Ask Khushi Bhuta, a 20-year-old from Juhu about her favourite genre of music and we come away pleasantly surprised. Instead of the usual K-Pop or Taylor Swift, this young music lover tells us she listens to nu metal. She does listen to the other current favourites but nu metal, in her words, is her “main jam”.

A sub-genre of heavy metal, nu metal is a fusion of multiple genres, including heavy metal, hip hop, rap metal, and grunge. It took the metal music scene by storm in the late 1990s, when bands such as Linkin Park released their first nu metal album, Hybrid Theory.  Alternative metal bands such as Slipknot and Korn were already dominating the heavy metal industry by then: the term ‘nu metal’ was increasingly applied to metal bands that had their base in traditional metal, but contained elements of mainstream music genres.