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Timeline
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Alternative-Metal and Groove Metal
Alternative Metal had been popular for quite some time, and in California, USA, a new experiment within this resulted in Nu-Metal. Esrly 90s Groove Metal bands such as Pantera and Sepultera were major influences in the production of Nu-Metal Tracks, and the aggressive vocal elements of Hip-Hop were of course a major influence also. -
KoRn
KoRn are widely accepted as the first Nu-Metal band. Their first music created, which is a hard-to-find demo called Neidermeyer’s Mind, was released in 1993.
People thought their sound was different, and it drew people in as they were intrigued about this new style they were hearing.
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First Album
After the success of their 1993 Demo, Korn released their first official album in 1994, self-titled as "Korn", and this is widely considered the first Nu-Metal album. -
OzzFest
In 1955 Ozzy Osbourne helped resurge the heavy metal scene with his album Ozzfest. This paved the way for new Nu-Metal bands. -
Sepultera
Previously an groove metal band, Sepulteras 1996 Album called Roots contained elements of nu-metal, inspired by Korns 1994 selfititled album. This shows the style was starting to spread and catch on. -
The Rise
In 1997 there were many debut albums from Nu-Metal bands.
Snot, Coal Chamber, Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, and Sevendust all released their debut albums in this year, starting a new trend that many bands soon followed. -
Mainstream Success
In 1998 Coal Chambers self-titled album reached number 10 in the HeatSeeking Charts, and was certified gold in 1999 after selling 500,000 album copies across the USA. -
First Multi-Planitum album
Korn were back again with their 3rd album which reacher number 1 in the Billboards Top 100 chart, and sold enough copies to go multi-platinum. This was nu-metals peak in terms of mainstream success and its popularity. -
Low-Point
According to Tom Morello of the metal band Rage Against The Machine, 1999 was named a "bad year" for Nu-Metal due to a lot of violence that occurred during the Woodstock Festival. A festival renowned for heavy metal music, this year was Nu-Metals biggest in terms of popularity and there was a number of bands playing at this festival. Limp Bizkits performance was notirious for the violence and even apparent incident of rape that happened druring their track "Break Stuff." -
Nu-Metals final year of success
In 2003 we saw Linkin Park released their second album Meteora, which sold over 800,000 copies worldwide. This album was nu-metal down to a T, with major metal influences from the main vocalist, guitarist and instrumental sounds, but with a lot of DJ scratching and pure hip-hop style rapping vocals from the second vocalist.
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The Decline
In 2004 we noticed a decline in this sub-genre, for example, both Limp Bizkit and Korn released albums which had a significant drop in sales compared to their previous albums. In this time we saw a rise in classical metal inspired bands such as the Darkness, and generally bands using more of a fusion of extreme metal and hardcore punk.
