Post by Blixium on Aug 13, 2008 14:32:59 GMT -5
Okay so you may have stumbled across this forum and wondered what the heck it was about, well its about Nu Metal and it's associated with the Download Festival as an Alliance.
This alliance is welcome to anyone, even if you don't want to perfectly state your apart of it, were just happy to have you as a member.
You can just be friendly here, make some new friends, check out the gigs and meet ups section or just hang out or whatever you want to do.
Nu Metal
Nu metal (sometimes named new metal or nü metal) is a musical genre that emerged in the mid 1990s which fuses influences from grunge and alternative metal with funk music, hip hop and various heavy metal genres, such as Thrash metal, groove metal and Industrial metal.
Nu metal music emphasizes mood, rhythm, and texture over melody. Often, nu metal songs use rhythmic, syncopated riffs played on distorted electric guitars with strings detuned to lower pitches to create a dark and thick sound.
Origins
Bands such as Snot, Manhole, Human Waste Project, Deftones, Linkin Park, and Korn are early nu metal bands all from Southern California and started in the mid nineties.
Producer Ross Robinson was labelled by some as "the godfather of nu metal" due to his producing of several notable nu metal albums, the first of which was Korn's eponymous first album.
Korn's signature sound came from an attempt to emulate chords used by Mr. Bungle's guitar player Trey Spruance, which they referred to as "the moveable Bungle chord". They have also cited Mike Patton's other band Faith No More in Kerrang!'s The Greatest Videos of All Time in 2006, saying that Korn was influenced by them because they did something unusual with a metal band. Nu metal bands also often state more conventional metal acts as an influence, particularly Black Sabbath.[4]
Mainstream popularity, decline and influence
Nu Metal's grip on the mainstream came in 1998 with the success of Korn's third album Follow The Leader, which brought other bands of the genre into the lime light. In 1999 many of these bands began receiving air play on rock radio and were put in heavy rotation on MTV, mostly on the channel's TRL program. Limp Bizkit helped further nu metal's popularity with the release of their multi platinum album Significant Other which spawned the top hit singles "Nookie" and "Break Stuff". Other bands who had hit albums that year included Coal Chamber, Methods of Mayhem, and Staind, as well as Korn's Issues.
Another contribute to the popularity of nu metal was festive tours such as Family Values Tour, Lollapalooza, and Ozzfest. The 30th anniversary of Woodstock also featured nu metal bands like Limp Bizkit.
In 2000 more bands broke out with hit albums like Papa Roach whose major label debut Infest became a top seller. P.O.D, Disturbed, Hed Planet Earth, among others, also had successful albums. 2001, however, was nu metal's peak year. By this time record labels had jumped the band wagon and signed most nu metal bands whose sound was similar. Most bands at this time had massive successful hit albums like Staind (Break the Cycle), P.O.D (Satellite), Saliva (Every Six Seconds), Linkin Park (Hybrid Theory) which was the years top selling album. The same year System Of A Down released Toxicity to both critical and commercial acclaim. By 2002 signs that nu metal was dying out were visible. Korn's long awaited fifth album The Untouchables and Papa Roach's second album Lovehatetragedy didn't sell as well as their previous albums. Also nu metal bands became less heard on rock radio stations and MTV began focusing less on these bands and more on pop punk bands like New Found Glory, Yellowcard, and Good Charlotte and also more on pop and hip-hop based videos. Between 2003 and 2004 nu metal continued to decline and by 2005 it disappeared from the lime light. Several bands, following the nu metal decay, adopted a tendency of slowly migrating from the style to alternative metal/rock and post-grunge, such as P.O.D., Linkin Park and Staind, whose songs vary from a few nu metal tracks to most alternative ones. Some of these bands prefer not labeling themselves as nu metal or considering its metallic sound as defunct.
Definition
The term was first used for a review of a 1996 Coal Chamber concert in Spin magazine in the form "new metal". Categorization of specific artists as "nu metal" is difficult, an issue made more prevalent in the online community by traditional metal fans who take offense to the term.
