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Originally Posted by Forward To Death
I don't hear any hip-hoppy elements in SOAD, and that is essential to nu metal imo.
I've never thought they sounded like nu metal, except maybe a bit on "Prison Song" and "Sugar".
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To me the big defining attributes of nu-metal are the crunchy guitars and a certain groovy, hard to define approach to rhythm that is very different from the metal that came before it. I think a song like this fits the bill, it even kind of has rapping in it: