Chino Moreno screams almost the entire song and its very reminiscent of the White Pony track "Elite" except the emotion is changed from sarcastic arrogance to pure anger which is expressed in the stomping guitar and lines like "And I hope we never do meet again!"įor a completely electronic song, "Lucky You" fits right in, and features beats from Team Sleeps DJ Crook and guest vocals by Tinfeds Ray Osburn. The next track "When Girls Telephone Boys" is the heaviest and most frightening track on the entire disc.
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It's like movie special effects, you don't want it popping out going "THIS IS AN EFFECT", the whole purpose is for it to seamlessly pass you by without you noticing it until its gone, which Frank does perfectly.
Track number five, "Deathblow", is a welcome departure from the regular Deftones style and really showcases DJ, Frank Delgado's role in the band by adding interesting effects and samples to enchance the mood that are usually neatly hidden in the background.
The first single "Minerva" is a swirling, hypnotic anthem that you just can't help but space out and sing along to. The second track, "Needles & Pins" begins with probably the most memorable riff on the whole album and even brings back memories of "Adrenaline". The album opens with the melodic, yet tortured "Hexagram" where vocalist, Chino Moreno, screams his lungs out at the end of every verse to the point where you would just like him to stop in fear that he will suffer another vocal chord injury. So now by turning up the intensity while still progressing, it should satisfy fans of the heavier Around the Fur era Deftones as well as fans that prefer the mellow experimentation of White Pony. But don't be fooled, these heavy sections aren't just stupid two chord nu-metal chuga-chuga style, the guitars hit you with a metallic thud and then fall back with a melodic shimmering after taste that you can't help but fall in love with. Stephen Carpenter still retains one of the most distinctive styles in modern metal and I still think that his guitar has some of the most dense and full, yet wonderfully clear distortion. It seems that The Deftones have replaced the quiet mellow sections of White Pony in favor of heavy metallic guitars. The one thing you will realize from the very first track is that this album is HEAVY.