WHY DOES EVERYBODY LISTEN TO NU-METAL?!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- What was your gateway metal band? Revolver asked Spiritbox, Bring Me The Horizon, Gwar, Halestorm and more who their gateway metal band was... and I judge them for their answers! Spoiler warning: everybody said Linkin Park and nu-metal.
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Wow! You really hate nu-metal.
I'll tell you why? It's because most of it was great!
Who cares if these guys enjoy nu metal, it's just what they liked.
Check out Orbit Culture, you won't regret it! They're like deathcore but with symphonics and cleans. Very impressive and rememberable. Check out "Flight of the Fireflies"
No more tears has some of the best riffs ever.
Cannibal Corpse, Meshuggah, and Dying Fetus were Gateway Bands that got me into Nickelback, Korn, and Theory of a Deadman
This comment destroys 🤣 🤣 🤣
Ace Ventura got me into Cannibal Corpse
thats not how it works 🤣
@@whatitfeels. 😂😂😂🤣 Thanks for replying to this. I forgot all about this comment. So dumb.. 😂😂
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This is when you realize how influential Linkin Park has been, and how Hybrid Theory is a 10/10 album
hybrid theory and meteora are 10/10s to me
Hybrid Theory came out when I was in middle school and literally everyone owned the album. It’s was legit universally popular.
Facts
Still waiting for Finn to mention it in a next edition of his 10/10 albums
ppl in my gym always still regularly add Hybrid Theory songs to the playlist lol
Never gets old 🤣
“Nobody gets it but ME! Everyone’s a *p o s e r* but ME!!” This is the voice of my generation. Thank you Finn, you speak for all us latch key free range cretins of the 90s. Give this man a medal.
"Everyone's a poser but me" is a tee shirt slogan akin to "death to false metal". sell it to me Finn
im 27 , my brother was a "everyone poser but me " it doesnt matter wtf i was doing , i always was a poser , new hair cut : poser , new game i play in super nintendo : poser. New band i was listening : Poser .
Linkin Park and Metallica are the true Trojan Horses. They entered your life and the next thing you know you're listening to Spirit Box and Bad Omens 20 years later.
I saw Linkin Park, Metallica, Mudvane and Deftones (Summer Sanitarium tour 2003) and LP was by far the best performance! They were definitely a great gateway band for the genre.
SOAD is still my favorite band though, and I don't see that changing anytime soon 🤘
@@angelaaltman864 The last time I saw LP was the best time I saw them. A real shame because 10 months later, you know what happened. They never failed to deliver!
@@matthewp9569 Chester was such an engaging performer and didn't stop moving for even a second. I just remember (as I may have indulged in something before, during, and after the show 🤭) that even Mudvayne was better than Metallica who just kinda stood there and kinda phoned it in, for lack of a better term.
@@angelaaltman864 I've seen all these bands also around 2003 I found mudvayne the most amazing live, but the others are all amazing live also.
Did someone say Bad Omens???
People need to realise that gateway bands don't equal bad bands. I still listen to metallica every day despite bringing me into metal.
Exactly. When people say otherwise they are just talking that anti-mainstream bullshit
I am and always will be an unashamed, dad rocker. Give me Creed, Give me Linkin Park, and if i'm feeling extra edgy, i might put on some Thrice
@@benjaminwatt2436 old thrice though. They are literally a different band now. Putting on Deadbolt, driving around and drinking red bulls is like my whole 2003.
Theyre also among the best bands a lot of the time. Cause nobody really cares about some unlistenable copycat EP your fav underground death metal act recorded in a basement in 97.
Metallica fucking sucked after cliff died
Also, from my 12 years booking acts in a smallish club, Sevendust really is one of those bands that is universally respected/beloved by the rock community. Nobody has anything bad to say about those guys.
From the outside, they seem like total pros. Not many lineup changes and they've consistently written some solid tracks each album.
@@whowastheoneguy4719 Salt of the earth guys. They make time for all of their fans before and after shows. They have a couple albums with no skips as well.
I love that Sevendust is regaining the popularity they once had. I left a job a few months ago where the manager LOVED them, and one day someone was playing the song Bitch and i fell in love with it. Asked who it was and was blown away when he said Sevedust lol
seperate is a fucking masterpiece when i first heard it！
Honestly yeah. I have never loved them but at the same time I would probably struggle to find something I truly dislike about them.
