Nu Metal

Nu Metal is a music genre that is a sub genre of Heavy Metal. It combines elements from Thrash Metal, Punk, and Rap Rock. It mostly consists of heavy riffs, downtuned guitars, rap vocals, and hardcore drumming.

The genre became extremely popular, and was associated with groups such as Rage Against the Machine, Korn, and Deftones.

Slow Traction: 1994-1997
After Rage Against the Machine's debut album, other bands started to follow through in the trend. P.O.D. would release Snuff the Punk in January of 1994, Marilyn Manson followed up with Portrait of an American Family in the following July, and Machine Head came with Burn My Eyes a month after. However, the biggest release for the genre in 1994 was Korn's self titled album in October.

Decline: 2002-2005
Nu Metal as a genre started to decline in the mid-2000s as groups such as Limp Bizkit, Coal Chamber, and Crazy Town were receiving mixed reception due to their over the top vocal delivery and overly obnoxious attitudes. Another reason to the decline of Nu Metal can be contributed to the rise of Emo bands such as Chiodos, Hawthorne Heights, and My Chemical Romance

Genre Dark Age: 2006-2013
Bands like Slipknot, Deftones, and Linkin Park were starting to stay away from the genre as much as possible due to the negativity surrounding it, and it began a dark age for Nu Metal. However, it would have some success with a few bands. Bring Me the Horizon's Suicide Season contained several songs that were directly inspired by Slipknot's Iowa from earlier in the decade, and Suicide Silence's song Disengage wasn't too different from Mudvayne's Dig from 2000.