im old enough to remember the massive hate nu metal got in the mid & late 2000s to early 2010s to see this new generation of musicians (most of them) not shy away from expressing their love for nu metal is refreshing
It’s no different than emo or pop punk. Got so much hate cause of all the people that thought it was to feminine and not macho enough but now we’re saying it’s impact.
@@osekrottenseed666 No I didn’t mean nu metal was considered “feminine” I was just saying both genres were hated when they came out. Limp Bizkit was definitely a hated band and then Fall Out Boy became a very hated band. My Chemical Romance was hated as well. I’m just saying society trashes a lot of culturally significant things at first but in hindsight, it makes sense why nu metal and pop punk/emo got so popular. Nu Metal was angry but wanted to have fun (Gen X in a nutshell) and pop punk / emo didn’t like that over-characterization of “macho” so they went another route which makes sense if you’re an old millennial now.
My self - MY SEEEELF - I ask why - Cuz in my mind I find - I cant rely on myself - MY SEEEELF! etc. Very Yes. Fuck man now i gotta play the whole album.
The Korn Woodstock performance usually makes any metal purist that hates nu-metal pay their respect. Korn is undeniably one of the best and most original live band
@Phobix The Thing same. Every time I play it in the car, I don't care who I'm with, I tell them to be quiet for a second when the scat breakdown comes. Then I crank the volume and start uncontrollably headbanging/scatting
Papercut - Linkin Park As a black child nu metal was a stepping stone into metal-hood, I wouldn't be me if it weren't for 2000s KoRn, Disturbed, Linkin Park, Limp Bizik. The list can go on!!! \m/ \m/
One song per band... - Chop Suey - Falling Away From Me - Break Stuff - Last Resort - One Step Clóser - Bodies - Down With The Sickness - Wait And Bleed - Bring Me To Life - Not Falling Honorable mentions: My Own Summer, Alive, Enemy (the Sevendust one), I Stand Alone, For You, Immortal, Loco, How Can I Live, The Only, Poem, Drowning (fuck Butterfly, this is the real Crazy Town banger), From This Day, Downfall, What I Always Wanted, Payback, Bullet With Your Name (Scars of Life), Bullet With a Name on It (Nonpoint)....
yeah well so did meshuggah iNveNt djent. i feel the same way about korn. im not saying they werent one of the bands starting it. im not saying its not nu metal. and im saying this as a big fan of both: NU and KORN. but there are bands having a way more cliche NU sound. to me, korn will always remain indefinable. but yes, they belong to NU.
@@pd4fgrfzg607 Yeah kind of true. Korn has aspects of Nu-metal in their songs and it's obvious where the idea of Nu-metal came from but the meaning shifted slightly since then also with bands like Slipknot and Linkin park to the point where I understand why people might not consider Korn nu-metal. For the most part tho I think people are just like "I hate nu-metal but like Korn so they arent nu-metal" however if you ask these people if they like linkin park, slipknot, mudvayne, SOAD, etc they probably do an at that point do you ACTUALLY dislike it or are you just following a fad?
There's a difference in being the artist that influenced the genre and being it. It's like calling Van Halen a hairband. They're the benchmark for what hair metal was attempting to be, but they had nothing to do with the actual genre.
My favourites by my favourite bands: Linkin Park - Papercut Disturbed - Down with the Sickness Korn - Thoughtless System of a Down - Sugar Evanescence - Tourniquet Slipknot - Psychosocial Deftones - Digital Bath Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff Mudvayne - Dig I love Nu-Metal, glad to see there are still people who enjoy it
yeah, it's just trendy to hate on them, and i could see why with fred's whiny vocals, but wes' guitar is UNDENIABLE... amazing riffs it's funny i think we are just about to turn the corner from trendy limp hate to trendy limp "they are my guilty pleasure" to trendy full on embracement of limp people are just herds of dummies
@@amx1820 Big agree. Dan's Solo on Remnants is one of my favorite solos of all time. I've always been someone who doesn't care much for technicality when it comes to guitar solos, and just prefer ones that evoke a lot of emotion. Dan's work definitely falls into that category in my book.
Wes can't even play a decent solo. He's sloppy as it gets. His riffs are crap. It's either earscratching whamy bar crap or just basic nu metal nonsense. What poor soul would listen to that farty opening riff to Break Stuff and think to himself or herself, "Yeah, this is the sh1t. I want to get myself a guitar and learn this riff." Imperium by Machine Head is what made me want to pick up a guitar, because that's an actual well written riff-driven song.
@@2isceez Yeah, but the majority of their work can't really be classified as nu metal. Only their first 2 albums. So they're not a nu-metal band, although they made some great nu-metal songs in the 90s.
Elite by Deftones Lying From You by Linkin Park Got The Life by Korn My Way by Limp Bizkit Sic by Slipknot Determined by Mudvayne Stricken by Disturbed Gosh these bands are just incredible. Always apart of my daily soundtrack!
I’d pick, *“Good God” by KoЯn, “Trust?” By Limp, “Internal Primates Forever” by MuDvAyNe, and “Awaken” by Disturbed,* over the ones you picked. But the deftones, LP, and SlipKnoT, choices were spot on.
@@christianwallin4993’Waffle’ is the song I always suggest as a gateway to Sevendust for those unfortunate beings who have not heard of 7D… followed by ‘Angels Son’ which is a most beautiful song.
@Gabo xd agreed Korn changed the game entirely but nu metal blew up even more after they started to fade a bit with huge bands coming out like Linkin park,Slipknot,system of a down,etc and deftones blew up even more with Whyte pony after wards as well as Limp bizkit with chocolate starfish
Totally agree. Korn did stuff (throughout their career) that changed not only metal music, but hip hop, electronica, and even mainstream pop. Nu Metal is probably the most mainstream metal genre there will ever be. And they pioneered it, and tried a whole bunch of other stuff too. I love Korn. Brilliant band, but, not without their faults.
yeah, a lot of people don't realize it but korn is actually the spiritual continuation of nirvana in music... but now that i've said it a bunch of light bulbs went off
A place For My Head - Linkin Park. To me it has everything, scratches, rapping, screaming, heavy guitars. Hearing it live and having the crowd scream "GO AWAY" will never ever get old.
Limp Bizkit's "3 Dollar Bill Y'all" was an amazing album; a pillar in the genre. Most songs from that album would be great contenders for "best Nu Metal song".
If I had to choose 3 songs from the nu-metal era, those would be: -Stoopid by Snot -New Wave by Pleymo -Spit It Out by Slipknot. But honorable mentions to 7 Words by Deftones, Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit and Dig by Mudvayne. I'm missing so many bands, but those 6 bands represent a lot of the best that the nu-metal era had to offer.
@@silverelovero3260 maybe... Pleymo? I know Pleymo but I'm from Europe, Portugal. I think it was their first album, that i've listen many times. They are truly original. There was another french band, the same style... do you remember their name? And the italian Linea 77. Saw them once... great show.
6:43 I know exactly what she’s trying to say and I agree with the point she’s making, but I don’t think Daddy is a good example to use for making that point because that is a deep cut that would make sense here in my opinion. Any other noteworthy deep cut from Korn would make sense in that example, except for Daddy. [Now, by “noteworthy” deep cut, I’m talking about the deep cuts that are not random or one-off or whatever. Because you know there are levels to deep cuts, and like with any established artists, some songs maybe technical deep cuts just for the sake they are not generally known outside the fanbase, but within the fanbase, they have status. Where it’s like some of them are treated, within the fanbase, like the popular hit singles get treated in the general public outside the fanbase. For example, (I’ll use Korn for this example since that’s who this is about), you can look at songs like Freak On Leash or Blind or something, and you see the way they have noteworthy status to the general public (or the Metal/Rock/Alternative community if you prefer it worded that way). They are well known, well regarded, and are just generally the face of “good and/or noteable Korn music”. But then when you step into the hardcore fanbase, you got songs that hold status and recognizability within the fanbase in and of itself, the way their hit songs do outside of the fanbase. I guess you can think of them as the in-house, inner-fanbase versions of what their hit singles are to the rest of the world. Or maybe you can think of them as being the reigning heavyweight songs within the fanbase that their popular songs are outside of the base.] So on to my point. I don’t think her saying Daddy was a good example used to illustrate the concept or idea of what I just examples. Like I said, any other Korn songs that are deep cuts that hold status in the fanbase would have worked in that example, _except_ for Daddy. Even before it got to that part in the video, I was already considering Daddy as a candidate for receiving this label of greatest Nu-Metal song. I mean yeah it’s not a hit single and isn’t quite as accessible as the big name Korn songs are. But I don’t think that has to be the only way to determine what the greatest of _something_ is. And in the case of the song Daddy, it has a very notorious status, even outside of the fanbase it has a reputation. There’s a lot of people who don’t even know Korn’s music, but they know Daddy. That song’s reputation has it looking like people are out here look at it like it’s it’s the Boogyman of Nu-Metal songs or something. I mean, I’m willing to say that it’s probably most single most _effective_ Nu-Metal song there is. It’s like the granddaddy of all this shit. So in my opinion, the power of that song can hold just as much strength and weight than that of a lot of these more traditional answers are.
