Nu Metal's Influential Vocal Composition

2025-05-15

When nu metal emerged in the early 1990s, gatekeeping metal discourse quickly vilified the genre, impacting the choices musicians would make. This chapter focuses on nu metal vocal composition and how bands used or avoided certain vocal delivery styles based on whether or not they wanted to be categorized with the emerging genre around the turn of the millennium. Drew Nobile’s 2022 theory of the telos principle and Glen Pillsbury’s 2006 theory of energy cycles are used to highlight the ways that nu metal composes vocal timbral cycles of energy to create tension and release (or telos) throughout songs. This chapter analyzes the vocal compositional choices of three bands. Two examples from foundational nu metal band Korn are discussed, followed by two examples from both Incubus and Machine Head. Korn utilizes vocal timbral cycles of energy throughout the band’s catalogue. However, both Incubus and Machine Head were vocal in interviews about not wanting to be categorized as nu metal, and both bands changed their compositional techniques on post-nu metal albums. In both cases, a shift away from vocal timbral cycles of energy as drivers of telos is observed.

Between states: the Transylvanian question and the European idea during World War II, by Holly Case, Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2009, 376 pp., US$60.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9780804759861

Nationalities Papers · 2012-05-01

Between states: the Transylvanian question and the European idea during World War II, by Holly Case, Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2009, 376 pp., US$60.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9780804759861 - Volume 40 Issue 3

ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF VITAMIN C*

Nutrition Reviews · 2009-04-27 · 2 citations

Journal Article Isolation and Identification of Vitamin C Get access W. A. Waugh, W. A. Waugh Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar C. G. King C. G. King Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Nutrition Reviews, Volume 34, Issue 3, March 1976, Pages 81–83, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-4887.1976.tb05708.x Published: 01 March 1976 Article history Received: 09 May 1932 Published: 01 March 1976

TRENDS IN THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND ITS RELATION TO LIFE AND HEALTH

Nutrition Reviews · 2009-04-27 · 3 citations

Trends in the Science of Food and Its Relation to Life and Health Get access Charles Glen King Charles Glen King Scientific Director, The Nutrition Foundation, Inc. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Nutrition Reviews, Volume 10, Issue 1, January 1952, Pages 1–4, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-4887.1952.tb00994.x Published: 01 January 1952

Nutrition Reviews

Nutrition Reviews · 2009-04-27

Nutrition Reviews Get access Charles Glen King Charles Glen King Scientific Director The Nutrition Foundation Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Nutrition Reviews, Volume 40, Issue 11, November 1982, Page 332, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-4887.1982.tb05247.x Published: 01 November 1982

PRESENT KNOWLEDGE OF ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C)

Nutrition Reviews · 2009-04-27 · 17 citations

EARLY EXPERIENCES WITH ASCORBIC ACID-A RETROSPECT

Nutrition Reviews · 2009-04-27 · 1 citations

Journal Article Early Experiences with Ascorbic Acid—a Retrospect Get access Charles Glen King Charles Glen King Scientific Director of The Nutrition Foundation and Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Nutrition Reviews, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 1954, Pages 1–4, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-4887.1954.tb03123.x Published: 01 January 1954

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PubMed · 2003-05-01

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The Journal of Religion · 2000-10-01

The development of food and nutrition policy in Australia, with special attention to the State of Victoria.

PubMed · 1992-03-01 · 12 citations

Only 6% of Australia's workforce is engaged in agriculture but the country produces enough food for around 35 million people - more than half of them purchasers of exports. The federal political system includes 6 states and 2 territories, with states having responsibility for many aspects of health and agricultural policy. During the 1950s and 1960s Australia experienced a marked rise in ischaemic heart disease and death rates in middle aged men rose. With the onset of the economic slowdown in the 1970s, governments also looked to preventive measures to contain health service costs. In 1979 the Commonwealth Department of Health adopted 8 non-quantitative dietary guidelines and in 1986 a national Better Health Commission recommended a coordinated program to change dietary habits. Developments in Victoria were stimulated by a conference on 'Agriculture and human nutrition' in 1983. Following this a report 'Making healthy choices easy choices: towards a food and nutrition policy for Victoria' was released in November 1984 and the state government began a Food and Nutrition Project to stimulate intersectoral activity to promote lower risk eating patterns. In March 1987 the Victorian government formally adopted a food and nutrition policy and established an Interdepartmental Committee on Food and Nutrition with representation for Health, Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Education and Industry, Technology and Resources and a Food and Nutrition Community Consultative Group. Increasing financial stringency in the late 1980s was fortuitously offset by the availability of funds from the Victorian Health Promotional Foundation, funded by a 10% surtax on tobacco.