System Of A Downin Shavo Odadjianin mielestä nu metal ei ole tyyli vaan aikakausi

System Of A Down -basisti Shavo Odadjian kertoi näkemyksiään nu metalista 95.5 KLOS’n New & Approved -ohjelman haastattelussa. Nu metal oli voimissaan etenkin 90-luvun lopulla ja 2000-luvun alussa. Odadjianin mielestä nu metal ei ole tyyli vaan aikakausi, jolloin bändit soittivat raskasta musiikkia mutta tekivät sen ”toisella tavalla”. Odadjian lisäsi, että jokainen aikakausi on aluksi ”cool”, kunnes tulee liuta bändejä, jotka pilaavat sen.
Odadjian kertoo haastattelussa seuraavaa:

”Someone asked me recently about being a ’nu metal’ band. And I have a different outlook on nu metal. It’s not a style. It was an era where bands played heavy music, but did it in another way. They didn’t do the basic ’80s heavy. They mixed rock-metal with something different, whether it be hip-hop, punk rock, eclectic stuff, complicated, progressive stuff, psychedelic prog. People did different things. For example, DEFTONES had that PORTISHEAD vibe that they brought into metal. It’s so freaking cool. There’s a whole style now — there’s a whole DEFTONES-style music right now popping off on TikTok.

If you think about it, bro, even though we got villainized a little bit — the nu metal thing was cheesy for a while because every era comes out and it’s cool. Then some bands come up that ruined that cool vibe… Heavy metal was great in the ’80s. Then these bands came out that kind of ruined it, the cheesier glam metal bands came out. I don’t wanna name ’em, but some cheesy bands came out.”

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