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 |
| Heavy. I want to feel it. How much weight do you want behind it? | 8 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| A steady walk What pace? | 6 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| The beginnings Does it matter when it was made? | 2018 | 0% | ×1 |
| The inside of a head What should the words be about? | Mental health, directly, Alienation, Online life, Sincerity, unironically | 100% | ×1 |
| Yes. A proper melody. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 7 out of 10 | 70% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 79% | ||
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 ties with the next, and won on being the broader of the two. 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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Groove metal 79%
Thrash slowed to a groove that hits you in the chest: syncopated riffs, mid-tempo drums, barked vocals.
4 steps from New nu metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Groove metal -
Progressive metalcore 78%
Metalcore with eight-string guitars, ambient passages and structures borrowed from djent.
4 steps from New nu metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Progressive metalcore
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
- The beginnings put 67 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Metalcore, Nu metal. 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.
- Yes. A proper melody. put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Grindcore, Brutal death metal, Cybergrind. 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.