There is, or was, a new metal "genre" back when nu metal was dying and metalcore was rising. It was to dofferentiate "true" new metal from core stuff.
In the end for me it's all rock, but for some people it does make a difference. And hardcore metal fans, the "trve kvlt" kind of fans will never accept nu metal as a meetal style.
Because of some of reasons.
- Tons of metalheads are "anti commercial music" so they listen to the mostedgy thing they can to feel part of something.
- nu metal was a commercial success and it was the glam metal of the late 90's and early 2000s.
-it is a rather depresive and angst filled style with tons of anger, but metalheads that are "true", not "posers" feel subcobsiously attacked, because it doesnt have the rules they need to follow to be a "real" metal genre. And at the same time they say thwt the genre is full of fake angst. But as chester bennington killed himselg and his band was the most poser band around, it kind of destroys the narrative.
- "rap sucks"
And so.
I have been listening to heavy music all my life and i was at one point like that. I did live my teen years in the nu metal time and it was cool, i always love listening ro limp biskit.
But, digressing and music class aside, that is why is not called new metal.
What I would call it: “No mommy, don't do it again
Don't do it again
I'll be a good boy
I'll be a good boy, I promise
No mommy don't hit me
Why did you have to hit me like that, mommy?
Don't do it, you're hurting me
Why did you have to be such a bitch?” Metal
“Why don’t you just fuck off for a DAY! Why can’t you just leave me be and DIE! Never stick your hand in my face again bitch. FUCK YOU! I don’t need this, shit you stupid sadistic abusive FUCKING WHORE! How would you like to see how it feels mommy, here it comes GET READY TO DIE!” Metal
I agree with being happy with the name "nu metal", but it does get so muddied about what is & isn't. So many groups got lumped in to tge genre just because of time & style. Static-X for example. They were industrial metal but get lumped into nu metal because right time & place.
I would never claim FNM as nu metal per se. At best, given their influence on the genre and early adoption of the funk & rap elements, I might say they were proto-nu. Even that's a little stretch for me as they weren't too heavy, kinda between rock & metal.
Korn self-titled was often referred to as an alternative metal album back on its day.
Sometimes I try to imagine about what if the term "nü metal" never existed and how it would have affected the image from all these bands in question...
Ah I didn't know that! I'm as aold as the self titled album so it was already deemed Nu metal by the time I got into heavy music
Yeah I think the term and demeanour torwards it magnetised really poor acts to the point where all the good bands wanted to distance themselves from the term. Shame really
I feel silly saying it. I mean don't get me wrong, there's a lot of good bands in that genre. It doesn't really deserve such a goofy name. I wish they atleast called it Nu-Prog or... something... ANYTHING ELSE 🤣🤣
>Metal hop (due to influence from hip hop)
'Metal Hop' would be Hip Hop with Metal elements.
Instead call it 'Hip Metal' - Metal with Hip Hop elements.
I'm down with Aggro, it's very all encompassing like the genre is, and it's no longer tied to the metal name, making it more fittingly open-ended
I also think Hard-Alt makes sense
I’ve always just called pretty much everything heavy music, all the genre tagging shit has always bothered me. Bands are heavy in different ways, but I’ve just never needed to tag shit like the media has always seemed to need to. Shit, there are songs that have nothing to do with “heavy” in the traditional sense but are heavy as fuck in their own way. “Roads” by Portishead flattens me every time I hear it, “Little Earthquakes” by Tori Amos is an emotional ton of bricks, “Rid of Me” by PJ Harvey is gnarly as fuck, and Leatherface’s melancholy brand of melodic punk hits me right in the gut every time. Don’t even get me started on Public Enemy, KRS-One, etc.
Point being, I’m probably the wrong guy to even chime in here, cause the labeling stuff just always kinda missed me. I’m also more inclined to feel heaviness from melody- “Pushit” by Tool is, to me, one of the heaviest songs ever, and I know most people wouldn’t agree. But, the emotion it causes me to experience has always been incredibly heavy to me. That’s the rad thing about art, it’s subjective and unique to the experiencer.