The finn breakdown is what i needed in life
I was a TRL kid, so I was exposed to Korn when i was a preteen, and liked them. To me Nu Metal was easy for me to understand because of its connection to Hip Hop. When Linkin park did that album with Jay-Z, that was HUGE and felt very innovative at the time. I still listen to it because of the nostalgia, but I think that it was genuinely good music. I love Korn to this day!
Korn was the 1st thing that got me from TRL, too. But I think listening to DMX got me into more aggressive music right before then. If I hadn't listened to X as a pre teen, I don't think I'd be listening to metal today. (R.I.P.)
As a TRL kid as well I was not exposed to heavy ass metal till high school. My brother got me into Tool and Ramstein. Then all the Grunge. I got into Job for A Cowboy, and Bleeding Through. Then Whitechapel, and All That Remains.
I wouldn't say that was innovative, since anthrax/public enemy and aerosmith/run dmc did it long before them. But it def was a long time since anybody had done it. And they did it very well too.
@@jasonking971 I've always said that hip hop and rock/metal are made for each other. They mash up very well.
Just shows how influential Nu Metal really is. No wonder it's the last big movement metal had, we can say it went down in a blaze of glory at least.
@ghost mall and why do you think it was everywhere for that long?
Well it's because the people who are in their 30s and in bands now were the right age when Nu-metal was happening. Give it a few years and the next generation will be saying their gateway bands were Ghost, Avenged Sevenfold and Power Trip.
Don't know who Power Trip are
But Ghost and Avenged Sevenfold feel like they were influenced by Ozzy and Mettalica
Metal and Rock have long lineages to be proud of
@@ghost_mall yeah it was really good why do you think it was everywhere bands like korn, system of the down, limp bizkit, papa roach, deftones when they made nu metal all of those artists was super good at the time and i would even go as far to say their music had age super well and dont forget about artists like Linkin park
The biggest influence of nu-metal and post grunge/alt rock/alt metal and even "Christian metal/rock" from the 00s is that it was the first time bands really started to use downed guitars through heavily distorted amps (usually a Mesa Rectifier) along with the use of 7 and 8 string guitars. A lot of the songs were slightly more upbeat than the songs from the 90s, but the downtuned guitars really gave the music a heavier/moody feel to it. Today, downtuned guitars are pretty standard on a lot of rock and metal songs. Before nu-metal though, guitarists weren't doing Drop Db, Drop C, Drop B, or Drop A tunings.
Got into rock largely from Linkin Park and Sum 41 on the radio, but for heavier stuff the big gateway was finding Shadows Fall on Guitar Hero II.
I love nu-metal, always have and always will. Metallica, like a good amount of us, was my gateway band.
My gateway band was definitely Linkin Park. Hybrid Theory was an amazing album and it was the first time I realized music could sound like that.
Mine was either Led Zeppelin (because of my Dad) or No More Tears on my own. Then I slowly progressed into other metal, but I won't lie: I'm 37, and most of my favorite metal bands are considered nu-metal. I've never had a problem admitting i love nu-metal; even before it took a turn over the past few years when people started praising it.
Se age as you. My dad showed me Zeppelin and Sabbath. Grunge got me into newer, at the time music. I eventually got into Korn and Pantera. Then it spread into all kinds of metal after that.
My first rock genre experience was Offspring, Smash but Korn got me into heavier stuff
Ha smash..mouth?
My gateway into Metal was obviously Guitar Hero. It introduced me to a huge variety of styles within the metal genre and that's how I went very deep into and appreciate it to this very day!
guitar hero got me into old school rock. The police, Kansas, Cheap trick. I grew up in a Christian home, never knew that stuff existed
Same... Before I Forget, Stricken, Raining Blood, My Curse and others, great way to get introduced to heavier music
Killswitch Engage perhaps? That's where I semi started. But then it was actually As I Lay Dying and Trivium as well.
@@loganpriest6029 Not exactly. It was more classic metal at first than anything else. Then I eventually got in the death metal, grindcore and even black metal later down the road. LOL
@@sirmoony5633 Badass dude \m/ I was the complete opposite went back to the old school after I discovered metalcore. Whether it was thrash, death metal, hardcore or grindcore. Love all of it
I loved crawling by linkin park when I was like 6. I didn’t really have a CD by them until I was in 3rd grade when meteora came out. But I never saw them as “metal” because I also had a simple plan CD too around that time lol. “Heavy metal” wasn’t a word in my vocabulary until I started listening to bullet for my valentine and a7x around 2006.
