Nu Metal Sophomore Albums RANKED (Slipknot, Linkin Park, & More!)

[@MetalTrenches]

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[@MRSludgedude]

You should do a last nu metal album ranking.

[@rcurl44]

You should totally do a 3rd albums video. There are soo many interesting albums to talk about, whether good or bad. White Pony, Chocolate Starfish, Vol 3, Follow the Leader, it'd be a great video.

[@MetalTrenches]

It's already done ;-P

[@rcurl44]

@@MetalTrenches Noice!

[@stockinganarchy4720]

@@MetalTrenches where is the video it's been 3 weeks we demand more nu metal arggh i have to cuddle with my fred durst bodypillow

[@rcurl44]

@@stockinganarchy4720 Lmao

[@Idyliss]

Vol.3 🔥🔥🔥

[@thedogfromraditude5449]

I agree with pretty much all of this except for Meteora, which I’d put in S or A tier. Although I think Hybrid Theory has better individual tracks, I think Meteora is more consistent overall. The singles still go hard all these years later, and there are some incredible deep cuts as well (Lying From You and Figure 0.9 are both in my top 5 LP songs). I think it’s aged a lot better than other nü metal, and it’s the LP album that I keep coming back to. For me personally, I’d put it up with the ones in S tier. Great video tho

[@MetalTrenches]

I mean just listening to it again before making this I still just think it's fine. It's one of their better ones (more on that later), but it's just ok imo. Thanks for watching

[@seemann2401]

Used to be my favorite LP album, but has grown out of me

[@cookiesontoast9981]

I like Meterora but the only track on it I really love is Faint. Overall though I just don't hold Linkin Park too highly anyway, I like all of their albums but don't love any of them. Favourite album by them Miight be Minutes to Midnight? I like how it's a transitionary album with a good mix of their older sound and newer sound.

[@HitlerGaymes123]

Meteora have Numb and Breaking The Habit, two shitly pop rock songs, and Numb is a rip off of Crawling and Pushing Me Away. So, i give a C, but Lying From You and Nobody Listening are pretty good.

[@mohammedbakeer3034]

I can't really agree that meteora is lower then significant other, comparing numb and nookie (the biggest songs from the albums) is like comparing Green Day and Machine Gun Kelly.

[@Jrizzle7426]

The end of all things to come was one of my favorite albums when i was younger. Mercy severity is still my favorite mudvayne track.

[@Cwin-ny6bp]

Mercy Severity is amazing. I’m glad I’m not the only person that loves that song.

[@rockmovieswithtyler1989]

Thanks for the 40 Below Summer recommendation can't believe they slipped by me!

[@MetalTrenches]

🤘🏻

[@SubArchitectDJ]

American Head Charge is one of the most underrated bands in the whole scene ❤️

[@MetalTrenches]

Very fun band

[@Megabomberman87]

Apex Rick Rubin!

[@inhumanityreborn4597]

War of Art is one of my goat albums

[@xVooDooPiMPx]

War of Art is a masterpiece, glad to see it get some love

[@JohnWayne-vf5bs]

Me too

[@ZakkiLowe]

Love seeing Sevendust at the top. Home was the album that made me love heavy music and they've been my favorite band ever since that album was released.

[@leonardolaleonardo4924]

big love finally to sevendust, first time i've heard you mention them on the channel...

[@MetalTrenches]

Glassjaw is NOT nu metal. Big fan though. Saw them live with Quicksand a few years ago.

[@alvand82]

Love your Nu Metal vids! Big fan of this era You should make a Spotify playlist with your Nu Metal Classics! Greetings from Peru 🤘

[@MetalTrenches]

I started one! open.spotify.com/playlist/6Kh8z8h8ykGqF3S0zADuFy?si=f090620188964578

[@caiofraga1968]

Nice list. You don't get Rollin in Signifficant Other though, that one is from their following album

[@MetalTrenches]

Oh shoot that's right

[@jamellelangfordiii3586]

Sweet that 40 below and American Headcharge got some love!

