At some point in the past year, I decided to listen to Linkin Park's first two albums. I still like those albums. I also feel like the hate towards Linkin Park was disappearing around the time of Chester's death and very quickly disappeared afterwards, but that might just be me. I don't know.
Otherwise I never listened to that much nu metal. I listened to Disturbed a decent bit - this would have been around Ten Thousand Fists-era and then I got into the stuff before it. I haven't actually listened to that album in a long time, but I listened to one of their newer albums recently. It's fine, I guess, but it sounded pretty much exactly the same. Their cover of The Sound of Silence is legitimately pretty good.
How far does the term "nu metal" stretch, really? I wouldn't consider Red or Breaking Benjamin nu metal and Alter Bridge is pretty much the opposite of nu metal. Also, holy shit, Red's still making albums? I actually have their first album from my high school days. For some reason, my dad really liked that album, it was one of the few things I could play out loud without him complaining. I haven't listened to it since probably early college, though, so I have no idea what I might think of it now. I have listened to some old Breaking Benjamin recently, though, and I still enjoyed it. I didn't love it and I don't find myself going back to it but it was all right.
If you like Red and Breaking Benjamin, you should listen to some Katatonia. They started off as a death metal band in the 90's but they changed styles completely after two albums and only sing now. I think it's because their singer had a bad screaming technique. If it hurts, kids, you're doing it wrong.
Is Jinjer nu metal? I've heard that term attached to Jinjer before and I can see how it fits. Stuff like Teacher, Teacher definitely has some pretty big nu metal influences. Actually, listening to it now, I'm going to say that straight-up is a nu metal song, though I always associated nu metal with mostly singing and some screaming, while Jinjer seems to be 2/3 harsh vocals.
Anyway, these days I don't listen to many bands associated with nu metal and when I do listen to some of it, it's usually for two or three songs before I go for something else.
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