Many great nu-metal songs mentioned but the one song that immediately came to mind was 'Blind' by Korn - just captures everything about nu-metal in that one intro for me!
Wouldn't know, not only did I not listen to radio at the time, I'm British 😁 Not saying it's the BEST nu-metal song or even my personal favourite, just immediately where my mind went when I saw the question!
I jammed that while working out today, haven't heard that since middle school. Almost 30 now, and it just pumped me up. Didn't even do my rest just killed my next set with the power of korn.
There were a lot of great bands that came out of, or found fame out of Nu Metal. But when it comes to sheer uniqueness and creativity in music, not just Nu Metal, Korn did stuff (throughout their career) that changed not only metal music, but hip hop, electronica, and even mainstream pop. Nu Metal is probably the most mainstream metal genre there will ever be. And they pioneered it, and tried a whole bunch of other stuff too. I love Korn. Brilliant band, but, not without their faults.
6:11 I cracked up laughing at the end of this part from hearing that the guy was so convinced that limpbizkuit was the one and the best of nu-metal, after he goes on talking about and giving his perspective, then the cool big guy with the mask and the painted face in the middle, simply just says blind from Korn and everybody's like, Oh, okay. Yeah, forgot about that one. Totally understandable.
I'm so suprised of this comment. Cuz Im a huge nu metal fan and I love the big names and underground bands too but in my opinion death blooms by mudvayne is the best nu metal song ever made.
Too difficult to pick just one song, I was a teenager when Nu Metal was big so I screamed my little teenage lungs out to all of it but I want to mention P.O.D's Youth of a Nation for being a beautiful song I will adore from that time.
Nothing wrong with Break Stuff being peoples #1 choice. It’s a relatable song to this day, it’s fun and gets people amped and then the video has amazing cameos.
Dope , POD and ill níño, somehow never mentioned while it was highly popular seether,staind,12 stones,puddle of mudd adema, smile empty soul are also pretty forgotten about
Not a single mention of early deftones? My Own Summer, Bored? Or even P.O.D? Boom or Southtown! Korn, Bizkit, LP, Static X, early Slipknot and Disturbed, SOAD are all perfect candidates too, hard to pick for sure
As far as Deftones goes, they actively tried hard to stay away from the nu-metal label, even declining tour invitations with the big nu-metal acts of the time.
Incubus- A Certain Shade of Green , Snot- Stoopid Korn- Blind, Sevendust- Bitch (hed) pe- Bartender SOAD- Needles Mudvayne- Dig Deftones- My Own Summer Coal Chamber- Loco
Linkin Park kinda really got me into music. I don't think I ever paid any attention to music before, but they became a gateway to music for me. They were, still are and will always be my favourite musical artists ever ❤️
Agreed, I was just into random stuff my parents listened to before switching on Kerrang for the first time and hearing LP. Then literally everything changed. Hybrid Theory was my first ever CD.
If you think of all the Nu Metal bands out there, even the ones that started out as Nu Metal but moved away from it later on, Korn is the most enduring, most consistently popular band of them all. They are a relentlessly hard working band.
Korn, Slipknot, Godsmack, Disturbed keep putting new albums out! Skillet keeps doing new albums! Let’s not forget Metallica too! They have a new album out or soon to come out!! I believe that truthfully THEY are a HUGE influence on a LOT of these more modern bands! And let’s throw in some Fear Factory for y’all! Shock and Zero Signal are good hard LOUD metal songs!! Not nu metal but just putting it out there for u guys to see
Feels like Break Stuff ran away with it overall and that's a hard one to argue with. Really neat to see the love for that song from so many varied bands.
Linkin Park is a bit of an obvious choice, but a respectable one. Personally, I think most of Linkin Park's early discography is amazing. Hybrid Theory and Meteora are certified classics. It's hard to pick because they were all so influential at the time for the genre and the bands involved. Korn, Linkin Park, Slipknot. All of those bands plus the ones I don't listen to all had a major impact so it's hard to pick a song that is the greatest. I think it's up to personal preference. I'm a Slipknot fanboy, so anything off of Self-Titled, Vol. 3 or hell even Iowa even though Iowa is a bit too hardcore for me.
I will say, some of them talking about mainstream stuff that everyone loved and not saying Linkin Park is just weird to me. LP was the gateway to metal for an entire generation
My top 10: 1. Blind - Korn 2. My Own Summer - Deftones 3. Toxicity - System of a Down 4. Wait and Bleed - Slipknot 5. Dig - Mudvayne 6. Southtown - POD 7. Loco - Coal Chamber 8. Waffle - Sevendust 9. Awake - Godsmack 10. Bodies - Drowning Pool
The guy from Suicide Silence (2:10) represented my opinion. Got the Life is the song that made like not only Nu Metal but metal in general. I listen to Black Sabbath and many bands that came after because of Got the Life. But my favorite Nu Metal song is Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park. I know they are the pop Nu Metal band. But this song is amazing in my opinion.
My top nu-metal songs: My Own Summer - Deftones Be Quiet and Drive - Deftones One Step Closer - Linkin Park Blind - Korn Break Stuff - Limp Bizkit Southtown - P.O.D Praise - Sevendust Waffle - Sevendust Before i forget - Slipknot Duality - Slipknot New Skin - Incubus Toxicity - System of a down Chopseuy - System of a down Dig - Mudvayne Roots bloody roots - Sepultura
This is so wholesome and great. Awesome to see a new generation of rockers express unabashed appreciation for a genre that has been maligned and misunderstood for so long. Nu-metal? I dunno man. It's just metal to me. Let the horns fly. \m/ \m/
My top 10 Nu-Metal, share yours! Static X - Bled for Days Limp Bizkit - Stalemate Korn - Somebody Someone Linkin Park - Crawling Papa Roach - Between Angels and Insects Sevendust - Denial Deftones - Headup Snot - Snot Disturbed - Facade Adema - Giving In
Deftones-Lotion Mudvayne-Internal Primates Forever Slipknot-Heretic Anthem Static X-Push It Limp Bizkit-Take a Look Around Taproot-Poem Korn-Clown Kittie-Spit System Of A Down-Deer Dance Karnivool-Lifelike
Static X is INDUSTRIAL, Wayne stated them as Evil disco. metal has been see as evil for years, and disco evolved to all tech/digi, electro, so, thus, INDUSTRIAL.
"Bring Me to Life" was the definitive nu-metal song for me. The definitive albums were Meteora and Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park, and Satellite and Fundamentals of Southtown by P.O.D.
Mine was : Spit It Out - SlipKnot One Step Closer - Linkin Park Sugar - SoAD Take a Look Around & Nookie - Limp Bizkit Between Angels & Insects - Papa Roach
The Greatest is Easy, and That's BLIND by Korn Another pics will be: Nookie by Limp Bizkit Stupify By Disturbed Wait & Bleed By Slipknot Chop Suey By SOAD My Own Summer By Deftones Last Resort By Papa Roach Bodies By Drowning Pool Loco by Coal Chamber What I Always Wanted by Kittie Southtown by P.O.D. Nanu By Factory 81 Crawling By Linkin Park Jump Da F*ck Up By Soulfly Dig By Mudvayne Bawitdaba by Kid Rock Tric By Otep Solitaire Unraveling By Mushroomhead Toxic By Crazy Town Another in the same Package but not in the same Box: Du Hast By Rammstein Dragula By Rob Zombie Rock is Dead By Marilyn Manson Linchpin By Fear Factory I'm With Stupid By Static X When Worlds Collide By Powerman 5000 Closer By NIN Blue Monday By Orgy *Like it or not, they are classics*
I’m glad someone mentioned Blind. Gotta be without a doubt the greatest Nu Metal song ever.. and really the first Nu Metal song ever that took the world by storm.. since they created the genre and all. A close second for me is With You by LP.
