nu-metal – The Spinoff

Get out your Oakleys: Blindspott are back

5 September 20224 September 2018 by Don Rowe

After ten years of public fallout, New Zealand’s favourite nu-metal band are back. Don Rowe talks to Blindspott. The year was 2003: t.A.Tu were making Russian pop cool, ‘Where is the Love?’ was second in the NZ Top 40 only to Scribe’s ‘Not Many’, and in West Auckland a bunch of bogans were charting at … Read more

The two-minute guide to the Limp Bizkit comeback

10 January 2018 by The Spinoff

Does the return of Limp Bizkit to our shores in 2018 mean the nu-metal revival is happening? All signs point to… maybe. For a brief moment in music history, Limp Bizkit’s star shone bright. They were the angry princes of a new genre that fused rap and rock. Some called it rap-rock, while others preferred … Read more