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Massive_Goat9582

Slipknot or Linkin park. Don't remember who I started listening to first


averageinternetfella

System of a Down, specifically Chop Suey and Toxicity. I’m surprised no one else has mentioned them


Jagermonsta

Korn - Life is Peachy album


Technical-Hurry-3326

Same.


TerpSlurper23

This ☝️( I was gonna be an a****** and talk about the entire history of Faith No More and how they're actually the creators of nu metal on a troll rant, but yeah...Korn)


Jagermonsta

Love Faith No More. They are definitely a precursor and influence to NuMetal. I was really looking forward to that FNM/Korn/Helmet tour a couple years ago that was cancelled due to Patton not wanting to tour yet after Covid. Hopefully they make that happen someday now that Mr Bungle has wrapped up touring for the most part.


ANGELeffEr

Very true. Always thought the same. I got to see em once, unfortunately it was opening on the Metallica/GnR tour. We saw it in NOLA at the SuperDome on the very first show after they resumed the tour after James got burned. FNM sounded horrible and really shit the bed on the entire set sound wise AND performance wise. MET tried hard but it wasn’t the same without James on guitar and their whole set was a bit stale, for lack of a better word. After MET left the stage there was a nice little intermission of only 3.5 hours as we awaited AXL Pose and GnR. Stuck around for maybe 4-5 songs, maybe less, and then bolted. They were, imo, the worst act of the nite.


onearmedphil

I saw Limp Bizkit’s Faith video on MTV. Got the CD for my bday.


Alcohol_Empire

I WATCHED YOU CHHAAAAAAAANNNGGGGGEEEEE


Individual_Arm1063

Linkin Park


baby_girl231

Korn..


Professional-Big-584

Linkin Park & KORN


ChaseC7527

SlipKnoT.


ikbah_riak

SOADs first album.


marxthedank

Limp Bizkit


xzerozeroninex

Korn - Got the life


Ahlfle

Drowning Pool!


EnvironmentalCat8054

When I was born, my dad would BLAST bands like Korn and slipknot to try and mold my music taste into his so him and I could bond over having simalir music tastes. He would play bands like Korn, Linkin Park, Slipknot, back when Marilyn Manson wasn't going to court and ALOT of Deftones. (Deftones is now my favorite band !) My main introduction though was actually See you on the other side by Korn. That album is what made me listen to alot more Nu Metal.


SpecialistList8582

Here to stay - Korn


frombeaverstoashes

From Zero, a really dope underground nu metal band, that debut album is one of the best I've ever heard. If you guys haven't listened to it, then do, cause it's that good.


Blackbirdpie84

Korn - Life is Peachy


maggotlove04

Hubby and I were both raised by single parents (his mom and my dad) in different states, but we were both raised on (what is now) classic rock. We both have said that the first song we remember getting us into "newer" rock (and nu metal) was Smashing Pumpkins Bullet With Butterfly Wings. Do they count as nu metal though? I've never seen someone mention them in these threads, but I feel like they do with certain songs, like this one.


astronutsfrommars

They’re not nu metal, but they’re my favourite band, so good on ya! Billy Corgan did have good things to say about nu metal as a genre though.


maggotlove04

Aww poo. It is what got us both into heavier music, so I really don't know what the first song after that would be. I *want* to say probably MM The Beautiful People or Korn Blind. Those seem to be sticking in my memory as songs I've known the longest for nu metal.


Isopod_Character

Korn… Linkin Park didn’t even exist yet…


[deleted]

Deftones “around the fur” album


astronutsfrommars

Korn - A.D.I.D.A.S.


workingdonttell

Korn - Follow The Leader Specifically the Freak On A Leash video


DeeJDaDemon

KoRn or Snot


ARRRtistic_Pirate

My older cousins showed me Korn.


fatwreckman

KoЯn in the mid/late 90s. About Life is Peachy time.


Jaded-Promise-6565

Korn 🤘🏽


CarpeNoctem1031

Issues, by KoRn back when it was new and one kid in Elementary School had it.


DrewMann82

KoRn, to be fair it was because Beavis & Butt-Head reacted to Blind.


