Limp Bizkit headlined the largest UK show in their history this past summer. Korn have just dropped a blockbuster collaboration with Adidas. Papa Roach's Last Resort recently got confirmed as one of the biggest rock songs of all time. The year, dear reader, is not 2000: it's 2023, and nu metal is somehow bigger than ever.
For a certain generation of metal fans (I'm trying to avoid a My Generation gag here), this all feels like vindication. It was Limp Bizkit's UK number one banger Rollin' that first turned me onto heavy music in the year 2000, its irresistible combo of hip hop swagger, massive riffs and daftly fun, earwormy lyrics dragging 13 year old me through a path that'd eventually lead to the likes of Slipknot, Fear Factory, Marilyn Manson, Metallica and Iron Maiden.
