re: What are yalls opinion on Deftones?

Really thought the Deftones sucked when I was a teenager. Just seemed like a lame version of Korn, and Tool thrown in a blender trying too hard to be edgy and faux introspective. Back to School? Awful*. Be Quiet and Drive? Ripoff of Chevelle’s Send the Pain Below**. Pass

Then in 2021, someone forced me to listen to Entombed from Koi No Yokan. I don’t know if I was in the right frame of mind in the right atmosphere or what, but that song hit me like a 10 ton anvil. Right then, Deftones finally FINALLY clicked for me and now they’re in my top 10 favorite bands of all time. Consistently in my top songs / artist on Spotify Wrapped. KNY and Diamond Eyes stay cranked in my home office.

*this song still sucks, but the band themselves even admits it was something the label forced

**my dumb arse later figured out that I had the “rip off” backwards this whole time. Still like Chevelle, however.