[@stockinganarchy4720]

You should include Nothingface in the next video, extremely underrated band and definitely one of the best from the whole nu metal wave, i want to see your opinion on violence and skeletons if there is ever going to be a 4th part

[@remiestronks]

The Impossibility of Reason by Chimaira to me is really S tier. When that album came out I was blown away. The tracks on that album are at least good, but some are great. Great riffing, a lot of diversity, a great instrumental at the end, nice combination of clean and growl vocal, and very heavy. I actually don't really consider it a nu-metal album. I kinda fully agree on your S tier, but Significant Other was good but I consider it A tier. And I haven't really listened to the Sevendust album. I think they weren't that much of a thing in Europe so it didnt caught my attention. And Around the Fur... Maybe my favourite Deftones album. I couldn't get that one out of my sony disk man.

[@rapmetaldemon09]

I was gonna say, Chimaira is great and I would not consider them nu metal at all.

[@remiestronks]

@@rapmetaldemon09 more new wave of American metal.

[@superstan3290]

@@rapmetaldemon09 Their first album Pass Out of Existence is nu metal and it’s underrated

[@jamellelangfordiii3586]

@@rapmetaldemon09 agree, they have guitar solos and are much more of just a metal band like LOG I think.

[@jamellelangfordiii3586]

@@superstan3290 agree about it being underrated, but that is like saying cowboys from hell is hair metal......

[@rhyster7420]

I’m probably in the extreme minority here but I’m a huge mushroomhead fan and I gotta say Superbuick is one of my favorites. It’s so creative and the riffs are heavy as hell (bwomp is super catchy)

[@Koinoyokan01]

I love these lists. Im going though each one now and mostly agree with all your choices. Im right there with you on Deftones. They are basically the definitive success story of this generation of music which saw so many bands fall off the earth.

[@pretty_in_casts]

I listened The Height of Callousness today and personally, I really enjoyed it that now I love nu metal COMBINED with Industrial, Breakbeat, Big Beat or Drum'N'Bass. Same vein with Pitchshifter, Static-X, Orgy (about their second album, it's the same good album, just like Candyass) and even underrated ones like Professional Murder Music (god, such a goofy title for that band) and Apartment 26. Also, you missed about Nothingface, the last two albums Violence and Skeletons were actually pretty good. P.S. About video games, have you ever played Twisted Metal? The third and fourth one have great soundtracks from favorite bands, for example White Zombie (before he went into solo band as Rob Zombie).

[@MetalTrenches]

Twisted Metal is fun

[@TheUnshackled]

love these videos, would be interesting to do a tier album list for the 1st 2nd 3rd etc album releases of the thrash bands

[@DilutedIceCube]

Loved your tier list. I'm gonna listen to some of these albums that I judged too quickly.

[@MetalTrenches]

Enjoy!

[@amjreptx1]

Happy to see Sevendust Home in S tier.

[@MetalTrenches]

Had a great time revisiting that one

[@quentinbringthenumetalchil5125]

There’s a bunch of sophomore albums in nu metal that I, sincerely, admire.

[@MetalTrenches]

Yeah, unfortunately things go a bit downhill for most save for a few after this...

[@inhumanityreborn4597]

I freaking love American Head Charge- war of Art still to this day🤘

[@MetalTrenches]

Very fun band

[@kidscarj5978]

Almost every nu metal band hit their prime sophomore year...

[@gronnigerb]

I think that the actual sophomore album from Papa Roach was Infest cause they actually had a debut that didn't hit mainstream success. I legit didn't learn that until today and I'm sure a lot if people who only know the popular tracks don't know that either

[@MetalTrenches]

Correct

[@JaredtheRabbit]

Spotify has Infest as the debut.

[@gronnigerb]

@@JaredtheRabbit it may not be on streaming platforms. I came across it on KZbin

[@z-manneversleeps900]

It's kinda like staind with tormented being the debut but impossible to find

[@themetalpig7613]

The Nu Metal era was what got me into music and heavier stuff in general. There's a few bands here that being in Australia I've never even heard of. Australia was half a decade behind with Nu Metal, but there's a couple really good Nu Metal tinged albums here. Karnivool - Themata (and their EP) has a heavy Nu Metal influence. Another is The Butterfly Effect - Begins Here (and again their EP). Both excellent albums and both bands got better and both dropped most of the Nu Metal influence. There were some bands that actually we're around as Nu Metal hit but they never got big. Nevertheless they had some good albums too. Superheist - The Prize Recruit (8 Miles High EP is better), Testeagles - Non Comprehendous, Sunk Loto - Big Picture Lies (and EP Society Anxiety).

