In a decade now best remembered for trends that suffocatingly enveloped one another, nu metal may well be the most infamous of them all. Filled with baggy-jeaned, backwards-hat-wearing types (hello, ...

Happy Friday! We're just over halfway through October now, which means the gig calendar is about to go into overdrive. But while new releases are steadily slowing down - for this side of 2025, at ...

Nu Metal took the music world by storm in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The heavy, aggressive music and angsty lyrics were like catnip for teens and people in their early 20s. However, those of us ...

Even the sweltering sun and the broiling LA heat couldn't keep the masses away from the Epicenter music festival Saturday at the Forum in Inglewood. Thousands flocked to see Hopsin, Suicidal ...

For whatever reason, nu-metal is a pretty polarizing subgenre of heavy music. Though we have a pretty good general idea of which bands fall into the category, the lines are a bit more blurred when it ...

Artists tend to resent when their band is given a specific label, and nu-metal was one of the most scoffed at genre names for a long time. But how does Chad Gray feel about Mudvayne being called ...

Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson recently named his picks for the “Big 4″ of nu-metal and recalled his first impressions of the burgeoning subgenre on an episode of The David Ellefson Show, ...

The angst of nu metal is being discovered by Gen Z, but with digital eyes always looming, the ephemeral catharsis of collectively going mad is a thing of the past. Credit...Illustration by Trevor Shin ...

If you weren't already aware, Kid Rock hasn't always been topping the charts with radio-ready country hits. In fact, before he burst into the spotlight with his 1998 rap-rock/nu-metal monstrosity, ...

The first coming of nu metal, as much a subgenre as a suburban raison d'être, both overpromised and overdelivered on its hostile id. The riffs? Sloppy and sloshy. The bass? No less than five strings ...

In the ’90s, few sports captured our national attention quite like figure skating. So, like many ’90s kids, I asked my mom for skating lessons. Back then, the sport had it all: tabloid drama, judging ...