Nu-Metal: Tales From a Scene 

Loved when Bryan Welch shut down the interviewer’s meth promotion. Don’t do meth kids

as a former meth and heroin (and crack, for that matter) freak, i have such big respect for Head. i've always loved Korn but he is definitely my favorite member of the group. PS - i'll have 11 years free from all hard drugs (including suboxone) this coming may. anyone struggling with addiction out there, you are not alone. try to do a little better every day.

Death metal, grindcore, black metal fan here......I always loved nu - metal/ crossover , because it's about the sound and creativity of the music! And sometimes something different is great

Amy Lee's aging process should be studied.

Mr. Hahn is a savage 😂

Dude singing in the Evanescence song wasn't a rapper though, he was the frontman for 12 Stones.

I’m glad Draiman can take the joke. He seems so chill every time I see him. Saw Disturbed with Slipknot on the 2008 Mayhem festival which was my very first concert. It was amazing

Just having to drive back to Arkansas would give me tears.

They restricted Megalomaniac but American Idiot was on every hour.

I still listen to Nu metal Linkin Park Korn Deftones Limp Bizkit Slipknot P.O.D.

And here we are in 2024, two decades later since the peak of this genre, that Nu Metal still sounds groovy, heavy can still catch your attention and is still in your playlist while genres like metalcore sound washed up and generic. Most of Nu Metal stood the test of time.

I have Nu Metal to thank for becoming a metalhead. Disturbed and Linkin Park were some of the earliest bands that spoke to me growing up. Now I'm a metalhead 20 years later, and I listen to all different genres; with melodic death and power metal being two of my favourites, in particular. I still go back to nu metal from time to time and I still enjoy it 🤘

Dave Draiman laugh snorting is the greatest thing to happen ever today

The singer of Disturbed seems like a very chill dude 😎

NU Metal is the most diverse Metal Genre and it brought Metal back into the Charts. I will always love NU Metal

Metal is metal to me, let’s just play it loud and headbang.

You're extremely lucky to be meeting and interviewing these people

Why is Amy Lee so fucking hot.

nu metal is good y’all overreacting

Dude over here casually interviewing legends

Still listening! Getcha pull brother! 333!

All things aside I think Munky did an incredible job in music writing for Remember Who You Are. I didn’t much like the change in drum style and quality, but the melody and the vocals were there and carried the tone and feel of that album. The band has always had a way of painting a picture and I think that’s what’s important. Never thought I’d get into their newer songs but now I love them just as much as their older albums. Well almost as much lol. JD has never failed to deliver a song I would grow into loving 🖤

Nü Metal is timeless 🔥

I am from the nu-metal generation... awesome. Korn are my favorite band of the genre... Coal Chamber, slipknot, deftones, Mudvayne...etc

At the height of Nu Metal I was in the navy coming back from the gulf, going to Iraq, fighting the war on terror, all that. So just listening to a lot of it brings back memories. I lost a buddy of mine who got out of the navy went home and got into a car accident. Every time I hear Aerials by System of the Down I can’t help but, think of him and our last conversation.

Wikipedia is single handedly responsible for saying Faith No More is nu-metal, and I just can’t see it, but I can’t fight that fight either. If there’s one thing people are passionate to the grave about, it’s metal genres. All I know is FNM is not fucking nu-metal.

As a millenial nu metal was my gateway into Metal music. Linkin park , SOAD , thank you for getting me there

Goddamn it, Amy is still so friggin beautiful.

Iv always been a fan of nu metal, even tho I'm now heavily into black metal I love nu metal ❤

Good music is good music.

From these interviews, I have seen Disturbed, and Slipknot live. I have seen other bands live like Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Nightwish etc. However, they were not covered in these interviews. To be fair, Disturbed and Slipknot is on a whole new level when they perform live. They excel to such an extent that listening to their albums afterwards, pale in comparison to their live shows.

So many metal artists are the most rational, down to earth, and intelligent people in the industry.

Looking forward to Finn McKenty reacting to this.

i miss Nu Metal. i neeed it to come back, just for a couple years lol.... give me more deftones, SOAD, evanescence, disturbed, korn, coal chamber,

NÜ Metal is a genre that although they can have different sounds from different subgenres (yes! Nu metal has its own subgenres) it share the SAME sound which is *"GROOVY,GRUNGY,ALTERNATIVE METAL"* every nu metal band has that sound! So quit that cliche "lumped in" b.s.Just admit u like NÜ Metal but only certain bands or its subgenres.

That Skitsystem shirt tho!!!

The webster theatre fact was cool!!!

Graham was shaking in his self conscious boots with Amy. Lol.

Millennial still listening to NüMetal 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️

The low settings for ac is usually public areas, or hotels. Reduces on sweat and stink rather than comfort. Drive thru chapels are mainly in Vegas. Alcohol sales times varies by state (example: in Mssachusetts, you can't buy Alcohol on Sundays). Most people I know buy a home to live in permanently, not just for a few years, unless they are flippers.

I always loved Nu Metal and I always will 🤘🏻🖤

Mr. Hahn gives off Mr. Musk vibes lol

I think people really underestimate the "metalness" of nu metal (particularly, places like the Metal Archives). Sure, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit and Incubus are barely metal, but Korn, Slipknot and Disturbed are easily as metal as Judas Priest, Iron Maiden or Metallica. Much like glam metal, how metal nu metal is depends on the band.

