The "Nu-metal you actually like" thread

[Virtual Kevorkian]

In recent months I started to like a lot of nu metal bands. Here are mine:

Himsa
Shadows Fall
In Flames
Satyricon
Opeth
Lamb of God
Slipknot
Killswitch

The list goes on!

Oh dear god...

The only 'numetal' band on that list is Slipknot. Hell, Satyricon is a fairly 'kvlt' blackmetal band, as much as I hate to use that classification.


I'm actually a bit offended that anyone, let alone two people on a forum I otherwise held in high regard would consider Opeth as nu-metal. There's more sophistication and musicality in that band than in any other metal band, nu or not, for all intents and purposes.

[Yngwiestein]

Oh dear god...

The only 'numetal' band on that list is Slipknot. Hell, Satyricon is a fairly 'kvlt' blackmetal band, as much as I hate to use that classification.


I'm actually a bit offended that anyone, let alone two people on a forum I otherwise held in high regard would consider Opeth as nu-metal. There's more sophistication and musicality in that band than in any other metal band, nu or not, for all intents and purposes.

Sorry! I'm not that big into metal. I think Opeth is a fantastic band. Maybe even legendary.

[grumptruck]

Guys nu metal is that crap that was popular when I was in High school. 1997-2001.

Some of you keep naming Metalcore bands Numetal.

Metalcore is the new Numetal *snicker*

[rashayritto]

opeth and lamb of god are the only ones who do it for me..... is mastadon "nu metal" or stoner rock? cause they kick ass

definitely stoner. I just call them Prog Metal since they change between thrash and doom but they're always progressive.

[34029324079]

Guys new metal is that crap that was popular when I was in High school. 1997-2001.

Some of you keep naming Metalcore bands Numetal.

Metalcore is the new Numetal *snicker*

true dat

its all mallcore

[grumptruck]

I like a few metalcore band because they actually have talent and know how to hit Open D chords to a bass drum... JK.. :-p

[CGord]

Sevendust, early Korn, early Godsmack....I still dig all of those. I digs me some metalcore, too.

Love Mudvayne, amazing rhythm section. Wouldn't really consider them nu, though. Oh well.

[34029324079]

I like a few metalcore band because they actually have talent and know how to hit Open D chords to a bass drum... JK.. :-p

u meanz there is more to music than 1 finger cords and matching beat with cord?? hehe

[subanots]

sorry, i thought numetal was new metal. my bad.

[34029324079]

sorry, i thought numetal was new metal. my bad.

hehe
see, the überisks over the ü of nü-metal is key. I think the other mallcore metallers would be cool with being called that, it wasnt for the überisks

[xerxes]

nd my secrect guilty pleasure (shhhhh!) is the Godsmack first album/Disturbed guitar tone. That ultra compressed and saturated Mesa tone in drop C... I won't lie, I dial it in once in a while and one-finger riff away.
)

no joke...i used to love that tone. its horrible when u think about it, but something about it liked and always wanted (could never nail it either, didnt have the gear)

[xerxes]

I thought POD's Satellite was all right too.

same...whatever singles they put out i enjoyed....it was just when i started really playing guitar and dug playin the fills from this song

[MikeS]

I like Disturbed just fine. No shame in that. They have a unique sound that you either like or you don't... I like it.

I like some early Korn, too. The late stuff is "meh" and I don't even have the last couple albums. Through school, and even still today, there is no better "production mode" soundtrack than any of the first few Korn albums. Mike + "Life is Peachy" + AutoCAD = fastest CAD operator ever. I wish I were joking.

[Rich_T]

I like Deftones, they are a bit more interesting texturally, and System of a Down didn't really sound like the rest of the herd either. Incubus' "Science" was sort of Nu Metal I guess, and that is a great album. Other than that, none of it really interested me.

[Ascension]

I like a song or two off several CD's but the only NuMetal whole CD so far I really love is---.
GRETCHEN - In The Mean Time. Just SLAMMING Amy Like pure female vocals + some killin heavy riftage and solid guitar tones! Check um out here http://www.myspace.com/gretchenland

[Diocletian]

I actually loved Slipknot's "Iowa" album - there's a cracking bit of stereo riffage on the song "Gently" *. Same with Limp Bizkit's "Chocolate Starfish". I liked Korn's "Issues" album, and DIsturbed.

But to be honest, I never listen to any of it any more. Not saying I outgrew it, as I was well into my twenties when I started listening to it - I just think it had no longevity.
Kids will be listening to AC/DC and Iron Maiden 40 years from now. They won't be listening to Slipknot or Limp Bizkit. The songs just aren't there although they were fun at the time.

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLvp42S5eF4
3:47

[PFDarkside]

Mike + "Life is Peachy" + AutoCAD = fastest CAD operator ever. I wish I were joking.

Haha that's great. Mine is Slayer or Pantera for when I need to lay down some serious 3D Catia or 2D Caelum CAD.

[PFDarkside]

Of course since he's a Dee-troit redneck, I'm a fan of Kid Rock. I think Cowboy was a brilliantly funny song, and who else can you the lyric 'For D.B. Cooper and the money he took'?

Devil Without a Cause is the premier rap-rock album of the era. (Of course, that kind of reminds you of the special olympics joke, even if you win... )