First Review of GORE

[jaypayton]

real easy to spot a deftones poser. if they say they dont like S/T or SNW....total fucking posers...

[Lurid Vega]

Not sure if this has already been posted or how legit this review is, albeit being positive. 4/5 stars. http://teamrock.com/review/2016-03-18/deftones-gore

[Shadow46/2]

Paywall. :/

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[illthrowROCKS@U]

For anyone who doesn't want to have to register on that site:

More of the atmospherically bleak and beautiful.
Throw a rock and five times out of six you'll hit a band that'll tell you how distinctive their sound is. Those bands are liars. Not so Deftones, whose elegiac paeans (it's a contradiction, but it works) to longing ring out loud and true.

The songs come wrapped up in a densely layered mesh of crashing guitars and Chino Moreno's mournful wail, which is even more endearing when it becomes an unlikely falsetto.

They were once (incorrectly) lumped in with the nu metal scene, but everyone has to start somewhere, and like all the best bands, their evolution (check out 2012's seismic Koi No Yokan if you want to be knocked sideways) has left a jaw-dropping trail. Abstract and startling, listen to the hefty groove of Prayers/Triangles or the slow blooming Phantom Bride and feel the earth move beneath your feet.

Not really much of a review

[guizz]

For anyone who doesn't want to have to register on that site:

More of the atmospherically bleak and beautiful.
Throw a rock and five times out of six you'll hit a band that'll tell you how distinctive their sound is. Those bands are liars. Not so Deftones, whose elegiac paeans (it's a contradiction, but it works) to longing ring out loud and true.

The songs come wrapped up in a densely layered mesh of crashing guitars and Chino Moreno's mournful wail, which is even more endearing when it becomes an unlikely falsetto.

They were once (incorrectly) lumped in with the nu metal scene, but everyone has to start somewhere, and like all the best bands, their evolution (check out 2012's seismic Koi No Yokan if you want to be knocked sideways) has left a jaw-dropping trail. Abstract and startling, listen to the hefty groove of Prayers/Triangles or the slow blooming Phantom Bride and feel the earth move beneath your feet.

Not really much of a review

Yeah, I don't know how people can call 3 sentences with barely any details, and most of it talking about other things than the music, a review.

[Lurid Vega]

Especially since you have to register to read said three sentences. Was hoping for some new song details myself.

[illthrowROCKS@U]

Yeah it's basically a generalized description of what could be any of their albums, with a name drop of two songs that everyone already knows about, one of which we've already heard.

[77years]

If I had paid to read that I would be throwing things in anger. Thanks to illthrowrocks for posting that shit

Literally, that shit

[Bergerac]

real easy to spot a deftones poser. if they say they dont like S/T or SNW....total fucking posers...

S/T is my favourite... and SNW my least favourite because it deviated so much from what was established on S/T - vulnerability, emotional resonance, cohesive ego and a willingness to address problems.

So...

Anyway, as for KNY, I said it at the time, I like the album a lot but it's a very safe album. I wouldn't say it was experimental at all. Solid song writing, but pretty much every track on there is a solid verse-chorus-verse, maybe one or two having a slow burn intro. I love it because it's simple - DE and KNY were tests for me to see them get back to cohesion after how scatological SNW was. I actually didn't want 'experimental' after SNW, and S/T was already a reminder that they didn't need it anyway.

[Far away]

real easy to spot a deftones poser. if they say they dont like S/T or SNW....total fucking posers...

S/T is a masterpiece and one or two songs from SNW (IMO) are good, the rest is crap.
Im a poser then?

just.. lol

[lungdamage]

^This. Let us pose together.

[float here 4ever]

SNW is my favorite but S\T is very solid as well

[77years]

^This. Let us pose together.

[77years]

In all honesty I don't even think the few reviews I have seen were people who had access to the entire album. Very little was mentioned beside the songs that have already been released, and anything about the songs that haven't been released was very generic. Sounds like just a bullshit review to get clicks. Plus if these people have access,  it would have leaked by now

[ANattyRat]

In all honesty I don't even think the few reviews I have seen were people who had access to the entire album. Very little was mentioned beside the songs that have already been released, and anything about the songs that haven't been released was very generic. Sounds like just a bullshit review to get clicks. Plus if these people have access,  it would have leaked by now

Not everyone who has access to an album is going to leak it. Reviewers do get to listen to albums, and what are they going to say about a song that's going to be so specific that makes you think they've heard it? List the entire lyrics? Besides that, everything is generic. They said (L)MIRL is like the soundtrack to a psychological thriller, that Hearts/Wires has Pink Floyd influences, etc. It's not a conspiracy, dude.

