It’s true that nu-metal had already reached mainstream status with bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit (whose Chocolate Starfish album, released a week before HT, sold over a million copies in its first week of release). One of the highest-selling albums of all time, the aptly titled album blended together various styles of rock, electronic, and hip-hop in a way that hadn’t quite been done before. For them, their 2000 debut album Hybrid Theory was also the rock anthem (a collection of them, really) for a generation – much like Nevermind was in the grunge era. The same can probably be said about Linkin Park, too. For example, Metallica are surely the most popular and successful thrash metal band of all time, as their Black Album helped them cross over to a mainstream audience – while their peers never quite got there (though obviously, bands like Megadeth and Slayer garnered accolades of their own). While the bands in question aren’t necessarily precluded by being commercially successful, it does happen quite often. “ Gateway” bands are usually considered those who open the listener up to a new world of music, relatively speaking. There’s a term that many use for bands that essentially are popular and accessible.
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