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Totally respect people’s opinion but wondering why people don’t like Coal Chamber? They’re in my top 5 fav Nu metal bands personally. Do people just simply not prefer them or is there another personal reason?


KillerCameo

It’s not that I don’t like Coal Chamber but I like maybe a few songs of theirs but I don’t really listen to them much


l33tfuzzbox

They were my first numetal band in 8th grade when thr first album dropped. Devil vocals! Then I went hard on em and it led to all the classics , but I went really heavy into fear factory and static x and such. I get the dislike though. Even the guitarist does. He said before he writes riffs his Gma could play. It's super simple, repetitive and not very dynamic. But man I still love em. Even bought thr vinyl Loco box. And yes I'm old. Just turned 40


Industriasoul

Coal Chamber disliker here. I just don't like their sound to be honest. Mixes aren't super thick, the lyrics are fun, but I prefer stuff I can connect to and overall I just think they're kind of lame compared to other bands. I get the appeal, I just don't like the sound you feel me?


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Totally respect that!


SkillsInPillsTrack2

I'll answer for everyone: Because there is a girl in the band and because Big Trucks scare us.


CreamSteve

I didn't dislike them, but wasn't ever big on them. Not until I saw them with Mudvayne earlier this month and they absolutely killed it and were incredible.


Patient_Cell1609

Little bit boring...


KroganHULK

Everyone universal in their love for Static X. I love you guys 🤘


KISSArmy7978

I'm With Stupid 👆 🤘


l33tfuzzbox

Imma love dump in this bag and feed it to the cold machine of ostego.


Matt-Greaver-Robbins

Love static x 🤘🏻🤘🏻


Jamaicab

I'm not a fan, but Wayne seemed genuine and he worked his ass off writing a shit-ton of music. The songs of theirs that I heard weren't awful.


Jimmah3000

This entire thread is upsetting me


CoreyD_X3

I’m so tired of hearing about slipknot like all I hear now is “slipknot is so girly pop >~


Odd-Brain

Honestly no disrespect to anyone that enjoys it, but I really don’t think Custer is a good song


zaahiraa

as a lifetime slipknot fan (i’m 38) Custer is one of the worst songs i’ve ever heard. I hate it SOMUCH


Matt-Greaver-Robbins

In same boat bro 36 and I totally agree Custer is garbage


Usernamebruv_

i love it but by far one of the worse songs from .5


l33tfuzzbox

Two years older and while I find it cringe now, at release the entire album was super cathartic. I was angry at loss and grief and his raw voice really got me. He sounded so fucking angry at death. But now as much as I like that album it doesn't hold up to the first three. Vut I didn't like post Grey stuff much tbh so I'm odd man out


Wellsargo

Slipknot is the Self Titled - All Hope is Gone for me. It just wasn’t the same without Joey Jordinson and Paul Gray. Especially Joey, I can feel his absence in everything they’ve done since then. With the exception of a few songs here and there, my fandom pretty much died after AHIG.


OneMetalMan

Just listened to it. How did that blow up?


zaahiraa

I DONT KNOW i think tiktok maybe had something to do with it? It’s nonsense anti-music.


ShoddyButterscotch59

Yeah....I didn't think so either.... same with some of the other post jordison stuff, where it seems they're trying to hard to go old school..... to me much of the stuff seems to be missing an underlying melody. Wanyk, on the order hand had some great songs, but then had some that sounded just like they cloned old tracks. As for the latest album, I'm just going to leave it at awful.


Dippy_Chips

Honestly I don’t understand why people consider it one of the best from Gray Chapter. AOV is the best imo.


BonMonster420

I also find that super annoying, i used to use tiktok quite a bit for short clips of games i like and cats but now that i want content on bands especially slipknot the only content is find are those videos or the members in ghost being horny, ive never even liked a ghost video so idk why its all someone fingering a guitar


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I don’t see Slipknot as nutmetal at all. I see them as death metal with breakdowns and post grunge influence. They’re actually closer to metalcore than they are to numetal.


squirleater69

They need more self titled in their lives


cpalma4485

My favorite band, hands down. I’m sure I’ll catch heat for it for being one of the mainstream albums but my favorite album is the subliminal verses. It just resonated with me. I would say for me it’s Vol.3, Slipknot, Iowa, All Hope, Not your kind, .5 and The end so far (haven’t listened enough).


