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Are ISSUES Ushering In A New Wave of Nü-Metal?

Posted by on February 27, 2014 at 12:06 pm

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No, not the Korn album Issues, the band Issues.

When Woe is Me vocalist Tyler Carter left the band to start Issues, I have to think he had no idea how successful the band would be.

The band's debut full-length, out now on Rise Records, landed at number 9 on the Billboard top 200 this week selling over 22,000 copies. That's a lot of copies for a band I barely knew existed until recently. Basically, the kids know about this band and they like them.

What do they sound like? Basically, nü-metal:

Good cop into bad cop vocals into clean choruses? Check. Record scratching? Check. Yep, as our friends at MetalSucks put it, the nü-metal apocalypse is here. But is it really that big of a deal? Much like with EDM, music fans today are not bound by genre. They listen to everything. Korn is considered a respected band nowadays, whereas 5-10 years ago, they'd be considered a joke. It's a natural progression of music.

It takes about 20 years for things to cycle back around. A decade ago, it was the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, which borrowed heavily from music of the late 80s and early 90s, and now that that cycle has ended, we look to the new wave of nü-metal that has begun. It will have djent elements. There will be record scratching. There will be clean vocals. It will be hard to ignore.

But I don't think the apocalypse is here. I just think the stigma of nu-metal has faded and kids just want to have fun. You could argue when a band like Attila makes the best hip hop video in metal history, that's very nu-metal as well. Nu-metal has always been here, you've just been doing a great job ignoring it.

Issues is currently out with Bring Me The Horizon. Dates here.

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  • FuckOffYouFuckingFuck

    This is a disgrace to Nu-Metal.

    • Whocares

      Exactly. Linkin Park may not of been the best band out there but atleast they didn't have boy band break downs.

  • Seth Jetté

    i like issues, wouldnt say theyre nu metal though. the new my ticket home is and dangerkids who are both on rise records. some of new of mice and men is nu metalish. to me issues is like metalcore with pop.

  • RiotAct666

    **flushes toilet**

  • nick

    Lets hope not. I think one was enough.

  • daltonVader91

    So, according to this video, all I need to do in order to be in a (relatively successful) band is tap on a keyboard a bit, spin a record once or twice, and jump around like a fucking idiot a bunch? SIGN ME UP

  • Whocares

    The first couple minutes aren't the worst thing I've ever heard. But at 2:40ish when it goes all 98° boy band type shit I lost it. This isn't really the sound I think of when I think early 00s nu metal.

  • https://depthmentalphoto.daportfolio.com/ Oslo Redgrave

    If it is… it needs to stop immediately.

  • Death2Jesus

    Damn. That was awful. Yeah the 240 minute mark was like scratching nails on a chalk board.

    All Hail Baby Metal

  • No way

    Utter shit. Djent with some new metal I can see, but that teen boy band pop is terrible.

  • B

    This is so awful that it's kind of fascinating. It's basically two different songs jammed together into one unholy shitfest.

    Those lyrics though. "The tough guy dies a little inside." No. Did a 13 year old right this?

    • B

      *write

  • https://www.fingerslam.com/ Cool Chad McRad

    i tried. i really did. but yeah, nope.

  • merp

    ta ta ta ta ta terribleeeeeee

  • Guest

    2:50 through 3:40 was actually pretty cool. The guy can sing. Too bad it doesn't save the song.

    • Benji

      For sure dude that is exactly what I thought, at least the audio engeneers are doing a fantastic job!

  • Beardo

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  • All_Hail_Sagan

    uhhh i consider korn a joke still sooo..

  • Nah

    Metal Injection does not know what it's talking about

  • Brian

    God no, nu-metal is the cancer of metal. If it sees a revival then I have officially lost all hope in humanity.

  • Thatbandsucks

    This sounds just like every other metal band… Idk where you get its a new sound just because they added some record scratches. Horrible article and horrible band.

  • Juney

    This Music Genre Is Terrible to My Ears,. Please Fans Of this Music Seclude Yourselves in A Dark Garage or Basement for the Remainder of your Physical Existence.

  • James Bernard Echano Relativo

    I'd put them more in the djent category, with nu metal and metalcore influences.

    God I love this band. Glad they're coming here in the Philippines. For all the haters of nu metal, because it's cool to hate it, it would be a really hard truth to swallow when really good ones come along.

  • Rock Lee

    honestly if y'all wanna talk about nu metal revival, My Ticket Home is the one to look at. The riffs are a reminiscence to the heavy grooves of the late 90s with a sort of post hardcore vibe thrown into it.

  • phaymousb

    This isn't even Nu-metal way to start off shit. Other than that the band is awesome.

  • Death

    OMG Fucking Emo Shit.This isn't even close to Nu-Metal.