Best & WORST Nu Metal Albums RANKED (From 1999)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ค. 2024
- Today, we're diving into the heart of nu metal, revisiting the legendary albums that set the stage for the genre in 1999. Get ready for some serious nostalgia as we rank these albums in a tier list showdown!
From the angst-filled anthems to the headbanging riffs, 1999 was a pivotal year for nu metal, with bands pushing boundaries and breaking molds like never before. Will Korn's "Issues" reign supreme with its raw emotion and infectious hooks? Or perhaps Slipknot's self-titled debut will claim the top spot with its chaotic energy and brutal honesty. And let's not forget about Limp Bizkit's "Significant Other," a record that catapulted them into mainstream success while dividing opinions among fans.
00:00 Intro
00:16 Korn - Issues
01:02 Crazytown - The Gift Of The Game
01:51 Sevendust - Home
02:31 POD - The Fundamental Elements Of Southtown
03:12 Machinehead - The Burning Red
04:11 Staind - Dysfunction
04:48 Dope - Felons And Revolutionaries
03:39 Static X - Wisconsin Death Trip
06:20 Methods Of Mayhem - Methods Of Mayhem
07:27 Coal Chamber - Chamber Music
08:14 Mushroomhead - M3
09:07 Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
10:13 Powerman 5000 - Tonight The Stars Revolt
11:29 Puya - Fundamental
12:11 Slipknot - Slipknot
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I was at an Ozzfest somewhere , Crazytown played and was getting booed . Their singer Shifty grabbed the mic and said " Ok ....Ok..... when I say "WE" , you say "SUCK" .......Shifty -WE !!!!!! Crowd - SUCK !!!!!!!!! Then the call and response ensues until actually everybody having fun again . I respect that move . What else could you do though ? LOL But if you look at it one way , seems like the crowd is saying 'they" suck !
lol. Yeah seems like a safe assumption.
Crazy town is a guilty pleasure of mine. I know they aren’t good…but it brings me back to 1999
Static X at "Perfection"...excellent choice.
What a year. Was also a huge year for movies.
a really bad year for music
But, this is about music ... NOT MOVIES
@@cwrichardson3 who F cares about movies!
Yeah, one of the all time great movie years.
1999 and 2000 were stacked years for nu metal. Looking forward to seeing this video and anymore.
I’m glad you put Static X in perfection, I still listen to it regularly.
Nu metal is a great gateway into other subgenres
You should do a video of all the pre-cursor albums from years (1994-1998) love the video so far
I definitely will.
The debut Sevendust album will always be their most banger to me. It had a heaviness and sound i feel they never quite matched.
I never heard of Puya, until I saw it listed in this video. Thanks for the music discovery that completely slipped from my radar, during the nu metal years.
I hope you plan on doing the year 2000 as well because that year was stacked!
@@erorufurakku6378 I love Hybrid Theory but L.D. 50 by Mudvayne is my absolute favourite from that year and one of my favourite albums period. I still jam that record on the regular to this day.
@@LurchyScottAlso has The Height of Callousness by Spineshank, Vapor Transmission by Orgy, Violence by Nothingface, Introduction to Mayhem by Primer 55 and many other great records.
@@talesxavier5752 The Height Of Callousness is such a fucking banger of a record although I think I like Strictly Diesel a bit more.
Good idea
I can't believe you mentioned Puya. it's like no one is aware of this album. I _loved_ it and saw them at Snocore in 1999 with mr bungle, SOAD and incubus. so good.
I've been meaning to listen to them for a while.
Great takes! Had most of these albums growing up. Didn’t realize that Sevendust album was so acclaimed, going to have to give that a 20 year later listen 😅
I appreciate the open minded approach to these albums, I agree with the list as a whole... but would push POD and MH up one spot each. Love the channel man!!
Nice list, dude! 🙂
Bring on the nu metal albums from 2000 video.
Friend of mine played guitar for Powerman 5K in the late 2000s so I'll always have a soft spot for them. When Worlds Collide was a great song.
Issues, Home, Chamber Music, Significant Other and Slipknot is the golden standard albums for a Nu Metal.
Even if I dislike this subgenre in general, I'll admit that there is some AWESOME hidden gems you can find.
