Track Listing

1. Hexagram
2. Needles and Pins
3. Minerva
4. Good Morning Beautiful
5. Deathblow
6. When Girls Telephone Boys
7. Battle-axe
8. Lucky You
9. Bloody Cape
10. Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event
11. Moana

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8901 in Music
• Brand: DEFTONES
• Released on: 2003-05-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Album Description
The band's self-titled fourth album, as erotic as it is brutal, as relentless as it is gentle, rockets the Grammy-winning Deftones to the top of modern rock. Features 11 tracks, including the single 'Minerva' along with a 20-page color booklet, enhanced material with 20 minutes of exclusive video footage from inside the studio & a day in the life of each band member plus 150 candid photos. Maverick. 2003.

Amazon.com
While alt/nu/rap-metal typically bounds between two emotional poles--pissed-off and extremely pissed-off--and a musical range to match, the Deftones continue to push the genre's narrow boundaries outward on their fourth big-label release. Mic man Chino Moreno's patent yowl belies a range of emotion rare in the genus, while guitarist Stephen Carpenter seasons his buzz-saw assault with some industrial-strength riff textures and mixer Frank Delgado's spooky, synthetic textures further underscore Moreno's blossoming lyrical impressionism. If they stray uncomfortably close to jagged-rhythms formula in the album's opening quarter, the almost sunny sensuality of "Good Morning Beautiful" heralds some welcome shafts of light amidst the storm clouds. From there on, the mood drifts from languor ("Deathblow") to brooding ("Battle-axe," "Lucky You"), while "Bloody Cape" edges the band ever closer to traditional pop hooks before drifting into the resigned, psych-torpor of "Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event." A compelling and encouraging album--even if it's taken them 15 years to get this far. Enhanced CD features include studio and day-in-the-life-of band video footage, as well as 150 candid photos. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

Better than White Pony?
I just picked up the cd today. First off there's 11 songs on it, Minerva and Bloody Cape seemed to have been left off the list on Amazon. I had only heard Lucky You from the Matrix Reloaded soundtrack and was quite suprised by the rest of the album. Unlike the ethereal White Pony, Deftones is much darker. Chino gives a very emotional and brooding preformance, personal favourite are "Needles and Pins", "Deathblow" and "Minerva". "When Girls Telephone Boys" is alot like old Deftones, but the rest of the cd is a progression from White Pony. The guitar is very catchy and Carpenter has come up with some of his best work yet; Delgados is incredible especially on "Lucky You"; Cheng provides a great atmosphere; and Cunningham creates great beats and drumming very enjoyable to pick apart. The track that really suprised me was "Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event" though, I'm not sure what to say about it. It's different from other Deftones songs and sounds very New Age, yet distinctly Deftones. This cd is better than White Pony and like all their albums is a progression from the last one.

Ear Candy
It's been said many times here, but I'll say it again...this album is not "White Pony 2" or "Son of White Pony". With that being said, can we please stop pouting and move on?

This album is, arguably, the Deftones best album. No band on the planet marries such ambient and lush textures with such brutal power like these guys do, and that would make this their Sistine Chapel. Songs like "Hexagram" and "When Girls Telephone Boys" bludgeon you over the head to get your attention as opposed to tapping you on the shoulder, and "Good Morning Beautiful" and "Bloody Cape" have hooks that are so sugary-sweet your teeth will hurt listening to them. The crowning achievement here though, in my humble opinion, is the blistering "Needles and Pins", whose siren-like guitar work creates a sense of urgency and anxiety. I'm on the edge of my seat every time I hear it.

I think if "Around The Fur" and "White Pony" had a child, this album would be it. And I would spoil the hell out of it.

Another solid album from the 'tones
The album was everything that I would come to expect and then some from the deftones. Each song was unique in its own way and the agressive vibe from earlier albums(Around the fur, Adrenaline) is much more present on this album than on their previous record(White pony). Here is how the album plays out..

1.Hexagram:9/10-Great start for the album, starts out white-ponyish then busts into pure aggression. Great Start
2.Needles and Pins:10/10-Very hooky opening riff, theres nothing bad I can say about this song. It has that very soothingly brutal vibe to it.
3.Minerva:8/10-The single that is a single for obvious reasons, the song has a very "Change in the house of flies" feel to it. Great none the less.
4.Good morning beautiful:8/10-Another great aggressive song, not my favorite on the album. But still a good tune.
5.Deathblow:9/10-One of the more laid back songs on the album. It sounds like something completly different from what the deftones have done before. In a good way. Could easily be another single.
6.When girls telephone boys:10/10-This song is very intense. One of the best on the album. Very heavy and goes back to the basics with Chino's signature distorted screaming. The riff is pummeling. Great song.
7.Battle-Axe:9/10-Another great brutally beautiful song. Chino's singing is perfect for the song.
8.Lucky You:7/10-This song reminds me of Teenager too much. It is also on the Matrix Reloaded soundtrack. It's not a bad song, but it has that "Team Sleep" thing going on.
9.Bloody Cape:10/10-Best song on the album! Very heavy, catchy, and the ending is just insane with chino screaming like a madman over a crushing riff. Classic Deftones.
10.Anniversary of an uninteresting event:8/10-A very smooth laid back song for the deftones. Very good music to lay back and relax to. Something to don't get to do that much when it comes to the deftones.
11.Moana:9/10-A damn good song to close the album with. It has a slow buildup, but it turns out surprisingly well.

So all in all, Deftones have concocted another kick-a** album that will no doubt please their fanbase. New school and old alike.