[@johnsun6418]

Cog was another great band, can’t forget grinspoon, there was a band from Perth I believe, called ochre, they had en ep called synopsis, checking out on KZbin, definetly had that whole nu metal vibe,

[@peetersdrummingmusic6781]

Finally someone giving Limp Bizkit the praise they deserve (in my opinion)

[@MetalTrenches]

Check out the full Limp Bizkit discog tier list 👍🏻🤘🏻

[@FloodedWithGems]

Invitation to the dance is phenomenal. Good call man 🔥

[@MetalTrenches]

It's a BOP

[@bukkakeritual7895]

Glad to see you put Iowa on S tier because that and the self titled slipknot opened the metal and extreme metal floodgates for me when I was in my early teens. Plus the 40 below summer mention was cool. Glad to see someone mention them. Nothingface violence is another underrated nu metal gem i still love. Their were a lot of good sophomore nu metal albums that actually were good ones. Machine, oracle, and I count 13 as the sophomore mushroomhead and that’s still their greatest album.. there my two cents. I agree with a lot on your list and I agree with every one of your A tier list man LOL

[@bukkakeritual7895]

But I disagree with you on that Dry Kill Logic and orgy and papa roach I really strongly disagree LOL. But hey everybody has an opinion

[@zeekcrooks3793]

Rollin was on chocolate starfish btw lol I do like it better than significant other but their both pretty much neck and neck with me Like you said people can say what they want about limp bizkit but you can’t deny that they just have that SOUND and impact in numetal fred durst is very crafty lol

[@42yearoldboy5]

Very enjoyable video! Props for putting Sevendust in S! I actually like the second Mudvayne better 😳

[@movzhepok]

Pretty much agree with everything, except for Meteora - for me up on the S tier LB, SAOD and the Knot. I adored that album. I usually listen both Hybrid Theory and Meteora in a one go and there's not one song I dislike. Absolutely agree with your take on "what is nu-metal" and Significant Other that's what I would use as well as an example (quick correction that rollin is not on this one !).

[@madstaticmke414]

If you do a third album, i would definitely like to see where you would put albums from bands you missed like Nonpoint and Ill Nino.

[@renass666]

Iowa is huge, my favorite album of all time, it doesn't even seem to belong in the genre, it's so heavy, beautiful list, all very well placed

[@bouquetforeverymisery]

Really nice list, always enjoy your videos but I also would have included Chevelle‘s Wonder What’s Next (and would have put Meteora in S tear haha)

[@MetalTrenches]

Wonder What's Next is great, but I had so many other albums to consider.

[@blackwaterrust476]

Sophomore Nu Metal rankings: S: Slipknot, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Sevendust A: System of a Down, Disturbed, Korn, Static X, Soulfly B: Chimaira, Rob Zombie, Kittie, Mudvayne C: American Head Charge, Coal Chamber, Taproot D: 40 Below Summer, Powerman 5000, Hed PE, Orgy, Dope F: Saliva, Mushroomhead, Papa Roach, Staind Crazy Town: Crazy Town, Drowning Pool, Crapt

[@MetalTrenches]

Relisten to that 40 Below Summer. I'm telling you it's a jam.

[@blackwaterrust476]

@@MetalTrenches I’ll maybe give it a shot. Nothing interesting has come out yet so far these last couple of days imo.

[@mrcoolguy32]

Crapt 💀

[@fredericbrisson1510]

hahaha livin' la vida loca, I laughed so hard, can't unhear that indeed !

[@MetalTrenches]

😈

[@brandongrotha7508]

Brooo the prayer meets living la vida loca is unreal funny haha. I still dig believe and think its the best disturbed album. I also wouldn't say it's overrated ; it scored well with critics but I think many fans wanted the sickness pt. 2 and they didn't get it thank God. It can be tough for non-disturbed fans to distinguish between what is their good and bad material so I cant fault you. But rollin' is on chocolate starfish!

