The Nu-Metal Agenda

The gang sat down with one of the architects of the genre to discuss the bands origins, the highest of highs and the darkest of Dark Days, Mikey’s latter-day work in the construction industry, the harrowing ordeal that is cancer, and MUCH more! Please consider supporting us and the future of accessible heavy music if you’re enjoying what you hear: https://www.patreon.com/numetal_agenda

The gang recently sat down with members of the reunited Spineshank! Catch them on tour this summer, and if you like what you hear, consider supporting what we do! https://www.patreon.com/numetal_agenda

Kirk and Cran sit down with storyteller extraordinaire Sahaj Ticotin, mastermind of Ra. Topics include Sting, navigating a career when Best Buy dictates the terms of album sales, Sting, the doofus-ification of one David Draiman, Sting, and more! Like what you hear? Consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/numetal_agenda

Folks, this is BIG. The gang sat down with legendary producer Garth Richardson, aka GGGarth! Rage Against the Machine, Mudvayne, Kittie, 40 Below Summer, Chevelle— the man behind the boards for some of the best albums of all time has more stories than you can imagine!! Like what you hear? Consider supporting us over on Patreon for exclusive content and special Discord perks! https://www.patreon.com/numetal_agenda

Folks— it finally happened! Holiday Kirk and the gang sit down with Aaron Zilch from American Head Charge, arguably one of the greatest bands this genre has ever seen! This is an in-depth and very intimate discussion with no subject off the table. Like what you hear? Consider supporting us over on our Patreon! Membership includes acccess to our ongoing anthology series Break Stuff, early access to shows, discord benefits, and more! https://www.patreon.com/numetal_agenda

The gang (eventually) sits down with none other than Dryden Mitchell of Alien Ant Farm to discuss touring, sobriety, metronomes, and MUCH more! Like what you hear? Consider subscribing to our Patreon for bonus episodes, exclusive access to our anthology series Break Stuff where we chronicle the history of the best worst genre of music, discord benefits, and MORE! https://www.patreon.com/numetal_agenda

The gang sits down to discuss a seminal event in both the history of the United States and the genre: 9/11. NOW FREE for public listeners! Like what you hear? Consider subscribing to our patreon to hear the rest of the series recanting the history of nu metal, featuring interviews with Ross Robinson, Bryan Quinby, Johnny from HEALTH, and many more! https://www.patreon.com/numetal_agenda

Episode 4 of our ongoing series chronicling the improbable rise and meteoric crash of the best worst genre in music is now free to the public in honor of the late, great Ozzy. Johnny Health joins us to discuss the pinnacle of nu festivals- Ozzfest! If you like what you hear and want to learn more about this genre and have access to every episode of Break Stuff and MUCH more, consider supporting us over on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/numetal_agenda

It’s episode 72, and the gang answers all your burning questions! Like, subscribe, leave us 5 stars!

Well hello again! We shared an intimate and revealing conversation about basketball shorts, abs, “rivalries” and more with the nicest man in nu, Hoobastank’s Doug Robb! Catch Hoobastank live in Portage, Indiana on June 21st where he’s planning on letting our very own Cranfather sing The Reason!

The first in a series exploring the best worst genre in the history of heavy music. The gang and special guests (this episode: Niko Sergakis from the Niko and Chris Bears Post-Post Game Wrap Up Show) will give you the nitty gritty, from the origins and influences of your favorite bands to the mainstream behemoth that would come to dominate radio and MTV for the better part of a decade. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive more episodes like this and join our journey into the peaks and valleys of nu metal! https://www.patreon.com/c/numetal_agenda/posts

The gang is back! We're talking about the hottest comp of the year and possibly tbe decade! plus discussions on why Sick New World flopped and the return of Linkin Park!

