26 Facts About Nu metal

Nu metal is a subgenre of that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk, industrial, and grunge.

Nu metal bands have drawn elements and influences from a variety of musical styles, including multiple genres of heavy metal.

DJs are occasionally featured in nu metal to provide instrumentation such as sampling, turntable scratching and electronic backgrounds.

Nu metal is one of the key genres of the new wave of American heavy metal.

Nu metal became popular in the late 1990s with bands and artists such as Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and Kid Rock all releasing albums that sold millions of copies.

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Nu metal's popularity continued during the early 2000s, with bands such as Papa Roach, Staind, and P O D all selling multi-platinum albums, and came to a peak with Linkin Park's diamond-selling album Hybrid Theory.

Artists like Grimes, Poppy and Rina Sawayama would integrate nu metal sounds into electronic pop music in the late 2010s and early 2020s.

Nu metal bands have been influenced by and have used elements of a variety of musical genres, including electronic music, funk, gothic rock, hardcore punk, punk rock, dance music, new wave, jazz, post-punk, symphonic rock and synth-pop.

Nu metal bands are influenced by and use elements of genres of heavy metal music such as death metal, rap metal, groove metal, funk metal, and thrash metal.

Nu metal is heavily syncopated and is based mostly on guitar riffs.

Vocal styles used in nu metal music include singing, rapping, screaming and growling.

Lyrics in nu metal songs are often angry or nihilistic; many of the genre's lyrics focus on topics such as pain, angst, bullying, emotional issues, abandonment, betrayal, and personal alienation, in a way similar to those of grunge.

Common accessories in nu metal fashion include wallet chains, tattoos, and piercings, especially facial piercings.

McIver acknowledged Korn as the band that started the new wave of American heavy Nu metal, which is a heavy Nu metal music movement that started in the 1990s.

Nu metal began to rise in popularity when Korn's 1996 album Life Is Peachy peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and sold 106,000 copies in its first week of release.

In 1998, nu metal became one of the most mainstream genres of music when Korn's third album Follow the Leader peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200, was certified 5× platinum by the RIAA, and paved the way for other nu metal bands.

At this point, many nu metal bands were signed to major record labels, and were playing combinations of heavy metal, hip hop, industrial, grunge and hardcore punk styles.

In 1999, Slipknot emerged with an extremely heavy nu metal sound, releasing their self-titled album, which was certified platinum in 2000 and 2× platinum in 2005.

On June 5,2001, Drowning Pool released a nu metal album titled Sinner, which features the song "Bodies".

MTV wrote that nu metal bands were played less frequently on radio stations and MTV began focusing on other musical genres.

In 2004, the popularity of nu metal was gone, and metalcore replaced nu metal as the most prominent heavy metal genre with the success of bands like Killswitch Engage and Shadows Fall.

Nu metal revival began in the mid-2010s, with groups like Blood Youth, Cane Hill Sworn In, DangerKids and Islander.

Some musicians who influenced nu metal have tried to distance themselves from the subgenre and its bands.

Some nu metal musicians have rejected the label nu metal and have tried to distance themselves from it.

Slipknot prefer to distance themselves from other nu metal groups, describing their own music as "metal metal" and equate their link to nu metal as a coincidence of their time of emergence.

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Some nu metal musicians have tried to distance themselves from being heavy metal at all.