We follow the 39 groups that make up Kerrang!! : an album showcasing the best rock of the new millennium has to offer…
        In 2001, Spotify was a pipe dream. Heck, MP3 players just went mainstream thanks to Apple’s iTunes and the newfangled iPod gizmo. YouTube won’t exist for another four years, let alone become the new music search network. Enter: Crown!
        Since 1981 K! is a must for heavy metal fans who want to see which artists break the stage and are truly worth your time. And the release of the two-disc Kerrang! The album (which coincided with our 20th anniversary) is a one-stop-shop for listeners who want to experience rock’s most popular new sounds without breaking their bank account or getting a waist-high stack of CDs.
       From world-famous nu metal bands (Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park) to rising British rock hippos (Feeder, Ash) and old-school heavy metal (Sepultura, Fear Factory, Machine Head), the whole gamut of outsider culture seems to be yes, many artists are at the peak of their power or on the verge of breakthrough success.
        In honor of the 20th anniversary of Kerrang! (We’ve done more since then) and we thought it would be interesting to see how these bands fared twenty years later…
        Led by puppet leader Fred Durst in a red hat, Limp Bizkit is the epitome of nu metal’s eccentricity and outright machismo. The delightfully titled third album, Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water, established them as one of the greatest bands on the planet and went on to achieve 6x platinum success. They have released three more albums in 2021, having survived the brief departure of guitar maestro Wes Borland, and as of June they are teasing 35 instruments ready for their long-awaited seventh LP, Stampede Of The Disco Elephants.
        In the summer of 2001, Kansas City rock band Puddle Of Mudd was still very active, and their triple platinum debut album Come Clean was due out at the end of August. While nowhere near as successful as Blurry’s second single or fourth album, She Hates Me, the gripping tingle and general lack of lyrical self-awareness (“I love the way you look at me / I love the way you slap my ass”). is a symbol of the “viola” of the new metal era. The band is still in existence, releasing their fifth LP Welcome To Galvania in 2019, though they were most recently credited with frontman Wes Scantlin’s terrific cover of Nirvana’s About A Girl. attracted more media attention.
        Notably, Deftones neglected Back To School (Mini Maggit) – an adaptation of the great seven-minute Pink Maggit – as their attempt at a hit single was made for the re-release of their groundbreaking third album, White Pony. This is still one of the most fun and action packed articles on Kerrang! Pay attention to this album: the work of one of the best bands of their generation, at the top of their game. Bassist Chi Cheng was seriously injured in a car accident in 2008 and tragically passed away in 2013, but their history goes back six more albums (the ninth Ohms LP is due out in 2020), and the Sacramento Thugs are the loudest of them all. rock and roll. One of the respected people.
        When it appeared on the soundtrack of the 2000 teen comedy Loser, starring Jason Biggs, “Teenage Dirtbag” became one of rock’s greatest singles, and Whitus’ self-titled debut album even went platinum in the UK. Although his cover of the Erasure classic A Little Respect and his collaboration with Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson on the 2002 single Wannabe Gangster attracted attention, they never quite reached their former heights. Four albums later they are still fighting a good battle and frontman Bruce B. Brown is the only surviving original member. Last year’s single Hump’em And Dump’em was their last notable release.
        Feeder has already released two albums full of British rock promises, but it was the Buck Rogers single and the excitement of parent album Echo Park that made them one of the most popular bands in the country. After getting over the suicide of drummer John Lee in 2002, they headlined Download Festival’s experimental album “Independence Day” in 2005, but have since sold out at academia venues around the world with greater ease, with seven more great releases along the way. albums.
        Founded in 1993, Cleveland alt.rock band Mighty Filter (led by former Nine Inch Nails guitarist Richard Patrick) released two albums in the 90s and by 2001 had become a relatively well-known force. In fact, Hey Man, Nice Shot was actually the lead single from their 1995 album Short Bus. Despite disbanding in 2003 and changing several lineups over the years, they have released five more albums, with an eighth LP, Murica, believed to be a direct follow-up to Short Bus, to be released later in 2021. it’s time to release.
