Are You Ready (For Something Nü)!?

Are You Ready (For Something Nü)!?

Author: Eric Schwartz December 15, 2025 Duration: 1:15:02
Heavy Metal 101
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Wherein Eric battles John, at his very most Johnniest, in a doomed effort to convince him that nü metal can actually be pretty damn cool in the hands of practitioners including Korn, Limp Bizkit, Sevendust, System of a Down, Slipknot, and Deftones.


Click on the links below for all the music listening/video breaks in this episode:


Video Break #1: Comparing and contrasting nü metal with groove metal through two iterations of Machinehead-

A) Nü: "From this Day" from The Burning Red (1999)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJzeJiHHQOY

B) Groove: "Locust" from Unto the Locust (2011)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxjeqCd6Zm0


Listening* Break #1: Korn "Blind" from Korn (1994)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGK00Q7xx-s


*The official YouTube links for each of the "listening break" songs are music videos, so feel free to watch or just listen. Whatever floats your boat!


Listening break #2: Limp Bizkit "Break Stuff" from Significant Other (1999)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpUYjpKg9KY


Listening break #3: Deftones "Change (In the House of Flies)" from White Pony (2000)- ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPpDyIJdasg



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