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===Terminology and origins=== Nu metal is a subgenre of [[alternative metal]].<ref name="Allmusic"/><ref name="mollylambert">{{cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2945625/vintage-korn-life-is-peachy-at-20/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021123649/http://www.mtv.com/news/2945625/vintage-korn-life-is-peachy-at-20/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 21, 2016 |title=Vintage Korn: Life Is Peachy At 20 |publisher=[[MTV]] |last=Lambert |first=Molly |date=October 20, 2016 |access-date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> Sometimes stylized as nü-metal,<ref name=DAngeloMTV3 /><ref name="daddy">{{cite journal |last1=Pieslak |first1=Jonathan |year=2008 |title=Sound, text and identity in Korn's 'Hey Daddy' |journal=Popular Music |volume=27 |pages=35–52 |doi=10.1017/S0261143008001451 |s2cid=194955089 }}</ref> the genre has also been dubbed aggro-metal.<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/style/alternative-metal-ma0000012328 |title=Alternative Metal |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=May 22, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/rockstarsongod0000vanp/page/180 |last1=Pelt |first1=Doug Van |last2=Sweet |first2=Michael |title=Rock Stars on God: 20 Artists Speak Their Mind about Faith |year=2004 |publisher=Relevant Media Group |isbn=0-9729276-9-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/rockstarsongod0000vanp/page/180 180] |chapter=Static X |access-date=January 28, 2017 }}</ref> [[MTV]] states that the early nu metal group [[Korn]] "arrived in 1993 into the burgeoning alternative metal scene, which would morph into nü-metal the way [[college rock]] became [[alternative rock]]."<ref name="mollylambert"/> ''[[Stereogum]]'' similarly said that nu metal was a "weird outgrowth of the [[Lollapalooza]]-era alt-metal scene".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1834903/adrenaline-turns-20/franchises/the-anniversary/|title=Adrenaline Turns 20|date=October 2, 2015|access-date=January 18, 2017}}</ref> Nu metal merges elements of heavy metal music<ref name="Allmusic"/><ref name="horror">{{cite journal |title=What's the Deal with Soundtrack Albums? Metal Music and the Customized Aesthetics of Contemporary Horror |last=Tompkins |first=Joseph |journal=Cinema Journal |year=2009 |volume=49 |number=1 |pages=65–81 |doi=10.1353/cj.0.0155 |s2cid=191468077 |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/cinema_journal/v049/49.1.tompkins.html |access-date=January 25, 2017 |quote=Nu metal (or "fusion metal") is a hybrid genre that combines elements of thrash, grunge, rap, and funk. At variance with traditional heavy metal, nu metal relies to a greater extent on rhythm and sound texture over melody and virtuosity, so that, for example, drop-tuned guitars are used to create fuller, "heavier" sounds and percussive rhythms.}}</ref><ref name="descent">{{cite web |url=http://metaldescent.com/thrash-metal/ |title=Heavy Metal Classifications: A History of Thrash Metal |publisher=Metal Descent |access-date=April 11, 2013}}</ref> with elements of other music genres such as [[hip hop music|hip hop]],<ref name="Allmusic"/><ref name="Chad Bowar">{{cite web |url=http://heavymetal.about.com/od/heavymetal101/a/101_history_2.htm |last=Bowar |first=Chad |title=Heavy Metal: More Metal Genres |publisher=[[About.com]] |access-date=April 28, 2010 |quote="Combining heavy metal riffs with hip-hop influences and rapped lyrics, this genre became very popular in the late '90s through the early 2000s and then fell from favor." |archive-date=July 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725224340/http://heavymetal.about.com/od/heavymetal101/a/101_history_2.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[grunge]], [[funk]],<ref name="Allmusic"/><ref name="horror"/>{{sfn|McIver|2002|pp=12–13}}<ref name=Citron>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7DZMAgAAQBAJ&q=Songwriting:+A+Complete+Guide+to+the+Craft |title=Songwriting: A Complete Guide to the Craft |publisher=[[Hal Leonard Corporation]] |year=2008 |last=Citron |first=Stephen |page=281 |isbn=978-0-87910-357-6 |access-date=January 28, 2017 |quote=These bands, such as Korn, Papa Roach, and Limp Bizkit incorporated elements ranging from hip-hop to death metal.