10 Music Genres That Died

A favourite among metal heads by the late 90s, nu (new urban) metal blended the sounds of metal, rap, punk and funk together to varying results. Artists ranged drastically in both sound and quality with everyone from Rage Against the Machine and Korn to Crazy Town and Kid Rock releasing big selling singles and multi-platinum albums.

Packed to the brim with ferociously angry lyrics and amplified beats, nu metal was a runaway success into the early 21st century with Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory becoming one of the few diamond-selling albums of the noughties. Despite its dominance on the radio and on MTV, nu metal gradually died out by the late noughties. A bad case of too many cooks, nu metal’s heavy over saturation quickly killed much of its appeal to listeners.

Newer genres such as metalcore moved in, snatching up much of nu metal’s key demographics in the process. Some of nu metal’s biggest players like Korn, Papa Roach and Staind went on to alter their sound to remain relevant and the genre is now a thing of the past.