9/7/2023 0 Comments Im just a bill metal![]() ![]() It was a nu-metal prerequisite to have something foul going on in the facial hair department. Where to start? First it’s got to be those beards, a shaven face bar the butt of a hamster perched on the end of a chin or an unraveled wire wool scrubber. Here’s 10 reasons why nu-metal was the worst genre of all time and should definitely not be resurrected. Try listening to Slipknot these days without puking. Now, like cockroaches crawling out of a log after a long winter, these bands are rearing their baseball-cap-clad heads, clawing for a revival.Įarlier this week Al Horner asked whether the genre was really all that bad and shared fond memories of watching Slipknot’s Corey Taylor vomit at Download. In its place, nu-metal became insanely popular – stomach this, Linkin Park’s ‘Hybrid Theory’ is the fastest selling debut of the 21st century – but only because guitar music was in the doldrums. Let’s face it: guitar music was pretty shoddy at the turn of the century until The Strokes came along and washed it all away. The popularity of nu-metal dramatically deteriorated when music started getting better in the early 00s. And Limp Bizkit are back with a new album and somehow persuaded Lil Wayne to join them on a turd of a song called ‘Ready To Go’ earlier this summer. At this year’s Reading & Leeds festivals, System Of A Down and Deftones were high up the bill and drew significant crowds. To wit: Korn are resurrecting the Family Values Tour, a horrendous marrying of nu-metal and hip-hop that kicked off in 1998 and saw Method Man and Red Man share a bill with Staind, and Ice Cube alongside Limp Bizkit. ![]() Nu-metal, the skidmark that appeared in the late 90s, is staging a comeback. Something’s rotten in the state of popular music. ![]()
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