Before Limp Bizkit: How Nu Metal Became Pop - Revisited

For a brief moment in the late 90s and early 2000s, Nu Metal ruled the airwaves. 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. However if you were a teenager at the time, nothing else felt like its white-knuckled throat-shredding catharsis. Not only that but the genre fused together many different sonic elements that previously seemed incompatible. But how did we get here? What were the vital steps along the way? And was it really all for the nookie? This is How Nu Metal Became Pop.

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Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.

Soundtrack
Luar - Citrine (https://soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
Jesse Gallagher - The Golden Present
Luar - Anchor (https://soundcloud.com/luarbeats)

00:00 Introduction
01:07 Run DMC
04:05 Beastie Boys
06:15 Faith No More
09:31 Bring The Noise
11:42 Helmet
14:46 90s Hip Hop
18:57 Rage Against The Machine
21:40 Pantera
24:01 Clawfinger
25:29 Korn
28:48 Deftones
31:04 Sepultura
34:15 1997
40:30 1998
45:40 Limp Bizkit

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“They love bands called Snot and Orgy and dress like S&M fans. Welcome to nu metal“ Dave Simpson, The Guardian, Dec 1999
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“7 Things You Didn't Know About System Of A Down's Self-Titled Album” Jon Wiederhorn, Revolver, Jun 2018
“In 1998, rap-rock and nü-metal really did seem like the future” David Anthony, AV Club, Aug 2018
“Oral History of the ‘Judgment Night’ Soundtrack: 1993’s Rap-Rock Utopia” Christopher R. Weingarten, Rolling Stone, Sep 2018
“Korn's Jonathan Davis On Nu-Metal” Jonathan Weiner, Kerrang!, Sep 2019
“Clawfinger im Interview über Konzerte, Kohle und kritische Songtexte” Andreas, Burn Your Ears, Nov 2019
“Dez Fafara: How Coal Chamber saved LA and why nu metal rules” Joe Daly, Metal Hammer, Feb 2020
“Korn break down their debut album track by track” Paul Branigan, Metal Hammer, Oct 2020
“The Story Behind The Song: Bring The Noise by Anthrax and Public Enemy” Joel McIver, Metal Hammer, Nov 2020
“The story of nu-metal in 14 songs” Nick Ruskell, Kerrang!, Aug 2021
“Revenge of The Freaks: How Nu Metal Took Over the World” Dave Everley, Metal Hammer, Sep 2022
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““It was like holding a f**king live wire”: how Rage Against The Machine’s explosive debut album changed everything” Dave Everley, Metal Hammer, Nov 2022
“Run DMC thought Walk This Way would ruin them: instead, it saved Aerosmith” Greg Prato, Classic Rock, Jan 2023
“How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth” Dannii Leivers, Metal Hammer, Aug 2023


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