Nu-metal is a tough movement to pin down: Back in the late '90s and early '00s, it was an umbrella term for a strain of rock that grew parallel to the related genre post-grunge, as well as industrial ...
Can you guess the famous nu-metal music videos from the screenshots? Music videos used to be just as important as the songs, especially because of networks such as MTV. So if you were a fan of ...
Babymetal, Bloodywood and Sleep Token pulled influence from some esoteric places this year, and they lifted metal to new ...
Who would you claim to be nu-metal's "Big 4"? That's a subject that heated up over Sick New World festival weekend as Reddit users attempted to define who would be part of their Mount Rushmore of ...
Now that nu metal is in vogue again and it’s becoming acceptable to admit to having a deep-seated affinity for the long-stigmatized genre, it’s worth pondering what it was about nu metal that was so ...
Whether it’s the surprisingly frequent Evanescence covers on TikTok, the return of ’90s staple JNCO jeans, or the fact that Netflix’s hit show Beef featured Limp Bizkit music, the cultural signs are ...
Musical styles typically come back and are celebrated 20 years after their peak. The sounds of the 1950s was re-embraced during the ’70s with the films “American Graffiti” and “Grease” and the sitcom ...
There’s a lot of bad music out there. There are always people debating genres like contemporary country and Western and Top 40 music, but at the end of the day, the most reviled and defenseless genre ...
When discussing musical genres, any list denoting the best or worst is going to be highly debatable as it's all in the ear of the beholder. But, there are certain generalizations that begin to stick ...
If you had nu-metal making a trendy comeback on your 2024 bingo card, then you’re a real freak on a leash. Now, decades after its braggadocious beginnings, there is a new wave of nu-metal bands that ...
Ah, to be a teenager (or early 20-something) and in constant angst again. There's no time in life that is simultaneously more enjoyable and more utterly miserable. With such sentimental emotions often ...