assumed that term came about as a pejorative since I only ever saw it used that way when it was new.

There's a lot of nu metal I like and a lot that I hate.
It has definitely been used as a pejorative to insult metal bands incorporating other styles of music into metal.

The entire discography of Slipknot is leagues better than the discography of Metallica.
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OhhhJa
07/16/2025
07:40 AM
#43
SunWuKung420 posted...
The entire discography of Slipknot is leagues better than the discography of Metallica.
Lmao. Master of puppets and ride the lightning are both widely regarded as two of the greatest metal albums of all time. Slipknot albums will never be considered anything close to that. They're more of a gimmick
kind9
07/16/2025
07:47 AM
#44
OhhhJa posted...
Lmao. Master of puppets and ride the lightning are both widely regarded as two of the greatest metal albums of all time. Slipknot albums will never be considered anything close to that. They're more of a gimmick
Load is their best album.
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Music_Rock_Cat
07/16/2025
09:06 AM
#45
SunWuKung420 posted...
Do you frequently say "these are my friends and these are my transgender friends"?

And why?

my friends usually dont know shit about music unless its Drake and Creed. My trans friends would listen to metal and grunge and were more intelligent to chat with. None of them knew Fred Durst or knew what Nu-Metal was.
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OhhhJa
07/16/2025
09:15 AM
#46
kind9 posted...
Load is their best album.
Sounds like something my mom would say
kind9
07/16/2025
09:50 AM
#47
OhhhJa posted...
Sounds like something my mom would say
Your mom seems cool.
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DevilSummoner
07/16/2025
09:52 AM
#48
SunWuKung420 posted...
The entire discography of Slipknot is leagues better than the discography of Metallica.

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SunWuKung420
07/16/2025
10:24 AM
#49
Music_Rock_Cat posted...
my friends usually dont know shit about music unless its Drake and Creed. My trans friends would listen to metal and grunge and were more intelligent to chat with. None of them knew Fred Durst or knew what Nu-Metal was.
I'm still not sure why you're distinguishing between trans and non-trans friends. It's irreverent information. Why do you segregate them?
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Music_Rock_Cat
07/16/2025
10:28 AM
#50
Trans people are smart while my party friends are dumb as fuck plus I smoke alot of weed so my posts are discombobulated alot plus its 80 dollar ounces all summer long here in my area
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