[@yg-dp7mo]

Iowa is my personal fav slipknot album ,the pure energy and angst in the record truly has aged like fine wine if you compare the bands nowadays that drag it on

[@MetalTrenches]

I miss that era of Slipknot

[@yg-dp7mo]

@@MetalTrenches i honestly enjoy all their albums except for Gray chapter,just mostly forgettable.But the new album i like the experimentation and more of the heaviness they brung back

[@michaelc3656]

Funny that you singled out "Trapped in the Wake of a Dream" as being a bad song, as that's my favourite song on the album. :P Agree with Slipknot and System of a Down being S tier, and also agree with the previous albums being slightly better, too.

[@Cwin-ny6bp]

Trapped in the Wake of a Dream is super complex while still being catchy. I don’t know why that would be an example of a bad song.

[@zachdproductions123]

Around The Fur and Meteora would easily be somewhere towards the top for me. Interesting ranking.

[@stolenhal0]

NM sophomore albums are among many of my favorites.

[@kingthorgrim1591]

fun fact: I do believe Corey Taylor did take a shit in a bag and threw it out the bus during a tour once. Random I know, but I remembered that when you mentioned the Static-X video where a guy shit in a bag and threw it out. AND I will say Jumpdafuckup is the best Soulfly song and one of the best Nu-Metal songs ever in my opinion, just a banger all the way through

[@MetalTrenches]

🤘🏻

[@martinbanik4637]

Mushroomhead will always be top 10 nu metal band, they are just not for everyone.

[@M18-v4t]

To make comment on Iowa I just want to say how fucking dark and brutal that entire album is next to 'Slipknot'. Their pissed off I will break your face style is what shaped them into who they are today. It's a damn shame they'll never go back to that dark aggressive style again

[@SatanBled]

How is Chimaira’s album nu?

[@MetalTrenches]

They were TOTALLY nu metal. They even toured with Slipnot

[@SatanBled]

@@MetalTrenches their roadrunner debut was nu (pass out of existence), but I wouldn’t call impossibility that. It has lots of fast stuff lots of groove and lots of solos. Even the band said they aren’t that. What does touring have to do with it mate? Have you watched the dehumanizing process doc?

[@Shawn-p8t]

I agree with a decent amount of your opinions, Ive grown out of new metal a long time ago but bands liek System and Deftones I still respect. I gotta say Im a bit shocked at your feeling toward Vapor transmission. I too was more of a Candyass fan and after the original line up broke and they reformed with horrible dubstep music I quickly lost interest. But When I go back and listen to them (rarely now days)I think Vapor is their prime album and has aged the best. The Lyrical content on Candyass might be better but the other all sound on Vapor I feel like is their peak. And even the the lyrics can be silly at times the attitude and energy I feel make up for it. Punk Statik Paranoia has even grown on my as a guilty pleasure album, but I wont argue for that album. I think ORGY was an under rated band with so much potential but they just made some bad decisions unfortunately..

[@Drew-vu7em]

I wonder if anyone here still remember or atleast know Project 86, drawing black lines.

[@MetalTrenches]

Oh man that sounds familiar

[@rockmovieswithtyler1989]

Disagree with you on Meteora and Welcome Home's placement but that's it! You better rank Around The Fur that high or I'd riot! Lol

[@rogdawg123]

meteora is definitely S tier! my fav linkin park album and in my opinion better than the hybrid theory

[@Cwin-ny6bp]

Around the Fur correctly tops the list. Nothingface’s An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity (not pictured) and Mudvayne’s The End of All Things to Come would be in S-tier as well. An Audio Guide would actually be the strongest challenger for the poll position for me.

[@kimesmore5552]

The greatest joke WatchMojo has ever made, is calling Trapt an influental Nu Metal band. xD

[@madhatter984]

ouch mushroomhead in the f tier but to be fair that band started getting much stronger after they put out x11.

[@MetalTrenches]

Yeah they took a while to really get going

[@SubArchitectDJ]

Strong enough later on to move up to D tier but no higher

[@ezbgambler]

got me going thru your videos seeing your thoughts on hed pe since not a lot of people add them to their lists. broke is def S tier but ill let it slide. damn and you got dope and taproot d tier thats crazy

[@joshalan5125]

I agree with you on Around the Fur. As a fellow Deftones fan, I will say that this is my favorite album by the band. Also agree on Iowa being on S tier and with Drowning Pool being at F tier. Drowning Pool never had a good album; I've always seen everything they've done as generic butt metal. Yes I would like to see a video on Nu-Metal third albums.

