A genre of music composing of shitty gothic posers strumming mindlessly at low tuned C# guitars and screaming garbage about death and calling themselves metal.(By covering good metal songs). Defined mostly by the popular (for what it's worth) bands suck ass Bullet for My Valentine, A.F.I., Avenged Sevenfold, and Slipknot. Fanbase consists of emo posers wanting to be called metalheads.
True Metal Fan""What are you listening to?"
Poser:"Nu-Metal"
True Metal Fan:"You mean Nu-Garbage?"
Poser:"Ima go cut myself to 'Almost Easy'"
Poser:"Nu-Metal"
True Metal Fan:"You mean Nu-Garbage?"
Poser:"Ima go cut myself to 'Almost Easy'"
by xgrimreapahx May 31, 2009
people underrate nu metal because they are babies and don't want to try anything other than iron maiden, who suck by the way. people never even give nu metal a chance. they have not heard the great nu metal bands like mudvayne and disturbed, which actually have meaningfull lyrics, unlike Iron Maiden which sings about fricking Noah's ark in Number of the Beasts. Give nu metal a chance its the best music to ever be created
disturbed, mudvayne, slipknot, SOAD, Linkin Park, Adema, Taproot, Staind, Limp Bizkit, Spineshank, 40 Below Summer
by peter aka DICK October 1, 2003
Nu Metal is a form of music that evolved from punk/hardcore in the metal deprived years of the early nineties. The band that is most often credited with the creation of Nu Metal is KoRn, or in other words the greatest band ever. Nu Metal is unique because unlike heavy metal which involves a more complicated and changing guitar riff, a Nu Metal riff is more repetitive and simpler, which means that most songs revolve around the tempo/pitch of the riff. Nu Metal has been on the descent because of shit bands like Limp Bizkit and slipknot, but many people fail to realize several other good Nu Metal bands such as Tool, KoRn, Godsmack, and Disturbed. Another thing, metal was failing miserably in the nineties, especially after the grunge era with bands like Nirvana, and metal was going to soon be pronounced dead, but like I stated earlier, with the arrival of bands like KoRn metal was reenergized and popular again. So the next time your going to bash Nu Metal, or a Nu Metal band, thank them (or at least the early ones, some new Nu Metal bands like slipknot suck) for saving the heavy metal that we all love today
Nu Metal saved metal and changed the way we look at music
++++Good Bands++++KoRn (godfather of Nu Metal), Mudvayne, Tool, Godsmack, Disturbed
----Bad Bands----Slipknot (music is pure shit, no talent) Linkin Park (could be good but music sounds all the same), Limp Bizkit (Need I say more?)
++++Good Bands++++KoRn (godfather of Nu Metal), Mudvayne, Tool, Godsmack, Disturbed
----Bad Bands----Slipknot (music is pure shit, no talent) Linkin Park (could be good but music sounds all the same), Limp Bizkit (Need I say more?)
by Will Brasil February 25, 2007
A sub genre of metal often criticized for not being "true metal". I could get more into that but I won't because we could spend hours arguing about what bands are true metal and which aren't, but in the end it does not matter that much. The point is, do you like the music? Nu Metal has hip hop influence. Nu Metal bands are usually pretty whiny, image obsessed, and all too happy to sell out. One band that is often mistaken for Nu Metal is System of a Down, despite the fact that the record company admits to putting that label on them because they couldn't figure out what the deuce they were, the members say that hate Nu Metal, and if any one actually listened to them they would realize that they are far off from being even close to Nu Metal, or much of any definable genre, metal snobs go on ahead anyway and hate them because they are insecure about their own musical taste. Real Nu Metal is very generic, unreal, and meant only to sell records. The target audience is angst filled, rich, spoiled teenagers who don't realize just how great their lives are.
Examples of Nu Metal:
Korn (Go away. You don't know how to spell.)
Slipknot (You're right, no body loves you.)
Linkin Park (Just shut up. Now.)
Examples of "real metal" (not going to get into exactly what sub genres these guys belong to):
Cannibal Corpse (My brother is a big fan, they still scare me too much, haha)
Pantera (They rock.)
Gojira (Love them too!)
Example of doing their own thing and not caring what anyone thinks:
System of a Down (My favorite band. Give them a chance.)
You're all welcome.
Korn (Go away. You don't know how to spell.)
Slipknot (You're right, no body loves you.)
Linkin Park (Just shut up. Now.)
Examples of "real metal" (not going to get into exactly what sub genres these guys belong to):
Cannibal Corpse (My brother is a big fan, they still scare me too much, haha)
Pantera (They rock.)
Gojira (Love them too!)
Example of doing their own thing and not caring what anyone thinks:
System of a Down (My favorite band. Give them a chance.)
You're all welcome.
by SometimesIGetBored June 18, 2009
Now I say what nu metal is - it's a METAL, NOT Hard Rock, style or genre - Heavy Metal and other metal styles with Hardcore, Grunge, Funk, Hip - Hop, Rap, Electro music,....
by nu man 7 November 15, 2017
A sub-genre of Heavy Metal and Grunge that was first seen in 1993 with Korns demo "Neidermeyer's Mind". The first band to be offically labeled as Nu Metal was Coal Chamber by a columist in a metal magizine. Traditional metalheads frown upon the genre because the vocals are understandable and the solos arent anoyingly long and boring and the drummers have actuall skill and talent. the genres popularity lasted from 1997 to 2002.
Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot(early work), Crazy Town, Papa Roach, 3rd Strike, Darwins Waiting Room, Lifer, and Twisted Method are all Nu Metal bands.
by Nu_Metal_Is_King_1993 August 1, 2010
a term invented by the media to categorize any form of heavy/hardcore/aggressive music that comes from 1990-...
very unpopular with fans of "true" metal from the eighties or "black metal"or anyother kind of music meant for retards who seem to think its hardcore to hate music that sells so instead watch bands stand with their feet planted on stage with their eyes rolled into the back of their head trying to look hardcore
- another "true" form is speed metal which constains high speed drumbeats and alternate picked power chords over monotone "dark" lyrics with a pathetic attempt at singing, but of coarse its considered good because it is not nu-metal
bands such as tool, system of a down, deftones, (which are not metal, they are of far better quality then any metal bands)
are given a hard time by people because of the creation of this false genre regardless of there amazing live performances and unbelievable vocal abilities.
nu metal does not exist, it is horseshit
metal is not original as some claim, the most original and diverse decade of music by far is the 90's enough of this death-hardcore-satanist bullshit coming from these stubborn, whiney, hypocrites
very unpopular with fans of "true" metal from the eighties or "black metal"or anyother kind of music meant for retards who seem to think its hardcore to hate music that sells so instead watch bands stand with their feet planted on stage with their eyes rolled into the back of their head trying to look hardcore
- another "true" form is speed metal which constains high speed drumbeats and alternate picked power chords over monotone "dark" lyrics with a pathetic attempt at singing, but of coarse its considered good because it is not nu-metal
bands such as tool, system of a down, deftones, (which are not metal, they are of far better quality then any metal bands)
are given a hard time by people because of the creation of this false genre regardless of there amazing live performances and unbelievable vocal abilities.
nu metal does not exist, it is horseshit
metal is not original as some claim, the most original and diverse decade of music by far is the 90's enough of this death-hardcore-satanist bullshit coming from these stubborn, whiney, hypocrites
by noname August 17, 2004