NU METAL Debut Albums RANKED (Slipknot, Static-X & More!)
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- Ranking the debut albums of nü metal bands including Korn, Slipknot, Linkin Park, Disturbed, System Of A Down, and much more.
00:00 Intro
00:20 Deftones - Adrenaline
01:20 Sevendust - Sevendust
02:16 Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
02:25 Papa Roach - Infest
05:05 POD - The Fundamental Elements Of Southtown
05:43 Dope - Felons And Revolutionaries
06:43 Orgy - Candyass
07:57 Taproot - Gift
09:20 Nonpoint - Nonpoint
09:45 System Of A Down - System Of A Down
10:44 Staind - Dysfunction
11:13 Soulfly - Soulfly
12:17 Disturbed - The Sickness
13:23 Drowning Pool - Sinner
14:37 Spineshank - Spineshank
15:12 Korn - Korn
16:22 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
17:40 Limp Bizkit - Three Dolla Bill Ya'll
18:33 Mudvayne - LD 50
20:05 Incubus - Science
21:17 Kittie - Spit
22:21 Evanescence - Fallen
23:30 Slipknot - Slipknot
25:10 Hed (pe) - Hed (pe)
25:45 Mushroomhead - Mushroomhead
26:07 Powerman 5000 - The Blood Splat Rating System
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My respect for you immediately grew tenfold when you ranked "Wisconsin Death Trip" at S. I think that record is a masterpiece.
GOATed
I do enjoy static x album throughly 🤟
SAME!!! Behind SOAD’s self titled, probably the single most influential album to my taste when I was a kid. Used to listen to that album nonstop on my Walkman and spend every morning before school using our shitty dial up Internet to find AMVs of songs like Push It and Bled for Days. Absolutely a stone cold classic
LD 50 is so underrated in nu metal due to them having a big drop in quality after their debut. The progressive metal and mathcore influences really show on this album and is easily a top 5 nu metal album due to the strong bass play and the vocals by Gray (Severed is my favorite track on the album).
Great choice. That is a solid album for sure. I saw a lot of potential for them.
FINAALLLLYYYYYYYY! Finally someone who gives props to Mudvayne and specifically Severed! You're truly a blessing, bro.
I wouldn’t necessarily consider End of All Things to Come a big drop in quality. I’d consider Mudvayne’s trajectory to be similar to Static-X’s. First album is a classic, second was also very strong but just didn’t quite match the first, and then it’s stagnation thereafter with most of their stuff geared toward catching some dwindling mainstream success. Mudvayne was a little better at this, though. Their most popular radio songs were from their worst albums imo
@@beingjoshmcsame conclusion I can to after finishing their discographies. Although the final Static-x album (with Wayne) Cult of Static is extremely solid. Probably their 2nd best. Mudvaynes final album is absolute dogshit.
Ain't no way Sinner is a D tier. That was one of the best and most consistent nu metal albums I've heard.
System of a Down's self-titled was the second heavy album I'd ever heard, with the first being Toxicity, haha. A friend of mine burned a couple of CD-R's with the albums on them. This was back when I couldn't get into Slipknot because it was too much. But over time I then started to love Slipknot's self-titled. Then I got more and more into death metal that way. This was all because my friend decided to show me SOAD one day after school. Thanks, Scott. :D
Haha nice. Same way for me but other way round. I found system harder to get into because of their crazy way outta the box style. And slipknot grabbed me straight away. Then once I grew to love toxicity I rated system over slipknot.
When I would go see slipknot live in 2002 , In flames opened up for them. Then I pretty much became crazy about the Swedish metal scene ever since
Sevendust was dope back in the day. Saw and met them multiple times. Solid dudes!
Animosity was definitely a big album for my friends and I for a while
Get Some by Snot was cool 😎
Sevendust is still a very good band both album and live. Probably say Cold Day Memory is my favorite.