[@joerazz91]

One album I noticed isn’t here is Godsmack - Awake. Would you consider that nu metal? I guess it’s more alternative metal and hard rock but does have some nu metal elements.

[@cowmark67]

I agree with the placement of every album on this list that I have heard except for two: Meteora and Believe. For Meteora I would put it at S tier. I think it takes the formula for Hybrid Theory and does it better. As for Believe by Disturbed I don't think it's an S tier album but I would probably put it at at least B if not A tier. Disturbed, though I have fallen off from listening to them recently, are one of my favorite bands and it's between Ten Thousand Fists and Believe for my favorite album from them.

[@MetalTrenches]

🤘🏻

[@matt11708]

Sevendust -home and slipknot -iowa are great albums.

[@Sweat404]

I have really fond memories of powerman 5000 - tonight the stars revolt. Definitely at least a B tier for me personally.

[@ptbempire]

💯 agree on ATF beating Iowa every song is absolutely amazing. I didn't see Nothingface

[@joerazz91]

I personally love Sinner by Drowning Pool and I do believe if Dave never died, Desensitized would of been a decent album. R.I.P. Dave Williams

[@MetalTrenches]

It's a fun album, just not a GREAT one imo

[@krispoole2829]

I think Dry Kill in F is a shame. There are a few tracks that stand out to me. Their 3rd album is where they really dropped off.

[@davidthorson2036]

40 Below Summer and American Head Charge are both unsung Nu-Metal groups.

[@JohnWayne-vf5bs]

What's your favorite American Head charge song

[@ericantonmarchi2176]

Not a big fan of nu metal but can’t deny some of those albums slap HARD. Very random question but top 6 favorite movies. I’m a big movie buff and just thought I’d ask lol. I’ll give you mine 1-GoodFellas 2-Pulp Fiction 3-Fight Club 4-Braveheart 5-The Big Lebowski 6-Animal House😂 I can go on and on tbh

[@MetalTrenches]

Great list. I share Pulp Fiction and Fight Club at the top. Probably also The Shining, Mulholland Drive, The Royal Tenenbaums, Blazing Saddles come to mind

[@ericantonmarchi2176]

@@MetalTrenches Blazing Saddles dude!!!! One of the best comedies ever. Royal Tennenbaums is great too. The Shining is in my top ten for sure. Can’t forget about A Clockwork Orange and Eraserhead though👌.

[@samg1803]

The Mourning After was a pretty good followup from Invitation To The Dance as well. Rain is probably one of my favorite nu metal songs ever.

[@rockmovieswithtyler1989]

Wouldn't mind you ranking alternative metal albums

[@vaevictis_]

I see you’ve mentioned liking good vocalist on nu metal bands so you should check out the band Flaw if you haven’t before. They have amazing clean vocals and were fairly popular

[@thomaschanning6520]

Here goes mine: S tier- Slipknot System of a Down Mudvayne American Head Charge Chimaira A tier- Soulfly Static X Rob Zombie Korn Deftones B tier - Sevendust Coal Chamber Linkin Park Powerman 5000 Disturbed C tier - Dope Spineshank Limp Bizkit 40 Below Summer Dry Kill Logic D tier - Mushroomhead Papa Roach Drowning Pool Kittie Taproot F tier- Saliva Hed PE Orgy Staind Trapt

[@raregrimebeats1352]

Where’s Soil?

[@raregrimebeats1352]

Ill niño?

[@m2ngur]

one of the worst, most biased list i have ever seen. putting completely personal tier lists out without acknowledging the influence other bands you personally dont like have had on the genre is fucking stupid.

[@alexguerra6332]

Crazy that you put 40 Below Summer on the A tier but not Ill Nino ? Lol , im curious about your opinion.

[@MetalTrenches]

Ill Niño is alright. Need to revisit

[@alexguerra6332]

@@MetalTrenches first 2 albums are really good !

[@devonm301]

Nonpoint..?

[@enigmaiv6258]

Do you take ideas for tier lists?

[@MetalTrenches]

Depends on what it is and whether the larger audience will enjoy it.