Break Stuff is a solid choice. I think Spit It Out got overlooked, but it wasn’t a massive hit either. KoRn are kind of the progenitor band of the genre, so a few of their songs fit well. Since that era was late middle and early high school for me (well, Meteora was my Jr or Sr year), it’s hard not to get lost in nostalgia. I guess that’s the point though.
Hate people just rag on nu metal. Yes, good chunk of it didn't age well, but you can find plenty of gems in the genre, and it was important to the development of rock and metal as a gateway for many to the genre
There were lots of original and good bands, that were not as huge as SOAD, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Deftones or Slipknot. I was really surprised that Sevendust was mentioned by that dude from Halestorm. Sevendust is a good example of a band that aged really good and had a very unique way of nu metal. Lajon Witherspoon should be given way more credit, that dude is a brilliant singer.
For me personally- Korn - Got the life Limp Bizkit - Counterfeit Linkin park - Faint Deftones - 7 words Slipknot - Surfacing System of a down - Prison song
I can't pick just one because there's so many amazing songs! I gotta say my personal list would be: 1. Korn- Lies 2. Deftones-7 words 3. System of a down- sugar 4. Linkin park- Lying from you 5. Evanescence- Tourniquet 6. Otep- Blood pigs 7. Mudvayne- Nothing to gein 8. Staind- Spleen 9. Disturbed- Voices 10. Coal chamber- Loco
Freak on a Leash, Make Me Bad, Here to Stay, Twist Break Stuff, Rollin, Hot Dog, Faith Crawling, Points of Authority, Somewhere I Belong Last Resort, Between Angels and Insects, She Loves Me Not Satellite, Boom, Sleeping Awake, Goodbye For Now Prayer, Down With the Sickness, Remember, Land of Confusion Dig, Death Blooms Wait and Bleed
I have a hard time with the Nu Metal genre. To me there were three distinct genres that emerged in that time period. You have more heady rock bands with some metal influences but with punchy timing and elements of progressive metal like Godsmack, System of a Down, Static X, Disturbed and slower stuff like the Deftones. Then you had the rap -rock hybrid Linkin Park, POD, Korn and Limp Bizkit then you had the actual metal bands with rap/hip hop influence like Slipknot (really just the first album and a few songs after that) and even I would put bands like Powerman 5000 and Rob Zombie in that genre because while they werent rapping in their music at all they were taking other parts of hip hop and using samples and dance beats etc in their music. Then there was this other genre that I am not sure if you can really call them Nu Metal - like Mudvanye, Puddle of Mud, etc. I cringe a little when everyone lumps just any new band from that era as Nu Metal, its just too much of a variety of bands to really classify it as a single type.
The first that really came to mind for me was Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit. I'd also have to say Mudshovel/Just Go/Suffocate from Dysfunction by Staind is pretty high on my list.
Honestly Korn is nu metal but they had that crazy groove in all of their early stuff at that time. It made sense after that interview Jonathan did where he mentioned he always thought they were funky. Made so much sense after hearing that.
Nu Metal hate is cringe. Just like every genre, there was some bad bands, but also some really great bands. Anyway, really cool to see some Nu-Core bands here, Tetrarch and Bloodywood rules!!
I would lean into Korn or Limp Bizket for my top song but i have to give a special shout out to Orgy - Stiches. Not many people would probably even know the song by name but i loved it, also their version of Blue Monday was frickin AWESOME!
I love that Nu Metal is slowly making a comeback and being more of a popular topic now then when Nu Metal was actually popular in the late 90s. Also my favourite Nu Metal song is Kid Rocks Bawitdaba hands down
I was obviously there. I was born in 93 then Korns debut came out the year after. Nu Metal was huge in the late 90s-early 2000s. Every movie soundtrack had at least if not one then a bunch of Nu metal on it (Queen of the damned, Scorpion king, Scream, etc). Video games, even celebrities were in Nu metal bands (Vanilla Ice, Jada Pickett Smith). I didn’t have MTV growing up where I only had MuchMusic and it was getting the same rotation on there. I’m stating it got a lot of flack back then but now those that flacked it are slowly coming around and begrudging that. While those that didn’t flack it like myself who’s a die hard Nu Metal fan I’m happy it’s getting recognition again as it rightfully deserves. It’s a huge gateway for most metal/metalcore bands today
Not saying these are the greatest but few of my favorites in no order Static-X Permanence Black and white (The whole Machine album really) Stem I'm With Stupid (Some say Static-X is only industrial but they have nu metal elements throughout their albums) Linkin park's first 2 albums literally every song. No skips, both 10/10, enough said. Korn Falling Away From Me Make Me Bad Here To Stay Bottled Up Inside Hating (The whole Untouchables album really) SOAD Prison Song Sugar Limp Bizkit My Way Show Me What You Got Dont Go Off Wandering Slipknot Spit It Out
By the time Nu-Metal came about I was already in the Punk/Hardcore phase of my life so naturally i had a disdain for that whole genre... as you would, being a teenager. I'd have to agree that "Break Stuff" has to be the ultimate Nu-Metal song. Simply because it was by a band that people wanted to hate but the song was pretty fucking awesome. I wouldn't count Slipknot as Nu-Metal, they just got big at the same time as the genre was taking off. Slipknot is a legitimate metal band despite all the theatrics. I hesitate to mention Deftones in this category because to me they are a completely different animal. Genres aside, one of the best bands of all time.
Seeing Jordan from BMTH in all these different clips of this interview, he manages to bring up Linkin Park just about every time. I swear we could’ve got a Linkin Park/BMTH tour had things turned out differently
Linkin Park - Crawling/Pushing Me Away Slipknot - Dead Memories/Wait & Bleed SOAD - Spiders/Sad Statue Korn - Hollow Life/Falling Away Limp Bizkit - Don't Go Off Wandering/Rearranged Kittie - Charlotte/What I Always Wanted Deftones - Digital Bath/My Own Summer 311- Beautiful Disaster/Creatures Orgy - Stitches/Eva RATM - Bulls on Parade/No Shelter Adema - The Way You Like It/Giving In Rammstein - Du Hast/Feuer Frei Mudvayne - Dig/Not Falling Rob Zombie - Dragula/Living Dead Girl Marylin Manson - The Dope Show/Coma White Powerman 5000 - When World's Collide/Nobodies Real Hoobastank - Pieces/Crawling In The Dark Godsmack - Voodoo/Awake Perfect Circle - Pet/Passive Otep - Ghost Flowers/Warhead Disturbed - Voices/Down With The Sickness Stabbing Westward - Everything I Touch/Wasted Tool - Sober/Schizm Alien Ant Farm - Courage/Movies Evanescence - My Immortal/Wake Me Up Incubus - Pardon Me/Warning Ill Nino - How Can I Live/This Time's For Real Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything About You/Just Like You POD - Youth of a Nation/Southtown Honorable Mentions: Static X - Push It Drowning Pool - Bodies CKY - 96 Quiet Bitter Beings Chevelle - Seeing Red Deadsy - Gramercy Park Kid Rock - Bawitdaba Papa Roach - She Loves Me Not Staind - Mudshovel White Zombie- More Human Than Human Nickleback - This is How Your Remind Me Trapt - Headstrong Hollywood Undead - The Natives Breaking Benjamin - The Diary of Jane I limited 2 per band cause there's just too many good ones for most of these bands, especially: SOAD, Deftones, Korn, Linkin Park, 311, Orgy, RATM, MM, A Perfect Circle, & Slipknot... and Limp Bizkit =-p "Now this red cap get's a rap from these critics!"
@@hoovy1163 I love I am Loco but Ill Niño has better tunes than that (and so has Limp Bizkit: the 3 dollar bill y'all record is an overlooked masterpiece).
Not only is chop suey imo the most unique nu metal masterpiece. It’s also got 1.2 billion views on the music video. Getting over 15% of the world into it is no joke.
@@V3RT1C0N Which one do you think is more likely? 1. Everyone who has listened to this has done so only once. 2. The people who have listened to and liked the song have listened to it 10 times.
Its easy for me to say linkin park will always have a place in my heart as the best, and my favorite nu metal band. I have way to many favorite songs from their discography to choose from but the best song to me has to be Dont Stay.
Nu metal hit right at my late high school years. The genre is so vast, so many different styles mashed into one. I’m a huge Rage Against the Machine and I’ve heard them lumped into Nu Metal. Same with Cypress Hill.
