Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Nu metal" in Romanian language version.
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.
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...
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...
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.