Being the Gob of metal, I keep my claw on the pulse of my industry, but when I read that one of the most popular genres amongst the younger generation wasn’t new music but NU music. I was GOBSMACKED. Can this be? Is nu-metal new … again? New Nu?  Well, they do say everything is cyclical, which I never was a believer in, that is, until earlier this week when I was walking to get my morning slurpee, and I saw a teenage boy wearing Jnco jeans. I screamed, “2001 called, they want their comically-flarred pants back,” and then he struck me with his chain wallet, almost breaking my puka necklace! Soon another kid entered, looking like he’d been spit out of Thrasher Magazine, and I grabbed him by his frosted tips and demanded answers: “What’s going on? Who do you work for?!” The boy said two things that shook me to my core: first, he insisted they were merely fans of “classic rock.” I thought, c...