Ep30: Machine Head pt2: Burning Red, Supercharger, and Nu Metal bubble

“This album reeks of experimentation… for better and for worse”

 

Hey!  This is basically three episodes in one, so it’s long, feel free to skip around to what interests you.  

 

Burning red is awesome. It has killer melodies, grooves, feel, and I love the vulnerability in the lyrics. It’s one of my fave records. 

Supercharger isn’t a bad record but it didn’t do well at the time. I argue that this is not because of 9/11 but because of an extreme saturation of other similar records coming out at the same time. (see google doc spreadsheet below)

 

We also talk about the nu metal bubble and why the genre faded away so quickly in the mid 2000s. 

 

Preamble

00:00 intro

1:35 Shits nuts, roe v wade overturning, centrist “too cool to care” bullshit, and predictably losing “friends” when I amplify black and female voices

22:21 Performing masculinity through anger/indifference, and getting lost in the manosphere, 

43:03 Crazy times, getting covid, etc…
53:19 More DAW talk, musicals, instrumentation,  and fucking up an album mix

 

1:14:39 Machine Head, nu metal paradigm etc… 

1:26:00 Burning Red general impressions

1:42:32 Robb’s thrash pedigree, trauma in nu metal, and some track by track

2:07 Supercharger general impressions

2:19:22 some track by track silliness and summary. 

 

2:33:01 The nu metal bubble that killed Supercharger, overall metal trends from 1995-2005

3:00:00 Hot Take: “Slipknot and Eminem killed nu metal”

3:22:44 How metal and rock get codified in the mid 2000s, the importance of metalcore etc…, and a fun ICP funeral story

3:51:15 Summary

 

Album release dates

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12jQnGexhP4amMM336cZWLrGMPel33WXdcHXrBso33_c/edit?usp=sharing

 

Demise of nu metal 2000-2002 playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2HhPTLELCRbZGuM3SZw4Mn?si=o36vvRJeQrWe4k9RTTzIWA&utm_source=copy-link