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TRACKLIST:
01 Intro
02 Paint the Skin
03 The Far Side
04 Am I the Only One
05 Going Up
06 Nihilism
07 Pitiful
08 Serenity
09 Disparager
10 Where the Honesty Lies
11 Ones
12 Downfall
13 As We Know It
If we’re being completely honest, I never really got into nü-metal all that much. I mean, I wouldn’t kick it out of bed for leaving crumbs in the sheets, but it also never fully roped me in and refused to let go. Instead, it was always just kind of… there. Don’t get me wrong, there are definitely some classics that remain undisputed bangers to this day, but on the whole, it always just felt a little too gimmicky for me. Too much flash and unbridled theatricality without enough substance to back it up. I can appreciate the willingness to experiment and eschew traditional norms, but the fact is a lot of it just didn’t land for me.
That being said, nü-metal is obviously doing just fine without me. In fact, it seems to have experienced something of a renaissance over the past several years, if it ever even really died down at all. I’ve noticed a lot of people looking back at the early- to mid-2000s through rose colored lenses, and they’re not wrong to do so. The Aughts really were an excellent time for heavy music, with tons of soon-to-be classic albums being churned out left and right as if from a conveyor belt across all sorts of subgenres. Some of it was great, some of it was terrible, and some of it was really, really fucking weird, but these days there’s a tangible nostalgia for them all the same. To that end, I will say this: if more nü-metal bands had sounded like this back then, then I would have been a much, much bigger fan, because this shit rips, no two ways about it.
I’ve gotta hand it to them, the self-titled debut album from Des Moines, Iowa’s Vended surprised the hell out of me. I will freely admit that my expectations were low going into it, and I had already mentally prepared myself to be thoroughly unimpressed. I was worried that getting through this thing was going to be a slog, but as soon as the opening of “Paint the Skin” kicked in with a blistering drum fill and some blast beats on top of a genuinely well-written and punchy riff, I suddenly caught myself sitting up straight and audibly saying, “Oh!”