At the beginning of the pandemic, I became mildly obsessed with a video of Limp Bizkit playing a Moscow venue in February 2020. I wasn’t drawn to the performance so much as to the sight of front man Fred Durst, who’d been an emblem of white male millennials’ bottomless teenage angst at the turn of […]
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Machine Head can’t seem to shake their checkered past
The groovy, pummeling riff metal of the early 90s owes a lot to Oakland’s Machine Head. The band made their album debut on Roadrunner in 1994 with Burn My Eyes, just a couple years after Pantera codified the style for mainstream consumption with Vulgar Display of Power. Machine Head cranked out chunky, high-gain riffs over […]
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Incubus hated nu-metal before hating nu-metal was cool
Nu-metal is enjoying a rosy reappraisal in the media, but Incubus cut their ties to the much-maligned subgenre even before its early-2000s fall from grace.
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Bear rapper Big Dipper goes Commando in his new nu-metal band
Chicago native Big Dipper is part of a new underground queer supergroup that’s twisting nu metal into bizarre new shapes.