^"Body Count's Ice-T Talks Shit but Does the Shooting". Decibel Magazine. June 4, 2014. Retrieved May 2, 2015. Back in the day, Body Count was categorized as "rap metal" or "nu metal." Manslaughter sounds like just a straight-up metal album, without the hip-hop tropes that -- because of your background (and ethnicity) -- the band was initially categorized by.
^Bonacich, Drago. "Def Con Dos Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved May 16, 2023. A rap/metal act from Spain, Def Con Dos started playing covers of Public Enemy and Beastie Boys while touring Madrid's club scene under the name of Freddy Krueger y los Masters del Universo.
^Polhill, Oli (February 11, 2016). "Review: DVSR – D.V.S.R". The Edge. Retrieved May 10, 2023. Australian rap metal experimentalists DVSR
^Gonzales, David. "Greyhoundz Review". AllMusic. Retrieved May 10, 2023. In 2001, Philippine alternative metal/rap-metal band Greyhoundz released their second album, Greyhoundz
^Huey, Steve. "Corporate Avenger Biography by Steve Huey". AllMusic. Retrieved May 10, 2023. When the Humble Gods broke up, Daddy X moved on to front the rap-metal outfit Kottonmouth Kings
^Green, Stuart (August 1, 1999). "Orange 9mm: Pretend I'm Human". Exclaim. Retrieved May 10, 2023. It must be frustrating to be Orange 9mm. I mean, here you are dutifully pumping out cutting edge rap metal for the better part of the '90s
^"Otep interview". Illinois Entertainer. Otep, worked the pay-to-play stages of Ozzfest in the early new millennium, blasting feminist rap metal to Korn-fed crowds.