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well this page is not hype. mad at you.

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A 4.2 would make me feel ok tbh. A 4.1 will make me feel quite angry and a 4 will feel like a sacrilege to me.

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valikoor has promised on his account that the average will not go under 4.2 and might go above that

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Yeah consistency is one thing the new album really has going for it. Front to back the whole thing is solid and unified in its sound. Mathematics, This Link Is Dead, and Pompeji are pretty comfortably the best songs on the album Imo, but Error, Radiant City and Headless are all very excellent too. I think the only glaring misstep at this point, after 5 plays, is Urantia, which always bores me now when I play it.

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someone on here said Urantia should have been a lead single and has to be the third single because it's so clean

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Gotta say to BigPleb and others going into this though: try to distance yourselves from the hype. Hype seriously ruins damn near everything. Had I read this thread prior to hearing the album I feel like I would have been incredibly disappointed, which is funny because this album is absolutely not disappointing, but the way some people are praising it you'd think it leaves their best material in the dust and that's just incredibly hyperbolic.

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"valikoor has promised on his account that the average will not go under 4.2 and might go above that"



Please Valk, be right about that as well.

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Each new deftones release is accompanied by hype on sput, it's been like that since time immemorial

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@Det it's the same when every Deftones album initially comes out man, I've learned just to go in as normal nowadays haha.

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Exactly lmao, it's one of the most hyped bands around here, and that's saying quite a lot.

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What are your favorites, Pikazilla?

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I was hyped as shit for Ohms and it delivered, but generally you shouldn't go into albums expecting to be completely blown way. Few albums manage to surpass your expectations, but this one did for me personally.

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Also, I really like Koi but Ohms to me is just better for now. There's a certain rejuvenation, energy and intensity that they haven't displayed in a loong time. Everyone here feels on top of their game.

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"Also, I really like Koi but Ohms to me is just better for now. There's a certain rejuvenation, energy and intensity that they haven't displayed in a loong time. Everyone here feels on top of their game."



Yes, yes, yes.

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Idk, KYN just sounds so much more masterful to me. It has a unified sound to it like Ohms but it just does everything so much better. The ambient/atmospheric moments are so much lovelier. The melodies are all so poignant and the hooks get stuck in my head for days on end. Like Pompeji is great but what's that ending ambient section compared to the instrumental build in Rosemary? Pompeji seems so slight by comparison. The choruses are also a bit slight too. Compared to memorable, massive choruses like Entombed, Gauze, Tempest, What Happened To You.



I'm not trying to shit on the new album, I think I'm just trying to counter the hype it's getting because it has me scratching my head a bit atm. Definitely enjoying this new album but nothing strikes me as 'essential' I guess. It all ebbs and flows well and the atmosphere and production is great but I don't think any of these tracks would upset a top 10 Deftones Songs list. I love This Link Is Dead but even there it's like... I just want a bit more. Give us another ending like Royal - something huge and memorable. For as damn good as the song is it never quite hits the climax I wish it would. There's nothing as crazy as Rapture, Royal, Gore (I will concede KNY is tame on this front too and it's the one drawback to it Imo), and nothing as catchy or essential as Entombed, Change, Digital Bath, Beauty School, 967 Evil, Gauze, Hole in the Earth, Cherry Waves, Beware, Rubicon. I feel like this is an album much better enjoyed all the way through, with fewer individual highlights, which is its own kind of reward I suppose. Like Gore is a pretty w.e album on the whole but the songs that do strike are HOLY SHIT good.

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You keep repeating that you're not trying to shit on the new album and I don't know if you're trying to convince yourself or us. I really enjoy songs like Rubicon (and several others from Gore), but saying that there's not a single song in Ohms that's better than it kinda sells the point that you don't like the album that much imo, which I find perplexing to say the least.

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I'm basically countering the hype since you and a few others are already declaring it potentially their best album after an evening of listening to it lol.

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Why do you want to counter the fact that a lot of people are loving the new album? What's the problem with people enjoying stuff that you evidently enjoyed less?

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I think for now Ohms is a 4 for me. It's just really solid all the way through but yeah there absolutely isn't a song on it that tops Rubicon, or Gore (title track) for sheer insanity in the vox dept. And nothing quite as dark and fucked as Acid Hologram. But I mean yeah Gore is a fucking mess overall and there's so much filler shit on it, there's no way that as an album it can compete with Ohms.

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I just think it's rly premature to say it's THAT good after a few spins vs years we've had to digest their other material. Plus the opinions of someone who doesn't feel as strongly as you about the new album are just as valid to someone else who might be feeling the same way about it. And I'm just reiterating that I don't dislike it because it sounds like I'm really fighting against it but that's because the overwhelming praise is... very confusing.