KDG200315

Korn -See you on the other side


el_kingde84

Korn!! Are you ready!!!


superschaap81

Korn - First album - We were blasting heavy shit in the hockey dressing room before games in 1994-95, Pantera, Metallica, Offspring etc. But someone brought Korn in one game and it blew me away.


fettkuk

Korn - Life is peachy, in 1996. Saw a picture of them in a magazine and thought they looked cool. The opening blew my 10yo mind


HasaDiga-Eebowai

Clown by Korn Video on MTV


Funkywonton

KoRn 100% 😊👍


fredbearplushy10

Korn


lumetalist

korn faget


ParabolicPentagram

Korn self titled


Esteban_Rojo

Are you readddddyyyyyyyy on late night mtv


bndwgnfn

I’d heard a some songs before and enjoyed them but I really got into it after watching the Woodstock 99 documentary lol


Same_Efficiency8160

Slipknot


aurelianoxbuendia

Evanescence, AMVs, and the local FM alternative station (that got bought and turned into like the 8th modern country station in the region. I don't even mind country but it feels like it's every other station now)


cheshirebutterfly17

Evanescence It wasn’t Bring Me To Life surprisingly tho


RoyalSoldierx

Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park


[deleted]

Hybrid Theory, White Pony, Toxicity from older brother


Professional_Joke_81

i think it was slipknot? it might've been korn with freak on a leash though


Only_Orchid3345

Slipknot.


The_mystery4321

Linkin Park introduced me to it, but I didn't truly fall in love with nu-metal till I listened to KoRn's See You On The Other Side


bigbraingenius_

Adema


LexKing89

Mainly listening to the radio back in 1999-2000. I remember loving it as a kid. Limp Bizkit and Korn were the first bands I really got into. Then came Linkin Park, Static X, and everything else. Nu metal was everywhere back then.


edrumm10

Korn and Mudvayne


Christophax82

Korn and SOAD


AugustIsWrathMonth

In 1995-1996, I did not care for the sound that Korn and Deftones were doing. I was really into Offspring, Bush, and Green Day. But there were a couple songs I liked, like ADIDAS and Shoots n Ladders. But then, I heard Got The Life. And Faith was popular by then. (Really didnt care for 3 Dollar Bill though). Follow the Leader set it off for me. Then Godsmack, Then the Burning Red album (from Machine Head) then Mudvayne.


Dmetalmike

Mudvayne. Watching Ghost Ship. Then watched Resident Evil the same weekend and was introduced to Slipknot. I’ve never been the same.


_MrCharlieToldMeSo

Limp bizkit. My big brother had chocolate starfish on cd when it came out. Take a look an around was my favorite song off the album. My 5/6 year old self was tripped out by the album cover


bawitback

back in '98 Korn (Freak on a Leash, Got the Life) and Kid Rock (Bawitdaba) first introduced me to the genre.


Duurston

It was 1994, I was 15. A mate came over after school with this cassette tape and said have a listen to this. It’s like nothing you’ve ever heard before. So I put in my cassette player and blind started, I remember the “are you ready” lyric like it was yesterday, then it hits and I was like holy fk man! This is awesome! I went and borrowed money off grandma ( I was pretty much brought up by her) and went to the music store which was Chandlers back then well one of the music stores here in Australia. On my redline push bike, I couldn’t ride fast enough lol. Anyways been a fan of korn since then, the start really. I’m 45 and still listen to nu-metal.


Enough-Persimmon3921

Korn. Heard their first album when I was in middle school.


aClockwerkApple

my mom played godsmack and disturbed’s first albums in the car when I was like 5


East_Intern5912

had a video game called Shaun Palmers pro Snowboarder - soundtrack introduced me to spineshank, alien ant farm, papa roach, static X, and P5000.


k_d_b_83

A friend got me into korn back just before follow the leader came out. The build up to that album dropping was wild. I’ve never seen another band roll down nyc in a fucking tank to album signing before while a sea of people were trying to get to them.


