The BEST Nu-Metal gateway bands

[@NikNocturnalTwitchClips]

*What Nu-Metal bands would you recommend?*

[@stevenshade6830]

@@NikNocturnalTwitchClips You can almost never go wrong with slipknot and system :D

[@stevenshade6830]

@@NikNocturnalTwitchClips and linkin park for newbies of course

[@kurtw6922]

MGK

[@cheeseninja8597]

Silly Goose, From Ashes to New

[@snakeeyes9246]

All of them...but I'm not going to have any kids to share them with.

[@AdrienL-vf9ly]

Fun metal things forever

[@seidimeow]

can't believe I missed this live!!!!! I can yap about nu metal for hoursssss, oh well in the end, it doesn't even matter

[@jcat96]

I was listening to Prayer by Disturbed when it was new and i was like 6 lol. Tbh radio rock is pretty accessible. BB, Shinedown, Halestorm, LP

[@RobertIsabel-b8w]

My best recommendation band is the one that either kicks you in the @ss or that blends your favorite genres into a contride of gateway connections.

[@hedgehogofdeath6666]

Godsmack and disturbed were my gateway bands, now my favorite band is slaughter to prevail lol

[@lens_hunter]

Thank you for talking about Breaking Benjamin. Band is fucking GOATed. Zero bad albums, dude replaced everyone in the band and still cranks out perfection.

[@rubenlodewijk5023]

Linkin Park was my gateway into metal. Nowadays I am more into classic heavy metal and powermetal.

[@barthaande893]

My kids (both in their 20’s now) both listened to metal from a very young age (i.e from the start: womb, baby, toddler, etc). Took them to festivals from age 15 onwards. For one the favorite band is Iron Maiden and Nu metal. The other is more into Metalcore and Deathcore.

[@Themetalwookie666]

I also say you throw some classic metal songs in there too. My recommendations: Metallica- Sad But True or anything off the black album. AC/DC- For Those About To Rock... We Salute You Judas Priest- Electric Eye Black Sabbath- Mob Rules Nazareth- Hair of the Dog Iron Maiden- Invaders Megadeth- Peace Sells Anthrax- Madhouse Deep Purple- Space Truckin' Ratt- Round and Round Quiet Riot- Slick Black Cadillac Van Halen- Runnin' With The Devil

[@sabes44]

This was both fun and metal

[@drasticquil9768]

My parents started me on Limp Bizket when I was 4. I would say it was a pretty good gateway band for young people. Now I enjoy everything metal.

[@mineofilms]

Korn, Deftones are obvious choices but I would be like, Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E. - I'd choose this record because I think hits all the nu-metal points. That record is heavy, bouncy, catchy, songs you can sing to or scream or both. All the DJ stuff going on -on that record. Are their more/others, sure. I am just picking one here. If I had to pick one record that hits the points, is old school NuMetal and also is still considered modern. Good discussion.

[@redtool]

I'd teach them as I was thaught. "Sehnsucht by Rammstein, finish it! And only when you're able to nail at least one song on that album, I'll give you a new one (Chocolate Starfish)." Rinse, Repeat, You know the drill.

[@cakeghoul]

as a kid my mum and dad would play Sehnsucht in the car on the way to school and stuff, for years I thought he was singing "fruit dish" in Bück dich so dumb child me thought it was a song about him agressivley liking fruit salad.

[@Dsnipa26]

Every recommendation to a 13yr old Nik made were bands I listened to at 13. 1999-2001 gateway years

[@noosense]

Spineshank , Static-X , Fear Factory...I can keep going but imo these are top nu metal tier.

[@richardbean6575]

At 16 wayyyy back in 93 from listening to ac/dc n gnr to a friend showing me slayer pantera n sepultura that was my gateway. Favourite bands these days hanabie electric callboy lorna Shore n spiritbox 🤘

[@dynamicdingus]

Disturbed was my gateway, and bfmv on metalcore side

[@alexmillet]

Limp Bizkit and Crazy Town got me into metal for sure. Love this discussion though it’s bringing me back to my early innocent days of hearing fucked up songs for the first time lol

[@Etrius86]

That errly 2000s radio made me THE CORE KID I AM TODAY

[@PIZZAdayisback]

Definitely chi or my own summer. Eyeless and (I know it's not nu metal but) ruin (by L.O.G.) would be some heavier recommendations

[@DanielleMoore-vg4lh]

Slipknot was my gateway into metal as a whole when I was like 14

[@RJS2303]

I grew up listening to 311 , staind, limp Bizkit, disturbed and Linkin Park

[@TiberousBSD]

A Gen-X father with a 7 year old, can confirm he loves the Deftones. Especially the more ethereal stuff. Then again, he also like post-punk/goth like The Cure so maybe its just him. 😅 That being said, as much as I'm not a fan of them, Linkin Park is a easy to get into, not super-heavy Nu-Metal band to start with.

[@berrybowlls9717]

Ademas first album

[@spudboy8477]

SOAD is the poster child for nu-metal. You can’t argue with me

[@PIZZAdayisback]

Korn? Slipknot? Linken park? I love SOAD but they are more like alt metal

[@GREG_Khar-NÜ-Metalhead2000]

​@@PIZZAdayisbackthey are NU.

[@RJS2303]

I would recommend one step closer tbh

[@KegOfMeat]

Life is Peachy and or Follow the Leader by Korn Hybrid Theory and Meteora by Linkin Park Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water by Limp Bizkit The Sickness by Disturbed Break the Cycle by Staind Home by Sevendust Disclaimer I and or Disclaimer II by Seether Godsmack by Godsmack I don’t really care for them but Around The Fur or White Pony by Deftones.

[@MasterChicken81]

you will recommend something close they are already listening to...i think that's how i get my kids listen up to falling in reverse now....soon lorna shore...LET'S GO!

[@tomk8350]

The only nu metal song I still listen to is Stricken. Timeless classic.

[@thefue7251]

My gateway song to metal was cold - korn PS: im not a child, english isnt my first language

[@adambentley5635]

I heard One Step Closer on Rockband 2 when I was 7. Now I watch Nik Nocturnal. That's the way she goes I guess. Here we are

[@stevenshade6830]

I like metal 👍

[@Deletirium]

This will definitely go down in history as one of the comments on youtube.

[@PIZZAdayisback]

Which one?

[@christianjackson9360]

NU METAL is hard rock for JUVENILES!!!

[@PIZZAdayisback]

@@christianjackson9360 why do you hate nu metal? What did it do?

[@QWRTkeyboard]

2:30 "Cut my life into pizza" 💀

[@dxthcvbb666]

Sevendust home is a great gateway album

[@MrLinkinJason]

24 years later and Linkin Park are still one of the biggest names in music. the group doesn't even need to make new music to still be at the top of the podium.. It's crazy

[@christianjackson9360]

LAMEST band heard of!!

[@PhilippeArantesTina]

The funny noises statement IS correct. My 4 years old son love ratatata by babymetal thanks to funny noises

[@DanzGmod565]

Can you please do a more underground nu metal related video

[@ash4_0_4]

Linkin Park top of the list. Those were fun metal times getting into heavier stuff with them.

[@Waas]

As a lifelong Minnesotan, one thing that always makes me sad when discussing nu-metal is how American Head Charge is always left out of the discussion. The War of Art is a phenomenal album that rivals several other bands from the same era but the band was riddled with drugs and death and are now disbanded with almost no hope of ever coming back. AHC needs more love even if they are a dead band and I will champion them as much as I can.

[@PIZZAdayisback]

I've never heard of them. What songs would be a good introduction to them?

[@peaches65835]

Can confirm Hybrid Theory was my gateway album.

[@danielbaksa93]

MINDGATE from Hungary

[@user-ci7xi8mj1d]

Maybe bmth’s song are best gateways to all kind of metal genre like deathcore metalcore alternative etc

[@kleeo1991]

Static X is a good gateway band for a toddler I have to tell you. My 3-year old screams "Yeah! You push it!" and headbangs to the song.

[@cherylwatt7347]

Linkin Park and Three Days Grace were two of my gateway bands and they got me through being bullied and losing my dad in high school

[@rubevanderwielen9323]

bout that MC video on fantano... yes it nearly made me throw up but it luckily didn't go beyond feces. Dassal.

[@gehtdichnichtsan9323]

is there anything beyond the gateway in nu metal tho?

[@KashmirMusic042]

Evanescence is a good gateway band. I feel like people who don't listen to metal and people who listen to death metal can both enjoy them.

[@Dannydullboy]

When my daughter was about 2 I showed her slipknot their live concerts on KZbin and she fell in love with them. She’s now gonna be 7 and I’m taking her to see them for the 2nd time. She saw them when she was 5 and she loved it. Proud dad moment I cried when that curtain came up and she was just in awe.

[@resq2nick]

I remember my parents having linkin park and system of a down music videos on our TV all the time when I was young

[@peytonbollhorst6624]

Skillet and Thousand Foot Krutch and From Ashes to New were the gateway bands for me

[@fastilafuska]

I literally just listen to 2 papa roach songs, and they have enough swear words

[@Ken17-b8g]

Definitely Linkin Park and BMTH.......... Hear me out.....Babymetal🤣

[@thurmanwilliams7961]

Hybrid Theory is the best.

