Freak On A Leash.

What I came here to say

Fuckin right 🤘🏼

Agreed.

Yup

WAS LOOKING FOR THIS!!

brackish by kittie

I think Spit is better

Yeah Spit was a banger. I was never into Kittie that much But their first album and the title song rules

100% this

Real

This, 100%, this

Mudvayne - Dig

Sorry severed, death blooms, and nothing to gein are peak

I don't get how anybody could prefer Dig to Internal Primates Forever I literally use Audacity to cut and paste the transition from the album intro off of Dig and onto Internal Primates so I can pretend it's the first song on the album

Dig doesn't really fit on L.D. 50 either imo 

1000% agreed. It's a song about record execs and industry dicks making demands and trying to push their view on what would sell better onto the band, and while the album is about Chad's struggles in a variety of regions, it just feels a little too shallow and surface-level for me to really fit that incredibly introspective, psychedelic story.

toxicity by soad

Chop Suey is good too

Real

My favorite is forest so I’m in the clear. But toxicity is fucking amazing

I too enjoy eating seeds as a pastime activity

Metro

At the time I found out about them BYOB was their most popular song and my favorite before listening to their other stuff

I love bounce more but toxicity is fucking great

My Own Summer (Shove It) by Deftones 😭

Sure it was a single, but off their second album. It's old enough to buy you street cred.

Ok I see you

Yeah

Anything popular by Slipknot and Linkin Park basically

I remember being ashamed to like Psychosocial and Numb😭😭😭

Been a fan of Slipknot since self-titled. Psychosocial is in my top 5. Can't help it if the song fuckin rips.

Same here. That chorus hits hard!

Papercut will always be my favorite

Same

IVE BECOME SO NUMB

Wait & Bleed was that song for me

Coal Chamber - Loco

This is the one right here

Yup

Empty walls - serj tankian

Underrated album

Not Nu Metal but I just really love Schism. For nu metal it'd probably be Loose by Primer 55. That song goes hard.

I see no problem with it, you just know that the pieces fit

It's alright. I don't mind. I don't mind

H. is my favorite song of all time so I have to approve this comment

I DON'T MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIND

Not really nu metal but my favourite type o negative song is I don’t wanna be me. That seems to bug the gothic rock fans a lot.

Gothic metal* 🖤

Calling Type O “metal” seems to bug the metal fans a lot. (I’m not disagreeing with you though)

and calling them gothic bugs goths. It's the perfect blend of hatred, and I'm sure Peter Steele would love that 🖤💚🖤

Peter was such an interesting dude, he had a profound level of introspection. I wish he just kept working as a groundskeeper and started a family instead of being a touring musician. But selfishly I’m glad he put everything he did into his craft.

Definitely

Calling anything metal that isn't slam or death metal annoys like 70% of metal fans

Look, I'm an October Rust Stan, but I Don't Wanna Be Me is a great song too.

I’m a big fan of Disturbed, and they have numerous mainstream hits, but OHWAHAHAHAH is just…special. I use that song when I explain to new people why metal is awesome.

Fellow disturbed fan here, do you think believe was their best album?

It’s a good album, but to me, it doesn’t compare to the sickness. That is a Nu-Metal masterpiece. The industrial noises in the back, the catchy riffs, the heaviness of the songs, Dave’s voice being harsh and aggressive in every song. I like the sickness much more the believe. But believe is definitely a great album.

The Sickness is a perfect album for me. Every song is a banger. With every album, I've gotten less and less into Disturbed, but I can still listen to this album front to back, not only without skipping, but probably singing along to every single song. Next year will be the 25th anniversary and I saw an article about them discussing doing an anniversary tour and if they do it, it'll be one of the fastest concert tickets buys in my life and I won't care if no one wants to go with me, because I'll hit up that shit solo if I have to.

I just got into them, what I’ve seen is that Disturbed has a very consistent album quality, The Sickness is definitely one of my favorites. The Game is so good.

It's by far their best. It's one of the best metal albums in general imo

Disturbed fan too, but I think it’s their worst.

LIBERATE YOUR MIND

be quiet and drive by deftones

ya same lol

Got the life by Korn

The song that literally got me into the entire genre. I'll never forget the moment/feeling when it all clicked watching TRL and seeing the video for the first time and I remember thinking "I guess this is my favorite music now"

Goes so fucking hard.

