First time around, the Nu-metal era was all a bit embarrassing. Old music was dead, the weird kids were cool and there was a frenzied embrace of something new. Everyone wanted a piece of the pie, the scene was flooded and, once respectable bands started debasing themselves, the entire thing collapsed under a heap of super-baggy jeans and seven-string guitars. Time is a great healer. Twenty years later and Deftones are venerated, Limp Bizkit are headlining Download, Linkin Park are back and a wave of upstarts are finding new, exciting ways to resurrect the sound. Meet Sicksense.
If there’s one lesson to be learned from the Nu-metal era, it’s do not try and be cool. Ever. Make your art, make it well and hope people are inspired by it. That’s Sicksense’s mantra, they’re proud to be Nu-metal. Not safe, boring Nu-metal either, the strange, alternative sound that kickstarted the movement in the first place. They’re the weird kids in the corner of the schoolyard proud to be doing…
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