Behind The Music: The Origin of Nu Metal
Trash Theory gives us an abridged look at the history of nu metal. Check it out below!
For a brief moment in the late 90s and early 2000s, Nu Metal ruled the airwaves. Bands like Papa Roach, Slipknot, Deftones and Disturbed. With releases such as KoRn's Follow the Leader, Limp Bizkit's Significant Other and Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory, the genre had commercial clout, but critically fared less well. Nowadays the genre is seen as a cultural low point in rock music, a phase that it had to go through but still an embarrassing one.
But to its credit, the genre fused together many different musical elements that had previously seemed incompatible, and moved us closer to the modern musical landscape where genre isn't really a thing anymore. But how did we get here? What steps were vital along the way? And were we ever fully ready for KoRn?