Would be interesting to see heavy metal albums from the 1980-1989
Coal Chambers first and 3dollar Bill y'all is way better than the second albums
@@infinidominionI don’t like Coal Chamber, but I gotta agree with you on 3 Dollar Bill Yall$
@@dostwood5103 yeah, I don't know if anything after the first album is worth listening to, which is actually so common with many bands, it's known as the sophomore curse
@@infinidominion Oh wait you’ve never even listened to Significant Other? You’ll never know until you give it a shot, man!
Issues is the entry level Korn album that most people start with but it's Follow The Leader that was their magnum opus.
As for Sevendust, my favorite band, you can't make a more perfect album than Animosity. As good as Home was, Animosity usurped it. One of the best albums ever made.
And how can we be talking about gold standard nu-metal albums and not mention Deftones? Around The Fur? White Pony? Even Adrenaline? C'mon, absolute staples.
Coal Chamber and Limp Bizkit have no business even being mentioned as the gold standard of anything but that's just me.
Please do more of those. And if you are able to, you could also do Metalcore Albums ranked by year as well
Great year for nu-metal (and amazing year for hip hop) and I love or like like half this list. It's amazing to how nu-metal is this description of a sound but it ranges so differently. From System of a Down to Korn to Deftones to Slipknot to Static-X... ect Random idea: considering Marilyn Manson is coming out with new music and just signed to Nuclear Blast, seeing a ranking up to the release of the 2024 album would be cool!
Shout out to you for putting Puya on the list. I used to listen to that start to finish just as much as the Slipknot album.
Freak on a leash was the first metal song I ever heard on MTV2 (back when it played music) and the first album I bought was Issues! Hands down my fondest memory of buying anything ever! That album opened the door to everything I listen to today 🤘🤌
Dude, I'm so happy to see someone acknowledge Puya Fundamental! I think it's a great record, But I'm Puerto Rican, that shit hit HARD so I'm biased! They were doing what Sep did with Brazilian tribal music, but they went deeper. Salsa, Seis, Bomba etc. It's all very busy and dense rhythmically and instrumentally. You can't just jump into it and get it right away. It can be overwhelming even though it's rooted in dance. A lot of people slept of this record, and I can see why to a degree. People aren't really exposed to actual Rican music and culture outside of generic movie and TV scenes with NY Hispanics, which isn't representative of the Island. They are somewhat polar opposite styles. So, for them to blend it so well to me was amazing, but I can see how people were puzzled because all of it is very unexpected. Especially on songs like Solo, which is just straight Island Salsa with a hard middle. You did music as an art, so I think if you were to take a quick dip into the waters of it, Fania All Stars, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Hector Lavoe's signature song El Cantante, all surface level artists, if you were to give a brief listen and read about them and then then go back to Fundamental from a new angle and perspective it would hit different and you'd dig how special and unique it still is even after all these years. This brightened my day to see this record get some love! Def do a 98, 97 vid, Cheers!
Great tier list. And kudos for not giving a fuck to haters, Nu Metal might not be for everyone but it's very important and has a lot of bangers throughout the years.
so happy u put issues for perfection. ❤ First Metal Cd I owned. My mum bought for me while I was in 7th grade😅😅
Neat ranking. Not sure where I would put these rankings myself, since I'm not super familiar with these albums.
But anyways, something I've been curious about is if you wanted to do more vocalists rankings, I know of the "Yarl" ranking, but I'd be curious how you would rank Nu-Metal vocalists (and others), since you have said there's a lot of unique voices in the genre.
Also, if you want a Nu-Metal album recommendation, while the band itself isn't Nu-Metal, Finger Eleven's "Greyest of Blue Skies" I've heard from a few people is very underrated. Just my two cents.
One thing that can be said about nu-metal is that it deffently marked an era of metal evolution. And a great one at that! Yes, it had its cheesy moments, but so does every era of metal. The 80s had dudes dressed like cheerleaders with armor made from air-conditioner units, and every 90s DM band had a "great value" charles manson thing going on, but the music still holds to this day. I think some of the bands like "Slipknot," "coal chamber," and" korn" made some good stides to remain relevant with their sound while other bands mostly faded out.
I had a bunch of these back in the day and they were definitely my gateway to what I would eventually listen to today.
Issues is a 10/10 album. LOVE that album
I tend to think it’s their most overrated.. It was a clear change in their sound and approach, but not in a good way.. Ex drummer David Silveria came out years ago saying that they relied more on pro tools, on that album, and it limited them in the writing department (less odd riff transitions, no more random tempo push and pulls, etc).. That’s what made the first 3 albums so special.. Issues was Korn dumbed down, even if it did still have some good tracks
Also please do more and please do the machine head tier list one day lol
Even though nu metal pretty much got me into metal in general, I don't listen to nu metal that much at all these days. But when I do hear a song or two from any nu metal bands it brings back that sweet sensation of nostalgia of the days when I was a teen.
