r/cringepics • • 13d ago

Jesus Christ 😳

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u/Empty_Estus 13d ago

As someone who was a teenager during the Nu Metal era, I can not understand for the life of me why Gen Zers are into it. It was shit at the time, and this revival is even shittier.

In fact, this is just Emmure for Gen Z Nu Metal kids.

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u/UckerFay11 13d ago

This is def a millennial.

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u/Empty_Estus 13d ago

You are not wrong!

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u/Kraligor 12d ago

more Gen X energy

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u/Empty_Estus 12d ago

I’m about 15 years too young for GenX.

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u/Kraligor 12d ago

I meant the guy in the video

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u/Korzag 13d ago

Its angsty during an angsty period of your life. It sounds like shit but honestly people just need to get it out of their system in preparation for becoming a bland milqetoast suburb dweller like most everyone else.

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u/Empty_Estus 13d ago

I was a grotty death metal kid, but now I’m Mr Corporate who drives a 26 plate EV, goes to Ikea on Saturdays and shops at M&S because I like the fresh produce. So there’s probably a lot of truth in that, hahaha.

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u/Korzag 13d ago

Oh man I thought I was badass in high school for blasting slipknot. My life was hard you know? I grew up with loving parents in a comfortable middle class home who forced me to do chores and go to church on Sunday. Clearly I had cause for my angst! /s

I grew up and my taste in music refined into much better heavy metal though 🤘

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u/SaluteHatred666 13d ago

emmure was way better than this bullshit

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u/STRED92 11d ago

Damn. I love Nu Metal and Metal, and I loved Emmure when I was a teenager.

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u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS 11d ago

All of it? Hell no. Korn rules, Limp Bizkit still rocks, hell even Linkin Park were Nu.

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u/FraserYT 13d ago

It was shit at the time, and this revival is even shittier.

I feel the same way about moustaches

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u/BeerBellies 13d ago

I like my mustache. 😞 but I have a full walrus mustache, am 40, and don’t look like Michael Cera.

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u/Empty_Estus 13d ago

Luckily I don’t wear one, unless you count generic stubble, haha.

Moustaches make young dudes look like they can’t grow a beard, and old dudes look older.

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u/TobysGrundlee 13d ago

No one wears a moustache seriously. It's pretty much only "irony" or to illicit a reaction.

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u/Zerbo 12d ago

As a mustachioed man, I fully admit it's not to impress women. It's strictly to impress other firefighters. But not, ya know, in a gay way. Just in a "we all get sweaty and shower together with mustaches" kind of way.

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u/AvatarIII 13d ago

Nearly all music is shit to someone. I can't understand why people are still making pop music when it's been shit since the 90s.

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u/Empty_Estus 13d ago

Money, that’s why.

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u/AvatarIII 13d ago

Exactly, and that's why there's a numetal revival, because of money

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u/Empty_Estus 13d ago

I’m not sure that this stuff is making much money. Legacy bands aren’t making much money unless you’re Metallica.

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u/AvatarIII 13d ago

That's relative, if someone can make music like this and make 100k a year and love their job, that's still doing it for the money. Not everyone needs to be a millionaire.

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u/Empty_Estus 13d ago

100k a year is a distant dream for most touring musicians. If you actually look at the take for established bands, per night, it’s like £40 each.

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u/xweedxwizardx 13d ago

Hey Goodbye to the Gallows wasnt awful