Chiba666
Well-Known Member
New album is darn good, had on repeat for my 8 hour work day yesterday. So far it is sitting behind WP.
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Maybe it's the fact that I wasn't a teenager in the 90's, but it took me a long time to get Deftones, but when I got into them, I got White Pony, and Diamond Eyes. Whilst both are solid albums, the feeling I'm more familiar with (as a full album) is the feeling I get from DE. I loved bits of WP, especially Pink Maggit (which still sends the most insane shivers rolling up and down my spine), but for some reason DE has more of an effect on me, and I don't get it when I see people absolutely raving about WP. Is it because I wasnt there for the band's beginings? IDK but Deftones are a band that touch ground that others can't even fucking scratch, and I love tehm dearly, and cannot wait to hear KNY
Maybe it's the fact that I wasn't a teenager in the 90's, but it took me a long time to get Deftones, but when I got into them, I got White Pony, and Diamond Eyes. Whilst both are solid albums, the feeling I'm more familiar with (as a full album) is the feeling I get from DE. I loved bits of WP, especially Pink Maggit (which still sends the most insane shivers rolling up and down my spine), but for some reason DE has more of an effect on me, and I don't get it when I see people absolutely raving about WP. Is it because I wasnt there for the band's beginings? IDK but Deftones are a band that touch ground that others can't even fucking scratch, and I love tehm dearly, and cannot wait to hear KNY
I think White Pony showed how fucking weird and atmospheric the band could get. It was kind of an unprecedented record at the time, considering everyone the Deftones were being lumped with and touring with. It was just a creepy, unsettling album that didn't really have a place in the current niche (at the time). The lyrical content was so different from anything around, and people gravitated a lot toward it, myself included, because it was so genuinely ominous and amorphous. But I get where you're coming from and I totally understand. I guess WP just holds a very, very special place in the hearts of the people that were coming up with this music. It was very, very far ahead of the curve in terms of quality. No one at the time could really claim that.
The new album scores 5/6 stars here. IMO better than DE, but thats just me. Really diggin´the hell out of this!
Koi No Yokan is Japanese for Holy Fuck, right? This shit is just not fair to all other albums released this year.
And, just made it to Polterheist.. sounds like something straight off Nothing.
And, just made it to Polterheist.. sounds like something straight off Nothing.
Except as an actual song.