nu metal bands that went under the radar
(it's time for your daily nu metal thread)
this is a thread for the more obscure bands that just never quite caught on. I've found a few of these bands, bands I never heard of at all until many years later. One of those is Element Eighty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiaBjPPi7OY
if you opened this thread then I promise you you'll get a kick out of this. sample of the lyrics:
I take a hold of everything you say and I throw it right back in your face
If you don't like my reputation, you can suck my dick
Like it ever even mattered what you said to me anyway
Like I give a shit about you anyway
genius.
Anyway tl;dr surprise me DiS, surprise me
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I'm rather glad they did
that was awful
Needs more cowbell
you
get out of here
But leave the cowbell
Fony
good shout
oh christ
they were SO SO SO shit
Actually, were there any good nu metal band?
no
I guess Roots era Sepultura were quite good if that counts
(hed) PE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nQ8QJkFmGU
a classic
One Minute Silence
Sevendust
Vacant Stare
vacant stare?
never heard of them. good shout
patience was a tune
Vacant Stare!
Saw them live at Subverse, won their album. Can't remember anything else about them.
the inlay card on the album was folded wrong
that's why they split up
sevendust are still going strong i think?
never really did alot over here anyway
listened to 36 crazyfists' bitterness the star
recently, still good.
OK
Ultraspank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQk3tNFg3KE
Pulkas - Loaded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nza9F2Q1zc8
Second the Pulkas
Great album.
Pulkas weren't nu metal though were they?
They were just 'metal metal' I thought.
I nearly went to see The Jesus Lizard at Newcastle Riverside because Pulkas were supporting.
Their album was one of my 17-year old favourites.
I'm still gutted I missed TJL though.
Miocene
The thinking mans nu metal band
cellular memory was tite
A Perfect Life with a View of the Swamp
holds up pretty well. Some of it sounds like Tool with BEATZ and they had a kind of wry sense of humour that most other numetallers lacked. Cellular Memory was pretty cool too.
Saw so, so many shit nu-metal bands at under-age club things.
Kill2This, The Kennedy Soundtrack, The Hurt Process (they were called The Hurt Process .. What passed as nu-metal one year went as emo soon after) ...
Kill2This
HAHAHAHA
one of the guitarists from Kill II This was one of my lecturors at Huddersfield Uni
'Mark Mynett is now a Senior Lecturer
in Music Technology & Production at
the University of Huddersfield and
currently resides in Stockport, England
with his pet dog Lucy.'
sinch
Something More
Is one of my favourite songs of all time.
violent delight?
leaning towards the punky type of nu metal. also they were dogshite
NO
Man nu metal was simultaneously the worst and best thing to happen.
Number One Son
Saw number one son
support kil2this. rubbish
Do people realise
I'm going to make a playlist of all that stuff, if you've been putting forward shite, I'll have you for wasting my time!
So what's really good? Any?
I'm going to start with Miocene, sounds alright .. or are they?
I'm sooooooooo confused.
Oh man
If these names are new to you you're in for a world of horror.
So nothing was good then
*sniff*
Btw, listening to your CD right now. I'm at Pinback, love that Penelope song!
Ah, nice!
I'm glad you're liking it. That pinback album (Blue Screen Life) is an awesome summer record. So I picked a good time to send you it...
Some of the nu-metal stuff was good. Just not a lot. It's like Mehodor says; without the nostalgia most of it is going to sound pretty lame.
just don't bother if you didn't catch it the first time around, you won't get it
YOU WEREN'T THERE MAN
My life story musically
has all been about catching up!
.. but if you say, it's not worth it, I'll just stick to my Digital Hardcore playlist then. :D
Do Earthtone 9count?
They were amazing.
aye they were
ever listen to the blueprint? they played at my uni to about 3 people.
By being amazing they're probably disqaulified
They were pretty great though.
*disqualified
Pretty much, but all the Home Counties first year Economics students in Isis hoodies insisted they were "hardcore".
The Apex Theory
Topsy turvy was great album in the vein of system of a down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW2KaAgNcN4
god I've fallen into some horrendous wikihole about tiny punky/nu-metal bands who never made it from the early 00s
anyone remember my deaf audio?
I'm just looking through track listings of old Kerrang! and metal hammer cover CDs
So much nostalgia. So much terrible, terrible music.
Having said that I still quite like Human Waste Project, for my sins.
Anyone remember Kilkus?
I remember a bunch of my mates going mental for them at some party or other and that being around the moment I thought, "hang on...is it just me or is this just a bit shit?"
At the same party some guy came along raving about this new band called Nickleback we should all hear. Dark, dark times.
Kilkus were alright at first but half the band left and they went shit(ter)
They beat Metallica to the whole detuned snare thing by a good two years, though their use of it actually sounded alright
Ohh.. what was their stand-out track?
Human Waste Project?
Dog probably, though that's their least nu-metal sounding song.
I also like One Night in Spain a lot. And Disease. And Hold Me Down. Damn it E-lux is a good album I don't care what anyone says.
this was one of my favourites
http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Hot-Stuff/release/2392563
I first heard Jimmy Eat World thanks to that CD
Ah, memories..
Kerrang had some amazing cover CDs in the late 90s, early 00s
Still listen to this one pretty regularly: http://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/various_artists_f2/kerrang____refuse_music__home_taping_vol__2__compiled_by_casey_chaos_/
TRUSTcompany
I saw them supporting Korn at the MEN arena
and I'd completely forgotten that night up till now. Damn it.