        Look at the (relatively) famous North Carolina adult film star Chasey Lane in the title of the song, and even a non-professional can nail the Pennsylvania rap-rock gang Bloodhound Gang. There have been three albums out so far, with their classic single Hooray For Boobies released in 1999, they are rough-limbed musicians from the alternative scene but a steady stream of comically obscene earworms. They released two more albums after HFB (both underrated) and while they never officially disbanded, Evil bassist Jared Hasselhoff commented in 2017 that they would only return after Donald Trump was impeached.
        Ash enjoyed great success with his 1977 debut album, even accidentally hitting the main stage at Glastonbury in 1997, but frontman Tim Wheeler declined after the lukewarm reception of their next album, Nu-Clear Sounds. Burn Baby Burn was one of the songs he wrote on his return to Northern Ireland to reconnect with his pop rock roots. Guitarist Charlotte Hatherley has passed away after 20 years, but the band is still making a comeback as a major British rock force in its original three-piece form with critically acclaimed 2018′s Islands. Last album on LP and singles.
        Released in March 2001 on their debut album Finelines and then disbanded in October 2002, there was a time when London-based alternative rock trio My Vitriol looked like a flash in a frying pan. It’s also a real shame, because their shoegaze sound was the antidote to the flashy new metal that still seemed to dominate the early 2000s. Luckily, they reformed for two high-profile 2007 EPs and 2016′s full-length The Secret Sessions, and they’re still in business today.
        Formed from the remnants of Soulcellar and Box, Northamptonshire heavy metal band Raging Speedhorn were a major force between 1998 and 2008, with The Gush appearing as a bonus single on the UK version of their self-titled debut album in 2000. They released three more albums before disbanding in 2008, but since reuniting in 2014 they are stronger than ever: 2016′s Lost Ritual and 2020′s aptly titled Hard To Kill prove their mastery once again. After all these years, they have remained a staple at UK metal festivals and feature prominently in this year’s post-COVID band.
        Alternative metal trio from New York, The StepKings, ignites brightly and quickly. The first EP Seven Easy Steps and 1999 debut album Let’s Get It On, from which the crushing imbalance was removed, allowed them to become cult and support the likes of Deathstroke and Chaos Vision, such a legend. However, after 3 The Hard Way in 2002, they seemed to be dead. Kevin Moy’s breathtaking 42 minutes of rock, named after the latest album, is available on YouTube for everyone to enjoy.
        Leaving an equally dapper mark on musical history, the groove metallers of Maidenhead Vacant Stare combine a bit of neo-metal aesthetic (ready on the turntable!) with a more down-to-earth heaviness. Come Face Up was the undisputed key to their 2000 Induction Crime EP, 2000′s Disorder And Fear and 2002′s Vindication, but they never went through with it and sadly dropped out of the UK metal conversation shortly thereafter.
        Canadian girl group Kittie has shattered the misogynistic cornerstones of new metal by proving that women are quite capable of wielding eccentric looks and otherworldly voices. Built around the core duo of sisters Morgan and Mercedes Lander, who were 17 and 15 respectively when they debuted on LP Spit in 2000, the Ontario-based quartet showcases roaring riffs and punk roughness (Cohen’s heaviness and Riot’s heart-pounding combo swapping Hole and grrrl attitude L7) and lyrics dealing with sexism, hatred, ignorance, betrayal and bullying. Five albums were released between 2001 and 2011, and although they didn’t perform for a while, they are technically still together.
        The emergence of alternative rockers from Seattle VAST was a few years too late for the grunge phenomenon, proving that irresistible voices still ring out from the American Pacific Northwest. Taken from 2000′s second album Music For People, “Free” (especially that music video) seems completely out of place, but a generation later it still sounds like a worm. As of 2018, they are still very active with five more albums and countless peripheral releases. Black Magic’s eighth album has yet to be released.
