RedHawk wrote:
And like it or not, nu-metal is (sadly) a subgenre of metal.
I actually have nothing against Nu-Metal. Not my cup of tea but don't care if anyone else likes it (my best friend loves it and I respect his love of Nu-Metal more than I do some True Metal posers that I used to know).
But I think musically Nu-metal is misnamed. It should probably be Raprock or Nu-Rock though for the ones who don't use rapping.
The music might use heavy guitars but then it doesn't follow any known heavy metal stylings. Music often uses rock beats and the riffs are more rock or even funk but with heavily distorted drop D tuning.
Remember that Punk and hardcore also use heavy guitars and even harsh vocals but they are not metal.
Similarly most Nu-Metal bands do not play anything related to Metal.
I would say Slipknot are metal as there are clear metal stylings in a lot of their music. SOAD are occassionally metalesque but there's also plenty of punk, funk and anything else thrown in.
Limp Bizkit, Korn, Soil, Spineshank etc have very little to do with metal.
Main rock/metal influence I can hear in these bands is Faith No More and they're only metal at times (and then probably only on the Real Thing and the album before it).