"Ohms" - Deftones New Album

[Iwazaru]

The best track on the album is Ceremony. Final answer.

It's followed closely by Urantia and Error.

Literally

[2MoreHours]

After listening to this album dozens of times, I think it's a mid-pack Deftones album.  Albums I would personally place ahead of it are WP, ATF, ST, and SNW.  It is a solid album but too repetitive and not very innovative.  TSOM is my favorite track. 

[LG95]

A mid-tier Deftones album is a great album.

[Gaz]

I'm still waiting for the t-shirt from my preorder bundle in the UK 

Same! really poor service this

[Sal_Ameigh]

  It is a solid album but too repetitive and not very innovative.

This. It'd be interesting to hear Deftones stay true to who they are and also incorporate more Math Metal/Prog influences with new music resulting in an Alt Prog sound.

Had Chi never died what would Deftones have continued to sound like and how would've Chi evolved as a bass player? Chi's playing undoubtedly affected how and what the rest of the band played and probably even how Chino sings and his lyrics. Chi's style and even choice of bass is different to Sergio's. No disrespect to Sergio. Sergio and Chi have different styles though. There was an interview with Chi where he mentioned being really musically influenced by recordings from Studio One which is a Jamaican record label that put out reggae, dub, and other Jamaican music. Personally I could really hear those influences and this is even mentioned on Wikipedia for Chi regarding recording Change.

[Martin]

Still waiting for my pre-order, with no response from the support team :/

I finally got mine yesterday (Southern California) so hopefully the rest are not too far off!

Unfortunately not (in The Netherlands).
I did get a reply from the support team; it hasn't shipped out yet.
That does answer the underlying fear that it had been lost in shipping, so that's something. I suppose maybe I'll get it around Christmas?

Wow.
A couple of hours later and the mailman delivered the entire pre-order!
Woop woop!

EDIT: I feel I can now finally keep listening to this album on repeat, now that I heard it properly (on some physical format).

[plagasx]

I'd also like to hear less screamy verses and soft chorus's.. if it's a softer song make it a softer song... don't need to be screaming just to do it... I feel like Chino pushed screaming where he didn't need to on some songs..

I agree. I really wanted a slower atmospheric song on the album in the same vein as a Sextape or Beauty School. We got close with Pompeji but I feel like his screams, while good, were unnecessary in that song.

[FatherUppercut]

I got my pre-order yesterday, so I'm set. The only problem now - my record player went ka-put. It straight up won't spin. I haven't used it in about a month - it's some random Amazon crap i've had for like 8 years, and the speakers blow... So now I have a nice new Vinyl and nothing to play it on so I can finally look into something I've had my eye on for awhile

https://www.andoveraudio.com/collections/spinbase-turntable-music-system

[laurapalmer]

I'd also like to hear less screamy verses and soft chorus's.. if it's a softer song make it a softer song... don't need to be screaming just to do it... I feel like Chino pushed screaming where he didn't need to on some songs..

I agree. I really wanted a slower atmospheric song on the album in the same vein as a Sextape or Beauty School. We got close with Pompeji but I feel like his screams, while good, were unnecessary in that song.

I fully agree with this

[punkflop01]

Surprisingly I haven't been listening to it as much as I thought I would. Not for any particular reason as I have it on now. Headless is still the best track

Edit: never thought I'd say this but I theres parts of it where I don't care for the production on the vocals.

Second edit: Ohms is probably one of the best songs on the record

Ohms is really a standout track. Never thought so when i first heard it , but after hearing it with the entire album, I realize how much I love that song. It's just so energetic and actually turned out to be a great closer for the album.

[LG95]

The Spell Of Mathematics, Error and Ohms are my current top three.

[Gaz]

The more I hear TLID & Radiant City the more they remind me of Faith No More

[Sal_Ameigh]

I'd also like to hear less screamy verses and soft chorus's.. if it's a softer song make it a softer song... don't need to be screaming just to do it... I feel like Chino pushed screaming where he didn't need to on some songs..

I agree. I really wanted a slower atmospheric song on the album in the same vein as a Sextape or Beauty School. We got close with Pompeji but I feel like his screams, while good, were unnecessary in that song.

The people have spoken. Be cool if Deftones got together in the next few months and recorded a slower atmospheric single with no screaming that went direct to streaming.

