Gore

[LG95]

Pittura Infamante is so fucking good.

[O]

Pittura is weak... I feel this way with gore...

For me, Gore marks a low point in the Deftones career, and I'm not sure if they'll ever bounce back from it.  It sounds like a band trying to do their best Deftones impression between the music and lyrics.  Some songs like Gore and Doomed User are heavy for the sake of being heavy, but in the end not very compelling between bland riffs, strained vocals, and uninspired lyrics.  The whole album in fact is filled with pedestrian lyrics that ultimately say nothing and come off either forced or insipid.  Chino's faltering voice does nothing to push their immediacy either.  It appears the sedentary, unencumbered life, while making for a happier existence for the band, also makes for a boring performance that serves as merely the fulfillment of a servant obligation enabling the band to tour, get some press, and sell some outrageously-priced yet also uninspired merchandise.  It's a sad state of affairs, but after almost 30 years it's also not that much of a shocker.

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[BewareTheWater]

With weak albums as Gore and cringe worthy covers of drake and talks of Justin Bieber... I put chino in the same category as drake...

Then fuckin' honestly, what are you doing here ? As someone said in another thread, you can dislike a certain album or song or whatever and still be a fan , but when you're constantly doing absolutely nothing but talking shit , how much of a fan are you really ? I haven't seen you say a single thing about wtf you actually LIKE about the band or Chino.... It's nothing but " trash " , " lame " , " HA ! Horrible  ", " This is bad, Chino is a hack ", etc. Go to a fucking Limp Bizkit fan forum and talk shit on Chino/Deftones there, then, if that's how tf you feel.

[pony_01]

fucking idiots

[Fred Bob]

With weak albums as Gore and cringe worthy covers of drake and talks of Justin Bieber... I put chino in the same category as drake...

Then fuckin' honestly, what are you doing here ? As someone said in another thread, you can dislike a certain album or song or whatever and still be a fan , but when you're constantly doing absolutely nothing but talking shit , how much of a fan are you really ? I haven't seen you say a single thing about wtf you actually LIKE about the band or Chino.... It's nothing but " trash " , " lame " , " HA ! Horrible  ", " This is bad, Chino is a hack ", etc. Go to a fucking Limp Bizkit fan forum and talk shit on Chino/Deftones there, then, if that's how tf you feel.

Dont feed the trolls buddy. This is like an orangutan wandering away from the zoo, and throwing his faeces at you for attention. Just ignore him, and keep the chat on topic, and his mom will call over to his garage bedsit to delivery his microwavable dinner. and then microwave it for him and listen him while he lists out people who he thinks are stupid today. That's what N This 2gether is really about, a mommy and her man child. Actually lots of LB lyrics could fit into that line, maybe he's not speaking metaphorically when he says 'you can take your cookie and stick it....' lol maybe it's actually a real cookie?!

[Red Pill]

I'm just expressing my opinion, folks. I don't think its right to reward bad decisions by chino, i don't need your aprovall trolls, as far as i'm concerned even stef talk about it. Think for yourself and open your eyes.

[Inkblades]

Because blame Chino for everything, right? Let's not act like Stephen hasn't thrown down his share of weak and uninspired riffs on the last few albums.

[Red Pill]

Ok. But I also liked seeing Deftones doing real promotion for the album and releasing multiple music videos for an album instead of a laughable music video and basically nothing else.

[Inkblades]

Lol, well, they've made their contempt for making music videos pretty well known. Whatareyougonnado?

[Red Pill]

Well, I don't think its right to reward bad decisions ! I will keep it real... Never be afraid to raise your voice for truth...

[illthrowROCKS@U]

Lol, well, they've made their contempt for making music videos pretty well known. Whatareyougonnado?

I've never been much of a fan of their music videos honestly. I think most, if not all of them, have been pretty lame and uninspired.

Some bands, like Tool, consistently put out excellent music videos. Some other bands, like Deftones, put out shit like Romantic Dreams and Swerve City videos...

I don't think it was official, but the video for Smile was actually really good. Either way, stick to the music, Deftones!

[The Prodigy]

I'd love to see some cool videos!

[guarnoplo]

whoa!

The Prodigy came in peace :v

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hey,    illthrowROCKS@U, so do you kind of agree with melonhead on the score he gave Gore? Regardless, how do you feel about this album? We've had mixed opinions here about it, and review sites seem to give higher scores to these bands' recent albums (as it seems in your post), the ones fans don't like too much.

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With weak albums as Gore and cringe worthy covers of drake and talks of Justin Bieber... I put chino in the same category as drake...

I think I pointed before that the question was something like 'what have you been listening to lately'. He replied that when driving his daughter to school, a Justin Bieber song was always on the radio.

edit: well, lol. 'talks of Justin Bieber'

[Seven]

"and review sites seem to give higher scores to these bands' recent albums (as it seems in your post), the ones fans don't like too "

Haha

[BewareTheWater]

I really do wish they gave more of a fuck about making their music videos....

I remember hearing it's because they have to " pretend to play " ? Why not just actually fuckin' play, then Or stick to the Tool style of things and just have a video made where y'all aren't even in the fuckin' thing ( they've done videos in the past where they haven't appeared before, so maybe they'd benefit from a better video director or something )

[snw9]

Because blame Chino for everything, right? Let's not act like Stephen hasn't thrown down his share of weak and uninspired riffs on the last few albums.

