High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The term "nu metal" was first used for a review of a mid-October 1995 Coal Chamber concert in Spin magazine in the form "new metal". The considerations on "nu metal" vs. "new metal" are present at the end of the "Get Thrashed" movie. Majority of heavy metal legends explain "new metal" as true continuation of heavy metal and somewhat dislike "nu metal". Like the bands of its antecedent, funk metal, many nu metal bands came from California (such as Korn and Disturbed, Deftones and P.O.D.).