[@enigmaiv6258]

@@MetalTrenches it’s mainly two, the first being a post hardcore tier list, bands like asking Alexandria, Memphis may fire, of mice and men etc. the next one being your thoughts on the punk rap and trap metal subgenre guys like scarlxrd, city morgue, ghostemane.

[@mfkrmaggot2755]

intro song?

[@MetalTrenches]

40 Below Summer - Rope

[@mfkrmaggot2755]

@@MetalTrenches thank you!

[@gpcbt89]

What about bands like, Methods of mayhem, LeVeL, Twisted method,

[@MetalTrenches]

Lots of F tier there. Funny watching Pam and Tommy and seeing him hanging out with those bandmates lol

[@BrandonM.N]

American Head Charge! Minnesota’s finest metal band 🤘❤️🤘

[@crazydud3380]

Um, Rolling isn't from Significant Other. It is from Chocolate Starfish.

[@MetalTrenches]

Correct. Brain fart. It happens

[@crazydud3380]

@@MetalTrenches It's all good. I do agree with you on Significant Other being their best album.

[@synystersanta1017]

Dude. Do. ChimAira ranking !! They still slam

[@MetalTrenches]

Perhaps at some point.

[@omarsalkamusic]

All their stuff is great. Great songs from all their albums

[@Clintob]

American Head Charge was fucking awesome. Even if the guitar player spit on me at their concert haha

[@MetalTrenches]

Well from my understanding dude has a pretty rough history lol

[@S281GT]

I highly disagree on where you put superbuick.

[@MetalTrenches]

Noted. I mean this is how music and opinions work.

[@millasboo]

7:39 Yeah i dont know what you’re smoking on this point. I’ll admit the ending percussion is similar but the middle part of the hook is but way lower,more pronounced and strummed at a i feel a lower key. Prayers’s hook sounds nothing like Laveda

[@WyattsWildNature]

Not a fan of most of these, but Deftones is one of my favorite bands.

[@dustin6528]

P.O.D. “Satellite” Incubus “Make Yourself” ?

[@MetalTrenches]

Make Yourself is not a nu metal album. Satellite is not POD’s second album

[@scottiematthews5932]

Very good list brother. I specially enjoyed the S through B tier. I will have to check out that 40 Below Summer as I do not remember them. I would definitely put Believe, Dysfunction & Every Six Seconds up higher (Ive always been a sucker for Saliva lol). Oh and no P.O.D. Satellite? Technically it's their fourth album as they had 2 indies before Fundamental Elements of Southtown but I would arguably say it's one of biggest Nu Metal albums of all time. Thanks for list brother and stay metal 🤘

[@MetalTrenches]

Def check out 40 Below Summer

[@themetalpig7613]

Good call on P.O.D. Satellite and Youth of the Nation were hugely popular songs. I also wonder whether Fear Factory couldn't be on these lists. They are so close to Nu Metal, especially Obsolete, that I don't think many would protest. And Marylin Manson too.

[@tannerbroadwell5488]

If you do a video on nu metal third albums I highly recommend considering nothingface - violence. nothingface is an extremely underrated nu metal band

[@MetalTrenches]

This series made it to 5th or 6th albums. I can't remember

[@fishntyme1417]

Self titled S.O.A.D album really is the best though!!!!

[@Miniduck9013]

I disagree with a lot of this but I’m weird and love mushroomheads older stuff and a few others down there but it’s your opinion and I really enjoyed the video

[@MetalTrenches]

It’s the disagreements that make these discussions fun

[@Miniduck9013]

@@MetalTrenches amen

[@tonyziporlin4240]

Nice to see some love for Chamber Music! That album gets A LOT of hate

[@MetalTrenches]

Unwarranted. It’s WAY better than the debut imo

[@xPandaZ4]

what song is in the intro?

[@DinoSoGreat5000]

Can we call Six Feet Under Nu-Metal to create a meme...lmaooooo

[@DX5555555]

I love Disturbed. To me, The Sickness is S tier. But Believe to me is a weak follow up. I would rate it C as a Disturbed fan and wouldn't have been mad if you gave it a D. The next two of their albums were pretty good though.

