re: NuMetal is the most egregious assault on music since it's inception.

I hate nu metal, but Korn gets a pass. They transcended the subgenre.

Korn has always been unbelievable and helped me survive my teenage years. They’re still pumping out solid music. Slipknot is an unstoppable machine it would seem. But I’m embarrassed I ever owned a limp bizkit cd

Dirty Honey is just an old fashioned hard rock band. I’ve heard of Nothing But Thieves, but none of the rest.

Sleep Token and Bad Omens blew up big last year. They're two of the biggest up and coming hard rock bands right now.

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I’d say most of those bands are pop punk not really nu metal

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I don’t think that he was saying that they were nu metal.

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I don’t think that he was saying that they were nu metal.

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I was not.

Nirvana wasn’t any worse at that than most of the punk and hardcore bands of the late 70’s and 80’s. The difference was that Cobain was a better songwriter, and he had genius level marketing from David Geffan behind him at a time when the public was starving for something new. I think Kurt Cobain is a much better singer than most give him credit for. He doesn’t have the high range like a Steven Tyler, Steve Perry, or Freddie Mercury, but he has a great sweet spot in that growling baritone.

People who hate Nirvana because bands stopped wanking off with guitars in the 90’s should just go ahead and consummate their marriage to an 80’s charvel already by insemination the input jack with tone jizz.

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No new bands are performing Nu Metal. Most are doing other things.

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I think the limiting aspect of nu metal is that there really is nowhere else you can go with it without moving into another already existing genre. Nothing about "nu" metal was actually new. Angsty songs were a 90's calling card. Very loud and aggressive metal and hardcore music had been a thing for a while. Combining rapped lyrics and hip hop musical elements with hard rock was RATM's calling card. Nu metal simply mixed together all of those elements and overlaid them with pop hooks to make them more palatable. But there is nowhere else to really take that model without changing what it is completely. If you try to make it angrier and harder and less poppy then it devolves back into hardcore or grindcore (Slipknot or Fear Factory). If you try to make it less hip hoppy then it merges back into prog metal (Deftones, who was never nu metal to begin with anyway). If you try to make it less metal then it becomes 90's industrial (Gravity Kills or Stabbing Westward). Basically nu metal is not a genre you listen to and think, "What a cool sound! You could really do some interesting things with that." It defines itself completely.

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 I think Kurt Cobain is a much better singer than most give him credit for.

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You certainly don't need to be Freddie Mercury or Steve Perry to lead a successful group. Vince Neil can't sing worth a shite and look how popular the Crue is. Lemmy Kilmeister had no vocal range but Motorhead is obviously popular as well. Brian Johnson from AC/DC sings like he's gargling rocks but it worked well for them and they're legends in the rock genre.

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hing about "nu" metal was actually new.

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Gonna have to disagree there. I was in high school when Korn's first album came out. Nothing sounded like them. Their guitar tone, bass sound, lyrical themes, etc was clearly distinct from RATM, Faith No More, or whatever bands you want to compare nu metal too. Korn was completely original for its time.