(en) Bowar, Chad, « Heavy Metal: More Metal Genres », About.com, The New York Times Company (consulté le ) : « Combining heavy metal riffs with hip-hop influences and rapped lyrics, this genre became very popular in the late '90s through the early 2000's and then fell from favor. »
(en) « Genre: Alternative Metal », AllMusic (consulté le ), By the latter half of the '90s, most new alt-metal bands were playing some combination of simplified thrash, rap, industrial, hardcore punk, and grunge. This new sound was more about grinding textures... Korn, Deftones, and Limp Bizkit were the biggest stars of this new movement -- sometimes dubbed aggro-metal, nu-metal...
(en) Doug Van Pelt, Rock Stars on God : 20 Artists Speak Their Mind about Faith, Relevant Media Group, , 231 p. (ISBN0-9729276-9-7, lire en ligne), « Static X », p. 180.
(en) Keith Kahn-Harris, Extreme metal : music and culture on the edge, Oxford/New York, Berg Publishers, , 194 p. (ISBN978-1-84520-399-3 et 1-84520-399-2, lire en ligne), « Introduction: From heavy metal to extreme metal », p. 1
(en) Karen Bettez Halnon, « Heavy Metal Carnival and Dis-alienation: The Politics of Grotesque Realism », Symbolic Interaction, vol. 29, no 1, , p. 33–48 (DOI10.1525/si.2006.29.1.33, lire en ligne, consulté le ).
(en) Joseph Tompkins, « What’s the Deal with Soundtrack Albums? Metal Music and the Customized Aesthetics of Contemporary Horror », Cinema Journal, vol. 49, no 1, (DOI10.1353/cj.0.0155, lire en ligne).
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(en) Scott Wilson, Great Satan's rage: American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism, Manchester University Press, (ISBN0-7190-7463-0 et 9780719074639, lire en ligne), p. 199.
(en) Joseph Tompkins, « What’s the Deal with Soundtrack Albums? Metal Music and the Customized Aesthetics of Contemporary Horror », Cinema Journal, vol. 49, no 1, (DOI10.1353/cj.0.0155, lire en ligne).
(en) Karen Bettez Halnon, « Heavy Metal Carnival and Dis-alienation: The Politics of Grotesque Realism », Symbolic Interaction, vol. 29, no 1, , p. 33–48 (DOI10.1525/si.2006.29.1.33, lire en ligne, consulté le ).