Sevendust is an amazing band. They're super consistent and Lajon has an incredible voice.
Home and Animosity is their best work.
Great list! The only band I think you forgot was Coal Chamber, their debut album was very solid. 🔥🔥
It hasn’t aged well. I actually prefer Chamber Music
Coal Chamber 🔥
Adema you forgot to mention also 🤟
I mostly agree with your list. Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory was amazming when it came out, but it got overplayed. Looking back I can see why I liked it. Haven't listened enough to the Static X debut to have a good opinion on it. Maybe I need to revisit that one. And for me SCIENCE is S tier. I discovered that album and I couldn't stop listening to it. That album is one of the reasons I started playing guitar. It is so diverse, clever, and very enjoyable to listen to.
Science is great
Wisonson death trip holds a very special place in my heart. I remember blasting this album on my headphones while making comics. Good times. R.I.P. Wayne.
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just wanted to point out an error you made in the video to be helpful. P.O.D. had 2 full length albums before The Fundamental Elements of Southtown. Album 2 is Brown (1996) & the debut is Snuff The Punk (1994). Happy to help great video.
Another great Tier list, and the S Tier is absolutely perfect, glad to see Wisconsin Death Trip get the praise it deserves. But you broke my heart with Sinner on the D Tier. I agree that it wasn't a powerhouse of originality, but it is a very solid record, and the final track "Sermon" is a hidden gem IMO.
And I went to check and Incubus debut album was Fungus Amongus, independently released in 1995, and then re-released by the major label they were signed on a few years later (and this album actually has my favorite Incubus song "Trouble in 421").
Even with a broken heart, I still love your stuff 🤘🏽
No Ill Nino-Revolution/Revolucion album makes me sad.. to me, this debut album is even better than Soulfly's
I love Nu-Metal to this day, imo it's underrated, yes, there were a lot of average albums, but there were a lot of awesome albums too. While I don't agree on some of your rankings (e.g. Hybrid Theory, I just don't get why people love this one so much), But I'm glad seeing Incubus and Taproot getting some love.
It has been getting a more positive reassessment as of late. If you look at the beginnings of the genre with Korn, you see something truly innovative, and it resonated with a lot of people. What killed it was the same thing that killed glam (which also started out in a pretty solid place around the very end of the 70s). It became too popular, causing major labels to sign on a bunch of inferior bands with a similar sound. This lead to a lot of crap music getting pushed hard by MTV (what else explains the success of crap, IMO, like Crazy Town and Trapt?), and it turned people off in the end.
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Hybrid Theory dude, I'm addicted to it. Listening serveral times a week. I love the simple riffs that just make you want to move and also singing along to Chester's parts, also the rapping parts add a nice contrast in my opinion. Overall just amazing song writing and delivery but it's just my thoughts ofc
Love this series keep up the great work man!!!
Got more on the way
I would love to hear your take on the future of the genre! It’s a genre that’ll forever have a special place in my heart, but I also feel like it may struggle to keep up with the other giant genres of metal.
Loved the vid! 🤘🏼
Tallah and the infusion of these sounds into deathcore and metalcore continue to keep it alive
When Korn and Slipknot released their self titled albums that changed everything. 'Slipknot' unleashed full carnage with its raw and heavy sound. Fun fact about this album, Corey was literally using no technique at all with his screams/growls and that's why in one of the tracks at the end you hear him throwing up because he strained his throat so badly
Personally for me Tallah's debut album is way more unhinged than Slipknot's debut I've come to find Self titled a little overrated recently. Still love it but Slipknot is a band that just got better as they went on
Yeah, he sounds REALLY raw and unhinged here. In Iowa his voice solidifies into what we know today (in his heaviest moments). It became less raw and unhinged, but more brutal and driving, and of course it was important in the long run for him to learn proper technique. Otherwise he would have turned into Chris Barnes after a decade or so.
@@crazydud3380 EEEEEE!!
