Round about the time the current wave of emo/post-hardcore bands kicked in.

That coupled with the rather spiffing NWOAHM (ya should be able to figure that one Mon ) and just general saturation of the market and it's pretty much pushing up daisies. Even Korn have changed their sound now for lordy's sake.

Doncha just love genre terms

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by Spikeo
Round about the time the current wave of emo/post-hardcore bands kicked in.

That coupled with the rather spiffing NWOAHM (ya should be able to figure that one Mon ) and just general saturation of the market and it's pretty much pushing up daisies. Even Korn have changed their sound now for lordy's sake.

Doncha just love genre terms

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B... B... B... what's emo/post hardcore?

Name names, shame the shameless...

I don't think it's dead, just taking a well earned rest

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by MonSTeR
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B... B... B... what's emo/post hardcore?

Name names, shame the shameless...

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Weeeeeeeell it's not quite as cut and dried as nu-metal...a lot of the better bands aren't as well known or popular as some others (wait, that *is* like nu-metal).

Some random names:

Thursday (v.good)
Taking Back Sunday
Brand New
Thrice
Dashboard Confessional
Coheed and Cambria
Boysetsfire
Finch (good)
Glassjaw
36 Crazyfists (sorta...excellent though)

and so on

Only nu-metal band of any real prominence still going are Linkin Park, and they're as pure a label cash cow as you will ever find. A *lot* of lesser bands like Ill Nino, P.O.D. and so on are dying off or already dead, in terms of actually being successful at least. I'm not including Slipknot in that since they're more or less straightforward metal (speed/death elements inclusive)

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by Spikeo
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Only nu-metal band of any real prominence still going are Linkin Park

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What about Evanescence? Unless of course my suspicions are right and they *are* Linkin Park, just with a different vocalist

Wellllll the co-founder of the band quit within the last 6 weeks so I wouldn't expect them to remain a cohesive unit for much longer...Amy Lee will splinter off and go on a little solo trek before long methinks.

But yes, if Chester Bennington was castrated Linkin Park would = Evanescence

But... Were Linkin Park ever Nu-Metal, or were they just pop music, and were Evanescence ever Nu-Metal or were they pseudo-christian-goth-pop-metal ?

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by MonSTeR
But... Were Linkin Park ever Nu-Metal, or were they just pop music, and were Evanescence ever Nu-Metal or were they pseudo-christian-goth-pop-metal ?

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Babe, just call them all shite like I do

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by MonSTeR
or were they pseudo-christian-goth-pop-metal ?

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That is the worst case of musical Hair-splitting I have ver seen

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by Tycho
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That is the worst case of musical Hair-splitting I have ver seen

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Why, thank you it took a while to get it so elaborate, yet concise. I felt that fewer adjectives lead to inaccuracies, yet more words lead to poor musical feng shui

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by Spikeo
Brand New

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Don't you go labelling Brand New now, I might have to start with the killings again.

All that genre stuff reminds me of High Fidelity!

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by MonSTeR
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Why, thank you it took a while to get it so elaborate, yet concise. I felt that fewer adjectives lead to inaccuracies, yet more words lead to poor musical feng shui

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Well, I OK, I nicked "musical hairsplitting" from Douglas Coupland's novel Generation X. The book that also explaied to me the meanings of the words "Bambification" & "101-ism"

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by Spikeo
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Taking Back Sunday

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easily the best band on the planet and have been for the last year n a bit!

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by MonSTeR
But... Were Linkin Park ever Nu-Metal, or were they just pop music, and were Evanescence ever Nu-Metal or were they pseudo-christian-goth-pop-metal ?

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Oops, missed this.

LP - yes they were

Evanescence - cheap pseudo rip-off of Lacuna Coil

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by Tycho
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Well, I OK, I nicked "musical hairsplitting" from Douglas Coupland's novel Generation X. The book that also explaied to me the meanings of the words "Bambification" & "101-ism"

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Well I've never read it, so do tell, what's "Bambification" and "101-ism" ?

(Edited by MonSTeR 15/01/2004 18:26)

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by Spikeo
LP - yes they were

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In the same way that "Busted" are Nu-Metal?

(Edited by MonSTeR 15/01/2004 18:27)

Nope, Busted have never professed or pretended to be or been hailed as anything resembling metal.

In other words I have several other fun names I call them

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by willow_fantastico
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easily the best band on the planet and have been for the last year n a bit!

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I don't hold much stock in TBS since the departure of John Nolan. I much prefer his new band (Straylight Run).