Chimaira’s Pass Out Of Existence was very underrated and heavy for the time it came out. The double bass drumming and low tuned aggressive riffs are definitely what made Chimaira a stronger band in my eyes of Nu Metal. In my personal opinion, “Pass Out Of Existence” has more of an “Underground” feel and really shows the potential Nu Metal has in the hands of great songwriters.
I’m not going to lie but sir after watching a lot of your views on. Metal reminds me of *Hipsters* … You honestly have no clue how brilliant some of the albums are.
Skrape is the most underrated band on this list! Their lead singer formed a supergroup called Audiotopsy with members of Mudvayne. I had never seen clips of Skrape playing live until recently...it kinda blew my mind to see how they pulled off their songs in concert. I think their singer has a distinct voice compared to your typical "nu-metal" frontman. More of an MTV2 kinda band, but I think they deserve more recognition. I thought their second album "Up the Dose" was pretty rad, too! Oh, and Reveille is pronouced "Reh-vuh-lee" in American English. "Reveille" is what they play in the Army on the trumpet to wake up the troops in their barracks!
I had that album years ago and sold it out. Then just recently I saw it at one of the local stores and decided to buy it. Now I enjoy it very much! Funny how that happens.
2001 was a good year. Toxicity and Iowa are both bangers. I agree with that ranking. But I did like Oracle a lot, I was pretty obsessed with them at the time while I was in high school, lol.
Iowa, Toxicity, Invitation to the Dance, The War of Art, and Break the Cycle are essentials, in my eyes. I, also, find Adema and The Darker Side of Nonsense to be cool listens, as well.
Dope list. Curious if you're still gonna do this for 2002 and 2003. 2003 especially was a weird year for nu metal. Almost feels like the year it "died" lol
2003 was when the genre was on life support in mainstream popularity save for Meteora, Fallen, Take A Look In The Mirror, TDG's self titled & Shadow Zone alongside singles from Chevelle, P.O.D & the afromentioned Trapt meanwhile in 2002 Nu metal was still popular with albums like Korn's Untouchables, Papa Roach's lovehatetragedy and songs from Chevelle, SOAD & the afromentioned Puddle Of Mudd & Saliva although it began to decline in mainstream popularity
40 Below Summers album was slipped to me at my local CD shop and I never looked back. Shame they never quite captured this lightning in the bottle twice
I got to admit that aside from 1999, 2001 may be one of the best years in Nu Metal. There was a ton of great releases to come out that year. Of the ones that I've heard, here would be my ranking: S - System of a Down - Toxicity, American Head Charge - The War of Art, Fear Factory - Digimortal, Slipknot - Iowa A+ - Sevendust - Animosity, Ill Nino - Revolution Revolucion, Drowning Pool - Sinner A - Dry Kill Logic - The Darker Side of Nonsense, Static-X - Machine, Kittie - Oracle, 40 Below Summer - Invitation to the Dance, Chimaira - Pass Out of Existence B - Powerman 5000 - Anyone for Doomsday?, Alien Ant Farm - Anthology, POD - Satellite, Staind - Break the Cycle C - Dope - Life D - Machine Head - Supercharger, Saliva - Every Six Seconds
Not sure that I would consider Kittie's Oracle nu metal. It's difficult to categorize but you can hear a lot of Pantera and 90s Machine Head influence in there. The songs may be less catchy than on Spit, but I think that was part of what they wanted to achieve. I recall that with Oracle they wanted to create a "real" metal album, and whether some people agree with calling it that or not they certainly made a very pissed off record that in my opinion is their finest moment.
Iowa was the last good Slipknot in my opinion. Everything after has been insufferable and either mid to very bad. And as a Fear Factory fan, I think Digimortal has aged poorly but it's still better than Transgressions
Good list. I do dig it. Mudvayne pun intended. Keep up the great work as per usual. 2001 was a great year. Nice deep dive pick with American Head Charge's The War of Art.
I was much older than you when Nu- Metal got big, lol. I actually saw Skrape open up for StaticX and it was a pretty sick show🤘 I'm still a big fan of Dry Kill Logic. I love Cliff's haunting vocals especially their last two albums so I would put Darker Side of Nonsense at perfection along with 40 Below Summer. It may be a little biased but every time I go back and listen to those two albums it takes me "Back in the Day" 🤣🤣🤣
Seriously, people want to not put Slipknot as Nu Metal (especially Iowa) only because they know it shreds apart almost everyone else. That aggression is practically unbeatable even by the more extreme subgenres in Death, Black, etc.
