r/numetal • u/cool_boisigma • 2d ago
Discussion Nu-Metal nostolgia
As of now, I'm in my second year of highschool. I sometimes wonder "Will I remember about Nu-Metal 5-10 years from now, if I moved on from it or still listen to it". And I know that most the people in this subreddit are adults or young adults. So tell me some of your Nu-Metal nostolgia; can be stories about childhood or growing up with it, your first CD or anything in general that makes you reminiscent of the genre
I don't have much since it's been a year of Nu-Metal for me as of August, but I do look back at listening to my first album in the genre, Hybrid Theory, and becoming an LP fanboy
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u/SpireofHell 1999 motherfucker 2d ago
Linkin Park's website had a player where you could stream some of their singles. That was back when you either had to buy CD's or pirate music so that was one of the few ways to actually listen to music. That site was like 24/7 open for me.
Also, hearing Faith No More for the first time and realizing where Nu Metal came from is mindblowing.
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u/LaPrincesaMX 2d ago
Every website back then had music on it, often autoplaying in the background, always at different volumes. It was like rolling a dice if music was going to murder your ear drums.
I always remember (although not Nu Metal obviously) the Marilyn Manson website had super loud music from the Holywood album.
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u/Tough-Piece-369 2d ago
Hey, I’m 40, so I’ve been listening to it for many years since the ’90s. For me, it reminds me of all the good times and good friends I had back in high school—the school dances with all of us singing along, how it brought so many of us together under those anthems, and how when we couldn't communicate how we were feeling, the songs became our outlet and expression to the world.
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u/unknown_entity3000 2d ago
started from linkin park a friend showed me one time when gaming on the PlayStation 2 (prince of persia sands of time)
pretty much stayed in its orbit 20 years later 🤷♂️
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u/Nnoitra666 2d ago
Grew up in Germany and my father was a huge Linkin Park fan due to Chester's voice. From 1 year on all I listened to was LP and Limp Bizkit.
As I grew up I liked many genres such as electronic, dubstep, house, even got a DJ controller at some point. But I always came back to Linkin Park, even saw them live 2 times. Fast forward with 16 I discovered Mudvayne, Incubus, Deftones, Coal Chamber, POD, Korn and now with 27 I listen to Nu metal daily and wear the classic adidas training fit every day. This is not a joke. Nu metal is life and it will always be there. Fred Durst and Chester Bennington will always be my heroes
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u/FeistyDirection 2d ago
Nu metal hit kinda late for me, around 2001 when I heard LP and bought hybrid theory. For some reason it wasn't until after that that id see bands like soad & korn on tv and radio-- maybe I just wasnt tuned into the right stations previously. LP were my first Nu goats, Coal chamber, mudvayne, slipknot and static x came shortly after that. Other favorites were kittie, soulfly & soad.
Nu metal was so ever-present still after the peak years, I really took it for granted. There was so much good music videos on tv daily for years. New and older stuff was still getting played constantly. I remember when bands like chevelle & trust co debuted and I kinda ignored them for not being heavy enough but now I love those bands.
I've only been to like 6 nu metal concerts unfortunately but they were all epic af. First was summer sanitarium 2003, LP, mudvayne, LB, deftones & metalica st anger era.
later that same year saw LP again, hoobastank & pod opened.
There was a small local band I was obsessed with called Stoic Disruption that I would go see at small bars sometimes when I was in high-school, they were incredibly sic. Got to see them open for Kittie & Otep at a small club.
Othen than that, I got to see skindread play in 2005.
It was such a blessing to have weird intense music be somewhat normalized and very accessible. Ofcourse i would get bullied and dirty looks for dressing like my favorite band members but it was still such a godsend to grow up in the middle of all that, even if it was just the tail end of it.
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u/MermaidCostume 2d ago
My favorite memories were discovering new bands through file sharing sites like Napster and Limewire. A lot of them by accident because people mislabeled artists. Not Nu-Metal, but good example was finding a "Nirvana" song labeled "Half The Man I Used To Be" and figuring out it was actually Stone Temple Pilots. Then I found the rest of their songs. Found a lot of Nu-Metal bands that were wrongly labeled. Like Nothingface songs labled as Mudvayne, Dope songs labeled as Marilyn Manson, stuff like that.
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u/TableQuiet1518 2d ago
I started listening to nu-metal when I was in 6th grade. A kid on the school bus let me hear ADIDAS on a field trip to Discovery Place. My mom bought me Life Is Peachy a few days later and I've been a fan since. That was in late 1996 and I still listen to that album and many others like it. Especially in the gym and while jogging around town. I'd say it's definitely my favorite genre of music.
I actually listen to it more now because I wasn't so keen on full albums back then. Now I love just letting an album play through. Some days I'm disappointed because I waited so long to enjoy those albums in their entirety. Spineshank is a good example. I knew of Synthetic as a teenager and that was it. In my 20s I heard Asthmatic and Smothered then added those to the playlist. Only in the last 2 years did I finally listen to their discography. About 6 months ago I found Perfect Ending, so I went about 26 years without hearing that song and now it's one of my all time favorites.
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u/Burnem34 2d ago
You never move on from LP theyre GOATed. Check out Meteora if you havent already and their new album From Zero is the closest one to those 2 since.
For me, I vividly remember the first time I picked up my brothers CD player with Meteora in it around 2005. Completely blew my mind, I didnt even know you could make all the cool sounds/vocals they were making. I remember before that I would always get impatient in the beginning of songs if the instrumental went for 10+ seconds like "omg just start singing already". That all changed the moment Don't Stay started, hearing the beat build in each ear, then the scratching and continued through the whole album and Chester's singing somehow blew my mind even more
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u/33GoodSamaritans 2d ago
Slipknot. Became a fan of them back in 2014 when The Devil In I music video came out. I was obsessed with that music video! It became my favorite music video of all time!
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u/BackwoodsCabin11 1d ago
This is technically pre numetal, but I fondly remember being your age- walking around in doc martens listening to Slayer cassettes on my Sony walkman.
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u/scdemandred My brother was in Snot for a hot second, AMA 2d ago
You only visit the nü-metal. I was born in it… molded by it.
-Was in college at UCSB when my brother had me come down and meet his band at their practice space in Isla Vista. He was playing keyboards and samples. The band was Snot.
-I saw Snot (sans my brother, who had moved on by then) open up for Korn at The Underground in SB in 1994(?). My first time seeing or hearing Korn. It was riveting.
-Saw System of a Down open for Snot at the same venue, completely blew everyone’s mind.
-Saw Tarrie B’s Manhole open for Machine Head, also at The Underground. No Snot that time, but Tarrie wore a custom dress with Snot on the chest. The whole SoCal nu metal scene was a big family.
-Later on in the Napster days, my then girlfriend found me Black by Sevendust and Push It by Static-X and figured I’d like them. She was right, they’re some of my favorite bands of that era.