[BallZDeeP]

In all honesty I don't even think the few reviews I have seen were people who had access to the entire album. Very little was mentioned beside the songs that have already been released, and anything about the songs that haven't been released was very generic. Sounds like just a bullshit review to get clicks. Plus if these people have access,  it would have leaked by now

Not everyone who has access to an album is going to leak it. Reviewers do get to listen to albums, and what are they going to say about a song that's going to be so specific that makes you think they've heard it? List the entire lyrics? Besides that, everything is generic. They said (L)MIRL is like the soundtrack to a psychological thriller, that Hearts/Wires has Pink Floyd influences, etc. It's not a conspiracy, dude.

pretty sure they are escorted into a room nowadays armed with pencil and paper

[Jorge]

http://www.alternativenation.net/review-deftones-gore/

Gore may very well be the best album of Deftones career, which is truly remarkable for a band that has been together for the better part of thirty years.  When many other bands that have been around that long have had their best creative period come and go, Deftones are giving both new and old fans something to bang their heads too. It contains tracks that could match up with the best tracks from their earlier work, and at the same time it is a zenith of collaborative experimentation. With Gore, Deftones created their best record in at least fifteen years and have in turn ensured a strong level of relevancy in a time that rock music is on the back-burner.

Deftones: Gore
9/10

[neirda]

Hi there, don't know if this has been posted yet

http://www.knoxnews.com/entertainment/columnists/chuck-campbell/music-review-destructive-deftones-rip-through-gore-2fb1a676-d661-096d-e053-0100007f051e-374626831.html

[deftfan]

All 'Gore' reviews so far:

Upset Magazine
"Never Standing Still"
by Heather MCDaid
Rating: 4
Date: April 6, 2016
https://www.facebook.com/defzonesite/photos/gm.502869129901980/1169577643062004/?type=3&theater

Supernovadose
"This isn't going to be some kind of hackneyed preamble where the critic says 'Deftones are one of those bands that need no introduction'."
by Callum Doig (Independent Music Critic from Australia)
Rating: 3,5/5
Date: April 6, 2016
http://supernovadose.com/2016/04/06/album-review-gore-deftones/

Alternative Press
"Deftones continue to evolve, push limits with 'Gore'."
by Norman Narvaja
Rating: -
Date: April 6, 2016
http://www.altpress.com/index.php/reviews/entry/deftones_gore

Knoxville News Sentinel
"Destructive Deftones rip through 'Gore'."
by Chuck Campbell
Rating: 4/5
Date: April 5, 2016
http://www.knoxnews.com/entertainment/columnists/chuck-campbell/music-review-destructive-deftones-rip-through-gore-2fb1a676-d661-096d-e053-0100007f051e-374626831.html

The Skinny
"Atmospheric metallers commune with the ghosts of their past."
by Dave Kerr
Rating: 4/5
Date: April 5, 2016
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/reviews/albums/deftones-gore

DIY Magazine
"Balancing their sound on a knife edge, this is an album that sees their own heaviness redefined."
by Sarah Jamieson
Rating: 4/5
Date: April 5, 2016
http://diymag.com/2016/04/05/deftones-gore-album-review

AllMusic
"Gore is a triumphant reminder that a veteran act can continue to grow and still remain relevant."
by Neil Z. Yeung
Rating: 4/5
Date: April 5, 2016
http://www.allmusic.com/album/gore-mw0002916311

Alternative Nation
"Deftones Hit New Creative Peak On 'Gore'."
by Jeremy Neugebauer (edited by Brett Buchanan)
Rating: 9/10 Date: April 5, 2016
http://www.alternativenation.net/review-deftones-gore/

The Music
"Instrumentally, lyrically, sonically, visually, it's always been about pushing contrasts for Deftones."
by Tyler McLoughlan
Rating: 4/5
Date: April 1, 2016
http://themusic.com.au/music/albumreviews/2016/04/01/deftones-gore-tyler-mcloughlan/

KillYourStereo.com
"Deftones – the sonic molders of all that is beautiful and ugly in the rock and metal world are back for the eighth round."
by Alex Sievers
Rating: 70/100
Date: April 1, 2016
http://www.killyourstereo.com/reviews/1082964/deftones-gore


Theprp.com
"Denser tones."
by wookubus
Rating: 4/5
Date: March 30, 2016
http://www.theprp.com/2016/03/30/reviews/deftones-gore/

Metal Hammer
"Atmospheric metallers commune with the ghosts of their past."
by Stephen Hill
Rating: 4,5/5
Date: March 29, 2016
http://teamrock.com/review/2016-03-29/deftones-gore-1

Classic Rock Magazine
"More of the atmospherically bleak and beautiful."
by Philip Wilding
Rating: 4/5
Date: March 18, 2016
http://teamrock.com/review/2016-03-18/deftones-gore

Q Magazine
"Sacramento alt-metallers rewrite their own rule book."
by George Garner
Rating: 4/5
Date: March 15, 2016
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[YouWOuldKnow]

Is Pitchdork going to give it a review?