P.O.D.'s Sonny Sandoval Recalls the Moment Nu-Metal Blew Up

Now that there is a little bit of a resurgence in the recognition of nu-metal once more, the artists related to the style are embracing it and searching again on how it began. P.O.D. frontman Sonny Sandoval recalled the second he realized nu-metal was going to explode, and likewise defined why he thinks it misplaced momentum in the following decade.

Korn are sometimes considered the band that really spearheaded the nu-metal “movement,” however there have been a number of different bands creating some type of rap-rock or rap-metal in the early ’90s that performed a component in its formation as effectively. Sandoval argued that P.O.D. have been one in all the bands that helped construct that basis, however he named one tune by one other band particularly that he thinks actually made the style escape.

“I remember seeing the Limp Bizkit ‘Nookie’ video for the first time. And it didn’t matter whether I was a Limp Bizkit fan or not, when I saw that, I said, ‘This is freaking huge. This is huge,'” the vocalist recalled throughout an interview with Jesea Lee. “It encompassed everything. It encompassed rock ‘n’ roll, rebellion, sex. It had everything. It was just visually stunning.”

Sandoval clarified that he would not suppose “Nookie” essentially “defined” the nu-metal style, however that it was the tune that was going to make the fashion turn out to be mainstream.

“Because even though Korn was popular at the time, I never saw them as pop. They were still dark and mysterious. Limp Bizkit wasn’t mysterious. They threw everything out there and said, ‘I don’t care what you think and if you like me or not,’ and that’s what rock ‘n’ roll was supposed to be anyway,” he continued, including that a number of the “horrible” bands that got here after tried to comply with in Limp Bizkit’s footsteps.

Earlier in the dialogue, the frontman additionally acknowledged that he thinks curiosity in nu-metal as a style began to taper off in the latter half of the 2000s as a result of it grew to become oversaturated with bands attempting to create their very own model of the sound.

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“Not only that, I think it got oversaturated with guys that it wasn’t their lifestyle. It wasn’t their culture,” he elaborated. “When you get bands from like whatever, Timbuktu, and all of a sudden they’re acting like they’re from the streets, they’re looking like they’re from the streets and they’re trying to rap, it’s not quite there. But it became a genre. What happens when it becomes popular, people start to get it. And I think people got over it after a while.”

Check out the full interview beneath.