The Start and End of NU METAL
NU-METAL (is it dead)
An article in Spin magazine featured this style of metal music as the "new metal" of the community. After being presented in the end of the movie "Get Thrashed," the term was considered "nu metal." Nu metal music genre was started in the 90's and rising to its peak in the start of the year 2000.
Korn's third album "Follow the Leader" which sold for 9 million copies across the globe gave the nu metal community a boost in popularity. This opened the doors to other nu metal bands and brought the metal community to the public.
As the nu metal community grew, so did bands popularity. After the release of Korn's "Follow the Leader" album bands like Limp Bizkit, Coal Chamber and Staind started selling and becoming popular. Most of these bands came from Los Angeles, such as Static-X, Coal Chamber and Spineshank. The popularity of the nu metal community on the rise, bands like Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, Soufly, Slipknot, Sevendust and Godsmack started to become more and more successful. Some of the biggest tours started featuring nu metal bands, like Lollapalooza, Ozzfest and Family Values Tour. The biggest tour for the nu metal bands was the 30th anniversary of Woodstock.
As time went on more and more bands fell into nu metal. Linkin Park, Papa Roach, P.O.D. and System of a Down all became big hits, pushing most of their albums to platinum. Nu metal was at its high in 2001 when nu metal was the most popular American metal music. Most record labels were signing anyone who walked through the door. With this explosion of new bands, it ended with bad quality of nu metal music.
In the beginning of the year 2000, nu metal's popularity started to decline and bands that started the revolution started to see a drop in sales to their new released albums. Nu metal came down from being at the top and metal lovers moved to a pop and emo punk metal. Most nu metal bands are still playing a similar style of music and staying in the genre, others have moved on.
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