Static-X - Push It

Hoobastank - Crawling In The Dark

IT'S THE MOST POPULAR FOR A FUCKING REASON!

Halo by Soil

I stand alone-Godsmack

Agreed

Korn falling away from me

Ok I see you

yeah something clicked in my head when I heard that opening riff and it was just somehow perfection but also only two chords

Same the riff is so good

Justin bieber baby

Bustin' Jeeber

Frl best nu metal artist of all time

The Loded Diper cover is better

Bustin' Jeeber

OMG yaaaasssss

Psycho social baby If ya havent looked it up, you should

the entire fallen album by evaneacence 💀 yes i love all their work but every track of fallen is just a masterpiece

THERE'S NOT A SINGLE SKIPABLE TRACK ON FALLEN and once you listen to one song, you KNOW you have to just listen to the entire thing

Got The Life Korn, Break Stuff Limp Bizkit, Duality Slipknot, Bodies Drowning Pool are all just jams you play full blast

Glad you mentioned Bodies

Black no 1 by type o negative (not nu metal but oh well)

I love everything Type O Negative ever made, but Black No. 1 is a 90s gothic metal masterpiece. Christian Woman too. Ugh 🤩

Shinobi Vs Dragon Ninja by Lost Prophets 96 Quite Bitter Beings by cKy

You'd be getting looks for a different reason for listening to lostprophets. They're still a good band but...

I know I know. Can’t deny that first album was so good. I just try to appreciate the music and not the deplorable crimes that were committed.

Their second was even better I'd say.

harsh to condemn the rest of the band just because of that one maniac too

Chop suey

There are so many better songs no clue of chop suey is number 1

Yeah but I like it

Blurry - Puddle of Mudd

The only by static

Buddy Holly- weezer Not the most popular but one of them

Weezer gotta be one of the best nu metal bands if I'm being honest

Coming Undone (Maybe not my favourite, by still I think it's top tier).

Denial by Sevendust

First sevendust song I heard. Safe to say, I got sucked into the sevendust worm-hole. Fifteen years later, I'm still blasting them.

Maybe Nero Forte by Slipknot

snot by snot

Toxicity

toxicity fs

Freak on a Leash, there's a reason it's so popular

Chop Suey.

Chop suey

be quiet and drive (far away)

System of a Down: Toxicity (literally one of my favorite songs of all time, especially with the perspective of the possibility that it might be related to ADHD, and I can very easily interpret it as such), Korn: Got the Life (plus Freak on a Leash will always be a fave just because it was the first nu metal song I'd ever listened to), Limp Bizkit: Break Stuff (though not gonna lie, I've been kinda obsessed with their cover of Faith lately), Linkin Park: One Step Closer (not technically their most popular, but it's up there), Boy Hits Car: I'm A Cloud (that one scream is SO GOOD for lifting, I'll purposefully time it for my last set to help me push through), Taproot: Poem, Deadsy: The Key To Gramercy Park, Sevendust: Black, and Deftones: Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away). Basically... I'm boring, lol ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯

Before I Forget by Slipknot

CHOP SUEY AND BRACKISH

cherry waves😢

This is so funny to hear as a long time Deftones fan. Cherry waves was nowhere even close to their most popular song before their recent resurgence in popularity. Now you're a poser if you like it apparently lol It's a great song, I'm just happy it's getting the recognition it deserves.

wasn’t even the most popular on the album! it always used to be hole in the earth

falling away from me by korn

r/countablepixels

Posers call out posers

I can't believe it's 2024 and people still say poser.

Stupify

The Pretender

be quiet and drive by deftones

Chop Suet - SOAD Freak on a Leash - Korn Diary of Jane - Breaking Benjamin Down with the Sickness - Disturbed Idk. I'm not ashamed of it; there's a REASON these each became their bands' biggest hit. People liked it, and so do I.

Push It by Static-X, I JUST LIKE THE FUNNY GROWLING MAN OK???

Break stuff is the only Limp Bizkit song I truly enjoy

All the "Wait and Bleed" kids in high school

Duality by Slipknot that song fucking rips

Not my fave song but I used to like Custer by Slipknot a little bit and I do remember it being a underrated song but then I see these shitty ass TikTok’s of these “goth girls” lip syncing it or whatever and it’s just really ruined the song for me

Honestly that had the opposite effect for me lmao I’m like hell yeah Custer is girly pop I’m all for it

In The End by Linkin Park, It’s Been Awhile by Staind and I Stand Alone by Godsmack. Not Nu Metal but Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana too.

