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| Some actual top 10 Nu-Metal
Inb4 "some of these aren't entirely nu-metulz", whatever album you're talking about you're probably correct and yet I included it anyway. If it meets the criteria of having nu-metal in the mix I considered it free game. That said, these are all solid nu-metal jams that are as unbreakable as a bad abbreviation and a hyphen rolled into one genre tag. Ranked from least nu-metalish to most-ish kinda. | | 1 |  | Incubus
S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Yeah the link is tenuous but this album funks and grooves and rules. It's checks enough boxes for me to lump it in with the other albums here. | | 2 |  | Helmet
Meantime
[2] for the justification, but minus the funky bit, this is more post-hardcore-y or something I guess, but if you squint a little it looks like nu-metal. | | 3 |  | System of a Down
System of a Down
Yes there's a lot going on here, someone managed to spill a bit of nu-metal onto SOAD and the stain didn't wash off for a little while. Note the lack of Staind on this list and then note the un-noteworthiness of Staind's lacking...yeah. | | 4 |  | Sepultura
Roots
It's not the Sepultura we deserve but the one we need right now. Now meaning then. Need meaning hyperbole. Anyway this album actually rules and of you think otherwise remember that the line-up after this took like 2 decades to top it. | | 5 |  | Deftones
Around the Fur
I'm not a big fan of the 'Tones. Or this album even. Don't get me wrong it's a solid one, but it gets overhyped simply for being a Deftones album imo. It's just good-great, nothing more. | | 6 |  | Snot
Get Some
Snot, and slobber on the cover. | | 7 |  | Love and Death
Between Here And Lost
Head actually did it, this rules. | | 8 |  | Slipknot
Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
Slipknot at their most balanced, not as fun as the s/t or as aggressive as IOWA, but it hits right in the middle and avoids the problems of both the preceding releases. | | 9 |  | Korn
Korn
Pioneering band makes good debut. Enough said.
But I'm going to say more because Korn have a special place in my heart and were instrumental in getting me interested in instruments. And music in general. Check this album and the 4-5 after it for some good nu-metal done right. | | 10 |  | Mudvayne
L.D. 50
Hands down the best. Not even a contest. Album is better than the band that made it. Not even an exaggeration. | |
ScuroFantasma
02.11.17 | Definitive. It's 3am and I made a nu-metal list. Goodnight. | AsleepInTheBack
02.11.17 | much love for 3 and 10. and 8 actually, that one is alright | ryu
02.11.17 | Missing Five Pointe O but otherwise yeah | zaruyache
02.11.17 | Roots is still not that good tho. | ScuroFantasma
02.11.17 | Well, it ain't no BtR | CalculatingInfinity
02.11.17 | "Hands down the best. "
While it is, Maximum the Hormone comes very close as I said before. | Flugmorph
02.11.17 | good list, be proud! | ScuroFantasma
02.11.17 | Danke schön (:
@Calc Y'know I really should give that band a proper listen, it'd feel weird for me to include something I've only heard parts of but you might have a point, enjoyed everything I've heard from those guys. | Dewinged
02.11.17 | Much better. Snot are top. | 0GuyMan0
02.12.17 | Is there an honest division between alt metal that landed in 97-2003 and nu-metal yet?
Because there should be. The honest answer to "is there good nu-metal" is yes, a few pretty good albums.
But if you take all the bands that got lumped into that scene unfairly (even if they did it intentionally) there is a fucking WEALTH of great stuff.
I made a snobby nu-metal list as well. http://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=1051095&listid=163004 lots of people argued in it.
Have you listened to Pulse Ultra or The Apex Theory? | Typhoon24
02.12.17 | 5 is a 5 | teamster
02.12.17 | Guyman - bands like Hum, Dig, Injected... | FullOfSounds
02.12.17 | I don't know about this Scuro. KManoc1 seems to be the authority on nu-metal | ScuroFantasma
02.12.17 | @guyman nah I haven't heard either of those two, I'll look into them
@full - well he certainly filled his list with obscure and boundary pushing material but you just can't beat the classics | 0GuyMan0
02.17.17 | ^please do. Not enough people know about Pulse Ultra and you seem receptive. | DeusAutomata9012
07.26.17 | 2 is not nu metal | DeusAutomata9012
07.26.17 | 10 is nu metal as fuck, denying that dig, cradle, nothing to gein and served are nu metal is a signal that you are deaf |
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