wordsfromlee Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 hour ago, SuperBacon said: Ed Gamble too. Massively into his black/doom/post metal. And Joel Dommett. Well, as much as a man with a Papa Roach tattoo can be into metal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted September 19, 2019 Author Paid Members Share Posted September 19, 2019 I think all metal hipsters have a hidden appreciation for Limp Bizkit. Come the end of a day at Bloodstock for example, metallers in all sorts of hipser tshirts hit the dancefloor for My Way, fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rey_Piste Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 Bands like Limp Bizkit, Korn or Papa Roach were gateway bands to get kids into metal 18 years ago. So there are a load of people between the ages of 12 to 18 when Hotdog flavoured water was released are now in their 30s. They might be embarrassed about their baggy jeans and massive wallet chains past, or skinny jeans and floppy fringe a few years later. So they might have moved onto listening to Frostnazi or whatever, but that shit is nostalgic to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mal the Glorious Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 As a 30-something Metal hispter with many friends along the same lines, I can confirm we all have a nostalgic love of Nu Metal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bellenda Carlisle Posted September 19, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted September 19, 2019 I'm not nostalgic about nu metal, it was awful and it barely feels long ago enough to be nostalgic about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rey_Piste Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 5 minutes ago, Bellenda Carlisle said: I'm not nostalgic about nu metal, it was awful and it barely feels long ago enough to be nostalgic about. Well Korn's self titled debut album came out 25 years ago. So it's definitely old enough to feel nostalgic about. Though the prime nu metal years were 98-02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted September 19, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted September 19, 2019 The love for that period has always surprised me. I started DJing around 2005, and it already felt like an utterly dead scene around that time, yet people my age and slightly younger would still constantly request songs from that '99-'02 period all the time. It used to annoy me, because it was never something I was really into, and most everyone I knew had moved on by then. What baffles me now, though, is that I go and watch my friends DJ now, and not only are the same people still requesting the same songs, nearly 15 fucking years later, but there are 18/19 year olds requesting it all as well. Mate, you weren't even out of nappies when Soil released "Halo", how do you even know what it is?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 Most Nu-Metal was utter garbage but there's the odd few bands and albums that stand out, Machine Head's rap era, Deftones and Roots era Sepultura/Soulfly were leagues ahead of most. A shoutout to Orgy too, they were underappreciated even at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mal the Glorious Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 (edited) 12 minutes ago, BomberPat said: The love for that period has always surprised me. I started DJing around 2005, and it already felt like an utterly dead scene around that time, yet people my age and slightly younger would still constantly request songs from that '99-'02 period all the time. It used to annoy me, because it was never something I was really into, and most everyone I knew had moved on by then. What baffles me now, though, is that I go and watch my friends DJ now, and not only are the same people still requesting the same songs, nearly 15 fucking years later, but there are 18/19 year olds requesting it all as well. Mate, you weren't even out of nappies when Soil released "Halo", how do you even know what it is?! A lot of alternative types seem stuck in a time warp. There's a couple of nights a month here that play exactly the same songs to the same people that were going to Legends ever weekend in 2001. People living their young "glory days" I guess. When I said my lot "love" it I was more referring to a rose-tinted look back at it all, if we're round someone's house someone might chuck on some Linkin Park for a bit but that's about the limit. I'm certainly not begging DJs to play Let the Bodies Hit the Floor haha! Edited September 19, 2019 by King Mal the Glorious too many "s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted September 19, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted September 19, 2019 I'm not completely ragging on nostalgia - it's perfectly valid, and the music you get into as teenager tends to be the stuff you respond to most emotionally. I just don't understand people who seem to have heard four bands when they were fifteen and then decided, "that's it. That's all the music I will ever need". I think what bothers me most about is that they also tend to be the same people who make being a "metalhead" a significant part of their identity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 8 minutes ago, BomberPat said: I'm not completely ragging on nostalgia - it's perfectly valid, and the music you get into as teenager tends to be the stuff you respond to most emotionally. I just don't understand people who seem to have heard four bands when they were fifteen and then decided, "that's it. That's all the music I will ever need". I think what bothers me most about is that they also tend to be the same people who make being a "metalhead" a significant part of their identity. AKA The Nuneaton Greebo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobra_gordo Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 (edited) I went to Corporation in Sheffield for a night out a few months ago and the DJ was playing the same songs, presumably in the same order, as they were ten years previously when I last went in there. Bodies, Sugar, Halo, Closer, In The End, Down With The Sickness. And the same folk who looked ancient to me when I was in there twice a week when I was aged 18 or 19 were still there, in the same clothes. It was bizarre. I'm 34 so I do get nostalgia for some of the music as I was seriously in to nu metal aged 13 or 14 after a mate of mine played me a tape of Follow The Leader and it was like nothing I'd ever heard. Ended up seeing Korn something like 13 or 14 times. I do like to stick a bit of Limp Bizkit on in the car every now and then and I've got a playlist with Mudvayne, Drowning Pool, One Minute Silence, Spineshank, Disturbed and a few others. Edited September 19, 2019 by cobra_gordo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mal the Glorious Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 "The worst thing about metal is the metalheads" goes side by side with "the worst thing about wrestling is wrestling fans" for me. The amount of cringe from the metaller-than-thou types is terrible. 2 minutes ago, cobra_gordo said: I went to Corporation in Sheffield for a night out a few months ago and the DJ was playing the same songs, presumably in the same order, as they were ten years previously when I last went in there. Bodies, Sugar, Halo, Closer, In The End, Down With The Sickness. And the same folk who looked ancient to me when I was in there twice a week when I was aged 18 or 19 were still there, in the same clothes. It was bizarre. I'm in Sheffield next weekend for the HRH Doom thing, tempted to go in and compare it to every other alt night I've been to 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobra_gordo Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 6 minutes ago, King Mal the Glorious said: "The worst thing about metal is the metalheads" goes side by side with "the worst thing about wrestling is wrestling fans" for me. The amount of cringe from the metaller-than-thou types is terrible. I'm in Sheffield next weekend for the HRH Doom thing, tempted to go in and compare it to every other alt night I've been to 😂 I'm around for that aswell. Saturday night is pretty much what I described- all the oldies coming out of the woodwork to have a mosh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Accident Prone Posted September 19, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted September 19, 2019 27 minutes ago, BomberPat said: I'm not completely ragging on nostalgia - it's perfectly valid, and the music you get into as teenager tends to be the stuff you respond to most emotionally. I just don't understand people who seem to have heard four bands when they were fifteen and then decided, "that's it. That's all the music I will ever need". I think what bothers me most about is that they also tend to be the same people who make being a "metalhead" a significant part of their identity. I got into a passionate 'discussion' with a couple of these types at the Flapper in Birmingham a couple of years back. They were shit talking whatever the DJ was playing, and I got a bit fed up of it so I turned around and asked what they were into (which was the standard nu-metal stuff from the first few Kerrang CDs). Apparently, all metal music since 2003 was shit, and I tried to appeal to their own argument by giving examples of various websites (even Spotify) that recommend new bands based on your own tastes. "Look, there's 'nu-metal' still being made! Get stuck in!" I'd say and they just kept brushing off. I almost had to be dragged away, they were that ignorant and infuriating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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