Album Rating: 3.5
There's a version of the record by Dynamic Editor on YouTube where he heavily de-bricked and de-compressed the mix, it's a much more dynamic listen as a result. His edit of Thursday's A City By The Light Divided is a massive improvement over the OG too
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Album Rating: 3.5
Never rly had an issue with the production on this album
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Album Rating: 3.0
phantom bride is a great track
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Album Rating: 3.0
this just doesn't feel like a deftones album, it sounds like a cchino side project
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Album Rating: 3.5
The title track is the worst track on here.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Respectfully disagree.
Pittura Infamante, Xenon, and LMIRL is the weakest stretch of music these guys have ever made… I love almost every other song here.
I think Doomed User is kinda dumb but was a needed “heavy” song at that point in the tracklist. LMIRL isn’t as bad as the two before but it’s still not good enough for me to lump it with the rest… but I think almost everything else here is gold or at bare minimum meets the standard you’d expect from Deftones.
Acid Hologram, Geometric Headdress, Hearts / Wires, Phantom Bride, and Rubicon are all among their best songs ever imo. Prayers / Triangles is just fine as an opener even if it’s nothing groundbreaking for them, and Gore is honestly pretty tight, very intense when it needs to be but at this point it comes across as insincere given what happened with Sergio, for all these years I figured the song was about him and then they just kicked him to the curb. Still a good track but damn man
I still think with better production and cutting out Pittura and Xenon, this potentially could’ve been a top three record for them.
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Album Rating: 4.5
btw cutting those two tracks would still leave this record at like 41 mins which, while kinda brief, is still very adequate for these guys.
I literally think that with Nick or Terry on the boards and cutting those two tracks, shit this honestly could’ve been a 5. the guitars and vocals just overpower everything here and there’s some vocal effects that just sound terrible.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I don’t know this Matt Hyde guy, and idk if I wanna place all of the blame on him, because I’m sure a band as popular as Deftones has a substantial amount of input on how their records sound, I’m just gonna say that live performances of these songs have a clarity that makes them sound so much better. Now just get chino in there for some addition vocal takes and bam! Album doesn’t have the lowest avg ever for them… which is still ridiculous. This is not worse than Adrenaline at bare minimum, and tbh I like it more than the s/t and possibly Around the Fur (don’t crucify me).
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Album Rating: 2.5
This sounds like a b side album. It’s experimental I think
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Album Rating: 3.5
I like this now way more than when it first dropped
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Album Rating: 3.5
"I think Doomed User is kinda dumb but was a needed “heavy” song at that point in the tracklist."
That's honestly the problem with a lot of the heavier moments of the album, imo - a lot of it doesn't really gel together. Even the Steph riff that follows Jerry's solo on 'Phantom Bride' feels somewhat out of place and just heavy for the sake of heavy.
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"I like this now way more than when it first dropped"
Yeah I feel the same way. Yesterday was my Gore day and it's waaaay better than I remembered. Sure there are some odd choices throughout the record, especially the contrasts in the production. Thanks to the track cXz on the new record, which is the most Gore sounding song, I appreciate this more now.
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Album Rating: 3.0
First half is really boring to me but it does pick up pace later
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Album Rating: 4.0
Remaster this please
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Album Rating: 4.5
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Legit could be a top five tones album with a proper remaster. I love Acid Hologram but I’d love it even more if the bass was audible and I didn’t have to squint to hear Abe’s fills
Just rip out Pittura and Xenon because those tracks are fucking useless
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Album Rating: 4.5
Double post
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Album Rating: 4.0
The mix really is the only thing holding this one back for me
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Album Rating: 4.0
The wiki does have a comment from the band that basically boiled down to "Chino was writing Morrisey while Carpenter was writing Meshuggah." Speaks to the odd genre switchups at points. It's like they made an album while not completely in sync with one another.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Which kinda is what makes it so good. But the production is awful (to mine ears)
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Album Rating: 3.0
This has been true for basically every album from DE onwards. Chino has always crooned in a Morrissey-like fashion and Stephen's Meshuggah worship started reaching borderline uncomfortable levels after SNW. It never stopped them from making good records
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