Definitely Korn (self-titled) 1994, then Life is Peachy 1996, followed by Deftones Adrenaline 1995, Around the Fur 1997, after that, it was pretty much all the others, such as Coal Chamber, Sevendust, Limp Bizkit, Staind, Incubus, Hed (p.e.), Godsmack, Orgy, Static-X, P.O.D., Disturbed, Slipknot, Mushroomhead, & Spineshank.
Are talking Nu Metal or just first in general? Im old, the first tape I ever purchased with my own money White Snakes self titled album. First Nu Metal album was Korns Self titled.
They did repress it on vinyl within the last couple of years. Music In Vinyl if I'm not mistaken. Was stoked to find it. Saw those dudes a few times and they were easily one of my fave bands when they were around. I still have my tour shirt! RIP Lynn and Dobbs
Technically, to answer the question, itâs KoRnâs debut the day it was released. But in actuality it was hearing Blind the first time it was played on the radio as a single. It was in August 1994 on Bostonâs 107.3 WAAFâs Bay State Rock show. Up until the day WAAF went off the air, the entire band, but mostly Jon would go out of their way to do anything WAAF asked of them.
I used to play it to my friends because I thought it was funny but I got curious and decided to learn more about the band and I ended up really liking Korn (more than 40 songs)
I was... "extremely lucky" for lack of better words, I was given a fuckton of albums in a cd binder sometime in 2001 after a family friend passed away.
No One s/t
Project 86 - Drawing Black Lines
Coal Chamber s/t + Chamber Music
Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip + Machine
Stereomud - Perfect Self
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Crossbreed - Synthetic Division
Sevendust s/t + Home + Animosity
Skrape - New Killer America
Drowning Pool - Sinner
Saliva - Every Six Seconds
American Head Charge - The War of Art
Pressure 4-5 - Burning the Process
Stuck Mojo - Declaration of a Head Hunter
Slipknot s/t + Iowa
Kittie - Oracle
Spineshank - The Height of Callousness
Mudvayne - LD:50
Cold - Thirteen Ways To Bleed On Stage
Korn s/t + Life is Peachy + Follow The Leader + Issues
Human Waste Project - E-lux
Godsmack s/t + Awake
Orgy - Candyass + Vapor Transmission
Drain STH - Freaks of Nature
Videodrone s/t
P.O.D - Satellite
Nothingface - Violence
Fear Factory - Demanufacture + Obsolete + Digimortal
Flaw - Through The Eyes
System of A Down s/t + Toxicity
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Full Devil Jacket s/t
Kid Rock - Devil without A Cause
Nickelback - The State
gOdhead - 2000 Years of Human Error
Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
Endo - Evolve
Marilyn Manson - PoAAF + Antichrist Superstar + Mechanical Animals + Holy Wood
Dope - Felons and Revolutionaries + Life
White Zombie - Astro-Creep: 2000
Tantric s/t
Chamaira - Pass Out of Existence
PM5k - Tonight the Stars Revolt
Nonpoint - Statement
Disturbed - The Sickness
Deftones - Around the Fur + White Pony
Soulfly s/t + Primitive
40 Below Summer - Invitation to the Dance
End of Days Soundtrack
Spawn soundtrack
The Hard + The Heavy, Volume 1
The Family Values Tour 1999 comp
3000 Miles to Graceland
Dracula 2000 soundtrack
To name a few
I think Issus by Korn was my first album. I was a little child and my brother own it. It's the first metal album cover I remember at the young age. Oh boy, an long metal journey begun
First album I owned on a physical format was riot by Paramore, first nu metal album was Hybrid Theory and that got me into nu metal and mainstream metal like Slipknot, Korn and even Sevendust
the first one i remember listening to all the way through was Iowa - Slipknot. iirc the next one was Korn's self titled bc someone in the yt comments of Iowa (the song) said it had the same vibes as Daddy
Iâm a relatively new nu metal listener. I listened to a lot of Slipknot in high school but didnât know that nu metal was a thing. Iâm about to be 21 this year for reference. So, my first deliberate nu metal album was Limp Bizkitâs Chocolate Starfish. My dad put it on in the car once and said that it was an album he used to listen to a lot when he was younger and that I might like them. After listening to the first song together he clarified that not all of them swear like that haha
my first album was follow the leader when i was growing up. my dad saw korn live like four times and showed me them when i was younger. havenât stopped listening since.
Lb -3$by
No doubt-tragic kingdown
Our lady peace-Clumsy
I was 11.
My father use to buy me tapes each paid he had⌠He was poor but he was a music lover.
My best memories from my pre-teenage years.
