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Re: What is your favorite Nu-metal band? :) Deftones and SOAD both started off appealing to fans of the genre, but they both left it behind within an album or two. They're certainly my favorite groups to emerge from the nu-metal cesspool, though SOAD's meat and potatoes songwriting and production hold less interest for me anymore. I find them enjoyable, and I think they've got some very good songs and some really great melodies, but they never took it to the next level. Their albums sound like collections of singles, and they seem perfectly content to use their quirks and metal stylings to dress up pop songs. They've both transcended their initial genre limitations, but Deftones has a lot more to offer in terms of coherent, genuinely emotional themes.

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Thankfully' date=' you [i']don't have to choose. :D
Indeed, were I stranded on a desert island with nothing to eat but nu-metal turds, that turd would be the least awful tasting. But then, I'm obviously not on a desert island, and if I did get stranded on one, I would make sure it had fruits, veggies, and at least some wild pigs that I could hunt. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Deftones and SOAD both started off appealing to fans of the genre, but they both left it behind within an album or two. They're certainly my favorite groups to emerge from the nu-metal cesspool, though SOAD's meat and potatoes songwriting and production hold less interest for me anymore. I find them enjoyable, and I think they've got some very good songs and some really great melodies, but they never took it to the next level. Their albums sound like collections of singles, and they seem perfectly content to use their quirks and metal stylings to dress up pop songs. They've both transcended their initial genre limitations, but Deftones has a lot more to offer in terms of coherent, genuinely emotional themes.
Yep, I agree with all of this. Couldn't put it any better.
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Their albums sound like collections of singles, and they seem perfectly content to use their quirks and metal stylings to dress up pop songs.
Then again, I don't think I'd enjoy SOAD as much if they didn't do this. It's precisely their dressing up catchy pop songs with metal presentation and quirks that makes me love to come back to them, when I'm in the right mood.
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Then again' date=' I don't think I'd enjoy SOAD as much if they didn't do this. It's precisely their dressing up catchy pop songs with metal presentation and quirks that makes me love to come back to them, when I'm in the right mood.[/quote'] For me, that mood comes along maybe a couple of times a year. Deftones uses a pop template as well, but it seems more genuine coming from them. There's a fine line between using quirky non-sequiturs and just arranging songs in a haphazard way; SOAD could fall on either side of it at any given moment. Their albums are collections of songs, and their songs are collections of riffs. They don't really take me anywhere. But I do like their energy, and I'll never forget seeing them support Fear Factory on the Obsolete tour. Their performance totally won me over.
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For me' date=' that mood comes along maybe a couple of times a year. Deftones uses a pop template as well, but it seems more genuine coming from them. There's a fine line between using quirky non-sequiturs and just arranging songs in a haphazard way; SOAD could fall on either side of it at any given moment. Their albums are collections of songs, and their songs are collections of riffs. They don't really take me anywhere. But I do like their energy, and I'll never forget seeing them support Fear Factory on the Obsolete tour. Their performance totally won me over.[/quote'] Deftones might have a pop sensibility, but it's not really the same bouncy, jump up and down, neck 10 pints of beer pop sensibility of SOAD. Deftones are moody and atmospheric, SOAD aren't. Don't get me wrong- I generally prefer appreciating albums as cohesive works of art to a 'collection of songs' myself, and that's why I much prefer Deftones to SOAD, but every so often SOAD's pop catchiness and their de-emphasis on depth to their songwriting and penchant for just being upbeat and catchy as hell really does hit the spot for me on occasion. Like you, I only feel the need to listen to them a few times a year, though.
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korn or deftones.. thing is linkni park had 2 nu metal albums and 3 well... 1 was heavy rock and 2 were pop.. does that make them nu metal?? nu metal IS alternative metal if you think about it its just specified what the metal is being mixed with... but my top 3 are korn deftones and skindred(there an english band that mix reggae, dubstep, dnb and jungle. you should check em outt)

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If Disturbed counts, I'm a fan of them.

Chevelle is pretty neat too, if they count... 

System of a Down -- if they're a nu-metal band, then I'd say I'm a fan of them too. 

If KoRn counts as a nu-metal band, then I'm also a pretty big KoRn fan. At least the early KoRn albums, their newer stuff is a different sound, I think.

Even if these bands aren't nu-metal, I still like them.

I'm not entirely knowledgable in all of the metal genres, I kind of just listen to metal songs, and if I like the song/band/album, I just listen to it. 

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