@@crazydud3380lipknot and Iowa is some of the heavyist darkist albums of all time iwoa is darker even coreys said so he was drinking like y bottles of jack Daniels he wreck his voice and that album nearly killed him Iowa the last track he literally about playing and doing thing to dead bodys he stripped naked and cut him self with broken mirror glass so the screams yiu hear are real pain its has to be one of the darkest creepiest tracks of all time
I'm surprised you didn't put the new Tallah on here. I know they only have one album and no legendary status but, and this might unpopular, I think it's the best Nu Metal album. Just period.
Nonetheless, loved the video. Always checking for more ^_^
I remember loving that Static X album back in the day, like you say it's just got super catchy songs, it always reminded me of White Zombie a little bit!
I think Machine from Static-X is better than there Debut
Eh...they don't sound alike to me, but that's just my opinion. I do however, put white zombie/ rob zombie in the industrial category unlike most people tho. I mean, If Ministry's later albums are still considered industrial, then why not??
I still jam this album on the regular.
WDT was the first album I bought with my own money. Early 2000s.. Good times.
@@worksofein6449 me too it's a pretty good album
Been thinking about doing something like this! Love this.
I agree with you on SOAD being better than Toxicity
Subscribed. Your explanations of each album and their places (and individual songs) really made me think, "this guy gets me" awesome list!
Welcome! 🤘🏻
I'm 18 years old, and these four bands-Pantera, Marilyn Manson, Disturbed, and Linkenpark-are the first metal bands I ever heard of. I say four because I grew up with abusive parents and I avoided loud noises as a result (don't worry, I no longer live with them). However, I can recall hearing Pantera's "Walk" and Disturbed's "Down With the Sickness" frequently. I vividly recall being scared by the graphic visuals of Marilyn Manson's "Sweet Dreams (are made of these)" cover when I watched my first metal music video on MTV (back when they still streamed music videos every day).
My aunt denies this, but I'd like to think that when I was younger, I was consistently exposed to metal music because how can one recollect something he didn't experience?
I listen to some heavy music now in 2022 that I certainly couldn't have four years ago. In 2019, Killswitch Engaged lead me into a rabbit hole of metal music listening, which is how I rediscovered metal. I discovered Slipknot through Killswitch Engaged, and I listened to all of their album "All Hope is Gone," where I heard "Snuff," my all-time favorite song, as well as portions of their self-titled album (but not all because I couldn't handle the heaviness yet). additionally, some of ".5: The Gray Chapter." Four years later, I can finally tolerate the heaviness of tracks like "Agony" by Slaughter to Prevail and "Transylvanian Hunger" by Darkthrone. I'm currently just looking forward to Slipknot's upcoming new album; I'm so excited for it, it's not even funny. And that concludes my experience with metal music thus far.
I love your channel
Flashback city! Great idea for a video. Well done, brother!
Always down to talk nu metal. It was an important starting point for me
@@MetalTrenches same here dude. Just got to the end of the video and was thinking that perhaps you could make a second video doing this same thing. There were some notable (and maybe not so notable) bands/albums missing from this ranking! To name a few: Coal Chamber, Primer 55, I’ll Niño, 36 Crazyfists, Chimaira, Adema, Crazy Town, Snot, Trapt…. I only mention this because I think you’d get decent views and also because you enjoy the topic so much. And because I would enjoy more of this as well lol
@@MetalTrenches having made that last comment I now realize that those are, at best, B tier bands and there is no S or A tier meat left on the bone. Except maybe that Snot album. That sucker SLAPS.
I love ur videos! I love nu metal! 🫡👌🙏🔥
Your S tier is absolutely spot on 🤘🏻
S - SlipKnoT, KoRn, Hybrid Theory
A - L.D 50, Wisconsin Death Trip
B - The Sickness
Funny you mentioned, drum and bass being overlooked in mudvayne. Spot on man. I still think Ryan is a totally underrated bass player. 🖤🤘🏼
Evanescence man, I didn't see anyone talking about them in the comments and I needed to express some love for them here. I think alot of gothic and emo kids that got into metal owe it to this band and the fallen record.