1Rayo1

papa roach (last resort to be exact), although i only really got into the genre when i started listening to korn


Elfamoso14

Linkin park when i was 4 or 5. My sister listen to it . Then Mudvayne via NfS underground 2 


BROK-SOULBURN

Crazy Town. But with non nu metal song lol. I even didn’t like the song, but they looked like… I’ve thought “damn, these guys are cool, I got to hear more songs from them” and bought the tape. The piracy was in its active phase that days, so it was not just a Gift of the Game album, it has a bunch of remixes on Butterfly and Revolving Door in it. Nice time. I was too damn young and couple weeks after I saw limp bizkit, there was no way back since


alexsolren

Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Korn and Mudvayne primarily. If it wasn’t for wrestling I wouldn’t have been introduced to it as early.


LordCario34

Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit. I'm relatively nu to nu metal. Who should I check out next except for LP, LB and SOAD?


Interesting_Aide7674

Slipknot and their still my favorite


[deleted]

Linkin park’s - meteora


eatpotdude

Beavis and Butthead


Kwilburn525

Linkin park I was like 6 in 2000…


name898899

Sevendust and Flaw


JazzlikeMobile2925

It was most definitely Linkin Park. Followed by Breaking Benjamin (this was all when I was 4-7 years old)


katarokkar

My best friend and I watched the Street Fighter animated movie and when Blind came on at the [end credits](https://youtu.be/40amobhI3mY?feature=shared), we were hooked.


Kooky-Background1788

The bands I was listening to before had pretty much broken up or started switching out too many members. It was something that wasn’t grunge at the time.


TrevorBevor45

Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit and Evanescence


Juniberserker

Linkin Park. Didn't know it at the time lmao


gnop2

Linkin Park


Swage03

The bizkit


WxMxA

Static-X in WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2006


Marjorine_Stotch10

Linkin park


KingovFilth

Linkin Park & Static X


KiwiBirdex

SoaD - Mezmerize album


MyNameFuego

Beyblade AMVs with drowning pool bodies


Embarrassed-Round821

for me, it was a mix of disturbed, slipknot, and linkin park.


Electric_Death_1349

Slipknot’s self-titled way back in 1999


Ok_Repair3535

Limp Bizkit


Ambitious-Beat-2130

System of Bizkit Park


Wild-Narwhal8091

In my earliest childhood? I'd say Limp Bizkit, Hollywood Undead (if they're considered) can Skillet be considered nu metal? Slipknot , SOAD


djnz0813

Not sure if this is Nu Metal but I was 12 when I was introduced to Sepultura. That opened the door and Deftones (Around the Fur) quickly followed.


Xylophone_Aficionado

Probably Slipknot and Korn. I heard Korn on MTV I assume and my friends older brother listened to Slipknot and played it for us, but at the time I was still young and into Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys, lol. It wasn’t until Hybrid Theory came out that my tastes changed literally overnight and I got into all Nu Metal bands.


StringAway8866

This gothic dude called B.J I met I was like 12 yrs old it was like 1999 well in his room was just a mattress on the floor a black light 💡 and a boom box with a 4 disc cd player and we just listened to Korn all night! Freak on a leash


StringAway8866

That was my introduction to NU metal


timetodance42

Korn on my own, I remember when the video for Blind debuted on Mtv. I didn't start to really get into them until 'Some Place to Hide' hit Mtv. It made me go back and listen to EVERYTHING. Then I was hooked. My older brother used to make me mix tapes of rare and cool stuff. We actually heard Limp Bizkit before they got signed.


leod1759

system of a down


Natural_Draw4673

KoRn - Life is Peachy When I was a kid I would get to go visit my dad for a weekend maybe once a year. He had the Life is Peachy album. And I was HOOKED. the next year I came back he had Follow the Leader. And it was all over for me from there. I’m now a life long KoRn fan. I just wish I had caught on like 2 years sooner so I coulda claimed I’ve been a fan since the first album. But nope. I gotta take claim to their second album. lol.