This alliance is welcome to anyone, even if you don't want to perfectly state your apart of it, were just happy to have you as a member.
You can just be friendly here, make some new friends, check out the gigs and meet ups section or just hang out or whatever you want to do.
Nu Metal
Nu metal (sometimes named new metal or nü metal) is a musical genre that emerged in the mid 1990s which fuses influences from grunge and alternative metal with funk music, hip hop and various heavy metal genres, such as Thrash metal, groove metal and Industrial metal.
Nu metal music emphasizes mood, rhythm, and texture over melody. Often, nu metal songs use rhythmic, syncopated riffs played on distorted electric guitars with strings detuned to lower pitches to create a dark and thick sound.
Origins
Bands such as Snot, Manhole, Human Waste Project, Deftones, Linkin Park, and Korn are early nu metal bands all from Southern California and started in the mid nineties.
Producer Ross Robinson was labelled by some as "the godfather of nu metal" due to his producing of several notable nu metal albums, the first of which was Korn's eponymous first album.
Korn's signature sound came from an attempt to emulate chords used by Mr. Bungle's guitar player Trey Spruance, which they referred to as "the moveable Bungle chord". They have also cited Mike Patton's other band Faith No More in Kerrang!'s The Greatest Videos of All Time in 2006, saying that Korn was influenced by them because they did something unusual with a metal band. Nu metal bands also often state more conventional metal acts as an influence, particularly Black Sabbath.[4]
Mainstream popularity, decline and influence
Nu Metal's grip on the mainstream came in 1998 with the success of Korn's third album Follow The Leader, which brought other bands of the genre into the lime light. In 1999 many of these bands began receiving air play on rock radio and were put in heavy rotation on MTV, mostly on the channel's TRL program. Limp Bizkit helped further nu metal's popularity with the release of their multi platinum album Significant Other which spawned the top hit singles "Nookie" and "Break Stuff". Other bands who had hit albums that year included Coal Chamber, Methods of Mayhem, and Staind, as well as Korn's Issues.
Another contribute to the popularity of nu metal was festive tours such as Family Values Tour, Lollapalooza, and Ozzfest. The 30th anniversary of Woodstock also featured nu metal bands like Limp Bizkit.
In 2000 more bands broke out with hit albums like Papa Roach whose major label debut Infest became a top seller. P.O.D, Disturbed, Hed Planet Earth, among others, also had successful albums. 2001, however, was nu metal's peak year. By this time record labels had jumped the band wagon and signed most nu metal bands whose sound was similar. Most bands at this time had massive successful hit albums like Staind (Break the Cycle), P.O.D (Satellite), Saliva (Every Six Seconds), Linkin Park (Hybrid Theory) which was the years top selling album. The same year System Of A Down released Toxicity to both critical and commercial acclaim. By 2002 signs that nu metal was dying out were visible. Korn's long awaited fifth album The Untouchables and Papa Roach's second album Lovehatetragedy didn't sell as well as their previous albums. Also nu metal bands became less heard on rock radio stations and MTV began focusing less on these bands and more on pop punk bands like New Found Glory, Yellowcard, and Good Charlotte and also more on pop and hip-hop based videos. Between 2003 and 2004 nu metal continued to decline and by 2005 it disappeared from the lime light. Several bands, following the nu metal decay, adopted a tendency of slowly migrating from the style to alternative metal/rock and post-grunge, such as P.O.D., Linkin Park and Staind, whose songs vary from a few nu metal tracks to most alternative ones. Some of these bands prefer not labeling themselves as nu metal or considering its metallic sound as defunct.
Definition
The term was first used for a review of a 1996 Coal Chamber concert in Spin magazine in the form "new metal". Categorization of specific artists as "nu metal" is difficult, an issue made more prevalent in the online community by traditional metal fans who take offense to the term.