It was an evolving process for me, but Appetite for Destruction was the album when I became obsessed with harder music and led me down the path. But before that I was into Aerosmith (and I think some Bon Jovi was probably in the mix too). There were also a number of other bands like the Doors, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix that helped pave the way for me getting into metal. My first proper metal album was Iron Maiden's Live After Death, which is what led me to bands like King Diamond, Metallica and heavier stuff.
And Black Sabbath. At some point early on I picked up the We Sold our Souls for Rock N Roll album from my Uncle's record collection and that one really blew my mind.
Thanks Finn mckenty you’ve really opened me up to a lot of new music after being stuck in a genre rut for years
My gateway into metal was listening to Fear Factory with their Album Obsolete. Shock transformed my whole world!
legendary album one of the best of all time
One of my favorite Fear Factory songs 🤘
I was already listening Metallica & Korn, but Obsolete sealed the fucking deal
Fear Factory's Soul of a New Machine was a gateway album for me to venture into more extreme metal music.
When it comes to Sepultura Bestial Devastation and Morbid Visions are badass.It's so raw and dirty sounding I love it.
I am a proud poser. Korn, Metallica, SOAD, and Slipknot got me to where I am today.
Got into metal because of Disturbed, but then i went into the USMC...had a roommate that was into everything by RoadRunner records and started with a lot heavier bands after that.
Back in nu metal era my cousin was super big rap fan. Started to listen Limp Bizkit, 2 year later had Korn shirt, 4 years later had obscure black metal band and swore to pure true norwegian black metal. Now he is 40 year old prog obsessed pushing Dream Theatre riffs to his kids but he will not admit Limp Bizkit was his gateway to metal
I'm 31 and still enjoy limp bizkit. Everyone besides Fred durst has immense talent
There must only be 2 ways to get into metal: either through what your parents listened to when you're a kid, or liking something popular when you're a teenager.
For me, I was a big Nirvana fan at 13, and then I heard Demanufacture by Fear Factory, and didn't like it, and didn't explore metal any further.
Somehow I completely missed Nu-metal in the late 90s, probably because I was smoking way too much weed. I do remember hearing of Limp Bizcit, and thinking what a stupid name.
And great video, Finn.
I’m in my fifties so I got into metal the old way: my older brother. Early 80s, I was into punk and my brother was into metal. We grew up in the Bay Area so Metallica, Exodus, Possessed, D.R.I., M.D.C., Vio-Lence are what bonded us.
Finn Mckenty fails to realize that his channels are gateways to rock and metal ❤️
lmfao the idea of doing a parody on gatekeeping is so funny. Like it's so accurate to the cringe of gatekeepers, but so obviously a parody. So much fun
My Dad bought a copy of "Reign In Blood" in 1986. I was 2. He did that as a way of antagonizing my Mother. So, in 1986 my 2 year old ears were force fed high velocity Trash Metal. I've never been right since.
Those freak outs were great. My gateway into metal was Marilyn Manson Anitchrist Superstar, bought it after seeing a video on MTV. My mom freaked out and broke it over the album name and didn't want her teen turning to the devil.
“Everyone is a poser except for me.”
-pseudo-Squidward
Mine was Breaking Benjamin, POD, Linkin Park, Stryper, and demon hunter. I grew up in a strict Christian house hold so sneaking in breaking Benjamin and Linkin park carries some nostalgia
I loved nu-metal as a teen, but I just grew up listening to alternative rock radio, and I was still pretty afraid of extreme metal when my mom got way into black metal in like 2004 and got actually really cvlt (tho her fave was really Satyricon), so I don't consider being a Linkin Park fan when I was 10 to be me "getting into metal" because it wasn't harder than Nirvana in my mind. Slipknot was actually scary to me even as a fan of their singles, at least. But anyways, I would credit the trifecta of Opeth, Agalloch and Isis for getting me into metal music with actual heaviness and screamed vocals when I was 16.
I got into metal with listening to my stepdads old cd collection. Old Metallica, nine inch nails and Pantera. I listen to more modern bands now but those are still some of my favorite bands today.
