The Nu-Metal 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 And as always, fight for the future of accessible heavy music here: https://www.patreon.com/numetal_agenda

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..." https://www.patreon.com/numetal_agenda

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 inspired by 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 against the 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...

PATREON EXCLUSIVE UNLOCKED FOR 20TH ANNIVERSARY::::: 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 hard and 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...