Kirk and Cran sat down with Touché Amore mastermind and host of First Ever Podcast Jeremy Bolm to try and.and.figure out if the "debut" album from Deadsy is a hidden gem or a snoozer. We also discover Bolm is a certified nu OG! Fight for the future of accessible heavy music here: https://www.patreon.com/numetal_agenda

find Jeremy's podcast here: https://the-first-ever-podcast.libsyn.com/

and find Touché Amore here: https://www.toucheamore.com/

The gang talked to Steven Carr, author of the incredible piece Slipknot Made Me Gay. And we had a special guest, one of the organizers of Louisville Loves Nu Metal and friend of the show Zack Pennington!

Tickets are available here: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/72601387/louisville-loves-numetal-louisville-headliners-music-hall?partner_id=100

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the gang talked to esteemed author Merritt K about one of the biggest nu albums of all time, as well as the tragic passing of Seth Binzer, aka Shifty Shellshock. Fight for the future of accessible heavy music: https://www.patreon.com/numetal_agenda

we sat down with legendary videographer and nu metal historian Brad Nolan to discuss his illustrious history filming all of your favorite bands and the state of the genre today! Support the fight for the future of accessible heavy music here: https://www.patreon.com/numetal_agenda

The gang welcomes esteemed YouTube personality Todd In The Shadows ( https://youtube.com/@toddintheshadows?si=Oa1NiWrBpid_21uu ) to discuss the best thing ever done by one of the worst people alive. Support the fight for the future of heavy music at https://www.patreon.com/numetal_agenda and let us know what you think!

Our loyal and lovely Patreon community submitted all the burning questions they've had for the crew. This episode (and this show) would not exist if it wasn't for them, so please consider supporting us in our endeavor for the fight for accessible heavy music! https://www.patreon.com/numetal_agenda/about?ref=numetalagenda.com

The gang had the esteemed pleasure of sitting down with Mercedes Lander and Tara McCleod of the legendary Kittie! This candid discussion includes everything from reminiscence of Ozzfests past and what it's like getting a long overdue re-evaluation in 2024. Don't forget to subscribe and rate the epsiode, and tell us what you think!

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An album so nice we reviewed it twice!

Well I'm sick of you toooooooo.

Not very nu metal but I owe the account's existence to them.

Gators are nu-metal.

Skrape, Evanescence, and a whole lot more than you might think. Journeyman drummer extraordinaire Will Hunt.

"Hey whatever happened to..."

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The question on everyone's lips: Is Militarie Gun a nu-metal band? Find out with the Nu Metal Agenda.

The illustrious PODKast join us to speak on Korn's mountaintop moment.

And some dirt about *beep*

How back is this thing really? Like everyone says 'it's back' but is it? Myself, Riv and renowned journalists Jasmine Li and Drew Millard work to get to the bottom of the question on everybody's mind.

The first of our guests whose foray into nu-metal was inspiredby my Twitter account; we have the esteemed Gary B on to talk life, liberty and the pursuit of breakdowns.

What goes around has come back around as we chat with the legend Cristian Machado about 23 odd years in the nu-metal spotlight and his new chapter in Lions at the Gate.

Tony Campos and Edsel Dope grace the cast with their presence!! A wide ranging and effective episode ensues.

I never argue againstthe nu-metal allegations but here I felt compelled to. I think Filter has some nu-metal songs but a nu-metal band?Well, the resulting conversation is an interesting one as we talk Nine Inch Nails, The Amalgamut turning 20, and the future for us all.

A true dream episode for me, we give the excellent and unjustly forgotten Simon Says their due in an epic 2.5 hour interview that covers their career and thensome.

Good Charlotte may be well known as pop-punk royalty but guitarist and producer Billy Martin feels it necessary to claim his nu-metal bonafides on air and we're happy to have him. Join us as he recounts the band's ascendence and what it means to be a professional musician now.

We all know "Duality" the era defining music video but what was it like to be boots on the ground that day? We've got music video cast members Matt, Zach and Benjamin on the show today to report just how insane it really was to you all.

