I am of the right age bracket for this thread. Strongly disliked Limp Bizkit at the time, but I was a massive SOAD, Deftones, KORN and Slipknot fan. Listening back to LB now, it is extremely slickly produced, some good bouncy riffs and grooves, and Fred Durst is just..well he is what he is. All the macho white-boy angst/rape culture I can do without, and I feel any good will towards it is mostly purely nostaliga based.
Still, the mid-late 90s is a much maligned time for 'heavy' music, but for me it contains some really good stuff, mixed up in some terrible trend-hopping, post-grunge, crap. The last hurrah of the CD-era. I think maybe people forget quite how big LB where.
Significant Other sold 7 million copies in the US alone, and
Chocolate Starfish... sold 6 million. The biggest selling album of 2018 was Drake's
Scorpion, it sold 330,000 copies in the US. I appreciate it is a different music industry-era and sales model/streaming based, but Fred Durst was made an a talent scout at Interscope, directed movies. Crazy when you look back.
Anyway, I feel its time for me to post some nu-metal BANGERZ, some well known, some hopefully less well known.
Obvious stuff:Korn - Ball Tongue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQsfIn7_lQQDeftones - Be Quiet and Drive (Team Sleep Version) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi8V4G6FSlQSOAD - War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F46r-_jPPHYSlipknot - Spit it Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPUZwriSX4MStatic-X - Push It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0MfBG5-UoSepultura (not a nu-metal band, but Roots v influential) - Attitude (live session)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkDHoMG7GUMore under the radar stuff:Chimaira - Painting the White to Gray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOxURZju2CUSnot - Snot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrSxWlyGW-8Five Pointe O - Double X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5xoYrgX9rEDowner - Bi-Furious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDJoX9YwuekBoy Hits Car - The Rebirth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Rde_c0ZG4The Apex Theory - Apossibly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW2KaAgNcN4American Head Charge - Just So You Know (Total Mike Patton worship)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJx2RqwYBNENothingface - Bleeder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6uawGBDGCgCheezy post-grunge nu-metal, but still quite good songs: (deffo guilty pleasures)Fingertight - Guilt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLljjRaK-EAPressure 4-5 - Beat The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjvesZw-XtQRevis - Caught In The Rain -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn_zhdYFABETwo hilariously of their time videos that couldn't be anymore nu-metal if they triedFrom Zero - Check Ya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsl-TodL5sILifer - Boring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGN6sj6-3HI (this one especially is like an SNL parody sketch of a nu metal song)
Anyway, all this stuff was a gateway to all the 'proper' bands, but there is still some stuff I listen to know, well, Deftones pretty much.