Because of a very obvious and certain event from that year, I'm really fascinated by art, and even more specifically music, from 2001-2005ish. Its like the concepts of fear and uncertainty were hyper-injected into the cultural fibers of America and popular media of the time, and being able to see and hear that, especially in hindsight, is just fascinating to me.
Jammed so many of these BACK IN THE DAY. Break The Cycle, Machine, Digimortal, Toxicity, Iowa…. The War Of Art is definitely underrated. Saw the video for Just So You Know, a lot back when there were metal music channels.
I was pretty surprised to see Skrape on here, I found them about 6 years ago. Literally only bought the album for Isolated........I also like Rake but I honestly can't be bothered for the rest of the album. Love Flaw, favorite track off the album is Whole. Machine (for me) is the best Retro Static-X album period. If the rules of inclusion are flexible enough I would of loved to have seen SOil on here for the album Scars (they have a Japanese bonus song called Center that absolutely slays) Also I'm glad to see you got Project 86 on the last list even if they weren't your favorite, Personally I love DBL because it was the first "heavy" album I purchased with my allowance (that I was allowed to anyway due to being raised in a born again Christian household). Without the nostalgia goggles on I would say "Truthless Heroes" (2002) and "Songs To Burn Your Bridges By" (2003) are much better releases, the ladder being my favorite overall from that era. I do hope that you get the chance to experience the rest of their discography in due time up till OMNI 1&2, I think that will make the excitement around the tone shift more palatable....... or alternatively since you now heard what was considered their "heaviest album" by the fan-base maybe now would be the perfect time to dive into OMNI as it isn't just heavy by P86 standards, but can easily hold it's ground in today's metal scene. Heaviest?.....no.......but undeniably Heavy, like in line with Fear Factory. In case I haven't sold you on the idea I recall you having an affinity for Metalcore and Industrial......OMNI is both.
Reville was just pronounced "Revel-ee" back when they were on the radio. Also absolutely criminal to put Oracle so far down the list. It's unbelievably heavy, bordering on death doom & heavy sludge.
I was expecting to see Five Pointe O on here but checked and their album came out in 2002. Absolutely one of my all time favourite nu metal records. Slipknot's Iowa had a huge impact on 15 year old me and my first ever band covered Black and White by Static X when I was at the tender age of 16. What a time to be alive.
What an incredible year it was. Chimaira Pass out of Existence was the first Album I purchased with my own money, had no idea who they were, I just liked the album art. And I've been a die hard ever since 🤘
Toxicity and Satellite came out on September 11th of that year. I remember going to Circuit City to buy both CDs before I had to go to work that night. Kinda hard to forget that day.
Dude thanks for checking out reveille still top 3 albums of all time good list there first album was more raw but bleed the sky is perfection. Edit : I never understood why chimaira is nu metal there groove metal right?
The War Of Art and Oracle are my personal favourites here by far. I still listen to both fairly regularly. I hope Downthesun makes the 2002 lost. Really wish we'd got more from those guys.
Toxicity is an album that still gets regular rotation for me, and is my favourite on this list. I've grown to have a new appreciation for it because it takes me back to a time in my life where I was struggling, but my one constant positive was my son, and I loved having Toxicity blasting while I was playing soccer or ministicks in the basement with him. Adema is one I played a lot thanks in large part to "Giving In" and I now have a personal connection to Speculum, so it is a hard listen, but still a great song IMO. I also fondly remember blasting Iowa when it came out, and it still holds up well today.
2001 was my birth year, so I didn't get into nu metal till I was a teen around 2015 and 2016 time. I really wish I could've experienced that era myself. Also will you do videos on 2002 and 2003 as well? They were still very strong years for the genre with releases like: Untouchables, Wonder What's Next, Lost Angel, Saturate, Welcome, Believe, The End of All Things to Come, The Lonely Position of Neutral, Steal This Album, Lovehatetragedy, Dark Days, Beyond the Calm of the Corridor, Fallen, Meteora, Take a Look in the Mirror, Results May Vary, The Mourning After, Self Destructive Pattern, Year of the Spider, Skeletons, Confession, Motograter's debut, Element Eighty's debut etc.
@@bryanlenihan5012 I remember just wondering if people remember certain bands because there were so many around that time. I forgot about them, until recently.
Sermon is another great Track from the Bodies album. Also if I remember, I believe Chimaira doesn't like being labeled as Nu metal. Could be the reason why they went more groove metal in with later albums.
I actually have fun with Saliva's Every Six Second album not only click click boom was kinda of a big track for a band some of their non single tracks got attention like superstar. Oh don't give me wrong they actually made theme song of PS2 game called Spyhunter back then.
