Also there's definitely a lot of Millennials on here, if there's much of the same stuff that was popular from 00-04 or so, even an Adema mention, I liked two of their albums at the time, shame they didn't keep going with the planets sound, I enjoyed that one. Or at least enough millenials to populate a thread with actual songs from back then.
Hard disagree, and I never cared much for the genre policing of Metal to begin with.
It's actually this genre policing that makes many self procalimed "metal heads" absolutely insufferable, and often the reason for some metal heads own misery, whilst much music can be good and many can like many genres, the gatekeepers of metal are the worst. Policing is probably the best way I've seen this odd behaviour described. I'll be using that from now on, thanks
I only listen to maybe 2 or 3 albums now that are considered "metal" as I mostly listen to electronic music, always did. I actually grew up loving electronic and had a short stint with metal.
Killswitch engage: when daylight dies, the later version of it, is really the only one I still listen to, even at that very rarely, like once a year, and that was plagiarised for the soundtrack of Fist of the north star: Kens rage. Great soundtrack for a game I must say. Nothing was actually ever done about this, it wasn't changed for the western release either, its straight ripped 1:1 no changes. Completely indefensible.
Deftones had a really good album in more recent times, though I was not a fan of theirs back then at all. Koi No Yokan was pretty good, popped up on my spotify once. I enjoyed it, I mention this as they were one of the big nu metal bands at the time, though I'm pretty sure it bares no resemblance to any of what is typically considered nu metal.
I still love CKY's few albums from back then, though they aren't nu metal, they started to sound very metallica black album like on their last two albums with the original line up before they split.
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