Nu-metal is a tough movement to pin down: Back in the late '90s and early '00s, it was an umbrella term for a strain of rock that grew parallel to the related genre post-grunge, as well as industrial ...

Nu-metal was at its peak in the early 2000s, and this year marks the 20th anniversary for a lot of big records that came out during that time. It seems that the genre may be making a comeback, though, ...

Nu-metal gets such a bad rap, man. It can ultimately be boiled down to the raging toxic masculinity rampant through the genre’s culture in the late ’90s and early 2000s, but still, as a musical art ...

What do the young listeners of Generation Z think of classic nu-metal from the '90s and early 2000s? You know, staple nu-metal acts such as Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and more. That's what the ...

The 6th installment of the Nu-Metal/Loud Rock playlist.This time, we cover everything from industrial aggression to gloomy ...

The first coming of nu metal, as much a subgenre as a suburban raison d'être, both overpromised and overdelivered on its hostile id. The riffs? Sloppy and sloshy. The bass? No less than five strings ...

Now that nu metal is in vogue again and it’s becoming acceptable to admit to having a deep-seated affinity for the long-stigmatized genre, it’s worth pondering what it was about nu metal that was so ...

The ultimate book on one of heavy metal's most successful periods "Nu Metal: A Definitive Guide" revisits the remarkable decade from 1994 to 2004 when mainstream charts, magazines, radio and TV were ...

Snot were cut down in their prime after the death of frontman Lynn Strait. Now they're back and working on new music ...

It’s seems that after months and months of quasi-ironic buzz, the so-called “emo revival” has finally died down. Sure, a handful of the bands that got thrown around in that conversation are pretty ...

Graphic: Matt Patches/Polygon; Source images: Dimension Films; Destination Films; Warner Bros. Pictures; Sony Pictures; New Line Cinema Whether it’s the surprisingly frequent Evanescence covers on ...

It doesn’t matter what I say to defend a band like Korn. I can—and often do—make the claim that they are the most influential rock group of the last 30 years, shaping an arc of experimentation with ...