[@Quinten-c2k]

SLIPKNOT is what got me into death metal and more enthusiastic about music

[@CrYpTiK_Kaiser]

Hybrid Theory was definitely my gateway into harder stuff. But I think it's mostly the experience that goes with it. I liked rock growing up because I'd listen to Nickelback (laugh it up) with my dad, and albeit Christian southern rock, I'd listen to Third Day with my mom. It got me interested in guitars and a little gravel at times with nostalgic memories. Later in my teens when I came back from a much more rap based listening tendency, I found Linkin Park. Despite not knowing them until well after Chester's passing, they were a combination of the my rap focus and my rock nostalgia. When I found I Prevail, the doors were knocked in.

[@cakeghoul]

The first 3 metal/metal adjacent artists I remember listening to as a kid were: Rammstein Marilyn Manson SOAD Rammstein in general was my first exposure to music thats not sung in english and it blew my mind because I was a dumb child. I don't remember when I was first exposed to metal exactly, because my mum and dad would play albums of theirs in the car, and when I was a little bit older I could pick which cds we could play in the car and id pick either Eurovision cds or one of the metal albums we had. I'd also pick the Evanescence live album we had a lot too. Would I introduce these to a kid if they wanted to get into metal? idk depends on the kid.

[@prgaming5063]

Nik be yapping ngl

[@kalebdombeck2108]

I can confirm, Vol. 3 The Subliminal Verses was my gateway album, and I haven't looked back since. That record will always hold a special place in my heart!

[@ner0th938]

Problem with Nik's point of view is he only considers english speaking people. When i was young i was listening to bands that had good sound, never really cared for lyrics cause english wasnt my first language

[@ninadreams127]

It makes sense though because he’s framing this also to show a kid gateway music that he grew up on and is iconic. Nik grew up in Canada so English music would have been the most accessible. He’s only a year older so we were kinda in the same boat. We could only get metal from the radio, CDs, and iTunes/Limewire type of sites that were available in North America. He mentioned all the bands that first got me into metal and I would definitely think to show my kid that first if I had one.

[@ner0th938]

@@ninadreams127 yea first time i've heard Limp Bizkit or Linkin Park was on casette. was like 10 or something

[@ninadreams127]

@@ner0th938 I first heard Linkin Park because of New Divide in Transformers and my older sister showed me Break Stuff when she would drive us around

[@drphdmd7064]

I was 10 when Hybrid Theory came out. One of my earliest memories was listening to that album for the first time.

[@osmanroblero4198]

Poop nuggets

[@Deletirium]

P.S. Deftones are in no way, shape, or form nu-metal. I've heard them called alt-metal, but they really invented a niche sub-genre that a ton of bands have emulated. Sources: #1- I have ears #2- Deftones themselves.

[@CGGS_0]

I've never really listeed to Deftones before, but anytime I hear that name, I think of something along the lines of "psychedelic".

[@gagekale]

Hey now Nik don't put down Miley Cyrus, she ROCKS!!! I don't know if you've seen her more recent KZbin videos but she did a live show on Howard Stern WITH Metallica. She has a video rocking to "White Wedding" with Billy Idol (though not metal it still rocks)! Miley isn't anything like she was in "Hannah Montana," or twirking to whatever the hell song that was. lol Check out those videos though, I think even you would be impressed. Hell do a reaction video for the Howard Stern show with she and Metallica, let us all know what you think for that matter. Okay so I saw another Miley Cyrus video and I kind of have to reiterate my last statement. While I'm genuinely trying to defend her she CAN rock BUT she's still making bubblegum hack poppy pop crap bullshit while wearing hardly anything at all in her videos. WTF?!!! I guess I see what I want to see and ignore the rest. I'm not afraid to admit when I'm wrong or at least partially wrong. lol Back to the subject at hand....Limp Bizkit SUCKS!!! Fred Durst is a complete ASS though he's not the only reason I don't like them, their music is so...ugh!! I was watching music videos on KZbin one day and got caught in their algorithm. I was busy so couldn't change it right away, for every song I had to put up with I just kept getting more and more pissed off. I finally just stopped what I was doing and changed it. I LOVE Three Days Grace and I wasn't even close to a teen when I started listening to them. I had no idea Breaking Benjamin was a hated band, WTF?!!! No, I LOVE them! Now as for Linkin Park, everyone LOVES and talks about "Hybrid Theory" including me BUT so many have said they went soft after that. Maybe so but there's not a Linkin Park album I don't like. Some songs are not quite as good as others of course but I remember Stevie comparing them to Maroon 5....OH HELL NO!!! I already called him out on that one and I'm not afraid to call you out either but it doesn't mean I don't appreciate or respect your opinions. We just might have to agree to disagree.

[@MrKiraNariece]

I was raised by a man with a strong love for Sabbath- but when I was 13 my first introduction was Karma & Effect

[@benzlife0581]

First

[@snakeeyes9246]

Nope