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"Craziness, drugs, alcohol, chicks – you name it, I did it." How Korn's most chaotic and hedonistic era birthed a nu metal classic in Follow The Leader
By Mörat published
Follow The Leader officially confirmed Korn as nu metal superstars. It also sent the band flying off the rails.

"It was a beautiful scar on the metal world." How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth
By Dannii Leivers published
Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since

“Don’t show up at my shows or you’ll get ****ed”: Fred Durst once threatened a nu metal band for turning down a record deal
By Matt Mills published
Nu metal band Taproot turned down Limp Bizkit’s label Interscope while looking for a record deal – and frontman Fred Durst wasn’t very happy about it

10 times nu metal gloriously gatecrashed mainstream TV
By Matt Mills published
From Slipknot smashing TFI Friday to bits to Evanescence beefing with 50 Cent at the Grammys, the 2000s had it all

In 2001, Nintendo approved a Pokémon nu metal song, and it’s honestly worse than you could ever imagine
By Matt Mills published
50.Grind’s Gotta Catch ’Em All is the worst thing we’ve heard in an eternity

Roadrunner Records held a “funeral” for nu metal in 2002 in honour of Killswitch Engage's Alive Or Just Breathing album and the footage is hilarious
By Matt Mills published
To promote Killswitch Engage’s Alive Or Just Breathing, Roadrunner Records Australia put turntables and baseball caps in a coffin and buried it on camera

10 terrible nu metal albums with one classic song
By Merlin Alderslade published
Nu metal gave us countless rock club anthems...but many of the albums they came from just didn't cut it

"My dad listened to nu metal a lot." We spent two days in Las Vegas at the world's biggest nu metal festival, and it was an eye-opener
By Mörat published
With headliners System Of A Down alongside new bands Turnstile, Spiritbox and Loathe, Sick New World was supposed to be the ultimate nu metal celebration. But could it live up to hype?
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