  Actually these pair are two of my more keen articles. Consensus also doesnt lean in your favour.  You want an explanation? You got it, ill keep it relativly simple and blunt:  * Alternative Metal is two coined name.   * One usage of the term refers to bands within the Nu Metal genre, that forsake large quantities of Hip Hop influence and instead draw influence from Metal Genres and Alternative Rock Genres. A similar name to define between Nu Metal bands that use heavy hip hop influence is 'Rap Metal'.   * The second usage of the term is relative to metal bands that do unorthodox things in their music, normally not akin to metal genres. These bands are also known as Avantgarde metal bands.    Actually, in writing that, i came up with a better soloution. Merge the Alternative Metal page's contents into the Nu Metal page. Then on the Alternative Metal page, write what i just put, in a more descriptive and defined manner. That actually solves the problem for the most part.  As for sources, then you would that the general metal community doesnt use the genre Alternative Metal. As seen, it is used to refer to bands across genres. Similar usage of these names are Epic Metal, and Dark Metal. They are used to associate bands due to one commonality, even though they all belong to different genres.   So i still agree with the idea of merging. But slightly changed, to merge the page's contents into the article, and then explain what the term endoes, as i mentioned above.  