Desert Island Discourse

Episode 30: Deftones


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It's time for Angstoberfest to bid a teary, mascara-stained farewell, but not before taking an extra melodramatic bow. So now, one week after covering the best (early-oughts) emo band of all time, we're traveling to the flipside of the much derided sadness coin with the world's best nü-metal band: Deftones. That's right, this episode is all about how Max's favorite no-longer-guilty-pleasure band slowly transformed from a bunch of So-Cal Korn fans into one of the foremost experimenters in a notoriously conservative genre. But are they really the Radiohead of metal? Or is that a stupid, lazy comparison made by a legion of hacks who don't know how to talk about anything without referencing Radiohead and have probably never listened to any metal past Metallica's black album? Sorry, I have a chip on my shoulder about this. Anyway, enjoy! In a sad way! Also: the death of compact discs, Grindr is magic, and the Tom Waits Advent Calendar.
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