The video for Wait & Bleed left me gob smacked as 9 nuts threw themselves about the stage while fans went rabid for them.
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Where were you when you first heard Spit It Out? Or Wait & Bleed? Or my personal favourite (Sic)? It’s the kind of memory that sticks in your mind & once again it was thanks to Kerrang TV (remember when it was good?) that I found Slipknot. Freak on A Leash, Got the Life, Dead Bodies Everywhere were but a few of my school anthems & the memories always make me smile. I had a friend who lived near to the school we would go there & put this album on. During secondary school the year 6 kids were allowed out at lunch. I wasn’t sure where I would put Korn in the end considering just how much I dislike what the band has become but sticking to my own rule (what I thought then not what I think now) this album is more than deserving of its position. It was the first album that really showed me how political a band could get while still writing great music. I had never heard a band create music that had so much soul, was still heavy while reaching out to my bitter teenage mindset. Toxicity came to my attention when I saw the video for Chop Suey on Kerrang TV. Its position here is based on the impact it had on me which, don’t get me wrong, was huge. This is the album that you might find at the number 1 spot on many similar lists. It is a very polished affair compared to some of the other albums on this list but it is placed deservedly. I couldn’t get enough of them & All Wrapped Up & A Violent Reaction are still two of my favourite nu-metal songs to date. I discovered The War of Art about the same time as Mudvayne, perfect timing for me as AHC’s blend of melodic heaviness was what I was after. I loved the way in which the album tried to throw everything at you & no 2 songs sounded the same. Mudvayne came to me at time where my tastes were getting heavier & I was moving away from the like of Linkin Park. Songs such as Dig & Death Blooms are still rock club favourites nowadays. 50 looking like a bunch of nuts & with some of the most head-banging worthy tunes of the nu-metal era. I even liked the Tears for Fears cover, Shout 2000! The latter half of the album might drift away & enter ‘boring’ territory but the deliverance of the first half more than makes up for it. The Sickness was easily one of my favourite nu-metal albums of my teenage years. I was so blown away by Voices when I heard it that for a long time Disturbed could do wrong. Sway wasn’t the only that invoked that reaction on the album though with songs such as Loco, Big Truck & Bradley still sounding massive in modern times. We don’t need no water let the mother-fucker burn, burn, mother-fucker, burn! This was the first song I properly understood what ‘losing your shit’ meant in relation to metal. It was soooo heavy! It was a hit filled album as well…Digital Bath, Knife Prty, Change (In The House of Flies) to name a few. Going to an all boy’s school I often spent a lot of time threading water & trying to carve out my own identity…White Pony helped me establish what music was for me. Infest wasn’t a wall-to-wall banging album but the songs that hit right did it spectacularly well.īack to School (Mini Maggot) was my anthem for a period in secondary school. Last Resort is still considered by many as the highlight of Papa Roach’s career with lyrics & a video that just spoke volumes to any teen feeling a bit low.
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Some may think this should score higher in this list but while I wasn’t a big fan of the album overall it had some bangers on it. It is no surprise that they became as big as they did with songs such as Crawling, Papercut & In The End. Heavy but meaningful, the mix of rap & metal was really interesting to a nervous rock & metal fan & the accompanying video made the band look like badasses.
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I still remember the first song I heard of Linkin Park, it was One Step Closer on a free Kerrang CD & it blew my mind.
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No Limp Bizkit though…those guys can fuck right off.
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This top 10 reflects a mix of what was popular & what I really enjoyed back then. Other adapted with the death of nu-metal while a select few tried to follow up their initial success with similar sounding albums. Some of these bands were one-hit wonders they dropped a stonker of an album & then shuffled back into obscurity.
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Regardless of what I think about several of the major players of the Nu-Metal age during that period they really helped influence my later tastes. It was so accessible & spoke to my early teenage angst. My proper entry point into metal came through Nu-Metal I think you would find many folks about my age had a similar entry point.