Last resort is more rap rock Break stuff is more rap metal So I'm gonna say falling away from me that breakdown after "fuuuuuuck" makes me tear up everytime it's so powerful especially in the video clip with the kids throwing their fists in the air the dynamics the energy instant chills
I remember being 13 years old walking through junior high and these Korn shirts started to flood the hallways and I wasn't even a metal fan yet. I was a curious cat, checked them out. Within a year my entire music taste changed. To me they really defined that era. Throwing a vote in for Korn - Got the Life.
For me the perfect nu metal songs are Faint, Figure 0.9 and Break stuff, all his sounds represent the fusion between rap metal with a little electro that characterizes nu metal, they're not my favorite but i think they best represent of nu metal
It is peak Nu Metal, and definitely deserves to be in this conversation. It isnt what I would pick because i see Korn as the true progenitors of every element of the genre so to me it has to be a Korn song.
@@markattenborough9107 yeah for me personally it's a tie between Papercut and Blind. But for a wider audience and to answer the question "what song represents what nu metal is about". It's really hard not to go with the bizkit
@@seanrees97 i gorcha i normall would dig into my Slipknot, Korn, and Deftones love and probably name a song that only diehard fans know...when I got to Diamond from Tetrarch's answer I felt her struggle on a personal level
Blinds what started the official genre and the biggest staple in Nu Metal. For a more wider audience I’d say either Break stuff or Wait and bleed but I’d have to say Break stuff is every element of Nu Metal wrapped in one. Fred’s rapping/red cap, Wes chunky/downtune riffs, Johns drum snares and Lethals scratching
It's Absent by Snot. The finished version that's on the Strangeland soundtrack. Side note: nothing against the newer metal bands. They are all so pretty now. Do they even party anymore?
Korn- blind.... Simply because it was the first... I remember hearing it on metal nights on KISW 99.9 and thinking. Oh, my God, what the fuck was that?... then I bought the album and forced all of my friends to listen to it.
I'm surprised and happy that Got the Life by Korn is mentioned. Blind by Korn is the most influential Nu-Metal song, but Got the Life is my favorite Korn song and favorite Nu-Metal song in general because it's so unique and fresh even to this day.
im old enough to remember the massive hate nu metal got in the mid & late 2000s to early 2010s
to see this new generation of musicians (most of them) not shy away from expressing their love for nu metal is refreshing
My thoughts exactly. I’m happy it’s getting the recognition again it deserves specially when it’s a gateway for most metal/metalcore bands today
Well that is the heavy music these young artists grew up on
Critics who claim nu metal was rubbish were dead wrong
It’s no different than emo or pop punk. Got so much hate cause of all the people that thought it was to feminine and not macho enough but now we’re saying it’s impact.
@@osekrottenseed666 No I didn’t mean nu metal was considered “feminine” I was just saying both genres were hated when they came out. Limp Bizkit was definitely a hated band and then Fall Out Boy became a very hated band. My Chemical Romance was hated as well. I’m just saying society trashes a lot of culturally significant things at first but in hindsight, it makes sense why nu metal and pop punk/emo got so popular. Nu Metal was angry but wanted to have fun (Gen X in a nutshell) and pop punk / emo didn’t like that over-characterization of “macho” so they went another route which makes sense if you’re an old millennial now.
I'd have to say By Myself - Linkin Park. Its just such an underrated deep cut from hybrid theory and those high screams Chester does are to die for.
Dude give this man a medal🏅
You deserve a crown 👑👑
By Myself and With You are two of my favourite songs from that album, even more than the popular stuff like Papercut and Crawling
My self - MY SEEEELF - I ask why - Cuz in my mind I find - I cant rely on myself - MY SEEEELF! etc. Very Yes. Fuck man now i gotta play the whole album.
Pushing Me Away
My favorites have to be Wait and Bleed, Blind, Needles and Papercut.
Needles by SOAD? If yes then great pick 💪
@@radamtv4779 Yeah, it’s my favorite song off of Toxicity. 🤘
@@radamtv4779 My Plague by Slip. But not my top Nu Metal, i mean the best song in my opinion from them.
Bawitdaba Kid Rock arguably my favourite hands down
I felt the hate rise up in me / kneel down and clear the stone of leaves...
The Korn Woodstock performance usually makes any metal purist that hates nu-metal pay their respect. Korn is undeniably one of the best and most original live band
agreed...was there and in the pit for Break Stuff the next night...
Was there for Korn; greatest performance I’ve ever seen. The energy that night was insane. I’ll never forget it.
It's gotta be Freak On A Leash. The first song by Korn I had ever heard, and when it got to the JD scatting, it melted my little teenage brain
The scatting and breakdown get me excited to this day
@Phobix The Thing same. Every time I play it in the car, I don't care who I'm with, I tell them to be quiet for a second when the scat breakdown comes. Then I crank the volume and start uncontrollably headbanging/scatting
That breakdown is immaculate
Boom na da umm nam nam ee ba!
Masterpiece
Papercut - Linkin Park
As a black child nu metal was a stepping stone into metal-hood, I wouldn't be me if it weren't for 2000s KoRn, Disturbed, Linkin Park, Limp Bizik. The list can go on!!! \m/ \m/
^absolutely
Same here
For me it was Forgotten
limp bizik caught me off guard 😂
no hate❤
One song per band...
- Chop Suey
- Falling Away From Me
- Break Stuff
- Last Resort
- One Step Clóser
- Bodies
- Down With The Sickness
- Wait And Bleed
- Bring Me To Life
- Not Falling
Honorable mentions:
My Own Summer, Alive, Enemy (the Sevendust one), I Stand Alone, For You, Immortal, Loco, How Can I Live, The Only, Poem, Drowning (fuck Butterfly, this is the real Crazy Town banger), From This Day, Downfall, What I Always Wanted, Payback, Bullet With Your Name (Scars of Life), Bullet With a Name on It (Nonpoint)....
Bawitdaba, Awake, Again and Again, Height of Callousness, Toxic, Room to Breathe, Click Click Boom, Denial, Rope, What a Day, Turn me on Mr Deadman
It makes me happy to see How Can I Live in the mentions. Lol.
it thought Godsmack is the same genre Nickelback
Bahahah of course you pick singles
My Own Summer is just an honorable mention? Gtfo here.
"If you consider Korn Nu Metal... I don't"
They literally invented the genre...
yeah well so did meshuggah iNveNt djent. i feel the same way about korn. im not saying they werent one of the bands starting it. im not saying its not nu metal. and im saying this as a big fan of both: NU and KORN. but there are bands having a way more cliche NU sound. to me, korn will always remain indefinable. but yes, they belong to NU.
Lol this. What’s he smokin?
@@pd4fgrfzg607 Yeah kind of true. Korn has aspects of Nu-metal in their songs and it's obvious where the idea of Nu-metal came from but the meaning shifted slightly since then also with bands like Slipknot and Linkin park to the point where I understand why people might not consider Korn nu-metal.
For the most part tho I think people are just like "I hate nu-metal but like Korn so they arent nu-metal" however if you ask these people if they like linkin park, slipknot, mudvayne, SOAD, etc they probably do an at that point do you ACTUALLY dislike it or are you just following a fad?
There's a difference in being the artist that influenced the genre and being it. It's like calling Van Halen a hairband. They're the benchmark for what hair metal was attempting to be, but they had nothing to do with the actual genre.
I was teenager in these years and Korn was always known as the original nu metal band
My favourites by my favourite bands:
Linkin Park - Papercut
Disturbed - Down with the Sickness
Korn - Thoughtless
System of a Down - Sugar
Evanescence - Tourniquet
Slipknot - Psychosocial
Deftones - Digital Bath
Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
Mudvayne - Dig
I love Nu-Metal, glad to see there are still people who enjoy it
Digital bath is a fantastic choice
Psychosocial is heavy metal 😌
@@felipegutierrez9476 slipknots classed as nu metal aswell though so?
love the phsycosocial and digital bath and dig in there
Great list. I’d add almost the entire album of Animosity from Sevendust. Praise rocked my socks off when I first heard that.
crazy to me that "My Own Summer" by Deftones never entered this convo - some good picks nonetheless
exactly what i was thinking the whole video too!
