22 August 2025
Nu-metal heavyweights DEFTONES have been around producing decibels of racket
since 1988 (yep, time flies). Now and then, they took a long break to refill their tanks.
It’s been 5 years now since they
released their Ohms album.
Scary album artwork
But the wait is over.
Longplayer number 10, baptized
Private Music has landed today.
Press info: Deftones have always defined boundless creativity in the music space.
Across nine prior studio albums, they have carved out an unmistakable sonic identity, ferocious yet dreamlike, while making space for constant refinement and surprise.
Now, decades on from the groove-forward sound of their era-defining debut, Adrenaline, and following a long line of masterpieces including 2000’s White Pony, 2010’s Diamond Eyes, and 2020’s Ohms — an album that earned them their 2nd and 3rd Grammy nominations — they return with one of the most focused statements of their career: private music.
Meditating on the beauty and peril of nature, the challenge of cultivating a positive mindset, and visions of a journey beyond the physical realm, private music showcases Deftones at their most evolved. At once a psychedelic voyage and a skull-rattling wallop,
it’s the latest peak in a catalog filled with immersive, emotive triumphs.”
NME says: “Another career high from rock’s most reliable band. Deftones’ 10th album is a gift for fans old, new, and certainly finding them in the very distant future. Their peers can’t touch them.”
TUTV: I’m not a manic nu-metal fan, but the titanic wall of sound
on this bursting powerhouse LP has an overwhelming, vivacious
and immensely passionate impact on your ears and your psyche.
And like that a lot. Hallelujah.
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