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Originally Posted by BastardofYoung
Don't bother with nu-metal Soundgarden. Even if you do happen to like 1 album, by the time you get to another, you will already have outgrown the style.
Nu-Metal is a boring, sub par type of music. Only applies to teenage suburban white kids angry caused their parents won't loan them the car. I guess if that applies to you, all the power to you, go listen to it...
Nu-Metal is a sub standard form of psuedo-noise passing itself off as metal. Only people who relate to it are suburban white kids, demographic being 14-16. If you meet anybody over that age demographic who still listens to Nu-Metal and derives any sort of pleasure from it... don't talk to them, nothing they can say to you will ever benefit you or enrich the quality of your life.
I have never met a Nu-Metal fan who was anything more than a one dimensional stereotype of your angst filled suburban teenager, not one.
Don't become that, I like you too much to see you become on of them. Skip Nu-Metal and dive deeper into true metal.
Even the people who made nu-metal have moved on with their lives, minus say Korn.. but they were always awful and no hope left for them. They will just end up on a where are they now show or celebrity rehab or something.
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Nu metal Soundgarden? Interesting. And Slipknot shows tremendous growth between albums, so even if you outgrow the style the next will have something to offer.
Anyway, I'm sorry but I don't agree with hardly anything you have said here. First of all, the demographics are totally wrong. Nu metal artists are generally mainstream so I know many people who like the genre, both teens and adults. Most of the angst filled teenagers you are describing listen to post-hardcore these days (ex: I See Stars, Attack Attack, etc.). So you must not get out much, or Canada is vastly different, because I could literally walk down my street and disprove your chosen demographic before I hit the next road (which isn't very far). Unless my physical therapist is an angst-filled teen, of course.
Second of all, who cares who relates to the music (even if it
was just angst filled teens)? There are a lot of losers that "relate" to the mostly whiny lyrics of nu metal, but there are also a lot of cool people that like it (not necessarily "relating" to it). I guess I'm confused as to what you mean by "relate". I like death metal (progressive) and black metal myself, but I'm not sure how in holy hell I could relate to it. Musically, it can be great. Lyrically...well let's just say I don't hate Jesus or people, and exploring the finality of death is unappealing.