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Layne Staley was extremely talented, he's at the top tier of the grunge genre imo. Definitely a metal singer though, AiC (especially their last album with staley) touches on sludge and doom metal rather than the pop-punk of nirvana or the hard rock of pearl jam. I love pearl jam too, but Eddie Vedder mumbles worse than a nigger on soundcloud.

Even nirvana was a hardcore band from the start with bleach, and in utero has a couple of hardcore songs on it too, but that band is forever tainted by nevermind. Not a bad record, in all honesty, but extremely pop-adjacent. The formulaic songwriting on nevermind and the lead singles from in utero would fuck up rock forever, but nirvana themselves were more versatile than that.

On the topic, nu metal actually had a surprising amount of talent and innovation. I know it's the ugly stepchild of metal, but its really just because Fred durst acted like a douchebag in the 2000s. And the woodstock 99 disaster. If those 2 things didnt happen, it would be viewed more fondly. None of the bands sounded alike either. If you didn't like limp bizkit, you could listen to korn. If you didn't like system of a down, you could listen to deftones, etc. Lots going on with the genre. Some bands got extremely experimental, like static x. Some bands were bordering on extreme metal like early slipknot or ill niño. Everyone was experimenting to some degree, and it wasn't very formulaic or corporate at all (apart from the bands bordering on post grunge like papa roach or skindred)

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