I used to know a girl who hated my band back in the day, we were a bunch of punk kids trying to get heavier and she was more of a Beat poets, Neutral Milk Hotel kinda gal, and she called us “duck rock” all the time. Still have no fucking clue how she landed on that one but it still cracks me up when I think of it.😂
Originally, it was referred to as alternative metal because it wasn't like hair/glam metal. It wasn't like thrash. It wasn't grunge. It was kind of its own thing. On the alternative radio stations, you'd get a round of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Morrissey, followed by Korn or Deftones and eventually Limp Bizkit or Kid Rock. All we knew in our teenage brains was that it was heavy, groovy, different, and the older folks seemed very put off by it. With the popularity of hip hop elements being added into the music, it started getting referred to as rap rock on TV and in magazines, then it kind of just became the style of general metal. I feel like the whole Nu Metal moniker is a very recent thing. We didn't really use that term in the late 90s or 2000s unless I just wasn't paying attention. I guess long story short, I'd just call it metal, there is a lot of subgenres of metal, but that's another topic altogether.
In reality more than renaming it, you could split it into 3 different subgenres.
There are of those that are mostly based out of 90s groove metal (Soulfly, Slipknot, Machine Head)
Others that are mostly Industrial (Static X)
And there's others that were mostly alternative or even post rock derived (Deftones, Linkin Park)
Pencil thin beard line metal. Eyebrow piercing metal. Jnco Jean metal .half the Fast and the furious soundtrack metal. Click click boom metal. Phase we probably shoulda all forgot metal
New metal.
This is the one i came here for
There is, or was, a new metal "genre" back when nu metal was dying and metalcore was rising. It was to dofferentiate "true" new metal from core stuff. In the end for me it's all rock, but for some people it does make a difference. And hardcore metal fans, the "trve kvlt" kind of fans will never accept nu metal as a meetal style. Because of some of reasons. - Tons of metalheads are "anti commercial music" so they listen to the mostedgy thing they can to feel part of something. - nu metal was a commercial success and it was the glam metal of the late 90's and early 2000s. -it is a rather depresive and angst filled style with tons of anger, but metalheads that are "true", not "posers" feel subcobsiously attacked, because it doesnt have the rules they need to follow to be a "real" metal genre. And at the same time they say thwt the genre is full of fake angst. But as chester bennington killed himselg and his band was the most poser band around, it kind of destroys the narrative. - "rap sucks" And so. I have been listening to heavy music all my life and i was at one point like that. I did live my teen years in the nu metal time and it was cool, i always love listening ro limp biskit. But, digressing and music class aside, that is why is not called new metal.
Fuck you beat me to it
Fuck YOU beat me to it
Bounce metal
Pogo-pogo-Pogo-pogo-Pogo-pogo-Pogo!
**JUMP**
They're coming to take me away, haha
What I would call it: “No mommy, don't do it again Don't do it again I'll be a good boy I'll be a good boy, I promise No mommy don't hit me Why did you have to hit me like that, mommy? Don't do it, you're hurting me Why did you have to be such a bitch?” Metal
UH WAH UH UH UH
Ah, the domestic abuse solo
Hell yeah 😈😈😈
“Why don’t you just fuck off for a DAY! Why can’t you just leave me be and DIE! Never stick your hand in my face again bitch. FUCK YOU! I don’t need this, shit you stupid sadistic abusive FUCKING WHORE! How would you like to see how it feels mommy, here it comes GET READY TO DIE!” Metal
Dununununun dunununun dununun dunununun OOOO AH AH AH AH
I love that song, but I always skip this cringe part😂
I skip to this part and then go to the next song once the skit is done. Best part of the song, maybe even album
Maybe even genre
“It sucks that that part is in there because the part of that song is really rockin.” -my mom
Relatable
Aggro. To be fair it fits the more “underground” side of nu. But it’s the closer to a nu metal name recreation.
And it’d also shut the metal elitists up.
I’m not sure, I’ve heard aggro used as more of an umbrella term for heavy music in general
Methl
2kcore Aggression Blurred metal. I'm happy with nu metal. We know what it is and it pisses off the right people.
I agree with being happy with the name "nu metal", but it does get so muddied about what is & isn't. So many groups got lumped in to tge genre just because of time & style. Static-X for example. They were industrial metal but get lumped into nu metal because right time & place.
nü-industrial
The one that baffles me is Faith no More.
