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New genre of metal that sprung up out of the MTV culture in the late 90's. Typically is associated with whiny singers claiming their life sucks with their millions of dollars and slutty groupies. Such nu-metal acts include Limp Bizkit and System of a Down.
"I picked up a guitar for the first time and was offered a contract to form a nu-metal band."
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Nu metal is a failed attempt to restart the heavy metal movement which ended in the early 90's. Contrary to popular belief, however, it is not a genre liked soly buy rich suburbian kids trying to piss off their parents and find problems in their life. It is also followed by "classic" metal heads seeking something new to get into. "old" or "classic" metal ended in the 90's when MTV decided metal wasnt cool anymore; and kids being impresionable little freaks started to follow grunge, then alternative, and now punk. Still, metal heads linger banging their heads in the underground and watching concerts theyve seen a million time, which is why Nu Metal came about.
metal head: this is the 1,457,234,002 time i've listened to master of puppets, its time to try something new.
emo kid that nows nothing about metal: try Lamb of God, there like, heavy metal cuz they scream.
metal head: I guess i have no choice
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relative term, usually used to decribe metal that is relativly new.Tends to be looked down on by everyone else despite far worse genres of music out their.
korn are a new metal band, slipknot are not
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a genre of music people love to criticize, without realizing that if it wasn't for nu-metal, you'd have nothing left on the radio but shitty emo/punk bands and more hip-hop crap. also dissed by people who think they are cool, trying to sound like they know what they're talking about by saying things like "LISTEN 2 SLAYER 4 TEH REAL METAL!!!1" or "I CAN PLAY TEH GUITAR BETTER THAN SLIPKNOT!!!1" which is just bullshit from teens or old losers who put on an act of musical sophistication. Think before you disrespect nu-metal or you'll make an idiot of yourself like 95% of the people who posted a definition for this word.
nu-metal is preferable to punk, emo, and rap.
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Heavy, thrash-death metal music that although going very fast, doesn't seem to go anywhere.
Dude, this band's guitars are tight but it is total fucking treadmill metal.
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Although it is not an official category, it would refer to a subgenre within heavy metal which aims to take the listener into an emotional journey, using, to do so, many distinct musical influences, from Ambience music to black/death/doom metal. "Astral Metal" was first used to refer to Maudlin of the Well (maudlin of the Well) as for their genre, but the Encyclopaedia Metallum and Metalstorm, among countless other metal websites, list them under "Avant-Garde Metal".
maudlin of the Well is (or isn't) Astral Metal.
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Music made by former Hair and Glam Metal bands. This refers to all the albums they make after the 80's when they stop playing the traditional music they used to play and play more modern style music. The joke refers to the fact that the hair metal bands don't have hair anymore because they are old making their new material referred to as bald metal.
Dokken used to make awesome Hair Metal now they make terrible Bald Metal.
Winger's title album was a great hair metal album (1988) but the album Winger IV (2006) is a crappy bald metal album.
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