Funny enough you should ask this Finn. My gateway band into metal was Machine Head & I'm seeing them live in 2 wks for the 1st time. Full circle moment🤘🏿🖤🔥
I still have tinnitus from a Machine Head concert in 2015. Best circle pit ever.
@@CarnivorousMower I hope I survive😂
Finn one of my favorite things about your videos is your tantrum breakdowns. Please don’t ever stop doing them
When I was a kid I really enjoyed Metallica up till the moment James started singing 😂 Every time I was like “uuurgh such a cool music why would he spoil it”
Lmao mood. I wanted to get into metal but the vocals are cringe
@@CrabSully you might like atrax morgue(death industrial artist) vocals and a good song of his would be higheels in my throat and atrax morgue vocals are so good to me for some reason
As someone who's first Metal album was "British Steel" by Judas Priest. I'm officially old and in the way.
To your point about us all being posers at the start, I agree entirely. I got into metal not through Slayer or Metallica but ADTR.
I never understood screaming or drop tuning until my best friend in middle school showed me Homesick. The song structure of pop punk choruses with hardcore breakdowns made it the perfect gateway music. I could ease my way into the pool as opposed to dive head first.
I think there are countless young people today that followed a similar path. Hell, tbh, I really still have not listened to Metallica or Slayer, but I have since touched everything modern from Darko, Emmure, Scarlxrd, Volumes, architects, etc..
The Olivia Rodrigo to Lorna Shore pipeline is real
"Haam" True but for me it was the Avril Lavigne (If you can see on my username, it is a mixture of two albums such as her debut album Let Go and Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory) to Thy Art Is Murder pipeline for gateway music
Finn's breakdowns are heavier than any metal that's out today. Take note, modern metal bands. Your days are numbered.
Mid 30s, got into music with Alice in Chains then a friend gave me a burned cd with opeth songs up to still life, entombed and dismember, meshuggah and the song symbolic by death. Liked all of it immediately so I guess there is a high speed alice in Chains to death metal pipeline out there.
I don't have much opinion on Meshuggah yet but Opeth is the fucking shit.
I went from like classic rock/Metallica/Linkin Park>Slipknot>Ice Nine Kills>Opeth or something like that. I just like aggressive fucking music lol.
Alice in chains is darker than any metal band.
Wait and Bleed is the first metal song I ever heard. But introduction to heavier music is SOAD, AFI and TDWP. That’s my holy trinity
Hearing Chris Garza, calling a different band “heaviest of all time” while being part of one of the heaviest bands of all time, is such a great trait to have. Sure you could argue that “nobody would ever consider themself the best” or whatever
Growing up I had an older sister who listened to green day and no doubt, and an older brother who listened to cypress hill and Metallica. So I grew up listening to many sides of music and when they started combining the sounds I was so in. Nu-kid for life
Every old scene gets rehashed by a new scene
"Why does everybody listen to Nu-Metal?"
Cause its actually pretty neat music if you're willing to look past the stereotypes.
I'm 31 and I got into Metal by way of Korn and SlipKnot. Nu metal & DeathCore are my favorite subgenres.🤘🎵🖤💯💯💯♠️
Finn and his gatekeeping ways 😃
Great vid brother 👍
My mum's bf got me into Undisputed Attitude by Slayer and Far Beyond Driven by Pantera when I was about 12 in the late 90's, and then I discovered Korn from then
I appreciate all your work buddy you got one of my favorite channels on TH-cam and I listen to rap before I found you
Finn i always respect when you say some of my bands i like you dont. but did not expect you to not at the least respect sevendust. Watching them live is amazing
Ex’s and Oh’s by Atreyu and My Curse by Killswitch were the first metal songs I really fell in love with
I love how the Nu Metal revival group (Tetrarch) are the ones who first got into metal with bands which came after the nu metal like Trivium and Lamb of God
Trivium is Mettalica-like Metalcore sound
I got into Trivium through World Goes Cold
For me, my intro to metal was Metallica, Guns N Roses, Linkin Park, Slipknot, Korn, and Iron Maiden from a combination of my parents but more so Guitar Hero.
I got into metalcore and whatnot later on because of Bring Me the Horizon, A Day to Remember, and to a lesser extent, Asking Alexandria
41 Years old here . I started listening marilyn Manson , NIN and death metal back in the 90. Then nu metal happened and it caught me.
That's a good idea. You need a literal "Metal Gatekeeper" hat/shirt for the merch store!