        The Huntington Beach band CA (Hed) PE (PE stands for Planet Earth) already in 2001 had a certain reputation as the founder of rap metal. Their sound was more punk and more gangsta in the face of the rampant nu metal boom, and 2000s Broke added some world music to it, from which the beautifully polished Killing Time drew. Since then, they have covered many genres on their next 10 LPs, but 2020, uh, Class of 2020 marks a long-awaited return to their G-Punk roots.
        Formed in Göttingen in 1994, the German funk metal band Guano Apes, fronted by the inimitable Sandra Nasich, manages to stand out from an already noisy crowd with their divisive nature. Dödel Up is the breakneck fourth single from their second album Don’t Give Me Names and they released three more albums before the release of Offline in 2014. They are planning to play shows at European festivals after COVID subsides and for the first time in an era where we are revisiting their music, we would love to join them.
        Much larger in America than in Europe, Jacksonville post-grunge band Cold still managed to make an impact on British shores in the early 20th century, thanks in large part to 2000′s 13 Ways To Bleed Onstage, from which the furious Just Got Wicked, and 2003′s Year of the Spider, a particularly gloomy Wasted Years single. Despite a brief hiatus between 2006 and 2008, they continued to set records for underestimating atmospheric mass, most recently in 2019.
        From Orange County, California, funny-sounding metalcore band Downer (which has a very faint Offspring vibe) found themselves on the same stage as the likes of Korn, Deftones and Sublime, and signed to Roadrunner Records in 2001 to release Made his own. the album is a major label titular debut. Listening to Last Time you can see where they fit in, but feeling lost in the flood of too similar artists at the time, the band decided to end the day in September.
        Teaming up with Rage Against The Machine/Biffy Clyro “GGGarth” Richardson, Los Angeles-based four-piece band Spineshank established themselves well at the turn of the millennium, establishing themselves at the industrial end of the nu metal spectrum with “Includes”. Synthetic and cult album of that era The Height Of Callousness. As the world moves faster than them, Spineshank has only released two other LPs (2003′s Self-Destructive Pattern, 2012′s Anger Denial Acceptance), although 2003′s Japanese B-side Infected only came out on Spotify last September. beast.
        Although the Oakland Braves Machine Head were seen as champions of old school metal for much of the 1990s, when they decided to venture into new metal, they went above and beyond. Aside from well-worn tracksuits and PVC, This Day from 1999′s The Burning Red proved they could do it like everyone else. Back on the metal van with 2003′s Ashes of Empires and 2007′s stunning Blackening, they’ve also managed to get back to good purist books, albeit in the last few years. they remain one of the most important bands in American metal.
        Just months after the release of their debut LP Hybrid Theory, the Californian act already looks like the biggest rock band in the world, and One Step Closer is just one of many enduring achievements that few could have imagined. their story will be tragic. With avant-garde hip-hop (A Thousand Suns), daring alternative metal (The Hunting Party), and expansive, experimental pop (One More Light), no other band in the modern era has so deftly combined mainstream success with pushing their own creative boundaries. . The surviving members have been silent since the death of great frontman Chester Bennington in 2017, but no matter what happens, their legacy is unbreakable.
        The crisp, raspy vinyl sound of 1999′s lead single Make Yourself Pardon Me was key to making Incubus Calabasas, California absolutely mainstream. To their credit, the Beach Boys have managed to move away from the restrictive nu metal genre they were once relegated to, in favor of a lighter, more artful, quieter sound. In keeping with that laid-back aesthetic, they haven’t played much in recent years, but those of us lucky enough to meet them can attest that they haven’t lost their sun-scorched composure.
        Marilyn Manson has released nine albums since becoming an Antichrist superstar, including The Beautiful One. He, Brian Hugh Warner, faced multiple allegations of abuse in recent years before parting ways with his management and being fired from his label. In a February 2021 statement, he denied the allegations against him.
        One of the most memorable oddities of the early 2000s was the infiltration of country hip-hop icon Kid Rock into the real world of hard rock. Sure, nu metal opened its doors, and it stole Metallica’s Sad But True instrumental on the 2000 single American Bad Ass, a pretty bold move, but it’s always been like a sore thumb on the back door. , remains an absolute superstar with six more albums since 2001 and over 35 million records worldwide.
