Russfest may not be real, but that didn't stop HBO from creating a full-fledged website hyping the fictional desert-based music fest that served as the centerpiece for the most recent episodes of ...

Nu metal didn't just define a generation of heavy bands: it became a total, all-conquering mainstream phenomenon. Its music dominated the charts; its figureheads were all over TV; its fashion became ...

As metalcore took over as the most prominent subgenre within metal, the new wave of bands became increasingly younger, and now nü metal is the new nostalgia. Instead of bands looking to the ’80s and ...

We’re about a quarter-century removed from the days when nu metal ruled the airwaves, and the once-maligned subgenre of music continues to hold a hell of a lot more cultural significance than its ...

Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson recently named his picks for the “Big 4″ of nu-metal and recalled his first impressions of the burgeoning subgenre on an episode of The David Ellefson Show, ...

The angst of nu metal is being discovered by Gen Z, but with digital eyes always looming, the ephemeral catharsis of collectively going mad is a thing of the past. Credit...Illustration by Trevor Shin ...

Musical styles typically come back and are celebrated 20 years after their peak. The sounds of the 1950s was re-embraced during the ’70s with the films “American Graffiti” and “Grease” and the sitcom ...

Whether it’s the surprisingly frequent Evanescence covers on TikTok, the return of ’90s staple JNCO jeans, or the fact that Netflix’s hit show Beef featured Limp Bizkit music, the cultural signs are ...

Nu-metal is a tough movement to pin down: Back in the late ’90s and early ’00s, it was an umbrella term for a strain of rock that grew parallel to the related genre post-grunge, as well as industrial ...

Nu metal is the non-alcoholic beer of metal. Why waste your time? Altering, developing and tweaking metal is fine (see sludge or progressive metal), but nu metal strips away everything that is good ...