Coal Chamber
Pudddle Of Muddddd
My Ruin
Mudvayne
Taproot
Spineshank
Some dark times at early 00s Reading festivals and on our 6th form common room stereo. I turned 18 at the wrong time. Such fucking shit music.
I remember one of my friends getting into a bunch of European nu-metal bands
because the American nu-metal scene had 'sold out.' Yeah..
Highlights from his collection were the German band Emil Bulls who had a singer who called himself Christ and liked to refer to himself in third person and the delightfully named Dutch band Dreadlock Pussy.
Apartment 26
Adema!
Johnathon Davis of Korn's younger brother's band.
Powerman 5000!
Rob Zombie's younger brother's band.
Nu-metal: big on nepotism.
Deadsy
Cher's son's band.
Tung
http://www.myspace.com/tungentertainments
Some of you may have seen them supporting the Bloodhound Gang or Lostprophets back in the day, hmm let's see:
White guys with dreads? Check!
Rapped vocals? Check!
DJ of questionable ability? Check!
Baggy combat trousers & skate hoodies? Check!
Carefully styled facial hair? Check!
Pointless cover of hip-hop tune? Check!
From a provincial town (York)? Check!
Lyrics about being beaten up for how you look? Check!
Appearance on Metal Hammer compilation CD? Check!
Wow, this lot knock every UK nu-metal band cliche out of the park I reckon. They did evolve into RSJ though who are pretty good
i'd completely forgotten
about Tung. HAHA
mushroomhead
The Blueprint
(lad from Earthtone 9's band)
Disturbed were probably my faves.
Stupify, Down With The Sickness and Voices all off their debut, were fine songs for me.
Disturbed didn't really go under the radar though
Given how ubiquitous 'Down With the Sickness' still is at crappy rock nights, and their four (FOUR, jesus christ!) US #1 albums
Vex Red
I recognise the names of quite a few of these acts, being as I was 15/16 at the time, but I can't remember any of the actual songs.
I can't smiiiiell
P-town's finest. (ahem)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rebgpVSqjxA
Dry Kill Logic!
how has no one said them yet. remember nightmare? ME PLUS YOU EQUALS NIGHTMARE
YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT
YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT
YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT
YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT
YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT
YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT
also, no one has said Trapt yet
they were fucking great. I'd like to go on record as saying Hollowman is the greatest nu metal tune ever recorded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPO2ps78CNw
the singer was so camp
bro are you in any way being serious right now
100%
Sennen
Anyone remember them?
in what conceivable way were Sennen a nu-metal band
what the fuck??! :D
...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwX9n7Xwnls
Sunna
The Workhorse Movement
Mudvayne
Taproot
The Union Underground
Jon Harris from Sunna played on Massive Attacks Mezzanine.
Sunna's debut was excellent. I'm Not Trading was immense and Power Struggle was a great tune too.
Keep The Sabbath Dream Alive by The Workhorse Movement is also a tune!
I drank with him once in the Corrie Tap in Bristol
and with the other guitarist who worked there. Jon came across as a bit big headed, but the other guy was really nice, we talked about thrash metal all night
Nonpoint
Otep
American Head Charge
Wicked Wisdom.
No-one believed that Will Smith's wife was in a nu-metal band. Either that, or no-one wanted it to be true.
haha
That's a hell of a shout. I remember seeing them on the Download TV coverage a few years back.
haha it is true!
...
My brother was a big nu-metal man back in the day, our local record store always used to get all these US imports and my bro would eat them up. A particular favourite was 'Darwins Waiting Room'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FlHCF65sgo
Videodrone
HA !
defenestration
sugarcoma
the kennedy soundtrack
Oh god they were all awful
Two of them clearly only got any press attention due to having female members too.
I remember seeing Defenestration supporting some other metal band in Manchester SU around 2002.
I spent ages following the singer around the crowd afterwards and then chatting her up for about three and a half minutes. She was way cooler than me.
Sugarcoma might be the worst band I have ever heard
the chumpy fat drummer with the Gary Rhodes hair
Downset.
AAAAAAAAANNNNGGGEEEERRRRR
That and New Noise were rare highlights amongst the Limp Bizkit/Linkin Park/Papa Roach that blighted rock clubs in the early 00's
the band Rage Against The Machine could have been
Methods of Mayhem
AKA Tommy Lee's post-prison stab at getting with the times, mostly written by him singing ideas into his answerphone whilst in the clink. Features godawful ginger-dreaded rapper Tilo & Lil Kim delightfully proclaiming, "ride the cock til you hit the spot". It's rare when a Fred Durst guest spot is amongst the highlights of an album, argh
STOP! COLLABORATE AND LISTEN...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-LNT1r6GRA
Ctrl+F Clawfinger
Poor show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqp1v1HutQk
Psychotica
Fulc
For some inexplicable reason my idlewild-copying band was asked to support Fulc. Their manager/dad sent me 200 flyers in the post, which promptly went in the bin. They played to 2 fans and me. Fucking terrible shit - so many nu-metal harmonics, and not good Slipknot ones either.
So many bittersweet Nostalgia-lols in this thread
I have nothing else to add except for Breaking Benjamin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWaB4PXCwFU
Not too long ago I also supported a band called Zero Cipher. Very dated. All you need to know is that they had a guy with whitey dreds and an obese fellow 'playing' the decks.
Breed 77
Who, unbelievably, are still going.
Saw them opening the "all out of bubblegum" Kerrang tour with Pulkas and One Minute Silence at Bradford Rio in @'98
I bet 90% of the bands mentioned
Had a guitarist who played a 7-string Ibanez
Oh lord, just remembered another one.
Kittie.
Deftones
What?