The success of Korn and Limp Bizkit has inspired a glut of rap-metal bands to hit the airwaves. Not many of them, however, are from Great Britain.

One Minute Silence, the largest rap-metal outfit to break out of London, plays Monday at Crowbar, 420 E. College Ave. Alt-metal outfits Ultraspank and Nonpoint are also slated to perform, as well as headlining thrash outfit Mudvayne.

One Minute Silence is touring in support of its new album, Buy Now . . . Saved Later, released earlier this year. The first single from Buy Now, "Holy Man," has garnered airplay on both modern rock radio and MTV.

This is not One Minute Silence's first trip to the United States. Last year the band toured the nation behind its debut album, Available In All Colors.

1999 saw One Minute Silence opening for such peers as Sepultura, Biohazard, Sevendust, Godsmack and Anthrax.

One Minute Silence cites Sevendust and Slipknot as two of its biggest musical influences, but vocalist Brian "Yap" Barry takes lyrical cues from the ultra-political Rage Against the Machine.

On Buy Now . . . Saved Later, Barry shouts about such topics as religion, police and American politicians. He says the goal of his band is to raise questions in the minds of its audience.

"What I want to do is to ask some of the most important questions," he says. "And a big part of what this band is about is trying to get other people to demand answers too, instead of blindly accepting and believing what we are told by those in authority."

Barry is joined in One Minute Silence by bassist Glen Diani, drummer Eddie Stratton and new guitarist Massy. Massy was added after Available In All Colors was released to give One Minute Silence a funkier sound.

After using a hip-hop producer for Available In All Colors, One Minute Silence chose Colin Richardson for Buy Now . . . Saved Later, a metal producer who worked on several of Fear Factory's albums.

The result is not unlike Fear Factory's recordings. Buy Now . . . Saved Later is loud and aggressive, with fast playing and shouted lyrics that battle each other to be heard.