Thrashtildeth wrotetraptunderice wroteDanzig was never nu metal.
This.
I guess you had to be there. Danzig 6 and to a lesser extent, 7, were in the context of their release dates, very much the same sort of thing that nu-metal/alt. metal bands were doing. It may not seem like it now, but Danzig was hanging around Tommy Victor an awful lot who would bring his alt. metal/thrash sound to the band a few years after this. The 00's were nothing like the late eighties and early nineties, that's for damn sure. I think some of you guys are framing the term nu-metal not to include major label bands like Sepultura and Prong who clearly were authentic metal bands releasing Nu-Metal sounding records in an era when that is what people were buying and going to see live.
It's like trying to argue that Yes, Kansas and Rush in the mid-eighties were not full blown pop/rock bands when that's exactly what they were up to. They released the exact same thing as the likes of Rod Stewart were putting out. The fact they would later abandon the mainstream market in favor of their more loyal fanbases doesn't make "power windows" a progressive rock record while it sounds like The Human League.