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The 10 scariest heavy metal album covers of all time

These albums by Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Slayer will terrify you before you even press play

Metal Hammer

"Craziness, drugs, alcohol, chicks – you name it, I did it." How Korn's most chaotic and hedonistic era birthed a nu metal classic in Follow The Leader

Follow The Leader officially confirmed Korn as nu metal superstars. It also sent the band flying off the rails.

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"It was a beautiful scar on the metal world." How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth

Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since

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10 times nu metal gloriously gatecrashed mainstream TV

From Slipknot smashing TFI Friday to bits to Evanescence beefing with 50 Cent at the Grammys, the 2000s had it all

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10 classic metal albums almost ruined by one terrible song

Metallica, Korn and Machine Head have all got so close to perfection – just for one song to mess it up

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10 terrible nu metal albums with one classic song

Nu metal gave us countless rock club anthems...but many of the albums they came from just didn't cut it

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"My dad listened to nu metal a lot." We spent two days in Las Vegas at the world's biggest nu metal festival, and it was an eye-opener

With headliners System Of A Down alongside new bands Turnstile, Spiritbox and Loathe, Sick New World was supposed to be the ultimate nu metal celebration. But could it live up to hype?

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"Ozzy's made me breakfast!" As frontman of Devildriver and Coal Chamber, Dez Fafara has seen it all. Here's everything he's learned in his thirty year career

From witnessing nu metal at ground zero to his near-death experience with Covid, Dez Fafara has lived a life and then some

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10 terrible metal albums with one classic song

These metal albums were pretty much all stinkers - apart from one absolute banger that saved the day

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10 times nu metal got surprisingly emotional

From stirring covers of classic ballads to team-ups that made our hearts sing, here's all the proof you need that nu metal can hit us right in the feels

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Watch alt pop star Rina Sawayama tease Korn and Limp Bizkit classics and take serious shots at The 1975's Matty Healy in her explosive Glastonbury set

Rina Sawayama dropped some nu metal bangers and made clear her beef with 1975 frontman Healy

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Korn and Adidas in official shoe collab – and we can't believe it took this long

Korn have been modelling Adidas gear for decades. Now the partnership has been made official with shoe and clothing collab

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The Internet has served up a super awkward video of Korn doing karaoke with cosplay 'aliens' and, honestly, we're not sure why

One day, perhaps even today, Korn will wonder why they thought this was a good idea

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This Reddit forum reveals the bands that people avoided listening to purely because they didn't like their names

Metalheads name the bands they procrastinated listening to due to a dislike of their names, including everyone from Korn, Misfits, Party Cannon, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs to Diarrhea Planet

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How Korn got over a major fallout about Jesus and dubstep and managed to become a band again

Korn guitarist Head returned to the group in 2013, after his newfound evangelical Christianity caused an acrimonious split in 2005. But could the band survive the next big obstacle coming their way: dubstep?

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Every band each member of Korn was in before Korn

LAPD, SexArt… the original Steel Panther?! This what Jonathan Davis and co did pre-Korn

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Here are Korn, Deftones and System Of A Down’s Sick New World setlists to prove that nu metal is alive and kicking in 2023

Jonathan Davis even busted out his old school purple tracksuit at the Sick New World festival in Las Vegas this weekend

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10 metal covers of Disney songs that are actually great (no, really!)

From Korn dabbling with The Nightmare Before Christmas to death metal takes on Let It Go, here's some proof that even Disney can be metal

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A beginner's guide to nu metal in five essential albums

A brief history of nu metal courtesy of five albums that have defined the genre

MusicRadar

What is the heaviest guitar riff of all time? Metal musicians have their say

A Metallica stalwart emerges as a redoubtable contender against '00s heavyweights from Meshuggah and Gojira, as Baroness, GWAR, Halestorm and more are polled by Revolver

Tribune News Service

Aftershock festival sets massive 2023 lineup with Guns N’ Roses, Tool, Korn

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Aftershock, arguably the greatest hard rock festival in the U.S., has announced its 2023 lineup.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago’s Russian Circles take deep metal dive on new studio album

“Gnosis” will be released Aug. 19 on the Sargent House label.

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Woodstock '99: 10 lessons learned from the 'Trainwreck'

It was supposed to be a celebration of peace, love and music, but what they got was feces, anger and fire.

The Independent UK

Netflix viewers in ‘shock’ after watching ‘insane’ docuseries about Woodstock ’99 festival

Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 looks at the chaos of the US musical festival which featured Korn, Limp Bizkit and Red Hot Chili Peppers

Bangkok Post

In photos: Denmark heavy metal festival

Copenhell Festival is a heavy metal festival, held in Denmark's capital Copenhagen each June. This year's headliners include Metallica, Korn, Kiss, Judas Priest, Bad Religion, Opeth, Red Fang, Agnostic Front, D-A-D, Emperor, and more.

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