Id say backbto school
Nu metal is legitimately awesome. I unashamedly Love limp bizkit. Wes is an amazing guitarist.
yeah, it's just trendy to hate on them, and i could see why with fred's whiny vocals, but wes' guitar is UNDENIABLE... amazing riffs
it's funny i think we are just about to turn the corner from trendy limp hate to trendy limp "they are my guilty pleasure" to trendy full on embracement of limp
people are just herds of dummies
Wes' monster riffs are just awesome & creative. Dan (Disturbed) guitar solos are also very underrated
@@notimportant3686 not just the heavy riffs but in several underrated songs the verses are so creative too
@@amx1820 Big agree. Dan's Solo on Remnants is one of my favorite solos of all time. I've always been someone who doesn't care much for technicality when it comes to guitar solos, and just prefer ones that evoke a lot of emotion. Dan's work definitely falls into that category in my book.
Wes can't even play a decent solo. He's sloppy as it gets. His riffs are crap. It's either earscratching whamy bar crap or just basic nu metal nonsense. What poor soul would listen to that farty opening riff to Break Stuff and think to himself or herself, "Yeah, this is the sh1t. I want to get myself a guitar and learn this riff." Imperium by Machine Head is what made me want to pick up a guitar, because that's an actual well written riff-driven song.
I love how KoRn was mentioned so many times. Brings a smile to my face. Knowing I love one of the all time best nu metal bands
I’m equally appalled and ecstatic that Deftones aren’t in this conversation
@@taj1997 metal fans when people like music: 🤬🤬🤬
@@taj1997 You're just assuming this person likes it cause it's trendy when you don't know shit. You don't like when people like what you like 😢
Deftones were nu metal in their early days, something their new fans can't GRAAASP. its not a bad thing at all. adrenaline slaps!
@@2isceez Yeah, but the majority of their work can't really be classified as nu metal. Only their first 2 albums. So they're not a nu-metal band, although they made some great nu-metal songs in the 90s.
white pony selftitled and Saturday night and diamond eyes were all nu metal in spirit - prove me wrong lol
Elite by Deftones
Lying From You by Linkin Park
Got The Life by Korn
My Way by Limp Bizkit
Sic by Slipknot
Determined by Mudvayne
Stricken by Disturbed
Gosh these bands are just incredible. Always apart of my daily soundtrack!
i love elite
Lying from you is my favorite Link Park's song, it has it all.
I’d pick, *“Good God” by KoЯn, “Trust?” By Limp, “Internal Primates Forever” by MuDvAyNe, and “Awaken” by Disturbed,* over the ones you picked. But the deftones, LP, and SlipKnoT, choices were spot on.
You a real g for this list
I respect that Sevendust pick
He’ll yeah. Denial or Praise are my favs
@@TheNewJoshDoyle2023 Waffle is the grooviest though.
Black, Bitch, Face, Bender, Trust, Live Again, Enemy, Honesty, Suffocate, Ugly, Pieces, I dunno I love a lot of Sevendust songs
@@christianwallin4993’Waffle’ is the song I always suggest as a gateway to Sevendust for those unfortunate beings who have not heard of 7D… followed by ‘Angels Son’ which is a most beautiful song.
@@stuartlister2814 Waffle is the gateway Sevendust track. That song is so fucking groovy.
Nirvana and Korn had the biggest impact in the 90's for rock music. Both bands changed the game.
@@Censored4UViaGoogle they definitely are game changers. Their influence is all over metal music that came after it still to this day.
@Gabo xd agreed Korn changed the game entirely but nu metal blew up even more after they started to fade a bit with huge bands coming out like Linkin park,Slipknot,system of a down,etc and deftones blew up even more with Whyte pony after wards as well as Limp bizkit with chocolate starfish
Well said, you definitely proved that you lived through the 90s by making a comment like that Matthew. You are exactly right.
Totally agree. Korn did stuff (throughout their career) that changed not only metal music, but hip hop, electronica, and even mainstream pop. Nu Metal is probably the most mainstream metal genre there will ever be. And they pioneered it, and tried a whole bunch of other stuff too. I love Korn. Brilliant band, but, not without their faults.
yeah, a lot of people don't realize it but korn is actually the spiritual continuation of nirvana in music... but now that i've said it a bunch of light bulbs went off
A place For My Head - Linkin Park.
To me it has everything, scratches, rapping, screaming, heavy guitars.
Hearing it live and having the crowd scream "GO AWAY" will never ever get old.
Live in Texas...best performance of the generation
@@NARKISDUDE Hell yeaaah!!! That show made me wanting to see them live in concert.
Propos for mentioning something that andwer the question plus was not a single
@@Jawnsonproducer 😢
Push It by Static X is a great pick.
Static X being labeled as Nu Metal is a joke.
The Only is much better.
@@labret2 You understand that music is subjective...right?
@@chkchrycla Yeah? What's your point?
@@chkchryclaIt is though, cry about it
Limp Bizkit's "3 Dollar Bill Y'all" was an amazing album; a pillar in the genre.
Most songs from that album would be great contenders for "best Nu Metal song".
Counterfeit!!! You know we figured you out!! Well I’m sick of you too!! FAKE!!! You’re. Counterfeit!
Absolutely one of the most under-rated albums in it's time. Obviously Faith was on there, but the rest of the album was so good.
Korn are the godfathers but limp bizkit did embody the fun of the genre later on but none of these bands would exist without Korn
6:13 A Barbarian Warlord logged into the chat.
If I had to choose 3 songs from the nu-metal era, those would be:
-Stoopid by Snot
-New Wave by Pleymo
-Spit It Out by Slipknot.
But honorable mentions to 7 Words by Deftones, Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit and Dig by Mudvayne. I'm missing so many bands, but those 6 bands represent a lot of the best that the nu-metal era had to offer.
Barely anybody remembers Snot. I remember c their video in the video game Apocalypse w Bruce Willis.
Hellyeah! Snot is badass group. Sad that the singer didn't live longer to continue such an awesome and underrated band RIP Lynn Strait
Well remembered, Snot! I think the 2nd song of the album is the best.
Frenchy here ?
@@silverelovero3260 maybe... Pleymo? I know Pleymo but I'm from Europe, Portugal. I think it was their first album, that i've listen many times. They are truly original. There was another french band, the same style... do you remember their name? And the italian Linea 77. Saw them once... great show.
I would say Blind, its the one that started it all.
you and me both
@@josecabralperez2556 me 3 lol.
and 7 Words by Deftones
6:43 I know exactly what she’s trying to say and I agree with the point she’s making, but I don’t think Daddy is a good example to use for making that point because that is a deep cut that would make sense here in my opinion. Any other noteworthy deep cut from Korn would make sense in that example, except for Daddy.
[Now, by “noteworthy” deep cut, I’m talking about the deep cuts that are not random or one-off or whatever. Because you know there are levels to deep cuts, and like with any established artists, some songs maybe technical deep cuts just for the sake they are not generally known outside the fanbase, but within the fanbase, they have status. Where it’s like some of them are treated, within the fanbase, like the popular hit singles get treated in the general public outside the fanbase. For example, (I’ll use Korn for this example since that’s who this is about), you can look at songs like Freak On Leash or Blind or something, and you see the way they have noteworthy status to the general public (or the Metal/Rock/Alternative community if you prefer it worded that way). They are well known, well regarded, and are just generally the face of “good and/or noteable Korn music”. But then when you step into the hardcore fanbase, you got songs that hold status and recognizability within the fanbase in and of itself, the way their hit songs do outside of the fanbase. I guess you can think of them as the in-house, inner-fanbase versions of what their hit singles are to the rest of the world. Or maybe you can think of them as being the reigning heavyweight songs within the fanbase that their popular songs are outside of the base.]
So on to my point. I don’t think her saying Daddy was a good example used to illustrate the concept or idea of what I just examples. Like I said, any other Korn songs that are deep cuts that hold status in the fanbase would have worked in that example, _except_ for Daddy. Even before it got to that part in the video, I was already considering Daddy as a candidate for receiving this label of greatest Nu-Metal song. I mean yeah it’s not a hit single and isn’t quite as accessible as the big name Korn songs are. But I don’t think that has to be the only way to determine what the greatest of _something_ is. And in the case of the song Daddy, it has a very notorious status, even outside of the fanbase it has a reputation. There’s a lot of people who don’t even know Korn’s music, but they know Daddy. That song’s reputation has it looking like people are out here look at it like it’s it’s the Boogyman of Nu-Metal songs or something. I mean, I’m willing to say that it’s probably most single most _effective_ Nu-Metal song there is. It’s like the granddaddy of all this shit. So in my opinion, the power of that song can hold just as much strength and weight than that of a lot of these more traditional answers are.