I played that Adema album like a thousand times, I think I stopped listend to it by 2008 and still I know every word on it. By the way, you pronunced very well "niño" although it is an easier word than "piñata" which is always funny to listed to how it is pronunced by native english speakers. In retribution, if you listen how spanish speakers pronunced "Chimaira" you will be rolling on the floor lol.
I never really considered System of a Down to be nu metal. They're more of a quirky alternative metal band like Faith No More or Dog Fashion Disco. I know you included them to be comprehensive, but I've never understood why they got stuck with the nu metal tag.
I am really the minority but I just really love Alien Ant Farm, sad they are an one hit wonder band ! Wish, Courage and Universe are peak Nu Metal songs for me and they are from this album,also Attitude, Happy Death Day and Calico are great tracks to listen. Anthology is a truly time travel machine to 2001, just a beautiful masterpiece ! Also, I would say they are more alternative rock with some Nu Metal/Alternative Metal songs, they had one album before it called Greatest Hits released on 1999 than is more closer to Metal, sounds like a lost 90s Deftones album. This album is only possible to listen on youtube on internet because some right license issues, it's not disponible on Spotify.
No way I was just listening to the Adema self-titled and just thought about him doing a video on the 2001 Nu-Metal albums.. bro is Professor Strange.😅 Sucks being born in ‘03 I wasn’t able to catch the peak years of this music ugh.
So many obscure bands. Linchpin is one of those songs i enjoyed a lot at the time and still is one of my favorites, although i only recently rediscovered it. Pure nostalgia.
I love The War Of Art and New Killer America, both of them are from start to finish listens with no skips. I'm glad I bought a copy of The War Of Art CD last year here since I don't see or hear many people own one here in Finland as far as I know and it's a bummer imo that New Killer America isn't listenable on Spotify at least in my country. And also Iowa is easily a no skip listen front to back, I've listened to it since 7th grade (4-5 years ago) when I got to the deeper cuts on the album
I love these lists but i have to respectfully disagree with some again, like The New Release by Primer 55. It's a pretty strong follow up to their great debut which even improves on some things. I don't get the success of Staind on the other hand, and i always considered them post-grunge. I also consider some of these bands industrial but i guess that's just semantics. Anyway, these videos introduced me to some great nu metal i never heard before, so thanks!
Nobody ever talks about Misery Loves Company . Not quite nu metal really , but it came out around that time and had elements of. But I dug them and was just thinking about them at work yesterday .
Ahhhh my senior year. Also the last year I stopped listening to Nu-Metal. Went the route of metalcore and whatever you classify In Flames as back then. Thanks for the memories!
i love nu metal & definitely don't deny Slipknot being in that genre but with them sounding much heavier than the other nu metal bands, especially with what they are now since shifting away from the style in the mid-2000s, i'd put them under "extreme groove metal". also, i've not heard of Slipknot until a friend of mine at school got me into them back in late 2009. of course, he recommended Wait & Bleed & while it was good, it took some getting used to but not long after, i really got into them when i found People = Shit & i've been hooked since then.
Break the Cycle and Toxicity were a few of the first CDs I ever bought. Although, I never really understood how Staind is "nu metal". They don't really have any of the hip-hop influence and are basically just post-grunge in my opinion.
Love to see Reveille, AHC, Ill Nino and Dry Kill Logic rank so high on this list!! although I love the Saliva album Every Six Seconds 'After Me ' especially.
I believe "Reveille" is pronounced Reh-veh-lay. I spun their first album a bunch in college and definitely noticed its omission from that list. I only ever had ~7 of these, and only still have Iowa and Digimortal.
@@jdg1120 i bought the laced album brand new and it had a sticker on the case telling you how to pronounce it. Its pronounced different in french and American. In english its pronunciation Rev-ah-lee or Rev-uh-lee
I also remember when the "Chop Suey!" video debuted. I was in northern Maine visiting my mom's family. And I mean *NORTHERN* Maine. Very rural. Music to my cousins and their friends up there was pop and country. I was hanging out with the older cousin and her friends (all my age), MTV was on the TV and the video came on. I'm losing my mind in excitement. My cousin's friends look at me like I'm the weirdo 😂 I knew the album was coming out, i had been excited for it because earlier that year I really got into SOAD because of the "Spiders" music video and had picked up the reissued s/t with the red hand cover that had a bonus disc with some live songs. I got the Best Buy exclusive version of Toxicity a few days after its release, which was a weird time in general for America.
