What kind of music do you classify the Avenged Sevenfold, Breaking Benjamin stuff

There is something about this music I cant stand.

Im usually open to anything, I can even respect stuff I dont like, but it isnt music to me, its like a sound that was manufactured in a wal mart warehouse.

But some love it, different strokes I guess.

I just cant call it rock music.

Better question is who started this sound? Did Creed and Nickelback start this genre?

The genre is known as nu-metal, which includes most of the post-grunge rock that was on alt-radio in the late 90's/early 2000's before rapidly imploding in the early 2010's as alternative radio switched to a more indie/pop direction. Nu-metal is a big tent catch-all including bands ranging from Tool and Avenged Sevenfold to Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Breaking Benjamin, Audioslave, Chevelle, Seether, Shinedown, etc. This is the music that was playing on 104.9 The X when I was in middle school/high school, so I'm pretty familiar with it even though I don't listen to it that much anymore.

Basically, the test is this:
1. Was it made post 1991? If yes: go to step 2
2. Does it sound like grunge (STP, Nirvana, Alice in Chains)? If yes: it's probably grunge. If No: go to step 3
3. Does it sound happy? If yes: it's probably pop punk or emo. If no: go to step 4
4. Does it prominently feature distorted guitars more so than synthesizers, fiddles, and mandolins? If no: it's probably indie pop, If yes: go to step 5
5. Can you understand the lyrics? If no: it's some other brand of metal (death metal, stoner metal, screamo, hardcore, deathcore, power metal, grindcore, etc). If yes: Nu-metal

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Better question is who started this sound? Did Creed and Nickelback start this genre?

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Creed was probably the first one, but they were really just a Pearl Jam ripoff. Pearl Jam was basically 80's style arena rock with mumbly lyrics of the 90's. Nu-metal is mostly that Pearl Jam radio friendliness with angry lyrics and a little harder distortion. It's basically just even more commercialized cynical grunge extended across another decade-worth of mild innovation amid massive industry formulation.

So, here's some examples of classic nu-metal tracks:
Headstrong - Trapt
Sound of Madness - Shinedown
She Hates Me - Puddle of Mudd
Slither - Velvet Revolver
Wasteland - 10 Years
Just Like You - Three Days Grace
Alive - P.O.D.
Last Resort - Papa Roach

Nu-metal has a strong rap influence, it isn't just rock put out in a certain time period.

I call it "radio metal."

I'm not into Avenged Sevenfold, but goddamn if I haven't listened to "Bat Country" a million times .

A7X isn’t all that bad. They’re at least fun. I’d call them hard rock.

Breaking Benjamin’s songs have a little more variety to them on their albums. Kind of hard to say one genre. I haven’t liked anything of theirs except some of the Phobia album. They’re mostly pretty blah live, but I’ve seen one pretty good show from them.

Chad Rock

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A7X isn’t all that bad. They’re at least fun. I’d call them hard rock.

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Thank you, Avenged Sevenfold has some of the best guitar play in their catalogue of the last 20 years. Yeah the singer is whiny and a straight Metallica ripoff, but they have made some good music.

Breaking Benjamin sucks though.

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Chad Rock

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Shitty