Many great nu-metal songs mentioned but the one song that immediately came to mind was 'Blind' by Korn - just captures everything about nu-metal in that one intro for me!
Yup Epic Song. Although stuff like KROQ never played it.
Wouldn't know, not only did I not listen to radio at the time, I'm British 😁
Not saying it's the BEST nu-metal song or even my personal favourite, just immediately where my mind went when I saw the question!
@@gb5721 I know Life is Peachy was big in the U.K. & New Zealand at the time it came out between 1996-1997.
I jammed that while working out today, haven't heard that since middle school. Almost 30 now, and it just pumped me up. Didn't even do my rest just killed my next set with the power of korn.
I have to say I’m HUGELY and happily surprised at the love of Korn and even a mention of Papa Roach. HELL yes.
There were a lot of great bands that came out of, or found fame out of Nu Metal. But when it comes to sheer uniqueness and creativity in music, not just Nu Metal, Korn did stuff (throughout their career) that changed not only metal music, but hip hop, electronica, and even mainstream pop. Nu Metal is probably the most mainstream metal genre there will ever be. And they pioneered it, and tried a whole bunch of other stuff too. I love Korn. Brilliant band, but, not without their faults.
6:11
I cracked up laughing at the end of this part from hearing that the guy was so convinced that limpbizkuit was the one and the best of nu-metal, after he goes on talking about and giving his perspective, then the cool big guy with the mask and the painted face in the middle, simply just says blind from Korn and everybody's like,
Oh, okay. Yeah, forgot about that one.
Totally understandable.
I don't know what the greatest NU metal song is, but I'm sure it was either in LD50 by Mudvayne or S.c.i.e.n.c.e. by Incubus.
I'm so suprised of this comment. Cuz Im a huge nu metal fan and I love the big names and underground bands too but in my opinion death blooms by mudvayne is the best nu metal song ever made.
Mudvayne is king!
Fucking fantastic albums both!
Too difficult to pick just one song, I was a teenager when Nu Metal was big so I screamed my little teenage lungs out to all of it but I want to mention P.O.D's Youth of a Nation for being a beautiful song I will adore from that time.
Nothing wrong with Break Stuff being peoples #1 choice. It’s a relatable song to this day, it’s fun and gets people amped and then the video has amazing cameos.
Does everyone have amnesia and fail to remember Dope? They had some of the best nu-metal songs back then, they don't even get a mention nowadays!
Now or never was awesome. That whole record was pretty great
Dope is awesome as fuck. Sing is probably my favorite song by them.
I had every Dope cd. There first 3 were their prime and my favourites. But I’d gotta go with Felons and Revolutionaries, amazing album
Dope wasn’t Nu Metal tho. They’re industrial.
Love that band though! Everything Sucks, Debonaire, No Way Out, Now Is The Time … so many great songs!
Dope , POD and ill níño, somehow never mentioned while it was highly popular seether,staind,12 stones,puddle of mudd adema, smile empty soul are also pretty forgotten about
Can anyone help me with the sunglasses and jacket that John Baizley is rocking? 1:29
Not a single mention of early deftones? My Own Summer, Bored? Or even P.O.D? Boom or Southtown! Korn, Bizkit, LP, Static X, early Slipknot and Disturbed, SOAD are all perfect candidates too, hard to pick for sure
As far as Deftones goes, they actively tried hard to stay away from the nu-metal label, even declining tour invitations with the big nu-metal acts of the time.
southtown is such a great and underrated song
@@oneandonly_hydro9908 it's an absolute banger!
P.O.D is like OG OG
Incubus- A Certain Shade of Green ,
Snot- Stoopid
Korn- Blind,
Sevendust- Bitch
(hed) pe- Bartender
SOAD- Needles
Mudvayne- Dig
Deftones- My Own Summer
Coal Chamber- Loco
this!
Break Stuff live is phenomenal.
Unless you get killed by a band not giving a shit about the audience
6:40 you're not wrong there
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@@jaygopinath1694 what
Not what happened in Woodstock 94
Linkin Park kinda really got me into music. I don't think I ever paid any attention to music before, but they became a gateway to music for me. They were, still are and will always be my favourite musical artists ever ❤️
Same, One step closer introduced me to western music and I don't think I would have ever gotten into rock music if it wasn't for LP.
Agreed, I was just into random stuff my parents listened to before switching on Kerrang for the first time and hearing LP. Then literally everything changed. Hybrid Theory was my first ever CD.
I am 26, geography teacher, singer... My two favorite bands are Radiohead - and Linkin Park.
I was gonna say if LP are the gateway, I'm hangin at the gate
@@brij4887 one step closer was paint bu numbers trash. I was shocked they stuck around for more than one album.
If you think of all the Nu Metal bands out there, even the ones that started out as Nu Metal but moved away from it later on, Korn is the most enduring, most consistently popular band of them all. They are a relentlessly hard working band.
I can argue with SOAD or Slipk for being more popular but Korn are the best, yeah.
Korn, Slipknot, Godsmack, Disturbed keep putting new albums out! Skillet keeps doing new albums! Let’s not forget Metallica too! They have a new album out or soon to come out!! I believe that truthfully THEY are a HUGE influence on a LOT of these more modern bands! And let’s throw in some Fear Factory for y’all! Shock and Zero Signal are good hard LOUD metal songs!! Not nu metal but just putting it out there for u guys to see
Deftones...
Feels like Break Stuff ran away with it overall and that's a hard one to argue with. Really neat to see the love for that song from so many varied bands.
Linkin Park is a bit of an obvious choice, but a respectable one. Personally, I think most of Linkin Park's early discography is amazing. Hybrid Theory and Meteora are certified classics. It's hard to pick because they were all so influential at the time for the genre and the bands involved. Korn, Linkin Park, Slipknot. All of those bands plus the ones I don't listen to all had a major impact so it's hard to pick a song that is the greatest. I think it's up to personal preference. I'm a Slipknot fanboy, so anything off of Self-Titled, Vol. 3 or hell even Iowa even though Iowa is a bit too hardcore for me.
I will say, some of them talking about mainstream stuff that everyone loved and not saying Linkin Park is just weird to me. LP was the gateway to metal for an entire generation
The seminal Nu-Metal song is "Freak On a Leash" by Korn. That song defines the era.
My top 10:
1. Blind - Korn
2. My Own Summer - Deftones
3. Toxicity - System of a Down
4. Wait and Bleed - Slipknot
5. Dig - Mudvayne
6. Southtown - POD
7. Loco - Coal Chamber
8. Waffle - Sevendust
9. Awake - Godsmack
10. Bodies - Drowning Pool
Dude COAL CHAMBER! you hit me right in the middle school feels.
@ALFRED Comes at 11. lol.
The guy from Suicide Silence (2:10) represented my opinion. Got the Life is the song that made like not only Nu Metal but metal in general. I listen to Black Sabbath and many bands that came after because of Got the Life. But my favorite Nu Metal song is Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park. I know they are the pop Nu Metal band. But this song is amazing in my opinion.
My top nu-metal songs:
My Own Summer - Deftones
Be Quiet and Drive - Deftones
One Step Closer - Linkin Park
Blind - Korn
Break Stuff - Limp Bizkit
Southtown - P.O.D
Praise - Sevendust
Waffle - Sevendust
Before i forget - Slipknot
Duality - Slipknot
New Skin - Incubus
Toxicity - System of a down
Chopseuy - System of a down
Dig - Mudvayne
Roots bloody roots - Sepultura
Falling away from me
This is the best list
At 6:32, glad to see Seven Dust is still doing interviews and such.
Blind/ Nookie/ My Own Summer/ Freak on a Leash.
Linkin park is the reason I started playing guitar 🤟🤟 and One step closer was the first song i heard of them on VH1
This is so wholesome and great. Awesome to see a new generation of rockers express unabashed appreciation for a genre that has been maligned and misunderstood for so long.
Nu-metal? I dunno man. It's just metal to me. Let the horns fly. \m/ \m/
My top 10 Nu-Metal, share yours!