There's another specific group of people who love this album and it's the Ergo Proxy fans, that's just the perfect combination!
Edit: I'm not 100% sure but I think fallen is THE first metal album I've ever heard
That’s awesome
To be far Marilyn Manson and Type O Negative probably got a lot of goth's into metal first. But I guess this created a new kind of goth scene in the early 2000's. Kind of how their are different scene's of punks from each time.
@@superstarthomas you know I don't really think marilyn manson has many goth fans, he generally attracts weirdos lol
@@seemann2401 I guess but some goth's were weirdo's. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I would also say other 90's industrial bands like Rammstein but I don't know how big they were back then, I don't think they were as big as they are now.
@@superstarthomas rammstein was quite big in Germany and their shows were REALLY intense back then
Korn FTW
Gotta be
25:03 that's exactly what I've always thought
Spittin' TRUTH
Excellent video bro!
You nailed this list
Love the list!!
I'd move papa roach up to b myself maybe even A it's a special album for me haha. Also love the love for kittie haha their newer albums are bangers they really evolved as a band highly recommended checking em out and maybe a tier list?? Haha
Perhaps one day
Great ranking! I personally think that early Deftones fits a bit more cleanly into post hardcore than nu metal but adrenaline is still a kickass album. Soad and Slipknot self title are both really important to my taste in metal
Adrenaline post hardcore? I dunno about that. There's so much Korn in that one, plus a lot more of Chino's hip hop influences.
@@MetalTrenches that album to me sounds a lot like helmet, Life Of Agony and quicksand
@@MetalTrenches on top of that, Korn is definitely nu metal but they played a lot of shows with real hardcore bands in the 90’s
Yeah I can see the post-hardcore influence on Adrenaline, some bits sound like Snapcase or Quicksand
@@xangrycatmanx5104 oh yeah I forgot to mention Snapcase. Half of those songs sound like they could be on progression through unlearning or Lookinglasself
CD burner times for me! Oh the memories! Great list!
Kazaa days
THE genre of slapping debuts
Yes
Kittie was so sick man. They were like a female Korn..they had that same bassy tone to their music. I loved it. The vocalist had a great lil voice on her too. 🤘
KoRn by KoRn is an absolute 10/10 in my book. LD.50 is incredible as well
Happy to see Taproot's debut album high on the list :)
Personal favorite of mine
My dad worked on a hard rock radio station in the 90's into the 2010's and to say the least I basically love all of these albums. Probably the first genre of music I got fully immersed in
Wisconsin Death Trip is definitely an album bigger than its genre. They kinda streamlined the style with Machine, but they also lost a bit of the bumpiness that made WDT so fun.
Such a fun tier list, mostly agreed.
So Korn is delisted or haven't uploaded yet?
I haven't made the videos just yet. I am still waiting to hear the new album
How you felt hearing “Crawling” playing at a carnival is how I felt when “Bring Me To Life” was added to the playlist of the grocery store I work at
Dope, Orgy and Kittie over Papa Roach and POD...... WHAT?!?! FOH!!! Love the channel man!
Some absolute bangers here! Would be cool to hear your thoughts on Adema, I sure as hell thought that their Self Titled Debut was gonna be on here.
I definitely owned their debut
The Slipknot debut was awesome! But I put it at #3, behind Korn’s self-titled and Hybrid Theory.
Very interesting tier-list, I was not expecting you to cover nu metal next. Here would be my nu metal debut tier-list. I haven't heard Orgy or Hed PE's debuts so I won't be including them.
