8. Any Nu-Metal Act
If ever there was a genre that should have had extra layers of concrete poured over its grave upon its timely demise, its nu-metal. Acts such as Limp Bizkit and System Of A Down exploded in popularity at the end of the last century by nicking core elements of two hugely exciting genres, hip-hop and metal, and spewing out (sometimes literally) un-listenable nonsense that sounded like a madman shrieking whilst putting up shelves. Ridiculously, the scene has been threatening to make a comeback in recent months, news that is possibly only exciting to those who were teenagers at the time and have still never forgiven daddy for freezing the trust fund. If the whiny, feel my pain lyrics, the poorly constructed beats and the ham-fisted riffs weren't enough to make me wish Id spent the first years of the millennium in a convenient coma, consider this: my room-mate at uni was a massive Slipknot fan, and a horrifying poster of the S&M clown took pride of place on the wall directly opposite my bed. Waking up to that every morning caused me to scream solidly for a good six months.