Deftones Band • Page 205

They really just know how to nail the closers.

 

It bummed me out when they released Ohms as the first single for that reason. I like to be surprised by the last track.

 

Diamond Eyes is probably a top three album opener of theirs for me

 

Royal is incredible

 

Ohms is top 3 at this point, never understood the slightly polarizing reception it started getting in the past few years. It just does everything I want out of a Deftones album and flows so well. Shout out to Sergio for giving it all with his basslines for the last time. Truly hope they let Fred Sablan cook on the new album.

 

Sitting here foolishly psychoanalyzing the single title.

“Mountains are big.”
“Mountains are beautiful.”
“Mountains can erupt.”

 

Prince is one of their best songs

 

Entombed is the one for me of late

 

Implementing a pre-emptive "no ranking rule" until we get the new single lol

 

Private Music > My Mind is a Mountain

 

Sextape is one of their better slowish songs

 

Played Gore and Ohms in the car today. Still love both, although they are probably a little lacking in crossover, standalone 'pop' songs; Gore especially. Probably why their reputations suffer a little.

That's an aspect often missing from commentary around this band because people still revert to the now tiresome ‘they're not nu-metal — they're artistic’: they're actually incredible at making actual songs from their ambiguous artistry. That quality really stands out when a band like Sleep Token get massive by placing a dreary heavy thing next to a dreary RnB/pop thing, while a guy cries over the top without ever stumbling upon a memorable hook.

 

Single Predictions:
- Swerve City on steroids.
- Three and a half minutes.
- We get no screams and one woo.

Album Predictions:
- 11 songs (safest guess).
- At least one guest feature (female).

 

This Place Is Death is another one of their best closers

been a few years since I'd revisited DE. great album

 

now Ohms

 

Just did a Ohms listen as well; it gets a lot better from track 5 onward for me.

 

I have a hot take

 

Deftones is a good band?

 

Genesis is a good song but it shouldn't have been the opener imo

Ceremony works way better

 

That's interesting...for a while I would skip Genesis and start at Ceremony. Then I saw them at the Forum in London in 2022 when they opened with Genesis, and it was seismic. I don't skip it now.

 

You inadvertently solved the puzzle of Pittura for me. I always loathed the song for some reason. Now that I view it as Smashing Pumpkins worship, it’s not as bad…

 

disagree re: Genesis. one of their best openers.

 

Pompeji still blows me away

 

dawg I'm ranking shit asap on Thursday haha

 

Pittura is not one of their best songs but Chino is doing some legit top shelf Bjork worship on it which is kinda cool