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Post by SharksFan99 on Jul 31, 2020 10:07:01 GMT 10
Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory is considered to be one of the watershed releases of the nu-metal era, as it was the best-selling album of the United States in 2001 and sported smash hits such as the timeless "In The End" and "One Step Closer". However, the album itself wasn't released until October 2000 and nu-metal was arguably already at it's peak before the album came out, so as someone who has an interest in the genre but was too young at the time to have any memories of it, it has always intrigued me to know what nu-metal band held the stature of being the most popular in the mainstream before Linkin Park came onto the scene?
I'm guessing it would have been between Korn and Limp Bizkit. Both bands were obviously well established by that point and had a string of successful album/single releases. Slipknot had quite a large fan base as well, although they weren't on the same level in terms of mainstream popularity as Korn and Limp Bizkit.
When would you say nu-metal peaked in terms of popularity and what band would you consider as having been the biggest?
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Post by #Infinity on Jul 31, 2020 10:42:49 GMT 10
Linkin Park was still easily the biggest nu-metal band of all time. They far outsold both KoRn and Limp Bizkit. They may have been latecomers, but they were still very much representatives of the genre, even during the Meteora era.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Jul 31, 2020 10:46:50 GMT 10
Linkin Park was still easily the biggest nu-metal band of all time. They far outsold both KoRn and Limp Bizkit. They may have been latecomers, but they were still very much representatives of the genre, even during the Meteora era. I agree that Linkin Park were ultimately the most popular band overall, but which band, in your opinion, would have been the biggest before Linkin Park made their breakthrough? The impression I get is that although both Korn and Limp Bizkit were huge in their own right, there was no band that truly stood out from the rest and defined the genre in the same vain that Nirvana did with the Seattle scene (at least not prior to Linkin Park anyway).
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Post by #Infinity on Jul 31, 2020 10:50:33 GMT 10
Linkin Park was still easily the biggest nu-metal band of all time. They far outsold both KoRn and Limp Bizkit. They may have been latecomers, but they were still very much representatives of the genre, even during the Meteora era. I agree that Linkin Park were ultimately the most popular band overall, but which band, in your opinion, would have been the biggest before Linkin Park made their breakthrough? The impression I get is that although both Korn and Limp Bizkit were huge in their own right, there was no band that truly stood out from the rest and defined the genre in the same vain that Nirvana did with the Seattle scene (at least not prior to Linkin Park anyway). In terms of pure sales, Bizkit outsold KoRn during the nu-metal era, and Fred Durst was way more talked about than Jonathan Davis. KoRN did technically invent nu-metal and were already popular in the mid-'90s, but Bizkit were more successful despite having a shorter-lived fanbase.
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Post by John Titor on Jul 31, 2020 14:06:23 GMT 10
Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit that is the only answer
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2020 19:43:33 GMT 10
For better or worse, it was a Limp Bizkit. They were considered generally more accessible, whereas KoRN was kinda out there.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Aug 4, 2020 19:58:23 GMT 10
For better or worse, it was a Limp Bizkit. They were considered generally more accessible, whereas KoRN was kinda out there. Yeah, I suspected that to have been the case. I know Korn had quite a big fan-base in their own right too though and I was way too young at the time to have been able to remember which band was more popular, so I thought it was still worth asking the question anyway. Were you into Korn or Limp Bizkit at the time?
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Post by John Titor on Aug 4, 2020 21:42:34 GMT 10
For better or worse, it was a Limp Bizkit. They were considered generally more accessible, whereas KoRN was kinda out there. yupp pretty much, when choc starfish came out in Fall in 2000 that album was played at nausea levels, not to mention The UnderTaker used Rollin as his theme song & you would constantly here Limp Bizkit themes on WWF pay per view events. This is when Wrestling was still popping in the main stream lol
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