Deftones: Underrated?

warner bros took down the youtube of "smile" that the band uploaded themselves for some reason, idk

oh got it

I just had a geek moment and realized that the way the special red edition of White Pony displays the track times but not the titles on the cover is a nod to the packaging of Hum's Downward Is Heavenward.

Anyway I also think the s/t record is underrated, so many jams and probably their two best guitar-free tracks.

i still think "minerva" is their best single. an incredible summary of their aesthetic

Yesss. The production on that album and that song in particular is so ludicrously expansive (expensive).

every few months i'll put on koi no yokan and it's really one of the best records to come out in the last few years and i think i'm really almost 100 percent sure it's better than white pony

GORE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0WakBLNA0k

that is an excellent name for a Deftones album

also some lucky motherfuckers already have a promo stream:

http://i.imgur.com/wA7iQNR.png

damn u B?tter Anders

this is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAmt6zN9vOk

"Prayers/Triangles" (3:37)
"Acid Hologram" (4:02)
"Doomed User" (5:33)
"Geometric Headdress" (3:54)
"Hearts/Wires" (6:09)
"Pittura Infamante" (3:01)
"Xenon" (3:11)
"(L)MIRL" (1:45)
"Gore" (4:28)
"Phantom Bride" (7:16)
"Rubicon" (8:07)

Turmoil in the band as guitarist Stephen Carpenter admits to not liking the direction new album Gore took. Good sign, I think, as he also hated White Pony. Although, I would like to eventually hear a Deftones record directed by Stephen.

that was the s/t iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ywGIfv4Mzo

liking this single but I admire fans who can tell most of their songs apart

http://blog.siriusxm.com/2016/03/16/deftones-world-premiere-of-new-song-doomed-user-on-octane/

this is shaping up to sound a lot like diamond eyes. weird

i really like it though

why is everyone too cool for deftones

I am emphatically not too cool for deftones

more like deaftones

can't believe divorcedalcoholicloser isn't on ilx any more

i have time for this band but the idea that the honourable gentleman divorcealcoholicloser flouts in the op, which ive heard repeated often, that they are lumped into nu-metal because of "who they hung out with when they first started" is just wrong: they have rap metal songs, there are a number of sonic similarities to other bad and hated nu-metal peers in their music, espesh in the first two albums, i saw them tour with linkin park and taproot 13 years after they formed the band. just embrace the fact that you like a nu-metal band ffs.

saying "they have rap metal songs" is p misleading though, they've recorded precisely zero of those in the last 15 years

doesn't mean it didn't happen

perfectly fine with considering them the best possible nu-metal band

their music is still wayyy groove-oriented

is REM rap rock because they did a song with KRS One

or sonic youth bc kool thing

well, and i love you mary jane

every band on judgment night soundtrack! oh and plus aerosmith

yes yes yes

jim in glasgow what if someone called you nu metal. pls think about that

the first show i went to was korn supported by helmet and limp bizkit.

i am nu-metal

those are some "deft tones" that these guys are playing!

most deft

A few more Gore songs are kicking around. This is sounding pleasantly all over the place.

And "Phantom Bride" contains something truly shocking.

a vinyl rip is out there

if that's your kind of thing

pretty sure if you had played me the intro to "geometric headdress" and told me it was gorguts i'd be like "hm yeah checks out"

I would love for them to do one of those Rank Your Records columns but I worry they'd break up

In other news even in shitty-rip form this sounds really really good

I WANT MORE LEFT TURNS

idk this kinda feels like it's full of left turns. almost every track is differently surprising

i spend most of my life listening to deftones albums tho

only listened to it once, but structurally sounds pretty plain..verse, chorus, bridge, etc.

a lot of deftones songs obey that. but idk "xenon" is like all chorus

god "phantom bride" is so good

the entire closing suite of "gore"/"phantom bride"/"rubicon" rivals "passenger"/"change"/"pink maggit" imo

yeah "Rubicon" is a great closer. Looking forward to a proper version of this.