        Although it fell six years after 1995′s seminal Demanufacture benchmark, Digimortal’s 2001 lead single, Linchpin, became the most dominant song that would give Fear Factory ubiquity in rock clubs two decades later. Arguably the most consistent heavyweight of industrial metal, Fear Factory has released six more albums, including Aggression Continuum, which was only released on June 18, 2021. Although frontman Burton S. Bell recently left the band, his future is bright and unrevealed.
        Coma America, the first track from Amen’s self-titled major label debut and their first single as a group, tells fans just about everything they need to know about Californian hardcore punk. With the arrival of frontman Casey Chaos, their combination of crushing, slightly political punk and dark nu metal caught the attention of many disgruntled young people. 2000′s superb We Have Come For Your Parents and 2004′s Death Before Musick added to their discography for a while, but rumors of a fifth album backed by ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo dissipated. We live in hope…
        One of the weirdest things on Kerrang! The album, which is an edited version of the legendary New York metal band White Zombie, was offered three years after they effectively broke up. Remember that this shouldn’t take anything away from his punch. Indeed, as frontman Robert Bartley Cummings, aka Rob Zombie, reached dizzying new heights as a solo artist – his second album The Sinister Urge was released the same year – it’s time to let the newcomer relive the glory of his old band.
        Established in 1989, three years before the release of their excellent fourth album Powertrip, New Jersey stoner rock band Monster Magnet almost reached their peak in 2001. You can see it in the ostentatious Heads Explode video for God Says No in 2001, when frontman Dave Windorf, then 44, looked incredibly cool. They’re still working on it, six albums on the way, and the excellent A Better Dystopia just came out in May.
        The location of Last Resort, in the heart of Kerrang! The album’s second disc shows that Vacaville rocker Papa Roach has yet to become a big star. On the contrary: his parent album Infest went triple platinum by July 2001. It was also the start of a long and prolific career as they rode the new wave of metal and managed to go through several stylistic changes and build a catalog of 10 albums and two greatest hits. Frontman Jacoby Shaddix recently revealed that LP number 11 is in the works…
        Risen from the ashes of Palm Desert pioneer Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age captured the industry’s attention with their self-titled debut in 1998, but it was the R-rated 2000 that set them on the path to true superstardom. Along with the drug-infused hit Feel Good Of The Summer, rock single The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret earned frontman Josh Homma the nickname “Ginger Elvis” and made the band dirty, sexy, playful. The hit album in 2002 “Songs of the Deaf” made them a truly huge group, and since then their four albums have become headliners of real music festivals. They’re about to be back on stage and rumors of an eighth album are in the air.
        Microwaved, the lead single from Pitchshifter’s third album www.pitchshifter.com, released in 1998, may have been a product of that era – Nottingham’s industry pioneers were eager to keep up with the sound of the rapidly changing digital age – but it still has a strange influence. Today, Force, its quivering nuances of NIN-ism are manifested in the latest work of the modern frontier hero Code Orange. However, their own production would be limited from then on: 2000′s Deviant was released, and 2002′s PSI remains their last studio album. However, in recent years they have returned to the studio and re-recorded several classics, so you never know what will happen next.
        Named for a bulbous underground stature and devoid of the brightly colored bells and whistles that are the hallmark of the genre, Michigan-based Taproot may be one of the unlikely superstars of the nu metal movement, but they hold on stubbornly. From a feud with Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst before they even signed to a record deal (he wanted them in Interscope, they chose Atlantic) to releasing six highly acclaimed records, they were amazing. The Episodes of 2012 was their last major effort, but if rumors are to be believed, a seventh album is already in the pipeline.
        With the release of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence in 2000, New York provocateurs Glassjaw established themselves as one of post-hardcore’s most important bands. Ry Ry, the second single from the debut LP, has all the shabby brilliance and seething energy that influenced bands like Touché Amoré and letlive. Their release has been sporadic since then, thanks to frontman Daryl Palumbo, who has battled Crohn’s disease and worked with other great bands Head Automatica and Color Film, but 2017′s Material Control and its accompanying live show seem like an exciting comeback.