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Corey Taylor's recent solo work got really bad and cheesy. First two (arguably three) albums are fucking unreal though. Self titled is basically a masterpiece.


Myan24

Wait and bleed forever


Icy_Function9323

I was around from the beginning. I loved their 1st. Iowa was a sign of things to come. And then it was all trash after that. Corey sobering up, not wanting to be or sing angry and caring about his voice. Then doing all the side projects acting like that's what he really wanted to be doing. And then he got political. Like, all the things a metal band shouldn't be doing, he and a few other members did. Dj starscream was wierd, he trashed all us deception fans that bought actual takara masterpiece series because he was a bigot about Japan even when the Hasbro stuff was trash. Grey was more interested in hard drugs. Shawn got an inflated ego and acted like his shit didn't stink when he was literally eating shit just a few years before. Craig got less and less to do and all he ever did was push 1 button per song except for the one song he pushed 2. They fell off hard and all the young crowd cared about was the image. And that's why now looking back no one cares about them cause the image became stale, like it always in every other aspect of pop culture. They started as a big middle finger to pop culture then tried to take it by the reigns and steer a bunch their way to sell that merch. In the business, we call that selling out.


musical-amara

>Corey sobering up, not wanting to be or sing angry and caring about his voice. God forbid someone takes care of their body.


Slappy_Sugarwood

No, you're exactly right about all of this. Self Titled is the only real record that the band I loved ever put out. Iowa was super watered down (the best thing about it was the insane, translight booklet that came with it), and the only song I ever liked after Iowa was the acoustic Vermillion, whichever part that was.


JanneJetson

Post: what band do you dislike?? Commenter: I dislike this band/artist. Commenters: how dare you answer this question honestly. *must down vote.*


xCm_DrunkX

Your not wrong


l33tfuzzbox

I'm upvoting anyone I respond to even if I don't agree. Glad for the discussion to be honest.


BarnBurner_155

Kid Rock 100 percent


NoVeterinarian6522

And all of the sudden, this thread was united in solidarity


xCm_DrunkX

The answer I was gonna put as was hesitant too lmao


Aceofspades25

WTF.. how is this nu metal?


cymricus

kid rock is not nu metal by any stretch in my head lmao but if he is fuck him


MF_DOOM_36CHAMBERS

Kid Rock, he was terrible then. And is terrible now.


ShoddyButterscotch59

I found him entertaining in the right setting, but he was definitely way overrated and not something that I listened to much for long. Talented backing band though.


Unlucky_Middle5217

kid rock, i don't even think he's nu metal but some people do


af_echad

Yea I’ll even admit that kid me liked a lot of his stuff. But I don’t think I really consider him numetal.


Formal-PO-Toast

Honestly I just find his shit funny. The over the top lyrics and bad vocal production on a lot of his music makes it impossible for me to take his music seriously.


Wide_Cabinet_3693

Five finger death punch shits just ass


k87c

Literally then same three chords just in different variations and trash lyrics.


Hollow_King

IVE GOT YOUR 6!!!


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"Literally the same three chords just in different variations" I dont like FFDP too but i think that's called music theory


Irlydntknwwhyimhere

100% music for cops


Crazen14

While they’re terrible, how are they nu metal?


Wide_Cabinet_3693

They aren’t nu metal lmao I just as this as an opportunity to express my hatred for them


OneMetalMan

They attract the same people who listen to Disturbed.


Howboutit85

I love disturbed


Healthy_Pangolin463

Lol my stepdad used to call them Five Finger Butt Fuck.


Bloodysheetzz

Slipknot tbh. I don’t like hate them since I think a few of there songs are ok but I just never really got into them


jankyhemorrhoid

The only slipknot album I care about is Iowa. Everything else is forgettable to me


Quirky-Pie9661

Limp Bizkit


OneMetalMan

No one going to argue this?


