Norwegian noise terrorists, Frostbitt, aim to disrupt. Their music is as iconoclastic as metal can be with riffs that resemble dupstep drops and glitchy squeal effects that sound like a…
Tag: nu metal
Austro-German quartet, Oceans, take pride in defying classification. As one of the best kept secrets on the Nuclear Blast roster, their 2020 debut, The Sun and the Cold, introduced a…
It’s inevitable, if not a bit depressing, that nu metal should see a revival. After all, this was the last time heavy guitar music broke through into the pop charts…
Any band that market their music as “modern metal” usually have a nefarious agenda to infuse their music with pop and hip-hop. You can expect glitch effects, R&B-inspired autotune vocals,…
What happened to Novelists FR? They started life as an exciting progressive metalcore band and became a regular fixture at the UK Techfest. Their influence can be heard all over…
Nashville quartet, Orthodox, honed their craft in the hardcore scene but learned to appreciate heavy music through the gateway of nu metal at the turn of the century. All members…
Russian metal combatants, Neorhythm, produced one of the best albums of 2020 with their ambitious Terrastory record. This epic chronicle attempted to tell the story of the world’s greatest civilisations…
Nu metalcore is an anathema, but it makes sense to group those bands together that miscegenate nu metal and metalcore. It’s the one concoction you’d try to avoid given a…
The prospect of vocal colossus, Vicky Psarakis, fronting a nu metal band with her husband should fill you with alarm. Could it be that the talented frontwoman of SBR favourites,…