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Originally Posted by Ambival
You are right about the hip hop influences, I haven't noticed them on Korn's Debut, but Jonathan Davis does not rap and never had ("Fuels the comedy" is the only exception). It's hard to truly draw a line between what is Nu metal and what is not, but I think it's easy to detemine the ideal Nu metal sound.
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He definitely raps several times on the first four albums that I can think of off the top of my head, like in "Blind", which also makes use of guitar noises similar to record scratches.
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As for System of a Down and Godsmack it's pretty similiar case to Deftones Nowadays. You can pinpoint some riffs that are groovy and easy, but overall they moved to a different genre. In System of a down and Godsmack Nu metal was always one of many elements creating their sound, but not prominent (maybe 15% or 20%). But they have some songs with obvious Nu metal riffs. System's Debut has a lot, with "Know" probably the best example, while Godsmack has the main riff of "Speak" (perfect example of what Nu metal truly is) and the bridge of Awake.
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I'm not so sure you can pinpoint grooves to nu metal, since pretty much every form of rock that emphasizes bass, drums and rhythm guitar is about rhythm or "groove". Are you saying The Beatles were doing nu metal back in the 60s?
Lol @ Godsmack and System of a Down being "15-20% nu metal", I think its more like 3.7% for SOAD, and even less, pushing 0% for Godsmack (They sound more like a cheap Alice In Chains cover band that decided to change some lyrics around). I always felt like the bridge from wake was more reminiscent of post-blackened grunge rock, but maybe that's just me.
What % nu metal is Limp Bizkit? I'd reckon they're somewhere in the 80s or 90s, possibly even being the rare "pure" nu metal band.