Static X - Bled for Days
Limp Bizkit - Stalemate
Korn - Somebody Someone
Linkin Park - Crawling
Papa Roach - Between Angels and Insects
Sevendust - Denial
Deftones - Headup
Snot - Snot
Disturbed - Facade
Adema - Giving In
Stalemate is such a banger. My pick from LB would actually be Pollution. That album is just amazing
So glad someone mentioned stalemate, genuinely amazing song
Deftones-Lotion
Mudvayne-Internal Primates Forever
Slipknot-Heretic Anthem
Static X-Push It
Limp Bizkit-Take a Look Around
Taproot-Poem
Korn-Clown
Kittie-Spit
System Of A Down-Deer Dance
Karnivool-Lifelike
Static X is INDUSTRIAL, Wayne stated them as Evil disco. metal has been see as evil for years, and disco evolved to all tech/digi, electro, so, thus, INDUSTRIAL.
All of 3 dollar bill yall
"Bring Me to Life" was the definitive nu-metal song for me.
The definitive albums were Meteora and Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park, and Satellite and Fundamentals of Southtown by P.O.D.
Southtown!
I'd probably go with Deftones around that time if I had to pick favorite nu metal.
The connoisseur’s choice
ASIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE!! SHOVE IT, SHOVE IT, SHOVEIT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mine was :
Spit It Out - SlipKnot
One Step Closer - Linkin Park
Sugar - SoAD
Take a Look Around & Nookie - Limp Bizkit
Between Angels & Insects - Papa Roach
For me it’s between: In the End, Freak on a leash, killing in the name, break stuff, my own summer or psychosocial.
In the end is a timeless classic but i think its one of their rock-poppier songs, papercut would be their singnature nu metal hit imo.
@@leoglasmeyer2853 NOPE... Their Nü Metal anthem Definetly Would Be Points Of authority the riffs is sooo Nü
RATM are not a nu-metal band.
The Greatest is Easy, and That's BLIND by Korn
Another pics will be:
Nookie by Limp Bizkit
Stupify By Disturbed
Wait & Bleed By Slipknot
Chop Suey By SOAD
My Own Summer By Deftones
Last Resort By Papa Roach
Bodies By Drowning Pool
Loco by Coal Chamber
What I Always Wanted by Kittie
Southtown by P.O.D.
Nanu By Factory 81
Crawling By Linkin Park
Jump Da F*ck Up By Soulfly
Dig By Mudvayne
Bawitdaba by Kid Rock
Tric By Otep
Solitaire Unraveling By Mushroomhead
Toxic By Crazy Town
Another in the same Package but not in the same Box:
Du Hast By Rammstein
Dragula By Rob Zombie
Rock is Dead By Marilyn Manson
Linchpin By Fear Factory
I'm With Stupid By Static X
When Worlds Collide By Powerman 5000
Closer By NIN
Blue Monday By Orgy
*Like it or not, they are classics*
Here's my entry:
*Sepultura - "Roots Bloody Roots"*
Take it or leave it!
while the roots album can be considered nu metal most people associate Sepultura with thrash and death metal.
Leave it
Thanks
Great song & album, but I love Attitude. Badass Riff!
I’m glad someone mentioned Blind. Gotta be without a doubt the greatest Nu Metal song ever.. and really the first Nu Metal song ever that took the world by storm.. since they created the genre and all.
A close second for me is With You by LP.
Bodies, Falling Away From Me, Papercut, I Walk Alone haha can’t sum it down
6:20 mentions blind by korn and everyone just shuts up and agrees 🤣
Yup no arguments! Lol
Break Stuff is a solid choice. I think Spit It Out got overlooked, but it wasn’t a massive hit either. KoRn are kind of the progenitor band of the genre, so a few of their songs fit well.
Since that era was late middle and early high school for me (well, Meteora was my Jr or Sr year), it’s hard not to get lost in nostalgia. I guess that’s the point though.
Hate people just rag on nu metal. Yes, good chunk of it didn't age well, but you can find plenty of gems in the genre, and it was important to the development of rock and metal as a gateway for many to the genre
Specially the underground/obscure stuff
Hey, just take a look at music today..... we got lucky to experience the last era of good music 😁
There were lots of original and good bands, that were not as huge as SOAD, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Deftones or Slipknot. I was really surprised that Sevendust was mentioned by that dude from Halestorm. Sevendust is a good example of a band that aged really good and had a very unique way of nu metal. Lajon Witherspoon should be given way more credit, that dude is a brilliant singer.
There is also the politics behind it... Journalists bitching that it is mysognistic among other things...
For me personally-
Korn - Got the life
Limp Bizkit - Counterfeit
Linkin park - Faint
Deftones - 7 words
Slipknot - Surfacing
System of a down - Prison song
This video made me kinda sad before I saw this comment 💕
Counterfeit rules and Surfacing is the new national anthem
Counterfeit yes
Also I hadn't heard of Vended and now listening to them so thanks for the hook up!
Gotta agree with Got The Life. That song changed my radio life forever.
When that falling away from me clip would turn up… damn… goosebumps. That setting with the lights in that song, with that groove. Purrrfect!
I'm glad Diamond brought "Daddy" by KoRn up. That's my pick. What a monster of a song, on every level
I can't pick just one because there's so many amazing songs! I gotta say my personal list would be:
1. Korn- Lies
2. Deftones-7 words
3. System of a down- sugar
4. Linkin park- Lying from you
5. Evanescence- Tourniquet
6. Otep- Blood pigs
7. Mudvayne- Nothing to gein
8. Staind- Spleen
9. Disturbed- Voices
10. Coal chamber- Loco
Anyone that's still hating on nu metal in 2023 has to be over the age of 45
Freak on a Leash, Make Me Bad, Here to Stay, Twist
Break Stuff, Rollin, Hot Dog, Faith
Crawling, Points of Authority, Somewhere I Belong
Last Resort, Between Angels and Insects, She Loves Me Not
Satellite, Boom, Sleeping Awake, Goodbye For Now
Prayer, Down With the Sickness, Remember, Land of Confusion
Dig, Death Blooms
Wait and Bleed
I have a hard time with the Nu Metal genre. To me there were three distinct genres that emerged in that time period. You have more heady rock bands with some metal influences but with punchy timing and elements of progressive metal like Godsmack, System of a Down, Static X, Disturbed and slower stuff like the Deftones. Then you had the rap -rock hybrid Linkin Park, POD, Korn and Limp Bizkit then you had the actual metal bands with rap/hip hop influence like Slipknot (really just the first album and a few songs after that) and even I would put bands like Powerman 5000 and Rob Zombie in that genre because while they werent rapping in their music at all they were taking other parts of hip hop and using samples and dance beats etc in their music. Then there was this other genre that I am not sure if you can really call them Nu Metal - like Mudvanye, Puddle of Mud, etc.
I cringe a little when everyone lumps just any new band from that era as Nu Metal, its just too much of a variety of bands to really classify it as a single type.
The first that really came to mind for me was Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit. I'd also have to say Mudshovel/Just Go/Suffocate from Dysfunction by Staind is pretty high on my list.
Staind so underrated fr
I remember Home from staind
Nookie by Limp Bizkit is the track that got me right into Nu Metal, but Rollin' is my all time fav.
Honestly Korn is nu metal but they had that crazy groove in all of their early stuff at that time. It made sense after that interview Jonathan did where he mentioned he always thought they were funky.
Made so much sense after hearing that.
Nu Metal hate is cringe. Just like every genre, there was some bad bands, but also some really great bands. Anyway, really cool to see some Nu-Core bands here, Tetrarch and Bloodywood rules!!
I play Papercut the most but you've also got Back to School (mini maggit) that said, I loved limp bizkit.
I would lean into Korn or Limp Bizket for my top song but i have to give a special shout out to Orgy - Stiches. Not many people would probably even know the song by name but i loved it, also their version of Blue Monday was frickin AWESOME!
Orgy Stitches is awesome!
6:19 “ep-ee-tohm”
I love that Nu Metal is slowly making a comeback and being more of a popular topic now then when Nu Metal was actually popular in the late 90s. Also my favourite Nu Metal song is Kid Rocks Bawitdaba hands down
I was obviously there. I was born in 93 then Korns debut came out the year after. Nu Metal was huge in the late 90s-early 2000s. Every movie soundtrack had at least if not one then a bunch of Nu metal on it (Queen of the damned, Scorpion king, Scream, etc). Video games, even celebrities were in Nu metal bands (Vanilla Ice, Jada Pickett Smith). I didn’t have MTV growing up where I only had MuchMusic and it was getting the same rotation on there. I’m stating it got a lot of flack back then but now those that flacked it are slowly coming around and begrudging that. While those that didn’t flack it like myself who’s a die hard Nu Metal fan I’m happy it’s getting recognition again as it rightfully deserves. It’s a huge gateway for most metal/metalcore bands today
Blink-182 killed the nu-metal
and i'm a LimpKoЯnPark fan 😸😸
@eviegas77 True. 90's was it's heyday & either you lasted like Korn or had to disappear for awhile like LB.
