NuMetal: A Definitive Guide

by Matt Karpe

Nu A Definitive Guide revisits one of the most remarkable eras of heavy music, when mainstream charts, magazines, radio, and TV were all taken over by a host of diverse artists performing their own brands of hard rock and heavy metal. This book features an A-Z run down of the movement's most influential artists, from the main players such as Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Slipknot, and System Of A Down, to the lesser-known acts who may have only released one or two albums yet still made a lasting impact. It also looks at the new breed of bands coming through today who still share nu metal's original aesthetics. The book also includes exclusive interviews with musicians from some of the original movement's most prominent acts (Coal Chamber, Kittie, Staind, Taproot, and more), plus informative essays on its record producers, its collaborations with hip-hop artists, movie soundtracks and a brief history of heavy metal as a genre. Nu A Definitive Guide is the most in-depth book ever to be released on the most successful period in heavy metal's lengthy history.

240 pages, Paperback

Published October 29, 2021

About the author

Author of the music non-fiction books 'Nu Metal Resurgence' and 'We Own the Night: The Underground of the Modern American Hard Rock Scene'- both available in print, and two eBooks- 'Sophomore' and 'His Final Stand'.
Music journalist for Down For Life print magazine, previously Powerplay Rock & Metal magazine.
Podcast host and website writer for www.headforthebarricade.com.

Reviews

[KarhuAnderson · Rating 1 out of 5]

The layout is terrible, entire book is just one big, nigh unreadable block of text. Apart from which it completely faila to chronicle Nu Metal as any kind of a movement.

Full of short, dry articles serving little other purpose than to namecheck a group's every album, with the quality of something that haphazardly copied from a Wikipedia stub-article, interspersed with a few interviews.

[MKF · Rating 3 out of 5]

Being like an encyclopedia this isn't really a book you would read all at once. There are some spelling mistakes and a few things I could nitpick but overall a good book for fans.