Nu-Metal was needed and loved.

So happy to see Nü Metal alive and well

I'm partial to brown eyes, but her blue eyes with dark hair are captivating.

I don't know if Nu Metal is objectively good. I just know that I have a fond nostalgia for it because I was a teenager in the late 90s and early 2000s.

Evanescence wasn't Nu Metal. In the interview Amy Lee is saying that having a rapper in the band would have been awful, so WTF?

People all admitting they dig it now . Got so much hate from everyone for liking it 2005-2017 lmao

What “rapping” was done in the Back To Life? The dude yelled some words out. That’s not rapping 🤦🏽‍♂️😂

Now tell me music industry and metal scene isn't sexist af when they wouldn't release album as great as Fallen just with a female singer alone

Nu metal has always been (sic).

David seems cool as fuck.

Nu Metal always has ruled

9:44 Mr T has those socks

Back in the day, my metal-head boys and I would joke that the "WOO-AH-AH-AH" part in the Disturbed song was an accidental recording of the sound engineer choking on his own vomit because the song is so bad! :D

What does it mean to be saved?

I met Munky coming out of a United Dairy Farmers in Ohio sometime in the 90s. The man needed beer ! He got it ! wouldnt share though ! lol

lol Head got lucky. You can't cover up a smell from dogs.

I didn't know Evanescence was Nu Metal edit: I didn't even know Incubus was Nu Metal.

Grew up listening to Nu-metal. Soad is the best.

I miss Graham

Crazy!!

Nu Metal must be the laziest name for a genre Guy: “what kind of metal is this?” Dude: “oh it’s new… yeah yeah it’s Nu Metal.”

I hear System on the radio and so does everyone else on the road.

Haha funny story. Brian “Head” gave my friend lice once. She had to shave her head and all that stuff. I never saw it but she told me about meeting him at a concert.

6:08 PRO TIP - don't film interviews near running air conditioning machines! haha or whatever that awful droning noise is!

I miss graham on these types of interviews

3:13 - would have been so much better if he’d said ‘No. it was inspired by the Boston zoo!’

Nu metal was one of the best genres of music.

Nu metal lives forever

Way to go ad algorithm. Head talking about hiding meth in deodorant and I immediately get a Gillette deodorant ad. You can’t make this shit up.

Mr Han 😂😂

The music industry, not just metal, needed nu-metal. It opened up a door for other people to discover metal and nu-metal lovers to other sub-genres of metal. I also feel that it pushed the boundaries of experimentation within the genre. And eventually, I feel, it melded and evolved with the metalcore sound of today.

I don’t think we hate the music in general I’m starting to think we hated the people we the listeners were back then. So many cringe memories lol

Just saying I'm happy Korn still sells out arenas and headlines. I also love Pearl Jam but i can tell time caught up with them, Korn not so much..

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Man this is my sht!

Want a great segment? Just give Brian Head Welch a microphone and let him do his thing

Meth itself doesn’t make you crafty, or really sneaky. That’s just addiction as a whole. Been there done that but never flew with dope. Most I flew with was a small amount of bud and my methadone prescription bottles.

Everyone Hates everyone super joint ritual

Incubus guitarrist actually looks like g w Bus lol

I love these Americans! Great artists , I still listen to them all

I never realized that evanescence were an Arkansan band. As an Arkansan man I’m surprised

Amy Lee such a beauty

thought that was plague moth lol

RU-vid doesn't like what i have to say

I love nu Metal

…and still do.

I used to say i didn't like music when i was a kid cos the UK charts didn't do it for me. But then i heard nu metal when i was about 12 years old. Blew my mind. I love music just not S Club 7 or Spice Girls.

Broken album cover art in second interview. Nice!

Sevendust should’ve definitely been in this video 😢

When you just not that many people must be into a genre and then you hear that first story... Don McLean tried to warn us.

Amyyyyyyyyyyyy🔥🔥🔥

I still trip out about Korn. In '93 I lived in Huntington Beach, Ca and worked in Irvine. My car was broken so the receptionist sometimes drove my roommate and I home. One day I saw an all blank black tape except the word Korn on it and asked her wtf a Korn was. She said her son's godfather was the lead singer for that band. I had her play it and one song out four or five on the tape and even though I was into Jane's Addiction/RHCP/etc at the time, one song jumped out to me. Turned out to be Blind. We partied at their house a couple miles away, later, and even though they all looked weird as hell to me (the only one that looked like a regular guy was the drummer), they were cool and it was fun just hanging out and playing pool at their pad all night. Turned out that her son's godfather (it was )Jonathan wasn't there but his hot as sh*t girlfriend was so we could've cared less. Almost the same thing happened at that time with a completely different music type band in Long Beach with another name that I thought was stupid as hell ....Sublime. Oh, Dave Abbott (Tank) was my roommates best friend from high school and also Tito Ortiz, who was just a skinny high school kid then, used to come by and drink beers after school. Sh*t, I look back and think how the hell did I hang out with all these different people that ended up being famous as hell. Lucky I guess. What the hell happened to me.....just a normal life.

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If i had drunk 11 bottles of wine, then id probably be naked jumping of roofs into pools too... Just saying

I thought Paul was great on 'Bring me to Life'. I hardly consider it 'Rap'.

My deodorant trick is out. Thanks Brian 😅

Some Nu Metal is great. Some of it sucks. I feel the same about blues, rap, or any other genre.