@@frankfurt2812 I despise Blink... All the preppies & jocks at my elementary school liked enema of the state...
teen here. everyone is listening to nu-metal rn
Not saying these are the greatest but few of my favorites in no order
Static-X Permanence
Black and white (The whole Machine album really)
Stem
I'm With Stupid
(Some say Static-X is only industrial but they have nu metal elements throughout their albums)
Linkin park's first 2 albums literally every song. No skips, both 10/10, enough said.
Korn Falling Away From Me
Make Me Bad
Here To Stay
Bottled Up Inside
Hating (The whole Untouchables album really)
SOAD Prison Song
Sugar
Limp Bizkit My Way
Show Me What You Got
Dont Go Off Wandering
Slipknot Spit It Out
I'm glad Halestorm gave Sevendust some love and the dude from Tetrarch with the Sevendust tee. Legendary band, still kind of underrated imo.
Still underrated to this day
Yup saw Tetrarch open for Sevendust like a year ago.
By the time Nu-Metal came about I was already in the Punk/Hardcore phase of my life so naturally i had a disdain for that whole genre... as you would, being a teenager.
I'd have to agree that "Break Stuff" has to be the ultimate Nu-Metal song. Simply because it was by a band that people wanted to hate but the song was pretty fucking awesome.
I wouldn't count Slipknot as Nu-Metal, they just got big at the same time as the genre was taking off. Slipknot is a legitimate metal band despite all the theatrics.
I hesitate to mention Deftones in this category because to me they are a completely different animal. Genres aside, one of the best bands of all time.
Seeing Jordan from BMTH in all these different clips of this interview, he manages to bring up Linkin Park just about every time. I swear we could’ve got a Linkin Park/BMTH tour had things turned out differently
Linkin Park - Crawling/Pushing Me Away
Slipknot - Dead Memories/Wait & Bleed
SOAD - Spiders/Sad Statue
Korn - Hollow Life/Falling Away
Limp Bizkit - Don't Go Off Wandering/Rearranged
Kittie - Charlotte/What I Always Wanted
Deftones - Digital Bath/My Own Summer
311- Beautiful Disaster/Creatures
Orgy - Stitches/Eva
RATM - Bulls on Parade/No Shelter
Adema - The Way You Like It/Giving In
Rammstein - Du Hast/Feuer Frei
Mudvayne - Dig/Not Falling
Rob Zombie - Dragula/Living Dead Girl
Marylin Manson - The Dope Show/Coma White
Powerman 5000 - When World's Collide/Nobodies Real
Hoobastank - Pieces/Crawling In The Dark
Godsmack - Voodoo/Awake
Perfect Circle - Pet/Passive
Otep - Ghost Flowers/Warhead
Disturbed - Voices/Down With The Sickness
Stabbing Westward - Everything I Touch/Wasted
Tool - Sober/Schizm
Alien Ant Farm - Courage/Movies
Evanescence - My Immortal/Wake Me Up
Incubus - Pardon Me/Warning
Ill Nino - How Can I Live/This Time's For Real
Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything About You/Just Like You
POD - Youth of a Nation/Southtown
Honorable Mentions:
Static X - Push It
Drowning Pool - Bodies
CKY - 96 Quiet Bitter Beings
Chevelle - Seeing Red
Deadsy - Gramercy Park
Kid Rock - Bawitdaba
Papa Roach - She Loves Me Not
Staind - Mudshovel
White Zombie- More Human Than Human
Nickleback - This is How Your Remind Me
Trapt - Headstrong
Hollywood Undead - The Natives
Breaking Benjamin - The Diary of Jane
I limited 2 per band cause there's just too many good ones for most of these bands, especially: SOAD, Deftones, Korn, Linkin Park, 311, Orgy, RATM, MM, A Perfect Circle, & Slipknot... and Limp Bizkit =-p "Now this red cap get's a rap from these critics!"
Anybody remember Ill Niño? Probably my favorite nu metal band to this day. All these "Break Stuff" answers are kind of annoying.
I do- Ill Nino had some good stuff and was 100 percent nu-metal
I am loco alone shits on everything lb made but it is what it is
@@hoovy1163 I love I am Loco but Ill Niño has better tunes than that (and so has Limp Bizkit: the 3 dollar bill y'all record is an overlooked masterpiece).
@@fabiozatara i tried early limp bizkit too but i just cant really get into it, sorry. ill nino is better.
Not only is chop suey imo the most unique nu metal masterpiece. It’s also got 1.2 billion views on the music video. Getting over 15% of the world into it is no joke.
More like 1,5%.
@@sm-qw9mj 1.2 bil is exactly 15% of 8 bil
@@V3RT1C0N Which one do you think is more likely? 1. Everyone who has listened to this has done so only once. 2. The people who have listened to and liked the song have listened to it 10 times.
I like Korn's metalic sound. The bass and drums have deep metalic sounds to them in a lot of songs.
Nu Metal Top 3
1. Korn - Got the life
2. Linkin Park - By Myself
3. Deftones - Be quiet and drive far away
Its easy for me to say linkin park will always have a place in my heart as the best, and my favorite nu metal band. I have way to many favorite songs from their discography to choose from but the best song to me has to be Dont Stay.
Nu metal hit right at my late high school years. The genre is so vast, so many different styles mashed into one. I’m a huge Rage Against the Machine and I’ve heard them lumped into Nu Metal. Same with Cypress Hill.
I am surprised nobody said Spit it Out. It's the best one in my opinion, goes super hard and yet it's still groovy.
Last resort is more rap rock
Break stuff is more rap metal
So I'm gonna say falling away from me that breakdown after "fuuuuuuck" makes me tear up everytime it's so powerful especially in the video clip with the kids throwing their fists in the air the dynamics the energy instant chills
I remember being 13 years old walking through junior high and these Korn shirts started to flood the hallways and I wasn't even a metal fan yet. I was a curious cat, checked them out. Within a year my entire music taste changed. To me they really defined that era. Throwing a vote in for Korn - Got the Life.
I turned into a metal fan in the summer of ‘93 thanks to a little band’s classy song: White Zombie- Thunderkiss ‘65. And I was 21
@@David_Theisen definitely a great song!
For me the perfect nu metal songs are Faint, Figure 0.9 and Break stuff, all his sounds represent the fusion between rap metal with a little electro that characterizes nu metal, they're not my favorite but i think they best represent of nu metal
Loved the little bit of spotlight for Sevendust in here. Definitely an under talked about band in that scene.
Break Stuff really is just the numetal pinnacle. Even if I don't think it's the best numetal song
It is peak Nu Metal, and definitely deserves to be in this conversation. It isnt what I would pick because i see Korn as the true progenitors of every element of the genre so to me it has to be a Korn song.
@@markattenborough9107 yeah for me personally it's a tie between Papercut and Blind. But for a wider audience and to answer the question "what song represents what nu metal is about". It's really hard not to go with the bizkit
@@markattenborough9107 adidas probably broke the sound to the mainstream.
@@seanrees97 i gorcha i normall would dig into my Slipknot, Korn, and Deftones love and probably name a song that only diehard fans know...when I got to Diamond from Tetrarch's answer I felt her struggle on a personal level
Blinds what started the official genre and the biggest staple in Nu Metal. For a more wider audience I’d say either Break stuff or Wait and bleed but I’d have to say Break stuff is every element of Nu Metal wrapped in one. Fred’s rapping/red cap, Wes chunky/downtune riffs, Johns drum snares and Lethals scratching
It's Absent by Snot. The finished version that's on the Strangeland soundtrack.
Side note: nothing against the newer metal bands. They are all so pretty now. Do they even party anymore?
1.) Headup
2.) Purity
3.) Got The Life
Ayyyyyy! Bloodywood represent! And karan faithful with LP just gives peace to my soul!
2:10 This guy gets it
Korn- blind.... Simply because it was the first... I remember hearing it on metal nights on KISW 99.9 and thinking. Oh, my God, what the fuck was that?... then I bought the album and forced all of my friends to listen to it.
I'm surprised and happy that Got the Life by Korn is mentioned. Blind by Korn is the most influential Nu-Metal song, but Got the Life is my favorite Korn song and favorite Nu-Metal song in general because it's so unique and fresh even to this day.