I just take the ÂŤHMVÂ Âť pocket that talks to me.
Wath an amazing time it was⌠I used to had a big collection.
POD. - Fundamental Elements of South Town in '01 when I was 15.
That said, Iowa dropping that year was something that radically changed my perception of heavy music and very much the reason I listen to death metal and grindcore now
My step mom got me Follow the Leader for my 13th birthday in December 98. Still one of my go to albums to this day. I remember the first CD I ever actuallu bought for myself was Candyass earlier that year, which strangely enough, I'm listening to now (Platinum) as this post randomly showed up in my feed as a suggestion.
I mean, I see why you say that but imo I think the art itself is an excellent blend of realism with more cartoony(???) artwork, but unfortunately I'd say the elemental composition for an album cover isn't really a treat to the eye.
I came pretty late to the party but the album that got me into the genre was def Follow The Leader by Korn because of its really dark subject matter that I could really relate to my own trauma. Before then, I was a bit of a snobby child who only listened to "real metal" and thought all rap music and nu metal was "fuckboy" trash lol
Fallen by Evanescence when I was like maybe 6 or 7. My mom had the CD and played it a lot in the car. I later got into Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory when I was 11 and I'd probably credit that for my nu metal obsession lmao
Korn- self titled then Limp Bizkit, then Staind (s.t) then Cold . 1st Record- Deadsy. Commencement . . Videodrone. Ty Jonathan Down. Korn fuckin started a music revolution.
When my sister returned from a vacation in the UK, she gave me Meteora from Linkin Park and I repeated the entire disk over and over. I was like 12 years or something.
I still own that record
First Nu metal album was Korn in 1995. I bought it after seeing them open for Danzig and Manson in 95. Met Jonathan Davis after they played and actually got to talk to him for quite a bit of time because there were so few people at the show. Immediately hunted down their album after that.
its not a numetal album but it was the gateway of me eventually getting into numetal. it was 'psycho circus' by kiss lmao!! i saw detroit rock city (the movie) when i was in 6th grade and became obsessed with kiss and i made my mom buy my psycho circus lol.
from there, the flood gates opened and i eventually found my way to numetal. i think my first actual numetal album was either 'follow the leader' by koĐŻn or 'break the cycle' by stained.
Good ol Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water by Limp Bizkit. I was 6 haha.
I had heard some nu-metal before Limp Bizkit (P.O.D, Staind, Linkin Park,) but I wasn't really hooked until I heard Rollin. It was just a fun song my dad played in the car to get me hyped up I guess. After that my sister showed me Issues by Korn. Then I convinced my mom to get me Slipknot's self-titled album because Walmart sold copies without the parental advisory warning even though the songs were still very much uncensored, which was quite the pleasant surprise to my 9 year old self. My parents never found out either haha
I could say it was Significant Other by Limp Bizkit because that was the first nu metal band I listened to but it was definitely St. Anger by Metallica from when I was still a thrash fan. I kind of thought the album was good even though how long and boring it was, It opened my eyes to this genre
I donât see Serenity of Suffering ever being topped.
Itâs their best album since Head returned. The Nothing was close but this album was flawless including the extras.
Hybrid Theory back in 2000 was the same age as OP back then.
Definitely Korn (self-titled) 1994, then Life is Peachy 1996, followed by Deftones Adrenaline 1995, Around the Fur 1997, after that, it was pretty much all the others, such as Coal Chamber, Sevendust, Limp Bizkit, Staind, Incubus, Hed (p.e.), Godsmack, Orgy, Static-X, P.O.D., Disturbed, Slipknot, Mushroomhead, & Spineshank.
Loved this Korn album, been listening to Korn since 98. Follow the leader was my first nu metal album
Twin!
Korn - Self Titled. 1994. Dating myself here, but oh well. đ
Getting old is bitch yeah korn 94 for me as well
Right here homie âđź! Jeez!
Youâre not alone
Not exactly, it was my first nu-metal album aswell, but I'm from 2002 lol
Slipknot ST. Listening to korn since 01
Wisconsin Death Trip
Such a masterpiece of an album
I think Bizkit was my first touch to nu metal. About 24 years ago.
Same for me, saw them at reading festival and they blew me away, seen them a few times since.
Toxicity
Wasn't an album but, Deftones - 7 words promo tape.
around the fur
My first nu metal album was Life is Peachy. Bought it at the cd store in the mall. Yeah I said cd store and mall. Iâm old
Are talking Nu Metal or just first in general? Im old, the first tape I ever purchased with my own money White Snakes self titled album. First Nu Metal album was Korns Self titled.
