In my opinion, there are only two nu-metal bands worth anyones time. Korn and SOAD.
Korn got a bum rap because, like nirvana, every kid who was socailly inept and needed to follow some fad to have direction saddled up on the Korn bandwagon. People tend to forget that when that first CD came out, there was no one else doing that, and it was heralded by critics as an amazing album. I wouldn't blame Korn because anyone with a guitar who wanted to nail chicks copied there style. Even the deftones first album ripped korn exponentially.
Its easy to hate Korn because a million other bands copied there sound. But if no one had they would be revered as doing something original and diffrent. I think they still should be, and they've only been improving. I don't think on the whole, korn has ever fallen backward on the progression chart.
People who loathe them probably just hate most of their fan base, the 14 year old WASPs who walk around shopping malls with cut up baggy jeans making problems. Understandable. But don't hate a band for doing what they wanted.
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