Think back to 1999. A time when pop punk reined supreme, culminating in the seminal cultural phenomenon that was American Pie. Through to 2001 – and with the explosion of nu-metal into the mainstream via 2000’s Hybrid Theory, it was like summer would never end. However with the explosion of […]
The redneck fuckers from Jacksonville finally dropped their long awaited new album on Halloween, with relatively little fanfare. Still Sucks is pure 100% self-trollin’ in only the way Limp Bizkit can. Their first album in a decade, and long tentatively titled Stampede of the Disco Elephants. Still Sucks sounds like […]
The often publicly derided, but wildly popular brand of heavy metal known as Nu-Metal never had its sights set on complexity. It was however all about simplicity and melody. Incorporating elements of other genres into a modern metal sound. One things was always consistent however – great nu-metal riffs. Great […]
The golden age of nu metal is somewhere between 1996 and 2003. After the breakthrough of Korn‘s debut album in 1994, it was their release of Life Is Peachy in 1996 when nu metal began to hit the mainstream. In 1997 we had Coal Chamber and Limp Bizkit‘s debut albums. […]