[@bawitback]

S: American Head Charge, Slipknot, Mushroomhead, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit A: Linkin Park, Staind, 40 Below Summer, Deftones, Coal Chamber, Static-X B: Mudvayne, Chimaira, Spineshank, Taproot, Korn, Sevendust C: Hed PE, Trapt, Dry Kill Logic, Orgy, Rob Zombie, Soulfly D: Papa Roach, Saliva, Dope, Powerman 5000, Disturbed, Kittie F: -

[@ruddthreetrees1104]

A band i think you missed on the first, who i liked a lot (and maybe this is cos they aren't well known in USA) is One minute silence. Some bangers. Also pitchshifter and Breed 77. edit - just listened to pitchshifter again. Its the tits still.

[@MetalTrenches]

Pitchshifter is great but that’s more straight industrial metal

[@ruddthreetrees1104]

@@MetalTrenches ah fair one.

[@Jtitor177]

This is a great list and is very very solid!!! For me personally I would have swapped American Head Charge and Staind. Dysfunction was a huge album for me when it first came out and I still love it more than any other Staind album. And I would have moved up Mudvayne to the top of C tier. Probably would have left out Trapt too. Cause they deserve to be forgotten. Lol

[@MetalTrenches]

lol they do deserve to be forgotten

[@thedogfromraditude5449]

Let’s be honest, no one would know who TRAPT are if it weren’t for the TRAPT guy. Being banned on Twitter is the only thing they’re known for outside of the 5 people who still listen to Headstrong.

[@baloymoisesrodriguezcolmen7812]

Ok, I love disturbed so much but the band isn't in my top 3, in fact, I haven't listened all their discography, so I can barely do an opinion about if they are one of the best group of nu metal of their generation, but the comparative with Ricky Martin (Who is a singer from Puerto Rico and he did a lot for Latinoamerica) wasn't accurate, I know it is your opinion but as someone who grew up listening Ricky Martin and spent his teenager era listening a lot Nu metal, it seemed to me a little weird that opinion. (I hope this comment doesn't make you mad or anything, I enjoy your work and I just wanted to leave my opinion about that thing you said)

[@MetalTrenches]

Not mad and I’m not comparing the BAND to him, just that song. Like listen to the clip I played: is the almost EXACT same melody.

[@Agostoic]

You can't unheard that now, hilarious if you ask me.

[@jimsunfloer]

BIG TRUCK!

[@beingjoshmc]

If Dave Williams hadn’t died so soon after the release of that first Drowning Pool album, they almost certainly would’ve put out a better second album. They were headed in a good direction after the debut. Also, Hed (PE) is more grounded in hip-hop than a lot of these bands. I think docking them for “misogyny” is a little misguided when you consider that pretty much ALL hip-hop of that era would have to be ranked C tier or lower using that criteria.

[@MetalTrenches]

I mean that's true, but it's not JUST the misogyny, it's how cringy it gets lyrically sometimes. Doesn't mean I don't enjoy it

[@NickG8420]

Rollin and break stuff are not on Significant other. I noticed you got the tracks wrong for their first album as well saying Faith was on that one. Well Faith is on Significant Other as well as Nookie. Break Stuff and Rollin are on Chocolate Starfish and Hotdog Flavored Water. Just thought I'd let you know.

[@JaredtheRabbit]

Prayer is a banger, what do you mean?

[@Judgedredd95]

Maaaan you forgot Incubus - SCIENCE! Besides, PM5K deserved a higher grade.

[@earthwalker4065]

Isn`t Adema nu metal? I feel like they are left out of the talk all the time.

[@paulknowles6433]

I really never considered chimera nu metal. They were always with the new wave of American metal with lamb of god and shadows fall etc for me.

[@MetalTrenches]

The first two albums were pretty nu metal. They also toured with Slipknot

[@paulknowles6433]

@@MetalTrenches I get that vibe from pass out of existence and even that had elements of fear factory to my ears. The second album had an almost sepultura chaos ad vibe to it. I think here in the UK maybe they were perceived differently. I saw them tour with lamb of god. This is what makes metal heads awesome. We all have our own views on what we love and we respect that shit!! 🤘🤘

[@Camc_203]

the disrespect for kittie...

[@MetalTrenches]

It’s just ok 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@SatanBled]

Around the fur!

[@minionofvader]

no Nothingface? hmmm