Like the apocalypse, Stephen Carpenter’s razor riffs explode across Frank Delgado’s fizzling pads, while Abe Cunningham and Sergio Vega’s driving bass/percussion combo underpins the colossal soundscape. The record that vocalist Chino Moreno says had the band ‘firing on all cylinders’, is their ninth studio album spanning their 32-year career.Ī moody Pink Floyd-esque intro teases as opening track, Genesis, unfolds. OK, it’s still a shit year but, you know, a bit better now… Rising from the pandemic like a phoenix from the smouldering ashes, Deftones drop their first album in four years and all of a sudden 2020 isn’t such a bad year. Deftones release their first album since 2016’s Gore, but has the wait been worth it? Paul Grace finds out.
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