S - System of a Down, Korn, Hybrid Theory, L.D. 50, Slipknot
A - Adrenaline, Sevendust, Wisconsin Death Trip, The Fundamental Elements of Southtown, Statement, Soulfly, Sinner, Fallen
B - Gift, The Sickness, Strictly Diesel, S.C.I.E.N.C.E., Spit, Mushroomhead, The Blood-Splat Rating System
C - Infest
D - Felons and Revolutionaries, Dysfunction, Three Dollar Bill Y'all
(EDIT: I have delved into the discographies of both Hed PE and Orgy since this post. I would include Hed PE's self-titled in B-Tier and Orgy's Candyass in A-Tier)
Respectable ranking
Huge nu metal fan from the beginning (I'm old) you're pretty spot on with the list except tier B and C would swap if I did it. I completely agree with Slipknot selftitled being one heaviest album ever.. genuinely gritty and unsettling but absolutely amazing.. straight roller coaster ride
I love hearing people's rankings of albums,bands,genres because everyone is different
Absolutely agree with you on SOAD. S/T album is their best
GOATed
Perfect tier list. NJ. Maybe I would have put Dysfunction at B.
Some of my favorite back in the day.
Crossfade- self titled
Trust company- The lonely position of neutral
Adema- Self titled
Chevelle- Wonder what’s next
Oh man. Adema takes me back. Chevelle is a good band
Your a fan of crossfade too
God is with yall
Get up on this Wisconsin Death Trip!!!!! 💪 (That album and of course, Korn, and Limp Bizkit ) helped shape my 6th grade muisc tastes in 98'....(I remember most of these albums growing up, I never got into Disturbed, Mushroomhead, or Incubus aside from a few songs) I do remember Kittie as the first uncensored album my mom let me get, and that's only because my dad let me buy it an I took a black marker to the Parental Advisory logo and she couldn't tell lol....miss u mom and dad...
Fundamental Elements of Southtown isn’t POD’s debut album, it’s their third. Snuff the Punk is their debut from 1994.
Fail on my part then
@@MetalTrenches no doubt dude.
Yeah but its the first album people care about
One band that I dont see here that I still love to listen to is Flaw: Through the Eyes
I don't listen to a lot of nu metal. The only bands I listen to in the genre really are Linkin Park, Sevendust, and Deftones, so I guess my choices are probably obvious, Adrenaline, Sevendust's debut, and Hybrid Theory are going to be my picks for this ranking.
Primer 55 - D
The Union Underground - B
Reveille - B
E-Town Concrete - C
Deadsy - C
Ra - B or C
Puya - A
Oh man you're scraping the bottom of the barrel with some of those. Primer 55 lol. I had that album.
Sinner at D-tier broke my heart 😂 the wah-pedal riffs are so sick
It’s fun but just not as good as the competition
One thing to note is that Dysfunction is actually not Stainds debut, its actually Tormented, released in 1996, only 4000 self copies were made, then Yap 'Em records reissued them a bunch. But it is a fully fledged studio album. (I dont recall you mentioning this in the video, my bad if i missed it)
Yeah I knew this but somehow it just slipped my mind
That album was dark and heavy.
@@metalboy27 agreed
Nice Rankings but I would have put the P.O.D. album at B tier personally! However very happy with your thoughts on SCIENCE being A tier and Incubus in general couldn't agree more!
Papa roach infest deserves higher. I hate “last resort” , you gotta listen to these :
Dead cell, Blood Brothers, Never enough, Snakes, thrown away , Revenge ,
These are all top tier nu metal bangers man !!!
Out of all of these Wisconsin Death trip, Hybrid Theory and Korn are easily my favorites. I really enjoy Disturbed but tbh I have never been that big of a fan of the sickness. Think they would get WAY better on Believe.
I used to listen to Disturbed a lot. I agree that they would have gotten better on Believe. The Sickness would be perfect if the Shout cover and Droppin' Plates were taken off and if Down with the Sickness wasn't overplayed.
@@mindful2864 Honestly would even get rid of Down with the sickness tbh. Voices, The Game, Fear and Stupify I enjoy quite a bit.