I would have put that Flaw album much higher such an underrated band the second album was good too and their comeback album from 2016 also was surprisingly great
If you do Nu Metal albums from 2002 you gotta have Five Pointe O their only album after the vocalist and their female guitarist (got married, they still are married to this day with 2 kids) left the band during their last tour with the band the album to me had a slight metalcore side to it and one song kinda had a similar part vocally kinda spoken wordy that Sikth have in some of their songs (they formed a shortlived metalcore band together)
Closeted Staind fan here. Yeah, they've been in the same boat as Trapt with their frontman going full MAGA, and they definitely slid downhill after 2001, but there's no denying their talent, nor the consistency of Tormented, Dysfunction and BTC.
Probably best year for nu metal. Personally Ill Niño - Revolution Revolución, Drowning Pool - Sinner and Reveille - Bleed The Sky are my favorite nu metal albums of all time, I would also rank Dope - Life and Adema much higher.
*Yet again* I'm agreeing with all the placements on this list *Metal T's* (no pun intended lm tail o) but I'd honestly put Pass Out of Existence ( *OG CHIMAIRA MY LOVE* ) in the *Fantastic* tier, Life (by Dope) at the bottom of the "good" tier ~ *American Apathy* - any version of it (2005) actually is *WAYYYY* tf better than the rest of their discography with Felons + Revolutionaries I suppose being their second-best album... *Sinner* (OG DP tho, *RIP* Dave Williams) deserves to be in the *great* tier imo (and maybe the same with Anthology by *AAF* and they're just on the "softer" side of nu metal I think), *NKA* (Skrape) should most definitely be in the *good* tier, and Digimortal by FF *SERIOUSLY* needs to be in the Perfection tier imho, *sir.* 🤌 🔥 🧐 🗣 🍻
2002 Stepa - Stepa Stoopi - Unspoken Word Helio - until I wake up bleeding Vacant Stare - vindication Design19 - trigger Aisling - Estrella Crooked - crooked Crazy town - darkhorse Afterfeedback - the first emotion Arizing - womb Dreadlock pussy - Tsumi V-mob - equilibrium Pleymo - medicine cake Armani death machine - geared Switched - subject to change 2003 Nervepitch - my sombre existence Nothingface - skeletons Element eighty - element eighty SiOP - it starts with one Sunk loto - between birth and death Folder - keep the flow As ashes fall - the implement Skribble - get dead Sublevel - mechanics of coping 22 even - Alexithymia Lo-pro - lo-pro Grade 8 - grade 8 Twin method - adjust and control Deadly medley - perfect 10
Spineshank had its great moments as well as some meh . But they were a talented band n one talks about . Kilgore was cool too with A Search for Reason but seemed to disappear . My friend said "what are you listening to ? This sounds like STP on crack ! " LOL
I'm not an elitist of any sort, I'll give everything a fair shake. Nu-metal has mostly just never been my thing. However, I think I have the spiciest opinion and I've found exactly 0 people that agree with it. Not only do I not consider Slipknot a good representation of the genre, but I have the opposite opinion of the elitists apparently. It's not that I am trying to maintain a non-like of nu-metal while trying to subtly like Slipknot, no, I outright despise Slipknot. Especially self titled and Iowa. Which point one to how weird my opinion is, the albums I have the most hatred for are the 2 that most people consider their best work. But it isn't just not liking them, and to the bigger point, I find them physically hard to listen to. You know that visceral cringe most people have when they hear Brokencyde? Slipknot does that for me. No exaggeration, I cannot be in earshot to those 2 albums without feeling this weird deep embarrassment. I am not a spiritual person but the greatest argument I've found for religion is how badly hearing Slipknot hurts my non-existent soul. My innards contort just thinking about how dumb, contrived, and dorky songs like Heretic Anthem are. I've tried, and I just can't. Sorry to all Slipknot fans, but they managed to find the most bizarrely awful sound to me. I think most people have a band like that, and could probably relate to what I'm saying. But having that band be Slipknot places me way in the minority it seems.
Static X- INDUSTRIAL, Fear Factory- INDUSTRIAL ( couple nu metal songs, just), Slipknot are more Industrial ( Iowa isn't a Nu metal album, nor is volume 3, all hope is gone - it's a mixed bag as are the rest of their albums) Toxicity, System has been labelled Blood metal in some write ups.
Damn I agree and I don't agree Sevendust is amazing are they the Nickelback of the genre maybe but they have always put out bangers except Blood And Stone
Stepa should have been massive they were like a less heavy more groovy/hook driven version of LP The intro to Aquarium is still one of the coolest pieces of music ever Their S|T album came out in 02
Toxicity is the BEST mainstream Nu-Metal album from that era (early 00's), no contest. yes I know about Deftones you dont need to tell me for the umpteenth time
