It bummed me out when they released Ohms as the first single for that reason. I like to be surprised by the last track.
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.”
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
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…
Pittura is not one of their best songs but Chino is doing some legit top shelf Bjork worship on it which is kinda cool