Demonkid37

Limp Bizkit then KoRn


xd3m0x_

Linkin Park when i was like 10 and then slipknot and korn


Aromatic_Ad_8624

I asked my friend what she was listening to, and she said KoЯn. I started listening to them later that day, starting with their first album. Daddy hit so hard and still does


CycleSimilar8324

i was about 10ish and had watched the bride of chucky so much living dead girl by rob zombie was stuck in my head and i started listening to it on my computer


ScenicHwyOverpass

I remember first hearing Orgy and Korn on TRL on MTV, and I knew I liked it, but my friends didn’t and I wasn’t self assured enough to ask my parents to buy it for me. Then when Hybrid Theory came out, I went all in.


aretaker

Saw the video for Shoots and Ladders by Korn in high school and it was love at first sight ❤️ 🤘


ThreeLinkinSkillets

Linkin Park, I discovered them when listening to a Spectacular Spider-Man AMV that used "What I've Done" as the song 😊


Shredhead118

Linkin Park Hybrid Theory & KoRn Untouchables


crex82

Korn, Slipknot, Static X, Limp B


cybaerexe

Chop sue


jeroensaurus

Korn


dawsoncrooked

Stricken by Disturbed.


seagull_cole

Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists


santino1987

Korn - freak on a leash


BlakeTheMadd

Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and Hotdog Flavored Water, Still love that shit ! 🤘


TheShadow420Blazeit

Linkin Park


Kid_Kameleon

Korn self titled, when the opening to Blind came on, my mind was blown, it doesn’t feel like much today, but wow in 1994 that was unheard of


IluhaEeUa

Korn debut and limp bozkit greatest hitz.


JoeGiden72

rage against the machine


RobinhoodProTrader

ADIDAS /KORN


RuTooL

THPS2


RM_Head

New Divide by Linkin Park. But i didnt get too much into it or want to listen to more until i discovered Loose by Primer 55 (despite me really loving Limp Bizkit)


Ok_Somewhere_4669

Perhaps a bit late to curve by 2003, but for me, my introduction to Nu metal was Need for speed underground 1 and 2. Both games had fucking incredible soundtracks even including some quite obscure bands. Specifically my love of Static X and Mudvayne is because of these games. Most wanted had a decent soundtrack, too. NFS was on it back then.


Spook408

Limp Bizkit-significant other.


alf_is_real

After hearing a few songs on the radio I decided to buy the Family Values 98 album and it opened the door to not just nu-metal, but other various forms of metal. Interesting how one album changed the course of my music evolution.


Apprehensive-Ad-2644

I was a big fan of SOAD and Slipknot and then saw the "Nu metal" tag on Google after searching about them, decided to listen more related songs and i fell in love


ANGELeffEr

ARE YOU READY!!


8JayJay

Deftons (Around the fur), and it was glorious!!!


Esteban_Rojo

Korn seemed like they were from another planet when they hit


Eie9

Hybrid Theory but tried Gaga Life single by Mad Capsule Markets prior to Hybrid Theory! I think Gaga Life featured their ex-guitarist from the 90s https://youtu.be/Yil4iD8MbMo?si=9caEU3qxEeEdPLU3


DerKleriker

Korn's Blind on the Street Fighter 2 movie


parlayandsurvive2

Faith no more, rage against the machine and korn


Pretty-Cap3751

🤔 I'm not sure. The origins of my beginnings in metal are murky, been hit in the head one too mant times. But I do remember Spineshank, Mudvayne, Linkin Park, Drowning Pool, and American Head Charge around freshmen year.


kriswh83

Are you ready


Snoo_49285

Korn self titled in 1994


BigSimpinOG

Korn in 1997


erichellyeah

Three Dollar Bill Yall in like '97 in my buddy's early 90s S-10 Blazer w/ the sound system. I heard Counterfeit, and I was hooked.


2bb4llRG

When i was like 8 I saw Re Arranged and Boiler music vids on TV, around 13 my friend had In The End as his phonecall sound, when I was 16 i was working at a store and my co worker would play Saliva's click click boom at 9 am, When I was 19 we was going to shows and one time they made a cover of Stalemste by LB and thats when i finally got hooked


ddrub_the_only_real

Linkin park and limp bizkit mostly


Xenu66

Hearing the manson cover of sweet dreams in the opening of the 1999 remake of house on haunted Hill


renegaid

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory was my introduction to music period lol


DanYeoman

Slipknot and Korn,then deftones,papa roach,limp bizkit back in 1999


OkCreme8338

Rage against the machine, Deftones a bit, & then Linkin Park made me actually dive into it


YeetusFelitas

around the fur


112oceanave

Limp bizkit


Dancinglobster5009

Korn follow the leader or deftones around the fur I don’t rember exactly


Grouchy-Umpire-6969

Korn and limp Bizkit. 10 or 11 years old my older bro showed me everything.


pplazzz

Evanescence. My older sister and dad loved Fallen so I always heard it when they played it in the car


SinusExplosion

Burn My Eyes.


