NEW THRILLENNIUM
Loved all the stuff about the year 2000 in the Deftones issue. My favourite year in metal as that was the year that gave the world my favourite metal album - not White Pony, Infest or Hybrid Theory, but LD50 by Mudvayne! Yes, really - I saw them on Never Mind The Buzzcocks and went out to find the album the very next day!
Ah, halcyon days: when weird-ass metal bands were regularly on respected BBC flagship shows. Who remembers Dani Filth on
Buzzcocks?
You don’t get shit like that any more (though we’d fully back Gaahl turning up on
The Great British Bake Off).
NEW MILLENNI-BUM
While I enjoyed all the 2000 stuff, I can’t help but feel classic heavy metal got a bit ignored?! It wasn’t all about Iron Maiden coming back with Bruce - we also had Magica by Dio, Stiff Upper Lip by AC/DC, Silicon Messiah by Blaze Bayley and House Of God by the mighty King Diamond! That’s just a few of them!
Graham McGuire (email)
There were, quite literally, dozens upon dozens of albums we could have mentioned, but we
reckon even the most dedicated old-school metalhead would be bold to say that 2000 is known as a vintage year for ‘propah’ heavy metal. As we all know, however, it would soon rise again, and then some.
Testament: big in Nepal. And everywhere, tbf
TONE DEF
So happy Deftones are finally back on the cover of Metal Hammer, even if it’s for an old album. Does this mean we’ll see them back on for the new one? I know it’s coming soon after, but a girl can dream, right?
Francesca Dickson (Facebook)
You’re all want, want, want, want, you Deftones fans! We are kidding, we’ll certainly be going big on the new album in one form or another, and from what we’ve heard on the grapevine, we should all be very excited indeed.
BE YEAR NOW