I'm a fan of new metal and all sorts of metal genres would you do one with ill niño next time possibly?
Nice list! I enjoyed it! I’d add Godsmack,coal chamber and drain sth and I’d put them all in A
Honestly my list would be almost exactly the same. I would drop the Linkin Park down a bit though. I can't really even listen to that anymore and only liked it for about 3 months. I got it a month early though so I was kind of tired of it by the time it was blowing up. I would actually move up the Hed PE album. I think it's their best album by far and still love it for some reason. And I'd also put S.C.I.E.N.C.E. at S tier. That's also their best album. So much more diverse and experimental than anything else they've done. Love it. Only other thing I might change is dropping Papa Roach down farther. Maybe it's my age, but they kind of signalled the death of Nu Metal to me. Absolutely hated them lol.
Pretty legit ranking bro, I just need to correct you on one piece of info. You've said it in this video and the KoRn ranking one as well. You had said that when the first album dropped they were all over the radio and that's DEFINITELY NOT the case. I remember when Life Is Peachy came out I remember sitting up all night watching 120 Minutes on MTV to try to record the A.D.I.D.A.S video, which I eventually did after about 2 weeks of nothing. It wasn't until Follow The Leader that KoRn blew up on the radio and TRL. Freak on a Leash was the song that did it. That and Got The Life
I remember hearing Blind on the radio along with a few others nearly around the clock even as a kid. They definitely became much bigger with Freak On A Leash, but they already had a pretty strong radio rotation. Consider also that ADIDAS wouldn't get played as much given the lyrics.
Im with @social_daze on this one. Korn was definitely not being played on the radio heavily up until Follow The Leader came out. I listened to the radio (grew up in Los Angeles which always had the biggest acts) and all the music channels non-stop and Korn didn’t really break into the mainstream until Got The Life. Self-titled and Life Is Peachy gained the band underground king status but they were not full fledged mainstream.
Fun list!
Deftones - never really got into them till white pony. Tried this album again the other day but still not digging it.
Seven dust- Lejons voice is great but their best work came later IMO
Static-x - this is one of my favourite all time albums and I jam it regularly. I have a project that pays homage to this album.
Papa roach and POD - the pod album has some cool songs but PR didn't click for me until FEAR came out.
Dope and Orgy - didn't get into dope but the Orgy album is cool and has a vibe that was 20 years ahead of it's time interms of the music if not the lyrics.
Taproot and Nonepoint- I can't remember these at all.
SOAD - I played this so much back in the day, but can't really dig any more. Used to play suitepea in my first band.
Stained - didn't know about this album, Aaron's voice always put me off, just couldn't vibe with it.
Soulfly- cool album, still influences me too this day along with roots by sepultura
Disturbed - David has a great voice and when they hit their stride the songs are great, but a lot leaves me unmoved.
Drowning pool - never got into them, only heard the singles but they didn't grab me enough to listen to more.
Spineshank - cool album but the next album was much better
Korn- such a dark album, such a weird uneasy vibe, major influence on my song writing
Linkin Park - didn't get into this album until about ten years later, got into the remix album first and still jam them both regularly. Lyrics to one step are cringe though.
Limp bizkit - great album, counterfeit is such a jam and who knew they would go onto be the biggest band of the time
Mudvayne - really wanted to like them but aside from some singles never got away with them.
Incubus - cool album but dropped off after that for me, not bad just not for me.
Kittie - never actually listened to the album cos the single I heard really didn't grab me, deffo didn't deserve the flak they got.
Evanescence - not heard it beyond the singles which didn't grab me
Slipknot - another huge influence that I jam to this day, I think I prefer Iowa but this is still fantastic album. I love the dark gritty uneasy vibe it has.
