Album Rating: 3.5

That would actually be pretty cool. They could take the post-hardcore influences of Adrenaline and combine that with the more experimental influences they picked up later on. That would be a sweet combo

Album Rating: 3.5

This album is car porn

"This shit is way too safe"
it has fingersnaps and Chino has even more washing machine layerings on his babyscrems, q frankly do not know what more could be expected

Album Rating: 4.0

I have this at 4.5 and even I'm pissed this is aoty



Oh well, at least it wasn't poopstock or fart bridges

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

aoty baby

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

synths in songs like Radiant City are yet another reason for me to think that Frank could be the 2nd best deftone after Abe. Shame he isn't highlighted more

"I'm just waiting for another Deftones album that takes as many creative risks as White Pony or Saturday Night Wrist. This shit is way too safe"

Allow me to introduce you to... Gore

Album Rating: 3.0

Gore was ass tho.

Album Rating: 4.0

Not ass but it's not something I'd recommend.

It's better than this

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I don't think this is safe at all tbh, but it has Deftones' print all around.

"This album is car porn" 2

Congrats sput, congrats Deftones.

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah I don't find this to be as "safe" as other people do. That was Gore. Band has a very distinct sound and has been around for like 30 years now so it'll always sound like "same old Deftones" to an extent... but there's def more of a "post metal" influence here than any of their prior work, and Sergio and Frank have never had more of presence throughout an entire record as they do here.

Album Rating: 3.5

Maybe I don't know what qualifies an album as post metal but I hear zero post metal on this album. Post metal as a label feels too thrown around in the same way alt metal was thrown around in the early 90s. Doesn't really describe what the album sounds like, but it makes the album seem more elevated than it is without the tag.

"could you elaborate on this? Gore is kind of an oddball album i'd hardly call it safe" [2]

yeah gore is their post-iest album wut

this album is as safe as it gets lol

Album Rating: 3.0

This is safe. Gore is bad.

correct, they played this safe because gore is bad

Album Rating: 4.0

"could you elaborate on this? Gore is kind of an oddball album i'd hardly call it safe"



Idk when I think "oddball Deftones album" I think White Pony, S/T, and SNW... three albums where they throw a ton of shit at the wall and made a vehement effort to make each track distinctly different.



Gore is not that at all imo. Outside of Acid Hologram and the Cantrell solos on Phantom Bride... there's nothing weird, unique, odd or anything about those songs. Even on a track by track basis quite a bit of the album bleeds together. It's Deftones at their most vanilla and lazy.



The band is much better when they write songs with a different style they go all in on, rather than make every song some metal/alt-rock/dream pop Frankenstein like on Gore.

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

"there's nothing weird, unique, odd or anything about those songs"



so can you point me to other songs with non-deftony riffs like Xenos and Pittura, or the toolgaze(?) of (L)MIRL, or the final third of the t/t?



"The band is much better when they write songs with a different style they go all in on, rather than make every song some metal/alt-rock/dream pop Frankenstein like on Gore."



Ah, so Gore was indeed weird after all

"so can you point me to other songs with non-deftony riffs like Xenos and Pittura, or the toolgaze(?) of (L)MIRL, or the final third of the t/t?"

Yeah (L)MIRL and Pittura are some of my fave 'tones tunes for the exact reason they don't sound like any of their other songs. Gore played more like a Palms record at points.