Best Nu-Metal Band POLL

Deftones, duh.

Korn for the first two albums.

deftones by a huge margin with SOAD next, the rest can rot in the fiery pits of hell with alex in nyc stoking the boiler for them

SOAD

No love for Linkin Park?

System of a Down, come on

System of a Down, yeah

SOAD, easy

I would have voted Soulfly I guess. Why isn't Max on this list?

lol ORGY

I had the displeasure of meeting Orgy in their new incarnation Julien K. Just awful.

"Stitches" really should be terrible yet somehow is awesome, I think it's the incredibly labored chord progression in the chorus that makes it sound like it was written by your precocious 6-year-old nephew who is simultaneously irritating and adorable.

deftones!

staind were so constipated

i had already forgotten kittie existed

System Of A Down stopped being nu-metal after their first album, which is prolly y they are good

prob deftones. i know that soad is like the connoisseur's nu-metal band but they are so random and annoying.

i've said this challop in prolly a few other threads, but really, the Deftones have one amazing album, two amazing songs otherwise, and a whole buncha nu-metal crrrap

Whereas Korn has one good song and a pile of stupid nonsense!

xp yeah still more than other nu-metal bands have.

I probably would have voted for Mudvayne had they been on this poll, solely because of an utterly perplexing video for a wholly unlistenable song that I dimly remember from mid-90s MTV.

Slipknot

wow, that is utterly unlistenable.

Deftones' self-titled is underrated - the lushest guitars money can buy coupled with a really skewed sense of melody. Their last one wasn't too hot for the most part.

oh, and "Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event" is Cure-aping at its best.

Deftones are gonna win this in a walk, but it should not be overlooked that the first Slipknot album is pretty goddamn great. And the first two System of a Down records are, too. Shit, the second Disturbed album has its moments. And why isn't Mudvayne on this list? Their second album was an attempt to combine nü-metal and Tool-ish prog that wound up being better than anything Tool's ever done.

mindless self indulgence

That Mudvayne video is fucking hilarious.

I KNOW

Do you know, every time I hear a song on the radio by Disturbed it delights the hell out of me? Their singer got three Bachelors degrees: Business Administration, Philosophy, and Political Science. Also, he's Jewish!

OTOH System's singer collects Persian rugs and most of their radio songs delight the hell out of me so they lost by a nose.

Disturbed recently did a cover of 'Land of Confusion' and had the good sense to give it a wacky animated video.

Disturbed also made some video where the singer's girlfriend hanged herself, he was all "OMGGGG" and then he was covered in blood shrieking before turning a gun on himself...and then there was a PSA for a suicide hotline

So obviously gotta be the Deftones or SOAD, even though I don't really care much for either of them outside of a few tunes. Probably going with Deftones if only because My Own Summer instantly reminds me of aimless, hot junior high/early highscool summers and community pools and sneaking cigarettes and pretty girls and all of that adolescent weirdness/greatness.

bahaha what the hell is this?

SOAD, I guess. This genre is horrible.

Haha, forgot that there was a song called "Lhabia" on Around the Fur.

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Some completely unprovoked, random thoughts on this list:

Alien Ant Farm - i like that they actually had a sense of humor, but still fairly awful
Chevelle - don't know that i would be able to recall a single song of theirs
Crazy Town - beyond awful, the stinkiest pile of poo in a genre full of poo piles
Deftones - don't mind them, honestly haven't explored them fully tho people tell me i might dig 'em
Disturbed - i actually kind of like their recent stuff, hated the first album tho
Drowning Pool - almost as bad as Crazy Town
Godsmack - you know, not terribly awful just awfully generic hard rock
Kittie - lolwhut
Korn - still love, love the first two albums
Limp Bizkit - certainly of their time and place, but never need to hear them again
Linkin Park - like most of the singles, think Chester is wasting his vocal talents on this band tho
Lostprophets - vaguely remember liking one of their singles
Orgy - lolwhut pt. 2
P.O.D. - "Alive" was sort of alright, the rest was shite
Papa Roach - saw them in concert for free once, would be tolerable if lead dude wasn't so earnest
Puddle of Mudd - lolwhut pt. 3
Sevendust - great first album, nothing too exciting after that
Slipknot - kind of like these guys, mostly second and third albums
Staind - cannot stand this band, awful constipated shite
System of a Down - too all over the place for me, also annoying for being shoved down my throat as the "good" nu-metal band
Trapt - lolwhut pt. 4

I dunno if Puddle Of Mudd is really nu-metal. They're really more a Nickelback type thing

Though like with Staind it might be a touched-by-the-hand-of-Durst thing

Linkin' Park are lol Obvious Guitars + scratchin' 'n shit but often fun.