I found a lot of music, nu metal included from WWE, and video games, I remember the Undertaker coming out to Rollin by Limp Bizkit, that’s about the moment I first heard any nu metal song
For me it was DC Talk>P.O.D.>Demon Hunter... Then just everything.
But also, Hybrid theory had some certified bangers on it. Place for My Head really hits hard!
Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, System of a Down, Korn, Slipknot, and Avenged Sevenfold. Slipknot and Avenged Sevenfold’s Sounding The Seventh Trumpet album in particular were what got me into the core stuff that my life has been a constant obsession with ever since.
A day to remember single handedly got me into the heavy stuff
For me it was Dimmu Borgir. Seeing people in my school wear their shirts made me check them out.
My first heavy music bands were Bullet For My Valentine (Poison album), Blessthefall, Every Time I Die, and Vanna. Got into Bullet and BTF from a friend of mine and ETID and Vanna from the 2006 Warped Tour Compilation album.
That Warped Tour album was arguably the biggest influence on my music fandom that still lasts to today.
People say nu metal is bad but as soon as it comes on they sing and dance. It's actually good once you look at it
As an “elder millennial” (40yo), this is very interesting and reinforces how my transitional mini generation is split. I didn’t listen to much nu metal in HS/college when it came out because my gatekeeping elitist metalhead squad wouldn’t allow it lol. Metallica was my gateway in middle school and then it was all power metal, death metal, metalcore, etc. But the funny generational thing is that I still listened to nu metal in secret 🤫
Same generation as you and, yes, we were already listening to heavy music before nu metal was around. Haha.
I grew up in house that my parents would listen to Motley Crue, Ray, Van Halen, so at a very young age I was exposed to that 80s hard rock and it just took a natural course. In my teens I would go to the record store and flip through the cds and find the craziest looking album cover and buy it. And we had a paper called the Phoenix and they would have tons of local metal acts and underground stuff coming out. That’s how I really got into harder to find music.
For me, my obsession with Swedish metal begun with Candlemass and has expanded to include Silver Mountain, Torch and Mindless Sinner to name but a few…
Zao, somebody threw on Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest on a church youth retreat when i was in middle school. Been hooked on the heavy ever since.
First album I bought was White Zombie Astro Creep 2000, then my neighbor turned me on to Korn and then most bands I listen to were numetal until Slipknot toured with Lamb of God for Vol3.
As a millennial in their late 20s who got into metal from Guitar Hero 2. My gateway bands were Avenged Sevenfold and All That Remains.
I'm old so I started with everyone on Headbangers Ball and Hard 60. In 1988 or 89, I heard NAPALM DEATH on ZROCK. The vocals surprised me. What is this monster metal? I was hooked.
Awesome video Finn! 💯
I'm 37, I got into music with the prodigy, greenday and limp bizkit. Nowadays I play skiffle
@15:18 sounds like the viral part of Lorna Shore's "to the Hellfire" breakdown. Maybe Will Ramos was also sick of people talking about nu metal when he made the similar sound
Finn channeling Beavis at 7:18 had me cry laughing for real!! Happy Turkey Day brother! Congrats on becoming a dad, you're gonna be a great one dude!
Cannibal Corpse, and Napalm Death were the gateway bands that got me into Linkin Park and Breaking Benjamin
Probably the only person out there like this but it was Hybrid Theory for me. Real underground stuff...
I like how towards the end was when they finally started mentioning some bands that Finn would enjoy. Early to Shogun era Trivium is still badass, and As I Lay Dying was one of the pioneers of modern Metalcore, along with Killswitch and All That Remains.
Dude Nu Metal was so mainstream when I was growing up lmao. It was almost impossible not to be into it. I'm 30 btw, so for me it was like 3rd - 6th grade. After that it was all emo all the time. It went from Nu Metal and Pop Punk to Metalcore and Emo real fkn quick.
