![]() Most recently, in 2019, the remaining band members splintered into two bands, both attempting to operate under the Il Nino name and eventually hashing it out in court. In that time, the band have been through several line-up changes. Ill Nino have been around for so long that nu metal has died and been resurrected while the Latino metallers have continued to pump out their Soulfly-lite jams. Taking their inspirations from Faith No More and Fear Factory, two influences you can hear in vocalist Jason Rockman’s scatty, jagged vocal approach, they had the potential to mark them out in an oversaturated genre, but it wasn’t to be. A year later the band signed a deal with Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne’s Divine Recordings, and released 2000’s, Inches From The Mainline. In the mid 90s, when Canada was still immune to nu metal’s charms, then-bassist Frank Salvaggio and drummer Rob Urbani boarded a Greyhound bus for a six-day journey to LA to drum up interest in the band. Quebec’s Slaves On Dope had the worst band name in a genre drowning in them, but you can’t fault their enthusiasm. Fun fact: Hellraiser director and Candyman visual artist Clive Barker did the Laced cover artwork. Cyprus Hill’s B Real turned up on Laced track, Splitt (Coming Out Swingin’), while the band’s follow-up, Bleed The Sky, featured guest spots from fellow nu metal alumni Taproot vocalist Stephen Richards and Cold’s Scooter Ward. Their Rage Against The Machine-influenced sonic assault won them some friends in high places. They formed in 1997 but had their biggest success in the mid-late noughties when their single Bullet With A Name was used on the game WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2007, while their cover of Phil Collins’ In The Air Tonight has been streamed over 32 million times on Spotify.Īfter forming in 1998 in Harvard, Massachusetts, Reveille snagged the attention of Metallica’s former label, Elektra Records, and the band released their debut Laced in 1999. Still, Florida’s Nonpoint somehow managed to buck the trend. Limp Bizkit had been chased off stage by a pitchfork-waving Chicago crowd chanting, “Fuck Fred Durst!” and most of the bands who you know aren’t on this list had started putting in the prep to make sure they would survive the genre’s inevitable demise. They’re one of the few bands on this list who are still active though, returning in 2019 with single, Vices, their first song in 13 years and releasing the melodic, Don’t See Ghosts last year.īy the end of 2003, the writing was on the wall for nu metal. The band would release two more albums and head out on the road with big guns like Fear Factory and Slayer in the noughties, before camp DKL cap went silent. After switching their moniker to Dry Kill Logic, a phrase they plucked out of the manual for an effects processor, they released their debut, The Darker Side Of Nonsense, which traced the line between Slipknot-esque brutality and Mudvayne’s scattershot penchant for melody. ![]() This New York-based band started life as Hinge, before they were forced to change their name for legal reasons. ![]() But all the buzz for was for nothing and despite the hype, Amen never really got out of the blocks. Robinson described them as “the most extreme band” he had ever worked with, and returned to helm their third album, We Have Come For Your Parents, which received rave reviews from the metal press. At the height of nu metal, the LA metallers were signed to I Am Recordings, the label founded by Korn, Limp Bizkit and Slipknot producer and all-round Godfather of Nu Metal, Ross Robinson, who produced their 1999 self-titled Roadrunner Records debut. ![]() At one point, things were looking pretty good for Amen. ![]()
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