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Current Mood: Tired, but qizzical too, now
Current Music: Darling Violetta: Bath Water Flowers

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Will someone please tell me what the fek nu-metal is, and what's so different about it from heavy metal?

Given that nu-prog isn't that different from mainstream prog, I'm guessing it's another marketing ploy.

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Speaking only as a distant observer, nu-metal is post-Nirvana metal, i.e., metal that thinks it's deep and alternative and socially relevant in some way, rather than merely excessive and antisocial (i.e., fun) like regular metal. Tends to be depressing and makes you hate teenagers for pretending to be so depressed, as if being unhappy makes you special or something (which is how you can tell that they're actually perfectly happy suburban teenagers). A good representation of the appropriate (American) mental attitude fostered by the metal of my own youth is found at Rocksnobs.

Nu-metal is the modern stuff that sounds like rap with guitars in it. It's more a pejorative term as it's devotees (usually about 12 years old) prefer to see it as punk. Different to Heavy Metal, a catch-all term from the 1980's that has now been more or less superseded by more specific differences eg doom metal, death metal, black metal etc.

I am beginning to feel very old. Time to break out the slippers and pipe and start playing me Mum's old Perry Como records.

Grumble.

So is there a whole 'nother word for all those bands with the vomit-colored videos, a definitely grungier sound than 70's & 80's metal, and the self-serious attitude?

I thought this was included in nu-metal too, but admittedly I tend to use the word mostly pejoratively.

I don't know....

I'm clearly more out of touch than I thought.

From now on when I buy music I shall walk and poiunt but not refer to it by name for fear of the faux pas which would have all the spotty oiks giggling like girlies, and pointing at grandad.

I shall have to commission modern pap appreciation lessons from my 16 year old niece, so I can at least nod with distain rather than bewilderment when I'm talking about this stuff.

It is to weep.

I think that's emo-core. I could be wrong mind you. I'm not as "with it" as I thought I was.

Given that I barely understood what plain old emo was the last time someone tried to explain it to me, I think I'm just going to give up now.

Dont actually really know what emo is myself. I just read emo-core in somewhere unfathomably hip like teletext or the Sun or somesuch popular youth periodical.

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