Dude I promise I will watch this whole video but I needed to pause for a few minutes bc the beginning had my dying. The way "drugs" was delivered was masterful lol
I have respect for nu metal as I wouldn't have got into more extreme metal without it. This year is where it really started to hit it's stride. I've heard most of these albums and here's how I'd rank them:
S - Korn - Issues, Sevendust - Home, Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip, Slipknot - Self-titled
A - POD - The Fundamental Elements of Southtown, Staind - Dysfunction, Powerman 5000 - Tonight the Stars Revolt!
B - Dope - Felons and Revolutionaries, Mushroomhead - M3
C - Machine Head - The Burning Red, Coal Chamber - Chamber Music
D - Methods of Mayhem - Self-titled, Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
F - Crazy Town - The Gift of Game
Good tier list!
As a younger metalhead and someone who got into nu metal last year, the only ones I go back and listen to are Issues, Death Trip, Slipknot self titled, and Fundamental by Puya. I think Puya is a really cool and underrated band.
I really like a handful of songs from Significant Other, but I’m not really a fan of the songs with Fred Durst’s signing like Re-arranged. 3 Dollar Bill Yall$ is my favorite Limp Bizkit album believe it or not lol.
And yeah that Crazy Town album is by far the worst lol. That Machine Head album is pretty awful too.
Your choices for KoRn & Slipknot in 'perfection' would be the same as mine 🤘😎🤘
Not often you hear a Staind album described as ‘Amazing’
This is true
@@MetalTrenches r.i.p. Jon Wysocki
Their new cd is pretty decent
🙏🙏
Didn't see Kittie mentioned. I would consider Spit as nu metal w/ grunge and alternative elements. They shifted away from this style starting with their second album and became more of a mid tempo groove metal band over the years, but I think the debut deserves a mention as among the stronger releases from this genre. Btw, I'm strictly referring to the music and not the fact that they were all high school girls at the time. Although admittedly that is what helped put them on the map.
Man i had forgotten about so many of these
Saw Machine Head on the Burning Red tour and Slipknot around that time. Both absolutely rabid gigs. No phones 😁
Machine was my Static-X intro (which I’d personally put above Wisconsin). Had lots of other bands from Kerrang! Compilations around that time. One Minute Silence, Spineshank, Kill II This, Psycore, Earthtone 9, Pitchshifter…
Great times as I’d started to branch out from thrash and traditional, dipping my toe into death and nu metal.
I’d love to see more of this series!
Looks like a decent list, I would have Issues and Slipknots self titled a level above the competition personally. Maybe have chamber music a touch lower, Coal Chamber I don't think have really aged well and I think it's a big step down from the self titled
I cannot help but giggle when the guy in a skull mask calls things corny. Have a sub and keep it up! And were those mail in CDs a scam? I think I always scammed them.
Limp Bizkit still holds up and that shit was gold back in 99. I had some 15's in the trunk of my Eclipse and would rattle buildings jamming that one.
perfection in my opinion: Slipknot 1999, Korn 1994, Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
I hope you do the other years of the sub genre’s heyday too!
Perfection, Fantastic and Amazing I wholly agree with. Everything else I wouldn't argue with but also don't care enough about those bands to bother 👍🏻
That Puya albums kicks ass I would put it higher
I immediately knew you were gonna put Slipknot self titled in S Tier
Of course.
Who wouldn’t?
Albums that charted on billboard 200 on this list:
The Burning Red - no .88/200
Issues - no .1/200
Significant Other - no .1/200
Methods of Mayhem - no .73/200
Wisconsin Death Trip - no .107/200
Home - no .19/200
Dysfunction - no .74/200
Tonight the Stars Revolt! - no .29/200
The Fundamental Elements of Southtown - no. 54/200
The Gift of Game - no. 9/200
Slipknot - no. 51/200
Chamber Music - no. 22/200
Yep. A VERY interesting time for mainstream music.
P.O.D.'s cover of U2 "Bullet the Blue Sky" is one of my all time favorite cover songs
I prefer Sepultura's version
1997 to 2003 was the peak of the Nu-Metal genre.
