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Originally Posted by BastardofYoung
Yeah, or going back to old styles. Soulfly eventually became more Thrash Metal, as did Machine Head after they experimented with Nu-Metal for a while, Fear Factory as well.
Many of the bands in the style dropped it after it came to an end in about 2002.
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All those bands you`ve mentioned just adopted the style for a couple of albums and that was it. In hindsight Nu Metal can be held in the same esteem as hair metal, two metal genres without hardly any evolution and just churning out the same style and both sub-genres are looked down on by most metal devotees. To find the good albums in both these sub-genres you have to look deep and in Nu-Metals case, its just a case of looking at the the debut albums by the main bands, as it was mostly downhill for most of them quite quickly. As much as I trash hair metal I`d actually say if I was stuck on a desert island and had to chose between a bunch of hair metal and Nu-Metal cds I`d pick the hair metal ones.