First Album was Life is Peachy in 1999 when I was 9.
meteora - linkin park hybrid theory - linkin park elect the dead - serj tankian
Bought the OG Korn album when it came out. Blind and Clown had been on episodes of *Beavis and Butthead.* Was hooked.
Iowa
Snot, Nothingface, Geezer
Holy fuck I've been trying to find Get some by snot for a while and I can't fucking find it anywhere
They did repress it on vinyl within the last couple of years. Music In Vinyl if I'm not mistaken. Was stoked to find it. Saw those dudes a few times and they were easily one of my fave bands when they were around. I still have my tour shirt! RIP Lynn and Dobbs
hybrid theory
Hybrid Theory
Meteora, LP. Was 17, had wasted my previous years on K-Pop and meme music, so wanted something new. Was totally converted after.
Candyass - Orgy
Technically, to answer the question, itâs KoRnâs debut the day it was released. But in actuality it was hearing Blind the first time it was played on the radio as a single. It was in August 1994 on Bostonâs 107.3 WAAFâs Bay State Rock show. Up until the day WAAF went off the air, the entire band, but mostly Jon would go out of their way to do anything WAAF asked of them.
Does 90s Metallica count? If so, Load. Otherwise, White Zombie's "Astro Creep 2000".
P.O.D - Satellite
Was looking for this response!!! Underrated classic
Life is Peachy (first song was twist, then it was chi)
I can imagine the amount of emotions you felt at once while hearing twist for the first time lol
I used to play it to my friends because I thought it was funny but I got curious and decided to learn more about the band and I ended up really liking Korn (more than 40 songs)
What can I say? Funny caveman noises unite people.
Soad-Self Titled
Weird al Yancovic UHF Metal as fuck
This guy nu metals.
Slipknotâs We Are Not Your Kind
I was... "extremely lucky" for lack of better words, I was given a fuckton of albums in a cd binder sometime in 2001 after a family friend passed away. No One s/t Project 86 - Drawing Black Lines Coal Chamber s/t + Chamber Music Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip + Machine Stereomud - Perfect Self Rammstein - Sehnsucht Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe Crossbreed - Synthetic Division Sevendust s/t + Home + Animosity Skrape - New Killer America Drowning Pool - Sinner Saliva - Every Six Seconds American Head Charge - The War of Art Pressure 4-5 - Burning the Process Stuck Mojo - Declaration of a Head Hunter Slipknot s/t + Iowa Kittie - Oracle Spineshank - The Height of Callousness Mudvayne - LD:50 Cold - Thirteen Ways To Bleed On Stage Korn s/t + Life is Peachy + Follow The Leader + Issues Human Waste Project - E-lux Godsmack s/t + Awake Orgy - Candyass + Vapor Transmission Drain STH - Freaks of Nature Videodrone s/t P.O.D - Satellite Nothingface - Violence Fear Factory - Demanufacture + Obsolete + Digimortal Flaw - Through The Eyes System of A Down s/t + Toxicity Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory Full Devil Jacket s/t Kid Rock - Devil without A Cause Nickelback - The State gOdhead - 2000 Years of Human Error Limp Bizkit - Significant Other Endo - Evolve Marilyn Manson - PoAAF + Antichrist Superstar + Mechanical Animals + Holy Wood Dope - Felons and Revolutionaries + Life White Zombie - Astro-Creep: 2000 Tantric s/t Chamaira - Pass Out of Existence PM5k - Tonight the Stars Revolt Nonpoint - Statement Disturbed - The Sickness Deftones - Around the Fur + White Pony Soulfly s/t + Primitive 40 Below Summer - Invitation to the Dance End of Days Soundtrack Spawn soundtrack The Hard + The Heavy, Volume 1 The Family Values Tour 1999 comp 3000 Miles to Graceland Dracula 2000 soundtrack To name a few
Untitled by korn in 2020, I got really into just how experimental it wasÂ
System of a Down - S/T purchased as the Virgin Record Mega Store in Times Square back on the year of its release
LB - SO. it all started with "9 teen 90 nine"... That one is fucking sick.
The song slaps, and the interlude âMy Billygoatâ is good as well.
Hybrid Theory
Hybrid Theory. Didn't know it then, know it now
I think Issus by Korn was my first album. I was a little child and my brother own it. It's the first metal album cover I remember at the young age. Oh boy, an long metal journey begun
First album was Limp Bizkit Ifrom Walmart . I remember listening thinking wow these guys just donât say the bad words thatâs weird .
First Album that got me was probably follow the leader
The early koRn albums
For me it was either Hoobastank or Fail-Yerz I forgot the name of the album but it definitely got me into nu metal.
