Which do you favor – nu-steel or heavy steel? It’s so simple as that this week in Chuck’s Fight Club on the Loudwire Nights radio present.

While the query may appear easy, the historical past there is not. Nu-Metal got here alongside within the mid-to-late ’90s and thrived into the early 2000s changing into. the predominant type of heavy music on the radio. Bands akin to Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Linkin Park, System of a Down and extra rose to fame over the course of nu-steel’s reign they usually stay as well-liked as ever in modern-day.

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It’s a way more storied an evolutionary historical past for Heavy Metal. Black Sabbath and Deep Purple had been among the many early pioneers. Judas Priest and Iron Maiden grabbed the torch and ran with it for a interval after which varied subgenres akin to thrash steel got here to forefront within the ’80s with Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth because the “Big 4.” Since then a wide range of subgenres have sprung up including to the collective historical past of steel.

So are you extra conventional in your steel sounds or do you just like the hip-hop and rap-rock touches nu-steel dropped at the sport. As typical, Loudwire Nights host Chuck Armstrong will introduce the battle throughout Monday may’s broadcast at 8PM. He’ll then make particular person arguments for each genres on Tuesday and Wednesday at 8PM, when you proceed to vote all through the week. The style with the upper score will then be featured in a rock block on Friday’s Loudwire Nights airing at 8PM.

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