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Despite a life cut tragically short by violence, Darrell Lance Abbott (1966–2004), known as ‘Dimebag Darrell,’ achieved stardom not only as a founding member of the bands Pantera and Damageplan, but also in death as an icon who succumbed onstage and carried his passions to the grave. Darrell Abbott took up guitar when he was 12. He was a devoted fan of Black Sabbath and Kiss. (He later had an autograph ...

Source: Rock Guitar Heroes, consultant editor Rusty Cutchin
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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1991–present) An American rock band from California led by vocalist Brandon Boyd, their style is almost impossible to classify as they draw influences from every conceivable sub-genre of rock, metal, jazz, hip hop and pop. The band earned mainstream recognition with the release of their 1999 album Make Yourself. Several well-crafted albums and singles followed including Morning View (2001) and ‘Drive’, bringing them critical acclaim and further commercial success. Styles ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1993–present) Californians Korn – often typeset with the ‘r’ reversed, Jonathon Houseman Davis (vocals), Reginald Arvizu (bass), David Silveria (drums) and James Shaffer (guitar) – are part of the nu metal school of rock, although their music is often more horror-themed and straight-edge rock than the genre they supposedly spawned. Their eponymous 1994 debut is often credited as the point where this brash, moody new style of music started ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1994–present) Limp Bizkit – Fred Durst (vocals), Mike Smith (guitar), DJ Lethal (turntables), Sam Rivers (bass) and John Otto (drums) – are something of a global phenomenon, and the benchmark against which all nu metal and rapcore bands are judged. Since their earliest recordings, their fusion of the direct vocal delivery of rap with the sledgehammer riffing of metal (nu metal) has found a fan base with disaffected youths ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1996–present) Other bands in the genre may be more acclaimed, and some more stylistically diverse, but Linkin Park – Chester Bennington (vocals), Mike Shinoda (MC), Brad Delson (guitar), Dave Farrell (bass), Joseph Hahn (DJ) and Rob Bourdon (drums) – are certainly the most successful in the nu metal sphere. Formed from the remains of various Californian college bands, the five-piece (initially called Hybrid Theory) signed to Warner Bros on ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1997–present) Four boys from the Welsh valleys, led by vocalist Ian Watkins, who became one of the UK’s biggest rock bands of the decade. Emerging with a nu metal sound with debut LP Thefakesoundofprogress in 2001, they evolved to a more melodic yet punky style and were rewarded when Liberation Transmission topped the UK charts in 2006. The band, now six-strong, began the next decade with fourth studio LP ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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(Vocals, b. 1969) Setting out to shock everyone, Brian Warner certainly succeeded. After assuming the name Marilyn Manson all members of his Florida-based band were required to adopt the names of female divas and serial killers. Industrially functional music grew increasingly melodic as time wore on, culminating in Antichrist Superstar (1996) and Mechanical Animals (1998). Like Rob Zombie, Manson is articulate in his own defence and is simply an updated version ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1988–present) Nine Inch Nails – Trent Reznor (vocals), Aaron North (guitar), Jeordie White (bass), Alessandro Cortini (keyboards) and Josh Freese (drums) – are the latest line-up of Reznor’s ever-popular band. Somehow walking the thin line between electro and metal, mainstream yet eternally credible, they are one of America’s least deified rock bands, but a five-album, double Grammy-winning career shows they are not totally forgotten. Rap superstar Eminem, on debut ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1993–present) Stars of the nu metal era at the turn of the century, Californians Papa Roach – Jacoby Shaddix (vocals), Jerry Horton (guitar), Tobin Esperance (bass) and David Buckner (drums) – had to wait until Infest (2000) to break through, alongside the likes of Limp Bizkit. 2002’s lovehatetragedy saw increased sales, but by 2003’s Getting Away With Murder many fans felt the band had softened their sound for the ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1991–2000, 2007–11) Formed in Los Angeles by Zack De La Rocha (vocals), Tom Morello (guitar), Tim Commerford (bass) and Brad Wilk (drums), their left-wing lyrics were as polemical as their metallic, rhythmic music. Their eponymous debut album (1992) bottled their live sound and frank social commentary. La Rocha left in 2000, the other members forming Audioslave with Chris Cornell, but RATM re-formed in 2007. Two years later they had ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1995–present) Iowa-based metallers Slipknot – Corey Taylor (vocals), James Root (guitar), Nathan Jordison (drums), Sean Crahan, Chris Fehn (both percussion), Sid Wilson (DJ), Mick Thompson (guitar), Paul Gray (bass) and Craig Jones (samples) – are literally unrecognizable. When playing or posing for photographs, this nu metal band (very much in the vein of bands like Limp Bizkit but far heavier and less rap-oriented) wear a selection of masks and ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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(Rapper, b. 1968) As one-hit wonders go Vanilla Ice is the exception – as he had two! Born Robert Van Winkle in Florida, this white rapper was crafty enough to transform the Queen/Bowie collaboration ‘Under Pressure’ into the self-advertising rap-pop of ‘Ice Ice Baby’, a UK/US chart-topper in 1990. Despised by the rap hardcore for daring to have another hit, ‘Play That Funky Music’ was at least ironic. To The Extreme ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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As the genre’s name so boldly implies, timing and image were both of critical importance to the realm of nu metal. In pure musical terms there was little to unite the scene’s leading exponents, save for the radical detuning of their instruments and a desire to distance themselves from such old-school hard rock favourites as Iron Maiden and Metallica. From the rap-flavoured pop rock of Limp Bizkit to the hate-driven, theatrical ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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The impact of rap on the rock market was everywhere to be seen in the first years of the new millennium. White artists, black artists and rock bands attempting to incorporate the style made this area the biggest musical melting pot since the 1950s. The means by which music was accessed switched from CD to downloading from the internet, requiring a shift in thinking from a record business already in recession. ...

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