NU-Metal: Style's Specific Features by Music Babylon.

The NU-Metal trend was for the first time introduced in the early 1990s on the peak of formation of new hard music mainstream. The NU-Metal is also called agro metal, or NU-Metal using the traditional heavy metal umlaut. It typically fuses influences from the grunge and alternative metal of the early 1990s with hip hop, electronic music and other metal genres, most often thrash metal and groove metal.

The popularity and perceived vast commercialization of such music in the late 1990s and early 2000s led to widespread negative associations with the term NU-Metal, which in turn led to many fans and artists rejecting it. The trend claims to have been existing for 12 years, which is also the age of founders of NU-Metal - the Korn. Dreads, tattoos, long hair were coined to represent NU-Metal among wide fan-base. They served indicators of new subcultures of the Metal. Speaking about peculiar features of NU-Metal, I'd like to point out vocal as the leading one. It should be a kind of extraordinary. For instance, not everyone understands a term to sing growl, and yet just a few have succeeded in doing this.

Those musicians, who managed to represent their vocal skills at the golden age of alternative boom in the USA were beneficial of being acclaimed well-known representatives of NU-Metal. For example, front man of Korn John David is hard to mimic. The trend also envisages shifting to different tones.

After arranging front man, the band plaid experimental guitars, following NU-Metal. Its ether distortion digital effects or acoustics, they applied. This was initially represented by Korn. Twelve years of their activity faced a mix of dazzling innovations, perplexing and meeting fans' needs.

The band remained at the peak though the music scene saw increase of bands, following the trend. The best CD album, released by Korn "Follow The Leader" promoted NU-Metal abroad. NU-Metal requested certain images. They say, descent music requires descent appearance. Their followers strived to display brand new images, different from those of Korn. The NU-Metal is promoted by Limp Bizkit, Linking Park, Slipknot, P.O.D., Papa Roach and others.

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[October 10, 2006]

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