deftones - rocket skates

it’s time, blogreaders.

it’s time for me to come clean about something that i haven’t been very forthcoming about.  i have a dark past… a dark past that involves… nu-metal.

yes, friends.  while you were already listening to cool music in 1997-1999, i was lost in a hopeless world of really bad aggro music.  i was in high school.  i didn’t know any better.

you see, i hadn’t quite figured out what hardcore was.  perhaps if i’d been exposed to it at an earlier age, i might have avoided this altogether, but the truth is - i liked a lot of really shitty bands.  we’re talking about limp bizkit, korn, sevendust, incubus, etc.  the list goes on.  it’s bad.

i’m not proud of it.  but hey, i obviously grew out of it.  thank god.

however, there’s two bands that i was way into during that time that have always stuck with me long after i stopped listening to anything with a “nu-” in front of it.  i think it’s because those bands are good enough to transcend the genre they existed in.  those bands are deftones and system of a down.  deftones because they always sounded ahead of their time and system of a down because they were always doing something interesting (albeit a little weird) musically.

now, deftones were making music way before the term nu-metal even existed, so their credibility sort of goes without saying.  they have a huge following among that crowd, but i bet you’d find a lot of people who listen to indie music admitting their love for this band.

anyway, they released a new video today and it’s pretty damn good.  they easily have found a way to sound current in 2010 and stay true to their sound at the same time.

so anyway, i thought i’d take the opportunity to geek out about the video and the band, while fessing up to my dark nu-metal past.

i hope you can forgive me, and through the forgiveness process, learn to love me and deftones.