        Frontman Max Cavalera’s departure from Brazilian metal heavyweight Sepultura was one of the biggest metal stories of the 1990s. Surely, we thought, he couldn’t run something bigger and better than the band he and brother Igor formed as teenagers? Soulfly is his loud response, and the tribal-inspired second LP Primitive is arguably their best. 20 years later, despite Max’s active participation in many other projects, they are still going strong with an impressive catalog of 11 albums. Damn, Ritual in 2018 is just as full of brute force as it is here!
        Notably, the title track and lead single from Massachusetts nu metal’s second album Godsmack appeared not only on our compilation CD, but also in the US Navy’s Accelerate Your Life recruiting campaign. They’ve been a quintessentially American force in the heavy music scene, with seven albums already out and 2018′s When Legends Rise showing some serious consistency. “20 years after their debut album and 20 million album sales,” states their slightly dated official website, “Godsmack is stronger than ever.”
        If nu metal was an almost exclusively American phenomenon built on shameless angst, OTT bombast and a near-total lack of self-awareness, London-based One Minute Silence instigators bridged the Atlantic divide with their crushing sound. Led by County Tipperary native Brian “Yap” Barry, with drummer Martin Davies and Gibraltar bassist Glenn Diani (and British guitarist Massimo Fiocco) on vocals, the band released three albums between 1998 and 2003. This is one of the most cultural albums of that era. but the band struggled to move on with their listeners. The 2013 EP “Fragmented Armageddon” was an exciting comeback, but it’s been quiet for about eight years since then.
        BRBR-Dan! BRBR-Dan! BRBR-Dan! The sound of Illinois metal band Mudvayne’s signature single, Dig, has been the butt of laughs online in recent years, but their broader catalog goes far beyond catchy riffs and carnival aesthetics, crossing many defining eras and imagery. They seemed to run out of steam after releasing their self-titled fifth album in 2009, but doubters joked when they reunited this year to headline a string of US music festivals, including alongside the mighty Slipknot!
        New Order’s Blue Monday is one of the most iconic songs of all time, and it would take some serious cojongs to cover, but LA electro-rock (self-proclaimed “death-pop”) band Orgy delivers a steely, vaguely industrial verve reports success. steam supply. They released a third (Punk Statik Paranoia) in 2004, but they went on hiatus from 2005 to 2010 and never got back up to speed. The excellent Talk Sick EP was released in 2015, but its follow-up, Entropy, has yet to arrive.
        If the aforementioned former Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera is pushing Primitive, then his former bandmates are keeping up with their second album, which includes a bumbling backing vocalist Derrick Green called Nation. A percussive appeal to fans who think loyalty is divided, its title track, Sepulnation, doesn’t quite have the spring-loaded magic of Max’s single, but Andreas Kisser’s sinuous guitar playing and sheer display of brute force has no choice but to sit down and take note. While calls for a reunion of Sepultura’s original lineup have rarely subsided over the past two decades, the Derrick-Andreas axis has proven to be one of the most powerful in true heavy metal, and 2020′s Quadra is their ninth post-breakup album. with Max is new evidence of their pure sonic brutality.
       Stone Age Queens, supported by The Chats and Deep Tan, embark on a 14-day tour of the UK and Europe.
       Queens of the Stone Age are gearing up for the end of the world “in a month or two” so they’ve just announced a massive North American tour…
       Listen to the new single from Queens of the Stone Age Carnavoyeur, the second single from their upcoming eighth album, In Times New Roman…
       Massive Florida Welcome to Rockville line-up announced, with headliners including Tool, Slipknot and Avenged Sevenfold playing their first live show in five years!
       Queens Of The Stone Age reissue their debut album Villains and …Like Clockwork on limited edition colored vinyl.
       Members of Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Tool and more revisit Puscifer’s Existential Reckoning: Rewired.