So much room for growth in Steph's department. I feel like he isn't realizing the full potential of the 8 string as he tried to on Diamond Eyes.

[The Prodigy]

So many stuff! What's wrong with u Deftones!

[O]

whoa!

The Prodigy came in peace :v

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, and review sites seem to give higher scores to these bands' recent albums (as it seems in your post), the ones fans don't like too much.

Because he's a troll he doesn't have to think, He talks like a moron.. only fools believes in metacritic...

Search about it... Metacritic is corrupt
One of many

"Ive written a decent number of video game reviews on metacritic.

I went to review wargame: airland battle, and noticed that of the 5-6 reviews on launch day, they were all 10s written by users who had only 1 review. This is a tell-tale sign of fake users, either marketing hacks or the developers.

So I wrote a 0 review and pointed out the fake reviews.

Metacritic deleted my review without comment.

So I wrote a new review pointing out the fake 10 reviews, and ALSO giving an actual review of the game, pointing out that is is basically the same as a prior game, just renamed with minor changes being sold for full price.

Metacritic not only deleted my review, but also deleted ALL my reviews and banned me from writing any new reviews.

Metacritic never sent me an email or anything, it just did it.

The fact that Metacritic just deletes negative reviews without comment, when Metacritic has NO USER REVIEW RULES/POLICY, shows that Metacritic is deleting negative user reviews for the benefit of the developers/publishers, even legitimate ones. The site terms of use links to a generic CBS terms of use web site which says nothing about user content other than generic stuff that I clearly didn't violate.

There is no rule at Metacritic that a user review can't reference other reviews. There is no rule that says that criticizing other reviews is disallowed. Metacritic has no incentive to delete reviews like mine unless they are getting paid off by the developer/publisher to do so. They know they couldn't get away with this when it comes to professional reviews."

[illthrowROCKS@U]

hey,    illthrowROCKS@U, so do you kind of agree with melonhead on the score he gave Gore? Regardless, how do you feel about this album? We've had mixed opinions here about it, and review sites seem to give higher scores to these bands' recent albums (as it seems in your post), the ones fans don't like too much.

I'm okay with it. I enjoy it much more than I enjoy Koi No Yokan or Diamond Eyes. But, when compared to what I consider their best work (White Pony, Self Titled, Saturday Night Wrist), I would call it a definite drop off. I'm happy they didn't go the DE/KNY route again, though.

[illthrowROCKS@U]

Because he's a troll he doesn't have to think, He talks like a moron.. only fools believes in metacritic...

Search about it... Metacritic is corrupt
One of many

"Ive written a decent number of video game reviews on metacritic.

I went to review wargame: airland battle, and noticed that of the 5-6 reviews on launch day, they were all 10s written by users who had only 1 review. This is a tell-tale sign of fake users, either marketing hacks or the developers.

So I wrote a 0 review and pointed out the fake reviews.

Metacritic deleted my review without comment.

So I wrote a new review pointing out the fake 10 reviews, and ALSO giving an actual review of the game, pointing out that is is basically the same as a prior game, just renamed with minor changes being sold for full price.

Metacritic not only deleted my review, but also deleted ALL my reviews and banned me from writing any new reviews.

Metacritic never sent me an email or anything, it just did it.

The fact that Metacritic just deletes negative reviews without comment, when Metacritic has NO USER REVIEW RULES/POLICY, shows that Metacritic is deleting negative user reviews for the benefit of the developers/publishers, even legitimate ones. The site terms of use links to a generic CBS terms of use web site which says nothing about user content other than generic stuff that I clearly didn't violate.

There is no rule at Metacritic that a user review can't reference other reviews. There is no rule that says that criticizing other reviews is disallowed. Metacritic has no incentive to delete reviews like mine unless they are getting paid off by the developer/publisher to do so. They know they couldn't get away with this when it comes to professional reviews."

Right, right, go with the whole "he's a troll" angle again. Maybe everyone will forget the past 2 pages of you being made a complete fool.

Here's where you got your "proof." It's a forum called "dslreports.com," and it's a random user's post from 2013.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28343685-Metacritic-is-corrupt

Quick, stop the presses! Kaltes from dslreports.com has uncovered a sinister Metacritic plot!

Hey, dimwit, just curious. If Metacritic deletes negative reviews, don't you think it would delete negative reviews from both Deftones and LP, LB, and Korn? Oh, hey, dimwit, don't you think those bands have had more marketing money put behind them? Oh hey, buddy, think this through for a moment. Think it aaaaaaall the way through (I know it hurts). If Metacritic was skewing reviews to benefit certain bands over others, don't ya think they would have skewed Linkin Park's first? I mean, they're the one with the most marketing behind them, right? They're the "big money" band out of all these, right? I guess Metacritic isn't trying hard enough

But yeah.. Even if somehow Metacritic skewed the USER reviews towards Deftones for some unknown unexplained reason (they must just be Deftones fanboys, right?), it doesn't change the CRITICAL review aggregate scores.

Try once more. This time, with feeling.