If my relationship with The Deftones was a Facebook status it would say "it’s complicated". I adored “White Pony” and 2003’s self-titled masterpiece. To my ears they sound other-worldly; they had Metal’s power and aggression, but they managed to traverse genre boundaries. Sadly, subsequent releases left me cold until 2016's “Gore” once again pulled me back in. It seduced me with its alternating layers of noise and fragile melody.

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