[only pieces remain]

I find it hilarious that everyone wanted chino to scream on this album. He does on virtually every track sans ohms now everyone is clamoring for slow, sextape type songs with no screaming. If this album would've been all softer, slower tracks y'all would complain there is little to no screaming. They are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Haha.

[Draken]

100% true

Deftones give 0 fucks what any of us want to hear, that's why they're still relevant and enjoy what they do.

[rainnyx4]

I find it hilarious that everyone wanted chino to scream on this album. He does on virtually every track sans ohms now everyone is clamoring for slow, sextape type songs with no screaming. If this album would've been all softer, slower tracks y'all would complain there is little to no screaming. They are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Haha.

I didn't necessarily want Chino to scream on this album. I wanted this to be a Deftones album, which means yes, there will be screaming. But, there will also be everything else we expect from them (dynamics, time changes, weird time signatures, unorthodox song structures, intros/outros/interludes, ballads, electronic elements, etc.), and hopefully some unexpected/new things. To my chagrin, we didn't really get any ballads or much new out of the band on this one. Sergio is stepping up his influence on tracks with every album which I dig. I also dig the additional use of synths, but I wish it had been more than just eerie background chords to beef up the melodies. Would like to hear more actual piano lines out of Frank (I know Chino wrote Anniversary, but I would love to see some more stuff like that) and a return of some of the soundscaping via turntables like we saw on earlier stuff like on Change. I also really miss weird shit like Teenager, Lucky You, Konami Code, and even Pink Cellphone, as they brought a lot of diversity to their albums and kept it interesting. This album very much felt formulaic. None of it is really bad (Deftones are like pizza, even bad pizza is still pretty good) it just felt very samey. Pretty much every song had a heavy part, a soft part, and something thrown in there to mix it up a little. To quote Chino, every song felt like it had achieved "balance." I'd prefer it if the album itself was balanced over the course of it. Some songs are soft, some are heavy, some are both, some are what you'd expect out of the band, and some come out of left-field. Didn't really get that on this one.

[Visionz]

I think Urantia, TSOM,and Pompeji were pretty fresh.... Sergio era anyways. Maybe it was the long calm second halves of the latter 2, but Urantia was different for me for some reason. I think it was the lyrics and song writing by Chino. It was a little more direct than usual at least some parts. The album really does have balance. Look at the closeness of the poll here... imo there's no fillers. I cant get into TLID but its still something they seemed to really go for

[DenakDW]

Every Ohms track are my current favorite tracks.

[only pieces remain]

I find it hilarious that everyone wanted chino to scream on this album. He does on virtually every track sans ohms now everyone is clamoring for slow, sextape type songs with no screaming. If this album would've been all softer, slower tracks y'all would complain there is little to no screaming. They are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Haha.

I didn't necessarily want Chino to scream on this album. I wanted this to be a Deftones album, which means yes, there will be screaming. But, there will also be everything else we expect from them (dynamics, time changes, weird time signatures, unorthodox song structures, intros/outros/interludes, ballads, electronic elements, etc.), and hopefully some unexpected/new things. To my chagrin, we didn't really get any ballads or much new out of the band on this one. Sergio is stepping up his influence on tracks with every album which I dig. I also dig the additional use of synths, but I wish it had been more than just eerie background chords to beef up the melodies. Would like to hear more actual piano lines out of Frank (I know Chino wrote Anniversary, but I would love to see some more stuff like that) and a return of some of the soundscaping via turntables like we saw on earlier stuff like on Change. I also really miss weird shit like Teenager, Lucky You, Konami Code, and even Pink Cellphone, as they brought a lot of diversity to their albums and kept it interesting. This album very much felt formulaic. None of it is really bad (Deftones are like pizza, even bad pizza is still pretty good) it just felt very samey. Pretty much every song had a heavy part, a soft part, and something thrown in there to mix it up a little. To quote Chino, every song felt like it had achieved "balance." I'd prefer it if the album itself was balanced over the course of it. Some songs are soft, some are heavy, some are both, some are what you'd expect out of the band, and some come out of left-field. Didn't really get that on this one.

I miss the electric/weird tracks ala teenager/lucky you/pink cellphone as well. Since Chino hadn't worked on any of his side projects in a while I was a bit hopeful we'd get something similar on Ohms but alas.

[976-EVIL]

This Record continues to grow on me.

Cannot wait to hear it live. Especially hopeful the play Pompeji and TLID in succession as on the Album. Would be epic!