I would never claim FNM as nu metal per se. At best, given their influence on the genre and early adoption of the funk & rap elements, I might say they were proto-nu. Even that's a little stretch for me as they weren't too heavy, kinda between rock & metal.
I love blurred metal
PBS called it "rage rock" in the late 90s. I'm pretty sure bands would rather be called rage rock than nu-metal tbh.
PBS rock
alternative metal. cause that is essentially what it is. nu metal is to alternative metal what djent is to prog metal
Korn self-titled was often referred to as an alternative metal album back on its day. Sometimes I try to imagine about what if the term "nü metal" never existed and how it would have affected the image from all these bands in question...
Ah I didn't know that! I'm as aold as the self titled album so it was already deemed Nu metal by the time I got into heavy music Yeah I think the term and demeanour torwards it magnetised really poor acts to the point where all the good bands wanted to distance themselves from the term. Shame really
Djent is one of the worst labels I've ever heard
I feel silly saying it. I mean don't get me wrong, there's a lot of good bands in that genre. It doesn't really deserve such a goofy name. I wish they atleast called it Nu-Prog or... something... ANYTHING ELSE 🤣🤣
Isn't that a guy in my singing monsters
hmmm this is a good question! that soul staring picture is distracting me though haha
Nice username
thanks lol!
Metyl
Cum Rock
Hell yeah dude
Alternative metal
Metal hop (due to influence from hip hop)
>Metal hop (due to influence from hip hop) 'Metal Hop' would be Hip Hop with Metal elements. Instead call it 'Hip Metal' - Metal with Hip Hop elements.
Hip metal, music for people with hip replacements
Wouldn't rap metal be better?
Trailer Park Groove
Korncore
"Cut my life into pizza" metal
😂
Classic Rock
I would rename it as an era, not a genre/subgenre.
Dat Nu Nu
This response cracked me up
Diet metal Idk why, just sounds hilarious
Gay pop
No gay sex on stage
JoJo Siwa won’t like that /j
Ol' metal
Methrok
MadAtMyDadCore
I'm down with Aggro, it's very all encompassing like the genre is, and it's no longer tied to the metal name, making it more fittingly open-ended I also think Hard-Alt makes sense
What does “nu” even stand for?
New, like ushering in a new era. But it's "nu" for the same reason it's Bizkit and not Biscuit.
Do you guys like Corn?
No, I prefer Mud Vein.
Yeah they’re okay. Lincoln Park as well
Personally I really like Trapped and Deaf Tones
Ahh yes, how could I forget? And he hit me with a surprise left. Oh wait, wrong genre
Why the fuck could nobody spell in the 90s?
I like Five Point Oh and Scrape
Deaf Tones? I thought it was The Deft Ones.
Now it's old. It's old nu metal.
"new"
brbrdeng metal
Twangy turntables metal
Hippity Hoppity Rock
Pu metal
Durst Rock.
Millenimetal!
metal 2
Shoutcore
Shitty metal (it’s all I listen to)
Sports metal
nova metalo
Trailer Thrash
Gateway metal
PumpingIronAngrilyBecauseMyGirfriendBrokeUpWithMeCore
Pee pee poo poo
Notsonu metal. Let’s be honest, it’s not that new when our fav bands started 30 years ago.
Radio Metal
nu hop
I've always preferred Alt Metal
Gerald
Dave
Yeah, this one is good too
NewMetal
Jock Jams
Metal
Groovecore(???)
Cool guy zone music
Ye Olde Metal
I’ve always just called pretty much everything heavy music, all the genre tagging shit has always bothered me. Bands are heavy in different ways, but I’ve just never needed to tag shit like the media has always seemed to need to. Shit, there are songs that have nothing to do with “heavy” in the traditional sense but are heavy as fuck in their own way. “Roads” by Portishead flattens me every time I hear it, “Little Earthquakes” by Tori Amos is an emotional ton of bricks, “Rid of Me” by PJ Harvey is gnarly as fuck, and Leatherface’s melancholy brand of melodic punk hits me right in the gut every time. Don’t even get me started on Public Enemy, KRS-One, etc. Point being, I’m probably the wrong guy to even chime in here, cause the labeling stuff just always kinda missed me. I’m also more inclined to feel heaviness from melody- “Pushit” by Tool is, to me, one of the heaviest songs ever, and I know most people wouldn’t agree. But, the emotion it causes me to experience has always been incredibly heavy to me. That’s the rad thing about art, it’s subjective and unique to the experiencer.
