Genres : The "New" Metal

Hi, folks. Today I'll talk about a popular rock music genre - the Nu-Metal. But before we get started, I'll put on a little review for us.
Along the long walk of rock music, hardrock emerged in the mid-70s and gave birth to the first metal music(such as Iron Maiden in 1983) in the early 80s. What followed was a whole family of metal music - Heavy Metal, Death Metal, Thrash Metal, Power Metal, Hardcore Punk, Goth Metal, Industrial...all kinds of songs sounding like whatever you can imagine and singing around just about any theme, you name it. When history made its way to the mid-90s, here the new metal music arrive - the Nu-metal.
As if "Indie Rock" got it's name from the pronouncing of "Independent", "Nu-Metal" came from "New" metal. Nu-Metal, speaking roughly, is a fusion of Heavy Metal, Power Metal, Alternative Rock. Songs are often composed with the appearance of simple riffs brought out by powerful tones, and is often envolved with DJs mixing up the guitar and bass sounds. The Nu-Metal tide was first kicked out by Korn, and they sound something like this:

Korn - Ya'll Want A Single



In the meantime, two other strong competitives of Nu-Metal had also rised in the states, and they were Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park. They both own a guitarist, a bassist, a drummer, a DJ and of course a vocalist. At this point of time, the essential combination (or stereotype in other words) of a Nu-Metal band was established. These two bands had done a massive impact to the rest of the rock bands across the globe, they not only inspired people that DJ and punk melodies make good music, they also brought up the passion of the crowd for the cool music.

Let's savor some of their works here:

Linkin Park - Given Up



Limp Bizkit - Nookie



Until today, the great gears of Nu-Metal is still spinning. More and more Nu-Metal bands pops out, and the tones turns even harder and more colorful then the music used to be. New techniques of mixing also made the music varify, satisfying the picky ears of modern headbangers. I recommend Dope as a harder version of Nu-Metal here:

Dope - Addiction



With time passes, the gigantic family tree of music expends its branches, springing out more and more splendid sounds we never had heard before. From the simple and powerful songs of Metallica's to the complex and brutal ones of Slipknot's, Music evolves with the fusions, and this is how Nu-Metal came. How will it sound tomorrow? Ten years later? We never know.