Yes! And it's entire lifespan
@@DavidQuessynah its 94-08 yes! NÜ Metal still exist in 2004-08 and actually it never really gone since since those era till now NÜ Metal still exist no matter if its underground
@@GregKhar-NU-Metalhead2000 I would say Nu-Metal’s lifespan was from 1992 to 2004.
1992 to 1997 in the underground, 1997 to 2003 in the mainstream, 2003 to 2004 in the underground again and it died in 2004.
@@DavidQuessy I would say Nu-Metal’s lifespan was from 1992 to 2004.
1992 to 1997 in the underground, 1997 to 2003 in the mainstream, and 2003 to 2004 in the underground again, and it died in 2004.
@@GregKhar-NU-Metalhead2000this happens with all genres of music, none of them dies.
1999 was my introduction to the heavier genres of metal. I saw Korn's performance of Blind from Woodstock 99, and was hooked. Slipknot, Significant Other and Issues were true staples of my middle and high school years. Issues is one of those Nu-Metal albums I feel still hods up, whereas Significant Other is preparing me not to give my son flack for the music he will like as a a teenager. Having said that, Significant Other still has a few gems on it.
Wisconsin Death Trip is a solid record. Perfect mix and production. It still gets me moist
Ads playing at the moment. This should be fun!
This will take me back to high school lol
S: Korn, Sevendust, Limp Bizkit
A: Powerman 5000, Static X, Slipknot
B: Staind, Coal Chamber, Puya
C: POD, Mushroomhead
D: Machine Head, Dope
F: Mathods of Mayhem, Crazy Town
While I would say Wisconsin Death Trip is more Industrial, I can see why it gets lumped into Nu Metal.
Please, when you reach 2001, put God Hates Us All in the list and thumbnail just for the ragebait
I love that album. I get why people dont, but man, you throw that on for a workout or a going to work highway driving session and its killer.
@@imawesomeyourenot I like it too, I just want the entertainment
I vividly remember sitting on my friends porch having just bought Slipknot at a local record store which is still around! I played it for my friends and we were all like "Damn these guys are PISSED!" who would have imagined 25 years later that they would be the biggest metal band on the planet?? 🤯
I'm 47 lifelong Metalhead started listening to Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Deadhorse about 35 years ago and Nu Metal made Metal more acceptable for other groups cuz when I was coming up Headbangers they called us we're always looked at as trashy long-haired freaks Nu metal definitely change that I don't watch many TH-cam videos respect your opinion on metal, you definitely brought back some Nostalgia with Methods of Mayhem LOL Keep Rocking,
🤘🏻
I've always loved how hard pm5k committed to the whole trashy 70's sci-fi b-movie aesthetic. That album was the epitome of 1999 for sure.
I prefer the previous album myself. More unique sounding IMO.
Awesome
Aaahhhh yea. The most debated of all genres that is still fun here and there. Also RIP Jon Wysocki
Dysfunction is fantastic!
For a good while Nu Metal bands all had to have an ironic 80s song turned heavy ! LOL ! You should do a list of those tracks ! Wait Finn needs that topic . Yeah lets give that one to Finn . You got your own thing going .
Burning Red is massively underrated.
Dark Days was definitely the best CC album.
If it wasn't for slipknot I would have never gotten into death metal. Definitely my gateway band
My wheel house, not afraid to admit, I was 18.
The Burning Red is criminally underrated in my opinion. I love that album. Desire to Fire, From This Day, The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears, Exhale The Vile, I Defy, Silver, Five, Nothing Left such great songs. I even enjoy the Message in the Bottle cover. Not as good as the original but I like it. The Burning Red is fn awesome. 🤘
And while it's not as strong imo. I also enjoy 2001's Supercharger.
Omg yes Puya!!! I used to work with a guy who knew them who described them "fucking crazy". Love Love these guys, check out their other releases
Hey metal trenches are you awhere of a band called reveille they had a album out in 1999 called laced then one in 2001 called bleed the sky which was more main stream laced was raw and underground . (Also alot of people dont know staind had another album before dysfunction called tormented do you know that one its my favorite album by them) . Ps check out a band called nothingface they were awesome
Sometimes I forget that all these albums came out in 1999 AND Tony Hawk’S Pro Skater.
What a time to be alive!
Yeah, I feel like a deeper dive is needed here. I was neck deep in Nu-metal at that time and most of these listed albums were not worth the money spent on them. A lot of the bands that toured with the guys on the list were much better.