TheElementalGriffin

My dad always played P.O.D. in the car


LiamIsMailBackwards

Weird Al’s Angry White Boy Polka. Basically found all of the songs and bands in that mashup and that was it.


Alternative_Hiker708

I already knew Linkin Park but it hadn't appealed to me. I think SOAD self titled was the first time I actually was interested in nu metal, but I just really got into it with Slipknot self titled


SheepherderSerious94

Psychosocial- slipknot


Anfie22

Slipknot


ThatHyperPopEnjoyer

Slipknots .5 album, their first one i listened to


3d-blasphemy

kittie, theyre still one of my favs


Ran-DomBoy42

Slipknot-Vol 3; The subliminal verses


79AA

I remember the exact song an the moment everything changed.. The ice cube cover,Wicked by korn an chino Before that I was a die hard hip hop fan, hip hop in the early 90s was amazing, but then by about 96/97 I was over it, then I discovered korn an fell in love with it, freeking loved nu metal ever since


elhijodeputa652

Korn self titled


Careful-Flan-2585

Slipknot self titled


RoyalBlegher

KORN


SlamFerdinand

The Ozzfest ‘96 VHS


EezyClapz

Linkin Park


Boeing747_Fan

Deftones be quiet and drive 🥺😭


esegara

KoRn - Follow the Leader


direngr3y

Linkin park and orgy


Commercial_Photo4416

Probably hot dog flavored water by bizkit, listen to it at 5 years old


kramirez0112

That one video with Kleiner and Eli. Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory then later became the first nu metal album I owned in my cd collection which I started last year.


DeathmetalL0ver

System of a Down psycho


Cornball06

Probably Slipknot, my mom was a metalhead so it was either the Vol.3 or Linkin Park's a thousand suns


jthomas1127

Linkin Park and Disturbed


kinjazfan

Limp bizkit


nzstump01

I was buying a mettalica cassette when I saw a korn and disturbed one, I purchased the sickness and have been a fan ever since


bloodstark911

Linkin Park & Slipknot


Maverick133737

either snot or limp bizkit


stolenfromthebog

hmmm, not a specific artist or song but i LOVE the indie animation "metal family" and that was my inspiration to listen to nu metal :)


Automatic_Context556

I dont acc remember mine but Wisconsin Death Trip by Static X was the first nu metal album i listened too in its entirety so i class that as my first


funeraldress

Late 90s, early 2000s MTV


hoefromengland

slipknot and five finger death punch


Hossflex

Limp Bizkit/Orgy/Methods of Mayhem. Nu Metal started when I started playing music, around 1998 or so. I’d say Rage but I don’t think they are Nu Metal.


Regular_Emergency_98

Korn - Freak On A Leash (first time I listend to it was on a YouTube video called Marvel vs DC Villains)


Estrada1

Hybrid Theory


scourgeoftheself

Deftones with Mini Maggit lol


Antiprune

For me Really understanding what Nu-metal is probably Kittie


dbullard00

Korn's Follow the Leader was the first nu-metal album I really got into. I remember when I first watched the 'Freak On a Leash' video, I begged my mom to take me to buy the album (I was in 7th grade, just to clear that up). A friend brought Slipknot's self-titled album not long after that and that's definitely what ended up getting me really into everything nu-metal.


Whatlaidbeneath

It was Korn!!!


DangerousAd8898

Linkin Park - One step closer or Psychosocial by Slipknot


Significant-Ad276

Korn. Mudvayne and early Staind can have some credit too


CrypticMemoir

Limp Bizkit


wiiguyy

LB. Sig other


anti_caws

I remember White Zombie playing on MTV when I was little, but I will still credit Limp Bizkit’s “Faith” as the moment. That was the first time I ever heard anyone growl and ever heard that style of hard rock or metal or whatever you wanna consider it.


[deleted]

Deftones adrenaline 1995 I was thirteen.


Available-Mode7838

Korn- life is peachy


G3ORGEMICHA3L

ICP


limpidlipid

Korn's self-titled album