There are a couple good nu-metal bands – Static-X is one. The problem with that genre is that it encompasses WAY too much shit – from Limp Bizkit (which I never thought of as nu-metal, rather, rapcore, which has no redeeming qualities at all) to Korn, to SOAD, to Static-X. It’d be like combining every single metalcore, deathcore, black, and death metal band under one single genre.

The entire point is this – when you refer to a single genre and claim every single band within it is completely without merit, especially large ones like death metal (overall, it encompasses a lot), it’s making an asinine generalisation without even stopping to try and listen to different bands in the genre. I could listen to a couple of the new shitty deathcore bands, be disgusted, and then parade around and say that every single death metal band sucks because the few I listened to were shit. People in general, and on this site especially, have an extremely limited view of music – probably because of the inane, imbecilic notion that anyone who listens to anything but uber-hardcore metal is a pussy. Once you get out of the little box, you start to realise that almost every single kind of music out there, regardless of how pathetic most bands might be, has something good that can be said about it.

Anyway, luckily for me I don’t particularly need to know all the lyrics for my songs, frankly I don’t care much for it. Still I can assure you that the lyrics cover more topics than you think, everything from death and gore, to primal desires / the beast in humans, the void / nothingness, insanity, viruses and illness, aliens, vikings and countless more. Mainline: It doesn’t need to be about undead eating your brains.

Death metal “gimmicky”?

You say the lyrics – i dont care
The growls – what are you talking about? thats just brutal and brings power to the music, it’s one of the main reasons i listen to death metal..
It all sounds alike – Yes perhaps you feel this way, but most of the bands (the good ones anyway) has different focuses, perhaps on groovy riffs, or melodic riffs, technicality or special structures or whatever. There’s variety all right, but I guess you only see the brutality and if you can’t handle that, then why am I even trying to explain.

Oh and “anyone who doesn’t listen to a band because of the genre the music is in is a fucking idiot” – dude. It’s rap and metal, it’s like black and white.. it doesn’t mix. Genre definitely matters.. dude, have you ever heard the lyrics of Nu-metal bands? Have you heard how bland and GENERIC nu-metal is, not to mention the rapping is just wrong..

Defending nu-metal is pure and sheer stupidity.

Any band that would drag their name through the mud by releasing albums they don’t support is either completely full of shit and trying to make excuses for sucking, or they are serious in which case they deserve NO support from music fans.

Flynn hasn’t done ANYTHING good since Vio-Lence

JUMP-DA-FUCK-UP and get the hell out of here. You’ve lost all merit you may have had.