Nu-Metal re-assesed?

xpost lol. I was Hell_Awaits and I got banned a lot. remembered nuking one of the Ops once in retaliation, was fun.

xp Two more words "Blue Monday"

"Word Up"

"Shock The Monkey"

"Mission Impossible theme"

xxxxp woah, I think I remember you. I was Desantnik.

OMG. I think I argued with you once or twice, lol!

haha, I was on the extreme end of things metal-wise. If you repped CoF, then we definitely had a word or two.

BJO arguing even back then? :D

It was right in the middle of a major depressive episode so honestly it would have been more rare if I wasn't arguing with people, usually in a series of expletives.

Emperor were getting flack for IX Equilibrium at the time, which was misguided.

Limp Bizkit's cover of Faith is probably the second most embarrassing song that I love, the first being the theme song from Dawson's Creek

I don't think IX Equilibrium was that bad. I liked about half of it (even though it was a marked step downward from its predecessor).

But the backlash I speak is that many metalheads in that channel basically wanted to disown Emperor's past because of one misstep.

haha wow guys i love ix equilibrium

damn

So any thoughts about the female contribution to nu-metal, folks?

Kittie? Sugarcoma?

I met the members of Kittie when they were on their first North American tour - they were opening for Disturbed. The Lander sisters' dad was their tour manager.

The thing that I tend to remember most about Kittie is that they tended to go through bandmembers like people with colds go through Kleenex.

I dont remember one single song by them. I just remember them being around.

You don't even remember that song I played for the LOLs in plug the other night? XD

they were a gimmick, and a dumb one at that. 'omg let's show the boys that girls can be metal too'. sorry, that had already been done (and better) by like, Girlschool, and the lead vocalist for the band Chastain, and even a few years earlier by Drain S.T.H.

Drain S.T.H. were they the swedish Alice In Chains soundalikes? They didn't have the S.T.H. bit in their name here, we dont do the london suede or charlatans uk thing.

yeah that was them.

the more poppist and annoying to "good taste" nu-metal gets the more i warm to it

"charlotte" is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkRWTWBBsAc

siamese dream-ish quality to their guitar tone

i just had a klondike bar, and i'm listening to staind

― markers, Monday, July 1, 2013 9:00 PM

how the fuck did we go from siamese dream to significant other in only six years

person pitch came out six years ago

jesus new filter album will really hurt your ears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NVzypkryyc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayUlXGPC0SE

it is everything bad about bad things.

One of the worst bands I ever saw (supporting Smashing Pumpkins in 96)

I was wearing my Young Gods longsleeve and a bunch of people in the queue to get in were talking about how "Filter were the best industrial band".

i'm trying to think of a way to describe how shitty that filter stuff sounds but i'm having trouble. like shit dipped in shit and then put on top of shit to melt into a pool of shit that is then poured over your head while you are neck deep in a pile of shit.

"hey man nice shit" - a Filter fan

SP has only ever had complete shite openers bc billy can't be upstaged

this is probably a good thread for me to mention once again how baffled i am that all you dudes with good taste seem to still hold forth abt the deftones not being terrible. i like a lot of shitty stuff but man that band idgi

the deftones are seriously not terrible

is white pony the one thats supposed to be the conversion album? because ive listened to that and idk it sounds just like all the other stuff from this club to me, but slightly more boring

yes but idk, my impression of white pony is that yeah it's like the other stuff from its club but the grooves are more intricate and less obvious, with a heavier emphasis on atmosphere built from the drifting nature of their riffs and of chino's vocals. i'd probably recommend their last two records over it at this point tho

i had katatonia in my life. no need for deftones. hell i'd rather listen to soilwork.

Plus White Pony has the dude from Tool on it, so you know it's smart and arty!

ugh

i mean i get the deftones thing. why people like them. but if you like metal there are only a zillion better things to listen to that do similar things. the country of sweden spends half of their arts budget every year on coming up with better stuff.

i get totally different things out of katatonia and deftones but i can see where you're coming from scott

Plus White Pony has the dude from Tool on it, so you know it's smart and arty!

lol true but also idk "passenger" is such a solid song

White Pony has the dude from Tool on it

i did not know this

it's even in the youtube credits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaXx2ocDo18

i don't even know how much of the album i've heard

at least "change" and "back to school" is probably on this too?

"change" is, "back to school" was added to the tracklisting when it was reissued a year later