“The name of the genre was nu metal, so anything that is new is one day going to be old. I don’t want to be on the ‘Family Values’ with you and Limp Bizkit’. Jonathan would say, ‘Why do you hate us?’ and I didn’t know what to say.
I can’t remember how many times I turned down KoRn! And they got pissed at us. “It was hard to be this young band and having to turn down tours. “We did make a very conscious choice of who we were going to play shows with,” Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno told Metal Hammer. It’s still a heavy album-still a metal album, even-but Deftones had carved out a unique space of their own simply because they refused to languish in the one that was assigned to them. It’s shimmering and luxurious, the first album of the band’s career to cash in on the Cure, Depeche Mode and Cocteau Twins influences they’d been carrying with them before it was fashionable to do so in heavy music. White Pony, their third album and first statement of the new millennium, doesn’t even really sound like a nu metal album at all. Yet for a band both briefly associated with nu metal and-arguably-partially responsible for its popularity, Sacramento’s Deftones escaped the ’90s both without having delivered a bad album and without being followed by unflattering stereotypes. It never stopped giving, even if nobody asked. It gave us a platinum-selling band rising out of festival stages from a toilet. (That’s 10 million copies for those who need a reminder.) It gave us bands called Ultraspank and Snot. Nu metal gave us the Woodstock ’99 riot, Methods of Mayhem’s sex-offender anthem “Get Naked,” and Kid Rock’s diamond-certified Devil Without a Cause. Or, for that matter, nu metal-the hyperaggressive mix of testosterone-fueled groove metal with hip-hop, and an off-putting no-girls-allowed energy.
If you spent the tail end of the decade listening to bands like Sleater-Kinney and Built to Spill, and yes I did too, you might have blocked out the painfully earnest born-again power ballads of Creed, or the soundtrack to Godzilla. Justin and Britney’s matching denim, glittery bumper stickers with vapid catch phrases like “Always Late and Worth the Wait,” and the music-dear god, the music.
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But at the time a kind of paradoxically drab yet gaudy cultural aesthetic dominated, and even now, looking back, it felt like a disposable dystopia of inflated Internet company IPOs, commercials scored by Moby songs, Y2K doomsday prepping, and formulaic reality TV shows which directly contributed to the actual moment of cultural rock bottom in November of 2016.Įven if none of that bothered you-and in all fairness much of what made the late ’90s offensive was inconsequential on a grander scale-it was an aesthetic nightmare. It had farther to fall, and plenty more embarrassment-this was the era of Austin Powers and not The Love Guru. In 2020, Deftones continue their trailblazing arc as an alternative leader with their ninth full-length album, Ohms, and a thrilling full-album remix of White Pony.Culture hit a low in the late ’90s. Selling out both installments to date, the eclectic lineups hosted everyone from Future and CHVRCHES to Gojira and Megan Thee Stallion. Not to mention, they curated, launched, presented, and headlined their own festival, Dia De Los Deftones, in 2018. Following the success of Diamond Eyes and Koi No Yokan, Gore landed at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 in 2016, moving over 71K units first week and marking their highest chart position in 13 years. The quintet’s career spans three platinum albums- Adrenaline, Around The Fur, and White Pony -as well as a 2001 GRAMMY® Award, a gold album Deftones, and countless critical plaudits.
5, making it Deftones’ fourth Top 5 debut and sixth to make it into the Top 10.Īrriving in Ohms’ wake, Black Stallion’s radical remixes further cement the vanguard reputation of a band that is always thinking of the future, even as it looks to the past. Last month, the group released its ninth album, Ohms, to widespread acclaim, including a 5-star review in the NME that proclaimed the band “as thrilling-and as emotional-as they have ever sounded.” The album entered the Billboard Top 200 at No. While White Pony (20th Anniversary Edition) is an opportunity for Deftones to reflect on their legacy, the band continues to move forward and explore new possibilities for heavy music.
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