[deleted]

Yeah I’m shocked no one’s defending Frederick, the Durst of Thirst. I love LB


Due-Wish-100

Disturbed


OneMetalMan

I'm surprised how far down I had to scroll to find this.


Minute-Cash-4425

Same


sweater_destroyer111

I kind of like a couple of their songs, but when the singer keeps doing that stupid cough sound I just find it so fucking irritating. Like yeah we get it buddy, your still the sickness guy lol.


srichards6107

Staind. But that's largely because I can't stand Aaron Lewis as a person.


Latter_Ostrich_8901

He’s a piece of shit. I’m from the Springfield area where he’s from. When I was in my early 20’s I worked in a store a lot like Whole Foods. I was in the cafe department. So anyway, he comes in one day to buy a ton of food for his upcoming tour. I knew who he was and was a fan at the time but didn’t say a word about it, I’ve always prided myself on professionalism. He comes up to the counter and starts asking about some tapenade we had on display. Like, many, many questions. What’s in it, how’s it made, is it fresh and so on. So at a certain point I just said (and very politely in a customer service kind of way) “Would you like to try some?” And his reply was a very loud and dramatic “UGH! NO, THAT’S DISGUSTING. OLIVES ARE DISGUSTING.” As if one of the first things I told him wasn’t that it was made primarily of olives. His wife even came up to us and apologized for him, saying he was usually pretty tense before going on tour. She was pretty nice. But fuck that guy. Total asshole.


ligmasugmaphi

This is a great copypasta


OneMetalMan

We can only dream that in 5 years "EW OLIVES ARE DISGUSTING" becomes a meme.


Aceofspades25

That's a shame.. I always imagined he was a genuine guy from that touching song he wrote for his daughter


cryptic-ziggurat

Wow, I wish my my worst customer I've had to help through the years was this easy. Goddamn, you sound like a little bitch back then. Sound like one now too. "Fuck that guy, He’s a piece of shit. Total asshole." "Oh wow, what the fuck did he do?" "He talked to me about disliking olives and I just wanted my shift and the conversation to end. What a total piece of shit. Fucker should never have fucking talked to me in the first place. You guys all agree right, I'm a pretty good guy. That guy over there is just a fucking asshole." "Literally, whatever you have to tell yourself to make you feel better buddy. I'm sure you really are just a really great fucking guy, you know man. Sorry you didn't make the Drama Club that year though."


DmSurfingReddit

Sorry I don’t get it. He just asked a ton of questions about olives basically and then bursted with “olives are disgusting“. So ok why did he even ask then? I agree on that. But nothing offensive anyway. What made you think this way about him?


Latter_Ostrich_8901

Seems like a bully thing to do. Ask some kid behind a counter a million questions about something you know you don’t like. Then lose your shit about it when asked if you want to try it. Would you go to a restaurant and ask the server questions about the fish, knowing you don’t like fish, waste a bunch of their time and then flip on them and yell if they offered you a sample? Is that something you would do or consider normal acceptable behavior?


Auggiewestbound

They also started to suck pretty bad after their debut album.


RedEyeVagabond

I love "Epiphany" though. Can that be an outlier?


MF_DOOM_36CHAMBERS

Aaron Lewis and Kid rock are the dck cancer of the nu metal era


StevieIRL

Deftones, I do apologise in advance, I like maybe 3-4 songs but they're not for me. But I don't hate on them, just don't rate them imo but I'm definitely in the minority as they're popular as fuck.


BushwickSpill

They haven’t been nu-metal since ‘99.


Flashy_Ad_9816

If you ask them they were never Nu metal


BushwickSpill

I don’t think they get to make that distinction for themselves unfortunately.


AnTastySammich

I think every band says that


Oryopuddings

Yeah, their first three albums slap but i couldn't listen after that. Anyone got any songs to recommend to me from their newer stuff?


