IT'S as you were for the Deftones' self-titled fourth album. Prescribing to the "if it ain't broke" theory, this record is very much a continuation of 2000's massive selling White Pony. You know what to expect.
Raking guitars, searing drumbeats and screeching vocals are the abundant features of this 11-track effort. Produced by Terry Date, the engine behind Limp Bizkit, there are also echoes of his more famed work with Soundgarden - particularly in the atmospheric Minerva (the first single) and the "wall of sound" which greets the opening bars of Hexagram and Bloody Cape. Deftones won't win another Grammy with this record, but the power which saw their songs used in the two Matrix films is still in full supply - and should keep their nu-metal bandwagon rolling.
Updated: 10:28 Thursday, July 10, 2003
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