![]() ![]() 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. “So, it’s kind of come full circle.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). “So we have a bunch of different people on it, some that actually inspired some of the writing of the record itself, the original album,” Moreno said previously. The list of artists chosen for the task includes DJ Shadow, Robert Smith of The Cure, Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park, and Squarepusher, to name a few.įrontman Chino Moreno stated that some of the contributors actually influenced the original songs on White Pony. The band embraced electronic and turntable music without losing an ounce of their metal edge - a sonic trait that becomes more pronounced on the electro leaning Black Stallion. The remix LP accompanies the 20th anniversary reissue of White Pony, the album that established Deftones as one of the most innovative metal bands of the 21st century. The record reimagines the 12 songs on the band’s landmark 2000 release, following the same track sequence as the original. Deftones have released their White Pony remix album, appropriately dubbed, Black Stallion. ![]()
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