nu metal is not metal.

nu metal is not metal.

well,

sort of

nu metal is so far disconnected culturally, socially, and sonically that saying it is separate from metal is not a crazy thing to say. nu metal originated in the late 90’s with korn and their debuts and demos, just a sludge and rap influenced version of groove metal. from the start nu metal wasn’t doing much insane, we’ve seen rappers rapping over metal instrumentals as far back as the 80s (