@HeliRides3000 @graf @LordMordred @Gab_Refugee @PraxisOfEvil I only found them in 2011 when I was 14, but that made me ditch Disturbed and the other radio rawk I was raised on before I found Fear Factory (through CC) and ditched them in turn for something heavier.

Overall I think nu-metal is best left in the dustbin of history and forgotten, but it was the only other rock style around besides the aforementioned Judas/Maiden/TBA Metallica/Pantera slurries and -core kiddies that was immediately available because underground metal was inaccessable to teens in the early 2010s.
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