'nu-metal', most ignorant genre?

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zim18

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i would really love to fucking know how this type of shit can be referred to as metal, it is an absolute disgrace to anything that actually is REAL metal...i think we should start referring it to something else besides 'nu-metal' maybe 'bandwagon garbage'? any thoughts?
 
it is also a disgrace to almost every real metal fan, im sick of people saying they listen to metal and cant name me a fucking iron maiden or judas priest album
 
i know this has probably been posted before, but this has just pissed me off to the limit and i had to vent!
 
Yep, this has been posted a lot.

However to go along with your point today in Borders I was looking in the media section, and there was this book called "Kings of Metal'', and they listed Korn, Slipknot, Killswitch, etc.
 
I think bands like pantera (phil's ridiculous tough guy image) and sepultura (later) had a strong influence on all the nu metal bands

nu metal is basically shitty hard rock + rap influence + pretentious angst/pain + metal aesthetics in my estimation
 
I think bands like pantera (phil's ridiculous tough guy image) and sepultura (later) had a strong influence on all the nu metal bands

nu metal is basically shitty hard rock + rap influence + pretentious angst/pain + metal aesthetics in my estimation

thats what makes me sad, roots heavily influenced nu metal but i worship the oldschool sepultura :kickass: , i really wished i started getting into real metal and started out with the classics before the bandwagon shit...but it turned out alright for me, as for everyone else it is just a sad story
 
I think Roots was influenced by nu-metal not the other way around, Korn's first album was already out , deftones too, and J.Davis was actually in a song in roots. Max even had a deftones shirt in the roots bloody roots video.
And those detuned riffs in roots cannot be a coicidence....
Sad but (probably) true.
 
I think Roots was influenced by nu-metal not the other way around, Korn's first album was already out , deftones too, and J.Davis was actually in a song in roots. Max even had a deftones shirt in the roots bloody roots video.
And those detuned riffs in roots cannot be a coicidence....
Sad but (probably) true.

You can place some of the blame for nu-metal on Chaos AD, though...
 
Chaos A.D. ... maybe, the riffs are indeed pretty simple, but it still sounded like metal. It was a cool album back in the day, but it did not age well, it's sounds really boring to today's standards. Can't listen to it.

Pantera i think are more to "blame", that whole groove is really noticeble in nu-metal. Although they did it way better than nu-metal bands of course.
 
I'm getting tired of all the bitching about Nu-metal, metalcore etc. it's a trend, trends are mathematically proven to go prune after a while. therefore, nu-metal metalcore and all the mainstream crap will disapear after a while but that doesnt mean that something else will not appear. Apparently trends come and go, metal is for life.
 
^and that's all that really needs to be known. Let them put the metal label on whatever they wish; the rest of us have ears. There is certainly no confusion on our end.
 
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