Nu metal.

[Soeru]

Caerau: Did you hear the stuff that Dillinger Escape Plan did with Mike Patton? Noisy bastards.

I'm not too into the whole genre thing, but I thought nu metal tended to involve some goon on a set of decks or a sample machine or something, rather than the more traditional line up. I'm gonna invite ridicule by saying that slipknot aren't always bad. They'd probably get a lot more respect if it wasn't for the legions of small children in their hoody/dress combos.
I'm gonna say that I thought Mudvayne were awesome too, and thei bass player is pretty sick.
Linkin Park plainly suck the balls though. I was unfortunately reminded of something MUCH worse the other day though. Anyone remember Crazy Town? I accidently saw one of their videos the other day. It made me envy the deaf. And the blind.
One thing that always used to piss me off were kids saying "Hip hop is rubbish" "Yeah, more like cRAP" "haha" etc, then singing the praises of Limp dickshit or something. Rubbish.
Anyone got an opinion of Bleeding Through? Pretty fucking brutal. and the singer used to play guitar in Throwdown apparently.
And everyone should check out "Bring you to your knees: a tribute to Guns n Roses" because it is awesome.
And while you're at it, "Progression through unlearning" and "end transmission" by Snapcase, for a couple of albums that are both lovely, but in pretty different ways. I'd be tempted to ignore the song "Coagulate" as an example of what's good about that album, or tha band in general though.

Yes... nu metal frequently involves having some talentless dumbass behind a dashboard/sample machine(ie: Static X, Slipknot, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit...). God how I hate Static X... I see nothing special about Mudvayne's bassist... oh wait, well it's probably the only nu metal band in which you can hear the bass guitar... But seriously, nothing special, they just turned the bass' volume up. Necrophagist's bass lines are nothing short of wizardry, so go listen to "Foul Body Autopsy", "Epitaph", and "Extreme Unction".

I'm not a huge fan of Dillinger, but I did like the newest album somewhat. It's just excessively technical, so only musical geniuses will be able to fully appreciate their work. "Panasonic Youth", although fucking impossible to follow, is a great song.

Bleeding Through are a hardcore/metalcore band, while Throwdown are pure hardcore. BT aren't so great really... All That Remains -a very similar band- are extremely better. Although I really don't like Bleeding Through, they don't deserve to be grouped with the bunch of talentless fucks that are nu metal.

The extremely forced vocals in hardcore really turn me off, hence why I don't listen to bands like Hatebreed or Bleeding Through. Himsa and Unearth are okay, I just have to try to ignore the vocalist.

If you think BT are brutal, just give the following bands some listens:
Decapitated, Avulsed, Morbid Angel, Deicide, Necrophagist, Arsis, Cannibal Corpse, Sepultura(early), Entombed(early), and Krisiun. Kind of like a "death metal starter pack", I say.