Deftones prolly take this though I agree their apparent greatness has a lot to do with whom they're standing next to.

SOAD prolly have the most cred but other than the awesomeness of repping for (and, uh, preserving the melodic heritage of) Little Armenia they're pretty meh.

Kinda like a couple of Staind tracks (omgwtf!)

Tempted to vote for Crazy Town for so deftly encapsulating everything wack about nü-metal.

System of a Down strike me as being just as retarded as anything else on this list. I don't know who I'm voting for but it's not for them.

System of a Down - too all over the place for me, also annoying for being shoved down my throat as the "good" nu-metal band

^^ basically this

easily the Deftones....as a teen during the nu-metal boom I listened to a TON of shitty bands, and the Deftones are the only band that weren't shed during my musical maturation; their songs were miles above their peers and the riffs weren't too shabby either. In fact I wish I hadn't thrown away their first 3 albums in my nu-metal purge six or seven years ago.

Has anyone ever had to stand around really sweaty & gross with no way to dry oneself off? It starts to feel itchy and humiliating. I don't remember what the Deftones sound like but I always felt vicarious itchiness for the poor young lady on this albumcover:

http://misskind.no.sapo.pt/dbimg/Deftones-AroundtheFur19911044_f.jpg

That Mudvayne song was always kind of awesome in a Sleepytime Gorilla Museum way. The rest of the album does not live up to it.

iirc

These are not the best gnu-metal bands ever (see Apex Theory), but of the ones there, I'll go with Crazy Town, who actually had two songs I love.

Actually, if Rammstein count as nu-metal (they actually deserve the otherwise stupid umlaut), they blow all of these bands out of the hot dog flavored water.

Rammstein are still awesome, no question, but I'm guessing they'd fall under the industrial metal umbrella.

SOAD and Deftones are the only nu-metal bands I can still stomach. And Drain STH, they were cool.

But really, this genre should just die, yet it refuses to.

deftones

But really, this genre should just die, yet it refuses to.

um.

i like SOAD too.

that's about it.

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Linkin Park and Papa Roach are like a Hoobastank bands now.

Slipknot sounds like regular extreme metal, System Of A Down sound like Zappa, Deftones sound like Echo And The Bunnymen, and Korn fell off the face of the earth

No one really does the dubba-dubba hooba-jooba stuff anymore except for maybe Hollywood Undead

Slipknot sounds like regular extreme metal

eh, not really

i have a healthy respect for the first slipknot album and Iowa too. this, despite the fact that i believe that ross robinson has done more damage to modern rock than just about anyone alive. i like deftones when i hear them, which isn't often, and i never listen to them on purpose. but i dig where they are/were coming from. they at least tried to create some interesting sounds and their sadsack persona was appealing. i liked the first two crazy town albums a bunch. for real. no kidding. no fooling. go figure. the rest of these bands i have no use for whatsoever. if disturbed had had a singer 50% less annoying then i might have been in their corner for their more industrial moments, but that monkey man of theirs totally gets on my nerves.

i did like that one famous soad song. you know the one. and i've heard a couple of catchy kittie songs.

I never understood what was supposed to be the big deal about the Deftones, but I have no doubt that something was there, seeing how lots of smart people always insisted it was. (Actually, come to think of it, I care more about P.O.D.'s "Youth Of The Nation" than pretty much Deftones and SOAD's and Korn's and Slipknot's entire careers. So I guess P.O.D. would be my second choice, if I had to have one.)

deftones had some pretty songs, chuck. in a sub-katatonia kinda shoegazey way.

i cut my life into pizzas.

RIP Ade.

OMG there are multiple angles for every member of that Mudvayne video and I just watched all of them.

:(

were incubus ever considered nu-metal? i always grouped them in with that cohort. i'm kinda surprised they're not here, they were on that first "family values" tour and everything. this omission might be further proof that they're really the only nu-metal band to escape unscathed.

chevelle's first album was pretty okay, but i haven't listened to it since grade 12 so maybe that's why i still have that high of an opinion.

