Now that there is a little bit of a resurgence within the reputation of nu-metal once more, the artists related to the style are embracing it and looking out again on how it began. P.O.D. frontman Sonny Sandoval recalled the second he realized nu-metal was going to explode, and likewise defined why he thinks it misplaced momentum within the following decade.
Korn are sometimes considered the band that really spearheaded the nu-metal “motion,” however there have been loads of different bands creating some type of rap-rock or rap-metal within the early ’90s that performed a component in its formation as properly. Sandoval argued that P.O.D. have been one of many bands that helped construct that basis, however he named one track by one other band particularly that he thinks actually made the style get away.
“I keep in mind seeing the Limp Bizkit ‘Nookie’ video for the primary time. And it did not matter whether or not I used to be a Limp Bizkit fan or not, after I noticed that, I stated, ‘That is freaking large. That is large,'” the vocalist recalled throughout an interview with Jesea Lee. “It encompassed all the things. It encompassed rock ‘n’ roll, riot, intercourse. It had all the things. It was simply visually gorgeous.”
Sandoval clarified that he does not assume “Nookie” essentially “outlined” the nu-metal style, however that it was the track that was going to make the fashion change into mainstream.
“As a result of regardless that Korn was in style on the time, I by no means noticed them as pop. They have been nonetheless darkish and mysterious. Limp Bizkit wasn’t mysterious. They threw all the things on the market and stated, ‘I do not care what you assume and should you like me or not,’ and that is what rock ‘n’ roll was presupposed to be anyway,” he continued, including that loads of the “horrible” bands that got here after tried to observe in Limp Bizkit’s footsteps.
Earlier within the dialogue, the frontman additionally said that he thinks curiosity in nu-metal as a style began to taper off within the latter half of the 2000s as a result of it grew to become oversaturated with bands attempting to create their very own model of the sound.
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“Not solely that, I believe it received oversaturated with guys that it wasn’t their life-style. It wasn’t their tradition,” he elaborated. “Whenever you get bands from like no matter, Timbuktu, and swiftly they’re appearing like they’re from the streets, they’re trying like they’re from the streets and so they’re attempting to rap, it is not fairly there. But it surely grew to become a style. What occurs when it turns into in style, folks begin to get it. And I believe folks received over it after some time.”
Take a look at the total interview beneath.
P.O.D.’s Sonny Sandoval Remembers the Second He Realized Nu-Steel Was Going to ‘Be Large’
8 Musical Teams That Influenced Nu-Steel
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