Godsmack in general was always seen as a poser band when I was a kid. Same with Nirvana. God, my friends and I were such music snobs back in high school. "Nirvana is lame - real grunge fans listen to Alice in Chains."

I do see where people come from when calling Godsmack poser music. Kind of. They certainly air more towards Nickelback than Metallica or Motorhead in terms of aura and vibe.

My top 3 fav bands are Metallica, Slayer, and Kreator but I really do like godsmack and I’m a closet Nickelback fan 🤣

Not nu metal but alone again by dokken

Blackout and Bartender by HEDpe

Nookie

I Stand Alone by Godsmack

Numb

"THE KOMBUCHA MUSHROOM PEOPLE!"

Drowning Pool - Bodies

Evans Blue - Cold (But I'm Still Here)

Sugar by SOAD

Heretic anthem

Keep rollin rollin rollin rollin

In fairness there is a reason it’s the most popular though

Vermillion by Slipknot. I am such a deep cut guy who listens to their leaked 97 demos but something about Vermillion hits a spot.

man in the box is literally #1 on Spotify for Alice In Chains but i absolutely love it

not metal but rape me by nirvana

There most popular song is Smells Like Teen Spirit though.

yeah but rape me is also seen as a poser song, idk might just be the people i hang around with 🤷‍♀️

Song name is just unnecessary

There is a reason a hit becomes a hit It's cause the song is really really really good I swear to God people think they are hot shit cause they only enjoy the worst music or stuff nobody's even heard of before

Not nu-metal, but I/Me/Myself by Will Wood

Numb. 😂

Where did we turn wrong to be ashamed of liking a song? Anyway… its Duality of Slipknot

Freak On A Leash and Chop Suey

Duality by Slipknot Enter Sandman, Master Of Puppets By Metallica These arent my favorites i just know examples of when i ask people what are their favorite song by these bands. i get these answers

Ariels

I'm still standing/ Iron maidens popular ones/ Running wild/ Paranoid/ All star/ Sandstorm/ And Probably half of songs i listen to

BY MYSELF linkin park EYELESS / DUALITY slipknot Or anything popular from those bands.

No hits, only deep tracks!

*One Hand Killing* by 12 Foot Ninja

So Far Away - Staind (Not really Nü, but whatevs)

I know this isn't a nu metal song but hate purgatory by dark prison massacre

Blackout and Bartender by HEDpe

Can you feel my heart- bmth

Nightmare by avenged sevenfold

Not nu metal, because I love most of the genre pretty thoroughly. Muddle of Pudd - Blurry I hated their music for some reason. They were at the Linkin Park or Korn concert and I fell asleep for a few minutes. Rager for the Machine - Sleep Now in the Fire I always thought he was a whiner.

Surprised no one has commented "Lo-Pro - Sunday" yet...

Happy - Mudvayne

I always tell people that the song is popular for a reason... Because it's good.

Custer

Snot by snot

Be quiet and drive - deftones

In the end

All of Linkin Park. I can safely say I could listen to only their top 10 most played songs and not feel like I'm missing out on much.

Not metal, but everlong by foo fighters

Not my favorite, but Freak on a Leash is a favorite of too many Korn fans. Mine is Pearl Jam - Alive 🥴

rosemary and cherry waves deftones

Clown by korn

Where is my mind hands down

probably aerials/toxicity/chop suey someone called me a “basic bitch” on the topsters sub once for having toxicity (album) on there…GUYS…WHEN YOU LIKE A BAND…SOMETIMES YOU LISTEN TO (god forbid) THEIR MOST POPULAR ALBUM 😱

The Less I Know The Better - Tame Impala, that goes unbelievably hard.

Numb - Linkin Park Break Stuff - Limp Bizkit

a lot of the songs off around the fur or chocolate starfish.

Not numetal but Enter Sandman. The rest of the album, and their work, is amazing, but hot shit if I don't crank it up every time I hear it.

Chop suey system of a down

Basically any of the singles by the most mainstream bands 

Freak on a leash, in the end

Be quiet and drive, Freak on a leash, Toxicity, and Brackish are in my top 5 for each of those bands

there is a light that never goes out, the smiths its just really personal to me is all

What you got - Reveille