About Me - Revised

Welcome to Nu Metal Central, where you can get that loving, nostalgic feeling from reading about the world’s most hated on and berated genre. Here, I will be reviewing the seemingly dead genre of Nu Metal throughout the late 90’s and early 2000’s and its everlasting influence on popular metal even today. I will mostly review popular Nu Metal albums from mainstream bands that a majority of today’s metal bands cite as their influence, such as Slipknot, Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Marilyn Manson. I will also discuss why that group/album was so influential, in regards to sound and the historical time frame in which the album came out.

With Nu Metal being a tricky genre to place as groups cover such a broad spectrum of the metal genre, perhaps a general description of what defines Nu Metal will help. Heavy bass, down tuned guitars and “rough” vocals are a staple of Nu Metal, and you really wouldn’t be able to place yourself in the genre without it. Some things, like synthesizers, turntables, and screaming vocals aren’t as crucial to the genre, but seem to be pretty popular, especially in the earlier Nu Metal that existed in the late 90’s.

Unlike some blogs, here you can expect a very candid review of influential Nu Metal bands, be it a group that I like or dislike, but respect as pioneers of the genre and influences on modern metal. I will try to write my posts in terms of album reviews, first, reviewing the music itself, but then dedicating a section as to how that particular album influenced other bands in the genre and the entire span of metal itself.

I love hearing feedback. So by all means, if a particular album review, or a reference to a performance strikes a chord in your heart, please drop a comment and share a story of how you felt then and how looking back on it, how it makes you feel now. If anything, I want you, as readers, to be able to come to my blog and read a “professional” review, but also be able to connect these reviews to memories of your own. You can also expect to learn about new music you probably have not heard before, or how a group’s sound has changed over time, as so many Nu Metal bands usually do.

The goal for my blog is to shed a new light on the genre of Nu Metal. I don’t expect it to change every person’s mind and try to convince everybody that it is the greatest genre on the face of the planet, because let’s face it, it’s not. However, I would love to be able to show people how it influenced a lot of the popular hard rock and heavy metal that plays on the radio and is popular now.

But most of all, I want you to be able to come to this blog to enjoy yourself. Come here to explore, and keep an open mind to things you may not have otherwise ventured in before.