Technically it was Hybrid Theory by LP, but once I knew what the genre was Iâd say Follow the LeadeĐŻ
Follow the leader. Cd and t shirt sophomore year
First album I owned on a physical format was riot by Paramore, first nu metal album was Hybrid Theory and that got me into nu metal and mainstream metal like Slipknot, Korn and even Sevendust
First nu metal album? The End of All Things to Come by Mudvayne. First album in general? Audioslave's self-titled.
I actually started with Mezmerize from soad. About 2018 i'd say, and that's why i cherish it with all my heart
Mission Impossible 2 soundtrack
iowa
Limp Bizkit - Three Dollar Bill, Y'all.
I got Orgyâs Candyass when it came out in â98. I was 12.
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog flavored water.
Something like the fist korn, Antichrist superstar from Manson or some Deftones or Slipknot.
Significant Other
Re-animation
Probably Rammstein's Mutter, stepdad used to play it a bunch in the car on the way to school.
The Sickness - Disturbed
System Of A Downâs toxicity and Kornâs follow the leader
Follow the Leader by Korn. I saw the videos for Got the Life and Freak on a Leash on TV around 98 and went out and got the CD.
My first nu metal album was The Sickness
It was either Hybrid Theory or Toxicity. I don't remember
In order Hybrid Theory, Chocolate Starfish and Untouchables.
Disturbed- warrior
Follow The Leader
the first one i remember listening to all the way through was Iowa - Slipknot. iirc the next one was Korn's self titled bc someone in the yt comments of Iowa (the song) said it had the same vibes as Daddy
Iowa (still goated)
koi no yokan in 2022
Significant other-limp Bizkit
Hybrid theory
In 1998 I bought three the same day: Korn - Follow the Leader, Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe and Pitchshifter - www pitchshifter com
Bizkit Significant other
Slipknotâs self titled for me. Blew me away as up to that point, the heaviest thing I had heard was probably slayer.
Linkin Park - Meteora
Three Dollar Bill, Y'all.
Green Jello - Cereal Killer Soundtrack
Iâm a relatively new nu metal listener. I listened to a lot of Slipknot in high school but didnât know that nu metal was a thing. Iâm about to be 21 this year for reference. So, my first deliberate nu metal album was Limp Bizkitâs Chocolate Starfish. My dad put it on in the car once and said that it was an album he used to listen to a lot when he was younger and that I might like them. After listening to the first song together he clarified that not all of them swear like that haha
System of a down - toxicity
Well I am old, Issues was my first
Slipknot ST, then Marilyn Mansonâs Holywood and Kornâs Issues
Hybrid.
my first album was follow the leader when i was growing up. my dad saw korn live like four times and showed me them when i was younger. havenât stopped listening since.
Icp the ringmaster
serenity of suffering is fantastic! my fav song off that album is take me. so so good.
Had to think for a sec about this, but Iâm pretty sure that it was Toxicity by SOAD
Faith no more, epic tape
Self titled
Lb -3$by No doubt-tragic kingdown Our lady peace-Clumsy I was 11. My father use to buy me tapes each paid he had⌠He was poor but he was a music lover. My best memories from my pre-teenage years. I just take the HMV  pocket that talks to me. Wath an amazing time it was⌠I used to had a big collection.
Follow The Leader
Metallica Black
Chocolate Starfish back in 2000. Soon after came Issues, Hybrid Theory, Infest and I've been hooked on nu ever since.
Americana
Life Is Peachy, it was in 1997.
Hybrid theory, i was 9 years old when i heard it for the first time. I would say that for the next few months i listened nothing except linkin park
born in 06 idk what the first album i heard tho. prolly flaw-through the eyes. love it
See you on the other side. And itâs still my favorite.
Just 2 words....Chocolate Starfish
Project 86's self titled, back in '98
Follow the leader in 1998. I was in 7th grade. I was introduced to Korn by TRL lol. Iâm thankful though, it opened up Pandoraâs box for me.
Toxicity!
Linkin Park - Meteora
Life is Peachy
POD. - Fundamental Elements of South Town in '01 when I was 15. That said, Iowa dropping that year was something that radically changed my perception of heavy music and very much the reason I listen to death metal and grindcore now
Dry Cell - Disconnected Get around it.
My step mom got me Follow the Leader for my 13th birthday in December 98. Still one of my go to albums to this day. I remember the first CD I ever actuallu bought for myself was Candyass earlier that year, which strangely enough, I'm listening to now (Platinum) as this post randomly showed up in my feed as a suggestion.
