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🎙Season 1: The Nu Metal Resurgence🎙
🎧 Spotify & Apple Podcasts
📅 New episodes every Friday
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The red fitted cap. A symbol of nu metal, and perhaps something else as well...

When unpacking Fred Durst, white boy rage, and the aesthetics of anger, it starts to look a lot like a political costume.

🎧 Sonic Subcultures explores the messy overlap between nostalgia, rebellion, and image
June 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Never thought we’d live long enough to see Deftones shirts, Adidas zip-ups, and red fitted caps become fashion statements again… And yet, here we are.

🎧Sonic Subcultures: Season 1 is out now🎧

The full series on the Nu Metal comeback you didn’t see coming. Link in bio.
June 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
They're the same thing 😈

From Fred Durst to a fear of the future, Sonic Subcultures breaks it all down.

9 episodes. Streaming now. Link in bio.

#NuMetal #Podcast #MusicAnalysis #discourse #culture
June 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Gen Z didn’t invent nu metal, but they sure made it cool again.

Season 1 of Sonic Subcultures breaks down how the genre came back, why it resonates now, and what we missed the first time around — Link in bio🤘🎸🎧
May 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The resurgence of nu metal in the 2020s is more than just nostalgia.

Under the riffs: masculinity, alienation, violence, trauma, and cultural chaos.

Sonic Subcultures is a podcast that takes the genre seriously, and season one is now streaming in full (link in bio!)

#Podcast #MusicAndCulture
May 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Season 1 of Sonic Subcultures is now complete!

We’ve covered 9 nu metal albums, from egocore to political rage to digital fear.

This isn’t just nostalgia, it’s also a reflection. And you can binge it all now.

You know where to find us! Link in bio #music #academia #nostalgia #podcast
May 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
We began with Limp Bizkit to understand the cultural rise of nu metal.

We end with Limp Bizkit to trace what it left behind.

Sonic Subcultures wraps up its first season today with an episode on Chocolate Starfish and The Hot Dog Flavoured Water!

🎧 Available on Spotify & Apple.
May 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Loud. Messy. Misunderstood

Sonic Subcultures Season 1 is about the bands that shaped a generation and the noise that still echoes today.

Streaming now on Spotify & Apple 🎧
April 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Nu metal bands did not just rock out, they were often warning us. On Digimortal (2001), Fear Factory imagined a future shaped by AI, memory downloads, and man-machine symbiosis.

Hear us unpack it all on the latest episode of Sonic Subcultures. 🎧 Spotify + Apple

#NuMetal #Digimortal #MusicPodcast
April 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Sonic Subcultures is about music, memory, and the moments they create. Season One: nu metal as more than a genre.

For those who loved it, hated it, or are just starting to understand it — tune in on🎧 Spotify + Apple

#NuMetal #Podcast #MusicCulture #AltHistory #SoundStudies #MediaTheory
April 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
What do Limp Bizkit, Rob Zombie, and Staind have in common?

They kicked off Season 1 of Sonic Subcultures! This season is about nu metal— what it meant then, what it means now, and why it won’t go away.

Episode 4 drops Friday (4/4/25): Rage Against the Machine.

🎧Link in bio🎧
April 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM