Members of the Seattle scene of emerging bands rankled at the term 'grunge,' while Jonathan Davis of Korn hasn't really embraced the term 'nu metal' either. He then added, “Somehow that got over to England, and from then on it was like the sarcastic thing they used to apply to us – ‘this isn’t music, it’s a load of heavy metal being smashed together.’ And for some reason we got stuck with it.”Īs we've seen over time, musical movements often get labels that the pioneers don't exactly care for. Speaking on Trunk's podcast (as heard below and transcribed by NME), Butler stated, “When we were on tour in America – I think it was the second tour in the States – I read this review, and the guy said, ‘This isn’t music it sounds like a bunch of heavy metal being smashed together.’”
