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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

While nu-metal certainly has its devoted fans and some of the more important bands of the genre are still standing strong today, for most of us who were alive during metal’s golden age, nu-metal was ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Otep Shamaya, vocalist of the nu metal band Otep, has always been candid about her experiences as a woman in the metal scene. And now, as nu metal has a recent resurgence in popularity, she says she’s ...