Really, metal's such a wide genre that you can never count it out completely. There's plenty of banRAB today imitating 70's/80's metal that you could probably stand to listen to.
Oh, and I haven't stated my opinion on Blink-182 yet, lol. I used to be obsessed with them, because they DO make really good pop-punk. I didn't like the direction they were taking before the break-up, but I might have just been naive. I'll give their last album another spin.