DEFTONES: White Pony Vinyl 2LP

The point where Deftones stopped being a nu-metal band by association and became something no one else could quite replicate. White Pony is what happens when a band decides it cares more about texture than it does about being categorised.

Change (In the House of Flies), Digital Bath, Passenger with Maynard James Keenan. Chino Moreno singing like he's genuinely worried about something rather than just performing anger. Still the record every heavy band tries to make and gets wrong.

Vinyl 2LP. Alternative metal, shoegaze-adjacent metal. USA, 2000. Fans of: Tool, Failure, A Perfect Circle, Isis, Cave In.