It picks up a lot towards the end, and is becoming a favorite of mine.Ħ. A quiet verse that leads to a great display of Chino's singing ability in the chorus. Lifter: I didn't initially like this song, but after a bunch of listens, it's actually very catchy. The bridge kicks in with an awesome bass line, and repeatedly stops and starts the song until it finally breaks into Chino screaming in his signature way. Harsh palm muting and harmonics for the verse as Chino growls and screams perfectly. Nosebleed: Blowing away the mood of the last two slower songs, this one opens with one of the catchiest guitar riffs I've ever heard. Not a favorite of mine, but a good song to relax to.Ĥ. It never gets very heavy, but the slow tempo is a change of pace for most of the other songs on the album. One Weak: This track opens with a bass line that sets the mood for the song perfectly. The chorus, in my opinion, is actually a weaker part of the song, but it's still a great way to complete this solid track.ģ. An almost haunting opening guitar line gives way to a heavy riff, and then it's quiet again as Chino slow raps the verse. Minus Blindfold: A change from the first track. Nothing too complicated, just a very well done song for the genre of this album, which I guess would be rap metal.Ģ. The climactic "get bored!" and then the chorus riff gets me every time. It introduces the quiet verse, hard chorus theme used throughout the album in an awesome way. Adrenaline was actually the last album I gave a listen to out of their four released, but I regret it, because it is currently my favorite. I was a very casual fan of some of their singles since the White Pony era, but about one year ago, I started to really get into Deftones. He’s standing in a big empty room at the downtown studio with Cunningham, who jokes about the guitarist’s struggle.After being signed to Maverick Recordings nearly on the spot, the Deftones released their debut album Adrenaline in October of 1995. “As you may or may not have heard, I had some trouble liking some stuff in the beginning,” Carpenter says with a bearded grin. Much of the conflict famously comes from the creative sparks between Moreno and Carpenter, with the singer playing Morrissey to the guitarist’s Meshuggah. “We’re different enough that things rub a certain way. “That push and pull is what gives us our thing, whatever that is,” says Frank Delgado, keyboardist and sound scientist. For the Deftones, new music traditionally grows out of the ongoing creative tension within the band, which they’ve just learned to accept. Final vocals were recorded in Oregon, where Moreno now lives. A lot of the music I like does that.”Īlbum sessions in Los Angeles led to tracks built on heavy walls of sound and feeling, colliding the ethereal with the heavy, the light and the dark. A lot of times it’s not what people expect. “I see pictures in my head, and then I’ll start painting something that goes along with this. “I hear music, and I’m inspired by it,” he says. In a few hours, the video’s film crew would take Moreno to a residential neighborhood and shoot the singer running down a street. But when the band gathered for a rehearsal this week, they hadn’t played the shimmering, crushing “Prayers/Triangles” since recording it a year ago. In just over 24 hours, the quintet will perform their first live show since narrowly escaping being caught up in the Paris terrorist attacks last November. It’s been four years since the last Deftones studio album, Koi No Yokan, and the band is fully back in action. Singer Chino Moreno is pacing, leaping and whipping his mic chord anxiously, overcome with the sensations of a cut he describes as “perpetual motion, like the whole song is tumbling over itself.” Abe Cunningham is really pounding those drums, and Stephen Carpenter is bent over his guitar, carefully playing every part, though none of them are even plugged in.
When the recorded track begins again with layers of guitar feedback and muscular beats, the band doesn’t just walk through it. It’s an austere setting for a band of intense highs and lows, as a music video crew prepares for another take of “Prayers/Triangles,” the atmospheric opening song on the new Deftones album, Gore. During a brief moment of calm on a Los Angeles soundstage, the five members of the Deftones stand restlessly in a room of bright white light.