The first coming of nu metal, as much a subgenre as a suburban raison d'être, both overpromised and overdelivered on its hostile id. The riffs? Sloppy and sloshy. The bass? No less than five strings ...

Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since ...

A look at why nu-metal became a cultural force, how MTV shaped its image, and why many of its biggest bands deserve a second ...

Artists tend to resent when their band is given a specific label, and nu-metal was one of the most scoffed at genre names for a long time. But how does Chad Gray feel about Mudvayne being called ...

No matter how much the metal community likes to bash the movement, nü metal was undeniably a huge push for the genre to go mainstream. From the super drop-tuned guitar riffs, record scratches, hip-hop ...