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[caddyman]

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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I bleieve you have the right of it, sir...

[maleghast.livejournal.com]

Like most pigeon-holing when it comes to music, I fear that nu-metal is more a marketing ploy than a real movement within contemporary music.

The suggestion is (as I understand it) that is a meeting of "Sport Metal" (as once defined by early Limp Bizkit and other Basketball Short, Shirt and Cap wearing white boyz rapping to guitars instead of break-beats alone) and hard-rock/soft metal. Whether this means anything, or is just yet another example of as you put it "marketing" is a matter for conjecture - it does allow one to be able to say either "I hate that Nu-Metal crap!", or "Yay Linkin Park!" as you see fit, so perhaps not all bad....

[pax-draconis.livejournal.com]

Beards without moustaches.

I dread to think what "nu-prog" is.

Haven't had any q's off you yet, either.

[captainweasel.livejournal.com]

I think 'Nu Metal' is more short hair, baseball caps and wide trousers to heavy metal's big hair,leather and tight trousers.

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

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.