Chino Moreno slows for no man. The deftones released Koi No Yokan just last year. Palms, Moreno’s fledgling side project with former Isis members, released their debut LP this past Spring/Summer. And now, new music and a new label for what’s been loosely described as his ‘Witchhouse Project,’ with former Far guitarist Shaun Lopez and Chuck Doom. While EP-3 is still about a month off (release date: 11/12/2013), the first textures have emerged in the form of first single, […]
Posts tagged "Chino Moreno"
Palms, Palms: Album Review
I will gladly admit when I am blatantly wrong about something and I was wrong when I said that “Patagonia”, the first single off of Palms’ self titled debut, was lacking. In the context of Palms, “Patagonia” makes perfect sense. I still don’t find it to be a particularly interesting song and it’s definitely not a song I would’ve released first but it works within the six-song opus that makes up the debut from the marriage of deftones’ Chino Moreno […]
Palms, “Patagonia”: The Singles Bar Review
Man, I really wanna like this. I do. I mean, I should like this. Right? Members of Isis and deftones’ own voicebox Chino Moreno in a band together called Palms? It should (in theory, anyway) blow the roof off of shoegaze metal everywhere. The descendents of Neurosis paired with the singer of the undisputed kings of nu-metal (Because they survived and evolved unlike their peers) on paper looks fantastic. The execution, however, is bland. “Patagonia”, the first official release from […]
Palms, “Untitled”: The Singles Bar Review
One of the most anticipated releases of 2013, Palms featuring members of deftones and Isis, has released (unofficially) the first bit of music from their upcoming album due in June.
Metal Monday Volume 96 (11.12.12)
It’s almost impossible for the deftones to make a bad album at this stage of their almost 20-year recorded career. However, it’s not impossible for them to continually raise the bar in heaviness with each album. On the bands seventh album, they have made the most solid and, quite possibly, best album of their career so far. Deftones albums don’t necessarily fall into the metal category all the time. Their benchmark album, White Pony (Which I still think is just […]
The Singles Bar: deftones, “Leathers”
First single of the The Deftones seventh album fails to disappoint. Welcome (back) to the Fold!
Spin Cycle: Crosses’ “EP 2”
So in August of last year, with low to slow-building (sounds like BBQ, doesn’t it?) fanfare, the music world was introduced to Crosses. Described initially as a witch-house (throw a couple Crucifix symbols around and call it a gimmick for marketing lovers) and featuring a pretty heady mix of both 80’s nu-wave with White Pony and Saturday Night Wrist-esque Deftones atmospherics; EP1 was unleashed as a free low-grade download to would-be listeners. Featuring the duo of Chino Moreno (of Deftones, […]