Two days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks Serj Tankian of System of a Down posts the essay Understanding Oil to the band's website. Sony removes the essay amid claims Tankian was justifying the attacks and the band was monitored by the CIA for subversive activities (2001)
We unlocked our 9/11 episode last year, and to this day it's some of my favorite work we've ever done. There's an easy way to do 9/11 and nu metal, through cheap jokes and spectacle, but more powerful to sit with the specificity. Hope you'll listen.
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*NOW UNLOCKED* The Holy Trinity Slipknot, Iowa (2001) System of a Down, Toxicity (2001) P.O.D., Satellite (2001) Additional listening Drowni
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Fred Durst writes, records demo for Britney Spears, "When It Rains" (2003)
wagging my finger at an anti-capitalism campaign because it doesn't address the root of the problem: the fallen nature of Man.
Are people LSAT posting here too? Is it crazier to take it in October or November if I haven't started studying yet but can get 168-170 on the practice tests but I'm not 100% I'd want to go
The guys behind Psychostick weren't always having trouble counting to four. Once upon a time, they were navigating early adulthood as Evacuate Chicago. Take a look back at their lone studio album 'Veracity': numetalagenda.com/a-spring-wit...
A Spring with No Laughter: That One Time Psychostick Got Sad
At age 19, Dontre described 2004 as "a miserable year," and the rest is history.
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In 1994, before the release of their debut album, one of Korn's first shows was a Rock for Choice abortion rights benefit. I recreated the poster as a batik.
I really do not have the rhythm of posting on here, I need to lock in
This month on Break Stuff we went back to the Ozzfest era to talk about industrial nu metal. A chaotic look at Fear Factory's Obsolete, Orgy's Candyass, and Static-X's Wisconsin Death Trip:
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starting a mail club where I promise you one bizarre essay about whatever I feel like per month, but sometimes the initial idea is half baked or I run out of time so you just get photocopies of my handwritten draft/notes and maybe those months cost extra
need everyone else to get out of the olympics ticket queue, thanks!
Last time I started seriously looking at a path to law school 3 members of my family had health crises and derailed the idea, but it suddenly occurred to me that entertainment law exists and now I'm looking again
Wild to see music journalism going the way of local newspapers, except instead of a Bezos or Alden Capital being the one strangling it, it's Good Charlotte
Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · last mo.“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
This month on Break Stuff we check in on the old men, talking about Gen-Z's embrace of Korn, Deftones becoming mainstream, Limp Bizkit's triumphant Lollapalooza, and the beginning of @numetalmoment.bsky.social
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The Odyssey is about how you spend the first ten years trying to get with the plan and the next ten years trying to be with your friends again
The Odyssey is a cool experience, but I think sufferers from the fact that if you've had the kind of great books education it posits as good, you recognize that it should be the Aeneid.
She wants to be me so bad! Get out of my lane!
Riviera, PhD@riviera.bsky.social · 2mo agoCall me Taylor Lorenz the way it's 87° in my apartment
Been re-reading the iliad and I really understand how you could dedicate your whole life to the text
celebrating 250 by listening to the greatest american music genre, nu metal
In March I produced this music video with my friends and now it's a real, physical thing you can hold in your own two hands
crazy ass moments in nu metal history@numetalmoment.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Rhyme/Reason," @cheem.bsky.social, the official music video. Available now exclusively on DVD format. 💿 store.numetalagenda.com
look, whether you root for team USA or not, i think we can all agree the important thing is that you should feel like a sorry piece of shit 24 hours a day for deciding to be alive
Wow he really did abolish bedtime
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3mo agoSenegal Rekkkkkkkk