Hed p.e. - this just makes me think of middle class white English kids in my home town pretending to be LA tough guys from the streets
Mushroomhead and PM5K - not heard either of these. MRH had a few singles I was into but never really had the songs to take them further, same for pm5k but their latest album is pretty cool.
Solid list and was a fun bit of nostalgia. Only one I would have added would be the first American Head Charge album which is still great and totes underrated.
Yeah I agree with you (tho I havent listen much to the list) the problem with some artists/bands, it is that the musically the song is great, but the lyrics tend to be cringe and childish.
That is what I had with Evanescence, and maybe that is why it atratcs more mainstream listeners than metal/rock listeners.
You might be my musical soulmate. Every album ranked in the same spot I would, for very similar reasons.
LD50 is literally number 1. You can't argue it. It is the most innovative metal album of all time. It fucking slams, the bass is untouchable, and chads vocals at the time were just fucking insane "especially live when the album came out, haha today he is fat and sucks". Hands down the greatest metal album
Yeah alright I wouldn’t go that far. But L.D. 50 is easily the best nu-metal album oat
I really love Fallen, Sinner and Infested but i do respect your opinion
Evanescence Fallen is amazing. Bring Me To Life is an incredible song.
The Fundamental Elements of Southtown by P.O.D fyi is actually their 3rd not their debut, maybe their first to really get them big though, but they were mixing rap and rock for quite a while before and had some success. I prefer the rappier albums here so would have rated those higher than you did, but enjoyed this video.
S tier
Korn, Linking Park, Slipknot, POD, Deftones
A tier
SOAD, Limp Bizkit, Static X, Coal Chamber
B tier
Sevendust, Evanescense, Mudvayne, Ill Nino, Soulfly
I totally agree with deftones, spineshank, disturbed and mudvayne.!!👍👍
Some thoughts: Dope's strength was never lyrics, but I dug the industrial influences. I enjoyed the first few albums. Same with Orgy. I'm still a huge Nonpoint fan so I'm certainly biased towards them. Rabia is also my favorite Nonpoint song. I'd kill for an album by them with that level of aggression. Staind's debut is peak post-grunge. Everything afterwards is a let down. Spineshank's debut was not strong, but their sophomore album The Height of Callousness still holds up to this day. That's a hill I will die on. I'd probably move a few bands up one tier (Nonpoint, Staind, Disturbed, and Spineshank), but overall this is solid placement. I can live with this list.
some notable bands you missed: coal chamber, alien ant farm, crazy town, five finger death punch, godsmack, hoobastank, a perfect circle, puddle of mudd, primer 55, saliva, seether, skillet, staind, alter ridge/creed. Would be good if you do a industrial metal list also :)
Got one 👍🏻
The System of a Down debut will never get old
i love how he started naming almost every song from Korn’s Self titled just to avoid Daddy
I wasn’t avoiding it. It just didn’t come to mind this time
cant wait for static x tier ranking. i really enjoyed cannibal and cult and even the wayne solo album. the new album was good too, but not quite as good
(SlipKnoT goes in S tier)
YEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!
The best song on Candyass was “Stitches”. That album was an A.
Static-X is definitely one of my favorite bands. S is tier appropriate for W.D.T. but I myself wou.d have ranked drowning pool higher.
Yes, agree on gift
Any really good nu-metal album recommends I don't listen to a lot of nu-metal and I do enjoy the genre so I would like to hear some more albums (keep in mind I've only heard the big singles of most nu-metal albums not the whole album). I've already listened to the entirety of Significant Other, Korn, Slipknot, Hybrid theory, and some others I can't think of.
I have a top 10 of my fav’s here on the channel. Also new stuff from Tallah
@@MetalTrenches Oh cool thanks so much also Tallah is one of my most recent favorite bands Generation of danger is great. Hope you have a good rest of your night (day?). I don't know for me it's midnight. Love the channel btw I just found it today.