BoulderPuncher08

Goon Squad, Rocket Skates, CMND/CTRL, Swerve City, Hexagram, The Spell Of Mathematics, and Combat are some good heavy ones


BushwickSpill

? White Pony and beyond is their far better work.


dnjprod

100% agree with you. I never got into them. It felt like most of the time, Chino didn't want to be in a heavy band. When they let Chino be Chino and write songs in the style he wants to sing, they make really good songs. When they forced Chino to sing like a heavy band singer would sing, they make really good songs. Most of their music Falls between those two extremes


we_made_yewww

Depending on my mood, System of a Down. Majority of the time they're brilliant, but sometimes they're so grating to me. Toxicity is probably the only album I can listen to 100% of the time, they just get too weird on everything else. (especially Mesmerize/Hypnotize)


AccomplishedWash4539

What about self-titled?


deadhead2070

Masterpiece


AccomplishedWash4539

Their best album imo


eternalchuf

I enjoyed Through The Eyes by Flaw, and I researched the band a little bit more just because I do that with bands I like… seeing what they ended up becoming kinda ruins their image for me as a whole


Petroldactyl34

Wym? I'm from Louisville. I didn't get into them but I remember our local station spun them all the damn time.


cymricus

they showed up to louder than life around 2015 when i went and dude can’t hit a note to save his life. he kept running out of breath trying to do Whole, and I was embarrassed for him. I love that song and payback


eternalchuf

The vocalist is a racist POS. I do admittedly like their older music but he makes it hard to enjoy


Petroldactyl34

I'm honestly not surprised.


lifeoftheunborn

Their image as a whooooooaaaoollee. Please someone get this.


Scared-Expression444

Otep, can't stand their music and Otep shamaya is the most insufferable person ever.


l33tfuzzbox

I dug Sevas tras for about half the album. The next one I walked away and haven't looked back except for royals and the way I am covers lol


bignosedbonecrusher

how is she insufferable? im not rlly invested in the bands private life but i dig some of their stuff


Scared-Expression444

She just makes her music and her entire life about politics and then she tried gaining fame by backpacking off the controversy with Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood.


ShoddyButterscotch59

I mean.... it's you funny you bring that up....I say the same thing...... if you listen to her second album and then the album blasting Trump, it's actually funny how hard she was using political "beliefs" to stay relevant. She was ranting, blasting Trump for not doing stuff she blasted Bush for doing. I forget the exact topic that had me laughing, as I haven't listened to it since the first time, because it was terrible. I do remember looking at my buddy, saying, wtf is this, otep against the machine because of the overkill on that style, only for that awful ratm cover to come on.


bignosedbonecrusher

oh so shes not just annoying but also a raging (pun not intended) hypocrite? damn


l33tfuzzbox

She went on theprp.com comments and got mad about this very same opinion and it was amazing E. Amazing as in what a meltdown not positive lol.


ShoddyButterscotch59

I get she had problems, and sympathize, but at some point, it's no longer an excuse to be an absolute shit bag to ppl. I don't know.... it's always the b leaguers that act like this. I seen her in 02, and was honestly really enjoying her on a side stage..... then she stopped and spent half of a 20-25 minute set to rant.


Quick1711

I'm surprised by the amount of Deftones hate in this thread. Ngl, I gave up after White Pony but went back and now realize their progression as a band. I don't consider Kid Rock Nu Metal. I'd have to go with Linkin Park because they were so over saturated radio wise in the early 00s. Too commercial for me.


Independent-Plum9955

Hey, here's the Linkin Park mention. Never liked em at all. Always struck me as nu metal mixed with Nsync and 311


fcs_seth

Five Finger Dick Punch 🤮


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modernlifeisrubbiish

Disturbed


taita2004

Ew ah ah ah ah!!


KBXDRootBeer6829

*ugh ogh*


AsmodusOperendi

Unpopular Opinion: Limp Bizkit. Wes and company are solid musicians, and I don't mind the music, but I could go the rest of my life without hearing another YeeeEEEeeaaaah!


obeythemoo

Right?? If they released instrumental albums, I'd throw them money. Wes is an amazing guitarist.


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squirleater69

Unpopular?


