Does Disturbed come into the Heavy-Rock genre, or Nu-Metal?

Having been a fan of metal--dare I say, metalhead?--for over twenty years, I would have to say "nu-metal," then again, they may be closer to the middle ground. There are so many labels these days, it's almost impossible to accurately categorize. I love your avatar!

At first they are NU Metal but they are now expanding this music similar to Godsmack. They are now incorporating guitar solos unlike their 1st two albums ("Stricken" has a guitar solo)

I think they fit into Hard Rock more than anything. Metal these days is screamo crap, and nu metal is rap rock. Disturbed is neither.

hmm..they're kind of hard to categorize..they seem to be a hybrid of the two.i think i'm gonna have to go with nu-metal though.

You know, I dont even classify music into that kind of detailed catagory. Ii always amazed me how passioant people are about how they class music. I've seen so many fights in forums about it. To me music is in one of several catagories. One of wich is rock. Tis means everything from aerosmith to disturbed to tool to kiss. It keeps things simple like that. remember when music meant simple pleasure?

I'd have to say they're Hard Rock as well.

I'd definatly have to say nu-metal besides I love these guys :D

I think one of the Heavy Rock Genre

in my opinion, they are caught in between the two genres. heavy rock, beacuse they are indeed heavy,and they rock. not the heaviest though. but heavy enough to be called a heavy rock band. Nu metal because they incorporate drop C# metal riffs with soaring vocal melodies(reminds me of 80's new wave vocal timbre, except the "uwaaaa"), without growling, unlike the typical heavy rock which relies on heavy distorted chord progressions rather than riffs. did i make sense?