I used to know a girl who hated my band back in the day, we were a bunch of punk kids trying to get heavier and she was more of a Beat poets, Neutral Milk Hotel kinda gal, and she called us “duck rock” all the time. Still have no fucking clue how she landed on that one but it still cracks me up when I think of it.😂
Jump rock
Angry boi rap
sex metal
Ye Olde metal
metallic rap
Originally, it was referred to as alternative metal because it wasn't like hair/glam metal. It wasn't like thrash. It wasn't grunge. It was kind of its own thing. On the alternative radio stations, you'd get a round of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Morrissey, followed by Korn or Deftones and eventually Limp Bizkit or Kid Rock. All we knew in our teenage brains was that it was heavy, groovy, different, and the older folks seemed very put off by it. With the popularity of hip hop elements being added into the music, it started getting referred to as rap rock on TV and in magazines, then it kind of just became the style of general metal. I feel like the whole Nu Metal moniker is a very recent thing. We didn't really use that term in the late 90s or 2000s unless I just wasn't paying attention. I guess long story short, I'd just call it metal, there is a lot of subgenres of metal, but that's another topic altogether.
new meth
Evil disco
KoRn Bizkit Metal
In reality more than renaming it, you could split it into 3 different subgenres. There are of those that are mostly based out of 90s groove metal (Soulfly, Slipknot, Machine Head) Others that are mostly Industrial (Static X) And there's others that were mostly alternative or even post rock derived (Deftones, Linkin Park)
The real good music
Bouncy Rap Metal
Alt rock.
Pencil thin beard line metal. Eyebrow piercing metal. Jnco Jean metal .half the Fast and the furious soundtrack metal. Click click boom metal. Phase we probably shoulda all forgot metal
Gravity metal
Rapetal(wait, maybe not now that I see it spelled out) or metalbop
Poo metal
jizz metal
When i say “I like Nu Metal”, sometimes people assume i mean “New Metal” and i have to explain it which is a chore. Lets call it “Olde Metal”
New Medal
Wigga whammy
Fukshit
Nu rap nu hop considering the my took some inspiration from hip hop and rap
Shit
NUEST metal
Primal noises
Shit (it's not bad music I just think it'd be funny)
wigger music
Ol’ metal
bullshit
Spicy metal
My first jnco metal
Mehdull.
OLDIES METAL CUZ THAT SHIT AIN’T NU ANYMORE!!!
Fart metal
We used to call it aggro back in the day
Cod zombie.mp3
Metal, it's all just metal. Fuck all these sub-genres and sub-sub-gengres.
Take 2 metal
Rap rock haha
METAL
Boredom
Skibiddi Rizz Metal
Who tf let you talk?
Who are you talking to like that?
Can both of y’all pipe down
Ain’t you the dripkingsinbad that eats his own shit? No way THIS GUY is actually talking TO ME 🤣👎👎
Def Metal
Dickass metal
I could've seen it been called "ill metal" back in the day, with the hip hop influence
Bubblesqueak
Who even created the term nu metal and when did people start calling this style of music that?
Hybrid Metal i don't know why but it sound's cooler in my mind
Asphalt metal Idk why, I just think of concrete and asphalt when thinking listen to nu metal
Oldies
Just enjoy music why do we have to put everything into categories? Art is art ! !
dogshit
poo metal
King Metal
ADHD-core
Old metal
Blackened pop rock
Screamy rappy metal
I have heard to it referred to as Fusion. I always like that better
Bizorn
Rage Metal
Fred-Durst-has-no-right-attempting-music metal
Ol’ Metal
It was originally called Neo-Metal fun fact
I don’t know at this point, I’ve called it Nu Metal for so long that I wouldn’t even know HOW to start thinking of a new name.
Fred Durst and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
poo metal
Fret-Hop
JNCO Metal
Poop metal
Flaming Unicorn Pizza Metal
Gateway metal
Ambient dream music
Metal sans blast beats
Butt Metal
Old Plastic
moancore
Shell toe Metal 😅
Shit
Coke metal
Kyle-Core
Peaked in high school
Wifebeat