Linkin Park's singer: "We kept Metal alive"

I couldn't even tell you a single riff from a Linkin Park tune. I'm fortunate I guess.

I'm glad the Korns and the Limp Bizcuits have seemingly faded away. I wish Tool would come back to their former glory.
 
BlockInlay said:
I couldn't even tell you a single riff from a Linkin Park tune. I'm fortunate I guess.

I'm glad the Korns and the Limp Bizcuits have seemingly faded away. I wish Tool would come back to their former glory.
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Rumor has it Tool has a new album coming out either later this year or early next year.
 
Jbird said:
Rumor has it Tool has a new album coming out either later this year or early next year.
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I heard that. Apparently, Maynard lived a South American Jungle with spider monkeys for 2 years while he was doing the writing. They're going to call the album Monkey Wrench.
 
I don't know, I think Linkin Park and other bands at the time were more about keeping their own brand of metal popular with a new generation of listeners; metal in general never went away. Did Linkin Park help bands like Dream Theater, or the many death metal bands who were active at the time?
 
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Reading the rest of that interview, I kinda get where he's coming from; their rap/pop/rock thing wasn't metal but they helped mainstream the nu-metal crapfest of that era. They had to have some good commercial success considering how they were all over the place during that period & I've always pegged them as that awful nu-metal band so I suppose he has a point. Course, I don't know if I'd go around bragging about giving birth to the popularity of nu-metal but whatever.
 
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