SOAD were interesting to me at first, but then they made hypnotize/mezmerize.

i think my vote has to go to the deftones though. they're still listenable, and i would still even recommend them to people who were unfamiliar with their music.

my inner 12 year old is still rooting for wes borland's career to take off though.

guess they needed a bunch of women on stage to n/h Durst and Lewis turning that song into a duet

none of these bands are as good as steel panther:

I always figured Chevelle was kind of like the dorky little brothers of the guys in Tar. Maybe it is the north shore Chicago thing, I don't know, but there is something kind of like Tar/Jawbox meets the downtuned nu-metal in their sound.

yeah, i definitely hear more of a "post-hardcore" sound here, but i don't think it carried over well to their newer stuff.

after hearing this song again, i finally get the tool comparisons. now it stands out like a sore thumb. that and the shitty knock-off video doesn't help much either.

I always thought it was funny that the guitarist from Orgy used to be in Rough Cutt.

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Alien Ant Farm - i once covered their cover of "Smooth Criminal" at a catholic church talent show

Chevelle - "send the pain below" is kinda dope

Crazy Town - idk i enjoy listening to that one single for being so lollably horrible

Deftones - <3 basically

Disturbed - "pray" & "the sickness" were good singles imo + it loosed that roffly scream on the world

Drowning Pool - i have been known to jam "let the bodies hit the floor"

Godsmack - first single & "voodoo" pretty much the best thing they ever did

Kittie - they had a song i liked but overall fuck em

Korn - follow the leader is dope as fuck imo and was the first cd i listened to w/bad words quickly followed by ready to die

Limp Bizkit - still enjoy their "faith" & "break stuff" tbh

Linkin Park - meteora is dope

Lostprophets - who? i think i heard them once in high school

Orgy - i hate this band but i heard their "blue monday" first and tbh the original sounds wrong to me because the molten bass never comes in like it does with orgy

P.O.D. - i was a huge POD fan for like 3 years but with some distance i recognize that they probably had 10 good songs. then again that's more than most on the list so far so

Papa Roach - first time i ever got drunk was also the first time i saw "last resort" at like 2am in indiana in my gpa's basement so they have a place in my heart for that. new single is boring if shockingly competent.

Puddle of Mudd - lol

Sevendust - first cd i ever burned had a song by these dudes on it, i forget which one it was now

Slipknot - have basically never fucked with slipknot in my entire life

Staind - i get that everybody hates staind but "mudshovel" in particular and other parts of their discography were big deals to me at 15 so

System of a Down - so tired of these guys and this thread is actually making me hate them more

Trapt - i think i learned to play one of their songs once but i couldn't tell you what it was so obv unmemorable

this is Deftones vs. P.O.D. for me, after-the-fact appreciation brought on by reading critics vs. shit i embraced cause it meant something to me. bad is-he-rapping-or-"speaking-lyrics" vs. tolerable rapping.

i'm kinda shocking myself here but i'm going with P.O.D.

It's sort of embarrassing but I like "Youth of the Nation"

i always hated Youth & Alive were their big singles tbh

hated THAT etc

I remember this song as being not so bad, but this video is totally lol angst:

Snuff the Punk, Selah, Checkin Leves, Set Your Eyes to Zion, Bullet to Blue Sky cover, Rock the Party, Boom, The Messenjah (<---- that fuckin TUNE imo), & Without Jah Nothin were all classics imo and damn now that I'm looking back on it Satellite was a damn fine album

that "blurry" video is fucking epic! The song is their awesome bellyache as is but spinning it into the agony of a weekend dad who knows his son his hurting? FRED DURST YOU VIDEO DIRECTING GENIUS.

oh maaaaaaaaan blurry

the most lol angst video:

omg the part 1:50 in!

of any of these bands, deftones probably have the most songs I like... but linkin park "faint" is really good.

faint def their best song

its like the platonic ideal of nu metal imo

I could do without the screamy bit, but yeah.

does it predate "toxic"? the sampled strings are really similar...

i like korn's first album and deftones' second one. deftones probably wins though.

That Staind video is... wow. I think if I saw that as a teenager I'd be embarrassed.

Too bad I've been so busy. I'd otherwise be all over this thread. :(

Anyway, my vote goes to Disturbed for the reasons Abbott posted above. If you listen to Down with the Sickness carefully, you can hear him moan 'l'fachad' about halfway through the song, which means 'I'm afraid' in Hebrew. Easter eggs for Jewish kids!

as far as staind are concerned, the only song i really liked by them was "mudshovel." still kinda do. it's pretty catchy compared to the rest of their output.

remember farmclub?!?

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i'm pretty sure i've heard the deftones before and it was dumb boring gay trash with a fat, jorts-wearing singer. i am astonished that linkin park didnt run away with this and i spit on all of u