DEFTONES Around The Fur CD 1997

There's a reason this record turned a generation of teenagers into devotees. Released in 1997, Around the Fur is where the Deftones stopped being filed next to Korn and started becoming something else entirely, a band who understood tension, texture, and the kind of quiet-to-loud that made your sternum hurt.

From the locked-groove aggression of "My Own Summer (Shove It)" to the suffocating slowburn of "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)", this is alternative and nu-metal at the exact moment it stopped being a trend and became a lifestyle. Chino Moreno was writing poetry while everyone else was writing mosh-pit instructions. Stephen Carpenter's guitar tone alone could rearrange your furniture. If you came up on this album, you already know. If you didn't, this is a significant gap in your education.

CD format. Full length album. 1997 release, USA.

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