}}</ref><ref name="KahnHarris">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwgd9y-Ww5UC&q=Introduction:+From+heavy+metal+to+extreme+metal |last=Kahn-Harris |first=Keith |title=Extreme metal: music and culture on the edge |year=2007 |publisher=[[Berg Publishers]] |isbn=978-1-84520-399-3 |page=1 |chapter=Introduction: From heavy metal to extreme metal |access-date=January 28, 2017 |quote=Another hugely successful 1990s offshoot of heavy metal was nu metal, which began to constitute itself in the latter half of the 1990s with the success of bands such as Korn and Limp Bizkit. Such bands built on the early funk metal work of bands such as Faith No More by combining metal with rap and dance music. Nu metal also built on grunge and punk by lyrically emphasizing pain and personal alienation.<br>As the twenty-first century has progressed, nu metal has begun to exhaust itself artistically, and 'emo' bands such as Funeral For A Friend and My Chemical Romance, that draw on both nu metal and impassioned versions of 1990s hardcore punk, have become more popular.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Iannini |first=Tommaso |title=Nu Metal |publisher=[[Giunti Editore|Giunti]] |year=2003 |isbn=88-09-03051-6 |quote=Se prima la base del rock pesante erano principalmente il blues o il progressive, oral'hip hop è un approdo naturale della scomposizione del suo linguaggio canonico. I Korn ne sono l'esempio principe, per il modo in cui imitano dal vivo pratiche proprie del turntablism (come già Tom Morello, chitarrista dei Rage Against The Machine), benché ultimamente abbiano virato verso il rock. L'elettronica, sia a livello di strumenti che di tecniche di registrazione, ha in- nescato un'altra mutazione ge- netica, anche se sono ancora in tantissimi a preferire il suono analogico. L'hardcore esercita una forte in- fluenza renden do il sound più asciutto, compatto ed esplosivo, mentre la lezione del funk traspare da molti grooves di basso e batteria. La componente melodica più comune al genere deriva invece dal postpunk o dal synth pop degli anni '80.}}</ref> and alternative rock according to [[Blabbermouth.net]].<ref name=Dez/> Nu metal bands use many elements of heavy metal genres such as [[rap metal]], [[groove metal]], and [[funk metal]].<ref name="Allmusic"/>{{sfn|McIver|2002|pp=12–13}}<ref>{{harvnb|Udo|2002|pp=15–16}}: "Nu metal most commonly describes a wave of bands, exclusively American, heavily influenced by late-'80s and early 90s pioneers like Faith No More, Fear Factory, Rage Against The Machine and Biohazard, who fuse rap, metal and punk, lathered in furious teenage-angst rants and ultra-violent pronouncements delivered at high volume. Guitars are heavily distorted, the riffs are muted, and hip-hop influenced bass and percussion fills the sound."</ref> Some nu metal bands, such as [[Static-X]]<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://loudwire.com/wayne-static-widow-tera-wray-remembers-late-husband/ |title=Wayne Static's Widow Tera Wray Remembers Her Late Husband |magazine=[[Loudwire]] |last=Hartmann |first=Graham "Gruhamed" |date=November 4, 2014 |access-date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> and [[Dope (band)|Dope]],<ref name="NoRegrets">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/no-regrets-mw0000810419 |title=No Regrets – Dope |website=[[AllMusic]] |last=Sullivan |first=Patrick |access-date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> made nu metal music with elements of [[industrial metal]]. In contrast with other heavy metal subgenres, nu metal tends to use the same structure of verses, choruses, and bridges as those in pop music.{{sfn|Udo|2002|p=16}}<ref name="Oxford" /><ref>Buts, Jeroen. [http://lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/001/414/985/RUG01-001414985_2010_0001_AC.pdf "5.1"]. ''The Thematical and Stylistic Evolution of Heavy Metal Lyrics and Imagery From the 70s to Present Day''. p. 80. "Also, the genre combined a low-tuned guitar sound and many other thrash, industrial, and death metal traits within a structure that was much more traditional and akin to Pop music (e.g. intro-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus-outro)."</ref>
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