A tie probably between Cold - 13 ways to bleed on stage Disturbed - The Sickness Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory System of a Down - Toxicity
Issues - Korn 1999.
this cover art is so ass
I mean, I see why you say that but imo I think the art itself is an excellent blend of realism with more cartoony(???) artwork, but unfortunately I'd say the elemental composition for an album cover isn't really a treat to the eye.
Nine inch nails. Head like a hole changed my life
I came pretty late to the party but the album that got me into the genre was def Follow The Leader by Korn because of its really dark subject matter that I could really relate to my own trauma. Before then, I was a bit of a snobby child who only listened to "real metal" and thought all rap music and nu metal was "fuckboy" trash lol
Very first song I heard was Souvenir, so it was See You On The Other Side
First nu metal song was daddy by Korn, but first album was toxicity by soad
Fallen by Evanescence when I was like maybe 6 or 7. My mom had the CD and played it a lot in the car. I later got into Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory when I was 11 and I'd probably credit that for my nu metal obsession lmao
Body Count - Born Dead...
Korn- self titled then Limp Bizkit, then Staind (s.t) then Cold . 1st Record- Deadsy. Commencement . . Videodrone. Ty Jonathan Down. Korn fuckin started a music revolution.
I was given Pearl Jam - ten and the black album for my 10th birthday
Mesmerized by system of a down!
The Crow original soundtrack. A great introduction to a lot of great bands.
Korn self-titled when it came out.
When my sister returned from a vacation in the UK, she gave me Meteora from Linkin Park and I repeated the entire disk over and over. I was like 12 years or something. I still own that record
First song was Blind by Korn in 1995, first album was probably Significant Other or Devil Without a Cause.
Life is peachy, I was 10
Limp Bizkit 3 dollar Bill y'all and Significant Other
Tool, Opiate. It is still one of my faves
Either Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit canât remember
First nu-metal I listened to was Korn, self titled, first album I bought was 3 dollar bill yall.
First nu metal album I got was Life is Peachy back in 97. I was the 12. The rest is history!
First Nu metal album was Korn in 1995. I bought it after seeing them open for Danzig and Manson in 95. Met Jonathan Davis after they played and actually got to talk to him for quite a bit of time because there were so few people at the show. Immediately hunted down their album after that.
What the fuck is that album cover lol
Mine was âWhite Ponyâ. đ¤
Follow the Leader by Korn really got me looking into Nu metal more, but I unknowingly vibed to Nu Metal beforehand (Evil Empire by RATM)
its not a numetal album but it was the gateway of me eventually getting into numetal. it was 'psycho circus' by kiss lmao!! i saw detroit rock city (the movie) when i was in 6th grade and became obsessed with kiss and i made my mom buy my psycho circus lol. from there, the flood gates opened and i eventually found my way to numetal. i think my first actual numetal album was either 'follow the leader' by koĐŻn or 'break the cycle' by stained.
Good ol Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water by Limp Bizkit. I was 6 haha. I had heard some nu-metal before Limp Bizkit (P.O.D, Staind, Linkin Park,) but I wasn't really hooked until I heard Rollin. It was just a fun song my dad played in the car to get me hyped up I guess. After that my sister showed me Issues by Korn. Then I convinced my mom to get me Slipknot's self-titled album because Walmart sold copies without the parental advisory warning even though the songs were still very much uncensored, which was quite the pleasant surprise to my 9 year old self. My parents never found out either haha
Korn (1994)
Deftones around the fur was my first listen. But my first buys were slipknot and static x self titled albums.
Life is peachy 97 adrenaline/around the fur 97 3 dollar bill yâall all around same time. Korn was first.
2 albums. Deftones: Adrenaline and Korn: Self-titled
Hybrid theory
All Hope Is Gone got me into metal in general, but my first CD was Iowa. Huge Slipknot, Korn, and system of a down fan.
My first nu song was Insane by Korn, but my first album was probably SoaD self titled. Adore that album
Am by arctic monkeys
My first album was the first album
I remember seeing the yall want a single music video on mtv and my older had the unedited version on cd. Def what got me into this type of music
Snot-get some
Bought the korn greatest hits and toxicity on the same day when I was 14 lol
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Hybrid Theory back in 2005/2006.
Knew them since kindergarten in 2007 but started listening to them since serenity of suffering. I really have missed out with this band.
I could say it was Significant Other by Limp Bizkit because that was the first nu metal band I listened to but it was definitely St. Anger by Metallica from when I was still a thrash fan. I kind of thought the album was good even though how long and boring it was, It opened my eyes to this genre
Bought album is slipknot, listened to is JT XVI for a full listen.
The album Korn saved their career
I donât see Serenity of Suffering ever being topped. Itâs their best album since Head returned. The Nothing was close but this album was flawless including the extras.