(June 29, 2015 at 2:45 am)Alex K Wrote:(June 28, 2015 at 10:43 pm)FriendlyNeighborhoodAtheist Wrote: I like some metal from time to time. I can't say I know much about it though. Does slipknot count as heavy metal?
There was this sub genre that became very popular in the early 2000s incorporating heavy grooves and even other non metal elements such as DJs, called Nu Metal. KoRn and Limp Bizkit are rather typical, but Slipknot is also often counted among it. It became as controversial among old school metal fans as it was popular among the younger generation of new fans (the first big wave of which would have been in their early teens towards the turn of the millenium), and has a lot of haters for not being Trve. It is however definitely "Metal" albeit often not strictly "heavy metal" in the sense of classic metal styles.
Interesting, I never knew that. I heard of those guys too, some friends from a while back listened to that kind of metal and I guess it rubbed off on me a little lol. Thanks for that bit of information.
