White Pony elevated the band high above the entire nu-metal scene, which they reluctantly but still treated.
Twenty-two years ago this month, the band raised people’s eyebrows with their new album. Their third album, White Pony, was the ultimate middle finger to such ties. While the Californian band Deftones had had a hand in creating that scene with their 1995 debut album, Adrenaline, their second project, Around the Fur (1997), seemed like an attempt to distance themselves from that niche with a collection of experimental songs that mixed agony and serenity. Multiple sound-alike bands were placing hip-hop vocals on top of loud guitar riffs and heavy drums, achieving massive success and collecting platinum sales.
Back when Britney Spears was doing it again on the Video Music Award stage, Eminem was walking around grabbing his you-know-what while breaking sales records, and boyband posters were covering up teenagers’ bedroom walls, the peak of the nu-metal era was happening on the other side of MTV.
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