Most of that Hed Pe record is re-recorded stuff from their actual first album Church Of Realities and I personally think those sounded better than the Jive Records version
You also made one other glaring mistake I just found out. KoRn self titled IS THE greatest NuMetal album of all time. Not only is it a front to back classic in its own right, but it also invented the genre. Then Slipknot etc etc. Thats all as far as that goes. Lastly props for putting LD50 in S tier. It's in my opinion a super slept on classic. It's good to see it getting the credit it deserves
Does he have any videos discussing Nothingface at all? One of my top 5 favorite bands, but never seem to see many people on YT discussing/including them.
Dysfunction is definitely one of my guilty pleasures.
MUDSHUVEEEEELLLLLL
Lol…Not for that song whatsoever.
@@anthonystaffen3983home, excess baggage, and a flat are my faves
Nu-Metal is pretty diverse between bands. You wouldn't compare Disturbed with Limp Bizkit and Korn
Disturbed is so legendary that asylum album is so dope what's your favorite nu metal album
@John Wayne Probably Korn's debut album or Satellite from P.O.D. Asylum is such a good album though
Candyass is one of my favourite albums of all time, Tho i’d say the only sort of Nu metal song is Stitches, I personally believe its more like godflesh than say, Slipknot, tho with influences.
Either way, Its one my favourites.
SCIENCE is such an underrated and overlooked album. Its really progressive and actually pretty damn heavy. I wish they would have explored that vibe for another album. Their best and most ambitious album imo. Also, I totally agree with you on the first System of a Down album. By far their best album!
I miss when Incubus was at the top of their game.
@@MetalTrenches Me too!
Didn’t think Incubus was ever considered nu metal. They aren’t a metal band. I know they have a big faith no more and funk/experimental influence, but still it just feels wrong to call Science nu metal. Certainly heavier than other things they did though. I liked them a lot at one point but looking back it’s almost like they didn’t have a clear defined sound and style and just went with whatever scene was trending at the time. Some good albums, Morning View is probably their most consistent and the sound I associate them with.
S: Point #1; Pass Out Of Existence; Coal Chamber; Adrenaline; Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence; Revolution Revolucion; S.C.I.E.N.C.E.; KoRn; Three Dollar Bill, Y'all$; The Fake Sound Of Progress; Infest; Slipknot; System Of A Down
A: Bitterness The Star, Invitation To The Dance, Adema, Spit, L.D. 50, Statement, Pacifier, Candyass, Sevas Tra, Soulfly, Strictly Diesel, Dysfunction, Beyond The Calm Of Corridor
B: (Hed) P.E., Anthology, Saturate, Sinner, Hybrid Theory, Sevendust, Get Some, Wisconsin Death Trip, The Lonely Position Of Neutral
C: Cold, The Gift Of Game, The Sickness, XX, The Fundamental Elements Of Southtown, Gift
D: Fallen, Godsmack
This was a cool list as always and i adore spit by kittie as well
Great video we seem to have similar tastes in that I agree issues best korn record significant other best bizkit but I don't agree with u on staind album that to me personally is an A tier I got that album the first week all because album sticker mentioned Fred Durst Kittie is A tier as well put Dope and Orgy in the D tier yuck hate those albums but fantastic work as always 🤟
Honestly I’d take a lot of these records over the majority of modern metal. Nu metal is aging pretty well honestly. There’s a certain dirty charm to it that’s hard to describe. It doesn’t feel sterile and lifeless like a lot of modern releases.
That MY/MV incubus 1-2 was all time. And yeah, Brandon Boyd was the coolest dude alive.
Shows my age when 6 albums under s tier are some of my all time favorites. Plus 3 in s tier.
So glad gift got the recognition it deserves. It was the album that got me into numetal alone. Smile is one of the greatest opening tracks I think I’ve ever heard. The whole album is a masterpiece, love the sound of the guitars and stephens voice pairs nicely. Sad to say I’m not a fan of like any of their other albums
Welcome is a great album too, you should give it another chance