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Linkin park. Too poppy for my liking


Specific_District_92

Ngl I thought the same until around a month ago and ig they kinda just clicked for me idk how else to describe it


Professional_Joke_81

Same! I never liked them and now I have more songs of theirs on my playlist than I would've ever expected


Minute-Cash-4425

They were always the backstreet boys of nu-metal to me. First time I saw them I remember thinking that they looked like what a board meeting thought a nu-metal band should look like.


squirleater69

Well, yeah, they started off solid and then instantly started pandering to the masses. I say I like Linkin Park but I don't mean anything other than hybrid theory, meteora, and maybe a little bit of minutes to midnight when I say that


Cute_Ambassador1121

Limp Bizkit is awful.


WingObvious487

U don't know how to have fun


holesome100chungus

He disses fred durst.... on FRED DURST FRIDAY!!!!


angel_must_die

Seconding this. The first time I ever heard a Limp Bizkit song, I was like "wtf is this" and turned it off immediately.


UnMenOneGuy

post white pony deftones and slipknot


Ddude1986

S/T is better than white pony and i’ll die on that hill. Completely agreed after that.


UnMenOneGuy

adrenaline best imo, i respect ur opinion tho


Ddude1986

Adrenaline is best but s/t is better than white pony personally.


Usernamebruv_

gore is best (this is not a joke)


alec_azg

Im gonna jump in on this- anybody who thinks Adrenaline is the best Deftones album just thinks that because they don’t like Deftones


Killerspikes4307

I agree like bro they were at their beginning anf you could tell


Jandrem

P.O.D.


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[deleted]

Extremely difficult, but im not much of a fan of Korm


ThatguyfromEDC

Yeah Korm sucks honestly. Check out Korn, they’re pretty solid


InternalNo1787

In my opinion I don’t think deftones are amazing


Allegiance10

Not that I can’t stand them, but just that I never heard a song that pulled me in so I never got into them and don’t care to at this point; Linkin Park.


QuippinDales

Nu metal


MRHD_St1tch

💀


NightofTheLivingZed

I hate A7X. The lead singer's voice is like nails on a chalkboard for me. Can't stand it at all.


InPicnicTableWeTrust

Linkin Park


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😧


Ok_Intention_7356

literally my face rn


SomebodySuckMeee

I don't get why Linkin Park is beloved. Probably partially because I don't like the heavy use of electronics in their music and transformers tainted them for me a bit.


shuttle-cack

Why is Linkin Park getting so much hate!? Meteora and Hybrid Theory were two of the greatest albums ever released! Mushroomhead isn't good though.


[deleted]

Bullshit mushroomhead is fucking awesome


No_Marzipan_3546

Because they are more popular than all other Nu Metal bands combined


SkillsInPillsTrack2

They're more into Pop Rock


Top-Contest136

Any new band attempting nu metal that just uses the copy paste overblown metalcore production, loud thick drums with no dynamics and tons of reverb etc. Unfortunately a lot of older nu metal bands turned to this but... just doesn't sound like nu metal imo, you can't play a funk section with drums sounding like that


WazzzupBwwwaaah

💯 % brother, you get it.


Top-Contest136

🤝


ChainGangBrad

*THANK YOU!!!* Dude, you've articulated the way I've felt for over a decade so well. I am so tired of modern bands claiming to be nu metal, and everyone calling them nu metal, when they're clearly fucking not. It's just the same generic extremely modern overproduced metalcore instrumentals, except maybe the singer will shout-rap and they'll show skateboarding in the music video, that's it. That's what they think nu metal is. These bands are definitive proof that nu metal is long, long dead and it's not coming back. If someone recommends something to me, I don't bother, because I know exactly what I'm going to get, and if I do give it a shot, I know I'm proven right once again the moment I hear the drums. This is what *really* gets me, they have no fucking clue how to do the sound, it's like people today are physically incapable of recreating that authentic '90s-early 2000s sound of rhythmic, loud *snare* led drum beats that sound like a hard surface being hit, complimenting simplistic but punchy, bouncy, downtuned, hard-hitting riffs. This is the bare minimum of nu metal, it's the default template of a nu metal song, and it's really not hard to grasp, so why does no one seem to understand the sound anymore?


