Whaeuh hum... Mmh... I have to say that I don't agree with you...
Well I respect your musical taste and blah, and your other taste, or maybe not
, but you're answer look like you don't like Soad just because it is main-srteam, so it is my duty to tell you the truth, and bring you back of the light way of our immortal emperor ! Euh, hem, I eat too much of warhammer 40K...
First, as I said, Soad is not nu-metal, this is not true metal too, this is, as I said, what we could call "alternative something"
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But I understand you may like only TRUE metal, and nothing else.
Then, Soad is not main-stream, or should I say, their music was already what it was, when they were not already main-stream.
In fact, I think Soad is different from all the other main-stream bands, 'course you won't find amaizing solos, and most of their songs are in dropped-C, but the riffs are great, the singer voice is different from everything that exists, and their songs are originals...
Well, I'll stop here, maybe you have already listen to Soad, and don't like it, but if you never listen to them, you should give it a try.