The NMA is thrilled to welcome Stephen Richards and Phil Lipscomb of the almighty Taproot to the program!! A significant band to the development of the genre in too many ways to count we go in depth on Taproot's highs, lows and the future.

The Nu Metal Agenda is proud to welcome nu-metal's most gracious frontman Lajon Witherspoon to regale us of Sevendust's most crazy ass moments. You will listen. 

SEASON THREEEEEEE!!! The Nu Metal Agenda returns in FORCE with the world renowned @saywhatagain joining us to discuss peak-Bizkit peak-CD peak-Everything 1999 album SIGNIFICANT OTHER!! Listen now...

The mysterious frontman of the hyped new nu band Swollen Teeth comes to us for his first podcast appearance. We're honored and excited to be bringing it to you today. Listen in...

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Creating a good faith environment to speak on nu-metal's best means we can speak on nu-metal's worst. For when nu-metal failed, it failed hardand in truly fascinating ways. Which is why we're announcing this new, Patreon exclusive series Full Nelson. And we're not launching this with any old album, no, we're launching it at the very bottom. That's right. It's Metallica's St Anger. 

Well financed and well successful in the UK it's Tim King of the mighty SOiL to give us the rundown of the band's resilient career and unfortuante release date of their big 2001 major label debut Scars.

We're still getting season three together but gotta tell these stories GOTTA tell these stories. This week we're chatting with UK firebrand Kid Bookie who's making waves with his proudly nu-metal affections. Check it and check his latest here.

While we get the nu season revved up and ready to go with our heart, soul, mind and passion we've gotta bring you some of this sweet sweet content in the meantime. Today, it's a post-Mother's Day Mother's Day episode with O.K. KO! and the landmark episode "Know Your Mom" which featured Jonathan Davis as elderly villain Succulentus. Show storyboard team member Parker Simmons worked on the episode and has lots of fun stories to tell.

Here's a totally fun thing we'll never do again. We went live on Twitch and Zoom and then invited people to come hang. The Discord peeps were awesome! Then I got cocky and tweeted the zoom link out. That part was a little weirder. Still totally worth it but once I realized the risk we were taking well I don't think we'll ever be doing that again. Still! Enjoy this. We're gonna go on break now so I can work on booking guests and recording episodes. Love all who contributed to season two, season three is gonna be huge.

Max Cavalera departs Sepultura amidst contentious circumstances and forms Soulfly. Does he top his former band? The NMA and internet historian Justin Whang are thinking maybe he did... Maybe he did...

Truly, the PB&J of nu-metal's cultural moment.

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It's HEALTHBILLY DELUXE as Johnny returns for a deep dive into Rob Zombie's 1999 smash album before we crack our heads on the bottom of the pool realizing you can't really 'deep dive' Hellbilly Deluxe. Then we talk about Tool for a while. 

As valid as any album we'll ever cover we get into the soundtrack of the 1999 classic Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and what made it such an unforgettable collection. And we had to bring PODKast superstar John Cullen along. He's only a world ranked Pro Skater player and personal friend of Tony Hawk himself. 

As the 20th anniversary of Linkin Park's massive, genre finale sophomore album Meteora comes we discuss the album with two of the genius brain trust behind @LPLive, the web's foremost Linkin Park database.

Tacking the big one with one of modern rock's definitive writers Ian Cohen. It's Deftones. It's White Pony. It's a possibly intoxicated Holiday Kirk with a weird bone to pick about Pitchfork scores. 

The NMA are joined by MTV Fresh Out host and nu-metal scholar Kevan Kenney to examine the relationship between MTV, TRL and nu-metal.

The NMA and the Daoboys, Callous go in on a earth quaking debut from one of nu-metal's definitive bands and then things get loose and we start talking about every System album. 

The TikTok phenom and Twitter non-user Mad Kelly checks in with the Agenda to discuss his viral rise from a half painted porch somewhere in Florida.

