Your way in
New nu metal 2018
The generation raised on Korn and Slipknot brings back low tunings and electronic textures with today's production.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- Global
- Tempo
- 90-150 bpm
- Song length
- 3-5 min
- Written about
- Mental health, directly, Alienation, Online life, Sincerity, unironically
- Vocals
- Sung and screamed
Why this one
| You said | New nu metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shouting, but I can still hear the words When someone is singing, what should come out? | mixed | 80% | ×3 |
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 8 out of 10 | 70% | ×2 |
| A steady walk What pace? | 6 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| This century Does it matter when it was made? | 2018 | 100% | ×1 |
| The inside of a head What should the words be about? | Mental health, directly, Alienation, Online life, Sincerity, unironically | 100% | ×1 |
| No. Texture and force are enough. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 7 out of 10 | 40% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 80% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 6 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, about 1, melody 1 out of 10. New nu metal leads the next by 1 point. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Korn, Korn 1994
Korn - Korn. The first track opens with bagpipes, which nobody ever remembers.
- 2The one to put on first
Loathe, I Let It in and It Took Everything 2020
Loathe - I Let It in and It Took Everything. Deftones and shoegaze, done very well.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Nu metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come New nu metal's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Youth crew / straight edge 79%
Hardcore with a code: no alcohol, no drugs, gang vocals and breakdowns. The ethics of the scene became the subject of the songs.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from New nu metal.
The way into Youth crew / straight edge -
No wave 79%
A total refusal of melody and standard tuning. Short-lived, extreme and hugely influential on noise rock.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from New nu metal.
The way into No wave
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- This century put 43 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 10.
- The inside of a head put 88 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Black metal. Worth 1 of 10.
- No. Texture and force are enough. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Folk rock, Emo. Worth 1 of 10.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.