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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....