Pm5k is one of my favorite live bands.thier newer albums are good also
Reveille - Laced(1999)
American Head Charge - Trepanation(1999)
40 Below Summer - Side Show Freaks(1999)
Molotov - Apocalypshit(1999)
With how much djent is there nowadays, would you consider doing a series with that?
The problem I have with that is that 90% of it sounds the same so it would be REALLY boring to marathon so many of those. I am really picky about bands I like in that style.
@@MetalTrenchesI'm in the same boat as you, I was just curious if it crossed your mind or not. Either way Periphery wins 😂
Peachy was my first. After which I purchased (for free on lime wire) older ones
Wisconsin Death Trip deserves the S spot for sure, honestly an album I think just gets better with age.
It really does.
Other albums that were missed:
Reveille - Laced
Drain STH - Freaks of Nature
Amen - Amen
Incubus - Make Yourself
American Head Charge - Trepanation
Skinlab - Disembody: The New Flesh
Hinge - Elemental Evil
Chevelle - Point 1#
Make Yourself is not at all a new metal album imo. It has almost no metal elements at all. It is one of my favorites though.
Some things are eternal and nu metal is one of them😂
As annoying as Limp Bizkit might be, they've always been self aware and I think that album does belong up there. Static X and the Slipknot albums are the best two albums on here. I don't think Slipknot has ever topped it. Iowa was close but nothing was as good.
*knock knock knock* " Steven What are you doing in there?" (Crazy town album) ..."drugs" lolololol😂 funniest little clip ever...comedy gold. That's pretty much me with Baby Metal🤦♂️
I was a teenager when nu-metal exploded worldwide in the late 90s and I liked Korn, Machine Head, Sevendust, etc. but I kind of think the genre (as well as power metal) as a whole has aged really poorly, you get older and start listening to death/thrash/black metal and everything is so much more technical and musically superior and it's kind of a one-way street, I just turned 37 and I swear I'll try listening to nu-metal again but I can't listen to a whole song without feeling embarrassed by cringe lyrics/generic sound/shitty rap vibes etc.
Tony Hawk 2 taught me how to nu metal
Please can you do 2000 prog
What about Primus with their album "Antipop"?
Slipknot's debut just towers above all. No discussion.
I don't listen to much nu metal but there were some lower tier bands like flaw and 40 below summer with 10/10 albums.. may of been different year though
Both bands had some great songs and were overlooked in the flood of nu-wannabees sadly, but 10/10 albums..? Nah.
P.O.D tier list when?
Not really into nu metal, but Wisconsin Death Trip is beyond killer. Almost as good as the legendary Get Thee Hence debut.
I actually didn't realize Slipknot was considered Nu-metal until after Subliminal Vs which I thought at the time was kinda strange.
Issues really is perfection, it has no weaker songs. Easily Korns best album.
Limp bizkit is the goat🐐
Pretty spot on rankings, the Machine Head album has some really bad songs, but the ones that are good are really good but its ranking here is pretty much spot on. Dysfunction is a killer album as far as that style goes, really heavy lyrics as well as music. Static X although, fantastic gets bumped down by Korn and Slipknot. All the rest of the albums other than LB are pretty much forgetful, even with Sevendust having great songs and a great over all sound, they just dont have the staying power.
Which now that i think of it was probably Nu-Metals main problem, most bands/songs were almost immediately forgettable.
Omfg i forgot how much i used to jam when worlds collide
Here we goooo. Haha the 16 yr old me inside is going beserk. lol
I think the list is short, since we had a lot of bands that enter in this genre like:
> No One - Self-Titled
> Dry Kill Logic - The Darker Side Of Nonsense / The Dead and The Dreaming
> Snot - Self-Titled
> I'll Niño - Revolution/Revolución
> Mudvayne - L.D. 50
> Skindred - Babylon
> American Head Charger - War Of Art
> Spineshank - Self-Destructive Pattern
> Kittie - Spit
> (Hed) P.E. - Only In America
Your list confuses me as it contains either albums that already were included or did not come out in 1999…
@@MetalTrenches You're right, didn't see the full vid, my bad
I thought your list was only based by the whole genre, that's why I hoped you would talk about more bands
@@MetalTrenches
By the way, cool video, didn't expect you to have a Meh tier instead of the Bad Tier since Nü Metal is always bashed for whatever reason
I think I would've put Limp at perfection and bump Issues to fantastic
gotta love nu-metal
one of my favourite genders
Korn Issues is God tier perfection.