I was surprised that nobody mentioned Fear Factory. Demanufacture is heavily featured on the Fisher-Price My First Metal album
7:20 for some reason every time you "snap" I lose my shit. What have I become
I'm 30 and indeed, Linkin Park was the band that got me into music. I was 10 and we went to my great grandma's house. I remember exactly when it was because the movie "The Rookie" with Dennis Quaid just came out and we were gonna go see the movie but we ended up doing fucking lawn work for too long so we didn't get to go see the movie. Anyway my cousin had his Discman and had Hybrid Theory on cd. He was like "listen to this" and the rest is history
It is not about how you got here. You are here. Respect the music
Those first two Sevendust records are THE SHYT!! ANyways, this vid is hilarious. Chaos A.D. & Roots are awesome too but, yes when it comes to Sepultura, Finn I understand the sentiment. Lmao
I'm 37. What got me into Rock was my brother's kiss alive 2 cassette tape back in 1990. Then at ten, it was mettalica. Had a punk and pop punk phase in my teens and hs. Then from there I got into scremo, deathcore and post hardcore metal. Good times
As a newer metal listener I ended up getting into metal because of Rob Scallon, now I enjoy my fair share of metal. Some of my deep dive bands I like are Mental Cruelness, Until We Die, and I can't think of another one that I found on my own but you get the point I'm enjoying metal.
Limp Bizkit's Chocolate Starfish & the Hotdog Flavored Water blew my mind at age 11 or 12. Nu metal for life!
15:50 this is the most random gateway to metal I've ever heard. Way of the warrior is infamously a terrible game the creators of Crash The Bandicoot made for the 3DO while they were broke, hoping to save the company. Somehow the game sold well enough for them to survive.
She had a 3DO, very deep cut!
SOAD for sure. My best friend was playing it in Jr High in like 2005 on a portable cd player. Spiders was the song that flipped it all over for me.
The first actual Screamo,metal kinda song I heard. They changed my opinion of screaming vocals was 'New Noise' by the Refused.
Hey it's Tetrarch! did a few tours with them years ago. Fucking love Diamond, the guitarist that answered, super sick guitarist, great folks all around.
Ironically, they were recently touted as one of the leading band in the "nu-metal" revival wave. Lol.
Sorry Finn.
Story of the Year, A Day To Remember, and Four Year Strong were the first bands with more consistent heavier stuff. Then Parkway Drive and Asking Alexandria
Here's one thing I've thought of, Finn.
Nu metal is basically the 90's Eurodance of metal if you think about it. XD
- Both genres contain rapping, but not all songs include rapping.
- Both genres are usually used to refer to a certain era of music, but there are newer songs within the genres as well.
- The rappers doesn't get as much recognition as the mainstream ones (Yes, I've connected with both Eurodance rappers and nu metal rappers who have big hits).
- A perfect balance between singing and rapping is actually very common in BOTH genres.
- They aren't considered mainstream genres anymore even though several hits such as Chop Suey and Barbie Girl belong to such genres.
Killswitch Engage -The End of Heartache
First time I saw the second resident evil movie and that came on in the credits I was hooked
My older brother showed me Slipknot's "Get This (Or Die)" from the digipak in 2000. Rest is history.
Hell, I went from Green Day to Bullet for my Valentine when I was like 10 lol
“Oh no people raised in the time when nu metal was popular are listening to nu metal”
How dare they?!
I got into music because of my love of wrestling. And if you grew up watching wrestling in the 00’s then you know that bands like Creed, Union Underground, Kid Rock, Breaking Benjamin, Seether, Nonpoint, Sevendust, Limp Bizkit, Drowning Pool, Godsmack, Disturbed, Alter Bridge, Puddle Of Mudd, Staind, Shinedown, Three Days Grace, Saliva, Cold etc etc, were the bands that would be themes for wrestling shows and wrestlers.
So it was my love of wrestling that got me to like these bands, but it wasn’t until I was 19 when I realised what I liked and it was Nu-Metal/Alt Metal/Rap Metal, and Post Grunge/Butt Rock.
So by the time I was 19 I was delving deep into Nu-Metal/Alt Metal and was liking bands like Chevelle, Spineshank, Reveille, Flaw, Pleymo, One Minute Silence, Ill Nino etc etc.
So for me Nu-Metal isn’t so much a gateway, it’s my genre that I love.
Nice video! :) Daamn I miss Vanna so much. They were a Great band!
33 and proud of having grown up in the Nu Metal scene years, went from being raged on by GenXers circa Early 00s for not caring about anything that came before Pantera, to gatekeep and make fun of tiktok zoomers nowdays for their newfound obsession with baggy clothes when they didnt even like them before pandemic hit...
Everything just came full circle at the end...
It's been five days and I'm still laughing at Daddy Finn's poser meltdown.
And now I have barenaked ladies stuck in my head. Thanks brain.