Originally Posted by Oblivionofsoul

It isn't the distortion that makes the metal, it are the guitar riffs that do. If you play a metal riff on an acoustic guitar it'll still sound like metal... Just not played loud enough. But it's not only the guitars that make metal, but also the voice and lyrics.. And from that point of view NU metal usually has metal lyrics, and mostly metal voices.

I think metalfans should relax and accept NuMetal as a part of metal. A soft part, but nontheless a part. If you say numetal isn't metal then how about power/symphonic metal? Put those in with classic ?
Bottom line is: numetal has more in common with powermetal than it has with rap or hard or core. A lot of bands who were known as just plain metal profiled themselves as NUmetal after the genre became widly spread or the term became known around town.

Rage Against The Machine and Faith No More even have Nu metal influences, long before the genre became known.

The growth of nu-metal was lineair and originated from metal. You take a metal-song, plunge in some samples, some rapping lines, a bit of punk even and if you really want to: a dj, and what do you get? Nu metal. The point is: the vocals and the guitarwork are still metal... METAL... nuMETAL --> see the resemblance?

Originally Posted by underthetreesandseas

what i dont seem to understand with some people, is why do people think that is more rap than metal, if it was more rap, wouldn't it have been called Nu-Rap? that makes sense does it not? They call it Nu-Metal because they have both a rap and metal influence. Sure call it Nu-Rap all you want, but its not going to change the fact that it IS metal.