SHAVO ODADJIAN Explains The Freedom Of Nü-Metal & Why It’s Experiencing A Resurgence

Nü-metal is a bizarre style. Whereas we are likely to lump bands like Linkin Park, Korn, Deftones, and System Of A Down into the broad nü-metal class, none of these 4 bands sound similar to each other.

Through the years, bands that after despised being labeled nü-metal have additionally come round on the time period like Papa Roach‘s Jacoby Shaddix; whereas of us like Tony Campos of Static-X aren’t sure why they had been ever lumped into it within the first place. Then there’s the arguments of the place all of it fell aside, as Korn‘s Jonthan Davis and SOiL guitarist Adam Zadel have weighed in on.

In a latest interview with Metal Hammer, System Of A Down and Seven Hours After Violet bassist Shavo Odadjian stated he initially wasn’t cool with the nü-metal tag however grew to simply accept it: “I by no means favored being in comparison with anybody. After they put us in a bunch, I’d at all times be like, ‘We’re not nu metallic, we’re our personal factor!’ Now I am older and wiser.”

Odadjian additional mirrored on the nü-era, saying: “These are my bros, man. I made nice pals in that neighborhood. Touring with these guys and hanging out with them each evening, it created some particular bonds and I am happy with that. We’re nonetheless in that group and that period.

“You’ll be able to’t evaluate System or Korn to Static-X. It was an period of doing metallic a special manner. It was bringing in different components to metallic as a complete and never giving a fuck. That is what the children of as we speak are drawn to and bonding with in that style.”

Odadjian’s final sentence within the above quote is fairly attention-grabbing, as a result of I personally hadn’t considered it like that. Possibly it is not the massive bouncy rhythms and “future” vogue of the style, however the precise freedom musically it offers? Or a mixture of all three. Nü-metal is fairly rattling enjoyable.