Adrenaline is Deftones at their most raw and visceral, filled with the unbridled angst that only youth can conjure. But, the reality is that one of their exceptional works has to appear last on this list. Let us preface this by unequivocally stating that there are no weak Deftones records. In preparation for their headline set at Good Things Festival in December 2022, we count down their impeccable full-length discography from their (non-existent) lows, to their very best highs. Over the course of their stellar career, the band has produced some of the most thought-provoking and evocative music to ever grace the ears of metal enthusiasts, and in doing so, amassed themselves a devoted fan base rivaled only by the very greats. They embraced the notion that true heaviness was not solely dictated by the volume that you played at, nor by the overdrive and distortion you applied to your instruments. Somewhere brewing amongst this disarray of noise was a blip of musical clarity in the form of California natives Deftones, who had the ingenuity and conviction to experiment with the concept of ‘heaviness’ in a whole new way. Metal splintered off into countless offshoots, and for a time there it felt like the consensus amongst new bands was to compete on who could play the fastest and / or loudest (and surprisingly, rap the hardest). The salad days of ‘Thrash’, which had carried on the momentum generated by the ‘New Wave of British Heavy Metal’, were well and truly in the rearview, and the scene was evolving to find its next prominent sound. Deftones entered into the picture of metal’s history in the early 90’s, a time that marked a pivotal juncture in the trajectory of the genre. Regrettably, it also happens to be a befitting way to characterise the otherwise indefinable music of one of heavy music’s most transcendent stars. MORE: NOFX: Fat Mike Chats Double Albums, Being Ghosted By Blink-182 & The Emotional Journey For The Last Ever NOFX Shows // DUNE RATS: Dance Lessons and Thinking Outside The Box REVIEWS: SLEEPING WITH SIRENS: Complete Collapse // blink-182: EDGING // FREEDOM OF FEAR: Carpathia // ARCHITECTS: t he classic symptoms of a broken spirit // SLIPKNOT: The End, So Far // THE GLOOM IN THE CORNER: T rinity // THE COMFORT: Experience Everything. The semantics of labeling music as artistic or intellectual is problematically ambiguous, so as to make the exercise a reductive one at best (not to mention entirely pretentious).
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