It's been a decade since the Deftones' third album, White Pony, made this inimitable metal band into critics' darlings. Despite what the (gradually dissipating) media attention would suggest, however, the band never stopped churning out unique music: brainy, curious, free of histrionic shredding, alternately quietly reflective and climb-to-the-roof-of-your-parents'-suburban-house-and-scream-at-the-top-of-your-lungs invigorating. Live, they bash and whisper with equal vitality.
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