If you’re expecting us to wax lyrical on how rubbish nu metal was then you’re going to be a little disappointed. The key thing we learned from doing this episode is that yes, while there was indeed a crazy amount of garbage music floating around at the time (and honestly, what makes that any different to any other era of music?), nu metal represents alternative music’s last great mainstream hurrah.

It was a time when major labels would throw money at bands with downtuned guitars, melodic choruses and screaming. It was a moment in history where literally millions of people thought it was acceptable to fuse hip hop with metal music in the most dull-headed fashion. Yet, despite all that, it could also be seen as the biggest swindle rock ever pulled on mainstream music.

Nu metal was responsible for so much good and bad that we felt it w ...