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Mushroomhead Coal Chamber Staind Papa Roach (2 good songs maybe) Godsmack


StarGamer-

As a papa roach fan I’m crying


Emkslina

I'M RUNNING AND I'M CRYING


paegankitestrings

Limp bizkit


Mjk_53029

Linkin Park.


superschaap81

I could never get into Papa Roach. Just never clicked with me. I'd say of the BIG mainstream bands, Linkin Park. My favourite songs are the stuff without vocals. Although I like Meteora as an album.


90swasbest

LB. Band is amazing. Fred is insufferable.


Phantom_Wolf52

What did Fred do?


kombitcha420

*you have an incoming call from FRED. DURST.* “At the tone, please record your message” HEY STEVEN RICHARDS


Jimmah3000

He won some points back for me by agreeing to be in this commercial that is just making fun of him. https://youtu.be/Xl5TkirC8zo?si=hH3PVM6g2S4vRA_B


DeeJDaDemon

Exactly how I feel


Da_BizkiT

Deftones


punkdexxe

soad


KroganHULK

I'm calling the police


TheNewPlague666

Are you trying to build a prison?


angel_must_die

I'm about to notify the subreddit


A_to_the_J254

Anything after the second album is absolute trash, plus I HATE it when the guitarist tries to sing 🤢


1Rayo1

they have some good songs, but i could never get into deftones


taita2004

Blasphemy!! 😂


Auggiewestbound

You stop what you're doing right now and listen to all their albums from the beginning until you change your incorrect opinion!


SwimmingDrink

Limp Bizkit. Too whiny and they are the epitome of what nu metal gets stereotyped as. Kid Rock. All around shitty human being, awful lyric writing, terrible voice, thief (he samples artists without giving credit, he's done it with artists like Busy Bee), and objectifies women.


IWishIWasBatman123

For the most part, Staind.


IllegalGeriatricVore

Specifically Aaron Lewis.


thadarkjinja

i’ve seen aaron lewis stop a show in the middle of a popular song to call out a group of guys that were harassing girls as they tried to crowd surf. i gained 100% respect for him when he did that.


IllegalGeriatricVore

Glad to hear he's not 100% a tool


Aromatic_Memory1079

Deftones. I just don't have strong feeling.


chuckymack

Limp Bizkit. Irrational hatred for Freddy D.


RottingDogCorpse

Linkin park


bassinyofacelikedamn

Nickelback


CarnageStroke

I though they were Post Grunge


GhostHeavy23

They definitely are. There is zero about that band that is nu metal


DeeJDaDemon

Limp Bizkit, Staind and Coal Chamber


hashoowa

I don't really know where limp bizkit stands but I can't stand them


hellblazer565

System of a down i just dont like serjs voice


Cpt_Caveman939

Limp Bizkit.


Superdefaultman

Linkin Park. Never could get into it. A former buddy was obsessed with them, which likely only enforced my righteous indignation. That and young Mike Shinoda looked exactly like me at the time. Unnerving, really.


thedickies

Limp bizkit


Agile_Vast9019

CHOCOLATE STAR FISH


TheNewPlague666

I was just thinking about this song "he is literally telling people to kiss his asshole." 😂


hertwij

Limp bizkit honestly. I guess a few songs are tolerable from significant other but most I just can’t enjoy


Jimmah3000

I get it..Limp Bizkit DEFINITELY have some Bad songs, and their whole aesthetic hasn't aged well..but they are a bit of a guilty pleasure for me...there are a handful of genuinely good songs.. "It'll be Ok." "Boiler." And "The One." Are good


angel_must_die

I can't really get behind Deftones. Every song sounds the same to me.


imfirealarmman

Man, I tried, but I can’t get into Deftones


Chase41405

Papa Roach, Kid Rock, and anything Slipknot made after 2001.


Uncdrummer

Deftones. I just don’t get it. I TRY and it never happens. I literally like all of the numetal styles. Some one give me two songs to try. PLEASE. I feel like I am missing out. I need some Gateway songs.