We were not the first to discover the fertile ground known only as Nu Metal Podcasting. Before us was The PODKast and before them was Roach Koach, both of whom are worth your time. Today, we welcome the PODKast's loveable ornery hosts John Cullen and the enigmatically known Murder bЯyan to dish on the millions of dollars this has made them as well as fans and sold out shows.  

Well. Where should I start? Korn, Sepultura, Slipknot, At the Drive-In, Glassjaw... And those are just the ones I can think of right now at 1AM uploading this episode so it's ready in time for all the morning commuters out there. I mean, it's Ross f**king Robinson on a podcast called "The Nu Metal Agenda." How cool is that? 

If dysfunction is a function than Pitchshifter rabble rouser, mischief maker and occasional musician JS Clayden must be some kinda... smart person doing guy. But is he also nu-metal? With the always charming Terry Beez in tow, we dive in. 

AEW professional wrestler and self described nu-metal girl stops by the NMA for a special early morning episode to utterly school admin and CEO Holiday Kirk, alongside special co-host pinch hitter Matty Monroe of Indieheads, in all things wrestling and more things nu-metal than expected. 

On the eve of his new (nu?) record VOID ETERNAL nothing,nowhere graces our fair podcast to espouse his nu-metal bonafides and how those influences shape the album.

In what I can only describe as a dream episode for me we give Nick Giumenti of My Ticket Home his flowers for the incredible and way ahead of it 2013 nu-metal classic Strangers Onlyalong with the rest of their stellar catalogue.

We're turning it around like a knife on the shelf as UK rockcrit journo extraordinaire Terry Beez educates us on the cultural phenomenon Slipknot was across the pond and we get distracted just naming UK nu-metal bands for a while too. 

We are back baby. BACK you hear me! Season two!! Kicking it off proper all smiles we're talking favorite nu-metal bands tune in.

Yeah you may have heard of this one. It is Korn. By Korn. 1994. Featuring celebrity guest Stin of arguably-but-most-likely-some-would-even-say-unquestionably nu-metal heroes Chat Pile. We get into it and Kirk works himself into a real tizzy trying to explain why he loves it, it sucks.

Jay Webster of UnityTX has had a crazy ass couple of years. A career taking off, derailed by the pandemic, and now firmly back on track; Jay Webster calls in from the Loathe tour to bring us up to speed on the state of things. And things are good.

Respect is due! And Spike 1000, creators of genre classic album Waste of Skin, have made their appearance on the NMA to claim it. Follow along as a breathlessly excited Holiday Kirk unwinds the band's tail of independent striving and major label idiocy in this special presentation. 

Is HEALTH a nu-metal band? "No," says John Famiglietti but "NOT SO FAST" cries Holiday Kirk!

The best selling nu-metal album by far; Hybrid Theory is defined almost as much by its success as it is by its music, which is really good. We're going all the way in on the album's success and its cultural impact on today's Nu Metal Agenda.

In which Max Collins of Eve 6 doesn't fight the nu-metal allegations, the nu-metal allegations are fighting him! Also, we get mad about Twitter.

It's the showdown of the century as the illustrious and esteemed Chat Pile take on The Nu-Metal Allegations on the most fiery episode of The Nu Metal Agenda yet laid to tape.

2022 has produced an impossibly dense number of incredible up-and-coming nu-metal acts that don't just approach the sub genre with confidence but with prideas well. One of them, Cheem, has been the victim of countless pop-punk allegations. We here at the NMA have allowed them a platform to clear those rumors now. 

We begin exploring the fruitful and expansive nu-metal underground with the interview of Donny The DRP and former rap vocals for SORE. Their gripping single "Position" caught the attention of the numetal_moment Twitter audience and made its way to Donny. He gives us a glimpse into the DIY nu-metal scene with hard work and wild stories to tell.

We continue our mission to sketch out the contours of nu-metal in both sound and style with this interview with the legendary Rocktoons master Jay Axer. You may not remember the name, but you've seen the art.