In The Mix

In the Mix has returned with a new season, and to start things off we decided to do a deeper dive into a genre that constantly comes up on the show: nu-metal. We explore newer songs from the bands of our childhood, and while we may have come up with the theme years ago with the intention of making fun, our perspectives shifted and we instead find some of these bands more resonant than we anticipated. What makes this music meaningful to people still, and what caused our change of heart? Not to say it's all great. Along the way we mock the rock-to-country grift, hear centrist nu-metal and realize that a band neither of us had thought about in 15 years is still one of the biggest bands in rock today.